Tom Strange

Relax boys! I didn't say it was a bad thing to be a GEEK!

HEY! look what ourseestorEx brought!

...not to mention how good they are at baking cakes! ...I can see them now leading songs "bee - A - bay... bee - E - bee... bee - I - bicky bye, bee - O - boe, bicky bye boe bee boe boo..." and when they get ready to lead manifestations, everything's quiet... then... "ANNACANNAPANNA"

spirits??? you mean like Casper??? or like Jack Daniels???

I smell snow cones!!!!

I couldn't have said it better dear radar... I was reading Pi-man's post and thinking the same thing... that she's not in her right mind is of no question, when's the SOB husband gonna get his?

Reading all of this just makes me sick... not for me, I've been out for years... but for (like Lindy) my family that's still there... they've given up so much but have no idea...

welcome to our planet Frankee... glad you made it in time to see Raf's new hat! (he doesn't look like Jon Lovitz anymore either)...

MasterP, those reasons are exactly why I recommend the Creative 30GB... it's on Fry's Outpost.com for $199 right now. It does all that the ipod does except it doesn't have the "touch" menu, but the navigation is just as easy...

I agree... there must needs be one seeing as how so many of us on this our thread are blessed with it...

my Tivo is complimentary because we have the "premium package" (read "we pay out the arse) of direct tv... Oldies... ask them to give you one, or give you a deal like they do the new subscribers since you're a loyal customer... better yet, get rid of that cable and come into the 21st centure... satellite...

we have one with directv... don't know what we did without it... it's a great convenience... mine however is an older model, only 35 hours but that's plenty, we watch and then we delete, no big deal... I had been a directv customer for about 2 years and one of the receivers went out, when I called for another, the lady offered me a tivo for $55 and said they'd install for free (this was when the unit was going for about $99 at BestBuy)... the guy installed it, ran some new lines for me and even swapped out my two satellite dish for a three satellite one! ...I don't think that was too bad for $55... ...now I'm looking for a DVD recorder with a hard drive... it's only a matter of time...

Mark, the sound is awesome... (at least I can't tell any difference)... however... I opted for the CREATIVE ZEN XTRA... it's 30GB and it was only $179!!! Lots cheaper than the Ipod and only a tad larger (still smaller than an 8 track)... I've already loaded about 200 CD's on it (at 248 cuz I thought I'd get better quality) and I still have about a third of it left... like my brother socks, I bought it so that I wouldn't have to cart around all of the CDs... It's a thing of beauty! With the one I bought I can download from anywhere (Ipod has to download from itunes, and others are proprietery as well, think Sony)... It has the same management options that paw described above... I can build playlists or just cruise around and click on "play next" for as long as I want and it just keeps adding the songs to the que... So... these things are great, but if you want to save $100 or $200 on the Ipod, get the one by Creative... works great, has a removable battery, plays for 12 hours on a charge... and I have a Honda Element that has a jack built into the dash so's I can play it through the sound system (but you can get the FM thingie as well)... Get one, you won't be disappointed no matter what size you get... even those little 256mb sticks that plug right into your USB have great sound and hold about 3 hours of music...

yeah! me either myseestorex!

...but I do like reading your stuff!

YOU GUYS ARE SUCH GEEKS!

happening day dude!

myotherseestorEx10, do we need to send these folks some nice cold Shiner Bock?

ahh... how sweet brother simon... and reverend firehose, so nice to see you... Let us all say a little prayre for our seestor niKa... her boys are sure takin' a beatdown right now....

It's good to be (clap) home again... kisses to my sisters and hugs to my brothers... simontheloaded... 2/16:P-->itchers and catchers ...what's with the upstart youngsters of the 11th? ...don't they know their place?

simontheloaded said (a couple or three weeks ago): Sorry bro... it won't work... that's the model the stRangers have been trying to use for years... but you knew that!what it takes to win is BIG BIG bags of money! (just ask the Yanks and BoSox)... or should I say "win consistently", year in and year out... ...the rest of us are just their farm system...

291.8 on the original one (after three swings)... now the other one...

what is it with all of these bats? ...I'm so confused...

JonnyLinguist said: DUDE! That'd be me cruising by in the mothership! ...bringing you on board for a few beers!

myseestorEx10: to your original question... I guess I haven't really seen it (the different treatments) much... I think what I've seen is what I've seen here tonight reading this thread that went where you didn't intend for it to go but we all knew probably would go... that people treat them differently because they're "different" from them... that's all I've got, sorry... But a question did come up in my little pea brain while reading the preceding pages... How can it be considered "sin" if a person has no choice in the matter? And while I know that folks line up on both sides of the choice issue, and I'm perfectly aware that sometimes hetero people do choose to have homosexual experiences, I don't think that those folks are homosexual... I'm talking about folks who are "born into" homosexuality, that have felt that being with someone of their same sex was natural and that heterosexuality was un-natural... how can they be considered "sinners"? It wasn't a choice they made... and many of them, for whatever reason, tried to be hetero and it didn't work because it was un-natural to them... And I do agree with the folks who say "don't shove it in my face"... I think that about the hetero's who do that as well... I don't think that homosexuals have a corner on the market for bad behavior... I think that's just a "people" thing... there's jerks and arse holes everywhere... P.S. how come some of those people can type the word ....?