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30770 is the number for GSC. Type that in the search box, and it will get you there.

I resemble that remark!! ;)

She musta been holding the camera. ;)

The Smokey Mountains --- my idea of heaven on earth. :)

:biglaugh: Ya shure!!!!!!!! You betcha, eh??!! What's wrong with LOT'S of snow, eh?? If God didn't mean for it to snow IN ABUNDANCE --- we wouldn't have 4-wheel drive pick-ups! ;)

The last time I saw an ocean, it reminded me of Lake Superior -- without all the great rock formations on the shore. :)

Saw these on another board. Some good ones here. :) 1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired. 2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway.) 3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. 4. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off. 5. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion. 6. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed. 7. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress. 8. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds. 9. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered. 10. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blown Apart. 11. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key. 12. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine. 13. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat. 14. He had a photographic memory which was never developed. 15. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end. 16. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall. 17. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine. 18. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye. 19. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis. 20. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.

Hmmmm. Let me guess -- it has to do with sauce for a pineapple and Canadian bacon Pizza!! :P :P :P

1,382 miles from here to there. Hmmmmmmmm.

Sorry Waysider -- but I'd rather have LittleHawk doing the refreshments. (As long as he brings along the *pear water*.) ;)

Trust a bass player to lay down the BOTTOM LINE!

Hey --- thanks for the informational response in return! I learned something today. I didn't know they had a valid medical benefit, such as you described. Since I've not really read up much on the subject -- I see I missed some aspects of it entirely. And yes -- I tend to shy away from insulting folks, at least intentionally that is. :)

Hofner's !!! Ummmmmmmm!!! (But he had problems tuning it.) :( (HISTORY HERE)

Hey there Nandon. :) Nawww -- I wasn't accusing anyone of anything, nor was I assuming anything about your knowledge on the subject either. Sorry if it came across that way. :( I guess what I did mean was this: I equated steroids with a lack of *integrity*, because to me it is a pill that anyone can buy. It doesn't represent the *honesty* (if you will) of many hours of working out, and perfecting your sport/ skill/ or whatever. In other words -- I see it as a *short-cut* to greatness. An apt comparision (to me), would be fiddle contests. I've been in many. I've won a few. I've taken second, third, (or NOTHING), in more than I've won. The folks I lost to were generally classically trained violinists. I've never had a lesson in my life. But I don't begrudge them the victories. Although they paid for and received lessons -- it was still up to them to practice and perfect their training through hours of hard work. It wasn't some pill that could be popped gaining them instant acclaim. So while I agree with you whole-heartedly that training methods change over the years, I'm hesitant to include the use of performance enhancing drugs as a part of that. (Btw -- thanks for the trivia tidbit about weight-lifting --- I didn't know that!!) For the record, I know little about baseball, but when major news stories (such as this one), make the front page of local newspapers, I tend to get interested, and look into it a bit more. I'm seeing one guy who has a record (earned by blood, sweat, and tears) about to be broken by: someone with talent, yet taking drugs to enhance that talent. To me --- that's not a different training method. It's a short-cut --- but that's just my imo. The only sport I follow *religiously* is the Tour de France. Lance kicked butt 7 years in a row. A cancer patient in 1996 to winner of the Tour de France seven consecutive times, (from 1999 to 2005), wasn't accomplished by steroids. It was work and dedication. So while you make a valid point that training methods change over the years --- nothing (imo) beats sweating it out in one's particular venue of competition. P.S. -- No one can compete against EVERYONE who does the same thing. I know the name Babe Ruth, but if asked about him I could only reply that he was a baseball player who seems kinda famous for what he accomplished. I don't know if he is dead or alive (these days). P.P.S. -- speaking of *these days* -- that's a vebal *tic* of mine that I commonly insert in phrases spoken to folks physically present (regardless of the content of conversation), or in posts on various boards that I happen to frequent. Being an older guy -- it's my (maybe NOT so subtle way) of saying things have changed, since I was a youngster. ;) (EFS) David

HOLY SHI-ITE BATMAN!! 'Nother words (Oldies) --- NONESENSE!!! SORRY --- (I'm on page one and not the last) -- I just now started reading this thread, BUT, your statement is fraught with error. Who the heck hasn't been involved in a situation (freely consented to) in their past, that they might now have regretted being involved with given the *wisdom of years*??? Skeletons in a closet come to mind, and politicians seem to have an abundance of them, but they aren't the only folks on the planet who did something in their youth that is (regretfully) a part of their past. Cripes. If a person committed a youthful indiscretion, and repents, reneges, disavowes, or whatever the things they committed/ thought in the past because they NOW KNOW BETTER THAN THEY DID BACK THEN, it is EASY to complain about the past (as you put it), and it makes a helluva-lotta-sense to own up to past mistakes, because that fact in itself makes MUCH MORE SENSE than does your premise of *I-was-involved-by-my-free-will-at-one-time-so-I-will-shut-the-F-up-about-it*. FYI -- I know some ex-Ku Kluxers who have done some heinous deeds by their *free will*, while involved in the group of their choosing. They are repentant today, and have tried to repay society, while decrying the beliefs of their former group. (Sound familiar???????) Would you consider their *complaining* about their past actions as *whining* -- as you do ours??? Good Lord -- I can't wait to read the rest of this thread. What might I learn??? Hopefully (in true GSC fashion), it will have gone off to another topic entirely, because this one has been hashed over before WAYYYY too many times, and is beginning to be repugnant. Please face reality, Oldies. It forever beckons the willing.

(~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ and before there was Ringo, there was Pete!: . ^ ^ ^ | | | (click the pic for the story. I'm glad he realized something out of it all!) :)

And they met at a CHURCH!!!! (twi was right -- Rock and Roll IS a religion!!) :biglaugh:

John was born in 1940, and Paul in 1942.

Hey there George! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I'll catch up to you in 3 months. I've NO idea if this is traditional or not, but here's a tune for you: .Here's hoping you're having a good one today. :)

Nope. Not I. Why?? What happened to your axe???

Hey there Ajern! Welcome to GreaseSpot Cafe. :) I took a look at the web-site you have. I bookmarked the 911 thing you have there. Interesting stuff worth looking over. But regardless of all that ----

Better than *senior moment*, eh??? ;)

ROFL!!! (Yea -- that would work nicely!) ;)

Chas smokes cigars???? :biglaugh:

My yard is *postage stamp size*, and mostly clay, rather than topsoil. Plus --I'm 4 blocks from Lake Superior. Weather here is not conducive to gardens. I'm lucky to have a big rose bush that proliferates year after year! :)