Ron G.

Although zombies and vampires are both undead, the vampires cast no relflection while zombies do...or so I'm told. Actually, I've had no personal experience with either...at least not since I left the California limb. Ergo, the singing ladies would cast reflections while higher leadership wouldn't. This is useful information in the event of zombie attacks or someone knocking on your door bearing a green 3x5 card.

Everyone is in a hurry to scream 'racism' these days! A customer asked 'In what aisle could I find the Polish sausage? The clerk looks at him and says, 'Are you Polish?' The guy (clearly offended) says, 'Well, yes I am. But let me ask you something.' 'If I had asked for Italian sausage would you ask me if I was Italian?' 'Or if I had asked for German bratwurst, would you ask me if I was German?' 'Or if I asked for a kosher hot dog would you ask me if I was Jewish?' 'Or if I had asked for a Taco would you ask if I was Mexican?' 'Would you? Would you?' The clerk says, 'Well, no!' 'If I asked for some Irish whiskey, would you ask if I was Irish?' 'Well, I probably wouldn't!' With deep self-righteous indignation, the guy says, 'Well then, why did you ask me if I'm Polish because I asked for Polish sausage?' The clerk replies, 'Because you're in Home Depot.'

Shortly after LCM said that, I heard something about it on one of those 'wierd news' things on a California radio station. I didn't pay much attention either time, tho. I remember seeing a decomissioned aircraft carrier for sale on ebay a couple of years ago. I may have even posted a link to it here at the GSC. I would have bought it, but it was $25,000,000 as I recall and egg sales were a little slow that year and I had no place to park it. I thought I might bury it and it would make one helluva storm shelter. I would imagine the Pope could get pretty much whatever he wanted from ebay, if the Vatican has a Paypal account.

Nico's expression seems to suggest she's weary of the papparazzi taking her picture. Nice photo.

Happy Birthday (((((((((Doojable)))))))))))!!

I've been a fan of Gregory Crewdson for a few years now, since I first heard of him. His shoots are like movie productions and, although he shoots film and scans his negatives, he doesn't rely heavily on post production techniques such as "Photoshop" to achieve his desired results. This photo of him on location earned my undying respect. As you can see, he's shooting with a Sinar 8x10 view without a digital back and he has his front standard raised, indicating he uses camera movement perspecive controls instead of making his image in his computer. In other words, he creates his image in the camera, not in his computer. He's the real deal. He does his shoots on carefully planned sets. According to an interview, in the shot posted by eyesopen, he spent a great deal of time scoping out the location of the scene under a railroad bridge. He had a crew of about 40 people, used lights on cranes for the backlighting, key and fill lights and a machine to produce the fog. He put it all together so very masterfully as to elicit such a comment from mstar as "Its hard to believe that especially that second Crewdson piece is actually a photograph-the depth and the feel is magnificent..." So many people out there today just shoot digital snapshots and use their computers to turn an otherwise banal image into something that kinda sorta resembles an artistic photo and you have to respect somebody like Crewdson that actually makes a quality image on film. I don't wish to hijack Doojable's thread or digress into another subject, but this is a huge area of interest to me and you got my total attention with Crewdson.

Kill and eat! :D

((((Jen-o)))) ! I remember you very well from Waydale days. I was pretty appalled at some of the things I saw in Davis. I was part of a little brass quintet that played occasional gigs and we were invited to play at the Davis High school at Christmas...er...Winter holidays, but were told we couldn't perform any Christian songs, even though the nature of a brass quintet (two trumpets, a baritone, a french horn and yours truly on the tuba) precludes any lyrics being sung. The melodies were even verboten by the law of the Reich. We ended up playing our masterful rendition of Pachelbel's Canon and the usual pop pap such as "Jingle Bells", "Silver Bells" and "Winter Wonderland". My Californey experience taught me there is NOTHING more intolerant, bigoted and hate filled than a liberal's agenda of "multiculturalism and diversity".

Instead of telling the entire joke, just post some of your favorite punchlines. Let the readers use their imaginations. It'll probably be better than the original joke. I'll start off with a few of mine.... It turns into a suitcase when you rub it! Then they would both have two! But this one is eating my popcorn! Felt like a wet Q-Tip! An organ grinder... Grapefruit! Move over Sister Beatrice, I need to gargle!

"Gimme anything you got but Canadian Club."

That's a lamer! I'll give ya two crutches.

Jen-o I recall living in Davis, California when school children were singing hymns to "gaia" with such lyrics as "The earth is my mother and the sun is my father etc. etc." Seemed mighty religious to me...and school sponsored, too. Of course it was not only a sin, but illegal under the law of the Reich to even mention the TRUE God, the father of the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, not only WAS I ArkieRon, I still am :)

What you say is logical and sensible. Polluting as little as possible and finding the cleanest fuels or energy sources do not require massive redistribution of wealth or international governance with global socialism.

Be careful. It's "mean spirited" to challenge one of the articles of faith in violation of the UNION of the socialist state with the socialist religion.

I posted it because I thought it was kinda funny and quite ironic. The same sex marriage thread in this forum seems rather political, or at least it turned that way. These things (global warming, same sex marriage etc etc) seem to draw a lot of heat and angry responses because they offend some peoples religious sensibilities as well as political. If global warming is for real and I've never denied that, then it's a scientific issue of physical nature. When people start blaming other people, then it becomes a political issue...and, of course, like children, many have to blame things that occur naturally on someone else. If the same climate scenario is occurring on other planets in our solar system, then it's an issue of solar cycles or something. It's NOT the fault of any political or economic philosophy. When my post, suggesting this IS occurring on other planets (and corroborrated by NASA), is taken as a cynical attempt to be mean and some people think it should never have been posted, then OBVIOUSLY I've offended some religious sensiblities...and I don't care. I think Jen-o has a very good handle on the whole issue from a religious/political perspective. Maybe this thread should be moved to the doctrinal forum.

Just for the record... Kudzu roots grow up to 6 feet deep making it almost impossible to eradicate. I have a friend who put a few cuttings in to to augment his pasture for goats...maybe 3 or 4 cuttings about 15 years ago. The place is covered, now.

Those evil capitalists are ruining the entire solar system, by Jove! ABSOLUTELY!!! That day preempts Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter and Mardis Gras for me!!

I think I liked Kimberly's version better. Methane is much more readily available and fun to emit.

Throughout the 70's I took pictures for a living. I worked for Chardon which was Charley Pride's promo company and photographed Dave Rowland (Dave and Sugar), Janie Fricke and a few other performers. I did some work for the Dallas Cowboys back in the Tom Landry/Roger Staubach days and did some promo for Mulberry Square Productions (Benji, the dog). I also worked for Gittings of Texas and did portraits of a few Texas notables including John B. Connally. When I went WOW in the summer of 1981, I ended up in Florida and getting a part time job at McDonalds. That was the ONLY time in my adult life that my kids took note of and were actually PROUD of what I was doing. They would have me don my little paper hat and have me come out wearing it to show off for their friends. Unfortunately, had to give that prestigious position up due to money considerations and got TWO part time jobs doing darkroom work in two local competeing studios. Since I could pretty much set my hours at both places and just come in and do the work at my own convenience, it worked out well and the ministry leadership was none the wiser that I was working too many hours. It all came to a grinding halt when the studio owners met at a convention and started talking and comparing notes...they were pretty fierce competitors. I spent the rest of the year mowing lawns, doing telephone sales and working as a maintenance guy at a day care center. What a year! I'll never do THAT again!

Their lives wouldn't change, nor would mine. Homosexuality is a sex act or more precisely, a subset of sex. Communion is a religious act. Wouldn't it be perverted or wrong for Weout or anyone else who practices communion to attempt to FORCE acceptance of the concept that the wine literally turns to blood and the bread literally turning to flesh on those don't believe that but who otherwise wouldn't care? This isn't the best example of what I'm getting at since I was rousted out of my morning slumbers with a phone call from someone objecting to my use of the word pervert....and my blood nicotine and caffeine levels aren't up to par, yet. Tolerance doesn't necessarily mean unconditional acceptance. People are entitled to their choices, I'll NEVER argue or deny that, but they AREN'T entitled to force their choices on others via the coersive power of the state. What people do in privacy and who they love is their business and none of anyone elses. It's NOT a "civil rights" issue and it's perverse to make it one.

I can't see where Weout or anyone else is forcing their religious beliefs on anyone. I can see where people like Weout is defending his absolute right to resist having perverts force their lifestyles on them. Yes, it IS forced acceptance. Plain & simple.

Koff, koff, ROCKY sputter, IS wheeze, ABSOLUTELY choke RIGHT!!! hack, gasp :o Whew! That wasn't so painful :) So is Watered Garden. The state had no right to do what it did and I believe a jillion dollar class action suit is in order.

I was referring to the figure in the forground. It was disturbing to me as it appeared he had his back to the viewer making the head angle awkward and the arm impossible. Maybe my blood caffeine and nicotine levels weren't up sufficiently when I saw that, however, I went and got a better photo and now it makes perfect sense. I think this photo is better since it shows the womans facial expression better and it shows the entire figure in the foreground. Since it's from further away and shot from a higher angle, the bad foreshortening effects are also eliminated. Here's another view...

There were four country churches in a small TEXAS town: A Presbyterian Church, Baptist Church, Methodist Church, Catholic Church - and also a Jewish Synagogue. All four churches and the Synagogue were overrun with pesky squirrels. One day, the Presbyterian Church called a meeting to decide what to do about the squirrels. After much prayer and consideration they determined that the squirrels were predestined to be there and they shouldn't interfere with God's divine will. In The Baptist Church the squirrels had taken up habitation in the baptistery. The deacons met and decided to put a cover on the baptistery and drown the squirrels in it. Somehow the squirrels escaped and there were twice as many there the next week. The Methodist Church got together and decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God's creation. So, they humanely trapped the Squirrels and set them free a few miles outside of town. Three days later, the squirrels were back. The Catholic Church came up with a very effective solution. They baptized the squirrels and registered them as members of the church. Now they only see them on Christmas and Easter Not much was heard about the Jewish Synagogue, except that they took one squirrel and had a short service with him called 'circumcision'. They haven't seen a single squirrel on the property since then.