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Cool. Is attire casual, casually nice, or casually clean? George

Robin, I just got here. Sorry to miss your bidrthday, but I hope it was a great one! George

Ex (10, that is), When should we arrive on Saturday? How late should we stay? (I probably need to get to my sister-in-law's place by 10 PM.) What time is breakfast Sunday? Fellowship? Leave at noon? What sort of food allergies do we need to be aware of? See you soon, George

Shanghai Knights Owen Wilson Behind Enemy Lines George

Okay, passing Raf by... George

BELAY + SING + SAD + HILL = "Blazing Saddles"? George

Tattoo Maud Adams Octopussy George

I guess I'll skip "Maude," then! George

I went trick-or-treating with the grandsons last night. Assuming my wife has a good photo, I'll post it in the Gallery. The boys were Batman and Robin; I was Superman. Jacob, the 3-year-old, would get excited between houses: "I'm gonna say, 'Trick or Treat!'" Every time the door opened, though, he turned away and said, "I don't wanna." He did say "Thank you" a couple of times. I wonder if he might have been less bashful if we had gone during daylight hours. He did tell me that he had a lot of fun, though. George

Wild guess: "The Golden Girls"? George

These sound familiar, but I just can't place them. George

"Ugly bags of mostly water." George

Possibly the NG episode "Drumhead"? An admiral makes it a personal mission to "root out evil" and tries a half-Romulan man who said he was half Vulcan to be allowed into Starfleet. Piccard puts her in her place. George

But not "Dumberer"! You're up again, Dooj! George

Did you mean this? It was from WordWolf and the "Chris Geer Arrested?" thread: Now that we've had a chance to laugh about it, I'd like to point out something that may be obvious to those of us who use Google constantly. Google's searches (and most search engines) are dependent upon keywords, and upon number of links pointing to that site in reference to that word. That's why one fun prank is the "Google hijack." Get enough people to link to a particular page, and it comes up as the first result, which means that when you hit "I'm feeling lucky" and get sent to the first result, you'll get that page. Example One: during the whole "are there weapons of mass destruction" controversy, if you typed in "weapons of mass destruction" and hit "I'm feeling lucky", you got a page that was designed to resemble a Google searchpage, saying "weapons of mass destruction" was not found, and giving options to search another country and whatever. It actually fooled some people even when they expected a prank. Example Two: This one still works. If you type in "french military victories" and hit "I'm feeling lucky", you get another mock Google page saying "french military victories" were not found, and offer to search for "French military defeats" instead. That page goes to a partial list of French military history- just the defeats- written and run by a Canadian. Example Three: This one still works. If you type in "miserable failure" and hit "I'm feeling lucky", you will get a certain legitimate webpage that was not made-up for a joke. The joke is in the search and the result. I'll let you run the search yourself and see. http://www.google.com ============ Ok, the part that doesn't affect users, but affects site-owners, is that they can't make other people link to their site- which would raise their listing in searches, which would direct more traffic to them, which means more money to paid sites like pr0n and stuff. So, they can't drive their traffic that way, so they figured out they could drive their traffic the other way. Every month, there's a list of most commonly-searched-for items. (It's on Google somewhere.) So, the site owners took a lot of words that ranked in searches, and began sticking them somewhere in their site. You can tell because some searches will show you the item you're searching for in a long list of names, or random words, and not in a sentence or anything. (Often, they'll be alphabetized in a stack of similar names or words.) Personally, I don't think it's particularly successful (It doesn't lure ME to their sites), but since it costs them little to add that to their pages, and they seem to have no penalty for doing it, I expect that they'll keep doing it for a long time. So, since certain names get searched for online, eventually, some site operators have grabbed them off the lists and just shoved them into abstract blocks of text they dump onto their sites. It says nothing about the content of the sites, nor about the names they used. I hope I didn't spoil anyone's fun TOO much. George By the way, how does one link another post?

Driving Miss Daisy Jessica Tandy Cocoon George

Funny, but certainly not the funniest in MY estimation. Virtually an y Mel Brooks film and all EARLY Woody Allen flics were funnier. George

Mary Tyler Moore Ordinary People Donald Sutherland George

Who ARE those guys? George

Right, WW. George

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Hey, Hottie! I didn't realize you were such a YOUNG whippersnapper! Have a sensational birthday! Wish you could make the BBQ. George

"I know all about you people... baseball, root beer, darts... atom bombs." George

FAN + TOM + DOVE + TEA (Leoni) + BRA = "Phantom of the Opera" I'll have one later today. George

Okay... Kris Kristofferson The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea Sarah Miles George