Steve!

With you it's always "I, I, I". You always disregard everyone else's input and experiences. You always treat everyone else's experiences as invalid. By the way, if someone gives me a car, that is a tangible benefit - I can see it, I can touch it. If someone gives me a good feeling, that is an INtangible benefit - a benefit nonetheless, but it is INtangible.

Your logic is fallacious. To say "Well, lcm did the same thing that Moses did, and Moses wasn't acting carnally, therefore lcm wasn't acting carnally" is not logical.

And there's another way - using "escape codes"

Reverend mother sister excathie - He did that by taking a picture of it and posting the picture.

Oakman - the trip from Midway should take between half an hour and an hour.

I really don't see any problem with Mel making money from his movie. Even if he DIDN'T finance it himself. And what he does with the money afterwards is HIS OWN BUSINESS. If you like the movie, great. If you don't like the movie, great.

Such a sad, lonely little man.

Dang, Rick, that's pretty insidious! That's as bad as any MVT out there, and the OLM's that helped docmonk(praise be his monkeyness) edit his manuscripts, and introduced AME's in the process (apparent monkey errors)

WW - OM is truly to be pitied. Someone once said "If you don't have something worth dying for, you don't have anything worth living for." If you don't have anyone for whom you'd be willig to cross the widest ocean, climb the highest mountain, and ford the deepest river, you are truly lonely, and are more to be pitied than anything else.

You said "surly they will die". Does that mean they will die from being grouchy?

Hassled? you call that being "hassled"? That's like calling a hurricane "a bit of wind". You've never sat through a 2 hour screamfest. It seems like 12 hours when you are going through it. And if you leave in the middle of it, you lose contact with all of your innie family and friends, which to some is a big deal. You don't seem to have anyone you truly care about. That's a real pity. If you *did* have people that you care deeply for, then you would know what it means to possibly lose them. Do try, for once, to have a little empathy. Try to put yourself in the shoes of people that are going through absolute hell for the sake of their loved ones.

Of course, it's all of you OLM's that are at fault losing the Lost Last Secret Teaching of the Great docmonk(praise be his monkeyness) where he told us that the answer to life is to Serve and to Master the Word of the Great Monkey as contained in PFML, the Salty Orange book. You should all be deeply ashamed. I don't know how you can possibly look at yourself in a mirror.

OLM stands for Once a Leader Monkey

Do you mean Pat Schweiger?

So is there going to be a new class, PFASM?

I agree with Orson, it is stupid and mean-spirited to accuse him of financial gain as his motive. But even if that WAS his motive - so effin what? A man's got a right to try to make money. Why is that a problem? Does he tell YOU how YOU have to invest your money? what you have to do for a living? I didn't think so.

OM, it's been stated many times before, that the innie posters/lurkers here have their reasons for staying in. It's been demonstrated time and again that families end up getting broken apart, ripped asunder, when an innie gets thrown out. Many of the innie posters here don't want to lose their families/loved ones. And yes, it is STILL happening, even in the "kinder, gentler" TWI.

Imbus - no, your request isn't all that intrusive. There is a forum where many posters have contributed, "My Story", that is much more appropriate for this kind of thread. Check that out, you'll see some pretty moving stories there.

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You may have to try to find another BetaMax VCR. Or you may have to try to find a service that does that. It may just need a cleaning. Look around for other VCR repair shops, maybe another can help.

Dot - you did that right, but sometimes websites don't allow pictures to be linked to in that fashion.

Dots, you would LOVE Seattle! The PNW in the spring is absolutely OVERRUN with flowers!

Very good point, Catcup. I think that this kind of stuff gets lost in the R*cky vs. whoever wars, and the Mike "I am docvic's(praise be his name) biggest supporter" noise. But there IS *some* wheat among all that chaff.

OM - that may have been an option for YOU, but it is NOT an option for anyone that is an innie now that wants to stay an innie (for whatever personal reasons they may have). For one thing, lcm is no longer reachable. For another, if any innie starts asking too many questions about anything, that innie's life goes under a microscope. Just talk to any poster here that's gotten out within the last few years. Oakspear has some choice stories about that very thing.

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/planet_guide_040312.html This is a link to an article at space.com that gives times and days for the best viewing of 5 planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. They will all be visible by the naked eye, starting this week, and for a short time all at the same time!