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JF: Looks very nice! More lodging options than Tim's Ford has. It'd get my vote!

I think it was Mark Hamill's character that Marvin was addressing.

Thanks, Steve! I had forgotten about this...

I thought they were originally from Neptune... Doesn't matter, as long as they stay far, far away from Uranus...

Yep. The Braun self-cleaning Syncro electric razor. The Select Comfort("Sleep Number") bed. Wireless networking.

Dot: Apologies for the sidetrack...

Steve!: Or "The drapes don't match the rug..." Still, I guess I shouldn't make blanket statements like that without solid research to back it up. Any blonde volunteers? This IS for science, after all... :D--> (p.s. Ladies only, of course. I'm sure someone else would be so good as to compile data for blonde men... Dot? Trefor?) ;)-->

Except the top doesn't match the bottom...which, apparently, is the case with many "blondes". :D-->

That's true. And there's a big difference between a gay math teacher and a gay basketball coach...

Yes it does sound familiar, Goey. Hey, Mike? The Vatican called, and said that if you still want the Pope's spare miter it's going up on eBay soon... Just what we need, another P(fal)ontiff.

Tref: That was "single" as in "solitary", not "unmarried". Let me put it another way. Suppose you had a teenage son, and let's even say he's gay, too. Would you really want him to shower in the view of an adult who may have a sexual appetite for him? I don't want straight male coaches watching my granddaughters in the shower any more than I'd want a gay man watching my grandsons.

"Internally consistent"??? Mike, your theology has all the referential integrity of Bobby Ewing stepping out of the shower and not noticing there were two Darrins on "Bewitched".

Exactly. And just why are members of the opposite sex forbidden?You can't honestly tell me that if you walked into a shower full of nude 16-year old football players that your thoughts would be 100% chaste. If it were me in the cheerleaders' shower, I couldn't promise you that certain thoughts wouldn't run through my mind either, and I guarantee you that not a single man anywhere of either preference would be completely immune. Now, you and I and 99.9% of the population would probably never act on those thoughts even once. But just one act on one child is one too many. If "unfair" discrimination can reduce the possibility of that one act happening, then it's absolutely worth it to protect the children. Period.

It's very much in the exact same vein. Is it a wise move to take a person and put them in charge of a group of adolescents of the gender that person prefers sexually? We don't have male coaches walking around in the female showers, and vice versa. It's the same thing.

Here's Trefor's article, with its URL shortened: American Psychologist March 2002 (Trefor's article) Tref: You can edit the other post to refer to this one, if you like. You may have the Advanced Posting interface enabled, which is why you don't see that box under your posting area. If a little window opens when you reply, you won't see what I'm talking about, but the same URL option should be available off of one of the little pulldown blue menus at the top of that posting box.

Oh, and you stuck an extra ] in the URL tag, that's why it didn't work. Find where you typed [ U R L ] and change it to [ U R L = (without all those spaces) and it will work.

Trefor: P-Mosh posted this on the "Who Took My Thread" thread:

Yes! Be a SOMWAP instead of an ASMUNCH*! *Amazing Sea Monkey-Unfriendly Non-Caring Humanoid

Trefor: Oh, btw. Those long URLs really screw up the formatting. Here's how to do it without the whole thing showing up: Use [] where I use {} in the following: {URL=http://biglongURL/x/y/z}Short Link{/URL} and it will show up as Short Link If you look at the InstantUBBCode box below the Posting area, there's a button that will prompt you for the URL and your short desciption text and write the tag for you, if you like.

Toldja so!

I have it on good authority (i.e., I just made it up) that the Sponge Mafia was responsible for changing the whole format of the popular kids' show. It was originally (of course) Sea Monkey Squarepants Isn't that just like The Man, always trying to keep Amazing Sea Monkeys down...but they're too Amazing to let him!

Careful, Trefor! If Tom reads that last post, he's going to invoke Godwin's Law on you... ;)-->

That's an extra, which requires another six box tops... ;)-->