Fashion Board 5-7-04 to 6-9-04

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Who was asking to be an admin?

As a joke, I was, and then MR pulled a huge whiff.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Sadly, the '70s nostalgia craze has not died the natural death predicted for it in the mid-'90s when it started. Witness:
[list=1][*]Josh Rouse's "1972" concept album.[/list=1]

Which is a great album. He should be far more popular than he is. Under Cold Blue Stars is another winner.

[Replaced_Texan]

[gush]I saw the otherwise forgettable Beyond Borders the other night, and pretty much spent the whole movie ogling Clive Owen. Jack Manfred is on my crushlist, simply because of avatar and moniker.[/gush]

[sunnybunny]

the Galapagos Islands on vacay? if so, please PM me.


Thanks.

Move along.

That is all.

Bunny

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
the Galapagos Islands on vacay? if so, please PM me.


Thanks.

Move along.

That is all.

Bunny

PS--I told my partner about the secretary who paged me and he said I should have told her off.

[sunnybunny]

I dunno about the all y'all but I feel certain my brain would prefer not working for cash:

Study: Brain Prefers Working for Cash

Thu May 13, 1:05 PM ET Add Science - AP to My Yahoo!


By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA - It's nicer when you actually earn it.





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Lottery winners, trust-fund babies and others who get their money without working for it do not get as much satisfaction from their cash as those who earn it, a study of the pleasure center in people's brains suggests.


Emory University researchers measured brain activity in the striatum — the part of the brain associated with reward processing and pleasure — in two groups of volunteers. One group had to work to receive money while playing a simple computer game; the other group was rewarded without having to earn it.


The brains of those who had to work for their money were more stimulated.


"When you have to do things for your reward, it's clearly more important to the brain," said Greg Berns, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral science. "The subjects were more aroused when they had to do something to get the money relative to when they passively received the money."


Berns and other researchers said the study has broader real-world implications, particularly in the age of multimillion-dollar lottery jackpots.


He said that other studies have shown "there's substantial evidence that people who win the lottery are not happier a year after they win the lottery. It's also fairly clear from the psychological literature that people get a great deal of satisfaction out of the work they do."


In the Emory study, published Thursday in the journal Neuron, volunteers played a computer game in which they had to push a button every time a triangle appeared. The 16 volunteers played while their brains were scanned by a magnetic resonance imaging machine, or MRI.


The researchers found that some reward centers of the brain were activated whenever a volunteer received money. However, the striatum was activated only when volunteers worked for their reward.


Berns suggested that the brain is wired this way by nature.


"I don't think it ever evolved to sit back and sit on the couch and have things fall in our laps," he said.


The study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.


"This part of the brain is a fascinating part. It's associated with drug abuse, a number of diseases," Berns said. "It's no coincidence we're finding it to be very important in almost everything that we do."


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On the Net:


Emory University: http://www.emory.edu

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Sorry for the boring discussion, but we prefer that our policies are known so no one can claim we're being nazi's like infirm.

The current admins are:

slavenomore
evenodds
replaced_texan
leagleaze
mister_ruysbroeck

I don't care if they ignore me. I ignore them all the time. But then again, I have not had any responsibilities here whatsoever for almost a week now.

You can view a list of admins and moderators at any time by clicking here http://www.lawtalkers.com/forums/showgroups.php?s=

[Berry Hunter]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Shhh. You are forgetting the first rule of Fight Club.

What happened while watching Fight Club stays wherever we were watching Fight Club?

Or was that the second rule?

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by sunnybunny

Lottery winners, trust-fund babies and others who get their money without working for it do not get as much satisfaction from their cash as those who earn it, a study of the pleasure center in people's brains suggests.

I am always willing to get less satisfaction from my cash.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by Not Me
As a joke, I was, and then MR pulled a huge whiff.

Yeah, my response was a whiff. I just don't get your "sense of humor," right? Apparently, neither do all the people who have you on their ignore list.

Or, how about this: maybe no one "gets" you because you aren't funny? Nah, can't be. You're so lowbrow you're highbrow, right?

[Berry Hunter]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
Lottery winners, trust-fund babies and others who get their money without working for it do not get as much satisfaction from their cash as those who earn it, a study of the pleasure center in people's brains suggests.

The brains of those who had to work for their money were more stimulated.

And in the proposal for Round 2 of this very important research, we hope to learn whether hookers get as much stimulated satisfaction from earning their money as do CEOs, lawyers and bricklayers.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Yeah, my response was a whiff. I just don't get your "sense of humor," right? Apparently, neither do all the people who have you on their ignore list.

Or, how about this: maybe no one "gets" you because you aren't funny? Nah, can't be. You're so lowbrow you're highbrow, right?

Christ, MR. Who actually talks to the sock? Who, MR?

[Berry Hunter]

Link to Newsweek article mentioning Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse and others.

Pass the mojitos.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Yeah, my response was a whiff. I just don't get your "sense of humor," right? Apparently, neither do all the people who have you on their ignore list.

Yessssss, exactly the kind of mature evenhanded behavior we expect from an admin.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by dtb


Now, Jennifer Aniston. Someone here mentioned the other day that he thought she looked much better in the "early" Friends years (i.e., when she was a little chunkier). My husband says the same thing, but I cannot agree. I think she may have had a nose job. Whatever it is, I think she's gorgeous.

I agree with your husband. Like I said before, her face is freaky now. Too much definition when she smiles. She looks like The Joker.