Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Dude! That was you? I remember you! We lived in the box next door to the mission. Remember - where you used to chase the rats out of the crack house!

Oh wow! that was you in the box. That must have been great to have that box as a shelter from the elements. We slept out on the fire escape of the mission. Sucked when it rains. Luckily that only happens a few hundred times a year in Seattle.

[cheval de frise]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
One year for christmas, I got a bike horn from a really nice colonel in the salvation army at the mission we lived in. I strapped it to my head with a piece of string I found at the garabage dump and pretended I was a bike. toot toot beep beep.

Hmmmm. The brain damage occurred earlier than we thought.

[idle acts]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
That's so romantic that they kept it 15 years. I am kind of fascinated, though. The most disturbing thing about my parents' sex life was having a condom drop out of a suitcase I think my dad generally used after my mom had gotten a hysterectomy. I tell myself it was a really old one.

After my Dad died, I helped my mom sort and box up his stuff for storage, goodwill, etc. When I found the condom stash in the top drawer of his dresser, I couldn't help but laugh. My mom was really embarrassed.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I like to answer the door with a barking 85-pound German Shephard. If it's someone trying to sell me something, I just say, "What? I can't hear you over the barking!"

T. ("Get back -- I don't know if I can hold him much longer!") S.

The Displaced Dog is good for that too. He acts as my door bell and is pretty good about continuing to bark if I don't tell him to shut up. The Displaced Puppy hasn't encountered a door knock yet so I'm not sure how much of a deterrant she's going to be.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by idle acts
After my Dad died, I helped my mom sort and box up his stuff for storage, goodwill, etc. When I found the condom stash in the top drawer of his dresser, I couldn't help but laugh. My mom was really embarrassed.

I was going to go with the obvious snide comment here, and then decided that making a joke about idle (who seems to be a really nice person)'s late father tom-catting around behind idle's mom's back was in poor taste.

Good job by me.

str8

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Do you want a pick-up truck to go with that gun?

Wow. A Dodge Ram?
If it's possible, my opinion of him/her has sunk to an all new level.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Yes, girl scouts was boring. Too much Kumbayah.
And we never got to go to camp. I think it was because we didn't sell enough cookies. Those damn cookies.

Girl scout for ten years, free use of sail boats in years four through ten. We made those God's Eye things, but they were called something else.

I was also technically in the boy scouts towards the latter years of high school.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I was also technically in the boy scouts towards the latter years of high school.

And vice versa.

A(late contender for BotD?)G

[bilmore]

Originally posted by pretermitted_child
In contrast, a motorcycle remains upright due to a combination of gyroscopic and centripetal/centrifugal forces

There is no such thing as a centrifugal force.

(This is a physics test. Respond as you dare.)

[Jack Manfred]

Why did they have 8 year olds making keychains at camp anyway? Who has keys at 8?

I was a cub scout, a weeblo, and a boy scout. I went to Boy Scout camp a couple of times, but the hikes and canoe trips were far better than camp. I was a Life Scout, but (to avoid confusion 15 years later on the FB), I did not reach the rank of Eagle Scout.

Edited to add: Actually the hikes sucked. I was happy after we had stopped for the day, but no matter how beautiful the scenery, the hike was never worth it.

The canoe trips were good because the dads went as a group and we got to eat steak almost every night. The dads spent their days in the back of each canoe telling us to row, and their nights sharing cases of Bud or Coors.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by bilmore
There is no such thing as a centrifugal force.

(This is a physics test. Respond as you dare.)

Oooh early morning physics fun. Lets see now.

As I type this I am watching Ahnold walk in a circle. Wasn't that a neat way of showing him growing up? Oh so clever? The walking in a circle?


Now if Ahnold was walking fast enough or perhaps running Ahnold would feel as if some force were working upon him, pushing him outward. However, the red bearded fellow who comes to buy Ahnold so he can learn to do what is quoted in Tyrone's sig line would not see this "force". This is because centrifugal force "exists" only in certain frames of reference (rotational but not inertial). What really is happening is the centripetel force is working on Ahnold but Ahnold, like all objects would like to go straight to the Governor's mansion.

Wow, we are to that scene right now! What is best in life ...(guy gives answer about wind blowing through hair and horses)WRONG To crush your enemies yadda yadda.

I never really was very good at explaining this. Oh well.




Edited to ask, what's a Weeblo?

[Adder]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
The distinction Congress made, however, is in the general grant of authority to the FTC, which does not extend to non-profit institutions. If such a grant itself can create a content-based restriction, doesn't that make it nearly impossible for any agency with limited jurisdiction (as they nearly all are) unable to regulate speech in any way?

I don't think it needs to extend that far as I think it is pretty clear that congress was showing preference for one message over another, so perhaps the fact that it expressed that preference in a limited grant of authority is irrelevant. But in truth, I haven't read the statute or even followed the issue very closely.

As a practical matter, however, I don't think it matters much whether this rule is struct down or not. I can't really see how it was going to be adequately enforced anyway.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Millions of pissed off consumers strongly backing a constitutional amendment stripping all protection from commercial speech should scare the pants off of you.

Do you really think that will be the general response? I seems more likely that people would prefer to ban the political and charitable speech as well, thus avoiding the 1st Amendment issue. The question is whether the politicians will go for that.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Edited to ask, what's a Weeblo?

A Weeblo is between a cub scout and a boy scout. Sort of both, but I think technically still a cub scout. It's just one year, around 5th grade.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by bilmore
There is no such thing as a centrifugal force.

(This is a physics test. Respond as you dare.)

To expand on leagl's explanation, it is a so-called "fictitious" force. Really another name for inertia. When the world moves around us, we seek to keep staying still. The real, true force is the force which compels us to move.

So leagl is exactly right in applying it to Ahnold. It also seems appropriate that you should point this out, Bilmore.

G(non-fictitious force)^3