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

[Anttwat]

Good God People!
It's come to physics has it?
Speaking of dynamic inelasticity, I'm reposting this because clearly some of you people need it, and there is also some physics involved in the elasticity of warm balloons between pillows.
Homemade sex toys

And you'll get to see the dildo art.

[leagleaze]

1. I hate the stomach flu. I hate it even more when you combine it with a chest cold. How miserable is that?

2. You had better not be calling me a patent lawyer.

3. I think it isn't quite right to call centrifugal force a fictitious force really, but ah well. People who have actually studied physics, unlike me, can debate that one. My physics knowledge is limited to Ahnuld movies.

4. If all things being equal Arianna were to punch Ahnuld in the nose, his nose would not break, but rather, would push back with an equal and opposite force, throwing Arianna across the room. Because Ahnuld defies the laws of physics everyone knows this.

5. First posting law of LawTalkers - posting a lame sex toy site twice doesn't make it twice as interesting.

6. Bilmore is not a suck up and I am honored that he enjoyed my Ahnuld explanation.

7. The judge who handed down the do not call decision has his office number on the do not call list. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/....ap/index.html

8. What is this famous people dying week? Now Donald O'Connor has died. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movi....ap/index.html

[pretermitted_child]

It looks like Beavis and Butthead is in syndication in, of all places, Burkina Faso:

http://www.unicef.org/sowc03/tables/index.html

T.P. for their bunghole is probably not at the top of their list of items to receive from relief workers.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Helping little playmore with the homework, are we?

The little playmores ain't quite that old. Just fondly remembering the basics from one of the majors.

If I may, you're ignoring Newton's 3rd Law, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If Bilmore hits the mat (say, because you had that last bottle of wine last night), Bilmore exerts a force against the mat and the mat must react in some way. The reactive force can take many forms. If the mat compacts on impact, the matter comprising the mat will likely then decompact some, pushing back Bilmore. That way, Bilmore will not just leave a large indent on the mat from the force of his fall.

Once again, inertia is not a force, dictionary entries notwithstanding. The opposite reaction of Bilmore's opponent hitting the mat is a slight shift of the earth in the direction that Bilmore's opponent was traveling. And, while the mats were slightly elastic, Bilmore's opponents were not. Yay, Bilmore!

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by leagleaze
8. What is this famous people dying week? Now Donald O'Connor has died. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movi....ap/index.html

O'Connor was an underappreciated and underutilized talent. Aside from "Singin' in the Rain," in which he was quite good, he was, for the rest of his career, a poor man's Danny Kaye. Probably a victim of studio contract politics.

Mind you, "Singin' in the Rain" would be enough for any man's resume. A movie that pleases from start to finish.*

*Excluding the inexplicable interlude for the Gene Kelly trademark jazz ballet number. I guess the chicks dig 'em, 'cause I don't.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
O'Connor was an underappreciated and underutilized talent. Aside from "Singin' in the Rain," in which he was quite good, he was, for the rest of his career, a poor man's Danny Kaye. Probably a victim of studio contract politics.

Mind you, "Singin' in the Rain" would be enough for any man's resume. A movie that pleases from start to finish.*

*Excluding the inexplicable interlude for the Gene Kelly trademark jazz ballet number. I guess the chicks dig 'em, 'cause I don't.

Let me start out by saying that Singin In The Rain is an all time undisputed classic movie of which I can't get enough. I wonder if it was the first movie to rip on the studio system, the star system, and divas. So brilliant in so many ways. Gene Kelly gives one of the most all around brilliant performances in movie history, Debbie Reynolds is gorgeous and sparklingly funny, the script is great, and Donald O'Connor is sublime throughout, not just the "Make 'em Laugh" scene.

However, I think the Broadway Melodies number, with the Syd Charise cameo, could have been cut down a bit.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by bilmore
The opposite reaction of Bilmore's opponent hitting the mat is a slight shift of the earth in the direction that Bilmore's opponent was traveling.

I hate to dignify this discussion with my own contribution, but that "slight shift" is, dare I say, illusory.

When Bilmore lifts Bilmore's opponent off the mat in the first place in preparation for the coup de grace, Bilmore would essentially push the Earth down and out of its orbit slightly in order to purchase the requisite potential energy to reside in Bilmore's opponent. At the moment Bilmore releases Bilmore's opponent into brief gravitational free fall, the Earth would be infinitesimally attracted by the mass of Bilmore's opponent (and vice versa, only less infinitesimally for Bilmore's opponent vis-a-vis the Earth, if you catch my drift, har har), and Bilmore's opponent and the mat would necessarily meet in the exact middle, cancelling action and reaction.

In short, the "slight shift of the earth" Bilmore's expecting is only in relation to where the Earth would be if Bilmore's opponent and the Earth could sustain permanent gravitational free fall toward each other. From a distant observer's frame of reference, Bilmore's opponent and the Earth would return to precisely the points in orbit that they were in when the whole enterprise started, accounting for the constant rotation and revolution of the Earth in the meantime.

[tmdiva]

[Great book, btw. Anyone else read it?]

It's Webelos, not Weeblos. Silly people.

Not that I agree with the current policies of the BSA, homophobic bastards.

tm

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I hate to dignify this discussion with my own contribution, but that "slight shift" is, dare I say, illusory.

As were ever the chances of my opponents.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by tmdiva
Not that I agree with the current policies of the BSA, homophobic bastards.

Given that the last informative poster told us that the Webelos were in between the Cubs and the Boys, I doubt we can make such sweeping characterizations.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by bilmore
Given that the last informative poster told us that the Webelos were in between the Cubs and the Boys, I doubt we can make such sweeping characterizations.

Not to mention the fact that he spelled it "Weeblo."

Edited to add: Apologies to diva if this was a whiff of her post. I'm still not sure.

[Atticus Grinch]

Online quiz: Programming language inventor, or serial killer? You have only the photo to guide you as to their dark intent.

Requires Java (of course).

I got 6/10, and was advised to avoid careers in either law enforcement or IT recruiting.

[pretermitted_child]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Online quiz: Programming language inventor, or serial killer? You have only the photo to guide you as to their dark intent.

Requires Java (of course).

I got 6/10, and was advised to avoid careers in either law enforcement or IT recruiting.

I got a 6/10 as well, although I think my score was helped by the fact that I recognized the mug of one of the programming language inventors, whose class I took as an undergrad.

I'm surprised that they didn't include a picture of Richard Stallman (founder of the GNU project) -- but then again, he didn't actually invent a programming language.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by pretermitted_child
I got a 6/10 as well, although I think my score was helped by the fact that I recognized the mug of one of the programming language inventors, whose class I took as an undergrad.

Ha! 8/10.

You need to follow your gut on these. If a mug strikes you as an antisocial, withdrawn, bleak loner, go with your first reaction. The others will be the serial killers.

[ias_39]

Originally posted by bilmore

And, of course, I never hit the mat.

Glad to hear you didn't hit the mat in frustration from being stuck. Poor losers suck.