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I might, but I can't picture myself dating anyone named "Howard". I appreciate your concern, Musik. However, I've met a new guy, so I won't be sharing my frustrations on these boards for a while. :: I have to admire any man who would name a chain of hotels after his 'Johnson'. Must be a really impressive 'Johnson'.

Yes, I prefer higher art films such as "Caddyshack". :: I really just wanted to use that 'Holiday Inn Select' line from the commercial. "No I'm not a brain surgeon, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Select last night." I love those commercials.

It becomes clearer if you read or watch "2010". The monolith somehow represents the beginning of life. When travelling through the light Dave is transformed into some kind of energy existing on a higher plane, as infant and adult at the same time. In "2010" the monoliths multiply on Jupiter causing an increased mass that through gravitation causes the planet to collapse inward and then explode much like the Sun is always collapsing inward and exploding on itself. And Jupiter becomes the equivalent of a second Sun. One of Jupiter's moons, Europa, is said to have frozen water on it. The movie uses this moon as the origin of new life in our solar system. People on Earth arn't allowed to interfer with the new life on Europa until the time that whatever new life on that moon tries to contact them. "2001" does kind of leave some questions up in the air. I don't know if I am smarter than you as you asked for responders to be, but I have seen the sequal and read the second book. I also stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. :: Rent "2010", the whole thing will make a lot more sense. It's also a good movie.

I just don't like it when laws are made simply because the people making the laws know they won't have any opposition. Like the smoking laws. Everyone knows its bad for you, but so are a lot of things. If someone were to oppose these laws they would be accused of condoning smoking or worse encoraging kids to smoke. Things like that. When I was real young in Texas, the state had what was called 'Blue Laws'. These were an attempt by earlier lawmakers to keep the sabbath holy or something. However, they were concerned with Sunday and not Saturday, which is really the seventh day or sabbath. Stores on Sundays were only allowed to sell 'basic necessities'. The hypocracy of these laws were amazing. You could purchase milk for your baby but not the bottle to put it in. You also couldn't purchase diapers if the baby who had to drink the milk out of the jug happened to soil himself. There was a huge fight in the state legislature about repealing these laws. Their opponents were branded as non-Christian or atheists. The common sense of what it was doing to business owners was of course ignored as Michael Bloomberg and company have chosen to ignore business interests with their smoking laws today. Most businesses would simply close on Sunday rather than try to police their customers when they would bring an unacceptable item to the counter. Most grocery stores would even close. Since Saturday was devoted to soccer, and the stores were closed on Sundays, when were families with two working parents supposed to do their shopping? It was finally pressure from consumers that actually got the lawmakers to repeal these laws. Possibly if votors in New York and other communities, show Bloomberg and the others what they think of their anti-business, anti-smoker laws, their replacements will find other more productive legislation to pass. And the restaurant employees who they are trying to protect from second hand smoke, should choose another career. If you don't like the cold, don't become a ski instructor. If you don't like the sun don't become a lifeguard. If you don't like smoking don't work in a casino or bar. A little common sense is so hard to find at times.

At times, at least here in America, I think that anti-smoking legislation is what city governments do when they can't think of something productive to try and accomplish. Catherine can correct me, but I belive Boston just passed some kind of anti-smoking thing. My hometown's mayor Laura Miller, who ran on a platform of how she would fix all the city's potholes, recently joined the crowd, which might explain why the person was asked to put out a cigarette at a concert in Dallas. And for Michael Bloomberg, you may be mayor of NY, but you're no Rudy. I'm so proud to have come from a town who would elect someone for mayor with a political vision that didn't extend farther than an overstated concern for the front-end suspension of her car. What a true visionary. And if anyone tried to oppose the anti-smoking laws the "Cancer Cops" or "Character Cops" would be there to stop them. This next thing that bothers me probably won't be liked by everyone. But DWI or DUI laws, depending on your state, have gotten a bit unconstitutional. I'm against drinking and driving, however, when someone is stopped for DWI they are asked to take a breath test. Now that would be OK, if they were allowed to refuse. But they are not. If the test is refused then the person loses their license for a period of time, several months I think. Now once you are accused, not convicted, even if have submitted to the test, you have to have an ignition locking device installed on your car to be allowed to drive while awaiting trial. Now personally, I think anyone convicted of a DWI should have their license taken away for at least a year. However, first the suspect is asked to incriminate himself (5th amendment issues), then you are told that if you don't incriminate yourself, your license will be taken away, which to me sounds like blackmail. Even if you agree to incriminate yourself you will have to pay to have a device installed on your car at your own expense to check your breath before you start your car, which brings up due process issues. Now all of this is being done before the suspect is convicted of anything. What happened to 'innocent until proven guilty'? Does it just not apply because no one likes drunk drivers? I like the idea of getting tough on people who drive drunk, but only after they have been convicted of driving drunk. When they are only a suspect, they are only a suspect, and should be treated as such. This happened to a guy I work with and is how I know so much about it. This is not some story about me. I just bought my first car in almost ten years and haven't had time to drink and drive in it yet. Also thanks to the 'car post' on Songfacts for partially motivating me to buy a car. After seeing the posts on that thread I remembered that I used to like to drive at times.

14 years ago they outlawed smoking on airline flights less than two hours. In this short amount of time a former right has been almost taken away from us. I was at a concert several weeks ago and watched an usher make someone put out a cigarette, a legal cigarette. Lawyers like to talk about the slippery slope, when hoping to exclude evidence or some other legal trick; but it took only 14 years to almost totally criminalize smoking. I don't smoke cigarettes but somehow this just seems wrong. What I really don't like is how some people look down on people who smoke like smokers are lacking something in their character. My mom smokes, my dad used to smoke, are they saying that there is something wrong with my parent's characters? I think drinking bottled water is stupid when there is free water all over the place, but I don't make moral judgements about the people who pay for water. I do sometimes question their intelligence. If someone offered me a new pair of shoes for free, or told me that I could pay for a pair of shoes; I didn't even need to major in economics to think I would be making the right choice in picking the free pair of shoes. I'm not some weird shoe freak like some women, it was just the first thing that came to mind. I like the use of "Cancer Cops" which I'm sure are affiliated with the "Character Cops" who are trying rather successfully to PC the whole world. I was at a blackjack table once in Vegas and the dealer asked if one of the players would mind not smoking. I mentioned that it was a casino, maybe another career would have been a good choice if he didn't like smoking. Then I bummed a cigarette from the guy just to further piss off the dealer who wasn't giving me good cards anyway. I smoked it similar to how I would smoke a joint and my head felt kind of weird and my stomach started to hurt. I hate it when I'm acting like a smartass and karma comes back around to get me.

Layla, and the reason I like this song so much is because of the piano at the end. Anyone know who's playing?

How about having KISS kill all the mimes. They could get bonus points for killing the magician/mimes. Some of the magician/mimes could have the ability to change into regular magicians making them harder to notice and kill unless you caught one of them doing a magic trick. Regular magicians would also be part of the game and would need to be killed as well. To win the game KISS would have to sever the arm connection between a ventriloquist and his dummy, which would kill them both. I don't hate any of the victims I have mentioned for KISS to kill, they just all really freak me out. Sean Penn attacking paparazzi would be more realistic. You could have KISS hunt down Brittney and kill her too. Or have plain clothes members of the KISS Army infiltrate and then destroy the Boy-band sleeper cells. "Operation Musical Freedom" would make a good name for the game.

I only have their first three CDs but they are all good. There's not a single song on any of the three that you have to skip. They are my second favorite band from the 90s with my first being STP, who does have some bad songs that must be skipped; "Wet my Bed" off Core for example. "Some might say" is my favorite off Morning Glory, "I hope, I think, I know" is my favorite off Be Here Now, and off Definitely Maybe I like "Up in the Sky" the best. But all the songs are good. I have mentioned a lot of this on other posts. I just put Definitely Maybe in the player.

All mimes are satanic. The ones that double as magicians really freak me out. I told one of them, "I know you can't talk, but you can hear, now get away from me." Just incredibly weird. I can be tolerant but not when someone creeps up to me in a parking lot, dressed in black with a white face, and then pulls a quarter out of my ear.

It is so hard now to tell who the real enemies are. I know at one time the KISS Army was very concerned about the Starlight Vocal Band Militia and they feared the Village People who were "In the Navy". :: What are you talking about Batman, enemies of KISS, I don't know? Are mimes upset becuase KISS stole their look?

The Lord of the Rings was my favorite trilogy long before it was made into movies and I actually enjoyed the movies more than the three times I have read the three books. This was ahead of Ludlum's Bourne Identity, Supremacy, and Ultimatum books, and even better than LeCarre's "Quest for Karla" trilogy, another set of books I have read more than once. Not all of these have been made into movies however.

I'm still with you Mike. Alex gets overshadowed at times by the other two members, maybe he shouldn't be. Watching him play several weeks ago was very impressive. What did you think about the job he did with "Crossroads"? I was totally sober for the first half of the show and only drank one beer at the break, maybe I was just more observant than I have been at past shows.

Anyone think the Sun Valley Media Conference could be a good location for 'collusion' , and 'unfair trade practice' discussions? Why don't they want reporters around? The media is supposed to be in favor of 'free speech'. Here's some info on the annual meeting. I put some of the really troubling things in bold, and the most troubling in bold italics. Oprah Winfrey has been there. So have Steve Jobs, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Katharine Graham, Bill Gates and Sumner Redstone. Warren Buffett is a regular, as is Rupert Murdoch. Even Mexican President Vicente Fox showed up in 2001 to encourage investment in his country. Now it's Paul Martin's turn to press the flesh among some of the world's most powerful media moguls during the 22nd Sun Valley conference at a plush resort nestled among the mountains of central Idaho. The conference is the brainchild of Herbert Allen, of New York investment banking boutique Allen & Co., a firm that specializes in helping finance media transactions. Mr. Allen decided in the early 1980s to try to drum up business by inviting top players in the media and technology businesses, along with key institutional investors, to mix and mingle at a secluded spot. The event has become an annual pilgrimage for executives and those who want to help them do deals. The executives' families are invited along, an incentive for them to stay for the full five days and enjoy ancillary fun: whitewater rafting, golfing, horseback riding and skating on an all-season outdoor ice rink. The conference is a coveted invitation, with about 250 of the chosen few asked to attend each year. That number grows to more than 500 with spouses and kids. Adding to the secretive cachet is the fact that news media are not welcome. While reporters can stay at the resort and are free to schmooze with executives in bars and restaurants, they're barred from conference sessions. "It's the ultimate media-mogul confab," said Richard Siklos, a New York-based journalist who showed up at Sun Valley conferences in 1999 and 2000 to absorb the atmosphere and chat up the executives. The moguls aren't allowed to bring assistants or handlers, which adds to the tone of exclusivity and informality where the decision makers can "try to put deals together or pool their thinking on how to dominate the world ," Mr. Siklos said. Up until a few years ago, the unwashed could get a glimpse into Sun Valley world when Vanity Fair magazine published an annual portrait of some of the most famous attendees, by photographer Annie Leibovitz, to illustrate the publication's ranking of the "most powerful leaders of the information age." The magazine has dropped that tradition, apparently after complaints from some conference attendees who didn't make it into the picture. Adding to the glamour of the conference is the appearance of senior politicians such as Mr. Martin and Mr. Fox, or California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has also been invited this year but has not confirmed his attendance. Mr. Martin's brief appearance -- a one-day fly-in to make a speech today -- was thanks to the efforts of the one regular Canadian attendee at the conference, Bell Globemedia president Ivan Fecan. Mr. Fecan played a "key role" in getting the Prime Minister to show up, conference executive director Will Reed said. Aside from Mr. Martin's speech, those attending this year will hear from Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive officer Carly Fiorina, and Donald Graham, publisher of The Washington Post. It's outside the formal presentations and speeches, however, that the big deal-making reputedly happens. One of the enduring stories about the Sun Valley conference is that the $19-billion (U.S.) purchase of Capital Cities/ABC by Walt Disney Co. came about in 1996 during a conversation in the resort's parking lot between Mr. Buffett, the fabled investor, and Disney chief executive Michael Eisner. Those kinds of legends have given the Sun Valley conference an almost mythic reputation, Mr. Siklos said, just as the event itself has provided the media moguls a forum to exercise their power over the communications industry. "Sun Valley actually kind of created the age of the media mogul," he said. "It gave a structure and a form to this idea of a group of people who run the information world."

The Tale of the Tape ? The Undercard (?Sirius? by The Alan Parsons Project plays in the background) In the blue states for the Democrats, he?s a trial lawyer from the Deep South, known for creating wealth through contingency fees. A relative newcomer to politics, he brings youth and vitality to a ticket headlined by a Jay Leno look alike. Joooohn pretty boy Edwaaaards In the red states for the Republicans, he?s a Washington insider said to have been present at the historic first drawing of the Laffer Curve on the back of a napkin. He brings an IQ over 100 to a ticket best known for the non-word ?Strategery?. [bleep] pacemakeeeerr Cheney Favorite quotes (Edwards) ?His hair was perfect? Warren Zevon ?If it doesn?t fit, you must acquit? Johnny Cochran ?Down with Mega-lo-Mart? Hank Hill Favorite quotes (Cheney) ?I love the smell of napalm in the morning? Robert Duval ?I read your book you magnificent bastard? George Patton ?His name is Jaws; he kills people? James Bond Corporate Sponsor (Edwards) Vidal Sassoon ? ?If you don?t look good we don?t look good? Corporate Sponsor (Cheney) Eveready Energizer ? ?It keeps going and going? Union Support (Edwards) UHA ? United Hairdressers of America Union Support (Cheney) CVSA ? Cardiovascular Surgeons Alliance Who would play him in a movie (Edwards) Tom Cruise Who would play him in a movie (Cheney) Gene Hackman Favorite hobby (Edwards) Chasing ambulances with his dog Favorite hobby (Cheney) Shooting birds with assault rifles when he catches them leaving droppings on his car Secretly afraid of (Edwards) Tort reform Secretly afraid of (Cheney) Microwave ovens Thing he would most like to accomplish if elected (Edwards) A class-action lawsuit against Fox News Thing he would most like to accomplish if elected (Cheney) Dropping a bunker buster bomb on CNN Hygiene tip (Edwards) Wash, rinse, repeat Hygiene tip (Cheney) Using a sandblaster to remove unwanted tarter build-up Favorite movie (Edwards) ?The Rainmaker? with Matt Damon and Danny DeVito Favorite movie (Cheney) ?Dr. Strangelove? with Slim Pickens and George C. Scott Who killed Nicole Simpson? (Edwards) The racist LA police department Who killed Nicole Simpson? (Cheney) The ?Dream Team? lawyers for a career bump Who framed Roger Rabbit? (Edwards) The vast right-wing conspiracy Who framed Roger Rabbit? (Cheney) I did. You got something to say about it? On paper, this bout looks to be more exciting than the main event.

What did you do Mike, bring a notepad. :: I knew I didn't remember everything. I'm actually thinking of trying to get to one of their east coast shows in August. It was so good.

I don't really know. I just meant that she kind of stood out among the other workers at Mel's Diner, Vera, Alice, and Mel. She also seemed to enjoy being somewhat of a slut and would embarass Alice and Vera with her tales of big-rig sleeper cabs and backseats at drive-in movies. Much like Samantha would embarass the Kristen Davis character on "Sex in the City". A show I used to like until Carrie cheated on that nice guy from "Northern Exposure" with the guy who left "Law and Order". I always thought the Arizona lifestyle had something to do with year-round golf. Or is that just some Camelot type view I have of all the states that don't experience a winter, Flagstaff excluded?

Yes, the peter principal where we all rise to our own level of incompetence. I like when he sits in meetings and repeats everything David says. "Two legs good, four legs bad" like the animals in the Orwell book.

It would be frightening to think of 'Gareth' being in charge of anything, especially combat troops. He's afraid of Jello.

80's alternative as John Hughes starts making movies again. I hear Molly Ringwald is playing a mom in his next movie and the plotline revolves around her family forgetting 'mothers day', because her oldest son was serving Saturday detention for taping a guys butt cheeks together, the younger son crashed the family car in the backyard, and their estranged uncle was put in jail for illegally fixing a horse race. "Here's a quarter, go downtown and have a rat knaw that thing off your face." I miss John Candy Was I just the right age for the John Hughes films, or were they really as good as I remember? I can't imagine a soundtrack ever being better than "Pretty in Pink", so many good bands.

Flo never really tried to assimilate into the Arizona lifestyle did she?

I currently addicted to watching "Coupling" and "The Office" on the BBCA. I had heard that they tried to do "coupling" for ABC or some other network but then never heard anything else about it. They should have just shown the original British version. I don't see how people wouldn't have liked it. Gareth on "The Office" likes to talk about being in the 'Territorial Army', does anyone know what the US equivalent of this is? When he talks about it, the other people don't seem too impressed. Or are they just not impressed with Gareth, the 'assistant regional director', or the 'assistant to the regional director', depending on who's stating his job title.

Yall know I'm fixin to say something about Southern folk. The movie "Deliverance" and the "The Dukes of Hazard" didn't help us much either. My first 24 years were spent in Texas. Many people laugh when I say 'yall', but its so much easier to say and type than 'you all'.

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