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Re: visiting the US and buying a gun. Stupid idea! First, they are not cell phones that you can just buy one and "load it up" to use while here, then ditch on the way out of the country. There are many laws, including a waiting period where you have to fill out paperwork with your intent to...

My answering machine message: "Whadda YOU want?!?"

It is obvious that this is an essential element of the Creation Story that somehow got dropped through the various translations and re-telling of the Pentatuch. Genesis 1.1 should really read "God created the heaven and the earth, and blob's yer uncle".

I predict that scientists will discover that this "blob" is the origin of all the slime in the universe.

Where do you want the "All" to appear? First? Last? Somewhere else?

It really doesn't matter if midnight is represented as 12:00 am, 00:00, 2400 or anything else, if you use Bob Larson's suggestion and use Date/Time instead. Otherwise, you may "fix" your problem with your 3:00 pm to midnight shift, but what do you do if someone works until 1:00 am? Using...

So maybe, to be exact and insure there is no confusion, we should be simply referred to as "certain member(s) of Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia, Order Primates, Family Hominidae, Genus Homo, Species Homo Sapiens, Subspecies Homo Sapiens Sapiens." After all, "human" contains...

Actually the species is "homo-sapiens" (not "human"). I would suspect that would quickly be abbreviated to "homo" which would then lead to all sorts of controversy.

Goodbye and thanks for all of them! The answer is 42. (There, that should pretty much wrap up this thread.)

Last month iTunes reached an agreement to be able to market Beatles tunes there. I wonder how much it cost them and how much they have already made?

It's no big mystery. Most cultures without a rich written language had a very good system of oral history. For example, the Celtic cultures had the bardic system, the American Indian had the medicine man. The keepers of the oral history were highly respected and had high status in the...

Not necessarily. You could conceivably have an instance where an ancient built a big boat (for various reasons) and when a local flood threatened, loaded his family and all of his livestock on it and waited out the flood, which gave rise to the legend of the Ark. In such a case the "ark" was...

Now that would be a sight worthy of the evening news: a huge line of dirty old men standing in line, all wearing TSA shirts, eagerly awaiting their chance to check for boob bombs....

There are more reasons than what you stated, although at present those are the top two. Climate change (regardless of cause) and natural extinction cycles also contribute to the decline in fish stock.

Yep, I lied about it. The FBI entrapped me and made me do it. They brainwashed me into lying to you. But, sly old fox that you are, you caught me. You must be Scotland Yard, right? Now, let's get back to the "false boobs" aspect of this thread.

That is a misconception that has been so ingrained into our culture in the last 50 years that it is now taken as fact. The US was NOT founded on Separation of Church and State. The country was "founded" mostly by groups of religious and political disidents. The Constitution formalized the...

"The most convincing and most dangerous lies are those that are 99% true" - Dale Carnegie

Yes, Virginia, there IS a Grinch!

I live just north of Portland (in Tacoma, WA) and there has been much talk of it here. From what I gather, it is not "just another American sham" (whatever that may be), but appears to be very true, unfortunately. There have been several people who have come forward saying that the young man...

Which Queen? There are just so many of them these days, it is difficult to keep track. And very few of them live in castles...