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According to Southpark, in the episode where Satan is involved with both Saddam and Chris : The Hell Director welcomes a group of new arrivals to Hell. Some of them are confused, saying they had been devout Protestants, or Jehovah's witnesses, and shouldn't be in Hell. The Director tells them "I'm sorry, I'm afraid you were wrong... you chose the wrong religion." They ask "well, what was the correct religion?" The Director informs them: "I'm afraid it was 'the Mormons.' Yes, 'the Mormons' was the correct answer." My father was near the end with lung cancer was very weak, and had a raspy voice. He said to take him to the hospital to die and that they were waiting for him. We said "the nurses in the Oncology ward?" He said "No, in heaven, they're sitting there waiting for me." We took him in on a Thursday. He rallied on Friday, and Saturday , when a cousin of his visited and they talked all day about old times, and Sunday, when he and my mother talked all day (I was at the Bills-Denver game when we scored 21 points in 71 seconds- he told me to go even though I didn't want to). The next day, after work, I went to visit him and pick up my mom. I told him about that great game, and about 10 minutes later he died. An uncle (his b-i-l) that he liked was slowly dying from congestive heart failure. Around Christmas after my dad died, we were watching the last Bills away game of the 1990 season at his house. He said "Son of a B word, the Bills are going to the Superbowl, and I won't see it." He was right. He died the first week of 1991. My mother happened to be visiting him in St. Joes, that day and he died in front her too. A few months before my dad died, I overheard them betting who would go first. They said they would pay up later. My dad was 60 and his b-i-l was 62. I believe they are up there with another uncle (b-i-l of my mother) who was a real nice guy and died from diabetes at 45. I believe they are up there drinking and playing cards and having fun and paying off that bet.

Why? I've never had it. T took my last one in, A 5 year old G4 tower because it was freezing up randomly, including at startup before the OS loaded. They, FOR NOTHING ran a diagnostic disk which pointed to a motherboard problem. That is the only problem I have had with a Mac.

The top is from his godsister's daughter. I've heard of godfathers and godmothers. What is a godsister?

I don't care because I'll be 102. I want my flying car NOW!

Before "Manos: The Hands Of Fate" was shown on MST3K, Dr. Forrester apologized for showing it. True Stories written, directed, and starring David Byrne of the Talking Heads was awful. Watched about 5 minutes, fast forwarded to the "Wild Wild Life" Song, and then took it right back to the video store.

Great!

Hard to find the real words between all the ummms.

What the F happened to treason laws? The left gets all worked up when a CIA desk jockey outs herself and then gets publicly outed by a reporter, but when real CIA agents gets outed and it could possibly jeopardize their live, they think it's OK.

Mad I wasn't hanging on the messiah's every utterance?

The advantage of being on the west coast. The pres is on at 5 PM. I watched a repeat of Scrubs last night at 8 PM.

Obama picked somebody so stupid as an insurance policy. Even the white supremacists know how stupid Biden is and wouldn't think about assassinating Obama to make Biden president.

Remember, Conner thinks the WTC7 collapse was an inside job.

One of the radio stattions here said the White hous should just offer a blanket apology for the next four years. "Please do not pay attention to anything VP Biden says. he is suffering from end stage syphilis." :doh:

101. Joe Biden

Just pick up on that Sherlock?

It took me about 20 seconds to see he was unfunny.

Adam West of course. He was Batman!

There are 4 kinds of wine: White Red Stuff with a cork Stuff with a screw top.

"In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. " and Mother: All right. Now, are you ready to tell me where you heard that word? Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master. But, I chickened out and said the first name that came to mind. Ralphie: Schwartz! My parents said that everything looked authentic in that movie. They didn't make any mistakes with the sets or props.

Here is a post from another board I am on:

SARS is dangerous because most people infected died. This one can be a big problem. Remember, it spreads exponentially. Modern air travel allows it to spread quickly, but medicine is so nuch advanced we may be able to get a handle on it.

Trivia: The narrator, Jean Shepard, thereal Ralphie and writer of the movie., appears in a cameo. He is the guy with the beard and wearing a hat in the department store that tells Ralphie and his brother the line starts over there. He was married to the actress Lois Nettleson for 6 years and is the voice of the father in the Carousel of Progress at Disney World.

You have no idea how grants get funded. This is how I remember it as of approximately 2002. The head of the study section selects people (10-15) (usually friends) to review grants. The people in the study section each got a big box of grants (30-40) now probably distributed on DVD or online. They have a relatively short time (month) to review them and write a synopsis and opinion on the grant, while still doing their regular job. They usually farm out the reviewing and synopsis writing to their grad students, pos-docs, or employees. They send the synopses to the members and they have a week to read them. They all get together in one room. There are a certain # and $ amount they will fund. They quickly discuss the grants and winnow down the number and $ amounts. If there is a rival in the study section, forget about getting funded or have the $ amount drastically cut. The grants are about what you plan to do, but most of it is what you have done during the last grant to justify giving you more. It's also like the government , in fact it is government $. If you don't spend each year's allotment. it doesn't carry over to the next year. When I was in grad school in the 80s, the prof came in and said we had one month to spend 15K or lose it. We stocked up on non-perishable supplies like pipettes and petri plates and bought equipment we didn't use for a year or two. It's like making sausage or law, you don't want to see the process.

It cost millions with all the lost work from the people that ran outside in panic.

The typiucal "Bush did it too!" response.