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Date: 2007/10/01 18:21:29, Link 64.24.208.186
Author: jeffox
Hello everyone!  I drifted over here after catching wind of this at Pharyngula.  After reading the first 150 pages or so of this thread, I figured it was time to get involved myself.  I hope that's OK with all of you.  :)

UD is pretty dumb, but in an entertaining sort of way.  It kind of reminds me of Mr. Kimball on Green Acres.  :)

Congrats on 666 pages and still going strong!

Does anybody else in here think that the Ben Stein photo for Expelled makes him look like Angus Young of AC/DC?  My 2c.  :)

Date: 2007/10/01 18:37:43, Link 64.24.208.186
Author: jeffox
@ Deadman:

Thank you, I do appreciate that.  Got any St. Paul microbrews handy?  Pig's-Eye, maybe even?   :D

@ djmullen:

You forgot one:

867-5666 - Jennybeast (Tommy 666tone)   :D

Date: 2007/10/01 19:32:36, Link 64.24.208.186
Author: jeffox
@ R. Bill:

Which works better, cast- or wrought-irony meter?   (I have both.)  As for the dung-cap; well, I live in Wisconsin, it's a necessity for this Minnesotan-in-exile.  :)  It also means I'm used to poking fun at 'Tards.  (OK, ok, no offense to any cheeseheads IN HERE.  And fwiw Favre did pass a major milestone yesterday - congrats to him and his team.)

And thank you for the welcome - I hope that I work out OK in here, contribution-wise.

Date: 2007/10/02 21:44:27, Link 64.24.208.93
Author: jeffox
No offense, anybody; but I though real apologies went something like, "Yes, I see what I did wrong.", "Gee, I really am sorry for that.", "I'll fix that right away.", and, "It'll never happen again."

Well, maybe one of four isn't too bad to accept for these guys.  My 2c.

Date: 2007/10/10 14:35:15, Link 64.24.211.245
Author: jeffox
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I once overhead someone say "my head literally exploded".

They weren't trying to be funny.


Ya ya, I'm literally in Wisconsin.  That doesn't mean I'm a cheesehead.  :)

Date: 2007/10/10 15:07:14, Link 64.24.211.245
Author: jeffox
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Quote (jeffox @ Oct. 10 2007,14:35)
Ya ya, I'm literally in Wisconsin.  That doesn't mean I'm a cheesehead.  :)

Yes it does!


No offense, (very, very bad pun there) but it will be one very hot day in Minnesota before I put a cheese wedgie on my head.  :)

Jerry (the kid) sez:

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Someday Chemists and Physicists will be able to predict the properties of compounds directly from its molecular structure and water will no longer be a mystery.


Umm, aaahh, hmmm, isn't there a word for that?  Oh, yeah, chemistry or something like that.  :)

p.s. @J-Dog - I claim that I'm currently in exile.

Date: 2007/10/16 20:48:17, Link 64.24.214.138
Author: jeffox
@GCT:

You probably know this, but Abba isn't the only act to have a hit single called "Waterloo".  :)  A C&W act, circa late '50s, called "Stonewall Jackson" was their name.  It's a different song, also.  Anyway, neither here nor there, plus off-subject, but my 2c.

Everybody has to meet their Waterloo. . . . .   :)

Date: 2007/10/16 21:03:48, Link 64.24.214.138
Author: jeffox
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The resulting dungheap contains at least a couple of gems; I'm sure that more experienced spelunkers will find several more. For me, the highlights included this  
 
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A rock is composed of three basic ingredients; energy, force and truth.



Oh, ya ya, and a rock feels no pain.  And an island never cries.

Something came out of the sky and hit this one in the head.  Gotta be.  That, or there's a stupid-beam satellite out there with his name on it.  That, or maybe this guy knows rocks well because he is one.

Ahhh, the philosophical choices of tarddom.  Anyway, my 2c.  (hope I wasn't too mean)

Date: 2007/10/16 21:13:23, Link 64.24.214.138
Author: jeffox
Maybe he means the kind of rock that flows out of volcanoes.  You know, ignorant rock.  :)

Date: 2007/10/16 21:45:59, Link 64.24.214.138
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, I hear you, Kristine.  :)  :)

I like ignorant rocks the best because they're unaware of their surroundings.  I drive around them.  :)

Not that I'll start any religion over it, but Duluth gabbro really speaks to me.  :)  Something about needing a batholith.  And a shave.  :)   :)

Date: 2007/10/18 18:58:32, Link 64.24.214.132
Author: jeffox
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Damn I should have added where I am going on Saturday which is Ipswich*. I hate missed opportunities....


*for non UK Ipswich is a nondescript port town infamous recently for a spate of prostitute murders. I am going to watch rugby, honest....


I took a trip overseas in 2003, and I went into Ipswich.  I ended up spending about 45 min. between trains at the station.  I didn't think it too bad of a place, but all I saw was the station - and there wasn't much there.  I spent the time talking to a guitar player from Norwich.

Sorry for the totally off-topic post, but I did have a lot of fun on my trip; sometimes I just can't help talking about it.  :)

Oh, and welcome to the peanut gallery!  :)  We're upwind of UD, so here, have some e-ale, on me!

Date: 2007/10/20 23:34:04, Link 64.24.208.129
Author: jeffox
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I think it is more likely you are committing the sin of Onan.


Would that be Onan the Masterbarian?   :)   :)   :)

Date: 2007/10/25 20:19:24, Link 64.24.211.187
Author: jeffox
Granny Porcupine writes:

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Bill Dembski asked about design vs. mechanism over at Uncommon Descent, and quite a long thread ensued. I thought I’d post my own thoughts here, to break up the thread a bit.


Translation from "gutter Canadian"*:  I'm not getting any attention at my own blog, so I'll ride on Dembski's coattails.

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1. Design works primarily through patterns of relationship that require intelligent selection. That is why many mechanisms can achieve the same design. If the relationship works, the design is achieved.


Translation:  Design is whatever I say it is.  

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2. Design creates mechanism but mechanism only instantiates design. Mechanism does as much as its design allows. That is why computers are not conscious. The people who are trying to make computers conscious do not understand the nature of the problem. Consciousness includes the instantiation of a series of relationships, and is not a mechanism.


Translation:  Mechanism isn't important or relevant because I say it's not important or relevant.  I even used big words and an example.

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3. You cannot work back from a design to identify a designer unless you already know which features of the designer are instantiated in the design AND can trace those features to a specific designer.


Translation:  We know who the designer is even though we can't tell how or why we know.

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4. Design resists mechanistic description. Case in point: Writers find it hard to explain how to write well. We describe mechanisms, but the mechanisms do not produce the outcome directly, only indirectly. Many people try the mechanisms and produce the most awful, unreadable prose.


Translation:  And I ought to know.

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5. Here is some limited-use information: When I write, I select among patterns of expression, often unconsciously, though not always so. If you believe that no mind exists and therefore no one selects and there is nothing to select, I do not have any means of describing how I write well. So we are back to mechanism, which doesn’t explain anything.


Translation:  Just like me.

The rest doesn't matter, it's typical Granny Porcupine "Buy my book" crap.

Sometimes I think she's more entertaining that DaveTard.  My 46c.  :)

*Granny Porcupine's particular dialect of Canadian English, sort of like the "hillbilly-speak" of many southern U.S. areas, generally an indicator of red-neckedness

Date: 2007/10/25 22:13:38, Link 64.24.208.10
Author: jeffox
R. Bill wrote:

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I've been thinking about this. Mechanism also creates design but only consciousness instantiates mechanism. Designed mechanisms instantiate conscious design, but only relationships mechanize instantiation. A series of mechanisms allows designed instantiations to become conscious, but only computation mechanizes conscious instantiated design.  


So a more accurate translation would be:  Mechanism is whatever I say it is, even if I say it's not there or isn't important.

Quote


- From The Spatula Brain, which you can buy, and hurry up.


Gee, and here I can't even cook.  :)   :)

Date: 2007/10/25 22:27:04, Link 64.24.208.10
Author: jeffox
Granny Porcupine's entry has some responses, too.

UrbanMysticDee writes:

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I’ve got the suffering part of writing down, it’s the publishing part that I’m stuck on. It’s one thing to produce something readers will enjoy, it’s something else entirely to produce something heartless machines will not reject because they cannot categorize it.


Getting published in scientific areas isn't hard.  It doesn't require suffering, nor enjoyable readability; but does require science.  I've never been published either, but at least I know THAT.

Date: 2007/10/27 18:24:09, Link 64.24.211.49
Author: jeffox
Granny Porcupine opines thusly:

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My sense is that Olasky is right. Darwinism is the last attempt to find a mechanism that explains everything in a world that is fundamentally governed by relationship. Quantum mechanics should have made that clear. Slow learners, these Darwinists.


I thought quantum mechanics only worked in the materialistic world.  Granny needs a clue.

Date: 2007/10/27 18:32:19, Link 64.24.211.49
Author: jeffox
Also, there's an older post that's seen some newer activity - and I, for one, smell a bannation coming on. . .  Let's see what happens to Fred Flash here:  http://www.uncommondescent.com/religion/separation-of-church-and-state/#comment-144413

(Maybe that link won't work - it's the first time I've tried that here.  I may have to repost this.)

Date: 2007/10/27 18:36:29, Link 64.24.211.49
Author: jeffox
Ok, the link is good, but you have to cut-and-paste.  Can anybody in here tell me how to make this just one "blue" word that can be clicked on?  Thanks.  Sorry that I'm not as computer-literate as I need to be.

Date: 2007/10/27 18:39:06, Link 64.24.211.49
Author: jeffox
Also (and quite off-topic) can anybody in here help me with my avatar?  I would like to use the fox photo I have at my blog, but the address is too long to fit in the window at my profile page.  Grrrrr.  I would appreciate any help here, as I'm getting a little tired of tagging along with "cartoon Alfred".  :)

Date: 2007/10/28 01:12:16, Link 64.24.211.86
Author: jeffox
Thank you everybody who helped me with my recent questions.  I now have what I consider to be a cool (and appropriate) avatar, and I also think I can manipulate the http/link thingee the right way now.  I'm sorry that I didn't respond to the people who e-mailed me with e-mails, as I'm thanking everybody this way (it's easier).

I couldn't have done it without you all.  Thanks again!

Date: 2007/10/28 01:19:37, Link 64.24.211.86
Author: jeffox
Oh, and before anybody asks, so I don't get into trouble; no, I didn't take the photo for my avatar.  I swiped it off the internet (I can't remember where right off-hand).  Well, it was free.  So I swiped it.

Looks cool, doncha think?  Heh heh, I do  :)  :)

Date: 2007/11/02 21:03:10, Link 64.24.208.149
Author: jeffox
Granny porcupine just can't miss out on the tardfest:

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Why would Christians, of all people, claim that there is absolutely no evidence for design in nature? So people should believe in God without any evidence at all? Hunter makes a persuasive case that such people are mainly interested in getting God of the hook for whatever is wrong with the world. As if.

I figure God can take care of himself.

By the way, also check out our great author blog at The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist’s case for the existence of the soul (Harper One 2007) where we put up links to multimedia resources around the book.



Gaaaahhh she's a tough read.  God of the hook?  Doesn't she proofread her own shit?  As if is quite the sentence, too.  Real sciency.  :)

As ever and always, she ends with, "Buy my book."

No thanks, Granny.  I read what I buy.  Plus I don't like to support your religiofascist agenda.  My advice?  Stick to Schmenge concert reviews and keep a lower profile.  My 2c.  :)

Date: 2007/11/05 20:38:04, Link 64.24.212.215
Author: jeffox
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A rock is composed of three basic ingredients; energy, force and truth.


Oh, yes; and it takes one to know one!

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A ba77 post is composed of three basic ingredients: t, ar, and d.


Please, don't do that when I'm eating.  :)   :)   :)   :)

Date: 2007/11/06 20:38:58, Link 64.24.211.125
Author: jeffox
A minor (but interesting) tardfight over there:

GLarson opines:

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Borne - So if you are not a Christian Darwinist, what are you, a Christian Satanist?  And how is the phrase Christian Darwinist an oxymoron? I think I understand your point - that this is something that does not make sense - but in point of fact there are many Christian Darwinists, including me, my priests, bishop, and even Pope Benedict.

And I do not think that by naming God to be the Prime Mover, or Designer, makes “God Did It” an invalid statement. By denying this, maybe you really ARE a Christian Satanist


And Batshit77 responds:

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Glarson24,

neo-Darwinism is rooted in the materialistic philosophy which is based on blind chance acting on purely material processes. Your church might as well be in a Vegas casino, and your priest might as well be a blackjack dealer, if blind chance acting on material processes is the creator you give praise to.


To which Getwitless responds:

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bornagain77,

Whatever your differences with Glarson24, it seems inappropriate to insult his religion and even his God.



And then KidJerry gets involved:

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Glarson24,

The expression Christian Darwinist is only an oxymoron if one is using the term Darwinist in it philosophical meaning and not as one who subscribes to neo Darwinism as a scientific theory. Pope Benedict has come out against many of the interpretations of those who he believe have taken neo Darwinism too far.

As you say there are many very devout Christians who subscribe to neo Darwinism as the process for how life developed over time. I am not sure if Pope Benedict is one of them. If you read carefully what the Catholic Church has said about evolution there is no official endorsement of neo Darwinism. In fact there is some expression of doubt.

ID proponents do not believe that neo Darwinism is an adequate answer to all the changes in life over time. You can disagree but that is the main issue and what the debate is about.

The term Darwinist or Darwinism has developed for many to encompass much more than the scientific theory of evolution called neo Darwinism and as such has become anathema to many religious people including the Catholic Church.


Yep, all 'bout science, here.  :)  So's the WWF.  :)

Date: 2007/11/07 17:17:08, Link 64.24.212.167
Author: jeffox
Tarsetstrip77's cheerleading comments probably result from the fact that UD's mission is to appeal precisely to his demographic type.  That is, the dim-half-witted pseudo-persecuted religious nutcase types who enjoy expounding on things that they know absolutely nothing about.

That also explains his empathy with Granny Porcupine and thier common types of "pet theories" that are nothing but utter nonsense, scientifically.

I know that every rose has its storm, :) but the only thing I fear about this would be when UD drops its scientific pretenses to develope a wider support base.  Anyway, my 2c.

Date: 2007/11/07 17:21:37, Link 64.24.212.167
Author: jeffox
Did the original get saved?

Date: 2007/11/07 17:46:15, Link 64.24.212.167
Author: jeffox
Okay, I'm feeling a little impish tonight.  :)  I'm starting a little sub-thread here, calling it, "UD's theme song".  It's easy and fun!  Join in any time if you wish - the more the merrier I say.  :)   :)   :)    :)   :)

A SUNDRY LIST OF SONG TITLES FOR UD'S THEME (list not complete):

Rush - Working Tard
Beatles - Tard Day's Night
The Who - Behind Tard Eyes
Traffic - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Tard
Deep Purple - Highway Tard
David Bowie - Ziggy Tarddust
T. Rex - Bang a Tard
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson Tard
Jimi Hendrix - Tard Spangled Banner (from live at Tardstock)
Aerosmith - Tard in the Attic
AC/DC - Tard Voltage
Bob Marley - Tard it up
B-52's - Tard Lobster
CCR - Tard on the Bayou
The Police - Synchronicitard
Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Tard
Chambers Brothers - Tard has come Today
The Byrds - Tard!Tard!Tard!
Foghat - Slow Tard
Led Zeppelin - Moby Tard
Yes - Tard for a Day
Cream - White Tard

I could, of course, go on.  But it's YOUR turn now.  Have fun!  I did.  :)

Date: 2007/11/07 17:59:52, Link 64.24.212.167
Author: jeffox
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(OK, OK. It's in poor taste. I worked for a disability non-profit providing transportation for a couple of years in and after college. It was a good job. The truly mentally and developmentally disabled deserve compassion and respect, which I always gave those in my supervision. Those who choose the way of tard, not so much.)


Well put, imo.

Date: 2007/11/07 20:54:13, Link 64.24.208.1
Author: jeffox
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I'm not knocking Nazareth's version, though - Hair of the Dog is a great album.


I agree, but don't you mean "Hair of the Tard"?  :)

(Adding more fuel to the fire:  :))

Don't forget U2's "In Tard's Country" from the Joshua Tard album.   :)

Oh, Wes, don't forget this BOC classic:  E.T.I., Extra Tardestial Ignorance.  :)

"Yeah don't report this DaveTard said. . . . ."

Date: 2007/11/12 02:54:39, Link 64.24.209.135
Author: jeffox
Alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, etc., etc., it doesn't matter what they used to be addicted to.

'Cuz now they're all ADDICTED TO TARD!!!

Date: 2007/11/12 03:11:29, Link 64.24.209.135
Author: jeffox
(Starts carrying on)  :)   :)

(Stands up)
Hello.  My name is #########.  I'm a tardaholic.

It all started back when I was a teenager.  First, I just didn't pay attention in science class.  Then, it got worse and worse.  Soon, I didn't have a clue in mathematics, biology, astronomy, physics, or chemistry.  And I just didn't care.  I had my tard, that was all I needed.

But then, I needed more and more tard.  I began to forget things I knew quite well.  I also began to deny the things around me were real.  I was happy, as long as I had my tard.  Tard was everything to me back then.

People would come up to me and say, "#######, you need help, you're a real TARD!" and I would just get all dreamy-eyed just thinking about tard.  I was a tard junkie, a real tardaholic.  Nothing could keep me from my tard.

But then. . . .
I came in here.  And everybody else started saying they were tardaholics and giving thier stories.  So I figured I would too.  What's that stuff about a 12 step program?  Heck, I'm too tard to count that high!!

Gimme tard.  I'm a tardaholic.  :)   :)    :)   :)   :)   :)

Date: 2007/11/12 03:18:07, Link 64.24.209.135
Author: jeffox
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I remember that image - the shock of seeing Denyse O'Leary's head pasted onto a woman's body is the stuff of nightmares.


Ya ya, Granny Porcupine's head is enough to give me the willies, too.

:)

Date: 2007/11/12 04:05:29, Link 64.24.212.218
Author: jeffox
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People keep disagreeing without getting banned.

Are Daveyboy and WAD on vacation?


(Can't resist this one)
Tard never sleeps.  :)   :)   :)

Date: 2007/11/12 22:50:43, Link 64.24.212.13
Author: jeffox
Didn't Bob Seger have a song about Fire Lake?  :)

Someone (well, maybe it's too late) ask tardagain77 how the fishing is in that lake of fire, eh?  

I wonder if it'd be tard to ask if there's any ice fishing on that lake of fire.  :)   :)   :)

Date: 2007/11/12 23:10:59, Link 64.24.212.13
Author: jeffox
Aesahaettr, on the "blog reading level" thread, wrote:

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Gosh, Barry, looks like you can’t catch a break today. It’s supposed to be “hoisted BY my own petard,” not “ON my own petard.” Why, it almost sounds like you don’t even know what a “petard” is.


Well, he certainly has the last 4 letters down.  :)

Aside, I wonder how long this comment will last there?

Date: 2007/11/12 23:58:52, Link 64.24.212.13
Author: jeffox
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Well, for all his faults (and there are many) BarryA has shown a much greater toleration of critical comments than his friends over there, at least as far as I call recall:


Relatively speaking, of course.  :)

Date: 2007/11/13 02:33:03, Link 64.24.208.150
Author: jeffox
Jerry lays down this very large helping of tard:

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It must be tough for intellectuals these days to beholden to such doctrines as neo Darwinism and stringently enforced equality. They are contradictory and neither has any empirical support in reality. Will the honest intellectual please stand up.


Sure, Jerry; just as soon as you declare yourself one of the "less equal" among us.  Oh wait, that choice usually doesn't get to be YOURS, Jerry.  

Tell ya what, Jerry; why don't you just explain how a biological concept has anything to do with (strictly) human social conventions?

And, FWIW, Jerry; I don't think that any intellectuals trust YOUR version of reality, anyway.  You seem to have problems with the reality that we find to be common among ourselves.

I don't claim to be an intellectual, but I hope that was honest enough for you, Jerry.  You tard.

(Sits back down)   :)    :)    :)

Date: 2007/11/14 02:28:22, Link 64.24.209.110
Author: jeffox
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So it's a kind of a farTard.


That would explain some of the curious noises over there.  :)   :)   :)

Date: 2007/11/14 17:37:20, Link 64.24.211.136
Author: jeffox
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I have to ask you guys, is overwhelming evidence satire?

Seriously. I have to ask. Because it's ...


More like saTARD.     :)    :)    :)

Date: 2007/11/14 17:45:42, Link 64.24.211.136
Author: jeffox
While we're waiting for the response to PBS's show, I'll keep you all entertained with a little song I wrote.  :)

Tard think
You make my heart sink
You make every think
Clueless

Tard think I just don't like you
'Cuz you really just don't know
So why don't you do some science
And publish. . . .

Tard think
You make my heart sink
You make every think
Clueless

Tard think I just don't like you
'Cuz you're in it for the slow
So why don't take that wedge
And shove it. . . .  

:)     :)      :)       :)

My thanks to a bunch of Troggs from back inna days.

Date: 2007/11/14 17:53:35, Link 64.24.211.136
Author: jeffox
@ SteveH

To me, it looks like they tried to edit out most of the tardfight over there, and maybe had some collateral editing to boot.  I could be wrong.  My 2c.

BTW, thanks for saving that!

Date: 2007/11/17 16:26:43, Link 64.24.211.24
Author: jeffox
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Or their other socks were in the wash.


Ahhhhh, the fine smell of tard. . . . .    :)    :)    :)

Date: 2007/11/18 23:36:07, Link 64.24.209.170
Author: jeffox
You know, not everybody who is a troll/sockpuppet over there needs to reveal themselves.  If only one or two unmask, then indicate that there MAY be more, that should drive the real tards absolutely coocoobirds.  It might even result in some very interesting tardfights, as the paranoia spreads.  

It just seems to me that we could have our tard and eat it too.  :)  My 2c.

Date: 2007/11/19 15:17:39, Link 64.24.209.204
Author: jeffox
Looks like Medved will go from chasing bigfoot to chasing big tard.   :)

Oh, and the sailor-boy in Granny Porcupine comes out:

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This definitive book on intelligent design (ID) comes as a shot across the bow to dogmatic defenders of Darwinian orthodoxy


A^men Brother O^Leary!  Sell another bo^ok!

Date: 2007/11/20 18:03:40, Link 64.24.208.164
Author: jeffox
Too bad none of 'em even have a clue to the words of the song, "Louie, Louie".  :)

"Face it, BA77; you didn't throw up at Judge Jones, you threw up ON Judge Jones."

:)   My 2c.  :)

Date: 2007/11/27 05:14:35, Link 64.24.209.119
Author: jeffox
From Wes:

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As if Intelligent design thor-ists had a scientific theory.

Sure they do. For relevant values of Thor-ists.


Ah-hah!  Good ol' Thor and Mjolnir, the hamster of the gods!!

And, from Bob O'H:
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Well, they won't get any help from St. Ursula:


She sounds like a bear!   :)   :)    :)

Date: 2007/12/03 05:34:11, Link 64.24.208.241
Author: jeffox
Weren't all the villains in Scooby-Doo sockpuppets?   :)

btw, Louis, I've been to K.C. station - on my way out to Harwich.

Date: 2007/12/04 23:08:11, Link 64.24.208.217
Author: jeffox
Mr. Christopher wrote:
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Put two turds side by side and try and distinguish one from the other.  Both stink and neither tastes good with pasta.


turds or tards?  Oh wait, never mind. . . .   :)

Date: 2007/12/04 23:10:39, Link 64.24.208.217
Author: jeffox
Annyday wrote:
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ERV? Pretty please? Want to hear Dembski freaking out.


I heard that he almost spewed all over his tardigan™ sweater!    :)    :)    :)

(No offense to any Welshpeople in here.)

Date: 2007/12/04 23:27:53, Link 64.24.208.217
Author: jeffox
"Over there. . ." MacT wrote:
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DLH:
I wasn’t at ISU, and certainly not on the review committee, so I don’t really know how the decisions there unfolded. If you weren’t there, then you probably know approximately as much as I do. I do think, however, that it’s a slight stretch to place GG on a par with Galileo. At best, the jury’s out till there’s some solid evidence in support of ID.


Yo, Mac!  The ice is still a bit too thin to be driving that new pickup on.  :)  My 2c.

p.s. wonder how long that one lasts?

Date: 2007/12/05 03:48:12, Link 64.24.214.164
Author: jeffox
Aardpig, bugsy, and digdug have become quillbait for Granny Porcupine.  I guess they didn't cut the musTARD!  :)  :)

I guess when Granny wants to feel persecuted (by proxy, anyway) you better let her OR SHE'LL KILL YA!!!  btw buy her book. . . .   :)

Date: 2007/12/05 22:39:17, Link 64.24.208.29
Author: jeffox
Altabin wrote:  
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And presumably ID predicts something very specific about its single most important "artefact," the flagellum.  Like its genes will contain some specific feature which evinces artificial manipulation, just as clearly as the chisel-marks on Mt Rushmore.  Surely that's the sort of thing a theory would do?


Theories, according to the tard-worthy™ "over there", predict things; or at least that's what seems to be important to them.  Theories predict things like who's gonna win the Superbowl, how much Davetard flatulates while violating the 2lot, how many books Granny Porcupine will sell, and (in general) biological Darwinism's Waterloo.  In other words, theories and wishes are the same.  My 2c.

*Edited in theory.

Date: 2007/12/05 22:56:29, Link 64.24.208.29
Author: jeffox
Annyday wrote:
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Edit x2: Holy shit. I just looked at the post again, and it turns out the paper he's citing is from NINETEEN EIGHTY FIVE. It's a twenty two year old paper. Why is he making predictions based upon a 22-year-old paper that's probably been followed up by real scientists already?


I think that that's par for their immaterial, er, non-material course.  :)

*Edited because FTK can't.  Nyah, nyah, nyah.  :)

Date: 2007/12/05 23:18:03, Link 64.24.208.29
Author: jeffox
JAM wrote:  
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I would've thought that bs77 would have avoided the adjective "hard" from his past experience with the nanny filter, but he may possibly have an incredibly insensitive, but still functional, irony meter.


He means "tard", not "hard".  :)

*Edited for awhile.

Date: 2007/12/07 19:49:04, Link 64.24.211.125
Author: jeffox
RichardHughes did writ:  
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Its like a bad "who" with a worse "Status Quo" 3 chord sus4 shuffle.


I think you mean "High Numbers" instead of "Who".  :)

Ed did it
Ed did it

Eddy lied

Date: 2007/12/12 14:14:09, Link 64.24.208.185
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, the CULT OF TARD ™

(CoT for short).  :)   :)   :)

(well, somebody had to write that, eh. . . .)

Date: 2007/12/15 14:49:26, Link 64.24.212.237
Author: jeffox
Exevolutionist wrote:  
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Hmm- If the evolutionists believe they have such an airtight case for thier religious belief in evolution, it would seem that they would welcome a side by side comparison of evolution vs. either Creation or ID. But it appears that there is much fear and trepidation about doing that. If you have not done that comparison, perhaps you should. It changed my mind completely! And perhaps that is the underlying reason why evolutionists seem so frightened of the thought of another explanation.


Bring it out, mofo!

er, er, Bring it back!

er, er, bring it over?
bring it with?
bring it down?

er, er, never mind. . . .

:)

to edit or not to edit, that is the question. . .
alas poor Yorik, he edited well. . .    :)

Date: 2007/12/22 04:31:17, Link 64.24.211.121
Author: jeffox
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Nixon was unfairly railroaded by a vindictive and vicious liberal media!


If I remember correctly, the correct appellation is "nattering nabobs."


(Can't resist this one)  :)

I am NOT a CROO--, er, um, TARD!  :)    :)   :)

Date: 2008/02/27 21:30:16, Link 70.227.228.223
Author: jeffox
Woo hoo!!   It's Schroedinger's ceiling cat!!!   :)  :)

Date: 2008/03/29 12:02:25, Link 70.227.227.195
Author: jeffox
Granny Porcupine decides to have her "writing" analyzed by an outside source:

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Using an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, you can find out whether the genie thinks you are a man or a woman by submitting a sample of your writing.

Given that the genie works best on texts of more than 500 words, I decided to submit my five most recent columns for ChristianWeek.

What do YOU think the Genie discovered from analyzing my writing?



Well, IMHO, the word I'd use is "morphodyke", and good ol' Dave seems to agree:

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I entered one of yours on the same subject and it received a score of

male = 330
female = 252

It appears you’re not just more of a woman than I am, you’re more of a man than I am too!



That's all right, Dave found out that the same source called his writing "TARD".   :)

Date: 2008/03/29 13:45:54, Link 70.227.227.34
Author: jeffox
Granny Porcupine has an excuse ready:
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As you will know, I have offered a reason at the Hack as to why I think my writing samples turn out this way: I was taught to write by men.

an I learnt rael real. good.  too.  :)

Date: 2008/04/01 00:16:33, Link 70.227.227.166
Author: jeffox
k.e. wrote:
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Then he will be saying god told him he was Napoleon Bone-part.....we will all have to agree.

You mean Bone-tard.   :)   :)

Date: 2008/04/06 21:30:14, Link 70.227.227.241
Author: jeffox
Twas writ by godislove:

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Dave Scot's hypocrisy and fascist attitude speaks for itself.  If UD allowed actual debate on their blog comments, their misinformation and propaganda would be exposed for what it is.


It's the "House of the Rising Tard" over there, ya know.  :)

Date: 2008/04/12 20:47:25, Link 70.227.227.138
Author: jeffox
Whips out his "special" dictionary:

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Eristic yet otiose!


"Waterloo!!!!" in tardspeak. . .

:)

Date: 2008/04/13 23:26:32, Link 70.227.228.108
Author: jeffox
'Twas writ priorly thus:

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Similar to Murphy's Law, Poe's Law concerns internet debates, particularly regarding religion or politics.

"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

In other words, No matter how bizzare, outrageous, or just plain idiotic a parody of a Fundamentalist may seem, there will always be someone who cannot tell that it is a parody, having seen similar REAL ideas from real religious/political Fundamentalists.


I knew it was too true to be good.   :)

Date: 2008/04/13 23:55:18, Link 70.227.228.108
Author: jeffox
I saw my first barn swallows of the year today.

Date: 2008/04/20 08:46:53, Link 70.227.227.188
Author: jeffox
It's all a song-and-dance routine over there on the good ship lollitard.  :)

Date: 2008/04/20 22:25:48, Link 70.227.228.48
Author: jeffox
So, Expelled looks like Plan 9 From Outer Tard, eh?  :)

Edited for the director's cut version  :)

Date: 2008/04/20 22:58:00, Link 70.227.228.48
Author: jeffox
Arden Chatfield did write:
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Yes. I want to encourage this. IDers should completely ignore the fossil record from now on. That will drive the stake thru the black heart of materialism once and for all.


Is this fossil record one of them that didn't make it onto CDs, like the Beatles' "Hey Jude" album?  Or were "The Fossils" like "The Mosquitoes"?   :)

Date: 2008/04/22 22:31:22, Link 70.227.228.80
Author: jeffox
I saw my first chipping sparrow of the year today!  Still no fungi yet, though.

Date: 2008/04/23 20:48:21, Link 70.227.227.208
Author: jeffox
Speaking of lying douchebags, does anybody else here wonder where the heck the bathroom is on the above fallout shelter?  Maybe it's just me. . . .


:)

Date: 2008/04/23 20:57:02, Link 70.227.227.208
Author: jeffox
Erasmus, FCD did ask:

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jeff where are you that the funguseses ain't amongusus ye?


And, to answer, I currently live in Oak Lair, (not it's real name :)) Wisconsin.  I was born & raised & lived most of my life in Minnesota, however.  

Just to let you all know, there is still snow on the ground in a few isolated spots in town here.  

I'm currently attending UWEC as a nontraditional student (I'm 46) studying for a geology major.  (I hear it pays well :)).

Fun thread, spring is short here; and I find it an especially fun time to birdwatch - I'll keep you all posted on the stuff I see.

Thanks for asking!

Date: 2008/04/23 22:25:15, Link 70.227.227.208
Author: jeffox
Ah, yes, I see.  Yet another use for that versatile stuff known as vinyl.  :)

Date: 2008/04/24 23:07:36, Link 70.227.227.151
Author: jeffox
Notes that Richardthughes wrote above:

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Will he take down the big tent, or tell Dense she's androgynous?


Don't you mean Dennis?   :)

Date: 2008/04/27 22:30:34, Link 70.227.227.239
Author: jeffox
Somebody please ask Larry Tardtardman how much money Yoko Ono donated to New York City for maintenance of the "Strawberry Fields" section of Central Park, eh?  Leave out the part that anybody can verify with a click of the Google, the six figures part, OK?

I'd ask FTK but, since Larry seems to be one of the only posters over there who fawns over everything she writes, I don't think she'll give my posting the light of day.

Oh well, they deserve each other. . . . tards of a feather, so to speak.   :)

Date: 2008/04/27 22:55:10, Link 70.227.227.239
Author: jeffox
Granny Porcupine excitedly expresses expertly:

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According to Box Office Mojo, Expelled is estimated to have

- earned $5,282,000 in 10 days.

- it is currently ranked 6th in political documentary, 12th in Christian, and 15th in documentary.

- It is currently ranked 13 in films, but every film ranked above it was released in far more theatres.



then Dennis quietly qivvers his quills and quips:

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Apparently, Ms. Ono is trying to stop the distribution of Expelled, but there she certainly hasn’t the advantage of originality. At least one group of fans has sent me a message urging that people see the film soon in case she succeeds.

In case she succeeds? Huh, what? I can’t think of a better way to be sure that a billion people see it.



Note that both of the morphodyke twins are really, really bad with both English and numbers.  One wonders if it's the weather up there in the "great white north" or if it's just the tard.    :)

Date: 2008/04/28 01:08:43, Link 70.227.228.188
Author: jeffox
From Annyday:

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Jeffox: I've already got a post on the stove over thar panning old Fafafa for his crack about the memorial garden. I didn't even get into Ono's donation. We'll see if the post gets through FtK, though.


Best of luck to you, there.  FTK gots a crink up her butt, imo.   :)

Date: 2008/04/28 19:26:43, Link 70.227.227.216
Author: jeffox
Richardthughes wrote:

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Quote (carlsonjok @ April 28 2008,14:46)
Could it be that there are two Dinesh D'Souzas?

It's a very common name.


So's Dennis.  Er, er, Denyse.  Er, er, er, ummm. . .
Never mind   :)

Date: 2008/04/28 20:53:14, Link 70.227.227.216
Author: jeffox
YO, FTK - about those geese and ducks of yours. . .


IT WASN'T ME!!!!!!!


:)

Date: 2008/04/28 23:06:56, Link 70.227.227.111
Author: jeffox
Albatrossity2 wrote:
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Compared to a goose, I'd rather have a fox in my neighborhood any day.

Yeah, same here.  They shit a lot less.  Don't ask me how I know that. . . .   :)

Date: 2008/05/01 20:07:36, Link 70.227.228.178
Author: jeffox
41?

PUPPY!!!!

Date: 2008/05/01 20:08:14, Link 70.227.228.178
Author: jeffox
& happiest of days to ya!!

(sorry for the 2 parter)

Date: 2008/05/01 23:16:39, Link 70.227.227.217
Author: jeffox
Didymos wrote:

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DT surely knows the flavor of Dembski's colon:


Davetard does what he's told by Dembski or Dr. Dr. will sik Dennis on him.    :)

Date: 2008/05/04 01:24:16, Link 70.227.228.165
Author: jeffox
I got out of town today on a geology field trip.  I saw numerous vultures at the landfill we visited, one marsh hawk later, and one common merganser.  Oh, and a good ol' sloughpumper (great blue heron).  

The day started out very cool and drizzly but the sun came out by mid-afternoon for a nice day.  Still too cool here for most fungi.

I hope e1 had as nice a day as I did.

Date: 2008/05/04 14:19:02, Link 70.227.227.58
Author: jeffox
R. Bill spake previously:

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Sal concludes,
   Quote  

Some people still claim to be able to influence dice so as to create non-random outcomes in a legal way. However, even skilled crap shooters need principles of risk management and precautions against gambler’s ruin to succeed.

Sal and Denyse should get together on this, as Sal is a mathematical genius and Denyse is down with psychokinesis (see The Spatula Brain, p. 171).

Together they'll play havoc on mathematical genetics, as organisms psychokinetically influence the occurrence of beneficial mutations in themselves and and detrimental mutations in their competitors.



They could even make a movie about it, get Tom Cruise and a cross-dressing Dustin Hoffman to play the lead characters and call the whole thing, "TARD MAN".  :)   :)

Date: 2008/05/07 19:19:09, Link 70.227.227.8
Author: jeffox
Albatrossity2 wrote above:

Yeah, I think Wee Willy is jacking us around. Nowhere in any of his ditherings does he indicate that he would actually send his kid to a public school. It's not illegal to teach your kid how to be stupid in a "faith-based" school. But it could backfire on him eventually...

[/QUOTE]

Ya ya, especially 'bout the time Wet Wally Jr. needs to get a job.     :)

Date: 2008/05/07 19:30:36, Link 70.227.227.8
Author: jeffox
The biggest joke is that Wet Wally is evidently from or in Minnesota.  It's a cruel sort of joke, but a joke nonetheless.

Please don't imagine for an instant that he represents Minnesota or Minnesotans in any way.  Because I was born there and spent most of my life there, I can honestly write that even Minnesota has its "vocal but tiny and tard minority" that constantly ruin things for the rest of us.

Date: 2008/05/07 19:33:47, Link 70.227.227.8
Author: jeffox
I wrote this on the "Unreasonable Kansans" thread, but it bears repeating here, for obvious reasons.  :)

The biggest joke is that Wet Wally is evidently from or in Minnesota.  It's a cruel sort of joke, but a joke nonetheless.

Please don't imagine for an instant that he represents Minnesota or Minnesotans in any way.  Because I was born there and spent most of my life there, I can honestly write that even Minnesota has its "vocal but tiny and tard minority" that constantly ruin things for the rest of us.

Date: 2008/05/07 22:11:05, Link 70.227.228.186
Author: jeffox
Didymos did write:

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I don't think you have to worry about that.  We're independent thinkers who can surely come up with far more rational reasons to despise Minnesota.  I mean just look at it, all bordering that Canadia-land place....stupid Minnesota.  


Well, somebody's gotta border them up, eh?  :)  Besides, they buy all the snowmobiles we can build.  :)

Date: 2008/05/08 19:55:09, Link 70.227.227.171
Author: jeffox
"Dubya" Wallace did ask:

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Are you in the group Minnesota Atheists for "Science" Education?


No, I'm not.  But I'm not in the group known as Westboro Babtist Church, either.

Later on, Little Willy whined:

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For example, Jeff Snell on KKMS yesterday mentioned the vile treatment he received over at OZ Myer's Phartngula.

But keep it up.  Christians listen to KKMS, and don't much frequent AtBC or other PT-mafia hangouts, but they do listen when Jeff mentions the behavior of evolanders on KKMS.


Nobody in the metro or anywhere else in Minnesota cares what Jeff Snell thinks.  KKMS has a listenership of about 100 to 200 in its entire broadcast range.  KQRS has >10,000 car-radio listeners alone, at any given time, year-round.  

Way to marginalize your cause, Willy.

Date: 2008/05/08 20:18:23, Link 70.227.227.171
Author: jeffox
Little Willie tries some odd logic:

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The fact that different people come up with the same idea, or similar ideas, independently makes it true, to you?

By this I conclude that only one person though they could turn lead into gold, and shared this idea with countless others.  Because if two different people had this notion independently, it would be true?


It doesn't matter who does or doesn't have the idea, or how many do or don't.  What matters is the reality of the situation.  Two plus two always equals four, no matter how many times the pope or President say otherwise, or how many people agree with them or not.

Date: 2008/05/08 21:13:07, Link 70.227.228.105
Author: jeffox
Didymos wrote:

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Quote (jeffox @ May 08 2008,17:55)

Later on, Little Willy whined:

   Quote  
For example, Jeff Snell on KKMS yesterday mentioned the vile treatment he received over at OZ Myer's Phartngula.  




OK, "Phartngula" is straight outta the Dembskiian School of Comedy.  But 'OZ'?  Are you saying PZ is the great and powerful OZ of Evoland?  Would you like to ask him for a brain?  Or are you comparing him to the other well known OZ, a.k.a He-who-urinates-on-Texan-historical-landmarks?



I thought that that was just an accidental application of the FTK head-up-the-butt school of typing/editing.    :)

Date: 2008/05/09 00:17:02, Link 70.227.227.74
Author: jeffox
This one isn't sick, but it's really bad. . .

What were Mickey Mouse's famous last words?


"N-n-n-n-ice Kitty. . . "

:)

Date: 2008/05/09 00:26:26, Link 70.227.227.74
Author: jeffox
Didymos wrote:
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Dude, stop harshing my vibe with your parsimony.

Whoa, I didn't even know I had one of those. . .  :)

Date: 2008/05/09 00:40:34, Link 70.227.227.74
Author: jeffox
Every time Little Willy posts, it's like the circus is in town.  (Shakes the monkey cage to get WW all riled up.)  Oh, ya ya quite the geek show, lemme tell ya.

No, really, guys, you gotta ask WW questions that he can actually answer, like this one:

Hey, Willy-boy. . . is the WWF real?  I know these little old ladies that say for sure it's real.  What's your take?  Ya know, I especially liked it when George (the animal) Steele bit into that turnbuckle.  Woo hoo!!  Such fun.

and this one:

What's your favorite dive in the Hennepin & Lake St. area?  Been spending much time there lately?  or are you normally this hungover?  Just asking. . .

Back into your cage now.  Yes, the one with the sign that says, "Total embarassment to Minnesota."

Date: 2008/05/09 12:35:11, Link 70.227.227.57
Author: jeffox
Hey dere Lil' Willy, do ya even know where dat dere Morris town is, eh?  No?  Tsk.  Figgers.

Say, wasn't that you I seen comin' outta the Adonis Theater just da udder day?  Jus' askin'. . . .

:)    :)    :)     :)

Date: 2008/05/09 19:58:51, Link 70.227.227.135
Author: jeffox
Yo, Willy Wonker. . .  :)

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I like this theater.


I saw Star Trek #4 in there.  Back when.

Date: 2008/05/09 20:10:08, Link 70.227.227.135
Author: jeffox
Albatrossity2 noted above:
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but in your thread here I read these insults, directed at folks here or elsewhere:

Coward
Petty
NCSE and their minor thugs
shifty
fool (multiple times)
dork
full of crap
todies (sic)

And in the last few pages of the BW, your comments include these insults

slow one
Petty
Petty pathetic little man

Apparently when it comes to "pointless name calling", you have different rules for yourself.


Ya ya, I caught that too.  It's why I'll only read and never post over there.

I get the distinct impression Wee Wee Willy is only in here to try to cause trouble, anyway.  He certainly hasn't engaged anybody in here in a normal social manner/tone yet.  Until he does, I'll just pick on the hypocritical tard.  

It appears that he only wants to fight.  I don't blame anybody in here who fights him back.  Myself included.

Date: 2008/05/10 22:26:24, Link 70.227.227.54
Author: jeffox
Finally got some fungi up here in WI.  Coprinus Micaceous (sp.) in copious amounts on and around an ash tree stump near my apartment.

Keep in mind, we've only had one day all year in the 70-80 F range, so far.  Today was mid-60s F.

Date: 2008/05/10 22:33:16, Link 70.227.227.54
Author: jeffox
Wes wrote:

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Surely no one ever experiences problems with software.


I thought that's why they invented Viagra.  :)

Date: 2008/05/13 22:31:39, Link 70.227.228.201
Author: jeffox
Little Willy did tardulate:

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Debating evolanders is like playing chess with pigeons.


Especially when you lose to the pigeons.  :)   :)   :)   :)

Date: 2008/05/18 00:09:04, Link 70.227.227.82
Author: jeffox
Widdew Willy Wallace went 'way whining with weeping.  Waaaaaahhhhh!!!    :)

Date: 2008/05/18 18:59:34, Link 70.227.227.30
Author: jeffox
Didymos did write:
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I think you have to say his full name a certain number of times within a limited window of time in order to summon him.  Haven't narrowed down the parameters yet.

Maybe one of us should don a pigeon suit and get a chessboard.   :)    :)    :)

Date: 2008/05/18 19:47:48, Link 70.227.227.30
Author: jeffox
[Graffiti moved to Bathroom Wall. -Admin]

No offense, but I don't think that God matters.  Not unless I'm God.  My 2c.   :)

Date: 2008/05/20 10:49:41, Link 70.227.228.74
Author: jeffox
Hello e1!  Nice idea for a post.  Myself, I currently reside in cheeseheadland, a.k.a. Wisconsin.  Oak Lair (not it's real name) to be precise.  I'm originally from Minnesota, but I've lived all over the USA and been overseas to England, Scotland, Wales, and Holland.  

I have a very nice tavern that I frequent, about a block away.  Wisconsin is known for its beer(s).

I thought London was a lot of fun when I was there.  I went to the Tower and also went on Rumbelow's Jack the Ripper walk on the east end.  I stayed in the Belgravia area, near Vic Station.

I'm a castle nut and I visited more than 2 dozen of them in the month I was overseas.  

Anyways, again, fun post & good subject.

Date: 2008/05/21 08:12:03, Link 70.227.227.159
Author: jeffox
Didymos did write concerning WW:

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This is amusing. WW is pointing at a couple Minnesota TV weathermen as evidence against global warming because they signed that petition.  Oh, and they both work at "liberal" TV stations, so that makes the argument gooder. I mean, they've both got meteorology degrees from a few decades back, which makes them experts in modern climatology, right?


Weak Willy, like all the other right-wing nutballs, imagines that all the TV stations in Minnesota are liberal.  Feh.  He really means that they're not conservative enough for his taste.  But we all know how  far to the right Willy's tastes lie.

Date: 2008/05/22 21:44:25, Link 70.227.227.26
Author: jeffox
Arden C. wrote:

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Wow, Wally gave up a lot faster than VMartin, even tho they're running about equal in terms of general Tard Index.


Yeah, but at least WW never invoked T. A. R. Davison.  :)

Date: 2008/05/23 22:40:54, Link 70.227.228.163
Author: jeffox
What's very wierd is that there is actually a Starbuck, MN.  It's not big (population under 500), and it doesn't have a Starbucks.  Go figure.   :)

Date: 2008/05/24 20:35:57, Link 70.227.227.7
Author: jeffox
[Graffiti moved to Bathroom Wall. -Admin]

Hi Lou!  Please feel free to also move my comment relating to his long post there, also (the one from May 18 2008,19:47).  The poor thing looks out of place now.  :)  Or not.  Thanks either way!

Date: 2008/05/27 16:00:05, Link 70.227.227.209
Author: jeffox
Also, it's the tard, the whole tard, and nothing but the tard.   :)

Date: 2008/05/29 21:34:24, Link 70.227.228.118
Author: jeffox
Thank you all very much!  (sniff)  I'm so (sniff, mutter) choked up right now, I (sniffle, blows nose) didn't even know anybody, you know, cared or anything like that.  Forty-seven, btw, and I weigh the same as I weighed when I was 18.  Well, I DID, until about 9 months ago when I quit smoking cigarettes.  Then I instantly gained, er, um, er, ah, a couplea pounds.  Never mind. . . .

:)

I hope that my posts are constructive here - I know that I'm participating with people who are way out of my league, expertise/education-wise.  What is being done here is important, I've studied history enough to know what happens to people who turn away from or deny science/scientific discourse.  The last 8 years have really scared me.  It seems that many of you share those convictions.  

THANK YOU ALL FOR LETTING ME BE A PART OF THIS FORUM!  YOU ALL ROCK!!

(puts on The Beatles' White Album for an obvious song)

Date: 2008/05/29 22:48:03, Link 70.227.228.118
Author: jeffox
With obvious vigor, K.E. did write:
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ANYWAY NO HARD FEELINGS ABOUT RUSTLING THE CHICKENS HERE AT UNCLE BILLY'S CHICKEN FARM. YOU REALLY HAD ME GOING THERE FOR A WHILE I HAD TO SIT ANOTHER IQ TEST JUST TO CHECK HOW SMART I WAS BEFORE I BANINATED YOU ....AGAIN.


Feathers?  What feathers?  (burp!)   :)

Date: 2008/06/01 00:13:50, Link 70.227.227.133
Author: jeffox
I quite assure everybody here that the vast majority of hogs in Minnesota are far superior in intellect to Little Willy.  Any farm-boy knows that pigs are about as intelligent as dogs.  Willy seems to have problems screwing in lightbulbs.  :)

Date: 2008/06/03 23:06:34, Link 70.227.227.200
Author: jeffox
My goodness, such language coming from Minnesota's resident Wonder Warthog!!  Good thing for all of us that Lil' Willy still demonstrates that he hasn't a single clue.
:)
Say, Willy, stop on by here any time - we enjoy a good geek show now and again.
:)
And, WW, for what it's worth, I'd rather be a part of a den of vipers than be feathered with tard.

Date: 2008/06/04 00:09:00, Link 70.227.227.200
Author: jeffox
Steve typed:
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Presently when you search Google images for 'tard sweater' Dumbski's photo doesn't come up. We need to do something about that.


Isn't that a tardigan sweater?  :)
(No offense to people of welsh lineage.)

Date: 2008/06/05 00:02:19, Link 70.227.227.79
Author: jeffox
Erasmus gets funny:

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i could imagine that some of our shall we say less institutionally moral might have a problem with the ixnay on the onypay ovelay.  Carlson I am looking at you but only in your general direction, I know you speak for the bulk of the equarian laiety.


Woo hoo!  Tony the pony, aka the Italian Stallion!!!  :)

OK, so I think like a sailor at times; musta been cuz I was in the Navy once.  Back when. . . .  :)

Anyways, my 2c.

Date: 2008/06/05 09:17:43, Link 70.227.227.249
Author: jeffox
(Da fox eats the chicken that Lil' Willy bit the head off of.)

MMMMMmmmmm.  (Burp!!)   :)

Say, Willykins - do you do your geek show at your blog, too?  Oh, wait, I forgot - you wanted to talk science there.  

Is there still a glitch in the moderation of comments at your blog or do the dead chickens just lay there uneaten?  Just curious. . . .    

:)

Date: 2008/06/15 01:03:27, Link 70.227.227.229
Author: jeffox
You're not getting older, you're getting better!

:)

Happy days to all!

Date: 2008/06/17 22:46:48, Link 70.227.227.123
Author: jeffox
'Deed, happy day to ya!

Get up.
Get laid.
Get drunk.
Get stoned.
Get some sleep.

My 2c.    :)

Date: 2008/06/23 04:20:38, Link 70.227.228.199
Author: jeffox
When it was my birthday, I was happy.  Do likewise.  :)  :)

Date: 2008/06/29 16:08:50, Link 70.227.228.26
Author: jeffox
Ahh, yes, another birthday!  Happy one to ya, Ian!  

Let's see. . . . when I turned 21 I was, ummm, er, ahh, oh yeah, I was working on the submarine.  Had watch, as I recall.  I'm pretty sure I got drunk afterwards.  :)

Many more to ya, too!

Date: 2008/06/30 23:43:42, Link 70.227.228.98
Author: jeffox
What else more can I write?  Happy day to ya, and many more!!!

Date: 2008/07/01 04:36:00, Link 70.227.228.123
Author: jeffox
Arden wrote above:
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I assume our highly edumacated vibes must have rubbed off on him.


Sorry, but my vibe shook itself off a long time ago.  Not that anybody in here needed to know that. . . .

:)

Oh, and ICD - if ya wanna go backtrolling, I can recommend a few good lakes to ya.  Just so's ya know.

:)

Date: 2008/07/02 02:06:50, Link 70.227.227.114
Author: jeffox
Hey there Mr. LCD - I have a few questions fer ya:

You wrote before that you don't care for the IRS and wondered why Mr. Hovind was in prison for tax evasion, right?

Well then, would you be so kind as to explain how we (as a society) go about paying for things that we all use - things like, oh, umm, roads?  Or bridges?  Or water distribution systems?  

How about protectionary things - like police and firemen?  or flood controls?

How do you propose to protect us (society) from things like corporate pollution in the name of profit?  How about from religio-fascism?  

And just what are we supposed to do when a natural disaster occurs?  Watch the masses suffer on TV?  Wait (usually forever) for a church to provide monetary help?  Or a business?  Or maybe we ought to cover disaster relief from taxes, too, eh?

Good.  Now that you agree with the rest of us that taxes are necessary - please do like all of the rest of us and PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Hovind is in prison where he belongs.  He tried to scam the system, nothing more, nothing less.  He's no better than a thief.  Because that's what tax evaders are.  If you have a problem with that, LCD, well, I'm sure you can find someplace else to live that doesn't tax its residents.

Good luck.  Don't bother writing.  We know how much fun you're having.    :)    :)    :)    :)     :)

Date: 2008/07/03 00:11:54, Link 70.227.228.106
Author: jeffox
No offense, but I think Hovind's actual convictions came about on money laundering and conspiracy to launder money, but the underlying reason was his lack of desire to pay taxes on his museum's profits.  One of the interesting things involved in this case is the fact that all Hovind had to do was fill out the proper paperwork, and he would have been off the hook.  He was told that by qualified lawyers and chose not to take their advice.

Anyway, my 2c.

Date: 2008/07/03 21:56:05, Link 70.227.228.187
Author: jeffox
@ Jim Wynn above:

Thank you for the clarification(s) of my post.  While not technically correct, I'm pretty sure that making multiple under $10K bank transactions is one of the definitions of money laundering.  The conspiracy charges arose because it wasn't just him but his family that were involved (primarily wife).  But you are more right than I am.  Again, thank you for clarifying; and I stand corrected!

Date: 2008/07/03 22:10:53, Link 70.227.228.187
Author: jeffox
Dear Mr. Hughes:

We understand that it is your 35th birthday today.  Happy birthday to you.  And many more.  :)

For this auspicious event, I have provided you with one of the greatest gifts ever in the history of the human race.  If you want to, you can take this idea and turn it into a viable invention and make mega-bucks!!!!  Here's how:

Take a standard, but top-of-the-line, irony detector.  Remove the cover to reveal the "guts".  Then, reverse the two wires coming from the battery compartment.  After that, turn the attenuator resistor down.  Put everything back together, and what do you have?      :)      :)     :)     :)

One handy-dandy TARD DETECTOR!!!!

p.s. please let me know how it goes, eh!  and have lots of fun today!

Date: 2008/07/03 22:19:15, Link 70.227.228.187
Author: jeffox
'Deed, happy day to ya!!  and many more!!

Date: 2008/07/05 02:02:36, Link 70.227.227.53
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, haven't seen ya in here in awhile, but happiest of days to ya!

Date: 2008/07/06 03:38:46, Link 70.227.227.102
Author: jeffox
That's all right, Wes.  Keep in mind, Dave already has a terminal case of tard.  My 2c.  :)

Date: 2008/07/09 00:34:47, Link 70.227.228.100
Author: jeffox
Hokey smokes and a half PLUS!!  Sure looks like Guts had a tard-on.  Big one, too.  :)  Not that there's anything wrong with that. . . . . . .    :)   :)    :)

Date: 2008/07/10 01:43:49, Link 70.227.227.70
Author: jeffox
Awhile back, FTK wrote:

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We see an upheavel occuring again as ID is breaking it's way into the scientific community and evolutionists are coming to the realization that their theory is inadequate in explaining our existence.  

Don't believe me?......Consider the upcoming meeting of "The Altenberg 16"


Anybody willing to click on the link and read the article will know that the "We see an upheavel occuring again as ID is breaking it's way into the scientific community" is a bit of a reach on FTK's part.  I didn't read the whole article closely, but I had a hard time finding the phrase "intelligent design" or the shorthand "ID" anywhere.  As a matter of fact, the article is a news story about a meeting of diverse scientists/philosophers hashing out what I would consider to be fairly minor details in current evolutionary paradigm.  From what I understand, that happens ALL THE TIME in many scientific fields of study.

Maybe the :) "upheavel" :) that FTK means is a molehill.  But, then again, a fox eats moles (among other things).

My 2c.   :)

Date: 2008/07/10 02:21:16, Link 70.227.227.70
Author: jeffox
Dr. GH wrote above:
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Quote (Joy @ July 09 2008,20:46)
Buh-bye.

Ya sur ya becha


Ya ya, dere Dr. GH, looks ta me like ya useta live in Minnesota, dere, eh?  Up ta by what lake, eh?  Ya godda tell me so's I know, eh, maybe we can go fishin', ya tink?

Tanks in 'vance, eh!

Date: 2008/07/10 02:43:44, Link 70.227.227.70
Author: jeffox
(Sorry, but I just can't resist this)   :)   :)   :)

OK, think of an obscure Queen song (hint:  theme song for a fairly bad early '80s flick) & try these lyrics:  

SAL!!
Ahhh ahhh
Asshole of the universe!!

SAL!!
Ahhh ahhh
Asshat to us all!

Ya, ya, truly bad stuff; but you could say that :)  I was inspired.

Date: 2008/07/10 22:06:04, Link 70.227.228.229
Author: jeffox
Dr. GH wrote:

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Hey dere Jeff, my wife's da he is a old contry Nord from dere. An he cant fish fur a dam, eh? uftame go figur.

But ya commin down ta de dana point an we godda go get ona boat ya tink?


Ga, jeez, sorry ta hear dat 'bout yer fadder-in-law, eh!  Ya know, it cudda been dat he was jus bein modes 'bout his fishin' 'bilities, dere, eh.  After all, ya know, summa da guys dat get dere limit a walleyes 'bout ever' time dey go out onna lake say dat 'bout demselfs cuz dey don wan nobody goin' inna dere basemen freezer ta swipe dere eatin' fish.  Minnesotans ain dum, ya know.  :)

Local dialect aside, I would be proud and happy to go sea fishing with you if I can ever get down to San Diego again.  Just so you know, I lived there twice; the first time while stationed at NTC back in 79/80, the second shortly after I got out of the Navy, about 1985/6.  I used to work at the convenience store (Circle K) on Carmel Valley Rd. in south Del Mar.  That whole area is just drop-dead gorgeous, imo.  And no snow!!

(Back into dialect)  :)
Ya ya, good ta hear from ya, dere, Dr. GH.  An besta luck to ya on yer nex fishin expedition!  Catch one fer da wall, eh!!

Date: 2008/07/10 22:12:37, Link 70.227.228.229
Author: jeffox
Arden Chatfield wrote:

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And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?


No, I wuz ice fishin' on a whole 'nuther lake at dat time, an I got bot' da fish an' da witnesses ta prove it!  Ya ya, I can even show ya da bottle a root beer schnapps dat we emptied.  (looks both ways - eh don tell my ol' lady 'bout dat part, eh?)  :)

Date: 2008/07/10 22:19:46, Link 70.227.228.229
Author: jeffox
R. Bill wrote:
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The both a you are kinda funny looking. I don't know, just funny looking. More than most people even.


Well, ya know, at leas I don't look GOOFY, like, say, FTK or Guts, eh!
:)

Date: 2008/07/10 23:06:38, Link 70.227.227.16
Author: jeffox
silverspoon wrote:
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You sound like a member of Da Yoopers singing Da Turdy Point Buck

I ought to.  Northeastern Minnesotan (or rangertalk/rangerspeak) and Yupper dialects are very, very close-sounding.

Date: 2008/07/10 23:13:06, Link 70.227.227.16
Author: jeffox
:)   :)   :)
FTK = Miss Crabtree
:)    :)    :)

Date: 2008/07/10 23:57:12, Link 70.227.227.16
Author: jeffox
FTK wrote:
Quote

Ya really f*&cked up with that one, no??


Not really.  :)  I'm old enough to have seen the short and the synopsis/caption doesn't do it justice.  If you've actually seen it, recall that, based on the teacher's name alone is why Alfalfa plays hooky from school.  :)

Oh, and she wasn't a science teacher.  :)

I don't think that you are a bad person in essence, FTK.  Goofy, deluded, and extremely misinformed, yes.  Bad, (as in evil) no.

Date: 2008/07/11 17:33:56, Link 70.227.227.18
Author: jeffox
Testing 1,2,3 testing:

Date: 2008/07/11 17:36:45, Link 70.227.227.18
Author: jeffox
Can anybody in here guess who this is?



HAIIIII   YAA!!!!!!




:)   :)   :)   :)    :)    :)

Date: 2008/07/11 17:38:50, Link 70.227.227.18
Author: jeffox
FTK wrote:

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That's pretty much what I figured.  Selective reading.

Sigh...


Well, selective reading is lots better than selective selecting.   :)   My 2c.   :)

Date: 2008/07/11 23:14:19, Link 70.227.228.33
Author: jeffox
NEWSFLASH:  SUPER-SECRET PHOTOS OF THE TARD AND FAMOUS, STORY AT 11:00!!!!!

FTK:



Walt Brown:



Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dembski:



Denyse/Dennis O'Leary:



Davetard Springer:



STORY AT 11!!!

Date: 2008/07/11 23:18:13, Link 70.227.228.33
Author: jeffox
T'anks, eh!  Same back atcha!

Date: 2008/07/11 23:34:21, Link 70.227.228.33
Author: jeffox
Way to go on the test scores, Lou!



p.s. I knew you could do it.   :)

Date: 2008/07/12 02:00:41, Link 70.227.228.33
Author: jeffox
Speaking of crackers, anybody in here know the Latin phrase for "body of christ"?

My Webpage

Plankowner, and proud.

:)

Date: 2008/07/12 02:05:14, Link 70.227.228.33
Author: jeffox
FTK wrote:

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I'm outta here...must get my beauty sleep.


That should give us about 2 months of peace and quiet.   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)    :)    :)

Date: 2008/07/15 05:05:38, Link 70.227.227.90
Author: jeffox
NEWSFLASH!!  Photographic evidence of Casey Luskin in action!!  Story at 11:00!!!

Date: 2008/07/16 04:58:00, Link 70.227.228.144
Author: jeffox
Twas written above:

Quote

Posts: 322
Joined: April 2007
 (Permalink) Posted: July 15 2008,20:57    

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quote (Dr.GH @ July 15 2008,20:13)
I get to watch.

I get to criticize.  


I get to laugh.  :)

Date: 2008/07/16 05:09:22, Link 70.227.228.144
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, very much happy day to ya, eh!  Forty-seven is a good age, don't axe me why.  :)

Date: 2008/07/16 05:23:21, Link 70.227.228.144
Author: jeffox
Would a skeleton key be an example of a transitional fossil?

Ok, ok, ok, I know, terrible joke.  :)

Date: 2008/07/16 09:26:46, Link 70.227.227.56
Author: jeffox
NEWSFLASH!!!!   Recently discovered photo of Dennis O'Leary's English Comp. instructor emerges!!  Story at 11:00!!!

Date: 2008/07/17 08:04:26, Link 70.227.228.43
Author: jeffox
NEWSFLASH!!!  Revealing photo of Kairosfocus discovered on Caribbean island website!!  Full story at 11:00!!!

Date: 2008/07/18 04:45:47, Link 70.227.227.49
Author: jeffox
WELCOME TO ROUND TWO OF:

If You Want Tard -



You Got It!

Date: 2008/07/18 07:03:27, Link 70.227.227.56
Author: jeffox
LCD wrote, above:

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Oh the shame.


That reminded me of somebody from waaaay back:   :)

Date: 2008/07/18 09:44:09, Link 70.227.227.178
Author: jeffox
Earlier on, somebody thought a Viking funeral would be a good idea.  Me too.  Here ya go, eh!!

Date: 2008/07/18 10:44:07, Link 70.227.227.178
Author: jeffox
Yes, indeed.  Judge Page is currently the Chief Justice of Minnesota's Supreme Court.  Good call!

Date: 2008/07/19 00:42:40, Link 70.227.228.75
Author: jeffox
I walked over to a city park in town here, yesterday.  I saw a pair of downy woodpeckers and one hairy.  I also saw a guy at the dock catch 3 nice smallmouth bass while I was there.  Nice outing, but I had to come in because it started raining.

Date: 2008/07/19 00:50:16, Link 70.227.228.75
Author: jeffox
Howzabout a pair of nice wool socks so Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. :) can stay warm on his trip to Morris, MN to debate P. Z. Myers?  My 2c (in more ways than one).

Date: 2008/07/19 12:44:40, Link 70.227.227.36
Author: jeffox
Brave, brave FTK cannot be sullied by dealing with ATBC at this time, as she is off fighting the culture war.

Date: 2008/07/20 01:47:52, Link 70.227.228.206
Author: jeffox
Yes, thank you, Louis!  I thought that that joke came a little too easily.  Still, like you wrote, it seems pretty applicable in FTK's case.

Date: 2008/07/20 01:58:42, Link 70.227.228.206
Author: jeffox
I may be way out in left field about this, but there may be a good evolutionary explanation for red-green color blindness in humans.  My thinking is that it may be a visual variance that allows for other, more acute, vision in one's field of view.  I write this because, just the other day, a Viet Nam vet and I were talking, and he told me that when he was "in country" his unit used to select snipers with red-green color blindness because of their enhanced ability to spot enemy snipers in the thick, green foliage native to SE Asia.

Anyway, maybe off-topic, too; but my 2c.

Date: 2008/07/20 02:10:31, Link 70.227.228.206
Author: jeffox
Rock band?  Howzabout rock banded iron formations!!

Ok, ok, ok, once again, terrible joke, I know.

:)

p.s. I am currently a geology major at UWEC.

Date: 2008/07/20 12:03:49, Link 70.227.227.178
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, you know I like magna 'cuz magnatite.  :)

An igneous rock hasn't learned anything yet.  A sedimentary rock just sits there watching television.  A metamorphic rock knows morph casually.  :)

I grew up in a town built by a taconite operation.  If you're interested in northeastern Minnesota's latest mining craze, check out Franconiaminerals website or google Polymet's "Birch Lake project".  Tell 'em that I sent ya, cuz I'll do anything to get a job back home so I CAN GO FISHING EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY for the rest of my life.   :)

Date: 2008/07/21 07:31:22, Link 70.227.227.193
Author: jeffox
Thought provoker wrote above:

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However, I find her crazy-like-a-fox personna (she calls it being a "Professional Fool") interesting and challenging.


Having at least some expertise in "crazy like a fox", :)  :)  and doing at least some observation of Joy's posts, (both in here and at TT) I would conclude that Joy is definitely NOT anything like a fox.  Crazy-tard yes, crazy-fox no.  (snarky voice) Nuclear mafia, indeed.

My 2c.

Date: 2008/07/21 08:59:24, Link 70.227.228.6
Author: jeffox
I concur, Louis.  Ignorance is strength to the people like FTK.  My 2c.

Date: 2008/07/22 06:30:18, Link 70.227.228.185
Author: jeffox
Happy birthday to you
May your grass always be blue.

:)

Date: 2008/07/22 06:55:07, Link 70.227.228.185
Author: jeffox
FTK makes yet another argument from ignorance:

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No, that’s not what I’m saying.  I realize that you know much, much, much more than I do on this topic.  I’m just saying that when I look at the fossils that Darwinists claim are transitionals and listen to their explanations as to why they believe them to be so, their stories often sound mighty ridiculous when you consider the whole evolutionary paradigm.  


Sound familiar?   :)   :)   :)

Date: 2008/07/22 07:07:45, Link 70.227.228.185
Author: jeffox
Quidam wrote above:

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Since there is no other evidence for intelligent winds (other than the Discovery Institute) we can confidently reject that hypothesis.


Ha ha ha this is Davetard looking for that divine intelligent wind:

Date: 2008/07/22 14:08:14, Link 70.227.227.234
Author: jeffox
CarlsonJOK wrote:

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Actually, I haven't seen the rabbits in a number of days.  Their "disappearance" seems to coincide with both Mike Gene's bowing out over at TT and the appearance of a coyote in my backyard recently.  So, they may have been eaten, or perhaps they have been called to MG's secret lair to prepare for the inevitable war on the monolithic Darwinian priesthood.



It's that darn holy hand grenade of Antioch!

:)   :)   :)   :)   :)

Date: 2008/07/22 14:52:08, Link 70.227.227.234
Author: jeffox
[Graffiti moved to Bathroom Wall. -Admin]

FTK wrote:

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Bite me, Arden.


That's pretty dangerous talk for you, FTK!



:)   :)   :)

Date: 2008/07/23 07:33:31, Link 70.227.227.194
Author: jeffox
First the phone book, and now I made the bathroom wall!!

I MADE THE BATHROOM WALL!!  I MADE THE BATHROOM WALL!!   WOOO HOOO!!!

(dances about like the Vikings won the Superbowl)
(well, not quite)
:)   :)   :)

Date: 2008/07/23 07:40:59, Link 70.227.227.194
Author: jeffox
[Graffiti moved to Bathroom Wall. -Admin]

LCD wrote:

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That would be God created it all and His Word is really all we need.


I don't know about you LCD, but I have to eat food every day.  Words don't cut it when it comes to mealtime.  How long has it been since YOU'VE been without?

Puhlease.  We're not being confusing.  You're deluded.

Date: 2008/07/23 07:48:20, Link 70.227.227.194
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, you mean THIS kind of posturing:

Date: 2008/07/23 07:56:20, Link 70.227.227.194
Author: jeffox
Louis wrote:

Quote
sweet little Eddie Gein over there?


FYI, "crazy ol' Eddie" lived about 2 1/2 hours east of where I am right now.  To this day, dropping his name within earshot of many Wisconsinites (/cheeseheads) will result a major conversational black hole.

Just so's ya know.    :)    :)   :)

Date: 2008/07/23 08:23:50, Link 70.227.227.239
Author: jeffox
Louis wrote:

Quote
I can't understand why, he was such a quiet, nice man.


Well, except for milking the cows, he did do most of his work at night. . . . .

Quote
I understand he was very attatched to his mother.....


The old dear always did want to see him in the movies.

;)

Date: 2008/07/23 09:02:01, Link 70.227.227.239
Author: jeffox
[Graffiti moved to Bathroom Wall. -Admin]

Come on, LCD!!   Lead us all by example, and just live on the Word, as you wrote above!  No food, nothing to drink - you just needed the Word!!  OR DID YOU LIE ABOUT THAT, TOO?

I'll give you 12 hours, at best.

Date: 2008/07/23 09:14:08, Link 70.227.227.239
Author: jeffox
LCD, there is a HUGE difference between KNOWING something and BELIEVING something.  You can believe all you want that 2 plus 2 equals 5.  The rest of us know that 2 plus 2 equals 4.  Always and ever.  Belief can't compare.  

I don't have to believe anything scientific.  I can observe it for myself.  What's more it works that way EACH AND EVERY TIME.  No magic.  No BS.  My attitude and previous state of mind DON'T MATTER.  

And I'm more than willing to admit that, yes, I do have to eat and drink to stay alive.  I KNOW that I NEED more than THE WORD to survive.  

Now, I'm not here to tell you, or anybody else for that matter, what to or what not to believe.  I'm just explaining that I DON'T.  I have reality, and that works just fine for me.  If you can't handle that, then don't wonder why I bandy the word TARD around when you're in here.

Date: 2008/07/23 09:25:27, Link 70.227.227.239
Author: jeffox
Louis wrote:

Quote
Very strict religious lady from what I heard.....


Quite, from what I understand.  There are some good bios on the intertubes, eh.   Oh, and I would conclude that you have quite excellent hearing - what with Wisconsin and Britain being ohhhh, a few miles away from each other.   :)

Date: 2008/07/25 08:52:07, Link 70.227.228.117
Author: jeffox
Olegt wrote:

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It sure is, Gordon.  ID isn't creationism in a cheap tuxedo, right?


Speaking of cheap tuxedos, maybe THIS is what GEM of tardischokus looks like:



Yep, that's him on the left.   :)

Date: 2008/07/25 09:06:04, Link 70.227.228.117
Author: jeffox
I think FTK expects transitional fossils to be like this one:



HOO HAA from a Viking fan.   :)    :)    :)    :)

Date: 2008/07/25 09:27:41, Link 70.227.228.117
Author: jeffox
Tools or fools?   :)   Oh, wait. . . .

Ya ya, I got a good laugh out of that, too.

Date: 2008/07/25 10:36:32, Link 70.227.228.203
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, Quidam.  And if one considers the quality of Dennis' work with either, one gets this image:

Date: 2008/07/25 16:05:16, Link 70.227.227.196
Author: jeffox
(Pretends to be FTK)

Cowherd!!!!



(No longer FTK now, doncha know)

Edited to prove the previous statement.   :)

Date: 2008/07/26 10:20:10, Link 70.227.227.170
Author: jeffox
You and I seem to be in similar boats, Lou!  I start my second semester at UWEC in about another month.  I'm already registered for 12 credits.  One difference is that I can only rent textbooks here.  Overall it's far less expensive, but you can't keep rentals.

Anyways, keep us posted on your progress; and good luck to ya!

Date: 2008/07/26 18:04:05, Link 70.227.228.174
Author: jeffox
England?  Let's go for Scotland. . . . .Doune Castle anyone?    (Naughty, naughty Zoot!!!)   :)    :)    :)

OK, my 2c.  

Oh, btw, I've already been there.   :)

Date: 2008/07/26 18:09:06, Link 70.227.228.174
Author: jeffox
Happy birthday to ya!!  Which do you want more for a present, hand tools or fire?

Date: 2008/07/28 15:28:44, Link 70.227.227.188
Author: jeffox


Quote
Edited by request - Lou FCD




Date: 2008/07/28 15:48:48, Link 70.227.227.188
Author: jeffox
CarlsonJOK wrote:
Quote
There is an "Elizabeth II, I'm coming to join you" joke in there somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can figure it out.


Ummm, actually I had to come up with a gorilla picture, fast.  A little too fast, maybe.  :)

"Lady Di, you heathen!!!"  :)

Date: 2008/07/28 16:21:20, Link 70.227.227.188
Author: jeffox
Err, ummm, I would if I could. . .

Not that I disagree with you, CarlsonJOK, on the gorilla thing above; but I never thought that I'd have to edit something.

You see, all those posts where I mimicked e1 about editing were, in my case, pure fibs.  I can't edit.  I should though, as I realize that you are right.  I've nothing against any royals, the Kansas City type or otherwise.

Anybody care to help here?  Not that I'm asking for any edit privileges, but maybe someone can do that for me, just leaving the photo in the "Camilla" post?  Thanks, eh!

Date: 2008/07/28 16:23:39, Link 70.227.227.188
Author: jeffox
Erasmus wrote:

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You old fish-eyed fool.  You drunk old goat.



They got the munchkins!!

:)

Date: 2008/07/28 16:43:11, Link 70.227.227.188
Author: jeffox
Say, Arden, isn't that a picture of these guys when they got older?



:)   :)   :)    :)   :)

Date: 2008/07/28 16:46:59, Link 70.227.227.188
Author: jeffox
Say, this may be the goofiest idea anybody in here has come up with yet; but, if the "powers that be" were to give me edit functions, it'd kinda be fun to make a big deal about it, you know, just to spite FTK or something.  Call it an edit-hallowing or haloing or something.

Or not.  I'm up for either.  :)

Date: 2008/07/29 17:02:59, Link 70.227.227.38
Author: jeffox
Roy Acuff?  His biggest tune mentions Minnesota, ya know!!

:)

Date: 2008/07/31 18:48:07, Link 70.227.227.22
Author: jeffox
Wouldn't that be Maxwell's SILVER Ray-Bans?   :)

Date: 2008/08/01 22:12:33, Link 70.227.228.77
Author: jeffox
One of the advantages of being a former medical secretary who once worked at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN was that I got to see the resident (no pun intended) perigrine falcons hunt and eat the local pigeonry.  :)  It was an easy task, as long as one worked at the 10th story or higher.

Occasionally they'd land on one of the window ledges with a freshly killed pigeon and proceed to (quite literally) tear it apart eating it.  The feathers literally flew, and it usually took about 30 seconds to 1 minute for the hawk to eat a full-grown bird.  

If you were anywhere downtown, you could tell that the perigrines were hunting by observing the way the flock of pigeons flew.

Date: 2008/08/05 00:01:36, Link 70.227.228.174
Author: jeffox
'Rasmus 'rote:

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ETA um that would be segue.  or sequin?



Actually, I think it's Seguin, a city about an hour south of Austin.  My 2c.  :)

Date: 2008/08/05 21:36:59, Link 70.227.227.105
Author: jeffox
NI!!!

:)

Date: 2008/08/07 15:38:36, Link 70.227.227.218
Author: jeffox
NI!!!

:)

Date: 2008/08/08 16:09:33, Link 70.227.228.225
Author: jeffox
Brits?  Brits are good-looking guys, imo:



Well, at least they have Canadians beat all to heck:



:)    :)     :)    :)

NI!!!

:)

Date: 2008/08/08 16:13:58, Link 70.227.228.225
Author: jeffox
'68 Dodge Charger 383

MOPAR rules!!

'Course, that was back when gas was 25/9.  Ahhh, the good ol' days.

Date: 2008/08/08 16:37:53, Link 70.227.228.225
Author: jeffox
CarlsonJOK wrote:

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Well, I am not sure I would call Prince Charles good-looking, but I have to say, as a horseman, that the polo pony on the left side of the picture has a nice wide shoulder, a muscular hip, and some good solid bone in its legs.  I can see why it is a favorite mount of the Duke of Cornwall.



One word:

WHOA!!!  

:)   :)   :)   :)

(Besides, I think he's got better-looking legs than she does.  And, unlike SOME OF US IN HERE, I am not one of those, you know, hint hint hint, wink wink nod nod, types of guys that takes a wide stance [if you know what I mean] when in a public place kinda guys AND THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE [not that there's anything wrong with that].  Anyway my 2c.)

:)

Date: 2008/08/08 17:02:01, Link 70.227.227.79
Author: jeffox
Currently, I've been driving one of these:



Eats the diesel, though.  Technically, it's the world's first snowmobile.  :)   :)   :)   :)

Date: 2008/08/08 22:51:36, Link 70.227.227.227
Author: jeffox
OK, OK, I'm gonna try this.  This is a car thread, so I think it'll be all right.  We'll see.  Anyway, let me know what you think.

I have a blog.  I don't like to whore it out, but if one does a Google search for "Da fox hole" one never knows what one can find.  :)  All of you in here would be welcome to visit.  This is from my blog.

I build scale kits as a hobby.  This is a photo of a 1/6 scale 426 hemi engine that I built.  Looks wicked, I think.

Anyways, here:

Date: 2008/08/08 22:54:42, Link 70.227.227.227
Author: jeffox
OK, that didn't work.  At least not for me.  All I get is a big X.  Does it work for anybody else?  Any help here?  I figured this image would be a little large, but, evidently, it just doesn't want to go.

Oh well, I tried.  :)

Date: 2008/08/08 23:03:36, Link 70.227.227.227
Author: jeffox
Utidjian wrote above:

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Jeffox,

Nice T34. Looks like you stripped it down for more streamlined fuel efficiency (no baggage(or boxage)). I would love to drive one of those. There is a very nice one in a museum in London UK. I forget the name of the place but it has a HUGE naval gun out front.

I am greener than your tank with envy.

-DU-


OK, truth be told I just swiped that photo of the interwebs.  :)  Right now, the closest I can get to a T-34 is one owned by some guy in Cambridge, Minnesota; who, for $200 per person, will give you a ride in the dang thing!

I saw several of the T-34's variants while on my trip to Britain in May of 2003; including the SU-100 at Duxford and a very nice T-34/85 at Bovington.  I didn't get to the IWM in London.  I understand the guns are off of the U.S.S. Texas.  I did get to see H.M.S. Belfast up at Thames Pool.  Very nice, imo.

Date: 2008/08/08 23:09:23, Link 70.227.227.227
Author: jeffox
OK, we'll try it this way.  Here is a link to my blog-entry on the 426 hemi.  The photos are in the blog.

If you try to go to my blog, let me know if you were successful and what you think.  Thanks ahead of time.  Sorry for the confusion and/or distraction.

Anyways:  Jeffox's blog - Godzilla

Date: 2008/08/09 02:31:26, Link 70.227.227.227
Author: jeffox
Happy birthday to you, Jim!  And many more!

Date: 2008/08/09 14:16:48, Link 70.227.228.173
Author: jeffox
My dream vehicle is U.S.-made.  I wonder if you Brits have anything to compare?  :)  Anyways:



Lessee, a coupla extra gas tanks, livewell, two Minnkotas, (one fore, one aft) heavy-duty anchor, rod-holders, recess for keg, and built-in cooler and I'd be all set to catch some really big northerns!!  or walleyes.  

QUAAAAAACCCCKKKK!!

:)

Date: 2008/08/09 14:37:27, Link 70.227.228.173
Author: jeffox
Louis, you are, of course, right again.  After rethinking my position on Camilla the gori, er, Dutchess :) I now have the following opinion.  

I don't care what they look like as long as the Rolls has plenty of booze in the trunk and gas in the tank.

:)  My two pounds and eleven.  :)   :)   :)

Date: 2008/08/09 14:44:54, Link 70.227.228.173
Author: jeffox
No offense, anybody, but it seems like it's a pretty rare troll that doesn't name-call or exhibit unwarranted anger.  

Maybe Ed didn't come in here with the most open of minds, but I think troll is rather too harsh of a label.  

My 2c.

Date: 2008/08/09 14:51:10, Link 70.227.228.173
Author: jeffox
There is a very old adage that goes:

Ford = Fix Or Repair Daily

(Mostly bandied about by the MOPAR guys.)

Date: 2008/08/09 22:08:20, Link 70.227.227.254
Author: jeffox
Ya ya I hear ya there!  Not to mention the 20 mm cannon for those really, really big ones!!

:)    :)     :)     :)

Date: 2008/08/12 00:26:43, Link 70.227.227.190
Author: jeffox
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Meanwhile, in other news,Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.


I understand he took the gold in Beijing in the "cadaver diving" event.   :)

Date: 2008/08/12 02:47:37, Link 70.227.227.190
Author: jeffox
Some Texas twat did spew:

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Be prepared to be verbally assaulted by them for asking pointed questions instead of uncritically accepting everything they say.


Disgrace to the Corps is an understatement.

Truth is a very interesting thing to go searching for, Ed.  Sometimes learning the truth is unpleasant.  Please don't let that stop you from trying.

We know that you're not a sockpuppet.  

I think that you learned something about both us here at ATBC and over at UD.

'Nuff writ & my 2c.

Date: 2008/08/12 09:01:51, Link 70.227.228.68
Author: jeffox
Maya did write above:

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O'Leary's pool boy.


Gadzooks you're mean!

(Nice slam, btw.)

:)

Date: 2008/08/13 03:35:55, Link 70.227.227.4
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, Louis; not to mention her tendency to act like an infomaniac for anybody with a tard-on.  

:)   :)   :)

Date: 2008/08/14 00:54:25, Link 70.227.228.20
Author: jeffox
Goodness, these eclipse-design people have been looking at the tard side of the moon!

:)

Date: 2008/08/15 01:41:37, Link 70.227.228.195
Author: jeffox
Bob O'H wrote above:

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Regression towards the mean?


More like progression towards the tard, imo.   :)

Date: 2008/08/15 18:37:48, Link 70.227.228.173
Author: jeffox
J-Dog, I know you asked this of the natives, but I travelled to Britain in May, 2003, and got all over the place.  I stayed in Edinbourgh for two nights, and briefly visited Swansea (the train pulled into then out of the station twice).  My perspective is that of a life-long U.S. resident who went as a traveller, not as a tourist - a bit different than the ones you asked for.

Scotland and south Wales were both very scenic.  The trains are excellent in both countries.  The people were very nice in both countries.

Edinbourgh was the busiest city that I visited on the trip.  People everywhere (especially "downtown" or in the castle/train station areas) going about their business.  Lots of traffic.  Lots to do and see, also.

South Wales (I stayed in Cardiff for two nights) was much more "sleepy"/laid back.  

Both places have a plethora of castles to visit, all within a short day-trip via any means of transportation (including walking/biking).  I had lots of fun!

A couple of things that I found the most different "over there":  
1.  The traffic is funny because the roads are very narrow and they drive on the wron, er, left side of the road.  There are no parking signs so people park everywhere.  I was surprised.  :)
2.  The main currency (the pound) is a coin, not a note.  Your daughter shouldn't be surprised if she pays for something with a 5 pound note and gets all-coin change.  Sure threw me the first time, though.  In a pub, no less.   :)
3.  Cops are nice people over there.  I found that they're not only approachable, but that they make some of the best sources of local information.
4.  TV is awful, except for sports and movies.  I saw an uncut version of Outlaw Josie Wales on their BBC movie channel when I was in Cambridge.  I watched a lot of (and fell in love with) their football.

Anyways, to make a long post shorter, I had a great time.  She should too, whichever college she chooses.  If she likes rugby, I think she'd like Edinbourgh best.  I rode on a train from there to North Berwick seated near a group of beer-drinking rugby fans/players going to a game.  Nice!  

Best of luck to her.

Anyway, J-Dog, my 14c.   :)

Date: 2008/08/16 01:07:32, Link 70.227.227.118
Author: jeffox
I wanted to go, Pete, but the passenger ferry to Dun Loigaire (sp.) was being redone.  I would have had to pay car ferry price for a passenger ride.  :(  

Next time.  Maybe 4 nights in Dublin, 2 in Waterford, 2 in Limerick/Cork, and 3 in Belfast.  Definitely Antrim coast.  

I do have to do some research on a good hangover medicine before I go.  :)    :)    :)    :)

Date: 2008/08/16 01:18:30, Link 70.227.227.118
Author: jeffox
This is a photo of Dennis O'Leary's inner fuzzy & warm self:



Good ol' Granny Porcupine!  :)

Date: 2008/08/16 19:51:46, Link 70.227.228.239
Author: jeffox
J-Dog did write above:

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( I think that's 6 stone for you?)


Well, ya know, 19 stone = Whole lotta Rosie!   :)

(I just couldn't resist that one.)

Date: 2008/08/17 02:02:49, Link 70.227.227.208
Author: jeffox
TP, you wrote above:

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As an engineer, I am disappointed (but not surprised) you aren't familiar with the significance of how the U.S. Nuclear Navy came to be.


TP, I was in "Rickover's Navy".  I was a qualified nuclear electrician on a 688 class submarine.

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You see Rickover was one of those people who mixed "ignorance and arrogance" which you dislike.  


While I never met Admiral Rickover, I heard an awful lot about him from many people who did meet him.  Some from people who knew him well.  I never heard them speak that way about him.

Quote

He made the bold assumption that it was possible to build a nuclear powered naval vessels.  More than that, he decided whether or not it was possible, the US needed to do it.


Ummm, he wasn't exactly alone in doing that.  While I'll agree that he certainly was a key player, he didn't exactly act in a vacuum, either.  Most people were already aware of the tactical possibilities of submarines anyway - nuclear power only made them far more so.  Surface craft are nothing but targets anyway.  :)

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Assumptions were made (read "arrogant guesses").  


A stretch, at best.  The stuff that I saw was pretty well-designed, science-wise.  Even the very early stuff was well within the scientific paradigm.

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Models were built.  Testing was done.  Mistakes were corrected.  


Good engineering projects are like that.  Duh.

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There was no room in "Rickover's Navy" for nay-sayers.  


I saw plenty of naysaying.  If anybody were to order me to put the plant into an unsafe condition, I could, and was literally supposed to, tell them NO, SIR!  As long as I was right I was OK.  It was a unique system, but it did work well.

This may not be quite what you mean by this, but then your point is rather moot.

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Rickover wasted little effort worrying about brusing egos of those who thought their academic degrees or policial positions warranted respect.


Admirals can do that, believe it or not.  It's a tradition that goes waaaaaay back.

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Because of her age, knowledge and attitude I strongly suspect Joy was a product of this effort.


I totally disagree.  Naval nuclear power and civilian nuclear power are two very different things.  Joy has also written about a "nuclear mafia" that I strongly think does not exist.  I've seen no evidence for it, anyway (and I should have, if it DID actually exist).

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Are you familiar with the term "Skunk Works" as it applies to engineering projects?


I never heard that term the entire time I was involved with my submarine.  Or in my (somewhat extensive) nuclear training prior to my actual service.  To the best of my knowledge, this term was applied to some CIA-based secret aircraft somesuch.  Blackbird or something like that.  Real expensive stuff.  Good for what, I dunno.

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There are times when the best course of action is act based on bold assumptions rather than wait on "PhD types" being scientifically modest out of fear of making mistakes.


Very, very rare times, I think.  Myself, I can't think of a single historical example that works, successfully, for the above statement.  I can think of many that make it untrue.  

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Skunk works is about more than just bypassing red-tape.  It is about intentionally taking the risk of doing something wrong.


While I'm not a big fan of "red tape", I recognize that it's usually there for a reason.  Usually several good ones.  Intentionally taking the risk of doing something wrong is what I call TARD.  I think most adult humans would agree there.

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A Skunk Works project might be wrong about getting promised funding.  It might even be wrong about the feasibility of completing the whole project.  Skunk Works projects attract a certain personality type.  Those who can be arrogant in the face of ignorance due to a knack for overcoming adversity.


So you're saying tard attracts tard to do tard to and/or for the tard.  How tard!   :)

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Like all things, there are multiple sides to the issue.  Boldness also has its downside.  


Now, here we can agree.  I wouldn't call tard boldness, however.  No, I call tard tard; and I think that all tard is bad.  It's certainly not science or scientific.

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I suggest the Yin/Yang conflict provides balance most of the time.  No one view is the Ultimate Truth.


Interesting philosophical opinions.  I don't think that they apply to your above assertions, however.

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Joy's view has merit as does yours.


I disagree that Joy's view has merit.  Nuclear mafia, indeed!  I do keep my viewpoint open enough to allow a change, should Joy actually begin making scientific sense and tone down the rhetoric.  I also don't think that your point(s) above are meritless, I just disagree (based on pretty close personal experience) with your assessments of Rickover, the U.S. Navy, and Joy.

Date: 2008/08/17 02:23:23, Link 70.227.227.208
Author: jeffox
Why in the world would a DNA sample of bigfoot end up in Minnesota?  Couldn't they find a closer lab?  I also seriously doubt that any lab in Minnesota would be under armed guard.  

Silly stuff.

My chief on the submarine was bigfoot.  Well, he had one, anyway.  Don't ask me how I know that.  :)   :)   :)

Date: 2008/08/17 13:38:28, Link 70.227.228.151
Author: jeffox
Twas writ above:

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Skunkworks was a division of Lockheed Martin, developing aircraft. They built the U-2, F-117, SR-71, and F-22. They are currently working on the F-35. Not all of their projects are secret, since you know about the F-22 and F-35.

The name is trademarked by Lockheed, but has been adopted anyway to describe branches of companies that are secretive and given largely free reign to play with ideas.

They don't do what they do by ignoring science and pretending to be physicists, though. Someone like Joy wouldn't last a day. You have to know your stuff, not bullshit.


Thank you for the information/clarification, Nerull.

AND NOW BREAKING NEWS!!!  SUPER-SECRET VIEW INSIDE THE SKUNK WORKS - NEWS AT 11:00!!!



Skunk Works Executive Director/President/Spokesperson/Lawyer, Mr. W. Easel, (pictured below) had this to say:



"I DON' KNOW NUTTIN' 'BOUT 'NUTTIN.  GOT DAT?  WRITE DAT DOWN, RIGHT NOW!  NOW GO 'WAY, HEAR?"

:)    :)    :)     :)     :)

Date: 2008/08/17 23:17:08, Link 70.227.227.104
Author: jeffox
Hello again, TP.  I've read your previous posts and (although I may not be speaking for the rest of the residents here at ATBC) I will have to compliment you on your level of discourse here, so far.  Many (including your associate Joy) from TT and UD and some of the other ID-related blogs come in here to troll, call names, and just generally cause trouble.  Evidently, you are at least above that, and I (for one) appreciate that.

I understand that you worked on the Mk 48 torpedo.  Yes, we had them onboard our "boat".  We had other weapons, also, but (obviously) I can't go into detail about them.  Thank you for your work - we never had any problems with them, nor have I ever heard of any flaws.  Hot runs are not fun, just ask the guys on the Kursk.

And I, personally, think that Cleveland rocks.  :)

I do agree with you, principally, regarding the need for science (or, for that matter, any modern field of study) to have a "kick in the pants" type of reformation or revolution (for lack of better terms) every so often.  However, I think that those things are endemic within the system(s) involved.  Accordingly, I feel that even science already has many of the "Rickover" types of personalities within it.  Basically, I think that that type of attitude is already there, for good or for ill.  Perhaps we may not agree to what extent that is present, but, imo, the present system (with it's present personality types) seems to work fine for science (and other fields) as it is.

However, I do not, in any way, feel that ID (in its current form, anyway) fits the mold of "revolutionary new science".  The reason why is that, as far as I can perceive, there is (as yet) no science involved with ID.  From what I've been reading, it seems that you at least agree with that in principle; and that you are attempting to move ID in the direction of science.  A noble intention, and I wish you good luck with that.  Whether or not you'll be successful, only time will tell.

Going back to another previous point, I would also like to add that the U.S.S. Nautilus wasn't built without a prototype reactor showing nuclear power's feasibility, first.  Do a quick Google search for "S1W" - I found the Wiki article to be accurate.  And I ought to know, because I qualified there as part of my nuclear training.  ("Run 'er till she blows." was our favorite catch-phrase regarding the plant, while I was there.  :)  I think the point could be made that the U.S.'s nuclear capability between the bombing attacks on Japan and the launching of the Nautilus wasn't exactly nonexistant or small.

I also have some very interesting stories about Adm. Rickover.  He was legendary; and, for now, I'll leave that at that.  :)

Once again, I will write that I appreciate your level of discourse here, TP.  Unlike Joy, you appear to have left a lot of the TT baggage behind you when you come in here.  Also, unlike Joy, you don't readily appear trollish.  Joy is a pretentious tard, imo.  Tell her I wrote so.  Nuclear mafia, indeed!

Date: 2008/08/17 23:29:26, Link 70.227.227.104
Author: jeffox
Remember what the doormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head. . . .

- G. Slick

:)    :)    :)    :)    :)

Date: 2008/08/17 23:31:51, Link 70.227.227.104
Author: jeffox
Twas writ above:

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by the way it sounds much like Sweet Leaf, the Black Sabbath rock anthem.


Actually, 'Ras, I think it's more like Planet Caravan (off the Paranoid album).  'Cept Planet Caravan's better.  My 2c.  :)

Date: 2008/08/18 22:28:50, Link 70.227.228.148
Author: jeffox
Wait, Gardens of Eden was Iron Butterfly.  Er, umm, wait, something like that. . . . .

:)     :)     :)     :)     :)

Date: 2008/08/18 23:06:47, Link 70.227.228.148
Author: jeffox
Here's wishing the very best of luck to you, Lou!  I start my classes in another 3 weeks, so I'll be seeing things the same as you soon.  

As I actually started going back to school last semester, I feel that Deadman has some pretty sage advice.  So do the others in here.  

We should be able to compare notes in a month or so.

Again, best of luck to you!

Date: 2008/08/19 01:37:08, Link 70.227.228.189
Author: jeffox
I hadn't heard of it, either.  Not a battleship, anyway.  My 2c.

Date: 2008/08/19 01:38:30, Link 70.227.228.189
Author: jeffox
That makes sense, KeithS.  Thank you!

Date: 2008/08/19 01:43:58, Link 70.227.228.189
Author: jeffox
I once proved that I didn't exist.  But I didn't believe me.  :)   :)   :)   :p

Date: 2008/08/21 21:07:48, Link 70.227.228.176
Author: jeffox
Prayer is the equivalent of the sound of one hand masturbating.   :O    :)    :)   :p

Date: 2008/08/22 00:23:41, Link 70.227.227.60
Author: jeffox
Henry J did write:

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Then there was the kid who saw no need to pray before meals, because his mother was a good cook.



Oh, ya ya, and his dad had a real job.   :)   :p

Date: 2008/08/24 02:54:27, Link 70.227.227.133
Author: jeffox
Testing 1, 2, 3. . . .We'll see if THIS works, now.  



This photo was taken back in about mid-May.  There is a place in town that is part of the older, higher riverbank - now an isolated "mound".  That's where I ran into these "road rabbits".  :)   Enjoy!

Date: 2008/08/24 03:01:19, Link 70.227.227.133
Author: jeffox
IT'S ALIVE!!!  :)   :)   :P

Ok, let's do a few more!  This is a nice smallie caught in the dam-pool in the Chippewa River as it passes through town, about 6 blocks from my apartment:



And a pair of mallards in front of the public library downtown, photo from (about) early May this year:

Date: 2008/08/24 21:18:18, Link 70.227.227.193
Author: jeffox
I always liked watching this guy when I was a youngster, back in the late '60s/early '70s.  I figure that you're a lot like him!  :)



Most happy day to you, and many, many more!

P.S. Keep Davetard shaking in his shoes, eh!  :)   :)

Date: 2008/08/24 21:50:12, Link 70.227.227.193
Author: jeffox
So, it's Sunday today, and I'm up at the Amber Inn for breakfast and to watch the Brewers play an afternoon game vs. Pittsburg.  In wanders a 60-70 year old lady, just out of church, and she says that Obama walked in with her group at the church today.

Prolly as close as I'll ever be to a future president!

Date: 2008/08/24 23:05:15, Link 70.227.227.193
Author: jeffox
Vicious, but not as effective.  The people know why gas is $4.00/gallon, and will vote accordingly.

Nice to hear about St. Aug.  I lived in Orlando in 1980 (went to nuclear power school when I was in the Navy) and got around a bit.  Florida is nice, especially in the wintertime, for this Minnesotan (well, currently in exile in cheeseheadland).

Date: 2008/08/24 23:08:30, Link 70.227.227.193
Author: jeffox
I hear that Anheiser Bush (sp.) is making a new beer from fermented potatos.  

Tentative trade-name:  "Spudweiser".

:p

Date: 2008/08/27 12:36:15, Link 70.227.228.146
Author: jeffox
Now, now, you guys.  Quit picking on poor old Louis, eh!  After all, both he and I are big Pompey fans!  :)

Date: 2008/09/07 20:43:15, Link 70.227.228.53
Author: jeffox
A couple of minor points to bring up:

1)  This election will hinge on $4.00/gallon gasoline.  The people know which party is responsible for that and will vote accordingly.

2)  Shrub, et. al., have, for the last 8 years, been driving the (majority) moderates out of the Republican party.  They're NOT voting for Bush II.  Hence the idiotic "maverick" label of the right-wing press, a feeble attempt to bring them back.

3)  This election was decided over 3 years ago.  Any non-Republican in a landslide.

My 45c.  :)

Date: 2008/09/07 21:14:13, Link 70.227.228.53
Author: jeffox
Hiya Lou!

I just got done with my first week back at school.  As a geology major, my main course is Minerology/Petrology; but I'm also taking Pre-Calc and an intro to Archeology class.

You wrote above:

Quote
I got my precalc quiz and my labs back Wednesday night, and maxed them all out at 100s too.


I took my first quiz on Thurs. and think that I did well - but I haven't seen the result yet.  We're currently on line equations and quadratic formula derivation.  Neh. . . :)

My Archeology instructor is very animated, likes to quote James Brown, and is a joke-a-minute kind of guy.  I don't anticipate any problems there.

Min-Pet is going to be a lot of work, but should be rewarding as a major "core" course for me.  Plus we have all kinds of field trips (two weekenders, one going as far as the Black Hills in SD) and I get a really cool hammer!!

I had Chem last semester, and (maybe) in the above, the bond is actually a C-C bond, with the H bonding to one or the other?  Anyway, I got a B+ in that course, but did a lot of work and kinda forgot a lot already.  :P

Best of luck to all of the school returnees!  Have fun and learn lots.

Date: 2008/09/07 22:01:27, Link 70.227.228.53
Author: jeffox
For you guys who remember what Elvis looked like WHEN HE WAS ALIVE!  :)

Happy day to you both!

(Sorry that this is so late, I've been busy this week - basically my summer ended.)

Date: 2008/09/07 22:06:38, Link 70.227.228.53
Author: jeffox
Another year older, another year smarter and better looking!  I can tell, you know.   ;)

Quote
In case anyone's interested: I'm 58, a little old lady, aging hippie, retired computer geek.


Meow, says da fox!  :)

Many, many more to you, Khan!  (sorry for the lateness)

Date: 2008/09/08 23:19:19, Link 70.227.227.248
Author: jeffox
Henry J wrote above:

Quote
But does he carry a whip, wear a hat, and look like Harrison Ford?  


No, not really.  He does talk a lot about drinking "40's" out of brown paper bags.  :)  Really, he's quite the cat, and a real quick wit, too boot.  

One student made a kinda goofy comment about how cattle, on average, orient themselves with their heads to the north.  The instructor's immediate reply was that that was because they're fed cow magnets.  Being that I've spent a lot of my life in and around farming communities, I actually knew what a cow magnet was.  I almost hit the floor laughing.  Sharp, that one.  :)

Note to city-folks:  A cow magnet is a small, rounded-edged cylinder of steel that is magnetized and fed to cattle to make all the iron-based garbage they eat collect in their stomachs and not go into their intestines where that shit can really cause problems.  They're about 2 inches long and about 1/4 inch in diameter.  The metals that cows eat include parts of old barbed-wire fences, nails, old building materials, etc.  A lot of farmers in the olden days just threw garbage out into their fields to get rid of it.  More than anybody really wanted to know, but there it is.   Moo, y'all.  :)   :)   :p

Date: 2008/09/10 00:54:07, Link 70.227.228.155
Author: jeffox
Voting isn't so bad.  I've come to the realization that, as a borderline anarchist, my other option is to vote with my 20 gauge.  Since I also recognize Machaevalianism (sp.) for what it is, I'll stick to voting the normal way, for now.  :)

I hope that doesn't boggle too many people's minds.

I AM tougher than I look, really.  ;)

Date: 2008/09/10 22:20:50, Link 70.227.227.117
Author: jeffox
I hope they find just exactly where Mr. Higgs Boson is hiding, too.  And then throw his ass in jail, where he belongs.

:O

Date: 2008/09/10 22:40:31, Link 70.227.227.117
Author: jeffox
A furly odd occurance today.  I went to my new job (making sandwiches at the campus cafeteria) a few hours earlier today to take in my first Geology Club meeting and do some power schmoozing.  :)  After the Club's meeting, there was about an hour before I had to go to work.  So, there I was, hanging out on the commons when I noticed a fairly large group of students clustered around someone speaking.  Sort of.  I got closer and ended up actually participating.  :)

It was this cat.

Straw men, evidentiary double standards, misidentification, historical revisionism, you name it, he spewed it.  If a question was too difficult, he danced around it.  Thin-skinned and nervous as he spoke, he denounced everything he felt wasn't up to his biblical standard(s).  

I lit into him on a number of issues, and I wasn't alone.  He had little support, mostly people asking him to clarify his point(s).

He's a poor dancer, and came off as a total tard.  He even said that Dawkins made himself look bad in Expelled.  I about died with laughter at that one.

I will say that I developed a great deal of respect for the students at UWEC.  They treated him with respect, for the most part, and yet engaged him on his inconsistencies and political obtuseness.  

I guess school isn't just about book-learning.  It was an interesting day today.

Otherwise, like you wrote, Lou; my days are beginning to blend together also.  Second quiz tomorrow in Precalc.

I hope that all the other current students are having a good time and learning a lot, too!

Date: 2008/09/10 22:57:31, Link 70.227.227.117
Author: jeffox
We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand. . .

- N. Young

Date: 2008/09/11 10:59:29, Link 70.227.228.99
Author: jeffox
Well, ya know, the first Adam smasher was made from apple wine.  :p

Date: 2008/09/11 23:36:20, Link 70.227.228.73
Author: jeffox
Oh, ya ya, da fish get bigger in heavy water, butcha can't eat 'em.

:)   :)   :p

Date: 2008/09/11 23:52:14, Link 70.227.228.73
Author: jeffox
Huwp wrote previously:

Quote
Anyway, what is it about you lot having a go at Wales?  We are a small country, smaller, I think, than Yellowstone Park, but we're certainly not the ones trying to export the Dark Ages to the rest of the World in the form of Creationism.


No offense, but I liked the "dark ages" part(s) of Wales, when I visited in May 2003.  But, then again, I'm a castle nut.  :)

FYI I visited Caerphilly, Hav'fordwest, :) Kidwelly, Caernarvon, Beaumarais, Conway, and Flint.  I'll see more next time I can get over the pond.  

Creoso Cyrmu!

Date: 2008/09/12 17:31:23, Link 70.227.228.61
Author: jeffox
Wes wrote above:

Quote
Occasionally, the main drag through town would be shut down for the transport of something like a submarine reactor core headed for the HR.


Woo hoo!  Maybe the one I watched get loaded onto our boat!

Okay, ok, ok, that was decades ago.  Still, the one we got sure worked well.  As well as it was supposed to, anyway.

:)

Date: 2008/09/24 12:52:19, Link 70.227.227.139
Author: jeffox
Louis wrote (in somewhat obvious frustration):

Quote
trying to get some sense out of FTK


Tell ya what, Louis, try this (because it's easier).  Here, squeeze the juice out of this, barehanded:




:)

BTW, FTK, I've got 12:47 p.m. here.

Date: 2008/09/24 22:25:53, Link 70.227.227.7
Author: jeffox
Anybody got any peanuts?  :O

FTK, I've got 10:20 p.m. here.

;)

Date: 2008/10/25 16:08:59, Link 70.227.227.52
Author: jeffox
Oh Danny Boy. . .

Quote
Quote (Albatrossity2 @ Oct. 24 2008,11:55)
 Quote (Daniel Smith @ Oct. 24 2008,12:26)

Now Behe is a biochemist, so I think he's qualified to critique a highly technical paper.

No, he's not. Sorry to break this to you, but Behe stopped being a functioning biochemist quite a while ago when he stopped publishing primary publications (with actual Behe-generated data) in the peer-reviewed literature.

Wow! I'd never dream of critiquing a scientist just because he hasn't published a paper in the primary literature lately.


I suppose, Daniel, as long as one knew if Behe actually read the paper cited or not.  Eh?

Date: 2008/10/25 20:24:02, Link 70.227.227.249
Author: jeffox
Louis writted above:

Quote
Mum's not from Southampton, it's far worse than that....Portsmouth.

Louis


Woo hoo!!   Go Pompey!!!
:)   :)   :p

Date: 2008/10/25 20:35:14, Link 70.227.227.249
Author: jeffox
[Graffiti moved to Bathroom Wall. - Lou FCD]

(Lou, I don't care if you move this - I have a little bit too much time on my hands right now and just can't resist this one)  :)   :)

HEY GANG, I FIGURED OUT WHAT MR. FTK LOOKS LIKE:



:p

Date: 2008/10/26 00:18:41, Link 70.227.227.249
Author: jeffox
NP  :)

Date: 2008/10/28 19:54:08, Link 70.227.228.137
Author: jeffox
Oh happy day to you!  And may you enjoy many more.  Than 34.  :)  (I knew I could sneak a cheap rhyme in there somehow.)

Date: 2008/10/29 14:28:19, Link 70.227.228.57
Author: jeffox
Along those lines, the usually dour Star-Trib entertained me today.  On the Op-Ed pages was a column by none other than Garrison Keillor.  He called the McCain/Palin ticket, "The Grumpy Old Man of the Desert and Whoopie the Ice Queen."

And here I always hated the Prarie Home Companion.  Silly me.   :)   :)   :)   :)    :)

Date: 2008/10/29 21:40:56, Link 70.227.227.73
Author: jeffox
Dogdidit wrote above:

Quote
John McCain was aboard the USS Forrestal when some of its on-deck ordnance caught fire, started to squib off, and tried to sink the boat. In fact it was his jet's fuel tank that the errant Zuni rocket went through to start the conflagaration. The fire was no fault of John's, but you would think he'd have a personal appreciation of the risks involved in handling pyrotechnics. Apparently not.


When I was in boot camp, we were required to view the on-ship videos of this event for our "this is what happens if things really fuck up" training.  'Twas something one never forgets.  Especially since it showed at least 2 500 pound bombs going off, killing both the first and second teams of firefighters topside.  Ick, ick, ick.

The carrier got the nickname "Forest fire" very quickly.  Not that I think that that's funny.

Carriers were not the kind of ship I wanted to serve on, anyway.  There were all kinds of stories about guys getting blown off of the flight deck (they're like 7 stories high, ya know) and sucked into jet intakes (you don't come out in very big pieces).  Not my idea of a picnic.  Plus they're mighty big TARGETS.

No, I took the safe route.  Submarines.  ;)

Date: 2008/10/30 11:00:29, Link 70.227.228.130
Author: jeffox
Carlsonjok wrote:

Quote
So, what you are saying is spending months underwater in a long metal tube with a hundred sweaty men is your idea of a great career?  

That seems a bit weird, but your still more normal that Arden.  That is his idea of a great vacation.


Umm, we had pickles on the submarine.

:)   :)   :)   :)

Date: 2008/11/02 17:52:55, Link 70.227.228.102
Author: jeffox
Lou wrote:

Quote

Quote (khan @ Nov. 02 2008,13:17)
So Welsey, what do use to clean the blade?
/QUOTE

Danny Boy's panties.


Not hard to do, once you unbundle them.   :)   :)   :)

Date: 2008/11/02 18:00:40, Link 70.227.228.102
Author: jeffox
bystander spoke for all of us above:

Quote
So if you volunteered, you would get access to the code and could make yourself a super secret administrator and do all kinds of mischief.

Lucky we are all above that kind of thing.

heh heh heh


Ya ya, how about a cheesy-poof avatar?   :)   :p

Date: 2008/11/03 18:41:41, Link 70.227.227.145
Author: jeffox
Comin' to ya
on a dusty road
good lovin'
I got a truck-load
so when ya get it
ya got somethin'
so don' worry
'cuz I'm comin'



Now, THAT'S soul.  Man.   :)    :)    :)    :)     :)

Date: 2008/11/05 12:50:19, Link 70.227.228.61
Author: jeffox
Maybe Davetard woke up from a very bad dream where cute, funny, harmless, and beneficial clowns/eskimo women were tormenting and chasing him around his houseboat.  :)  :p

Maybe, like TARDavison, he's gonna move out of the country because Obama won the election.   :)   ;)

Maybe Davetard actually learned how to use his autodingdong.  Whatever that is.   :)   :)

Maybe not.  But, then again, I've never been good at predicting the movements of the tarded ones; I just like to read about it later.   :)   :)   :p

Date: 2008/11/07 17:45:49, Link 70.227.228.215
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, wtg Amadan.  ROFL bigtime.  :)

Date: 2008/11/07 17:55:05, Link 70.227.228.215
Author: jeffox
FTKish and stuck in a loop.  The rest is just constantly moving goalposts and constant insistent ignorance.  

Daniel = troll.

My 2c.

Date: 2008/11/10 23:12:21, Link 70.227.227.211
Author: jeffox
'Ras wrote:
Quote
apparently god had some sort of idea when he was a making them squirrels and there aint no squirrel that has ever come from a dog or a rat or nuthin anyway.  this is what that christian biologist dude Bono calls "The Edge" of evilution.  now what we can learn from this is that god loves us. see it is his will that squirrels do all that bullshit they do that goes along with the stuff he gave them, genetic information if you will and I think you do.  It's gods will.  you can't get species changing into other species just what some nerdy science type says "Oh that one is purplish-bluish-black and this one is bluish-purplish-black clearly they are 4999999 million years old" and I still haven't found what I'm looking for.



What, you too?    :)    :)    :)

Date: 2008/11/11 11:41:43, Link 70.227.228.239
Author: jeffox
Ewwww. . . you guys are so grossular!!!

- G. Ology

:)   :p

Date: 2008/11/11 18:16:44, Link 70.227.228.16
Author: jeffox
Speak of which. . . .



:)   :p

Date: 2008/11/12 18:48:00, Link 70.227.227.50
Author: jeffox
Whaaaa. . . . I mailed you a whole pot of lutefisk just last week!

Cats musta ate it.

:)   :p

Happy day (belated) to ya!  And many more, eh!

Date: 2008/11/15 18:13:40, Link 70.227.228.216
Author: jeffox
[Graffiti moved to Bathroom Wall. - stevestory]

Sorry to interrupt you, 'Ras; but. . .

ONE HUNDRED PAGES AND COUNTING (part two)!!!

WTG E1!!!



You may now recommence your interrupted activities, which may or may not have included dancing with K.E. and/or singing something neither brown nor smelly.  Sorry for the intrusion.  Kinda.

:)    :)    :p

:)

Date: 2008/11/15 18:40:04, Link 70.227.228.216
Author: jeffox
I'm neither bro^wn nor sm^elly.  

:)    :)    :)

Date: 2008/11/21 23:12:30, Link 70.227.228.201
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, I'm boilin' up da birt'day lutefisk for, what, tree?

Ya ya, I got enuff fer tree, ya.  Usually I got leftover, too, ya.  Dunno whyzat.

:)   :)    :P

Happy birthday from the displaced Minnesotan.  And many, many more to you all.

Date: 2008/11/22 19:25:38, Link 70.227.228.155
Author: jeffox
Happiest of days (and nights) plus many more to ya!!

I'd send you a pony for your BD but I guess you already got one.   :P

Date: 2008/12/01 19:14:11, Link 70.227.228.88
Author: jeffox
Bwahahahaha Doc Bill with a good 'un!



:)   :)   :p

Date: 2008/12/03 13:01:29, Link 70.227.228.215
Author: jeffox
(Checks to make sure this is the BW)

:)

Daniel Smith's God    =    TARD

;)    :p

Date: 2008/12/03 13:20:23, Link 70.227.228.215
Author: jeffox
No offense, but I think that that photo is an alternative view of this one.  (Make bigger to see fer sure, eh!)  :)



*OR*

Dynamite = Design.


:)    :P

Date: 2008/12/03 13:40:54, Link 70.227.228.215
Author: jeffox
Blow-up dolls?  We had 'em on the submarine.  :)

Don't know why, though.  Something to do with lifesaving.  Maybe.

:)    :)    :)

Date: 2008/12/04 22:11:38, Link 70.227.228.227
Author: jeffox
Canada has a government!!??!?

When did that start, eh?

:)    :p

Date: 2008/12/04 22:13:46, Link 70.227.228.227
Author: jeffox
I think Daniel Smith feels sorry for us because of the plainness of the noses on our faces.

Myself, I have a regular snout.

My 2c.   :)

Date: 2008/12/11 17:45:23, Link 70.227.227.173
Author: jeffox
dvunkanon wrote above:

Quote
It is a pity Snelling doesn't report on radioactive dating with some other decay process of the same samples. My guess is that other radioactive dating method would yield ages consistent with the accepted scientific ages, not with Noachian ages.

The real problem of course is that Snelling's sample have been contaminated by a powerful source - prayer.


Actually, it's been contaminated by an even more powerful force than prayer:  TARD.  :)

My 2c.   :)    :)

Date: 2008/12/20 14:21:15, Link 70.227.227.69
Author: jeffox
It's too soon to know my scores, (or my overall grades) but I finished all my finals yesterday.  I feel that I didn't do too good on my Precalc or my Intro to Archeology finals, but I think I did pretty well on Min/Pet.

Right now, I expect C/B+/B respectively.  We'll see.

I am set up completely for next semester, and that will begin in one month.

I trust that you were all A's/4.0, right Lou?  

Or, maybe like me, that you feel that you learned a lot & had fun.  Best of luck to you next semester, too!

Date: 2008/12/21 13:13:53, Link 70.227.228.61
Author: jeffox
Too bad those "magical powers" of hers can't keep those nasty nuclear mafiosos away.

You can't take anything she writes seriously.

The only thing magical about Joy is her incredible level of TARD.  :)

Date: 2008/12/21 13:25:05, Link 70.227.228.61
Author: jeffox
Lou wrote:

Quote
:) No, I got a B in precalc. I had some struggles mid-semester and couldn't quite recover my A.

A in Spanish though (100 average and 100 on the final), A in English, and don't know yet but think I'm borderline A/B in Biology.


Nice grades!  And also congrats, and wishing you best of luck on your upcoming semesters.

BTW, I was also surprised at UWEC taking most of my credits from UMM* from back in the latter 1980s.  Accredation means something, I guess.  :)  They save me about a year-and-a-half of work.  Like you, I didn't think that they'd apply, so it's nice that they did!

*Believe it or not, TARDavison is actually correct when he's written that UMM was an old cattle school.  Of course, that was about 100 years ago.  But don't spoil the old fart's fun, eh?   :)   :p

I, myself, got laughs from my classmates when I called it, "little school on the prairie."   I was there for a pre-engineering degree, in anticipation of getting into the IT at the main "U" in the 'cities, planning on a EE.

Date: 2008/12/21 13:42:42, Link 70.227.228.61
Author: jeffox
Silverspoon wrote:

Quote
Be careful what you say. Joy might figure out the flickering street lights are how we track her.


Ya ya, the funny thing is that here, in west-central Wisconsin, all of the streetlamps on my street were off last night.  I could attribute this to Joy's "powers" except that it snowed six inches yesterday and I talked to a neighbor who watched somebody accidently drive into the light control box for this street.  :)  The city should be out fixing it today, I figure.

Or it coulda been that gol-darned nuclear mafia.  :p

Say, I just thought, maybe those streetlights go out for Joy out of empathy of her dim-bulbedness.  :O   :)

Date: 2008/12/22 14:09:30, Link 70.227.227.24
Author: jeffox
Louis wrote:

Quote
Come on guys, give the blue lad/ladette a break. Thus far he/she's been everything we could ask for: intelligent and polite.

So he/she disagrees with/has some questions about evolutionary biology, hardly the end of the universe. It is at least possible he/she has arrived at this point honestly. I'm all for giving him/her the benefit of the doubt until such a time as he/she proves to be a turd, if indeed this happens.

I know I'm resident Ultra-Meanie and purveyor of poor quality tasteless jokes, but dudes and dudettes, it's Christmas....

{runs and hides}

Louis


I concur.  Compare & contrast with, say, Daniel Smith.  Blue appears willing to read the literature and recognize if/when he's logically incorrect.  And he still has yet to quote TARDavison.  :)

If nobody else has written so already, (and if I can take the place of doing so) welcome to ATBC, MSB.

Who's your football team?    :)

Date: 2008/12/22 14:13:02, Link 70.227.227.24
Author: jeffox
Happy (hopefully warmer than here) Birthday!

And may you have many more!

Date: 2008/12/22 14:50:28, Link 70.227.227.24
Author: jeffox
R. Bill wrote:

Quote
Even Daniel has conceded that important elements of his position are not tenable. Must be the season.


Ya ya, I just saw that.  I still think his "watered down" query is philosopical "fluff", but at least he was good enough to apologize for acting like a child.

There may be hope for him, yet!  :)

Date: 2008/12/23 13:29:27, Link 70.227.227.104
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, I just think that it's Tardischokus bloviating and skip everything written, because I assume (correctly) that KF says nothing.  Usually less.  What a waste of time.

My 2c.   :)

Date: 2008/12/23 13:37:30, Link 70.227.227.104
Author: jeffox
'Ras wrote:

Quote
From her blog history I have come to suspect that her entire corpuscular composition is derived from stupiditrons.


It could be their interactions with the dark tardicles, also.  My 2c.  :p

Date: 2008/12/23 14:56:05, Link 70.227.227.104
Author: jeffox
Baraboo isn't big.  This link to my blog shows a little of what it's like nearby.  Kinda.  :)  Anyways, I think that the local amateur geology club is bigger than the IDEA chapter anyways.  :P

Anyways, enjoy:  Barabooboo

Date: 2008/12/25 00:38:33, Link 70.227.228.171
Author: jeffox
Ike!  Dude!  Happy day to ya, and many more.  :)

Here, have an apple.  

Say, ummm, after the holidays, you wanna help me with my calculus?  Thanx ahead of time, eh!

:p

Date: 2008/12/25 16:00:33, Link 70.227.227.179
Author: jeffox
KF uses words like Don King uses hair.  My 2c.  :)

Date: 2009/01/02 16:56:50, Link 70.227.227.38
Author: jeffox
Midwifetoad wrote:

Quote
Quote
(guthrie @ Jan. 02 2009,14:04)
17th scientific revolution?  What were the other 16?

I assume they preceded the 19th nervous breakdown.


He must have been thinking he was speaking to the 96 tards or the 101 red buffoons.   :)   :p

Date: 2009/01/02 17:03:41, Link 70.227.227.38
Author: jeffox
Sparc wrote:

Quote
KF is still optimistic:

Quote
 
Indeed, just by reading and taking seriously posts in this thread, we have intuitively used such an approach in deciding that posts are real messages, not mere lucky noise mimics.


KF, your posts are just noise, amplified by self-referential feed back.


Ya ya, good ol' Gordy has a few direct-to-disc masters of just noise; after all, it's his only hit.  

IMO, it's best listened to with tardphones.    :)    :p

Date: 2009/01/02 19:20:52, Link 70.227.227.146
Author: jeffox
Don't forget:

5.  Thou shalt make a joyous noise unto the tard!

:)   :p

Date: 2009/01/02 23:12:56, Link 70.227.227.235
Author: jeffox
Amadan wrote:

Quote
Quote
(jeffox @ Jan. 02 2009,19:20)
Don't forget:

5.  Thou shalt make a joyous noise unto the tard!

:)   :p

That is not a valid premise as it assumes its conclusions.


(Looks both ways)  Well, ummm, uhhhh, yeah!   ;)   :)   :)

Date: 2009/01/03 12:26:17, Link 70.227.228.186
Author: jeffox
Doc Bill wrote:

Quote
Yeah, I know I come across as a young jackass, but really I'm an old goat.


Well, you're just fine with this fox.  :)  Happy birthday to ya, and may you have many more!

Date: 2009/01/05 03:38:02, Link 70.227.228.195
Author: jeffox
Stevestory wrote:

Quote
30,000 comments in the old thread. 4650 in the new. I keep waiting for the well to dry up. I keep waiting, and every few months posting, that any day now, the tard mines will be exhausted, and we'll have to move on. But it never seems to happen.


:)  Well, you know, tard is a many-fendered thing.  :)

Date: 2009/01/05 21:38:01, Link 70.227.228.212
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, give 'em hell, Lou!   :)

Date: 2009/01/09 22:42:52, Link 70.227.228.28
Author: jeffox
Just to add my 2c to the discussion, :) in central Minnesota, one of the major prey for fox is skunk.  Don't ask me how I know that.  :)   :)   :)

BTW, mink (and other weasel-heads) eat FAR more chickens than fox.  Honest!  ;)

Date: 2009/01/09 22:57:24, Link 70.227.228.28
Author: jeffox
Oh Danny-boy, you wrote:

Quote

Here are Dr. John Davison's published papers challenging the current theory.  What specifically do you find in them that would qualify him as a "crackpot"?

Semi-Meiosis as an Evolutionary Mechanism
The "Blind Alley": Its Significance for Evolutionary Theory
Evolution as a Self Limiting Process
Ontogeny, Phylogeny and the Origin of Biological Information


Here is the link to JADavison's current blog.  Just check for yourself.
What in there isn't crackpot?  Sheesh.

Date: 2009/01/10 16:19:15, Link 70.227.227.96
Author: jeffox
Oh Danny-Boy, you wrote:

Quote

Quote

Here is the link to JADavison's current blog.  Just check for yourself.
What in there isn't crackpot?  Sheesh.


We're not talking about blogs and personal habits here - we're talking about the science of front-loading.  I'm asking what it is in Dr. Davison's science that qualifies him as a "crackpot"?


I WAS referring to the "science" of front-loading, and NOT JADavison's personal habits.  Davison writes that his blog is science, and he reviews (and refers to) his papers in it.  Please answer the question without sidestepping this time:  What is there that Davison has written that ISN'T crackpot?

Date: 2009/01/10 16:24:50, Link 70.227.227.96
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, I'm sure you (and the producers of Expelled) made a ton of money.  Ha ha.

Date: 2009/01/10 17:30:55, Link 70.227.227.96
Author: jeffox
Twas writ:

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Come on. That's just cruel.


Oh, ya ya.  :)   ;)

Date: 2009/01/10 19:47:57, Link 70.227.227.220
Author: jeffox
Khan quoted J. Fogerty thusly:

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"Look at all the happy creatures dancing on my lawn."


Hey, now, that song's NOT about drinkin'.  ;)  My 2c.  :)

Date: 2009/01/10 20:45:18, Link 70.227.227.220
Author: jeffox
(Shifts gears a little; same band though. . )

Twas writ:

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Dinosaur patrolling listening to Buck Owens...


Yeah I can still hear my ol' hound-dog barking
Chasin' down a who-do-there. . . .

:)

Date: 2009/01/10 21:28:38, Link 70.227.227.220
Author: jeffox
Quote
"they point the cannon at you..."


Five year plans and new deals
Wrapped in golden chains. . .

(Hey, this is fun!  :))

Date: 2009/01/10 21:39:18, Link 70.227.228.18
Author: jeffox
Khan asked:

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From one old fart to another:

Who will stop the rain...



Ummm, maybe Willy and the Poor Boys?  :)

Great job on getting the lyric, BTW; I'd heard the song for years and didn't know quite what it was until a former-singer friend of mine spelled it out for me.

At least both of us agree that CCR rocked!!!!

Date: 2009/01/11 14:53:38, Link 70.227.227.123
Author: jeffox
Oh ya ya, they made soooo much money that there's now word of a sequel in the air!!!  

Of course, there will be a few minor changes:

ACspelled:  The Highway to Tard!



Coming soon to a church near YOU!

:O  :p   :O   :p

Date: 2009/01/11 14:55:58, Link 70.227.227.123
Author: jeffox
My sincere apologies to the band.

Date: 2009/01/12 18:05:32, Link 70.227.227.19
Author: jeffox
This may not quite be what you guys are posting about, but (since I've been to both):

Buck's Row & Mitre Square.

(if you can understand the historical significance, then 'nuff said)   :)

p.s. I study very odd things sometimes.  :)

Date: 2009/01/12 22:16:35, Link 70.227.227.170
Author: jeffox
Khan wrote:

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Go ask Alice, when she's 10 feet tall...


Obviously, a hookah-smoking character has given them the call. . . .

:)

Date: 2009/01/12 22:31:39, Link 70.227.227.170
Author: jeffox
Thank you, Khan.  :)

I dig a pygmy by Charles Houtry and the deaf-aids. . . Phase one in which Doris gets her oats. . . .

:)

Date: 2009/01/14 15:07:28, Link 70.227.227.52
Author: jeffox
Louis wrote:

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Shhh, don't tell everyone the rules. Arden and Carlson think it's some kind of "gay code", but this is only because they are a) bitter, b) twisted, c) envious because they don't get it, d) so far back in the closet of denial and projection as to be in Narnia.

;-)

Louis


Gotcha.  And I'm game.  I'll start with Monument awaiting a gap.  But I'm the underdog!

Date: 2009/01/14 15:11:02, Link 70.227.227.52
Author: jeffox
Actually, Daniel Smith, why don't you focus on this photo of TARDavison:



I'm sure even YOU can make the connection.

Date: 2009/01/14 15:41:59, Link 70.227.227.52
Author: jeffox
Arden wrote:

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(jeffox @ Jan. 14 2009,13:07)
But I'm the underdog!


Louis should be glad to hear that.


I figure that'll really confuse everyone as to my next move - shhhhhh!    :)

Date: 2009/01/14 15:45:45, Link 70.227.227.52
Author: jeffox
J-Dog wrote:
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Daniel just sent me a PM* - He wants to know what Chapter and verse of the Bible it's in so he can look it up... :)


*I'm lying but work with me here for the fun, ok?


Somewhere in the Old Tardament, I think.   :)

Date: 2009/01/14 21:09:10, Link 70.227.228.65
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, as empty as a cracked pot.

Keep in mind, Daniel, that not only do scientists (and people who use the scientific method) have an EXCELLENT track record, throughout history, of finding answers to unknowns, YOUR philosophy has provided NOTHING productive to modern civilization.

Tard in equals tard out.  ;)  'Nuff writ.

Date: 2009/01/16 01:56:18, Link 70.227.227.66
Author: jeffox
Khan wrote about Khan:

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Ricardo Montalban (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009)

The great Khan is no longer with us.


"From death's door I stab at thee. . . ."

A great loss, indeed.

Date: 2009/01/16 02:08:03, Link 70.227.227.66
Author: jeffox
Lou wrote:

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Wow. Was just listening to the trained chimp giving his farewell address.

He really has no relationship whatever with reality, does he?


History will not be kind to the W Bush administration.  It will be objective, however.  

He'll be known as the TARD president.  And the worst we've ever had.  My 2c.

Date: 2009/01/16 02:18:21, Link 70.227.227.66
Author: jeffox
Richard Simons wrote (responding to Daniel Smith):

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"NOTHING"?
Really?
What world do you live in?
List_of_Christian_thinkers_in_science


- snip -

The claim was not that Christians have contributed nothing productive, but that your philosophy has contributed nothing.


Exactly.  Daniel, it's no wonder that you don't understand modern science.  You have a major reading comprehension problem.  Work on solving that, then come back in here with your "philosophy", if you haven't learned your way out of it by then.

Oh, and BTW, just what has JADavison written that isn't crackpot?  You've been avoiding that question of late.  Like I wrote before, tard in equals tard out.  Pay attention.     :O

Date: 2009/01/16 02:29:23, Link 70.227.227.66
Author: jeffox
kevinmiller wrote:
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As for me being a troll, you've devoted an entire thread to tearing apart Expelled and assasinating the character of everyone involved. If I'm a troll, what does that make you guys? I consider myself more of an honored guest.




I am reminded of the lyrics to a Steely Dan tune.  It goes something like this:  

Show biz kids making movies of themselves
You know they don't give a fuck about anybody else

Just how much money did your film lose, anyway?

Ha ha.  Keep in mind, sometimes people who lose a lot of money in the film industry wake up with a horse's head in their bed.  Just be careful who you owe.
:O
Ha ha.

Date: 2009/01/16 18:27:30, Link 70.227.228.184
Author: jeffox
Danny the Troll-boy wrote:

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I want to congratulate you all.  I came here with an argument, and, while none of you have managed to counter that argument (or any of the many forms it has taken since then), you have managed to successfully counter an argument I never made (the flood/age of the earth).  You've defeated a position I never researched, never pursued, and never disputed.  (I did, however, express my indifference to the subject.)

So a hearty congratulations to you all!  That's quite an achievement!

What's next? Candy from babies?  Rolling geriatrics?


Translated from tardspeak:  WATERLOO!!!

Coming from someone with as poor reading comprehension skills as yourself, Daniel. . . .
;)   :O   :p

Date: 2009/01/17 16:48:12, Link 70.227.228.235
Author: jeffox
C'mon Kev-0, just give us all a general ballpark figure, say 6 or 7 figures?  Pretty big minus there, eh?  

Ha ha.

Date: 2009/01/17 16:59:57, Link 70.227.228.235
Author: jeffox
I hear moose taste pretty good.    :)

Happy birthday to ya, and may you have many more.

Puppy.

;)

Date: 2009/01/17 17:14:44, Link 70.227.228.235
Author: jeffox
Mitschlag wrote:

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Daniel's ignorance is correctible.

Daniel's arrogance is correctible.

Daniel's hypocrisy is correctible.

The only person who can correct those character flaws is...  


Oh oh oh I know that one!!  The only person who can correct those character flaws is THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T REALIZE THAT TARDAVISON IS A TOTAL CRACKPOT!!!

(Gotta be some kinda prize for that snappy of an answer)  :)    :)    :)

Date: 2009/01/21 22:03:58, Link 70.227.227.173
Author: jeffox
Ed Wood couldn't have done a better job losing money on this film.  Even Reefer Madness is more entertaining.

Gotta be seven figures lost, at least.  I wish that I had that kind of money to waste.

Ha ha.

Date: 2009/01/21 22:22:44, Link 70.227.227.173
Author: jeffox
Danny-Boy wrote about god:

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The real one - obviously.




:)   :)   :)   :)   :)

Date: 2009/01/22 18:08:07, Link 70.227.227.101
Author: jeffox
Oh my gosh, I yam detecting the PRESENCE OF DA LAWD!!!



:p     :p    :p

Date: 2009/01/23 19:40:44, Link 70.227.228.24
Author: jeffox
Happiest of days from the "little dog" to the big ones!

Date: 2009/01/26 23:04:28, Link 70.227.227.146
Author: jeffox
I finally got started with the spring semester here.  I set out for the "U" at oh-dark-and-cold-hundred (6:00 a.m.) with a 45 min. walk in -6 F. weather.  :O  The rest of the day went well, though.

Already had one test in Sed/Strat.  Nobody was ready for that, for sure.  Even me.

So far the only course that has me scared is Beginning German.  The first day seemed, to me, to be a lot like learning how to swim by being thrown into a lake.  Swim or die, I think you get the picture.  

Sorry if this is outside of the thread, Lou; but you and I are both in the same boat, it's just a lot colder here.  :)  And I do hope that it's going well for you this semester, too.  I'm sure we'll both do well, bud!

Date: 2009/01/27 16:47:32, Link 70.227.227.9
Author: jeffox
Actually, CarlsonJOK, it's more like this:



:)

Date: 2009/01/27 16:57:30, Link 70.227.227.9
Author: jeffox
Lou, you wrote:

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I watch the other students as much as I watch Doc. The hardest thing is not blurting out answers to the questions he poses in class.


I kinda know what you mean.  Myself, I'm noticing a big difference between myself and the other students, age-wise.  F'rinstance, I had to explain in my Beginning German class why I didn't like the Scorpions, and my answer amounted to, well, I grew up listening to REAL rock bands.  A few of their eyes got big at that one.  I should be more diplomatic, I guess.  :)

The instructor just got back from a visit to Riga, Latvia; so I'll have to be careful about my cold-warrior-speak.  That, or mentioning things like the GDR.  :O

Date: 2009/02/02 19:31:13, Link 70.227.228.38
Author: jeffox
Afarensis wrote:

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Oh, we have to get David and FTK together. Can you imagine the flouncing abilities of their offspring  


Ya ya, I can see it now:
"Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. David FTK, you're now the parents of a healthy new flouncing baby tard!"

:)      :)      :)

Date: 2009/02/02 19:51:37, Link 70.227.228.38
Author: jeffox
Daniel Smith keeps "bringin' it on:"

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(SNIP) As for empirical evidence, you won't accept any since everything is consistent with an all powerful mechanism, (SNIP)


Aside from the snide assumption you're making here, there is another alternative. . . that of the fact that there ISN'T any empirical evidence for your posited all powerful mechanism.  After all, YOU certainly haven't presented any.  Your personal fantasies don't count as empirical evidence, BTW.

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(SNIP) but the evidence points to the fact that life requires either an omnipotent, omniscient God, or an accidental mechanism that just got  lucky enough to build designs that look like they were built by such a being.  Whether or not accidental forces can do such a thing remains to be seen.


You've been told more than once that, if present, that evidence should be easy for you to provide.  When you've asked us for info, many of us have provided you with appropriate answers.  You haven't done that at all, and that's been pointed out to you also.

I've written from the very beginning that I think that you are nothing more than a troll.  You've written nothing to alter that perception.

Oh, and BTW, TARDavison is nothing more than a crotchety old crackpot.  Have a nice day!  :)

Date: 2009/02/04 18:58:00, Link 70.227.228.236
Author: jeffox
Louis & Mrs. are expecting?

(Looks both ways) Expecting what?    :O

(Slaps himself for that one)  :)   :)    :)

The heartiest of congratulations to ya, big daddy!

Date: 2009/02/05 16:29:26, Link 70.227.228.194
Author: jeffox
A ways back, Khan wrote:

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"Little pink houses for you and me"

sorry, feeling nostalgic


Uh-Huh

:)    ;)

Date: 2009/02/06 15:58:18, Link 70.227.227.108
Author: jeffox
KCdgw wrote:

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For any creation story to be taken seriously, there has to be a turtle in it somewhere.


No offense, but we need to stay within certain limits, IMO.

http://tv-mafia.com/series_....987.jpg

:)    :)    :)

Date: 2009/02/06 15:59:52, Link 70.227.227.108
Author: jeffox
I DID THAT ON PURPOSE

Date: 2009/02/06 16:03:32, Link 70.227.227.108
Author: jeffox
Lou wrote:

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Hamster spit might be rather valuable to hamster researchers.


Well, ya know, da Vikings were known as the HAMSTER OF THE GODS, eh!

:)     :p

Date: 2009/02/06 16:57:41, Link 70.227.227.146
Author: jeffox
Lou wrote:

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I am not already a member of that organization (which doesn't exist), and I am not piloting said invisible black helicopter (which doesn't exist) to your location (which may or may not exist) as we speak (which we can't do because I don't exist and neither do you).

You would know this if you had checked the sidebar of my blog (which doesn't exist and doesn't have a link in its non-existent sidebar to the EAC which also doesn't exist).


HA!  I knew that I didn't know that.

:p

Date: 2009/02/09 18:04:16, Link 70.227.228.195
Author: jeffox
RFJE wrote:

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ALso, is there any evidence for a non-oxygen atmosphere?


Tons, actually.  Wiki banded iron formation (BIF).  Keep in mind that BIFs can't form in an atmosphere that contains free oxygen.  Also keep in mind that that is the reason why BIFs aren't forming today.  Both of those are easily observable facts.

My 2c, because my hometown was built to house the miners of a BIF in northeastern Minnesota.  That, and I'm studying to be a geology major.

Date: 2009/02/10 22:37:03, Link 70.227.227.234
Author: jeffox
(Feels that this is appropriate)   :)    :)

Just a step cried the sad man
Take a look down at the madman
Theatre kings on silver wings
Fly beyond reason
From the flight of the seagull
Come the spread claws of the eagle
Only fear breaks the silence
As we all kneel pray for guidance

Tread the road cross the abyss
Take a look down at the madness
On the streets of the city
Only spectres still have pity
Patient queues for the gallows
Sing the praises of the hallowed
Our machines feed the furnace
If they take us they will burn us

Will you still know who you are
When you come to who you are

When the flames have their season
Will you hold to your reason
Loaded down with your talons
Can you still keep your balance
Can you live on a knife-edge


- Emerson/Lake/Frazer/Jandcek

But there it is      :)      :)

Date: 2009/02/10 22:41:50, Link 70.227.227.234
Author: jeffox
Wes wrote:

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There are no mirrors in your house, are there?


I think Danny-boy is on his very own little amazing journey.  

Hey, Daniel, try changing your name to Tommy, eh?      :)     :)     :)

Date: 2009/02/10 22:46:02, Link 70.227.227.234
Author: jeffox
Whoa, what a coincidence; I was just listening to the song, "Sympathy for Devil's Tower"     :)     :)     ;)

Date: 2009/02/10 23:07:59, Link 70.227.227.234
Author: jeffox
RFJE, just think about this:  If many (if not all) thought processes weren't chemically-oriented, then why do certain chemicals make people feel a certain way?  After all, it's a pretty well-known fact that caffiene makes a person feel more awake and aware.  And that opiates make you feel rather painless.  And that other chemicals make you feel happy.  or sad.  or goofy.  one of those chemicals is in wine, ya know.  

Really, are you older than 18?  I mean, come on, this is just off the top of my head here, and I'm no genius.

Date: 2009/02/12 15:26:38, Link 70.227.227.146
Author: jeffox
Pinnochio's idea of a sociable disease:




Termites!!


:)      :p

Date: 2009/02/12 15:32:39, Link 70.227.227.146
Author: jeffox
HeroIR wrote:

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Would a turtledove do?


I dunno, would a turtledove do what?

:)       :)      :)       :)

Date: 2009/02/12 20:05:56, Link 70.227.228.53
Author: jeffox
Lou replied to somebody with the following:

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Hey now.


And I quite agree, as I also resemble that remark.

:)     :)     :)

p.s.  San Diego doesn't count as Tijuana, it's just close.

Date: 2009/02/12 20:26:55, Link 70.227.228.53
Author: jeffox
Har har har here's a photo of Daniel Smith's friend, TARDavison:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums....MG]

Har har har.  

Oh, wait, maybe Danny doesn't get it?

:)     :)      :)      :O[IMG]

Date: 2009/02/12 20:28:47, Link 70.227.228.53
Author: jeffox
Grrrrrrrr, images and I aren't getting along so good lately.  Sorry 'bout that, gang.

Date: 2009/02/12 20:33:38, Link 70.227.228.53
Author: jeffox
Here's the image I was shooting for:

Date: 2009/02/12 20:46:39, Link 70.227.228.85
Author: jeffox
Khan wrote:

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Just send your mail, to the Tijuana jail?


Via Tijuana Taxi, no less.   :)    ;)

Date: 2009/02/12 22:08:33, Link 70.227.228.134
Author: jeffox
Sparc wrote:

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Denyse O'Leary
Quote

Writing a commentary on this paper in the same journal issue, David Leopold at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, said the findings were
Quote
 
“sure to raise eyebrows among the human fMRI research community.”


Isn't the her book "The Spiritual Brain" based on fMRI work of her co-author Beauregard ?


Well, I suppose, ya; but maybe Granny just has a problem with her eyebrows, eh?  The poor old gal just keeps plucking away and can't seem to get anywhere.

:)     :)

Date: 2009/02/12 22:31:48, Link 70.227.228.139
Author: jeffox
RFJE, athiests don't usually mock anybody.  Christians have (historically) tended towards intolerance.  Your posts confirm this.  

Oh, and another thing. . .Atheism doesn't lead to moral anarchy (if such a thing is possible).  Atheists just don't accept, at face value, the codified moral judgements of a group of self-interested humans speaking in the guise of worthiness and piety.  Which is why atheists don't run around murdering other people and yet don't get all bent out of shape when the neighbor lady down the block gets an abortion.

Date: 2009/02/15 19:29:03, Link 70.227.227.36
Author: jeffox
I may only be a fox, but methinks the following:

Daniel Smith's challenge = goalpost on wheels, new and improved*.

My 2c.




* now with variable height adjusters.

Date: 2009/02/18 21:05:23, Link 70.227.228.203
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, go take sauna an den go jump inna swamp.

:)

Happy birthday to ya, and many, many more!

Date: 2009/02/19 22:14:29, Link 70.227.227.119
Author: jeffox
'Deed!  Happy day to ya!

:)     :)      :)

Date: 2009/02/19 22:42:50, Link 70.227.227.119
Author: jeffox
T. P. Hamilton wrote:

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The banded iron formations, that's who.


(Does his best Inspector Clueseau imitation)
That is what I have been saying, you fool!

(no offense, btw)

:)     :)      :)      :)

Date: 2009/02/21 20:46:53, Link 70.227.228.58
Author: jeffox
Dr. GH wrote:

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I had just changed "attack hamster" to "attack gerbil." Maybe I should change it to some other rodent?


Pick whichever one has the biggest tits.

:)      :)       :)         :)

Date: 2009/02/21 22:06:30, Link 70.227.228.111
Author: jeffox
RFJE is very confusing at times, and wrote:

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The popular hypothesis about the atmosphere is that it was formed by volcanoes spewing out CO2, water vapor, methane, nitrogen among other things ---no O2.  

Therefore the IMPLICATION is that were alot of O atoms and they were underground, as in UNDER volcanoes.  The O atoms were in such quantity that they bonded with H, were spewed out by volcanoes as water vapor, eventually condensed, and formed OCEANS, not ponds.  That's alot of O atoms.  (i did not have to have a degree in chemistry to figure this out).


Your first paragraph appears correct.  Your second, however, is kind of silly.  Why would the sole implication be that which you state?  From what I understand, the currently-accepted "best guess" for where earth's oceans came from is from bombardment by asteroids and comets early in it's history.

As for there being a lot of oxygen "under volcanoes", well, duh!  Oxygen is one of the most abundant elements in earth's crust, almost invariably bound up with silicon, which is the most abundant element in the crust.  Being bound up like that means that it's not in a gaseous form, like it is in our current atmosphere.  There's an abundant amount of evidence from all over the earth that, early on, the atmosphere contained no (or very little) free (gaseous) oxygen; and then, at some point in the distant past, that changed and oxygen became a major player in the earth's atmosphere, like it is today.  BIF's are just one piece of that evidence.

In that same post, he wrote:

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This oxygen crisis that I keep "yapping about" is in YOUR theory's geologic timescale.  God forbid that I should say ANYTHING that is associated with creationism, so I use mainstream sources.   The O2 catastrophe is there for all to read.


I don't see why atmospheric oxygenation is a "crisis" or "catastrophe".  It was a big change, but not big enough to wipe out the bacteria that created it.  Why do you think so?  And what "mainstream" source do you mean?

And later:

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Here's a better question:  Why do they still have CO2 atmospheres?

Because they will never cool with an an atmosphere of CO2 (Venus up to 600C).  So there will never be life to create O2.  


Ummm, I think the average temperature on Mars is far colder than on earth.  To quote a popular song, it ain't the kind of place to raise yer kids.  It may have even HAD primitive life, just like on earth!  Neat-O, eh?  And not so hard, either.  And just think, we now know of at least 100 other planets orbiting other stars!  Life's probably common, ya know.  But I'll hedge that bet until better evidence comes in, eh!

Further on:

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SO how did the earth cool loaded with CO2, and how did water vapor ever condense to form oceans?  We are only at what .04 % CO2 level today and everyone is worried about global warming.  How much more if we've got a "volcanic" atmosphere full of CO2.


The CO2 levels may have been at about the level they are now.  Or the sun may have been cooler.  There are a myriad of other possibilities that you haven't considered, evidently.  By the way, the atmosphere's predominantly nitrogen; but you know that, right?

More:

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And as I said--no 03 either to protect from radiation.  Where did O3 come from?  Must have been exhaled by an extinct species that is now dust.


Currently O3 is produced by O2 interacting with the sun's radiation at high altitudes.  Why wouldn't that be the case as soon as O2 became common?  Many anerobic bacteria species are resistant to radiation.  Radiation levels could have been different in the past, as I've aluded to earlier.  I don't understand why this is a problem for "evolutionists".

And:

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Just like if radiometric was called into doubt or disproved, alot of your theory would come crumbling down.


Well, I have to agree with you there.  Still, since radiometric dating disproval would take an awful lot of doing (handwaving won't work) you better get cracking and show me some objective, scientific evidence that the specific type of dating technique used in any particular dating environment is incorrect.  Don't be shy, but do keep in mind that I (and some of the others here) have direct experience in working with the same theory that says that radiometric dating works the way it works.  In my case, it's what drove a submarine around.  

Get hot!!

Date: 2009/02/24 20:24:08, Link 70.227.227.84
Author: jeffox
Yes, indeed; a most happy birthday to you!  Let's see now, ummm, your next birthday's in about, umm, er. . . what, ahhh. . . a year or so, I think.  :)  So enjoy this one, you'll have to wait awhile for another.    ;)

Date: 2009/02/24 20:33:54, Link 70.227.227.84
Author: jeffox
'Ras wrote:

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i don't eat no gyromitra and I don't care what david arora says.

you can git allergified to morchella but it might take you about 40 years.  i do know some minnesotan types around here that claim they don't eat them any more.  i don't trust folks that go ice fishing for fun however no matter how well they know their bug dicks.  

can't wait to get some morals!  and some morels too!


Dem dere Minnesota types is prolly fibben to ya down dere cuzza up here we kinda hogs 'em an dey only grow 'bout a month inna year.  Cuzza da snow.  I useta like ta go ice fishin' too but I don' like da tastea ice.  

:)       :)      :)       :)

Oh, by da way, da only mushrooms dat I hearda sellin' fer $1000 was dem kinda dat turn blue and make ya laugh a lot.  Not dat I know anyting 'bout da brown an smelly of it all, eh.  Just ta keep myself outta da hoosegow, ya know, eh.   :)     :)    :)

Date: 2009/02/24 21:07:15, Link 70.227.227.84
Author: jeffox
Khan wrote:

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You shall die alone, and the raccoons shall chew on your bones.


No!!   No!!    Anyt'ing but dat!  Dem dere raccoons is da sunzabitches a da whole Koddampt woods, eh!  Any fox knowzat, ya know.  I'd radder haf a squirrel bite offa my. . . . . er,

How'd we get into dis, anywayz?

:)    :)     :)

Date: 2009/02/24 21:29:17, Link 70.227.227.84
Author: jeffox
Gotcha.  My bad, sorry 'bout that.

See dat, RFJE?  Yer gonna get da raccoon treatment, fer sure.  (shudders at the thought)

:p     :)

Date: 2009/02/27 17:39:43, Link 70.227.228.0
Author: jeffox
Oh very much of the happy feeling to you on this birthday of yours.  And may you also have many more.

If you wake up hungover tomorrow, then you did it right.

;)    :)     :)

Date: 2009/02/27 17:43:53, Link 70.227.228.0
Author: jeffox
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(khan @ Feb. 24 2009,21:55)
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You shall die alone, and the raccoons shall chew on your bones.

Just make sure it happens in that order.


I think that that's up to the raccoons.  Talk to them.  No, wait. . . .

:)    :p    :)

Date: 2009/03/10 20:47:01, Link 70.227.228.45
Author: jeffox
Wes wrote:

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I thought "the professor" was supposed to be Jerry Bergman?


Last I heard, "the professor" took off on a three hour cruise.



:)     :)      :)      :)       :)

Date: 2009/03/10 21:09:53, Link 70.227.228.45
Author: jeffox
Silverspoon wrote:

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You owe me a beer & the paper towel I used wiping off my screen.


Hit me up any time you're in the upper midwest.

Sometimes my jokes actually work.    :)

Date: 2009/03/11 18:14:18, Link 70.227.228.76
Author: jeffox
Louis wrote:

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To a certain degree sexual orientation is "hard wired". As far as anyone can tell yet* creationism isn't.


Well, creationism actually is; but it's not hard wired, it's TARD wired.

Just trying to help.

;)     :)       :p

Date: 2009/03/11 20:28:29, Link 70.227.228.185
Author: jeffox
Louis done did write abovewards:

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How does one "drop one's atheism"?

I, an atheist, lack a belief in god(s) because there is simply no decent evidence for god(s). That's it. I don't believe in god(s) for the exact same reasons I don't believe in unicorns, leprechauns or fairies. Special pleading doesn't work. Perhaps you are under the illusion that atheism is some opposed but equivalent faith to your own. Perhaps you don't understand that atheism is provisional and contingent on the evidence.

Heed Oldman's advice. Read a book.

Louis


Seconded.  Everything.  Except that I do believe that the Vikings will win the SB this season.  But that's the Minnesotan in me, doncha know, eh!

Date: 2009/03/12 20:16:53, Link 70.227.228.166
Author: jeffox
Oh Danny-Boy Blathered:

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If you really want to know if God exists, he'll reveal himself to you.  




Me?  I just paid for the ticket.  

BTW, Daniel, God told me that you were full of shit.  We ARE close, you know.  Just letting you know, because he also told me that he's getting awful tired of all those stupid people making up all this nonsense about his exclusivity in his name.  

:)     :)      :)     :)

Date: 2009/03/15 22:32:16, Link 70.227.227.228
Author: jeffox
Back a ways, Louis wrote:

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I'm beginning to think that stout blows to the head with a large bat of some kind might be useful.




My only question is:  African or European?

:)      :)      :)       :)      :)      :)

Date: 2009/03/15 23:21:51, Link 70.227.227.228
Author: jeffox
Lou wrote:

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There was a small fruit bat attempting to stow away on the Space Shuttle before launch this evening:


Must have been an escapee from spring training.

:)     :)     :)     :)

BTW, did you know that the bat is the state bird of Canada?

(hahaha Minnesotans can joke about our neighbors to the great white north, eh.)

:)    :)    :p

Date: 2009/03/15 23:38:12, Link 70.227.227.228
Author: jeffox
I may be a day or two late, but I'm only 35 cents short.  :)    :)

Happiest of days to ya, BWE, even if it's late.

Date: 2009/03/16 21:33:33, Link 70.227.228.71
Author: jeffox
FrankH wrote:

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Just as the mosquito is the State Bird of Minnesota!

One just wonders how much brain damage is caused by that blue smoke that comes out when they first fire up their snow mobiles in September.....



Ya ya, ya know, dere are only two seasons a da year in Minnesota, dey say. . . . . one is called "cold", and da udder is called "bugs".   :)     :p

'Cept fer Bommadeer, ya know, alla snowmobiles are made in Minnesota, eh!  Myself, I useta haf a '77 Polaris Colt 340 cc freeair.  I musta put 4000 miles on 'er jus drivin' roun' and roun' da country block.  Oh, ya ya, dem were da days, eh!

Ya know, snowmobiles caught on in Minnesota real good cuzza da climate (a course) but also cuzza da fact dat ya gotta mix da gas fer 'em.  Well, datsa same as fer da outboard, ya know.  Plenny a dem in Minnesota, eh!

:)      :)      :)

Raccoon got your tongue, Daniel Smith?      :p

Date: 2009/03/16 21:47:58, Link 70.227.228.71
Author: jeffox
Say, Kristine, what personality type was this one?    :)



(I just couldn't resist that.)

Date: 2009/03/16 22:51:40, Link 70.227.228.71
Author: jeffox
(Someone, somewhere, softly knocks upon a door)

Davetard (whispering):  Hey, man, c'mon, open the door, it's me. . . Dave!  I got the stuff, man, but I think the cops saw me. . .

UD:  Dave?

Davetard:  Yes, it's me, Dave; now come on and open the door, man. . . .

UD:  Dave!?

Davetard:  Yes, it's Dave, man, you gotta let me in, I got the stuff. . . .

UD:  Dave!!?

Davetard:  Yes, it's ME, DAVE; now hurry up and let me in!

UD:  DAVE'S NOT HERE, MAN!

:)      :)      :)       :)       :)

Date: 2009/03/17 01:25:06, Link 70.227.228.138
Author: jeffox
Fah!  Dat's da wrong way ta have a liquid-cooled engine!

:)       :)      :)        :)

Date: 2009/03/22 00:27:26, Link 70.227.228.110
Author: jeffox
Your 29th, right?  That's what my mom always said.  Even after I was in my 30s.  ;)

Most happy of days to ya, Kristine!

Date: 2009/03/23 19:55:40, Link 70.227.228.187
Author: jeffox
oh Danny boy digs his hole ever deeper:

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I find the double standard very telling.


Kettle, meet pot.

Keep up the tard-flow, Daniel, you're very good at it.   :)

Date: 2009/03/24 13:47:30, Link 70.227.228.73
Author: jeffox
Louis wrote:

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ETA: Sorry the whole post was just an excuse to use Queen Victoria at her most Imperial (and imperious).


HMTQ is HAWT

:O      :)

Date: 2009/04/01 00:15:14, Link 70.227.227.63
Author: jeffox
If birthdays are happy, you better have one today.  :)  'Cuz I said so.  When a fox tells ya ta do sumptin', well, ya better, eh.  

Oh silly me.  Happy birthday to you!

:)     :)     :)

Date: 2009/04/10 12:26:53, Link 70.227.227.82
Author: jeffox
Oh very much happy day to you, K.E!  And may you have many more!

Date: 2009/11/18 08:57:30, Link 137.28.109.30
Author: jeffox
WIIIIILLLLLBUUUUURRRRR!!!

:)

Date: 2009/11/18 18:17:33, Link 4.131.17.26
Author: jeffox
Yes, quite; along with his exceptionally male cousin, Testicles.  

:)

Date: 2009/11/19 15:46:19, Link 137.28.109.87
Author: jeffox
Most happy day to you, and many more!

Date: 2009/11/23 13:51:01, Link 137.28.109.76
Author: jeffox
(sry I'm late, too)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(both a yas)

:)

Date: 2009/11/23 14:04:43, Link 137.28.109.76
Author: jeffox
MichaelJ wrote:
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I think that creationists look at life through blurry glasses. With these glasses on the thialacine and the wolf are almost alike. Take the glasses off (compare bone structures internal organs) and you can see that the thialicine and the kangaroo look more alike.

Now Darwin did this and quipped when he was in Australia that there must have been a second creator. Darwin doesn't have the blurry glasses on and he saw that though superficially there were similarities between Australian and other animals, they are in fact very different to the Animals on other continents.

You don't need fossils, you don't need DNA, you just need a keen mind to see that Bible literalism is bunk.


I think that they use day-vision goggles, AKA "tardware" glasses.  

:)

Date: 2009/11/23 14:07:41, Link 137.28.109.76
Author: jeffox
If birthdays are happy. . . . .

   May you have many!  

(including this one)

:)

Date: 2009/11/24 13:04:21, Link 137.28.109.30
Author: jeffox
'Twas writ above:  
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Yeah, but you also gave the world Bryan Adams and Celine Dion.  Those are practically capital crimes.


More than made up for by the likes of Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, "Geddy" Lee, Robbie Robertson, and a few others.  My 2c.

:)

Date: 2009/12/09 07:45:03, Link 137.28.109.21
Author: jeffox
The good Dr. GH wrote:  
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We are not at all selective, but for some reason creationsits don't stay around very long.


We carry a very high flounce factor here.  :)

Date: 2009/12/11 07:21:05, Link 137.28.109.28
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, Lou!  I'd walk a mile with a smile to see a Nile crocodile!!

As long as it's not hungry. . . .   :)

Date: 2009/12/14 10:20:59, Link 137.28.109.87
Author: jeffox
<=======(Is actually a canid disguised as a vulpeccan.)

Much happy of a day to you!!  And may you have many more.

:)   :)   :)   :)

Date: 2010/03/24 12:55:44, Link 137.28.184.234
Author: jeffox
Ya ya, I'm game!  I'll start out with the standard opening. . . . . Entry at the airport.  Then, I bid 4.  Noting that automatically gains me a 0.538 Fizbin, I'll let that roll over while I take the perfunctory pull on the linchnizzle.  Exit at Kings Crossing for an easy double.


Your move(s)!  

:)

Date: 2010/03/24 19:41:11, Link 4.252.31.189
Author: jeffox
Whoa, it looks like an excellent field of fellow competitors.  Good.
I'll carry a wickey sticket in an off-tune manner.  Plus, I'll claim the Ministry of Funny Walks.
Keep in mind, people, enweaselization will get you every time.  I think.
Finally, I'll stumper.
Good luck!
:)

Date: 2010/03/25 10:46:45, Link 137.28.184.232
Author: jeffox
That's all fine and dandy, but I wonder if you all have REALLY thought this out completely.  And, for that, you've given my quite the advantage.

Cabbage patch by bookend?  Risky, but could pay off well.

Huntzinger with antipasta?  I relish the thought, but it seems a bit, umm, whitebread to me.

Nostalgia for the Davetard 5?  That could work.

I don't know, my options at this point are wide open.  I can't decide. . . . . . .

Oh, wait - I have it!!!    Shatner on the old gray mare!!  (I know, I know, Carlson will hate me for that one but I do wish to be competitive.)

After that, it's pretty easy - end at Monument Valley Tower, shirtless for HMTQ.

I. Luvitseau!!!

:)

Date: 2010/03/25 20:11:16, Link 4.252.129.54
Author: jeffox
Afarensis wrote:
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On the other hand, if the game is over then I will follow the strategy advocated in Thorvald, Ant, Ritenhaus, and Duh's influential and popular Obscene Annotations and Rude Comments on the "Mornington Crescent for Dummies" series and play

Bishops' Stortford


Not so fast. . . . that might work here in the states; but, last I looked, this was INTERNATIONAL MC - you've forgotten about the N'orbelquism addendum.  Makes a difference, eh!

Still, good move on your part - great game so far E1!

I'll take Foghat to Bishey Aukland.  This will help my cubed distortion factor and also give myself a few extra tiddlestones.  Oh, and I'll drop the wickey sticket at this point.

While we all seem to be approaching endgame, it's still anybody's game at this point.

Oh, yeah, and I exit at Louis' favorite pub in Spitalfields (made quite famous in the 1887 tourney, so I've history on my side here).  The church here seems quite burnable, but I may be for whom the bell tolls.

Tally Ho!

:)

Date: 2010/03/26 13:58:25, Link 137.28.184.234
Author: jeffox
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Turnham Green the hard way:

Piccadilly line before 7:45 am, on Sunday.

I don't think so.

As fxntr did the Snaresbrook maneuver, reminiscent of the Bilge/Blythe "Over the hedge" fiasco of 1969, and my fascination with the movement of a little puck over ice, the Nexus Void and lube shop is still in effect.

You must move through yourself and find the other side for the next 1.23t time units.

That is as fxntr points out so eloquently, you don't implode first.


I concur, but some of us have already taken that into consideration.  Still, implosion is a terrible thing to witness.  Could be the pace-setter for the remainder of the dunstanfetter.  I'll be the first to demand a shrubbery.

I'll oblique, just in case.  

In the meantime, I've weaved a Plotsdingwether egg from my ticket stub; and, since escalators are still wild, I'll claim my baggage tags for another 0.328 fizbin.  While I realize that this resembles the Ortnsnortnzablotnik maneuver, I believe that there's enough variance in the field of play to allow another slapdown.  Too bad ol' TARDavison isn't hear to see that (not that I miss him).  He'd probably bandwagoneer, anyway.

Oh, and I'll commission the naggly bastard.

Exit Eustace.

Aye, Luv; it's so.

:)

Date: 2010/03/26 19:25:04, Link 4.252.135.98
Author: jeffox
While I may not be the most adept at gamesmanship, I do seem to be picking this up pretty well.  For an American fox, anyway.  Besides, while you all were admiring the last few moves, I snuck across the Excelsior line at least 3 times.  :)  Plus, I'm currently writing the software to put MC on the Gameboy.  And they told me it couldn't be done!!!

Which brings me to Birmingham, where I'll visit Sailor Sam (again).  No eggs, though.

Highcastle and the buildings adjacent (I tend to plan big).

Date: 2010/03/26 19:32:56, Link 4.252.135.98
Author: jeffox
Wait!!  I almost forgot:

Exit at Abertawae with a swan, see?

:)

Date: 2010/03/29 22:53:38, Link 4.159.56.29
Author: jeffox
OK, well, it's my turn again.  Hmmm.

I'll thicken my skin and avoid being detected at the same time.  

Hyde Park.

En Garde!

Date: 2010/03/30 15:31:11, Link 137.28.109.21
Author: jeffox
The only "bitch" I've ever met was named Amada Bar-Cat.  :)

I used to have a wolfhound, too.  He could play the banjo (poorly) and died of Barkinsons' disease.

Date: 2010/03/31 22:03:27, Link 4.252.131.236
Author: jeffox
Just to release Prince Albert from his most dire of fates, I'll say. . . .

Victoria

Charge!!

 

 

 

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