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Aries model - Tom Brosz - 8/27/2006 5:22:36 AM
- re: Aries model - Raoul - 8/27/2006 7:18:13 AM

A baker's dozen - ER - 8/22/2006 1:37:51 PM
- Master and Commander - McFly - 8/25/2006 4:40:07 PM
  - good one McFly, hope there's a sequel (n/t) - FrankC - 8/26/2006 4:06:33 AM
- Godzilla might go on my list... - Tom Brosz - 8/24/2006 7:21:24 AM
- The good, the bad and the obscure - Mary Anne - 8/24/2006 4:29:08 AM
  - You reminded me: Arsenic and Old Lace (n/t) - alcaray - 8/24/2006 11:27:33 PM
  - West Side Story story - ER - 8/24/2006 3:31:06 PM
  - re: The good, the bad and the obscure - REB - 8/24/2006 2:04:12 PM
- Stale Rolls and nice tries: An new category - ER - 8/23/2006 8:14:37 PM
- Why don't we just stipulate... - Tom Brosz - 8/23/2006 6:53:45 PM
  - Sort of like a life list - Fox - 8/24/2006 3:59:07 AM
- no-one has Blade Runner? - Tony - 8/23/2006 3:20:48 PM
  - Damn! - FrankC - 8/23/2006 5:32:31 PM
  - Blade Runner was great. How about the Fifth Element? - REB - 8/23/2006 3:29:07 PM
- re: A baker's few - Fox - 8/23/2006 1:50:40 AM
- A baker's dozen (and then some) - McFly - 8/23/2006 12:36:04 AM
  - re: A baker's dozen (and then some) - REB - 8/23/2006 3:40:01 PM
- re: A baker's dozen - alcaray - 8/22/2006 11:37:13 PM
  - Battleground - Fox - 8/23/2006 1:55:26 AM
    - Yes! I could not remember actor Whitmore's name to save my life. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/23/2006 3:07:32 PM
- re: A baker's dozen - FrankC - 8/22/2006 10:45:12 PM
- re: A baker's dozen - Tom Brosz - 8/22/2006 5:19:58 PM
  - What about Cary Grant? - REB - 8/23/2006 3:24:40 PM
    - Great list, kicking myself for forgeting so many of those! (n/t) - McFly - 8/23/2006 5:47:07 PM
    - Forgot Star Trek - REB - 8/23/2006 3:32:11 PM
  - re: A baker's dozen - ER - 8/22/2006 5:35:13 PM
    - I know what you mean about second thoughts... - Tom Brosz - 8/23/2006 7:22:05 AM
      - Oh yeah, Gilliam! (n/t) - alcaray - 8/23/2006 3:12:19 PM

Let's do the same for music. - ER - 8/22/2006 3:04:27 PM
- re: Nobody for these....? - Raoul - 8/25/2006 8:30:30 PM
  - I'm out of control! - ER - 8/25/2006 9:04:07 PM
    - I omitted classical last time, since ER's first list was rock - Fox - 8/26/2006 1:57:29 AM
- KNOCK IT OFF ER........... - Publius - 8/25/2006 6:10:42 PM
  - No, he belongs on Flame. (n/t) - ER - 8/25/2006 8:00:46 PM
- re: Let's do the same for music. - azstrummer - 8/25/2006 6:23:47 AM
- You forgot Elvis Presley - REB - 8/23/2006 3:59:41 PM
  - He was before my time. (n/t) - ER - 8/23/2006 5:19:29 PM
    - Mine, too (n/t) - Fox - 8/24/2006 3:49:51 AM
      - Me too, but I like some of his stuff. - REB - 8/24/2006 2:00:32 PM
- Cooor, I want another bloody brick in the wall....... (n/t) - Publius - 8/22/2006 11:29:31 PM
- re: music - Fox - 8/22/2006 5:07:16 PM
  - Preferred Aqualung to Thick, myself (n/t) - alcaray - 8/22/2006 9:41:23 PM
    - Had "Aqualung" listed, changed it to "Brick"... - Fox - 8/24/2006 3:49:09 AM
      - Tull kinda lost me with Thick... - alcaray - 8/24/2006 2:48:21 PM
        
        Found me again with "Songs from the Wood" - Mary Anne - 8/24/2006 5:30:11 PM
        
        The Fairport/Steeleye influence - Fox - 8/24/2006 5:48:48 PM
  - You can have the magic bus for ONE HUNDRED...English pounds. - ER - 8/22/2006 5:38:00 PM
    - ... and there ain't no cure for the Summertime Blues (n/t) - Fox - 8/22/2006 6:56:36 PM

Lizard birth - from ?? - Laurie Street - 8/25/2006 10:32:27 PM
- Lust Patio. - ER - 8/26/2006 12:46:18 AM
  - Great lizard stories - Lindy - 8/26/2006 1:28:50 AM

Following ER's lead, how about best movie scenes. - REB - 8/25/2006 12:45:36 PM
- I found my favorite scene. - REB - 8/25/2006 7:28:44 PM
- re: Following ER's lead, how about best movie scenes. - ER - 8/25/2006 3:41:27 PM
  - Follow-up: more memorable scenes. - ER - 8/25/2006 5:32:24 PM
    - re: Follow-up: more memorable scenes. - REB - 8/25/2006 7:20:27 PM
    - I can't seem to call special scenes to memory like you can. - alcaray - 8/25/2006 6:05:33 PM
    - I can't resist one more. - ER - 8/25/2006 5:36:46 PM
      - yeah.... - Fox - 8/26/2006 1:00:31 AM
      - I think all of us could go on for days on this one. - Tom Brosz - 8/25/2006 5:45:29 PM
        
        Speaking of Spielberg - ER - 8/25/2006 7:29:05 PM
  - re: Following ER's lead, how about best movie scenes. - REB - 8/25/2006 4:32:35 PM

This is fun! Let's do it with books. - ER - 8/23/2006 2:09:09 PM
- Forgot Nero Wolfe! - Tom Brosz - 8/24/2006 6:36:35 AM
- I have read some of those.... - FrankC - 8/23/2006 7:45:43 PM
  - Oh my, I forgot Ender - tony - 8/23/2006 9:03:33 PM
- re: Let's do it with books. - Fox - 8/23/2006 4:48:50 PM
- re: This is fun! Let's do it with books. - Tony - 8/23/2006 2:59:02 PM
  - Hearty agreement on Pratchett (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/23/2006 6:51:12 PM
  - No Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy complete set and leather bound?. (n/t) - REB - 8/23/2006 5:14:51 PM
    - Adams was good......just not Pratchett-good. (n/t) - Tony - 8/23/2006 6:38:35 PM

Silly season: "Crackdown" - Fox - 8/23/2006 3:46:56 PM
- that is a silly style - FrankC - 8/23/2006 6:20:03 PM
  - Poverty chic - Tom Brosz - 8/23/2006 6:49:56 PM
    - Actually it is a gang banger thing... - Scott Evil - 8/23/2006 8:13:19 PM
      - prison chic - alcaray - 8/23/2006 9:17:47 PM
      - re: Actually it is a gang banger thing... - ER - 8/23/2006 8:21:06 PM
        
        Shhhhhh!!! Don't ask such a question............ - Publius - 8/23/2006 9:33:14 PM
    - Fashion is God's way of telling you that you have too much money. (n/t) - ER - 8/23/2006 7:32:51 PM
- Didn't know anyone was still doing that. - alcaray - 8/23/2006 5:40:04 PM
  - Bingo! - Fox - 8/24/2006 3:25:45 AM
- I remember that one! The boy who cried "wolf". - ER - 8/23/2006 5:37:23 PM
  - "Did they do the operation? Is the head dead yet?" - Fox - 8/24/2006 4:11:42 AM

James Tiptree, Jr.: Alice B. Sheldon - ljk - 8/21/2006 1:31:54 AM
- That's interesting. - Bowser - 8/21/2006 6:46:32 PM
  - Nothing like a different perspective - especially in SF - LJK - 8/22/2006 6:00:52 PM
    - Alice Marie Norton, too. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/22/2006 6:25:39 PM

"Talledaga Nights", the movie - Bowser - 8/22/2006 5:21:28 AM

Oxblog comments on Wikipedia - Tom Brosz - 8/22/2006 2:52:55 AM

Ice cave collapse - RobVG - 8/22/2006 2:34:17 AM

Every once in a while comes a movie that's so delightfully ridiculous that you just have to go see it - sz - 8/21/2006 1:26:10 AM
- Getting them off the plane - Tom Brosz - 8/21/2006 1:40:13 AM
  - Mustn't violate FAA regulations regarding cabin temperature and pressure... - sz - 8/21/2006 2:15:00 AM
    - Snakes haven't got one. (n/t) - ER - 8/21/2006 3:21:28 AM

Is our civilization doomed? Are we on a downward slope? - Lindy - 8/15/2006 7:09:45 PM
- As soon as we research Ceremonial Burial... - alcaray - 8/17/2006 10:20:01 PM
  - :-D (n/t) - Tony - 8/18/2006 1:37:13 PM
- The question is whether or not modern civilization will survive the dire Islamofascist threat - sz - 8/16/2006 3:33:47 AM
  - It appears there will be no negotiations - Lindy - 8/16/2006 1:06:58 PM
  - Who invaded whom? It's Christianity goin' for Middle East resources! - Bowser - 8/16/2006 4:24:54 AM
    - It's "in" to call them......... - Lindy - 8/16/2006 1:12:17 PM
- re: Is our civilization doomed? - Raoul - 8/15/2006 8:23:03 PM
  - "As long as there is a willingness to recognize new situations and to cope with them" - Lindy - 8/16/2006 2:15:14 PM
  - In it's present form. Three big factors. - Bowser - 8/15/2006 10:34:25 PM
    - Civilization............ - Publius - 8/17/2006 1:25:47 AM
      - Life is lived forward. And understood backward. - Bowser - 8/17/2006 7:16:27 AM
        
        Purlie Victorious......... - Publius - 8/18/2006 2:56:25 AM
        
        Lifeboat Foundation announces new existential-risk programs - ljk - 8/17/2006 5:49:31 PM
        
        The Sartre Program? (n/t) - Fox - 8/17/2006 9:01:51 PM
        
        Maybe not now or even tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of our lives - ljk - 8/21/2006 1:12:24 AM

Republican slum - $2.55 million "fixer-upper". - Bowser - 8/20/2006 10:12:09 PM

For Stargate SG-1 fans - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 5:36:07 AM
- Really Stupid - Mark Eby - 8/20/2006 9:07:35 PM
- Looks like fun - McFly - 8/18/2006 3:15:15 PM

CNN - "Some may argue Lamont is the al Qaeda candidate." - Bowser - 8/19/2006 6:27:47 AM
- Getting your news from 2weeksold.com - Tony - 8/20/2006 1:27:00 AM
  - Your post could have meant something. - Bowser - 8/20/2006 1:48:58 AM
    - First google hit for Chuck Roberts Lamont - tony - 8/20/2006 2:34:45 AM

Remember? PAUL WOLFOWITZ et all. And it's all going as planned. - Bowser - 8/19/2006 6:25:08 AM
- Wolfowitz inadvertently played a useful role in opening eyes - McFly - 8/19/2006 5:19:24 PM
  - re: That was saturday, may 31st 2003 - Raoul - 8/19/2006 7:37:14 PM
    - Bush can't be "humiliated' Raoul - Lindy - 8/19/2006 8:02:17 PM
      - re: The neo-cons ? - Raoul - 8/19/2006 9:18:23 PM
- Paul who? (n/t) - Lindy - 8/19/2006 4:17:55 PM
  - Gawd Bowser, do you have to keep rubbing it in? - Lindy - 8/19/2006 4:37:26 PM
    - Nothing has worked, and yet they never admit they are wrong. - Bowser - 8/20/2006 1:52:17 AM

On the Republican rubric of Sating the Course....... - Publius - 8/19/2006 1:26:43 AM
- Scopes and wheels - ER - 8/19/2006 4:55:33 PM
  - re: Scopes and wheels - Lindy - 8/19/2006 11:58:06 PM
- Wouldn't want 'em to think we didn't have the resolve to self-destruct! (n/t) - Bowser - 8/19/2006 4:16:37 AM
- Fascinating story. Now if a bus is headed toward a cliff - - - ? - Bowser - 8/19/2006 4:15:13 AM
- Errrr, make that "Staying the Course"....... (n/t) - Publius - 8/19/2006 1:28:42 AM
  - Actually, "Sating the course" is quite appropriate! (n/t) - ER - 8/19/2006 1:49:32 AM
    - Sorta a Jungian slip?....................................... (n/t) - Publius - 8/19/2006 2:33:53 PM

The Mystery Monster of Maine - LJK - 8/18/2006 2:48:39 PM
- re: The Mystery Monster of Maine - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 6:11:27 PM
  - re: The Mystery Monster of Maine - ljk - 8/19/2006 10:29:58 PM
- Funny why there's only one picture of it - Lindy - 8/18/2006 2:59:33 PM

Another story that shows how Religion = Insanity - sz - 8/18/2006 2:17:06 AM
- Is there some tie in here with Tom's story of the fellow falling in the vat of chocolate? - Publius - 8/19/2006 1:34:28 AM
- Doesn't beat what I experienced - azstrummer - 8/18/2006 8:21:43 PM
- Some see a rabbit when they look at the moon, some see a man. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/18/2006 5:38:13 PM
- Wow, this is so..... exciting? (n/t) - SDF - 8/18/2006 3:32:13 AM
- Probably a darn good thing it's hard to see under outhouses. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 3:12:58 AM
  - All humor aside... - LJK - 8/18/2006 5:49:26 PM
    - re: All humor aside... - azstrummer - 8/18/2006 8:45:54 PM

"FIRE!" - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 6:44:56 PM
- I can whistle part of the song for you. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/18/2006 8:12:11 PM
- Smothers Brothers (n/t) - Fox - 8/18/2006 7:12:51 PM

Will - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 5:35:36 PM
- The second derivative effect. - ER - 8/18/2006 3:29:41 AM
  - re: The second derivative effect. - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 3:50:46 AM
    - location, velocity, acceleration, jerk - ER - 8/18/2006 11:25:28 AM
      - Possibilities - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 6:23:16 PM
- Which side will win a war - SDF - 8/18/2006 1:56:42 AM
  - Thanks - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 3:44:24 AM
- Stop thinking philosophically for a moment... - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/18/2006 12:23:37 AM
- re: Peace or not? - Raoul - 8/17/2006 8:13:08 PM
- re: Will - gbaikie - 8/17/2006 8:10:25 PM
  - re: ethics - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 10:30:48 PM
    - re: ethics - gbaikie - 8/18/2006 12:08:24 AM
      - Now that I look at it... - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 3:59:45 AM
      - Liberalism and ethics - Mary Anne - 8/18/2006 3:57:01 AM
    - Not to start that other thread... - dtb - 8/17/2006 11:01:41 PM
- It's really very simple. - Bowser - 8/17/2006 6:23:24 PM
- Like a lot of others who commented on that blog... - McFly - 8/17/2006 6:22:44 PM
- I think society adjusts itself to the level of barbarians present. - alcaray - 8/17/2006 6:22:21 PM
  - Comments so far aren't making me feel better. - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 8:03:31 PM
    - Expressed myself poorly - McFly - 8/17/2006 11:49:20 PM
      - re: Expressed myself poorly - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 3:27:35 AM
        
        "...our military is being called on the carpet..." - McFly - 8/18/2006 3:06:09 PM
    - First, read YOUR New Testament. And don't misstate me. - Bowser - 8/17/2006 10:52:06 PM
      - Non-answers - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 11:20:57 PM
        
        It's a limitation of black-and-white thinking. - Bowser - 8/17/2006 11:47:59 PM
        
        re: It's a limitation of thinking. - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 3:40:00 AM
        
        Think "Flatlander" and sphere. B&W thinking has that limitation. - Bowser - 8/18/2006 4:16:54 AM
    - That post is full of BS, Tom - Lindy - 8/17/2006 9:38:43 PM
      - Raoul and Lindy: more examples - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 10:54:39 PM
        
        What good will it do to become our enemies in order to defeat them? - Mary Anne - 8/18/2006 3:32:49 AM
        
        re: What good will it do - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 4:13:02 AM
        
        I agree with MA - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/18/2006 5:29:32 AM
        
        Almost every use of force - Mary Anne - 8/18/2006 4:42:55 AM
        
        re: Almost every use of force - gbaikie - 8/18/2006 10:01:22 AM
        
        re: Almost every use of force - gbaikie - 8/18/2006 10:51:38 AM
        
        re: Almost every use of force - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 5:54:29 AM
        
        Moderation doesn't equal "none". - Mary Anne - 8/18/2006 1:49:44 PM
    - And Brosz (to pop an equally absurd non sequiter straw man out of my hat) believes that the future can not be better than the past. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/17/2006 8:15:26 PM

Things GWB will never spend money on. - Bowser - 8/17/2006 10:48:41 PM

Outranked - Lindy - 8/17/2006 4:16:03 PM
- re: Outranked - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 4:58:09 PM
  - Happy days are here again - Robert - 8/17/2006 5:24:57 PM
    - re: Happy days are here again - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 5:29:48 PM
      - I wonder... - ljk - 8/17/2006 5:41:19 PM

Russian climbers go missing on K2 - Bowser - 8/17/2006 5:22:55 AM
- In pictures: K2 conquest 50 years on - Bowser - 8/17/2006 5:29:20 AM

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