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The biggest question is.....
This is Off Topic....
Jody
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6/27/2007 2:41:53 PM
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Exploring Extraterrestial Objects in Situ
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Isaac
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6/26/2007 10:14:01 PM
Hey SheepLookUp!
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Jody
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6/29/2007 10:09:14 PM
I'm impressed at the work that went into this.
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TB
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6/27/2007 11:24:26 PM
re: Flying insects…..
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Johannes
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6/28/2007 2:07:37 AM
Humbug!
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Hank
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6/29/2007 12:00:25 AM
re: Blue Tail Fly
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Johannes
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6/29/2007 4:14:57 AM
I've seen ones that look like a bee
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Lindy
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6/29/2007 1:20:19 PM
re: Somebody should catch one and see if nanotechnology is involved. ;-)
(n/t)
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Johannes
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6/29/2007 10:30:44 PM
It was a miniature alien spaceship?
(n/t)
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Eri
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6/29/2007 2:13:38 AM
The CIA has pics on file of you on the pot
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Eri
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6/28/2007 2:51:02 AM
I don't actually believe in such "probes"
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TB
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6/28/2007 4:27:15 AM
re: I don't actually believe in such "probes"
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/28/2007 8:21:00 PM
Someone should talk to these critters
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Eri
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6/28/2007 11:10:16 PM
re: Who invented the flush toilet?
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Johannes
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6/29/2007 10:45:22 PM
"They most often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom"
(n/t)
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Confucious
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6/27/2007 3:01:23 PM
Moved from Space Sciences
(n/t)
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moderite podrock
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6/27/2007 2:31:19 AM
This story seems to grow in the telling.
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alcaray
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6/27/2007 12:18:02 AM
Indeed...as is the disallowance...
(n/t)
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Jody
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6/27/2007 3:17:57 PM
I don't see any disallowance. Everyone is having their say.
(n/t)
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alcaray
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6/27/2007 9:10:14 PM
Actually, this is a phenomenon worth studying.
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Hank
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6/26/2007 11:51:19 PM
You are right..they did it for fun AND the money!!!
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Jody
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6/27/2007 2:35:57 PM
"Their technology is different"
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Isaac
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6/26/2007 11:58:51 PM
Technology is a Gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's Gifts It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and sciences"...
(n/t)
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Freeman Dyson
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6/27/2007 3:13:15 PM
That's exactly the way I would expect alien machines to work:
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Hank
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6/27/2007 12:55:52 AM
I think you may need an ad-visor...
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Fox
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6/28/2007 1:46:15 AM
I would prefer to add vice.
(n/t)
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Hank
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6/28/2007 12:57:01 PM
He He..taking my Q from Fox...
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Jody:)
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6/28/2007 4:25:56 AM
Ackkkkk!
(n/t)
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Eri
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6/28/2007 2:52:29 AM
That wins the Geordi LaForge Award for today...
(n/t)
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TB
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6/27/2007 10:37:04 PM
I'm not trying to blind-side anyone...
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Hank
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6/27/2007 11:59:39 PM
Argh...
(n/t)
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TB
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6/28/2007 12:01:21 AM
re: That's exactly the way I would expect alien machines to work:
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Isaac
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6/27/2007 2:15:16 AM
SheepLookUp should understand this
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Hank
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6/27/2007 3:48:40 AM
Oaths
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Isaac
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6/27/2007 4:05:43 AM
"Extra-terrestial technology is not just a US phenomena."
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Hank
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6/27/2007 4:20:13 AM
" I was hoping you'd follow my lead and have a little fun with this. "
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Isaac
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6/27/2007 4:30:25 AM
"I am old....
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Jody
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6/27/2007 4:47:53 AM
"I will wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
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T.S., Eliot...
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6/28/2007 1:47:27 AM
"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach?
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Jody:)
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6/29/2007 10:31:11 PM
That is my contribution to Hank's inpromptu Sci-Fi storytelling...Next?
(n/t)
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Jody
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6/27/2007 12:45:56 PM
Now that's more like it!
(n/t)
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Hank
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6/27/2007 4:34:10 AM
The "hundreth monkey effect".
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ARRELL
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6/27/2007 4:11:48 AM
Typo correction
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Hank
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6/27/2007 12:58:36 AM
The biggest question is.....
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ARRELL
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6/26/2007 10:37:43 PM
This is Off Topic....
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Jody
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6/27/2007 2:41:53 PM
Jody, this tread was originally on 'SPACE'
(n/t)
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See above
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6/27/2007 3:30:01 PM
re: The biggest question is.....
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phil
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6/26/2007 11:05:28 PM
"Bets on future planetary detections"
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Isaac
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6/26/2007 11:51:16 PM
re: "Bets on future planetary detections"
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phil
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6/27/2007 1:53:12 AM
"Please, do not mistake any of my posts for intelligence "
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Isaac
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6/27/2007 2:17:50 AM
You are the ones ignoring the facts
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Isaac
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6/26/2007 11:39:35 PM
Out of idle curiosity, in your opinion...
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alcaray
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6/27/2007 12:20:54 AM
re: Out of idle curiosity, in your opinion...
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Isaac
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6/27/2007 2:26:32 AM
SDAI!!
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McFly
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6/27/2007 9:15:28 PM
Raises hand -- I know! I know!
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Eri
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6/27/2007 10:31:08 PM
I see.
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alcaray
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6/27/2007 3:40:37 AM
re: I see.
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Isaac
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6/27/2007 3:50:24 AM
to answer your questions
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alcaray
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6/27/2007 6:22:05 AM
Counterpoint
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Jody
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6/27/2007 1:49:41 PM
Well, I would hope that I'm not a knee-jerk skeptic.
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alcaray
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6/27/2007 9:01:22 PM
re: "I am told that I spend a lot more time on this than is good for me."
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Fox
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6/28/2007 1:52:42 AM
ThankYou Alcaray..that was nicely said!!
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Jody
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6/27/2007 9:37:54 PM
Shame on you!
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Hank
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6/27/2007 3:28:53 PM
re: Shame on you...back at 'ya!
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Jody
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6/27/2007 3:49:19 PM
How do you spell "raspberry"?
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Hank
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6/27/2007 5:49:10 PM
Einsteins' theory of relativity has been described as possible
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Jody
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6/27/2007 7:15:11 PM
Why do I bother?
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Hank
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6/27/2007 9:02:47 PM
"there are already enough inconsistencies in his story..."
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Lindy
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6/28/2007 3:04:52 AM
That's not how it works.
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Hank
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6/28/2007 4:59:02 AM
re: "Let's say I went out one night and saw a UFO (you can substitute here Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, a ghost, or Jesus)"
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_THE_ Yeti
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6/29/2007 6:59:49 PM
Okay, that was very reasonable
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Lindy
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6/28/2007 5:54:32 AM
R-A-S-P-B-E-R-R-Y
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Jody
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6/27/2007 6:14:52 PM
"Pseudoskepticism"
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Lindy
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6/28/2007 3:19:06 AM
yikes! corrected html
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alcaray
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6/27/2007 6:24:00 AM
re: yikes! corrected html
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alcaray
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6/27/2007 6:27:06 AM
re: yikes! corrected html
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alcaray
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6/27/2007 6:31:25 AM
"I had no expectations"
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Lindy
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6/27/2007 9:01:39 PM
hah!
(n/t)
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alcaray
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6/27/2007 6:31:53 AM
The hot needle of inquiry
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Insider Hank
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6/27/2007 10:54:54 AM
"Do you think these guys working in top secret programs carry around a card identifying themselves as to who they are?"
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ARRELL
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6/27/2007 3:59:42 AM
In fact, at national labs you are expected to wear your card so its visible at all times
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ARRELL
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6/27/2007 4:45:55 AM
You were involved in those? Oh, do tell!
(n/t)
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Eri
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6/27/2007 8:03:23 PM
Not me
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Hank
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6/27/2007 1:36:34 PM
That must have hurt like hell!
(n/t)
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Eri
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6/27/2007 8:02:27 PM
Last Comic Standing....
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Jody
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6/27/2007 2:37:29 PM
That's on the boob-tube tonight!
(n/t)
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Eri
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6/27/2007 8:04:54 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.