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Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:47 pm

Assuming that you mean he wrote some short articles for Playboy, that is not pornography. I appreciate the clarification Dig.

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:08 pm

Why does it matter at all?
So what if he wrote porn?
You did other things too, 20 years ago!

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:20 pm

I don't guess you've read Playboy magazine. Nobody writes porn. They interview many authors. I remember the Playboy interview with Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote. I don't even regard the magazine as porn. I had a subscription for years, I've let it lapse though.

Why does it matter at all?

For me, it's a matter of accuracy. For others, it doesn't matter.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:50 pm

kbs2244 wrote:I will have to double check my hitory, but I belive "Hoosiers" was based on a true story. But it happened in Illinois. In the 50's before Illinois went to a class system there was a small town caled Hebron up on the Wiscconsin border that pretty much did what the movie storyline is. They won the state championship with 4 players in the last half of the last quarter.

Hollywood moved it to Ind. Everybody knows that is where HS BB is king.

One of those players is now Mayor of Hebron. And the watertower isn't a golf ball on a tee. It is a real big basket ball.

I have heard it was based on a true story. They sure captured the BB fever of southern Indiana though. I think I was 9 years old when I managed to get a link of the net when Linton won the sectional. It was exactly like the movie, although that was not Linton's gym in the movie.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:44 am

Beagle wrote:http://www.livinginperu.com/news/4719

LIP-ir) -- Peru's Andina News Agency reported today that Puno's Regional Health Directorate sent a group of specialists to the Carancas community in the province of Chucuito near Bolivia to take samples of a meteorite that supposedly landed in the area.

Jorge López Tejada, a representative for the institution, stated that an environmental cleaning crew was going to the area to take earth and water samples from the actual landing site and from surrounding areas.

This story began over the weekend. Now people who have been near the meteorite have symptoms of radiation sickness. There will be follow-up news.

And now we get an entirely different story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7002506.stm

The BBC says that the 200 hospitalized people may be victims of mass hysteria. This is all pretty hysterical.

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:37 am

Mass hysteria from a celestial phenomenon!
So what else is new?
We've had mass hysteria rule the world since the Star of Bethlehem. Only that one is called "Xtianity" . . .

Post by **Minimalist** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:49 am

How many thousand people lined up at a Chicago underpass a year or so ago because they just knew Jesus had showed himself in a stain?

People can talk themselves into damn near anything.

Probably explains how we ended up with Bush in the White House.

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:28 pm

Hey! That "gamma ray" bombardment might have something to it after all! God probably had one of these:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1965

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:18 pm

An MoD spokesman said Britain is not planning to buy this weapon.

Now there's a surprise, why buy something modern when you've got a large supply of 50 yr old machine guns still in store?
It isn't so many years ago that the MOD sold off its stock of horse shoes!

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:26 pm

The other night my daughter was listening to this song.
After thinking about it, I 've decided to post the lyrics here. I wonder what she thinks about the world she is maturing into?

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/n/nofx/idiot ... 01674.html

kbs2244 · Post by **kbs2244** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:02 pm

You know Monk, it is kind of scary.
But one of the things that keeps me going is that Plato complained about the younger generation.
We really do seem to get smarter as we get older.

Post by **Minimalist** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:16 pm

O/T

I hope no one thinks there is a mystery here. The cause and effect seem obvious!

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200709 ... OGT81.html

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Snake collector Matt Wilkinson of Portland grabbed a 20-inch rattler from the highway near Maupin, and three weeks later, to impress his ex-girlfriend, he stuck the serpent in his mouth.

He was soon near death with a swollen tongue that blocked his throat. Trauma doctors at the Oregon Health and Science University saved his life.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:12 am

I'll bet his girfriend was impressed, wonder if she filmed it for You tube?

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:25 am

Trauma doctors at the Oregon Health and Science University saved his life.

And everybody else was made to pay for the whole stupid emergency procedure.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:44 am

Beagle wrote:
Beagle wrote:http://www.livinginperu.com/news/4719

LIP-ir) -- Peru's Andina News Agency reported today that Puno's Regional Health Directorate sent a group of specialists to the Carancas community in the province of Chucuito near Bolivia to take samples of a meteorite that supposedly landed in the area.

Jorge López Tejada, a representative for the institution, stated that an environmental cleaning crew was going to the area to take earth and water samples from the actual landing site and from surrounding areas.

This story began over the weekend. Now people who have been near the meteorite have symptoms of radiation sickness. There will be follow-up news.
And now we get an entirely different story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7002506.stm

The BBC says that the 200 hospitalized people may be victims of mass hysteria. This is all pretty hysterical.

And now, incredibly, scientists say they doubt that there was anything from space at all.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0 ... orite.html

A few days ago this story was reported all over the 'net, along with wild speculation. Unless they find a meteorite in that crater, I'm not posting any more on it.