In the news ....

[extropalopakettle]

OK, but did the Feds leave feedback?

Remember Boysavant? You think he had a complaint?

[doormouse11]

eeeep! that must have been terrifying.

I remember boysavant! He probably would have a lot to say. But then, who wouldn't have a bit of complaint?

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Better to choke your chicken than chop it's head off.

[MatthewV]

Remember: you can win a Darwin Award without killing yourself- you only are required to remove yourself from the genepool.

Too bad he probably already reproduced.

[Courk]

From the Look Inside! at Amazon.com

"To win, nominees must significantly improve the gene pool by eliminating themselves from the human race in an astonishingly stupid way. All races, cultures, and socioeconomic groups are eligible to compete. Contenders are evaluated using the following five criteria:

The candidate must remove himself from the gene pool.
The potential winner must... render himself deceased, or at least incapable of reproducing. If someone does manage to survive an incredibly stupid feat, then his genes de facto must have something to offer in the way of luck, agility, or stamina... If he no longer has the physical wherewithal to breed with a mate on a deserted island, then he is eligible for a Darwin...

The candidate must exhibit an astounding misapplication of judgement...

The candidate must be the cause of his own demise...

The candidate must be capable of sound judgement...

The event must be verified..."

So, apparently it doesn't matter if he had children, but his genes might be disqualified because he survived it, even though all you need to do is be rendered incapable of reproducing...

[Samadhi]

Just how familiar was the buzzing?
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[extro...]

From another report of the same incident ...

[Guest]

err ... Mackay

[The Cruciverbalist]

RIP, Rodney Dangerfield.
(Insert witty comment about about "last respects" here, if you're so inclined.)
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"People were screaming and running. Girls lost their cell phones. Keys got lost," she said. "It's something I will never forget."

[wordcross]

what's sad is that the above quote encourages a stereotype. It's from a cheerleader.
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[Jedo the Jedi]

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I hearby nominate "Tying the old fly-fishing lure" as a new euphemism ...

[Jedo the Jedi]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!1111111one That's a good one, extro! I'll have to remember it.

[Courk]

Removed form the bench for preventing cancer? What is this world coming to?

[Rudy.]

[wordcross]

HIV Virus battles Cancer

I find it amazing that such a deadly virus can be manipulated to fight another equally deadly disease. Kinda poetic justice, ya know?
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[extropalopakettle]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050410/ap_on_re_us/siegfried___roy_shooting

[Mr Nigma]

Yet another earthquake off Indonesia. This is number three since December. No tsunami this time, thankfully.
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[NeocortX]

I find it a little uncanny that each earthquake happened just a few days after religious holidays, Christmas and Easter.

Would anyone agree?

[Coyote]

Well, I thought it a bit odd that they happened so close to the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox. I thought it might have had something to do with the tilt of the Earth's axis.

But then I remembered that there's been countless devastating earthquakes throughout history on pretty much randomly scattered dates, and also that if you shuffle a deck of cards enough times, eventually you'll get two aces on top of the deck.

But I still think it has something to do with the tilt of the Earth's axis.
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[Mr Nigma]

Nah, it's just that God hates Sumatra, evidently.

[Samadhi]

No, but He does hate the monkeys that live there.
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[Rudy.]

Poor taste, given that Legion is missing out there.

[Jack_Ian]

I don't see how the fact that Legion was there and that nobody has heard from him recently, makes it poor taste.
Many real Sumatrans have actually died.

[groza528]

I agree with Jack... I've been keeping Legion in my prayers, but I don't think it's out of line to mention a news story that *might* negatively affect one of our members, or even one that definitely affects our members. We're all worried but ignoring the news isn't going to change anything.

[Internet Stranger]

I got Samadhi's joke, and it was rather funny.
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[Jack_Ian]

I got it too.
I wondered whether the reference to it being in poor taste was also a joke.

[Rudy.]

It wasn't a joke. Legion took offence at Samadhi's reference to some Indonesians as monkeys and savages. He is half Indonesian. Anyway, one of the reasons he took offence was that he felt that when we refer ro people as being of a lower order it makes it easier to care less when the are ill-treated or die. So to now make a comment that Legion, who is well over week overdue and has not contacted his work colleagues who at times fear the worst, is if not poor taste, then bad timing. It gives the impression that you really do not care much for his life especially as you make the monkey refernce again. He took all that stuff quite personally.

Anyway, we still hold out hope, but are starting to entertain doubts, you will understand if no one here has much humour about the subject.

[Samadhi]

You're thinking of IS's statements about some Indonesians as monkeys and savages. I was actually talking about the monkeys of Sumatra.
It's not my fault you have no compassion for them.
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[Rudy.]

Fuck off

[Internet Stranger]

Oh sure, drag me into this now.
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[Jack_Ian]

I have as much compaassion for Legion as I do for anyone in such difficulty.
Naturally we all hope he is fine, but I think we would do well to consider the people we know to be dead and do what we can to help. (and I don't mean CPR)
Just because they have not posted here does not make their life any less worthy.
It's thinking like this that encourages high-altitude bombing. If we can't see their faces or hear their screams then they don't count.

[Internet Stranger]

They cant shoot back either.
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[Samadhi]

IS, they can train monkeys to shoot.
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[Internet Stranger]

Which is why we do high altitude bombing instead of just clubbing them like baby seals.
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Come on, tell us the joke. We wanna hear the joke.

[Internet Stranger]

He may forgotten it.
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[Samadhi]

It's no surprise he wasn't over it after 7 years, slavery ended over 140 years ago and they're still not over that.
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[Internet Stranger]

The Indians got over it, why cant they?
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