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MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - EdenMaster - 28th December 2004
Geno Wrote:Now that I've broken up with my girlfriend, though, I'm rather lonely... ah well, not like I was gonna marry her anyway.
You and Lumashi not together anymore, huh? That's too bad.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - A Black Falcon - 28th December 2004
I like the darwin-fish thing, I have a shirt with it on it... :)
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Weltall - 29th December 2004
Nobody asked you!
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Geno - 29th December 2004
EdenMaster Wrote:You and Lumashi not together anymore, huh? That's too bad.
Nope... she just one day decided on whim that she doesn't love me anymore, but it was a long time before I finally got her to admit it. (She didn't exactly do a good job hiding it either.) I tried reviving the passion a few times, but she showed no interest in doing so. Finally, I just let her go, which was harder on me than it was on her. Hell, she's loving it. I'm... past the worst part, at least. The workings of the female mind were a mystery even to Sigmund Freud.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Great Rumbler - 29th December 2004
Everything I know about women I learned from fantasy books...which is basically nothing since the main, male characters never learn anything about women, they just flounder around complaining about how they can never understand women.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Darunia - 29th December 2004
The cross is a reminder of what Jesus went through to save us
Many people were crucified, or died evern worse deaths in torture, which in perspective makes his 'sarcrafice' quite tame in comparison. If he REALLY wanted to pull a sympathy string with humanity, he should've been ripped apart by rapid squirrels armed with rusty nails.
and how he beat death and made a way for us to live the best life possible.
Ok--is he dead? Then stop praying to him. The dead can't hear. Unless he's not dead, in which case his huge sacrafice to humanity wasn't all that impressive. To feint dying, only to live on for eternity in heaven--well, it just ain't that much.
Merry Chrismahannakwanzaka!
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - lazyfatbum - 29th December 2004
awww Darunia... I didn't know you wanted LL to post too :)
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Geno - 29th December 2004
He died and was resurrected. That's a bit different.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - OB1 - 29th December 2004
Great Rumbler Wrote:Everything I know about women I learned from fantasy books...which is basically nothing since the main, male characters never learn anything about women, they just flounder around complaining about how they can never understand women.
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MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Darunia - 29th December 2004
How about those tsunamis? Terrible. 80,000 killed and counting.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Fittisize - 29th December 2004
It is...one of my friend's older brother is living in a hut off the coast of Thailand and he hasn't been heard of in about a week. Horrible.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - OB1 - 29th December 2004
That's terrible. I knew some people from Sri Lanka, though I'm not sure if they moved back there. This is a horrible, horrible tragedy, and I'm praying for these peoples' safety.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Great Rumbler - 29th December 2004
Arthur C. Clarke lives in Sri Lanka, but anyway, yeah this is crazy. They're saying that the total number of people dead could be over well 100,000. It's hard to imagine something that huge happening. We have hurricane, tornadoes, and earthquakes here but nothing on a scale that big.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - A Black Falcon - 29th December 2004
The real number will probably never be known because of how they are all people in isolated villages and islands and the total number of inhabitants was never really known in the first place... and yes, it is definitely a horrible tragedy and one of the worst natural disasters of the last hundred years. Not the worst, but up there...
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Geno - 30th December 2004
Wow... 2004 just had to bring in one last killer storm before calling it a year, eh?
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Darunia - 30th December 2004
116,000 dead as of today. I remember on day one, when it was about 11,000. Then it was 22,000 and we all gasped---then it was 50,000, and we fainted... then it was 80,000 yesterday. What'll it be tomorrow, I fear.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Laser Link - 30th December 2004
Yeah, that is pretty horrible. It amazes me that officials who knew about the earthquake made no attempt to warn people. It would have still be bad, but think of how many people could have been saved.
Darunia, I think you already know those answers and you are just trolling, so I'm not going to bite. Sorry guys, I don't have time for more endless arguments that lead in circles. If anybody really wants to know what having a relationship with Jesus is about, I'll be glad to talk to you anytime. I don't have all the answers, but I learn more everyday. So let me know.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Weltall - 30th December 2004
I thought Darunia promised to at least accept the idea of God's existence if the Red Sox won the Series.
Which they did.
Just for the record.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Darunia - 30th December 2004
*Darunia recants his inciteful religious incitations*
*Apologizes and mails a ham to all those involved, but charges them S&H *
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Great Rumbler - 30th December 2004
Quote:I thought Darunia promised to at least accept the idea of God's existence if the Red Sox won the Series.
Haha, I remember that. :D
Quote:I don't have time for more endless arguments that lead in circles.
:(
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - lazyfatbum - 31st December 2004
Man, LL... just kill all the fun why dont you. Geez...
*sends a copy of The Exorcist: Director's Cut to LL's house and makes Darunia pay the shipping and handling*
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Dark Jaguar - 31st December 2004
While the number will indeed be high, remember that a lot of the time death counts rise rapidly then suddenly take a sharp decline when a real number is found. That is, at first all sorts of people are being reported multiple times, that alone raises it a startling amount. Then count the people who are merely missing but presumed dead, but turn out to be alive due to being on vacation somewhere else for example. All in all, death tolls for things like this get vastly inflated very quickly. The end result will still likely be very high, but just consider it likely won't be nearly as high as the news reports may eventually say.
What's this about officials not making an attempt to warn people about this LL? I hadn't heard anything about that. One thing to consider is that those responsible for getting readings to determine if the quake is coming are generally not the same people in charge of warning others about it. That is to say, scientists rarely find themselves with any sort of political influence (Benjamin Franklin excluded, that guy was frickin' AWESOME). That's all I have to say really... I know nothing about this...
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - A Black Falcon - 31st December 2004
Endless arguements that run in circles are the mortar that TC is founded on, though...
As for the no attempts at warning people, that's innaccurate. First, some siesmologists (sp?) saw that there was a strong earthquake -- at first they thought 8.5 -- on the sea floor. That was a noteworthy incident but did not automatically mean tsunami. Most strong seafloor earthquakes, actually, do not cause tsunamis. That is why just the earthquake event was not enough to say 'there will be a tsunami'. So they could tell people 'there was a strong earthquake' but jumping from there to 'Tsunami!" would be a pure guess. Without a tsunami warning system like there is in the Pacific, there wasn't much that anyone could do...
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Dark Jaguar - 31st December 2004
Yeah, an earthquake underwater generally only causes tsunami if it's the sort where one plate is suddenly shifted up above another, which raises the entire body of the ocean by EXACTLY the height that the sea floor is shifted, and THAT is the tsunami. If it's another sort of earthquake, like two plates simply grinding beside each other, then it won't cause one.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - lazyfatbum - 1st January 2005
That's not entirely true. It's just displacement, with an energy force greater than a nuclear bomb happening underwater the water has to go somewhere. It's possible that the earthquake caused a shelf to fail which would be logical. The plates themselves only move by a few feet at maximum; earthquakes are just slips in pressure afterall. A 20 foot shift would be a huge margin but not impossible. Japan and coastal asia experience tsunamis on a regular basis as well as earthquakes, and I dont believe that each of the earthquakes that formed tsunamis created a shift more than 2 feet or so. I think it's just the release of energy and displacement of water.
I hope it's not a shelf that failed... there's a huge shelf in the atlantic nearer to the coast of Africa but facing in the direction of America. It's predicted that in the event of that shelf failing the resulting wave would be hundreds of feet high and could wipe out every coastal city in eastern America. This recent tsunami was 20 feet above sea level, I dont want to imagine one that's 120 feet... it's measured by volume as well and I forget the formula but for every foot it's millions of gollans more that is displaced. Shnykies.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - A Black Falcon - 1st January 2005
I think that super-tsunami on the east coast is if that shelf fell at the same time as a volcanic eruption... which isn't likely (a once-in-10,000-year event, I've heard). Though the shelf by itsself would cause a large enough tsunami that it probably should be monitored...
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Darunia - 1st January 2005
*Jesus is banging on the door to Heaven's bathroom. God is fast asleep inside.*
Jesus: God--dammit, wake up! You dozed off again!
God (drowsy): H-uh? What?
Jesus: You hit the bottle again, didn't you God?
God: B-bottle...? No, of course (burp) not, why?
Jesus: 'Cuz everytime you drink, 100,000 people die. Remember your 6-year binge in 1939?
God(embarassed): Hah--yea, I got so trashed! Awe, how long was I out for this time, J-man?
Jesus: Only one day. But you ravaged Souther Asia with tsunamis.
God (sighing): Oh well. That's why it takes blind faith to believe it me.
WAIVER: DARUNIA WHOLE-HEARTEDLY SUPPORTS RELIGIOUS TOLERATION, IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE 'GORON-TENDO CITY-RED SOX' EDICT OF OCTOBER, 2004. THAT SAID, THOSE WITH STRONG RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS SHOULD NOT HAVE READ THE ABOVE-POST. DARUNIA, AND HIS ATTORNEYS, WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY TRAUMA OR HURT FEELINGS.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Geno - 1st January 2005
Reminds me of the end of Cannibal the Musical. "Due to the graphic content of this film, it should not have been watched by young children."
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Great Rumbler - 1st January 2005
I remember that movie. Crazy.
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Ooooohhhhh, let's build a snowman! We'll make him our best friend!
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That's all I can remember of that song.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Geno - 1st January 2005
Let's build a snowman, we can make him our best friend. We can name him Shannon! Shannon Wilson Bell! We can make him tall or we can make him not so tall! Snowman! Snowman!
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Dark Jaguar - 1st January 2005
One problem there, it's like 70 degrees outside right now. On Chirstmas, it was below freezing, the NEXT DAY the temp soared to "I gotta wear shorts" level. Isn't Oklahoma grand?
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - A Black Falcon - 1st January 2005
I'd call that more like awful... winter is supposed to be cold! And snowy!
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Fittisize - 1st January 2005
It was -30 C last night for New Year's Eve. All of my beer froze and I had to thaw it over the fire. It FROZE, fer chrissakes! That was truly awful.
God I can't wait 'till I'm 18 and I can go someplace to party other than some cold field.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Great Rumbler - 1st January 2005
Quote:Let's build a snowman, we can make him our best friend. We can name him Shannon! Shannon Wilson Bell! We can make him tall or we can make him not so tall! Snowman! Snowman!
Or we can call him...Beowulf! Snowman!
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Geno - 2nd January 2005
Or how about...
Hang the bastard, hang him high! Hoist his body to the sky!
It's as nice as a day can be! Won't you come to the hanging with me?
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - OB1 - 2nd January 2005
I've always wanted to build one of those snowmen from Calvin and Hobbes.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Great Rumbler - 2nd January 2005
Quote:Hang the bastard, hang him high! Hoist his body to the sky!
It's as nice as a day can be! Won't you come to the hanging with me?
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You stupid Yank.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Geno - 2nd January 2005
You ain't no southern boys!
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Dark Jaguar - 2nd January 2005
Mercifully enough, you're right.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Great Rumbler - 2nd January 2005
Quote:You ain't no southern boys!
Shucks, no! Umm...shucky dang darn...
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Darunia - 2nd January 2005
I hope we get some more good snow before the end of this winter. I want a flash blizzard; 2' of snow... enough to shut down New England for a week. That'd rule.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - A Black Falcon - 2nd January 2005
We had some snow, and then it melted, and then it snowed again, and then it mostly melted, and then today we had some freezing rain and snow to put a little bit on the ground but it's still depressingly bare... I want snow! The sooner the better, too! :)
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Geno - 3rd January 2005
I wish it would snow here. Any amount of snow in Alabama is enough to shut the whole place down.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Great Rumbler - 3rd January 2005
We had 4 inches snow about two weeks ago and now we're getting tons of rain dumped on us and there's a bunch of lightning too.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - OB1 - 3rd January 2005
ABF is so weird. Snow sucks most of the time. It's cool when it's first starting and it makes the sky look all purdy and stuff, but after it makes driving a pain in the ass I hate it.
Thankfully Colorado is sunny more than 300 days in the year so it never lasts very long.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Great Rumbler - 3rd January 2005
Quote:it makes driving a pain in the ass I hate it.
*seconds that*
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Geno - 3rd January 2005
I've never driven in the snow before. The last time it snowed here, I was about 15.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Dark Jaguar - 3rd January 2005
I love snow. Those who don't are inhuman grinches who MURDERED their inner child.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Great Rumbler - 3rd January 2005
I used to love snow too...and then I had to drive in it. The snow killed my inner-child.
MERRY CHRISMUNAKKAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Geno - 3rd January 2005
I have pleasent memories of snow from my childhood. Driving in it would be a pain, but playing in it with your older sister and your grandma's now-deceased dog is fun.