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Also, don't look at this video prior to or after eating. How To Untangle Mp3 Headphones: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8d7_1189283047

Guns and violence everywhere you look and not a ripped-off fake watch in sight. We Americans will just never understand what it means to be civilized... (sighs dispiritedly)

No need for for a gun, sword or whatever: Pug would just beat any intruder senseless with one of his monstrously oversized watches.

Jake, what you don't get is that bad stuff never happens in the UK. Unlike the U.S., there's no need for self-defence: even the Bobbies are unarmed! Your experience and point of view is clearly the result of the unfortunate effects of living in an environment of ceaseless criminal violence: it's erroneous to imagine that the rest of the world is in any way similar. http://www.murderuk.com/index.html I urge you to get rid of any guns you might own and start sleeping with a sword under your pillow: we'll all sleep better for it.

I was browsing RWG1 a few minutes ago and came across this post by Fordzilla, one of the founding members of the old forum.... He's appealing to the kindness of strangers to help try and change the odds in favor of the hospitalized daughter of one of his co-workers.... No further commentaries should be necessary - I'll just copy and paste his original message here in the hopes that it might make a difference. Prayer request Fordzilla Today, 08:22 PM Post Senior Poster Group: Members Posts: 830 Age: N/A Joined: 28-June 04 From: Oklahoma USA Member No.: 7 Reputation: () Country: United States A fellow officer at my department is on watch at the hospital with his 15yr old daughter. She has a viral infection that has attacked her blood, as I understand it, and doctors are saying she might not pull through. Please remember Jordan in your prayers today and tonight. Thanks. Update/afterthought: If any of the former members of RWG1 see this, now might be a good time to log back on and post a word in Fordzilla's thread: not much response by the overwhealming number of noobs over there who have little or no idea of the kind of solidarity common to this forum....

No dial-up: cable. Thanx for suggestions - will try and report back! Update: After much thought, tried cleaning off the pizza sauce and diet Coke stains from my screen. Smudges still there.... Sigh.

All I can see on the map are these sort of dark smudges around some of the larger cities in North America and Europe - none of those neat little stick-pins or anything! And no info like member's nics....the cursor becomes this nasty little hand once it hits the map, but the hand doesn't do anything (like showing information when passing over a smudge)... I've entered all of my info several times, hit every possible button, and no joy either. Am I the only one experiencing this? Or is the Bossman just punishing me?

Jeez, ain't nature grand?

Not so very long ago, the answer would have been 'with me.' Naturellement. Oh yeah, I never take off the watch - except for showering, etc.

Not sure that Muttsta should see this one: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f8_1188087737

I used to use duck tape, but it was too hard on the little guys....

Whuh! Sheesh...

In the same vein, but in a much graver mode, with U-2: Miss Sarajevo: http://files.ww.com/files/38705.html Can you say simply stunning? Words fail me here.... On U-Tube, ad infinitum: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=pava...i+miss+sarajevo

Hey Bossman, I've always liked John Cale - especially for his haircut. Here's his version: It's interesting to check out all of the other versions in the windows that open on the bottom of the screen at the end...

Better that than the Spice Girls.... And yes, I miss the dude.

It's great to be on the same wavelength with you again, Pug...

Well if you must know...

This story has got me feverishly combing my attic and even (shudder) checking out the years of discarded junk under my bed: http://www.ocregister.com/news/card-baseba...13-million-sold

Only an idiot would persist in posting in this stupid thread.

Now that we've been around the block a few times on this issue, I'd like to offer my apologies to Pug for objectifying him - if that's the right word in this circumstance - in this particular context. No one likes having potentially critical attention being drawn to them, and in general, this forum is not the place to do so...unless one feels that it's absolutely necessary, as in, for instance, not me. not anymore. I was personally uncomfortable with the transformation of Klink's avatar, but I figured I could and should live with it: RWG was not created with the express purpose of making me feel comfortable. It's all part of interacting with people who are not exactly like oneself....in short, of being an adult. When Gran put his foot into it - echoing the very unease that I had been feeling - I could do nothing but follow with both of my own. Pug - ever the gentleman - immediately modified his work: graciously, and without the snarkiness that I would certainly have been guilty of had it been me rather than he. Since one of the mainsprings of this whole situation is an endless series of real or perceived slights between Klink, Pug - and still other members - I hope that my comments and reactions will not add still another layer of emnity and bickering to a forum which, like a delicate watch, needs the lubricants of mutual respect and recriprocal affection to work properly. I've shared a glass or two (or three) with Pugwash, broken bread with him, and looked on as he and another Paris member repaired a favorite watch that I was incapable of fixing myself. Things like that create bonds, and it would be a shame to dissolve them over a difference of perception or opinion. Without being the least bit Japanese, but in their spirit of recognizing the importance of the feelings - the 'face' of those with whom they interact, I thus reiterate my unease at the very idea having occasioned any unease on Pug's part - if such was indeed the case. My best to you Pug, and may this encounter be the prelude to happier and lighter ones in the future.

If Bob happened to be your Uncle Bob, I'd think twice about using him as my avatar. I presume he's somebody's uncle, but the odds of that person being in or around this forum are slim... Also, everybody loves Bob. Can we quote you on that Fr

Some days, I guess we're all Viking Jews, Gunnar... In the interests of casting a little soothing oil on the turbulent waters, here's a furren melody celebrating the bonds of our common humanity and our infinite love for our innate differences - the amazing variety of that most improbable experiment of Nature, the Homo Sapiens: May God have mercy upon his soul. For the both the beauty of the pics and the message - not terribly optimistic, alas - of the song: http://files.ww.com/files/38679.html Les tuniques bleues et les Indiens by Eddy Mitchell A t'entendre faut croire que le bon Dieu... t'a cr

Well, that certainly settles that. Not. My thing is Jooos. Especially being one myself, I have nothing but contempt for them. The guy on the left is my great-grandfather, so it's ok. Jooos - at least those who escaped the Shoa - are more or less in the public domain, if you see what I mean. And if you don't, well, too bad: Jooos don't fall into privacy considerations. Why? Because I say so.

Somewhere along the line, Klink stated that Mackensen was actual family. Granted, Klink has stated many strange things in the past, but as improbable as this one was, it 'appeared' to be true. I say appeared, since he backed up what he asserted with all sorts of personal anecdotes and family history. I can certainly be naive - and easily misled - but it rang true. Which is why I personally feel more than uneasy looking at it - same as I would for a member of any other member's family that had been subjected to the same treatment. Were it just an avatar like any another, I suppose it would be fair game - and even funny. Interestingly enough, Gran - who apparently doesn't know the story behind the image, finds it disturbing enough to post on the issue. But then again, Gran has always been a special case...his blood-drinking Viking ancestors are most certainly regularly turning over in their tumuli at a very thought of what their loins have unleashed upon the world. That in itself opens up a whole new area of debate on the limits of free expression and God knows what else... As for me - and as I've indicated - the issue revolves around respect for 'innocent bystanders': if Mackensen is indeed Klink's great-great-great something-or-other, then there's no reason to drag him into the current situation. If he's just someone that Klink found on Google images, the barb is no less sharp but at least much less objectionable - at least to my admittedly flawed way of thinking. And this, without entering into the long Hatfield and McCoy feud that previously created so much sound and fury - and ultimately resolved nothing.

People like Klink are fair game for being ridiculized, Gran - for the simple reason that they've repeatedly angered a group of members who feel that people like Klink are fair game for being ridiculized. If the logic seems circular, it is: it's the stuff of Sicilian vendettas. But instead of blood calling for more blood, it's pettiness on both sides calling for still more pettiness. Don't get in the middle - there are some powerful factions at work here, and you're no match for them. Some people might think that turning an avatar that also happens to be an image of the person's own family - albeit a distant ancestor - into something disturbingly grostesque is acceptable - or even funny. Others might argue that it's poor taste. Your problem is that you seem to lack a sense of humor, Gran. Learn to laugh - even when there's nothing funny about what you see. It's one of life's unpleasant but very essential lessons.