feel free to post it here.

It's 11PM, I'm at some bar with my brother, kind of bored, wanting to go home, since it's going to be a long weekend, he says no, let's go to the W hotel since we're right nearby, there may be some broads in town for new years (since we're right nearby)

He says he looks like Joe Everbody and whenever he's at Duane Reade or Best Buy strangers walk up to him and think he works there.

So we get a round of drinks and were move off to the side, and wouldn't you know, some dude walks up to him and asks him how to get a table at the restaurant. My brother listens to his question and says "i have no idea, I don't work here". Ha ha ha. They both laugh. What a wacky miscommunication.

He tells me "see, I told you, fhis happens all the time"

About 5 minutes later, another guy walks up and asks him how to get a bigger table than the one he has now. My brother listens to him a bit and can't contain his laughter and finally the guy askes "do you work here?" to which my brother answers "nope".

Ha ha, more wackiness. We realize that we are standing at the hostess table, and maybe that's why people were approaching us (even though we both had drinks)

We realize that, and I ask "so what's your bit when the next person comes up to you and asks for help? My suggested bit was to figure how long he could delay someone by saying "hold on" and then standing right in front of them and doing something else like checking his watch or tying his shoes or rearranging the cups. He said "no, you know what I'm gonna do...."

And right when he sez it, (yes, that was for you) this dude was standing there with his date and asked him "blah blah blah, how can I get a table" and my brother says "give me $20 and I'll get you a table". So the guy immediately gives him the money and my brother says "hold on" and just walks out the bar.

I had turned away so my laughter didn't ruin the joke, but was standing right there watching the whole thing and waiting for a bit.

Turns out the guy was on a first (or early staged) date based on what they were talking about. After about 3 minutes I heard him say "I think I may have given money to someone who doesn't work here" to his broad.

Then after another few minutes I turned and asked him if he worked there and how I could get a table. He said that he didn't work there, but that the person he just talked to walked off in "that" direction. But he qualiified it with "at least I think he works here" and then "It would be kind of funny if I gave some stranger money".

deducing that it was a first/early stage date I figured Id try and embarrass him. "wait you gave some stranger money? What made you think he's working here?"

"We'll, he was standing at the station."

"yeah, but so are you right now? You just got robbed; that's foolish. Don't you ask questions?"

"um, er"

"Wow Dude, he's gone. I can't believe you fell for that."

And then there was that awkward moment where he tried to not look like a douchebag in front of this girl, but I made quizzical eye contact with her. There's no way he's gettiing laid tonight.

i finally bought an ipod nano the other day. i got the smallest one because i didnt think i would be able find over 500 songs that i wanted to download but after looking through itunes, i have to say there is. i'm going to get return the nano and get a regular ipod tomorrow.


up unitl about 2 weeks ago, i had never bought a cd. i want to know how i would go about filling my ipod up with music without spending 1000's of dollars. do you they still have those programs that let you download songs cheaper than itunes?

Choose

Checking out FBA and rf.net lately to try and see wtf you guys are talking about half the time and, wow. I'm not going to defend the doors board here but I have to say this... The Doors Board was of a much higher quality than these fucking McDonalds Playland's.

Both boards seem to be an oasis of true societal outcasts. And not the outcasts that are too hardcore to fit in. I mean, the kind of people I would've targeted and chased off the Doors Board. I am extremely unimpressed with both sites to say the least.

In closing, I say with a clear conscience that this board is by far the most interesting board I've ever been a part of. It can never close down. Do you hear me? Never.

i guess keyser's penis has wore out it's welcome. i have sigs turned off so i don't really care what my sig is. just post something cool and i'll use it.

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Ancient ice shelf breaks free from Canadian Arctic
POSTED: 11:31 a.m. EST, December 29, 2006



TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said.

The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometers (497 miles) south of the North Pole, but no one was present to see it in Canada's remote north.

Scientists using satellite images later noticed that it became a newly formed ice island in just an hour and left a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake. (Watch the satellite images that clued in ice watchers)

Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, traveled to the newly formed ice island and could not believe what he saw.

"This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years. We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead," Vincent said Thursday.

In 10 years of working in the region he has never seen such a dramatic loss of sea ice, he said.

The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 kilometers (155 miles) away picked up tremors from it.

The Ayles Ice Shelf, roughly 66 square kilometers (41 square miles) in area, was one of six major ice shelves remaining in Canada's Arctic.

Scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in Canada in 30 years and point their fingers at climate change as a major contributing factor.

"It is consistent with climate change," Vincent said, adding that the remaining ice shelves are 90 percent smaller than when they were first discovered in 1906.

"We aren't able to connect all of the dots ... but unusually warm temperatures definitely played a major role."

Laurie Weir, who monitors ice conditions for the Canadian Ice Service, was poring over satellite images in 2005 when she noticed that the shelf had split and separated.

Weir notified Luke Copland, head of the new global ice lab at the University of Ottawa, who initiated an effort to find out what happened.

Using U.S. and Canadian satellite images, as well as data from seismic monitors, Copland discovered that the ice shelf collapsed in the early afternoon of August 13, 2005.

"What surprised us was how quickly it happened," Copland said. "It's pretty alarming.

"Even 10 years ago scientists assumed that when global warming changes occur that it would happen gradually so that perhaps we expected these ice shelves just to melt away quite slowly, but the big surprise is that for one they are going, but secondly that when they do go, they just go suddenly, it's all at once, in a span of an hour."

Within days, the floating ice shelf had drifted a few miles (kilometers) offshore. It traveled west for 50 kilometers (31 miles) until it finally froze into the sea ice in the early winter.

The Canadian ice shelves are packed with ancient ice that dates back over 3,000 years. They float on the sea but are connected to land.

Derek Mueller, a polar researcher with Vincent's team, said the ice shelves get weaker and weaker as the temperature rises. He visited Ellesmere's Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in 2002 and noticed it had cracked in half.

"We're losing our ice shelves, and this a feature of the landscape that is in danger of disappearing altogether from Canada," Mueller said. "In the global perspective Antarctica has many ice shelves bigger than this one, but then there is the idea that these are indicators of climate change."

The spring thaw may bring another concern as the warming temperatures could release the ice shelf from its Arctic grip. Prevailing winds could then send the ice island southwards, deep into the Beaufort Sea.

"Over the next few years this ice island could drift into populated shipping routes," Weir said. "There's significant oil and gas development in this region as well, so we'll have to keep monitoring its location over the next few years."

I think it would be fun to have all of you search through the archives finding positive statements we've all made supporting Bush.

I bet Arpi, Gonzo, and Keyser have some good ones.

You should all work on that.

Rutgers destroys Kansas State in the Texas Bowl, 37-10.

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The Star Wars flicks have been running ad nauseum on Cinemax for like the past month, and I've managed to almost always catch Return of the Jedi - and of course, I gotta watch.

Anyway, I think I prefer the new ending to the original. The song is better, I like seeing Coruscant & the Jedi Temple rebuilt, and even young Anakin doesnt bother me that much.

I've gained a new appreciation for the movie, it was always not so much of a fave of mine, but I like it a lot more now - despite the Ewoks.