You don't need a passport so long as you travel via a land crossing. For that you can still get away with other ID.
I'll expect you by tomorrow night. Meet me at the bar where I work so that we can have a drink after the scrap.
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Not that time:o. It was a small flurry of unadulterated PW'ing as I divided your post/questions/comments into several parts and responded to each one in a separate post:o:D. Now, go back and find the segment/thread where EJ had a running conversation with himself for most of a page (can't recall exactly)-now THAT was talking to oneself;).
(I still want to be part of the group therapy sessions :<()
I am positive it was you. You even called yourself an idiot (I think-I may have the derogatory name wrong however). One poster, or two maybe, or perhaps it was several (dozen) even agreed with one of you. I am glad I read both your posts above to realize you were replying/talking to yourself (again):o;). Carry on. Now back to EJ's coversation with himself, Part III:D.
EarlJam is clearly off his meds today. Or maybe he is on meds...
I would just like to point out that this is perhaps the most random (yet entertaining) thread in the history of bulletin boards. We all need help. Quickly.
Is this thread just going on forever or is there a certain number that must be reached?
Wow, I go away for a few hours and look what happens!
Guilty confession. I let the 'Whatever' thread go for awhile and now I'm not sure I'll ever have a chance of catching up. I'm only 20 pages behind. If I quit posting for awhile perhaps I'd have a chance to read it.
This one, I'm caught up.
I'm not the only one who has read them all, surely.
I haven't read all of these posts (and hope that I never do) and haven't really posted in this thread, but figure it's as good of a place as any to post my 1000th post.
I dropped off the radar for about 24 hours because my idiot employer expects me to actually work . . . and I find about 100 new posts, yet I can not tell what we are talking about. I have fox news on in the background and they are talking about the civil war. Why now? That makes no sense to me. Apparently NBC news panders to the left. And then a step to the right. Now put your foot in and shake it all about.
We have to entertain ourselves somehow.
Are they doing the Time Warp or something?*Quote:
Apparently NBC news panders to the left. And then a step to the right.
*For those unfamiliar with the lyrics to Time Warp here is what I am referring to:
"It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane,
Let's do the Time Warp again!"
The time warp sound like Little Shop of Horrors. A strange phenomenon. Kids used to go see this film every Saturday night dressed in costume. Why, I don't know.
I *hated* that movie!! That plant scared me. Also, they made a terrible, terrible cartoon about it one time and it was on after the Smurfs so I watched it once. Bad decision.
(as a side note and possible other topic of conversation, have you ever gone back and watched some of the trash you filled your brain with when you were a kid? Truly horrifying! Similarly, nowadays they serve kids nutritious school lunches and nutritious snacks at summer events... remember when for "lunch" at VBS you would get a Coke and those awful, cheap vanilla cookies?? No? Just me?... :) )
... did devildeac get to the 1800-mark so quickly?:eek:
It wasn't so long ago that dd did his beer list in honor of his 1000th post (no comma).
Let's see...
men's lax PWing?:eek:
More importantly: does snrubchat really add to your post tally?:cool:
Cheers,
Lavabe
Kosher dills seem a bit bitter to me...
I like dill and sweet gherkins.
I just posted over on EK, twice!
(Still nursing my lacrosse sadness.)
I'm actually at work this morning. The analysis I've just run isn't going well. Not that I can't do it, it just doesn't tell us anything interesting. I'm worrying about the 'publishability' of the paper. As an added downer, I don't really care, but I know the people I'm working with on this one do.
So, I'm heading home without accomplishing much besides checking off that I made the effort. I think I'm taking the kids to see Speed Racer, it was going to be Iron Man but the 3 year-old will be with us and I don't think he'll sit all the way through Iron Man. I doubt he'll sit through Speed Racer either but I'm betting the other patrons, if there are any, won't care so much if he runs around a little bit.
I just checked and this will be my 235th post in this thread.
I have 723 total.
Where would I be without the LTE? Definitely not a starter.
well, as for relish, I'll go with Tony Packo's (thanks to ohioguy)!
Cheers,
Lavabe
Just so I can say I posted today:
I don't like pickles. I don't like bananas either. Does that make me un-American?
And the lacrosse loss still hurts.
I've read all the posts in this thread -- it's an obsession, just to keep up with it.
And baby kosher dills rule.
Just keepin' it going! Weather here is wonderfully cool -- with actual CLOUDS! Yahoo. Even some much needed rain last week-end. Today 60 degrees -- 10 days ago -- over 100. What's up with that?
Oh, and gophers are infesting my hillside. Arg. I'm tempted to start a thread about how to get rid of the little critters. Although they are kind of cute, I find it amazing that they dare to come out of their holes to eat my foliage when I'm sitting right there (with three dogs), and they don't even care. (There's a 4' wall between the gophers & my dogs, so I'm not endangering my canines). Although I did research gophers, thinking that if they didn't bite, or have rabies or fleas or other diseases, I would just let the dogs over the wall to have a little fun and kill the suckers. ...not to be, possible havoc on the dogs.
Had to get caught up after a weekend in NW AR. (As an aside, I made it back to St. Louis in 4.5 hours!!!)
I agree on baby kosher dills. Does anyone else like bread and butter pickles? The Mt. Olive brand are the best I've tried aside from my mom's home-canned.
Oh my gosh, those are the best ever. The Fish Market around here sells them as a side item and I have been known to walk into the restaurant merely to get the fried pickles. That's one of those Southern things where you take an item of food and say, "This item is loaded with sodium, fat, and cholesterol and has no redeeming nutritional value whatsoever. It couldn't possibly be any more unhealthy than it already is... but hey, wait! Wait just a minute!!" :D
Smith's Olde Bar here in Atlanta (a great bar completely aside from its menu) also has good fried pickles.
The Penguin in Charlotte has fried pickles, among many other fried delicacies. It also has one of the most amazing jukeboxes in the world. California needs Bojangles.
bananas-yumm (but no banana beer;))
plain, fried, fostered, chocolate covered (frozen), puddinged,daquiried,peanut buttered,honeyed,sandwiched,mixed with other fruits (saladed?),liquered,cerealed,oatmealed,juiced(with oranges and/or pineapples). Did I miss any other banana preparations? (pureed in baby food would not be a favorite, however:().
Maybe you should get a really mean dog and let it do the dirty work! We used to have a problem with voles, but the cats have risen to the occasion magnificently.
I hate brazen pest critters like that. We have suburban deer that like to come around at nights and eat my impatiens and sweet potato vine... I mean, no shame at all. They'll cross the road, meander past cars, gaze curiously at barking dogs, graze unhurriedly on my garden like it's a freakin' Golden Corral. I hate those varmints!!
I honestly believe it would be a better place. I think I could be a benevolent dictator for about 10 years before the absolute power corrupted me so I'd write some bylaws ahead of time that would kick me out after 10 years.
I'd like to turn it all over to another intelligent, benevolent dictator. Anybody around here want to go next?
I would prefer to be a member of a small, ruling elite cadre, so perhaps a junta to take power after your benevolent dictatorship? Maybe dkbaseball, throaty, indoor66, shammrog, billybreen and myself. Earljam could be court jester.
But BostonDevil, if you need an executive officer, I'd be happy to train at your side.
I know this is an odd question, and I hope it makes sense.
Does anyone know what the most # of views a thread has gotten before receiving its first reply is?
Wow! Talk about obscure DBR trivia!!!
No, but there is one thread out there with 1,161 and no replies. I would hazard that takes the lead...
If a post is not both closed and stickied, it'll scroll down off the front page (and into purgatory) in a day or so. Very tough to get the view count up that way.
-jk
Where's is billy anyway? He hasn't posted in here in awhile.
He has however posted about cougars.
I posted one in August about a big toy recall that has 1,161 views and no replies.
HEEYYY, I resemble that remark:o. Now, if you look carefully, my response was to liking/disliking bananas and I mentioned banana beer and colchar questioned its' existence, hoping it was not real. I assured him I had no knowledge of any banana beer on record/review/tasting. Hmm, you have me thinking however...nah, that's even too bizarre for even EarlJam to discuss or start a poll about... or is it?
Banana Beer only gets a C+ from the Beer Advocate. I think Morgan Spurlock is great, crazy, but great.
1,165
I can't believe that NO ONE responded to my gopher question.
Then again, I just wanted to keep the thread going. How long can it go?
Originally we were asked to make 1,000 responses. Welll, it's waaaaay beyond that. Have we achieved the LONGEST THREAD EVER?? I'd love to know that, and/or what the untimate is.
Well, all I learned about gopher removal I learned from Caddyshack. By your statements, perhaps get 1 very big dog that is hungry all the time. Maybe that will help the situation. We lived on a hill in the San Fernando Valley, our problem wasn't gophers it was skunks...
Two different friends emailed me today to let me know that George Clooney and his girlfriend have broken up. It's nice to know that your friends care about you.
George Clooney is my 'Get Out of Jail Free' card. My husband even kind of agrees that if I had the chance, I really ought to take it.
Oddly combining the two threads above (Caddyshack, and famous men becoming single again), I read today that Bill Murray's wife has filed for divorce.
And, Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the gophers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key...
You know, I paraphrased the latter quote in the Indy thread and no one caught the obscure reference. But maybe you did subconsciously and that's why you're quoting it now.
Of note is that Billy's (ed's note: Billy here is Bill Murray. Evidently I can no longer type Bill without adding a y.) soon-to-be-ex is trying to grab their house on Sullivan's Island, SC. That's the barrier island south of the island I grew up on, and it's where I went to elementary school (the best public elementary school in the state, I might add).
Oh, sorry for thread hijacking (is that even possible here?) but I know nothing about gophers except that plastic explosives can't kill them.
Ahh, sorry. I haven't dipped into that thread lately. Pretty much this one, the "Whatever" thread, and the current cougar debate are all I've ventured into lately.
Work and travel have kept me DBR-offline more than usual, lately. Not that I''m complaining about that travel bit.
Haven't ventured to the cougar thread, it is a thread about big cats, right?
This thread has nearly caught up to me. Not sure how to feel about that.
Now I know why there were suddenly posts in a thread that was 9 months old...
OOh, there's an interesting one. Can we create a thread that has more posts than BillyBreen? (Would he sacrifice his post count to allow the LTE to catch up, or would it spur him to new PW heights?)
I'm up for the challenge, I've been lollygagging lately...
I want to wish a belated half-year birthday to the LTE. BD started this on 12/20. I think we've got another 6 months of posts in us.
Reflecting on the LTE vs BB challenge, at current posting volume it's going to take some time to catch me (since Darwin knows I won't be slowing my PWing elsewhere). Let's do some math:
The LTE is roughly 192 days old. It has 2149 posts, so that's a shade over 11 posts per day. I average a little over 8 posts a day (though I'm guessing my average over the last 6 months has been much higher).
Best case scenario, the LTE is currently netting 3 posts a day over me. Given the current spread of 1637 posts, we're looking at 546 days until the LTE catches me. Good luck. :)
LTE has another month to go before it hits 6 months, my friend; your calcs are a little off.
LTE, about 160 days old. Approx. 13.4 posts per day. Even if we up your PW'ing to 9 ppd, that's still a daily difference of 4.4. LTE needs 372 days at the current rate, but I think a concerted effort could get us there in another 6 months. Or you could just slow down for awhile.
I can see that some of us who have been slacking off will have to chip in for us to get there.
That's the spirit!
Question for the crowd -- if space/money were no object, what sort of exotic pet would you like to have, and why?
I think I may have to go with otters. They're just so cute when they play, and they can be affectionate, I'm told.
Plus, it'd give me an excuse to have a kick-butt water feature (stream/pond/fountains) in the backyard. :D
I'd probably go with a penguin. They have a lot of personality and seem to be very cool. Yes, I would own/dominate a penguin.
Incidentally, I currently live in a townhome and own a horse. I keep him (Steve) in the dining room. I have a frassload of oat bags in my closet, and the maintenence is incredible, what what a great horse.
But I'd like to have a penguin.
-EarlificationJammination
need more beer:o:D:p;) (and emoticons)
I'd get a pig. I love pigs. I find them very intelligent with loads of personality.
Although a penguin might be cool too.
EarlJam, aren't you too hot for a penguin?
Boopsie! I just remembered, finally, that Doonesbury comic strip character's name (and BD's girlfriend). I had a friend at Duke who called me Boopsie. OK, I guess I could call him a friend despite that. He taped a frame from a strip to my door once that said "That's not talent, that's Boopsie!"
Thanks for your response. I've also researched that outdoor cats will keep the gopher/vole/mole population down. But...we've got coyotes that roam, and in the past have lost several cats to such. Thus, our current felines are "indoor" cats. Something I never imagined and caused me concern. But...ya know what? Current cats don't care! Have plenty of room to roam, and don't ache for the outdoors.
No problem with skunks here. In my past house in the hills, we had many possums and raccoons, and not so much here. Squirrels, deer, hummingbirds, hawks, palm rats -- nothing to cause concern, except those darn pocket gophers.
Just keepin' the thread going.
Well, you are definitely not living off Pico...(where my g'parents lived when they moved to LA in the 1950's). We were in the west end of the San Fernando Valley south of the 101. I didn't see any possums or raccoons, just a lot of squirrels and the occasional skunk. The skunks stunk in the summer, particularly when one would get run over. With 90+ temps and no wind, the smell would linger for days in our little section of the valley.
PS Around Pico and LaCienega IIRC. I love watching older movies with LA from that era(1950's). What an awesome place to be...enough people around but not packed with people like today. Its A Mad Mad Mad World and the shots of The Pier in Santa Monica are great. I hear they may be taking it down?
Have you considered a snake or an eagle? I think eagles are awesome but a a snake might be more practical. Perhaps a Western Rat Snake would take care of business.
We get a whiff of the skunks in the South Bay every other week or so. When I lived in Carlsbad, I ran into skunks at least twice a week in the summer and smelled them more often. I guess they loved the beach too.
You're not even trying, people. ;)
Yo DukieInKansas -- speaking of stormy summers, how'd you fare in the most recent bout?
(and BB, hush you!)
Three times today, I clicked the OTB, and somehow clicked the hotspot area of the ad below it. I just now tried to do it, and instead of getting the dulcet tones of billybreen, I am looking at some restaurant guide to Dallas, TX.
ARRGH!:mad:
Lavabe
Anybody here in a book club? If so, any favorites you've read with your club?
I'm was introduced to Michael Ondaatje before he wrote The English Patient. I now have an autographed first edition of that book. If you've only seen the movie, you haven't read the book, and you should try it. It's beautiful. Other favorites of mine include: The Remains of the Day and Eva Moves the Furniture.
One of the ongoing questions we ask ourselves is "What makes a great book?"
The gold standard for bad with my group is Birds of America by Mary McCarthy (I think it was her). Anyway, whenever a book isn't a big hit with the group, someone will say, "Yes, but it's no Birds of America." Even members who weren't with us when we read that book. I'm the only one who has been around since the beginning. I started this particular book club in October of 1989. Through the years, I've missed 3 meetings.
I'm in a book club...but membership has been lagging expectations. So now I just read to my cats. (Haha, really? No, not really. Not every post in the Longest Thread Ever can be high-quality and truthful.)
Foxes are excellent hunters and are very self sufficient. I have a family of foxes living in my yard, and they "take out" just about everything. Yesterday I found a raccoon head and spine on the grass, and this morning pieces of a turtle shell.
Anyone remember mock turtle soup on east campus?
So as I look at the stats on my profile, it mentions a category called REFERRALS.
Huh? What's that? What happens if we refer someone to join the DBR?:o
BB is to a slight degree thwarting our efforts to get this thread caught up to him...only 1627 posts behind.
There has been a lot of tornadoes this year, or at least a lot of reporting of tornadoes. Hopefully, we don't get the same thing with hurricane season which starts today.
I grew up in NC and saw more than one as a child. They don't look the same in NC, no sweeping vistas, just trees being lopped off the top and bicycles flying around. Also, and I don't know how true this is, but the rumor we told ourselves was that tornados rarely 'touch down' in NC. I did witness a line of trees lose the top third or so with little damage done to the lower parts. Freshman year was the year a tornado took the roof off of Northgate Mall.
I never saw a funnel cloud while in Nebraska, but had more than enough views of the purple-to-green sky that makes you run to the basement as fast as you can. Our house had a good western view, so we got to watch some doozies.
You don't see the funnel clouds in Durham either. The trees and hills kind of prevent it. I remember watching those trees get chopped and thinking, maybe I better go get in the bathroom. We didn't have basements.
It wasn't and still isn't skeletonized. The ears, head fur, and eye mask are still intact. I can mail it to you, but to avoid criminal charges for mailing a head, I'll have to mail it anonymously or else post humorously. :D
Today a large snapping turtle laid eggs in my yard. My book says they can lay up to 88 eggs (88? strange number) and take 9 to 18 weeks to hatch.
To carry a conversation from the PPB to the LTE -- NE DBR Mafia? Hah!
NE DBR Rotary club, perhaps.
Heck, with the appearance of poster, TerriH, on the OTB, plus occasional pfrdukie, we've got the start of the PNW DBR gang. Maybe the Portlanders (Portlandians?) can join in, just to boost numbers.
Ummm, CT is in New England so what am I missing here? Now if Fish80 were in New York, New Jersery or Atlanta :eek: then it would be a message.
Actually I think we are more like the local Elks lodge...
Hey there's a New England DBR mafia or rotary club? I know I joined a group but are we really that organized? Am I a part of it?
Beat LA!
Anyone watch the premier of MMA on CBS last night?
I am a casual MMA fan, and I think that they did a disservice to the sport - they spent way too much time hyping the fights and could have actually shown two or three more fights. Also, I think they called a couple of fights too early, and for some reason I think that it had to do with CBS. Both of the the last two fights were finished against the wishes of the fighters, and IMO, too soon.
And the Kimbo fight was a little disappointing - I have thought Kimbo was an interesting character, but I can't help but feel that they picked a fighter who wasn't very proficient on the ground in order to not expose Kimbo to too much.
What do others think?
I only saw the Slice fight. Kimbo was killed on the ground. A better fighter would have finished him when he was against the cage for most of round 2. Cant argue with his punching power though. It was awesome to watch. Though without the ear popping Kimbo doesnt get that match called early. Earlier in round 2, Kimbo looked like has was going to finshed him but got put on his pottymouth!pottymouth!pottymouth! aand against the cage for a long time. Good fight but I've seen better. Still prefer boxing and I'm part of the "younger generation." I'm 16.
EliteXC is the minor leagues of MMA. Agree that stuff was called too early, figure it was CBS worrying about the censors etc. I saw three of the fights, it didn't take much to guess when they would start and end. Slice is a brawler, I doubt he will become proficient enough in other arts over the next couple years to really have an impact as he's early to mid 30's I think and its a young man's game. But he always has a puncher's chance of getting the win. In some ways though, I liken all the media outcry over last night's events to Annika Sorenstam playing in the men's golf tournament. Just let them give it a shot, it will be evident soon enough whether it is working or not.
The Slice fight was a fiasco. He has no skill on the mat so they picked a fighter who wasn't very proficient figuring that Slice would finish him off easily (he also has a bit of a glass chin). When that didn't happen it was obvious that, barring a lucky punch, Slice would lose. He took a ton of forearms to the head for the last 2 minutes of the second round and the ref didn't even think about stopping the fight (it probably should've been stopped as he wasn't able to effectively defend himself). Yet, as soon as Thompson's ear popped (why didn't they drain it before the fight???) the ref jumped in and stopped the fight. Thompson could easily have continued as that ear injury is an old one and wasn't likely to affect his abilities for the remainder of that fight. In my opinion, and I've watched a lot of MMA over the last couple of years, they were just looking for a reason to stop it so that Slice didn't lose - as he most certainly would have if the judges had scored the fight fairly. What a joke.
The whole event was a joke actually. Waaaaaay too much hype for fighters who definitely don't deserve it and bouts, with the exception of the Lawler/Smith fight, that were not even close to being entertaining. But even the Lawler/Smith fight was stopped prematurely by a doctor who obviously didn't know the rules (after an accidental poke to the eye Smith should have been allowed five full minutes to properly regain his vision before any decision was made).
I've never really watched MMA, but watched Sat night out of curiosity. That Smith Lawler fight was entertaining. I thought it was pretty interesting that Smith said in the interview that he was probably going to get knocked out eventually, but he wanted to continue anyway. Would a boxer ever say that?
As far as Kimbo goes, he actually did get out of a couple things on the ground, but clearly has issues. But that dude he was fighting had no idea whatsoever how to defend himself from getting hit in the head. You'd think he'd have some training on how to block punches.
You have to remember that Kimbo Slice made his name as a streetfighter...he never blocked punches, he would just manhandle his opponents for the most part. I'm a casual MMA fan who watches a lot of fights (I still like boxing over MMA), and I agree that the fights were stopped way too early, even the ear popping was a bit too early. That was Kimbo's third ever MMA fight, so he clearly has work to do, and I think EliteXC hyped up the fight way too much as if Kimbo is an MMA legend. He's a streetfighting legend, but at MMA he has a long way to go. He's still the $&*# though.:) I did like Gina Carano as a fighter (many of you know her as "Crush" on American Gladiators). I've heard that she was a good fighter, but hadn't seen any of her fights until last night...I was impressed.
P.S. I'm currently watching (a few minutes behind) the Jens Pulver-Urijah Faber fight on Versus. I only watched it because it had been hyped ad nauseum by Versus during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but it has been a really good fight.
I didn't watch it, I had no interest in watching it, and I got aggravated when it ran over the alloted time and the local CBS (WRAL) 11:00 news didn't start at 11 and I had to watch it on another channel.
Agreed, with O4D...wish it hadn't run over.
Sorry to hear your campaign is over.
And the skeleton thing in Fish80's yard was an attempt to intimidate him from joining by the Atlanta DBR Mafia. Since they are seeing a drop in membership, well they need to prevent others...
Ah, OK.
Have we gained on bb?
That's the main reason for this post.
I won't be intimidated so easily! My foxes will protect! And as a secondary line of defense, I have coyotes. If necessary, we can reactivate the Fairfield County Mafia, made notorious by Muffy and Chad from Greenwich.
The raccoon head is still there. The foxes move it around during the night.
Yesterday I saw a new snake. I haven't looked it up yet, but I'm guessing it's an earth snake. About 12 inches long, thin, grey with a yellow-orange belly and a yellowish band around the neck.
I do live in a forest. Across the street is a state park, and about a mile away is another state park. Beavers and a cormorant in the further park. The area is zoned 2 acre minimum lot size, and no commercial. The closer park was a civil war camp site, and for years one of the high school anthropology teachers was digging up bones.
I love nature and do most of my running in the parks. "Life's been good to me so far."
My guess was wrong.
northern ring-necked snake
Diadophis punctatus edwardsii
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.ed...punctatus.html
That was another problem with it, IMO - they should have started the fighting when the broadcast started, instead of opening with 35 minutes of story and hype. That, and reducing the hype between fights, would have had this thing end on time. Imagine if all the fights went the distance? They would have been going to 12:30.
I agree with much said here - I dig Kimbo, love his story. (Funny how no one mentions that he was a body guard for an amateur porn company) However, if he gets a 220 lb jujitsu black belt, he is so done. One thing that was impressive, the other guy had 40 lbs on him - his extra size didn't come with extra skill, though.
I don't want to sound crass at all but it is a big public relations coup for the medical center to have Kennedy come to Duke for surgery. Kennedy with strong ties to Boston goes to Harvard for the diagnosis and than comes to Duke for the surgery. The high end of the medical market can also be very lucrative for a medical center. This is one of the small side stories of 9/11 places like the Mayo Clinic and Harvard had a huge Mideast clientele that dried up over night and that cost these places millions. Unlike everyone with insurance these foreigners pay full freight.
As a Radiation Oncolgy Physician Assistant who trained at Duke, I know for certain that Duke's brain tumor center is world class. If I, or any of my loved ones, ever develop a brain tumor, I would want Allan Friedman to perform the surgery. He is the absolute best which is a fact recognized throughout the medical community. I think Senator Kennedy made a wise decision. If this is a public relations coup for Duke, it is well-deserved. Just my 2 cents
They probably felt they had to hype everything for those viewers who aren't regular MMA viewers.
It won't take a black belt. Just someone who is reasonably competent. But they'll never schedule a fight like that for him, ever. His lack of skill was exposed in this fight (not that any true fans ever thought he had any) so there is no way they will risk putting him up against anyone legitimate.Quote:
I agree with much said here - I dig Kimbo, love his story. (Funny how no one mentions that he was a body guard for an amateur porn company) However, if he gets a 220 lb jujitsu black belt, he is so done. One thing that was impressive, the other guy had 40 lbs on him - his extra size didn't come with extra skill, though.
I am, of course, partial to brain tumor treatment at MGH, but that's from the pediatric side. In the kids, comparing MGH with the Dana Farber (Jimmy Fund), the MGH oncology folks are viewed as more conservative. Plus they are a much smaller operation. In terms of perception among academics, Dana Farber leads on the chemotherapy side and MGH is more advanced in radiation oncology.
Does Duke have a proton beam facility? If not, I bet Kennedy comes back to MGH for radiation.
They could get incredible ratings if they didn't stop the fights until one of the fighters was dead. that would just be on regular TV. On pay-per-view they could let the victor cut out the heart of the dead fighter and eat it.
I would be surprised if he doesn't undergo radiation therapy at home. Although many of the Duke Rad Onc faculty trained at MGH, I don't think there is anything Duke can offer him for radiation oncology that he can't get at home. I'm not sure if Duke has proton beam equipment so I just left a message with one of my colleagues up there to find out. I'm down here in the maritme hinterlands and can't remember :)
Indeed they can, *but* your cat has to know how to hunt. We have one cat that was a feral cat from the Humane Society and she's a great hunter. The other cat was also from the humane society, but she was a baby baby when we got her and is Siamese - hence, she couldn't kill a mole even if you gave her a baseball bat.
It all depends on what their kitty-cat mommies taught them. This is also the reason that cats seem to play with their food and torment it without killing it. Their mothers never taught them how to administer the killing bite to the back of the neck of the prey and so, in a perverse sort of way, they are doing the best they can. :)
Not that this has anything to do with anything, but baby blublood (pictured above) has developed an adorable habit when confronted with a food he finds he likes. Like this weekend my mom introduced him to Cheerios, so he stuck a few in his little fat mouth and looked up at her and said, "Mum!" Except he hummed the first part so it was more like, "Mmmmmmmm-mum!" I know it doesn't sound cute on a bulletin board, but y'all didn't see his little smile. :)
My middle cat, who was born feral and rescued when he was couple of months old, likes to drown his toy mice and q-tips in the water bowl. Wonder what his kitty-cat mommy taught him? Or, has he watched his human mommy put pasta in boiling water and thinks that is what he is supposed to do?
I just ate some smoked ribs.
-EarlJam
Well, I'd be pretty impressed if your Siamese had the ability to swing a baseball bat, whether or not she could actually kill a mole with it. :p
It also occurs to me that if we had a cat capable of ridding us of our mole problem, that cat would also be capable of ridding us of our bulldog as well (big wimp that he is.) So, hmm, on to plan B for the mole issue.