You've got a cruel sense of humor, man!

I like that (good one!).

Ed

"Man is a hero and worthy of worship."

I hit the send button first (it should be the LAST button to hit).

Thanks for sharing the link to your compilation, Phil. Animals amaze me. Here's a cool link ...

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/animalfaceoff/game/play.html

Experts predict the winners of fights -- and simulation the fight with CGI. While I'm pretty sure that an 800-lb Siberian tiger would make mince-meat out of a 200-lb jaguar -- I was surprised that the exports had a lion beat the tiger. Tigers are usually a couple hundred pounds larger than lions, and have more total power. Can a mane provide THAT much effect???

Ed

"Man is a hero and worthy of worship."

"Man is a hero and worthy of worship."

Ed,

Something about my settings is blocking your pic. Can I assume its of Fabio wearing flippers and a snorkel while wielding a grappling hook and a handgun?

Awesome photo, Ed.

Your post reminded me of something I put together a while ago... its a collection of images showing large animals fighting each other. Unfortunately I don't have "Jaguar vs Tiger", but I also searched for videos at the same time, and found a North Korean propaganda clip showing a lion/tiger cage fight - a stalemate - and a couple of nature videos of tigers fighting crocodiles - in one of them the larger crocodile is dispatched very efficiently.

Yes, it's a bit weird. But apart from being curious as to which animal is the meanest, it's a amazing demonstration of natural power and strength. Interspecies fights are far more dangerous than intraspecies, since animals tend to evolve to not kill members of the same species. Just don't tell the SPCA!

"Man is a hero and worthy of worship."

William,

In all pride, I must say -- you're not far off the mark. As a child, I oftened day-dreamed about which animal I'l like to be -- and I had a brief stint as a jaguar. The jaguar is the 'Pit-Bull' of the jungle (especially powerful jaw, considering its body size). However, I have settled down to a favorite -- and this favorite has not changed ...

-it's beautiful

-it's powerful

-it can climb trees

-it can swim

-it would win in a battle with the jaguar pictured above

William, can you guess it?

Ed

"Man is a hero and worthy of worship."

Hey, I once noted you as "the lovely Ed Thompson" by way of tribute to the temper of your mind. It is a loving thing, your mind, and it makes you lovely in your thought, you see . . . although such as Phil Coates (in a rare cranky moment) may have napkined you off the table of reason by means of "Machine Gun Thompson" and other derisive comments, I defend you always -- for even if the premise is correct (that you, like me, are insanely prolix, drunk, addled, delirious, insanely argumentative, silly, obscure, on drugs, etc) it is a non sequitur to insist that this means your gunplay is without value:

-- you don't yet shoot to kill. You shoot in order to learn to shoot well, to hone your aim, to nail targets with a small measured squeeze -- and you accept counsel from the sages of the shoot-ups . . .

(indeed, because you have the power to put down aggression, you need not be aggressive yourself, which gives you the aura of a peacemaker, which sadly for the most autistic of the O-ists, connotes weakness or other unspeakable moral tumours like altruism, they not grasping that peaceable cooperation is one of the greatest of human achievements, being deaf to the social music that throbs and hums and tinkles around them undetected)

Thanks for the wicked compliment. Senor, mas appreciado.

You are first rank chaton**, this is how I picture you, O black jaquar of truth and beauty.

** refers to the 'New Philosophy, Oooops, Don't got One' post in this blog.

I'm always amazed when I find someone even querkier than I (on the OUTSIDE of the walls of a mental health facility).

It's a real treat to know that, not only am I not the only rare and, perhaps tropical, specimen in the garden of H. sapiens, but that there are even rarer and even more tropical'er specimens than I (e.g. you, John-LLAP-Daily, etc).

Thanks for being yourself, William. I get a real kick out of that.

)

Ed

"Man is a hero and worthy of worship."

Boozing is not really an option for me, having suffered hepatitis in 1984. But I figure a forced-choice answer to your BAC query would be along these v, w, x, y, and z axes (across three days, controlled for blood sugar and provocation):

belligerence/cuddling and hugs
anger/soppy sentimentality
outrage/orgasm
surprise/stupefaction
comprehension/befuddlement

-- surely someone in the Kissimmee contigent can get Galt-ish and devise a machine, like, oh, a laptop, a webcam and microphone, and a protocol for sharing reports from that storied town on the shores of Lake Tohopekaliga. BAC >=0.12 only.

I forgot about the conflab. Will be expecting post-prandial reports from the principals. Who's all showing?

William,

I'm going to head down to Florida at the end of the month -- in order to 'kick-it' with some downright philo-so-phers. 'Gotta see if these iconoclasts can shoot pool (Billiards) as well as they can shoot down any rhetorical opposition. I'd also like to see what happens to their reasoning capacities at a BAC of 0.15.

I'll let you know how it went ...

Ed

"Man is a hero and worthy of worship."

Hey, thanks for popping in, Ed. You doing any traveling this summer, brother? Or will you bake yo self to death in Minnesota?

WSS

This is perhaps TMI -- but I'm not attracted to plastic-looking Barbie-dolls (I agree with Tim).

"Man is a hero and worthy of worship."

Her eyes look completely dead. There's nothing attractive about that photo.

Yep Jen my thoughts exactly.

Nice to see the discussion finally becoming topical. If the concern is one of aesthetic validity and non-plasticness, Jenna Haze is commendable.

Indeed she has, and indeed she is. I was speaking of aesthetics in my silicone statements (just not my thing in any way). However, apparently there is an aesthetic appeal to *someone*, as she is a very wealthy woman.

-- The Gilded Fork

Food Philosophy. Sensuality. Sass.

Hasn't Jenna Jameson built an entire franchise of porn around herself? I think she can be considered a great businesswoman. I find that, umm, really cool.

I'm just sayin.

...true...but there is an entire branch of aesthetics about how a girl can move, and she is aesthetically pleasing in those aspects

No, you have a point. She is definitely not "my kind of woman." Give me natural any day. This boy will never take medical enhancements over natural beauty.

Prima Donna wrote:
And here I thought you were a man of aesthetics. The girl is all silicone and myriad plastics.

Regrettably it's true. Standards have fallen in adult entertainment.

Jody you introduced this guy to Thrust yet?

---Landon

It all basically comes back to fight or flight.

Landon Erp writes:

I'm an Asia Carerra man myself.

"You must be here to fix the cable."

I'm an Asia Carerra man myself.

---Landon

It all basically comes back to fight or flight.

And here I thought you were a man of aesthetics. The girl is all silicone and myriad plastics.

-- The Gilded Fork

Food Philosophy. Sensuality. Sass.

Chris-
I'm still ironing out the details for booking Jenna Jameson.

Imagine my disappointment upon discovering that Jennathon wasn't a Vivid girl extravaganza.

I just caught that.

-- The Gilded Fork

Food Philosophy. Sensuality. Sass.

LOLOL

It was a good one.

I just wanted to see that headline again.

As I slept through any festivities. Silly word-peddler. Anyhow, apologies to all, though you may have found festivity without me and my big mouth.

Back to the seventeenth straight day of getting 267 treeplanters to the field.

WSS

Works for me...I'll be baked from the sun, and adrenalined from watching the 'the blues' perform.

Weekend day two seems the likelier time for the online chitterin and chatterin rendez vous noted above -- (though will be testing out Skype up here for experiment).

This work for all? If not, not so big a thang -- looking forward especially to rumoured expansion of chat funciones by Senor Ross Eliot. After a nap, this old clown will return . . .

WSS

Thank you, William. That's very sweet.

You're still fired, though.

-- "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

Miss Marnee will learn that I have relationships with several asian-inflected ladees who take interest in both PHP and Miniskirt Flirtation. I do apologize for any perceived slight -- me myself I, centre of my universe, I consider PHP a very attractive thing, and so appreciate Marnee in a special way known only to PHP/MySQL Mavens.

(that's Geekish for "I'm a geek. Are you a geek? Hi. Need a pen to write down my number? I've got six colours. Permanent ink. You're attractive. I could make love to you for days and nights and days and eat with you and cry with you and run with you in exhaltation up the highest mountains. My friend wrote that for me. Wanna go to TechCon sometime? have a coffee, buy ya lunch, please? Please? I'll buy any kind of condom you like and you can tie me up and I will do anything, even get spanked. But anyway about PHP . . . how come they broke sessions in 5.1? Can I touch both your breasts for a while? Will your friend sleep with me? She's not as pretty as you but she looks like she has had more sex than you even though she's way younger. She has bigger breasts and nicer teeth. Maybe that's why. Why did you pour your drink on my head? I'm all wet now. Wannanother drink? Wow, your nipples are poking out . . . is that 'cause I touched you? [ . . . etcetera]")

WSS

I luvz me the new pictorial, Jen. Gosh but yer a purty ladee.

Guignolards -- Skype me today at wsscherk. I think we can get the party going in alternate facilities. Jody, please give me a PM today if you can, or get some help setting up Skype for tonight.

WSS

You assigned Miss Marnee, Maven of the Miniskirt, to talk of ASP and PHP, when we know she is far more likely to speak in tones of delightful flirtation, which is why she is so completely lovely. You are fired as party coordinator.

-- "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

Marnee Dearman, she compares PHP to ASP miniskirt and ferral kittens

Don't spank so hard. I mean, thank you. I mean, that's kinda nice, you know . . . whattaya mean down on my knees? I've got rheumatoid OW! OW! OW! OW!

Oh.

WSS

[Guignolards, you will love the Spank Me Kink Test and the effervescent yet puerile How I Got My Husband to Spank Me]

Sorry William, I don't remember that one. In any case, it helps to notify the Jens and Jennas before said things are announced.

-- "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

Apparently Ross did not actually do a screencap on that fateful chat oh so long ago and so misty, but I did. We were raving about a mass marriage in Vancouver in time for Olympics and Jody dared suggest we chat together again and ask in Jenna. T'would be a Jennathon, to my mind at the time. I asked around, got lots a yeah sounds goods and my big mistake was as noted -- that you would remember the wee vile suggestion from oh so long ago.

Do hope you drop in anyhow, it's virtual and mutual, and you are a natural chat animal.

WSS

William, it was very unwise to pin your hopes on me without asking me about it first. Such things lead to unpleasant ends. I cannot speak for the others, but it's a bit shocking to see one's name paraded for a gathering one knows nothing about. I *still* don't know what it's about, but now it's looking like you are providing cash, so I might be amenable.

-- "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

Look Jen, you know I got a bad reputation. You is my only hope now. If this party ain't a success, I is gettin' booted off the island. Ain't ya never heard o' barter? Ain't ya never heard of marriage? Exchange of, ahem, value?

A lot a menfolk would loves to love you up and build a cabin for ya. You knows that. That give you and Jenna and Marnee the power. That give you a ticket you can punch out later, baybee . . . everybody bring their own spicy dish to the picnic, ya know?

If ya wonder what I's on about, here's a hint, not a nice one:

Dan, it's "high and mighty." Do keep up.

-- "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

I'm just happy to be a part of history. We should make this a pay-per-view.

Sharp Steel ain't cheap, ya know. Plus, I gotta lug the stuff into the chat room. So don't get all prissy high almighty on us Jen. We each have a responsibility, and we're going to do our jobs. As for the new recruits: Ed Lover will provide Vanna White, and James Valliant will provide the antiseptic cream to treat any bite wounds inflicted in the chat room.

--Dan Edge

How come I'm the only one who's doing any work? I hope I'm getting paid for this appearance, as I don't work for free.

-- "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

I'm having chips and salsa, maybe a soda.

Jody Gomez, he will only have a virtual snack.

Jen Iannolo, she will provide tips on love, dating, and the food connection

Jenna Wong, she will do her best to listen, answer, and enlighten

Dan Edge, he provides the sharp steel

Marnee Dearman, she compares PHP to ASP

Jason Quintana, he keeps it nice.

WSS

'Bachelorette Party Invitation' image courtesy of Wedding Accessories

Which one?

Ha!

-- "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

. . .

...did I miss something?

-- "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

Don't go for sassy, I said. It's geeky crap.

And what did you just do anyway?

Lift the standard, Frenchy!