Bungee Jumper

The hospital proper is where everyone tours, and supposedly in good shape. The inpatient rehab facilities - where no one tours - are the rat hole. Plus...what, you want someone to fund the damn hospital? Never mind that they're closing it in four years and merging it with Bethesda...you expect the government to fund government programs with any semblance of sanity?

Next time, pick an analogy that makes sense.

Well, that's normal. Hell, I try to do that at least once a day.

You're both wrong. It's fetid.

If only it were literally true. (Hey, Bill Maher can say it about Dick Cheney... )

Yeah...because the Tripartite Pact was the root cause of EXACTLY NOTHING. So I can see where it's relevant.

I had to turn it off after five minutes. What a putrid show.

Or you can just check Wikipedia...

We're both half-right. Basically, it's not the number of prongs, it's the number and orientation that determines voltage and amperage. A four-prong outlet is always a dual-voltage, 120/240 circuit for the purpose I said above (I just had to install one in my workshop), but 30 or 50 amp depending on the configuration. A three prong outlet can be...damn near anything from a 15-amp 120v grounded line to an old 50-amp 120/240 line. Given we're talking about dryers...it's an old 30-amp 120/240 line (three prong) with a new 120/240 plug (four prong). Plenzmd, can you confirm the shapes of the plug and outlet here? http://www.frentzandsons.com/Hardware%20Re...onfiguratio.htm

No, I'm not. I do actually know the difference between 120v and 240v.

Maybe they'd have more time to get the work done in school if they weren't busy singing "I am special, I am special, look at me..."

A four-prong socket is intended for 240 volts (it's actually a combined 120/240 volt socket, for appliances like an electric stove that has 240-volt heating elements but a 120-volt light). A three-prong socket is a grounded 120-volt line. You don't just swap out the plugs or sockets; you have to install a 240-volt breaker at the breaker box and most likely run new wires from the breaker to where you want the socket (a regular 120-volt breaker uses two wires; a 240-volt uses three or four). In other words...if you have to ask, don't even think of doing it yourself. Hell, I know how to do it, and I wouldn't think of doing it myself. Hire an electrician, they're cheaper than doctors or morticians.

How did you miss the couple hundred reports last week that we are more actively involved in diplomacy over there now?

That's not schizophrenia. More like a paranoid multiple personality disorder. Schizophrenia is more like "Beating a 3-6 team is a disaster for the franchise!"

Always. But here's the thing: I DON'T POST EVERY SINGLE MEANINGLESS HALF-ASSED THOUGHT THAT HAPPENS TO CROSS MY MIND. The real trick to not looking like a moron isn't not being a moron; it's keeping your trap shut 80% of the time and not saying stupid sh-- just because you can.

That hit on Kapenen was just scary. Did he recover from that? The hit on Tucker...had the officials bothered to call any of the sh-- that was going on before that, it never would have happened. But since it did happen...I'm glad it was Tucker.

That, and Kaberle was nearer the boards and sent into them headfirst. And, unlike Drury, when he passed the puck away Kaberle wasn't even close to the play.

Yeah, I used to be a moderator here, too.

I wonder what the author thinks of the not entirely dissimilar hit that just sent the Leafs' Tomas Kaberle off the ice on a stretcher?

And if they were a Western civilization, that would matter. Perhaps we should start treating them as the civilization that they are.

Lead-based paint. It's what's for dinner.

If you could read, you'd know THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID.

Hell, I wouldn't even call molson a leftist. He'd have to make sense before he could aspire to that label.

Tell me about it...it's like frying ants with a magnifying glass. Fun for a while, but after a while you realize your eyes hurt and you've got far better things to do...and oh, okay, just one more and I'm done...

Now wouldn't that just add to the list of bugs that cause discomfort...