Azalin

great read, but it seems to be much less about religion and much more about bringing science back into environmentalism.

yep, that's exactly what I do. so what if it's the owner who serves me? it's appreciated, and often times will reflect in the service or treatment I get when I return. in addition, I tip bartenders heavily. that way I never, ever have to wait for a drink. at my usual hang out, they always get a drink ready for me when they see me pull into the parking lot, and have it sitting at my usual seat as I walk in the door. if I ever receive crappy or rude service, I tip little to nothing, and I never go there again under any circumstances.

let's just blame it on all that beer....

okay, thanks....I see it now.

it not a big deal or anything like that. it just threw me when I saw a thread with my name on it that I didn't recall starting.

who changed the thread title?

could it hurt?

it would certainly make them more offensive, though.

happy birthday, AD!

they may as well have described doing away with the shirt as being their 'final solution'.

they were touring that album when I first saw them live in Rochester, opening for Blue Oyster Cult. they played the entire side 1 from 2112. it absolutely destroyed. for my taste, 2112 is the best thing they've ever done. are you sure you're not getting 'Fly By Night' and 'Caress of Steel' mixed up? FBN was their first album with Peart on the drums, and they won a Juno (basically a Canadian grammy) for it. COS had the whole 'fountain of lamneth' and 'the necromancer' on it, and was much more a concept album than was FBN. this 100%.

it's good to see you back. that must have been scary as hell. keep an eye on that BP and take care of yourself!

they're going to 'exterminate' it? even in their effort to correct their mistake, they offend.

this pretty much sums it up, right here.

you may be having fun, but you either missed one of my questions to you (in post #15) or you're cherry-picking what you're replying to.

that's why I live here. another one?

well, if you're going to insist on poking holes in my already sub-standard farces, then I'm going to time-jump to last week and put a flaming bag of dog poop on your doorstep.

ignoring the irony in having to clarify my own post, please note that I addressed his first statement with a question beginning with 'in the first half of your post....' so no, absolutely none of it made a damn bit of sense to me.

according to Einstein, if time travel is ever actually developed, it will only work in one direction - moving forward, not backward. that leaves only one possibility: it was the neanderthal that was time-traveling, and it began to solidify in the late 19th or early 20th century, startled some ranch-hand or soldier who shot it, and it re-phased back to it's own time, probably falling on it's time-travel device and destroying it, leaving a few pieces that happen to resemble rudimentary firearms laying about to be discovered later. you'll see. it will be on Discovery within a year.

I'm going to assume that you mis-typed something, and instead of responding, I will simply ask for clarification. in the first half of your post, are you saying that because someone pays property tax, that they are not owners of that property, but merely renting it? could you please explain the second half of your post? I'm not getting anything.....

a link to the news story: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/08/26/austin-brewery-rolls-out-pack-beer/?intcmp=HPBucket

'and defendants can attend court proceedings.' well, that's a relief.

I don't really know you very well myself, but judging by the posts I remember and your care & concern for being a good father, I think you'll do better than 'just fine'.

I take it that you're unaware that Einstein bailed out of school to study physics on his own? he said that he did so because he felt the class moved too slowly and was bored with what he perceived as the limitations of the classroom. he eventually obtained a degree by taking what was essentially an equivalency exam, publishing the four papers that made him famous while working as a patent clerk. it wasn't his adherence to academic convention that led him to his professorship at Stanford, it was quite the opposite. he was offered the position as Israel's first president, which he turned down for health reasons. does his support of a strong Jewish state make him an ignorant right-winger worthy of your usual ridicule, or do you give him a pass for being an 'academic'?

I can honestly say that this is the first time I've ever seen the words 'whilst' and 'nekkid' used in the same paragraph, let alone in the same sentence.