Upset With Prom

[Da-Bubble]

Yahoo Forum? What is that? Still around?

[RUSH]

YOU WATCH OPRAH?
I thought you were a man.

[prometheus578]

"Manly, yes.. but I like it, too."

I watch, I study, I learn.
I read faces... I observe crowd dynamics... look at expressions and interprete body language and mannerisms.
I watch those silly "People's Court" shows with the volume turned off and can spot the liar 9 times out o' 10.
(How come... if it's a white judge they have a black bailiff, and if it's a black judge, there's a white bailiff. A small point, to be sure, but surely that can't be random. And if something isn't random, then it's planned. Why, and by whom and for what reason?
Oprah is scary. Not just physically (hell, we all know that), but she's a very good manipulator. Has a lot of power and knows how to press emotional buttons.
I look at media trends and wonder why.
Oprah promotes a lot of people that would have made you or I gag ten years ago..., yet, today, everyone accepts things... Oprah's opinion shapes the opinion of the masses.
Oprah had Dr Phil... and now Maury has some effeminate psychologist (Dr. Whogivesash!t) who comments after every scene in order to promote understanding and acceptance of social deviance.
What's the world coming to?

So yes, Rush... I watch Oprah.
While you're selfishly wasting your day at work...
I force myself to sit here on my couch doing important scientific research for the betterment of mankind.

Oh, and happy belated birthday.
Bet you whipped out your driver's license at IHOP and tried to get free pancakes again.

[Stralya]

Now that hurts!

QUOTE]If it's soft and spreadable but doesn't stink and isn't brown, it's shinola. OTOH, if it's soft, spreadable, dark brown and tastes strange, it's Vegemite[/QUOTE]



20 million of us can't be wrong!

Dan
Vegemite Kid.

[John]

Re: Now that hurts!

Originally posted by Stralya
QUOTE]If it's soft and spreadable but doesn't stink and isn't brown, it's shinola. OTOH, if it's soft, spreadable, dark brown and tastes strange, it's Vegemite

20 million of us can't be wrong!

Dan
Vegemite Kid. [/QUOTE]

From what I've heard, you can be wrong.

[Stralya]

Yeah? well....

In 1999:

the Wallabies won the Rugby Union World Cup
the Australian cricket team won the World Cup
Australia won the Davis Cup in tennis
These achievements have been matched in rugby league, netball, women's hockey, under 20 basketball, men's archery, three-day eventing and women's lawn bowls.
Reigning individual world champions at the time include athlete Cathy Freeman, triathlete Lorenz Harrop, Paralympian Louise Sauvage, freestyle skier Jacqui Cooper, surfers Mark Ochiluppo and Layne Beachley, and swimmers Susie O'Neill, Michael Klim, Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett.

REIGNING AUSTRALIAN WORLD CHAMPIONS

Australian cricket team - Test and one-day internationals
Australian rugby league team - from 2000 world cup
Opals - women’s basketball
Libby Lenton - 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 100m butterfly
Leisel Jones - 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke
Jessicah Schipper - 200m butterfly
Australian women - 4×100m freestyle
Australian women - 4×100m medley relay
Australian men - 4×100m medley relay
Casey Stoner - motorcycle GP
Jana Rawlinson - women’s 400m hurdles
Nathan Deakes - 50km walk
Kate Bates - women’s point race cycling
Anna Meares - 500m time trial cycling
Sam Hill - men’s downhill mountain bike
Tom Slingsby - Laser class sailing
Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page - men’s 470 sailing
Drew Ginn and Duncan Free - coxless pairs rowing
Amber Halliday and Marguerite Houston - lightweight double sculls rowing
Anthony Mundine - WBA super middleweight
Michael Katsidis - WBO interim lightweight
Sharon Anyos - WBC women’s featherweight
Layne Beachley - women’s surfing
Dale Begg-Smith - dual moguls skiing
Torah Bright - superpipe snowboarding
Kurt Fearnley - wheelchair marathon

The list goes on and on.......

They all love Vegemite.

[fredintoon]

My son goofed

Hi Dan,
my boy Eric spent the last 2 years in OZ on work visas. I asked him to mail me a jar of Vegemite and what does he send me? Marmite! All the way from OZ. No worries, when he came home he brought back the ultimate Australian souvenir, her name is Claire. She's a sensible girl and will get me a jar of genuine Vegemite so I can do a taste comparo. Perhaps I should not have said "tastes strange" as you seem to find that to be a denigration. How about "tastes of salt & dead yeast cells"? Num-Num.

[prometheus578]

'...copies from the Vegemite web page."

Yeah, that's the flavor I remember, Fred.

Probably the reason they drink all those bitter beers and ales...to get the taste out of their mouths. It worked for me.

[customaxe]

Happy Birthday... you look great great for someone as close to death as you are .. and dont worry we wont even count the additional 9mos pre-birth.. that would bring you that much closer to the end .. wich is not always a bad thing .. no one has ever come back and complained .. so again happy birthday and remember that life is to be enjoyed .. cause at any moment some microscopic organism will lash out and you'll be nothing but worm food .. and it will undoubtedly be VERY painful and drawn out ..

ps.. always wear good clothes.. its not how you go .. but how you're found that you freinds will laugh about most ..

[Ken Talbot]

Originally posted by Da-Bubble
Yahoo Forum? What is that? Still around?

The XS11 forum at yahoo preceeded this particular incarnation, and it is still on-line here

I look after this site, which means basically receiving notification of members coming and leaving, and deleting the odd bit of spam that the most resourceful spammers still manage to upload. The site is closed to posting, but the archives are available to browse. Funny how most of what we talk about here on a regular basis was talked about there too, only back between 1999 and 2002.

There's a great shot there from Phill_the_Strat, one of our early Aussie members, with his '78E Tardis running in a room upstairs, with plastic dryer hose to vent the exhaust outside!