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Sincere condolences to you and yours. The loss of a parent is hard.

Is that the Firth of Forth? If so, is there a 2nd of Forth? Sorry, I couldn't help it.

Caption text is kinda fail and doesn't match the graphic very well either. Graphic shows some sort of troll or monster in fuzzy slippers holding a cup of coffee and graphic text under him says "morning." Ok, uh, not really funny, but maybe it could be saved by the caption text, but no. The caption text is talking about a "happiness fairy" and "happy dust" neither of which are actually depicted. Further, if there was such a thing as a "happiness fairy" do I really care if the reagents required for him (or her or indeterminate sexless pronoun) to perform his job cost anything? Hmmm . . . If you Google "happiness fairy" it's fairly obvious this is a pretty hack "joke" since so many variations on the image and so many variations of the caption text are attached to it. One variation I found seems to work quite a bit better; http://www.lostpixie.com/gallery/fairies/Happiness_fairy.jpg Note they've correctly depicted a "fairy" with "dust" and correctly hold off telegraphing the "joke" until the actual punch line. Are you sure you aren't applying your own preconceived notions of what a "fairy" actually looks like? This could actually be the true depiction of a fairy. (I haven't seen one so I can't say one way or the other.) It does not show the "fairy dust" (in this case the "happy dust" variety) because it is stated that the fairy deposited it all over the reader and is clearly expecting a response.

And then there's the possibility that they're not "crashers" at all.

You been checking out the other shoppers down at Walmart again?

Fixed that. Yes! When is someone going to come out with another REALLY good SciFi flick..........like "Cherry 2000" ?

Actually, that is the question. Is crashing a state dinner illegal in it's own right? (It must be codified somewhere.) Or are the some of the "things" one must do to be able to crash the dinner the actual crimes. I'm just asking.

hmmm....if this is the section that would apply....Then (C) might apply if they presented a forged or fake invitation or ID. (B) might apply if they actually lied with their mouths when asked any question by the bouncer at the WH. The interesting one is (A) - covering up a material fact (the fact that they were not invited). Assuming they were not asked if they were invited and were asked only their names and they then showed their actual IDs to verify that, did they cover up the fact that they were not invited guests by their silence ? Are they required to volunteer that information, even if they were not specifically asked? And, that still doesn't address the problem of the failure of the verification process by the doorman.

Yep - if they are invoked in this case. 99% weasel, with 1% of chickenshit thrown in. So you think there should be no penalty for sneaking into a state dinner at the White House without an invitation? Maybe we should just do away with all laws you think are "chickenshit" or "weasel" then anybody could do pretty much whatever they want wherever they want and whenever they want. I think they should be rewarded for highlighting a very real flaw in White House security without doing any actual harm to anyone. By that reasoning Lynette Fromme should have been let go free and rewarded handsomely. After all, her pistol didn't have a round chanbered, she didn't hurt anyone and pointed out flaws in the Services protection of the President. Isn't an attempted assassination considered to be "illegal"? I still haven't heard what law(s) the "party crashers" have broken. I'm not even sure that lying to a secret service agent is illegal if it's not made during the course of an investigation. Maybe the whole thing could have been avoided if people who were paid to do a job actually did that job. Just check their IDs. Even the bouncer at your local jook joint can do that.

Do we know if they actually lied or deceived anyone? Maybe they just showed up, gave their names when asked, and were announced. Can't see anything illegal there. They might have inadvertantly done the security people a favor and exposed a dereliction or, at least, incompetence. Heads should roll, but I hope the correct heads roll. I bet it won't happen again.

Great football year for all my teams, so far. All have perfect seasons. Lakeland Dreadnaughts Regular 11-0 Playoffs 2-0 Florida Gators 12-0 (7 Dreadnaughts on this team) Buccaneers 1-8 Wait!.....I guess that single win did screw up the Bucs perfect season. Oh well, I guess you can't lose 'em all!

Holy "you-have-to-keep-up-with-ALL-the-threads-here-to-make-any-sense-out-of-some-of-these-posts", Batman!

Alligator Gar...'cause they're mean, ugly and really hard to kill! Between the bony scales and the cartilage, even the the gators and otters leave them alone. They cleaned out some local streams of the game fish, so we started popping them when we got the chance. A .22 irritates them, but something a little larger fixed their problem. When we were kids my cousin and I used to (try to) shoot 'em with bows and arrows in a creek not too far south of Zhills. Real tricky trying to compensate for refraction.

Yeah, she's hot too....but go for it! ..... I don't want to piss Danica off. DP cleans up real nice, too! --- http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/gallery/danica-patrick-playboy/

Danica Patrick ........Vrooooom!..Vroooom!

Mmmmmmmmmmm!............wahoo!

It is a well-known fact the the 2nd fastest animal in the world is the striped-assed ape. The fastest is the Ethiopian chicken.

They had time-travelling in Dallas? I guess I should've watched it. Well, they called it a dream.....same thing only different. Result is the same...lost season. Kinda like the similarities between a redneck divorce and a tornado.........either way someone loses a trailer. (it's a Zen thing or something.)

Then the entire season got lost in the time-continuum, so I guess it never really happened. Er, happens. I mean it doesn't ever happen. Of course, it's Star Trek, fiction, so it's safe to say it won't really ever happen. But what I really mean, is in the show, that season, taking place in the future, the fictional events of that year, which is to say, in a present date, which created several shows for a season, at the end of that season, those events never took place, due to some very complicated temporal logistics. Hey! Wait just a minute!.......that sounds like "Dallas"! (or "Newhart")

I don't think he develped Bones enough to do his story wrong. For some reason I don't remember Uhura being developed in the original series, she was always in the background. Maybe we're just used to the way the newer series gave all the main characters their day in the sun. I liked the New Star Trek, but I could've done without destroying Vulcan. I could've done without Enterprise destroying Florida when that wasn't in the storyline of any of its previous shows. OMG! They destroyed Vulcan?!? ....and when you say they destroyed Florida, do you mean the WHOLE state or maybe just Miami or "The Villages" or something like that?

How do you spell "Louisiana". The answer seems to be: "one of the 50 States or the District of Columbia, for which, at any time during the preceding 7 fiscal years, the President has declared a major disaster under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act and determined as a result of such disaster that every county or parish in the State warrant individual and public assistance or public assistance from the Federal Government under such Act and for which— ‘‘(A) in the case of the first fiscal year (or part of a fiscal year) for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year after the application of only subsection (a) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5 (if applicable to the preceding fiscal year) and without regard to this subsection, subsection (y), and subsections (b) and (c) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5, by at least 3 percentage points; and ‘‘(B) in the case of the second or any succeeding fiscal year for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year under this subsection by at least 3 percentage points."

Well.....I'm safe. At $15000/liter I'm probable worth 40 bucks on the open Peruvian liquified fat market. Not worth the postage to get it to France.

[reply.............. One of my all-time favorites is My Cousin Vinny. Wendy P. Good flick. That one's becoming a classic. A rather obscure movie I liked was "The Pope of Greenwich Village" with a young Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts and Daryl Hannah. Also, "The Coca Cola Kid" with Eric Roberts. For comedy try "Top Secret".

I think some of y'all got your Dudeist numbers under false pretenses.

Well.....because this is a 32-way and if you guys joined in it would be.....well .........35, and .......uh.......we were planning a 32-way, see?...I mean if we were planning a 35-way you guys could join in, and .....uh........HEY!..why don't you guys go over and jump with Buzz? You'll love the do-see-do! (Only some of you will "get it")