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Gordon, What you are suggesting is doable in my opinion. Here's the catch. Statistics generally works out over a long series of events. The law of "large numbers" suggests that if you were to flip a quarter one quadrillion times, you would get heads 50% of the time. However, if you...

Too bad most of the people who had to have their phone service cut off due to unemployment were unable to voice their opinions in the poll.

Great movie, but the expression "X stacks of high society" -- is that a term just used in the movie or something that has been around for awhile? Apparently, from the movie, a stack of high society is $10,000. Anyone know where the expression originates?

Mr. Market ... Do you have a temple or shine so that I may bring you the finest meats and cheeses?

I don't think what he said was entirely racist. He said something he believes to be true. The least I would have done if I were ESPN would be to issue a statement and keep Rush on and see where the ratings go. This time in a few months, nobody will have remembered or given a damn. The...

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Looks like he got dragged on 40 sandpaper for a few miles.

I thought he traded his car in for more money for his trading account? So what is he going to pick up his date with -- a radioflyer?

Leave me out of your twisted fantasies.

My favorite Vodka is Kettle One on the rocks with a twist of lemon.

God, RS, I'm so sorry to hear that. It must have been a really hard time period for you. I remember how traumatic it was for me when my father had his heart attack. Fortunately, he survived and got bypass surgery. I'm so sorry you had to experience that. :(

Well if he's telling the doctors he wants to die, why should his insurance policy prevent that?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3142246.stm This is just stupid. I don't understand why humans can't be more compassionate towards another life. If someone determines their life is too hard or that they want to end their own life, they should have that choice. If someone is left...

Actually, normal sleep involves four distinct stages of sleep including REM. When we fall asleep we spend a majority of our time in the third level. This is the deepest level of sleep. REM sleep is considered level 4 in some textbooks but it is really a stage where we are very close to being...

Ummmm ... if by 6 beers and 1 hour later you mean dream, then yes, I was in your dream.

Amen to that! Just last night I was having sex with an old ex-girlfriend and her hot sister!

Vicoprofen is better if you want to drink alcohol at the same time. :D

Personally, I'm not sure I'd want to do what she did. I don't have the guts or balls to travel across the universe in a metal sphere to meet some aliens.

Oops .. typo .. I meant yank around supply. My bad.

Could some please give me a concise two or so paragraph explanation of what OPEC is, what say the United States has in OPEC's decisions and how this is going to affect the average American? I don't know about your neck of the woods, but the price of gas has been jerked around lately at the...