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"People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test" You mean the double-X chromosome?

Although I'm a man, I'd have to admit I've seen some pretty bad driving from people with a Y chromosome too. In fact, very smart people can be very bad drivers (e.g. von Neumann's corner was named after a notoriously bad driver, John von Neumann who you might have heard about).

Did you know Ayatollah Khomeini married a ten year old girl? He was emulating his prophet [piss be upon him].

http://anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=19536
"Former Iranian head of state Ayatollah Khomeini had some unusual ideas about sex. "A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby," he wrote in Tahrirolvasyleh (Tahrir al-Wasilah). "However he should not penetrate, sodomising the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages the child then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man [sadly] will not be eligible to marry the girls sister..."

In the dvd "An Evening With Kevin Smith", Kevin goes into great length about this Superman story.
It's realy fun to watch, my favorite part is about Jon Peters.

For example you learn that Jon requires that:
  * superman must NOT fly for no obvious reason
  * superman must NOT wear a cape because it's gay
  * superman must fight a giant-fuckin-spider

As a sidenote the spider made its way to the Peters-produced movie of the time "Wild Wide West"

Favorite quote:
J.P: "Spiderman must fight a giant spider"
K.S: "Why ?"
J.P: "Do you know anything about spiders ?"
K.S: "No"
J.P: "They're the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom!"

And the same goes on later with White Bears !!!

Seriously, this Jon Peters guy is so messed up !!

Hehe, google to the rescue, here's a transcript from http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=12916::


Supermoron (long)

After seeing Mallrats, Warner Brothers producer Jon Peters considered hiring Kevin Smith to work on Superman Lives. Smith visited Peters in his Hollywood monster home to discuss the project. Peters, who climbed the Hollywood ladder from the lowest rung (Barbra Streisand's former hairdresser), began by telling Smith he was perfect for the project because, like Peters, he understood Superman. "You know why we understand Superman?" he asked. "Because we're from the streets."

Smith, who grew up in suburban New Jersey, did not argue the point and Peters continued. Smith could do whatever he liked with the story, said Peters, with three exceptions. "I don't want to see him in the suit," Peters began, explaining that it made Superman look gay. Secondly? "I don't want to see him flying..."

If Smith was speechless, he had yet to hear the third demand: "I want to see him wrestle with a giant spider in the third act." Why a spider, Smith asked. "Do you know anything about spiders," Peters replied. "Theyre the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom!"

As so often happens in Hollywood, a director (Tim Burton) was soon attached - and insisted on bringing in his own writers. Smith, who had a nasty feud with Burton (after claiming that he had stolen the idea for Planet of the Apes from a comic book) noticed that the spider promptly disappeared from the script. Some time later, however, he went to see another Peters production: Barry Sonnenfeld's Wild Wild West:

"I'm watching this thinking, this is really a piece of s---," he later recalled. He had the laugh of his life, however, as the plot unfolded. The plot? President Grant assigns two U.S. Marshals (Will Smith and Kevin Kline) to stop a deranged madman (Kenneth Branagh) from wreaking havoc on the country... with a giant mechanical spider!

[Many critics called Wild Wild West the worst film of the year.]

Smith, Kevin Patrick (1970- ) American writer, actor and director [noted for his work on such comic book series as Daredevil (Marvel Knights) and Spiderman (2002); and for his roles in (and direction of) such films as Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Dogma (1999), Chasing Amy (1997), Mallrats (1995), Clerks (1994), Mae Day: The Crumbling of a Documentary (1992)]

"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur.'"
-George W Bush

citation

That's nothing compared to what they do in Iceland. First everyone pisses on a dead shark then it is buried underground for several months. Then it's dug up, cut into cubes and served as a delicacy. Sources: 1, 2. Sadly I haven't been to Iceland to experience this, though members of my family have.

No, not quite. It was the JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, not "some chinese consulate guy". Can you imagine if situations were reversed what we would think?

See here for details: http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=11911 or here:
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/23/cg.00.h tml

"HUNT: Welcome back. And now for the CAPITAL GANG classic. About 10 years ago, the first President Bush went to Japan to try to discuss economic problems. At a state dinner in Tokyo, he vomited on the Japanese prime minister and then fainted."

I was waiting for someone with zero sense of proportion to pipe up. Took longer than I thought.

Really? Then explain Al Sharpton, Rev. Jackson, Bill Clinton and all the other Dem leaders who preach about it?

About that sense of proportion: like its hard to find some comment from any politician on any side of any subject. You can even find one talking about Canada's national igloo. There's just a sliiiight difference between making some pandering comments about 'decency' and devoting your ENTIRE CARREER to it. Now, try telling me again that Sharpton, Jackson and Clinton are remotely equivalent to Bennet, Fallwell and Santorum. Seriously, as if Clinton would spend any great length of time lecturing others when his affair with Jennifer Flowers was common knowledge.

Also, Fallwell hasn't help a public office

He's only a prominent voice in the dominant wing of the Republican Party. Now Jackson and Sharpton also have a lot of influence in the NAACP crowd, one of the Democrat's primary constituencies, but Fallwell talks more about morals on his day off than those other two do in ten years. And that was *before* Jackson's affair came out.

and one of the major supporters of fining broadcasters and hosts who break FCC 'rules' is a Democrat.

And who might that be? Go ahead, name him. I'll just come back with another 5 Republicans who are just as bad, starting with the senator who thinks that doctors that perform abortions should be executed.

You need to educate yourself as it is obvious you lack the ability to think for yourself.

What's obvious is that you were too busy being impressed with your own cleverness to come up with a decent argument. And you got spanked. Care to try again, this time without the patronization?

As a Tivo owner I have a special perspective on commercials.

When Im forced to use a "hostile television" I notice a few things:

1. THe SAME commercial gets played over and over. I was watching the Simpsons and Malcolm in the Middle live and saw the same truck commercial five or six times. Same with the rest. So skipping something you've seen is hardly costing anyone money.

2. Commercials have zero information quantity. That is to say they are all emotion and no logic. Whats the MPG of that truck? What is its safety ratings? I dunno, all I know is a busty woman is leaning on it on a backdrop of some colorado mountain scene with a flag somewhere on the screen. Or as Dr. Rappielle says "It appeals to the reptilian brain." I'm not a reptile and I like making informed consumer decisions (usually).

I guess the term "victim" here is what is being debated. A market shift to different modes of operation isn't victimizing its the future! Its why we have free markets. So companies can adapt. The old advertisers will be replaced with the new.

You mean Dan Quayle and the Potatoe?

> I wonder what kind of G's the pilot will experience?

With any luck, not these.

It's like the Simpson's episode where Homer get elected to sanitation commisioner and rapidly bankrupts the department with his crazy spending. You can say anything in a campaign - remember "No new taxes" from Bush's father? Maybe we should make it against the law to lie when running for office?

Yeah, but this article is different... I don't think they used the term beleagered once.

You're saying that "beleaguered" is not a part of Apple's full company name? Wow!

(credit where credit is due)

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I remember a while ago here in Alberta Premier Klein made a very interesting quote about global warming where he joked that the end of the ice age was due to dinosaur farts. This made me realize that Klein, and probably a lot of other politicians, not only doesn't believe in science but doesn't even respect it. They'll quote studies when it suits them and claim they have done scientific research but at the end of the day I don't believe science has the slightest baring on their decisions. Therefore it's not surprising that politicians are playing funny with the numbers, after all it's just dinosaur farts.

OK, this yuppie-SUV-bashing thread is pretty long by now, and we havent' gotten flamed by any SUV lovers yet. Chicken?

Another sad thought: the next governor of California may be the idiot who started the whole SUV thing, when he decided that a HUMV made a good city car!