This sounds like the way that NFL Referees present options to the captain of a team when a penalty is assessed on the opposing team. The LAST option presented is the option they should take. Presumably, this aids the player who has been hit in the head a few too many times to make the best decision for his team.
(obligatory troll comment, but I cannot resist!)
"On one hand we have an established Harvard Phd, who has testified before the U.S. congress"
(emphasis mine)
Any idiot can get in front of Congress, hell, any idiot can get ELECTED to Congress.
"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
-- Douglas Adams
The Germ by Ogden Nash
from the collection "Bed Riddance"
A mighty creature is the germ
Though smaller than the pachyderm
It's customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race
It's childish pride it pleases
By giving people strange diseases
Do you, dear reader, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ.
We (my wife and I) took a set of the first 3 books translated in German for Douglas to sign at a signing in London in 1986(?). He told us that, although he knew that his work had already been translated into several languages, it was the first time that he'd actually seen one of the translated editions.
I work in tech support for a small ISP in California. One day an elderly gentleman walked into our office and told me he was convinced that the spam he was receiving (especially the kind designed to poison bayesian filters) contained coded messages for al-Qaida terrorists, and that he had been forwarding them to the FBI! It took all my composure to assure him that this was not the case without busting up laughing in his face. We have yet to hear from the FBI, or from the local mental health clinic about this particular customer.
Gutless Wonder.
Has't got the guts to take responsibility for his own comment (by posting anonymously rather than using his login, that is if he ever took the time to create one.)
here's a post from the isp-tech mailing list where someone asked basically the same question, and got many responses; within a few hours the spam was flowing at the rate of 1 per minute!
David Lynch's vision of Dune was very stylish; the eye candy was something to behold.
At the time of the original production Frank Herbert said that (paraphrasing) to do justice to the book you would have to make a 9 hour movie, and who would want to watch that? (too bad he passed on before the SciFi channel became reality!)
I will admit that, before seeing the original Dune movie, I never could get into the first book of the series; Herbert throws too much stuff at you right away. Once I saw the movie, I devoured the book in just over a weekend.
a great comedy that no one really remembers; such a shame, as it contained Burt Lancaster's final film appearance as an oil company president who was more concerned with finding a comet that with finding oil. Peter Riegert (The Mask, Oscar) turns in another great performance as the negotiator sent to Scotland by Lancaster to buy an entire fishing village. Denis Lawson ("Wedge" from the original Star Wars trilogy)as the accountant/public house owner who is always making out with his wife Stella. The scenery of the scottish coastline is memorable, and the haunting soundtrack by Mark Knopfler is unforgettable.
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This sounds like the way that NFL Referees present options to the captain of a team when a penalty is assessed on the opposing team. The LAST option presented is the option they should take. Presumably, this aids the player who has been hit in the head a few too many times to make the best decision for his team.
(obligatory troll comment, but I cannot resist!) "On one hand we have an established Harvard Phd, who has testified before the U.S. congress"
(emphasis mine)
Any idiot can get in front of Congress, hell, any idiot can get ELECTED to Congress.
"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things." -- Douglas Adams
"...ask a glass of water" Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (couldn't resist!)
Personally, I'd like the above listed schedule; just move Alton Brown to a more prominent spot than 11AM.
Try 24 hours times 28 days:
24*28=672
Sounds like 28 days to me.....
That's a lot of episodes of Good Eats
The Germ by Ogden Nash from the collection "Bed Riddance"
A mighty creature is the germ
Though smaller than the pachyderm
It's customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race
It's childish pride it pleases
By giving people strange diseases
Do you, dear reader, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ.
We (my wife and I) took a set of the first 3 books translated in German for Douglas to sign at a signing in London in 1986(?). He told us that, although he knew that his work had already been translated into several languages, it was the first time that he'd actually seen one of the translated editions.
I work in tech support for a small ISP in California. One day an elderly gentleman walked into our office and told me he was convinced that the spam he was receiving (especially the kind designed to poison bayesian filters) contained coded messages for al-Qaida terrorists, and that he had been forwarding them to the FBI! It took all my composure to assure him that this was not the case without busting up laughing in his face. We have yet to hear from the FBI, or from the local mental health clinic about this particular customer.
Gutless Wonder. Has't got the guts to take responsibility for his own comment (by posting anonymously rather than using his login, that is if he ever took the time to create one.)
aw shucks...I'd mod him as BOTH insightful and funny!
here's a post from the isp-tech mailing list where someone asked basically the same question, and got many responses; within a few hours the spam was flowing at the rate of 1 per minute!
David Lynch's vision of Dune was very stylish; the eye candy was something to behold. At the time of the original production Frank Herbert said that (paraphrasing) to do justice to the book you would have to make a 9 hour movie, and who would want to watch that? (too bad he passed on before the SciFi channel became reality!) I will admit that, before seeing the original Dune movie, I never could get into the first book of the series; Herbert throws too much stuff at you right away. Once I saw the movie, I devoured the book in just over a weekend.
a great comedy that no one really remembers; such a shame, as it contained Burt Lancaster's final film appearance as an oil company president who was more concerned with finding a comet that with finding oil. Peter Riegert (The Mask, Oscar) turns in another great performance as the negotiator sent to Scotland by Lancaster to buy an entire fishing village. Denis Lawson ("Wedge" from the original Star Wars trilogy)as the accountant/public house owner who is always making out with his wife Stella. The scenery of the scottish coastline is memorable, and the haunting soundtrack by Mark Knopfler is unforgettable.