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Hell yeah!!!   [thumbsup]

(What's this about,you ask?  I'm not sayin'   ;D)

Pfft. Tease.

Is it:

a) Rossi finally announces (yawn, all the drama out of that one)

b) You won the lottery and got a Desmoseidici

c) Somebody offered to raise your kids for you

d) You got a day off

None of the above.  You figure it out -- DMF Guidelines n' all. 

Besides, (c) would get MUCH more than just a simple "woot!"   [evil]

Ah, the good old 9th Circuit.

I have no idea what this is about, but I'm just going to say, "42".  That should be random enough to cover my bases. 

Go to Google News. All will be revealed...

 [clap] [clap] [clap]

I just read something kinda cool that involves (edit) "stuff".  Are we not supposed to talk about that sort of stuff here?   Had to hunt down the board's policies... it sounds like that's not allowed here.  (I like that the policies can be found underneath the stickie about fuel tanks.   [laugh]) 

decided to get another bike?
inherited some $?
booked an awesome vacation?


how long you gonna make us wait?   [popcorn]

Ever heard of Prop 8?

Spidey and Tigre no longer have to be ashamed of their nights in the minivan together. 

you must ban yourself 'belle.  [roll]

 [thumbsup]

I just wanna know who's wearing the dress and when's the Spi-gre larva due. 

 [thumbsup]

That's a scary image. :o

Ewwwww!

again, you must ban yourself ... or ask big ian to do the banning.  [roll]

I'll just make some comments, apropos of no particular political things in particular...

My dad was a proud lifelong homophobe. Perhaps the fact that he had practically none of the racism and sexism typical of his generation meant some prejudice had to come out somewhere else.

My best friend during my residency was a gay man in a long-term relationship with a viking. Miguel was an Eagle scout, a Yalie, and a doctor, but he couldn't serve in the Air Force, which he wanted to do. My dad thought it was weird and inappropriate that I was in Miguel's and Kenny's wedding (and you could always hear the quotation marks around "wedding" when my dad mentioned it).

When my daughter was dying, Miguel's partner Kenny let all sorts of members of our family crash at his place near MD Anderson Cancer Center. That included my dad, despite his professed "nervousness." Miguel and Kenny were among the few we trusted to watch her when we were too worn out to.

Months later, after Kenny had died of AIDS, and Miguel was starting to go, my dad called Miguel's mom to ask if there was anything at all my parents could do for him or for her. After Miguel died, my old cold-warrior dad couldn't make it to the funeral. He wanted me to read the message that it had been his hope to wear his USAF colonel's uniform and announce that if Miguel Ochoa wasn't good enough to serve in the Air Force, he couldn't imagine anyone who was. He was pleased as punch when we named our son Michael and said he hoped he'd be the sort of man his namesake was.

A few days ago, my dad called me. "Did you hear? I wish Miguel and Kenny were around for this."

People can change.

^awsome^

It's funny how an abstract idea can seem very unpalatable on its own, but when you plug a person that you know and like into the equation it doesn't seem so bad.

Absolutely.

The problem, of course, is getting to know someone you fear.

Great story mstevens, thanks for sharing. :)

+1!

my story is boring in comparison.

I used to be just about the biggest homophobe
best friend in HS, came out in his early 20's
told me it was harder/more afraid to tell me, than his own parents, told me he had nightmares about telling me.
talked about it at length, answered all my questions
opened my eyes that it is not simply a choice that one makes (he fought it for 10+ years)
everytime I see/talk to him, he sounds happier than he has ever sounded, and that makes me happy for him.
Unions should be about love, not gender.  [thumbsup]

w00t is spelled,  w, zero, zero, t!
w00t!

If you don't know that you are not a geek and can not marry other geeks.

You mean l33t.

wOOt!  Again.

 ;D ;D ;D

...aaaand a brief moment of enlightenment clouds over.

whatever.  You married another geek and are breading geeks. You can call it whatever you want. [laugh] Your kids are going to be like pure blood geek royalty. They'll have reserved  parking spaces in Silicon Valley, and get scholarships to everything just based on race.

wow...you guys talking about l33t is like two dudes arguing about whose Spock impersonation is more realistic at a Star Trek convention.  (we need a geek emoticon on the DMF)

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John using alt-codes isn't very l337.

I'm not as versed in l337 as I am in Troll.

o hai der lil' fella.

damn ... busted ..|..

What? Do you have to bread them before you fry them?

Fried baby--way lower in cholesterol than the fried squirrels they've been dining on up in the woods. 

You geeks are talking about a thing that is different from the thing that we're not talking about in this thread.  So get back to not talking about thing that we're not talking about.  Ya f'n geeks.  



P.S.  Seems like you'd want to bread a geek first, no?  I mean you can't just drop a geek in boiling oil as-is, no matter how ridiculous their geek-hipster-clothes look.  

babies ... the other, other white meat.

Yeah kind of an unfortunate, possibly just for the time being, turn of events for the thing we aren't talking about. But now it's on track to be discussed by the big dogs who are the final say on the things that the thing we aren't talking about falls under. As resident legal expert do you agree? Or am I mistaken? All this not talking about stuff confuses me.