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Let's face it. Look at that Expedition sitting out there... I'm a good consumer. But I'm pushing for Buy Nothing day for non-political reasons: I'M BROKE

I don't know. Back in the caveman days, I used to hide a lot to stay out of trouble and avoid being eaten by carnivores with giant gnashing teeth. Now, in the bar days, I am a caveman trying to get noticed, maybe even eaten, but still fail to fulfill my biological destiny. I am consuming a lot though, which is supposed to be a good thing.

What? I don't buy that.

Just came across this...now if I can only convince the wife. QT vid link right here

Purchasing a branded product mainly based on trust, prior satisfaction, quality, etc. (Example: nekobi prefers Birkenstocks because they're comfortable and reliable) VERSUS Purchasing a branded product mainly to show status, style or conformity. (Perfect example: an unemployed teenager with an 80,000-yen Gucci bag walking around Shibuya) Of course there is some overlap here. For example, if you think Brand A makes a great product, then naturally you don't mind showing it off, bragging about it, or recommending it. The converse may be true too. Status brands can't mainta

Money!

Best way to learn powder: Spend a week at Niseko Hirafu. You won't be sorry!

Thanks for the props, but really...are you living in such an English- or Danish-deprived area that you must resort to the likes of us, the disreputable Snow Japan posters, to get by? Sheesh. I wish I'd lived in an English-deprived area like that. Must be good for practicing Japanese language skills!

Sorry, Siren, my mistake! I meant Echelon.

Great. Thanks to that choice of words, this forum is now under full surveillance by AEGIS. Only a matter of time until the black choppers get here, folks, only a matter of time. Do you think we can convince them to take us heliskiing?

I thought the recent remake of TCM contained some rather deep, excellent character studies. The wheelchair-bound legless dirty hick with washable colostomy bag, for example. What a memorable portrait. Another redeeming feature of the film: many of the locals had teeth suitable for dental case studies on worst-case scenarios. It was all positively Faulkneresque...that is, if Faulkner had been a mortuary science student moonlighting at a battoir and the American south were actually an amalgam of Deliverance's Appalachian family values, the reanimated corpse school of beauty, Andy

Ocean, may I suggest a few cold bottles of "isolation transformer" then?

Good point! Head's explanation is interestingly misleading, isn't it. That's what ads and sales are all about...suggesting that you might get something from nothing! Nobody (except maybe Head on their website and technical explanation of their "Intelligence" system) is outright claiming the impossible--that this system adds energy out of nowhere in violation of the laws of thermodynamics... I don't see any battery packs on those skis, either. The chip probably uses only a microcurrent portion of the power generated by piezoelectric fiber deformation to analyze the signal pattern

And here I was thinking "metrosexual" meant a groper on the Paris subway system... That, or a guy who uses the metric system, not inches, to measures the length of his manhood.

I went to one of these a few years ago...some nice stuff, some not-so-nice stuff, some counterfeit stuff. Picked up some cheap sunglasses and some Whiskey vids that are still in regular use!

Ask Mogs about his Disney collection!

You're all welcome to come to Walled Lake, Michigan. There's a fridge full of cold beers of all types, half a dozen bottles of decent Napa Valley Cab, a cupboard full of chips, an extra bedroom and a very comfortable sofa. YOu can stay for the Michigan-Ohio State game this weekend? Big Ten championship on the line and all that.

Anybody with a cell phone camera can send pics to my PC. Sure they're miniatures, but it's fun to see a bar shot, ski shot, funny face or, in the case of Mogs, one-night-stand shot. But how about the other way? I mean, sending pics from my PC to a keitai? This would be fun. Can it be done? I found nothing about it on the Japanese DoCoMo and J-Phone sites. Googling it failed to turn up anything useful in either J or E. I looked at a pic I received from a Japanese friend's keitai and noted its file type, size, pixels, etc. Then I took a pic from my digital camera and ad

Great...another remake. Give me movie versions of old cartoons over remakes of old movies. Better yet...don't give me either of them!

Just a crazy idea that is probably unworkable, but can you burn QT player onto a CD, then run QT movies off the CD in your work PC's drive? ? ? ? ? Computer experts please advise Mogs!! Work has forced him to have this problem for years now. Just not effing fair!!

Gone dotty, I'd say! My real theory: These dots are really axles seen from above. The "db" can swing open into a "pq" like the Transformers or the Thunderbirds.

Maybe the best marketing pitch would be to bill it as one of those "scratch-and-sniff" thingies.

I keep a dai-jokki in my freezer. It gets really cold...when I fill it with lager from a bottle in the fridge, small ice needles form in the beer and it is oh-so-delicious! Great on a hot summer day. Mind you, good-tasting beer doesn't need to be that cold. If it is, then you can't taste it properly. As for the mouthwash glasses, we picked up some Kolsch beer glasses the other day that are eggshell thin and like very tall shot glasses. They make all kinds of things taste better. Seems the glass really does make a difference for some beverages. Hey Ocean, any good beers

Ocean, when said about evolution etc. that it was "the other way round", I thought you were going to postulate that we should not talk of the scrotum being outside the body...rather, we should talk about the body having evolved outside the scrotum. Put another way, the body is a life-support unit evolved by the scrotum.

Different issue really, but I would take a car to a car mechanic, and not to a plane or motorcycle mechanic. Let's hear it for female gynos and male urologists! HOORAY!!