Phi for All

Several times lately I've gotten email notification of a posting on a thread I've subscribed to and when I go to check it out the thread seems to be missing lots of posts, including the one I was notified about. It is usually resolved within the day and all the posts return. This has been happening since the major loss of posts a few weeks ago when the server was being upgraded.

Ad blocking...<drooooool>...it is a dream I have.... My nipples are hard! I can't wait. I'll have time on Sunday.

Sorry, Lance, it had to be done. I use humor to cover up my jealousy of the fact that you guys have laboratories in your basement and I have dollhouses, storage shelves and boxes of toddler clothes. My little girl is 5 now, so I'm looking forward to starting HER lab down there soon. Can you suggest some pieces I could start collecting?

Here you go.

Perhaps provocative, agitative, challenging, incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, intriguing, or seditious or something.

If I were a moderator I'd move this thread to politics (internal, subclass: petty) and give it a one-star rating. People, remember that your opinions here are necessary, but your egos aren't. This was never a popularity contest. I respect EVERYONE on this forum more than any of you will ever realize. You give perspective to my own ideas, which would be flat and lifeless without you. If I wanted to live in a compound with like-minded people, I would have moved to Waco. Let's respect the fact that faf needed to vent, sayo was trying to keep things clear and concise (dictionary: concise-see Sayonara3), and blike was offline and not able to respond to the PMs and IMs I'm sure faf was sending to him. And jgerlica, what's not to like?

SOLD!!! Do you recommend that I: a) keep IE on my machine but use Firefox as default browser, b) happy tango after I delete IE or c) happy tango during the deletion process, accompanied by rude gestures in the general direction of upper Washington state?

Does the pop-up blocker allow you to designate pop-ups from certain sites as OK or would I have to choose everytime it happened?

Well, I certainly did my level best to do something to annoy you, Sayonara. It's obvous no one's having any fun with it. Pull the plug on the whole thread.

OK, lotta honest folks out there! Next scenario: You have one year to live, after which time you will simply drop dead with no lingering pain or illness. What would you do in that year's time and how would you finance it?

Let's write our own ongoing story! The rules: You get 10 words or less, punctuation doesn't count (use it, but it doesn't count towards your ten words), stick to the story as it unfolds as much as possible, read the whole story so you can re-use characters and situations in it, and have a silly time! Here goes: While on holiday in Barbados, Aldo, the chubby but overly

"Hold this!"* *Any others with only two words?

There goes my Gfortune!

Apparently there is evidence that shows the Mayans knew about the rings of Saturn long before telescopes. Also, the Greeks maintained that Zeus (Jupiter) drove his titan father Kronos (Saturn) away from Earth and bound him in chains (rings?). So not only did the ancient Greeks know about Saturn, they knew about its rings as well.http://www.varchive.org/itb/rings.htm

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He's Anarcticanadian. I read about them hosers in Scientific BiMonthly. Got a subway that runs straight through the middle of the Earth and connects the poles. The idea is you run naked in the snow and get real cold, jump on the subway and go like hell. It gets real hot around mid-line, but when you get to the other end you just jump in the snow again. Real secretive, those Anarcticanadians, notice how he don't show you the insides of his lab there. Very hush-hush.

ROTFLMAO!!!! I wish we had a way to rate each joke without quadrupling the posts, 'cause there have been some really great ones!

A redneck and a man from England were up for the same job in the States. They were both put in a room and given a 10 question test to complete to determine who would get hired. After completing the test, the manager brought them both into his office and, even though both men had scored identically on the test, he gave the job to the Englishman. "Hold on, here!" cried the redneck. "I'm an American! If we both got the same score, why wouldn't you hire me over some foreigner?" The manager said, "Actually it's because of the one question you both missed. For #5 he wrote 'I don't know' and you wrote 'Me neither'.

I haven't read the book but I remember a thread by Hades (I think) where he points out the book has ad space here on SFN (I'm looking at the link right now). As far as I've read, he just says today's science is all wrong in Chapter One, then says see Chapter Two for the true answers to things like gravity. You have to order the book to see anything in Chapter Two.... It's looks like just a rehash of TOE for people who can't follow Brian Greene or Michio Kaku or Ed Witten, sensationalized to make Newtonian physics and those who ever believed in it a bunch of idiots.

An old man lived alone in the country. His only son was in prison for bank robbery, and the old man had no one to turn the dirt in his vegetable garden. The old man wrote to his son about it, and received this reply, "For HEAVENS SAKE, don't dig up that garden, that's where I buried the MONEY!" At 4 A.M. the next morning, a dozen FBI agents showed up and dug up the entire garden, but didn't find any money. Confused, the man wrote to his son telling him what happened and asking him what to do next. His son's reply was: "Just plant your vegetables, Dad."

Wow, you have like the biggest basement EVER!

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