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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Halo on April 03, 2007, 11:59:12 AM
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Omigosh, new topics are drying up. Are there any topics that have not been covered in the OClub? Is this when people head to new bars?
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how bout that hurricane prediction for this year ? Nine hurricanes predicted, to be blamed on global warming..
didnt they predict 12 hurricanes last year? :rolleyes:
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I am beginning to suspect we are all here only for Skuzzy's entertainment anyway, witness MT's "Hello, My Name is MT" thread/bait/troll. :lol
I saw that hook about 4 hours ago and just kept swimming by waiting to see who would bite, it had promise but was cut short when it was skuzzified...
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(http://www.crystalxp.net/news/img/192.jpg)
We ARE ALL being watched!
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I gave it my best shot. It was like a Heimlich maneuver to expel boredom.
The patient died.
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There are plenty of topics available. People seem to have forgotten how to simply talk to each other.
If it ain't on MookToob(tm), it seems it cannot be worth talking about.
What about cars? Motorcycles? Radio Control? Architecture? History? Bowling? The well has plenty of water in it. And its right over there!
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Its boredom skuzzy, we're like the kids at the zoo. We came, we saw, we got the t-shirt, now we want to have fun and poke sticks at the animals and see what happens :cool:
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Man I hate doing taxes...
I have an appointment with H&R Blockheads in 2 1/2 hours.
*sigh*
Mac
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Originally posted by Airscrew
Its boredom skuzzy, we're like the kids at the zoo. We came, we saw, we got the t-shirt, now we want to have fun and poke sticks at the animals and see what happens :cool:
You can have the Lions...
I'll poke the Chimps.
:D
Mac
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Skuzzy's right
So who would win in a fight between Wolverine and Spiderman?
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I guess now wouldnt be a good time to tell y'all that my wife works for the IRS, Treasury department prosecutors, legal secretary... :t
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Originally posted by Dichotomy
Skuzzy's right
So who would win in a fight between Wolverine and Spiderman?
Batgirl! :eek:
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
There are plenty of topics available. People seem to have forgotten how to simply talk to each other.
If it ain't on MookToob(tm), it seems it cannot be worth talking about.
What about cars? Motorcycles? Radio Control? Architecture? History? Bowling? The well has plenty of water in it. And its right over there!
I call foul! I'm certain Skuzzy used the initials MT for his MookToob(tm) on purpose and with no regard for my feelings or sense of security on the interwebs. I demand reparations!
40 acres and a mule will do nicely, but I'd settle for an extra 10000 perk points.
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ROFL!
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The HTC screwed me threads never last long. Hmmm...
Oh man, I've got it! I watched an absolutely GREAT movie yesterday that really made you sit back and think. A must see. It featured some farmer from Tennessee that invented the internets.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/An%20Inconvenient%20Truth%20for%20Kidz-thumb.JPG)
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Okay, I'll bite on An Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore at his finest: "I got screwed out of the presidency, and now you and the entire globe will pay!"
Al Gore and his Apple laptop, jetting from disaster to disaster. The inventor of the Internet masters global warming too. Boy are we sorry we didn't make him Prez!
Dramatic low angle views of Al. Over and over again. Dramatic backlit views of Al. Dramatic views of lonesome Al wheeling his own luggage through near empty airports. Dramatic views of Al striding through narrow corridors Into the Light, as if born again ... and again ... and again.
Dramatic views of Al in front of the world's largest and most elaborate slide presentation. Dramatic view of Al BEING HOISTED into the air so he can show where the top is of the current world population explosion (Mama, Mama, lend him your laser pointer).
Nuclear sub surfacing through the polar icecap (Al: I was on on a nuclear sub etc. etc.) Used to be classified how much ice the sub could break through, but not any longer. Thanks for sharing, Al, we needed to know that.
Like Chicken Man, he's everywhere! He's everywhere! Oh sure, China is a big energy glutton and may be the worst the world has ever seen but the U.S. is the biggest energy hog proportionately. Nyah, nyah. Mea culpa, mea culpa.
If Hillary loses, what is she going to roam the globe doing? Mmmn, wait, she wasn't the VP and heir apparent. Heavy hangs the head that loses the crown.
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The time lapse of worldwide glacier melting and the CO2/temperature correlation were pretty convincing arguements. I think the guy is a pretty sharp cookie.
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I thought Al's best graphic was the population spike. That's what we should be able to control the most, but it looks the most out of control.
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Originally posted by Halo
I thought Al's best graphic was the population spike. That's what we should be able to control the most, but it looks the most out of control.
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as far as i know, the first world countries have low population growth due to birth rate.
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and the reason that theres not much for new topics is because of that pesky last post wins thread.
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Originally posted by vorticon
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as far as i know, the first world countries have low population growth due to birth rate.
and thus the meek inherit the earth.
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Don't you mean the meek forfeit the earth? Soaring immigrant population rates are a concern for many first world nations, including the U.S., Germany, Britain, France, and others.
In the one world humankind view, no problem.
In the my nation unique view, reluctance to compromise national identity, however that may be perceived.
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Waiter... this topic's not very good. :(
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The management apologizes, Sir. No charge at all for being in this thread. Please, the next topic is whatever you choose. Do come again and recommend us to your friends. :)
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See Rule #7
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Originally posted by AWMac
See Rule #7
:rofl
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So what about the CO2/global temp correlation? Did anyone look at the pics of the glaciers? Think what you might about Albert, I see nothing to dispute these facts.
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i guess everyone agrees with al rpm.
whooda thunk.
:confused:
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i'm tellin' ya, it's freaky.
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I should think beating up Al Snore is probably passe' by now. All you guys sound like a broken record. Is that all you can talk about (Al Snore, global swarming, ....)? Seems like a bit of a rut to me.
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Yeah, Al and GW are turning into quicksand.
(quote Skuzzy) What about cars? Motorcycles? Radio Control? Architecture? History? Bowling? The well has plenty of water in it. And its right over there! (unquote)
Cars? Zillion threads on cars.
Motorcycles? Wheely popular.
Radio Control? Do not touch the dial -- you are being taken to The FlyLite Zone.
Architecture? The sky's the limit.
History? It's everywhere! It's everywhere! (sayeth Chicken Man, a once popular radio feature).
Bowling? Now there's a safe topic. Shouldn't push many defensive buttons. Kegling (insider term) looks so easy. Just started in a pleasant senior casual league. Seems 200 should be routine. It's not. Few people break 200. Even a turkey (3 strikes in a row) is tough.
In! What's the highest game you ever bowled? :huh
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Halo,
I'll try to do my patriotic AH2 OC duty and generate a new topic or two today. If they generate any problems or get locked, can I tell Skuzzy that "Halo told me to do it, and I'm very susceptible to peer pressure?"
- SEAGOON
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Anyone notice that global warming is happening on Venus, Mars, and Jupiter? Anyone notice that these temperature increases are directly proportional with increased solar activity? Only a politician would blame a soccer-mom in an SUV for the sun's increase in activity, them or the O-club parrots of the left.
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I didn't see much science in the movie but it certainly was dramatic and heartwrenching...
If you are a woman.
Did you see the film "swindle" it was more amusing but it was full of nasty old science and stuff and scientists who never even ran for office and had bad hair.. They weren't even around when algore invented the internet. It was a decent film but they keep going on and on about science and facts and stuff.
lazs
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Originally posted by Edbert
Anyone notice that global warming is happening on Venus, Mars, and Jupiter? Anyone notice that these temperature increases are directly proportional with increased solar activity? Only a politician would blame a soccer-mom in an SUV for the sun's increase in activity, them or the O-club parrots of the left.
anyone notice that a bunch of people are trying really hard to avoid putting the brakes on polluting the same air that we breath with things that we can't?
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Originally posted by JB88
anyone notice that a bunch of people are trying really hard to avoid putting the brakes on polluting the same air that we breath with things that we can't?
Co2 is good for the plants, save the rainforests!
If you are talking about emerging industrial nations (China/India/Brazil) then we are in a greement. If you are talking about nations with exploding birth rates (China/India/Brazil) then we are in agreement. But often the proponents of the GW scare are only talking about the western nations being the ones who need to curtail emissions.
I still remember when the evironmentalist scare-mongers were claiming we were headed to another ice age due to air pollution. We were all going to freeze to death (if you lived up north) or die from dehydration when the lakes and even the Gulf Of Mexico dried up from the growing ice caps. These claims were supported by a "consensus" of leading scientists at the time, the time was the early 1970s. According to them we'd all be dead by....now.
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i don't disagree with the idea that global warming is occurring. it is. and i think that we are probably contributing to it in ways that we should not be, but i am not one of those people who think that it is going to suddenly happen in five minutes.
i do think that we have a responsibility to do what we can to make sure that we are not creating problems for ourselves. err on the side of caution seems best to me.
cars dont expel carbon dioxide like people and animals do. cars expel carbon monoxide. is that good for plants?
i guess if it wasnt for all of the new people eating all of the new plants that come as a result of all of the new people breathing and releasing carbon dioxide, and driving cars that release carbon monoxide...all would be swell.
mmmm. chemicals in my water from a plant upstream. what? you say we dont do that anymore? oh...why's that i wonder? because big biz is so good it did it on its own right?
okay.
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Originally posted by rpm
So what about the CO2/global temp correlation? Did anyone look at the pics of the glaciers? Think what you might about Albert, I see nothing to dispute these facts.
Some evidence exists that the CO2 rise is delayed by 800 years after warming occurs.
The Ocean is the biggest carbon sink. The Ocean absorbs CO2.
Theory says that the CO2 follows warming (rather than being a cause of warming) because when the oceans heat up the CO2 in solution comes out like CO2 coming out of Dr Pepper when you heat it on the stove.
So correlation does not necessarily equal causation.
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Originally posted by Airscrew
I am beginning to suspect we are all here only for Skuzzy's entertainment anyway, witness MT's "Hello, My Name is MT" thread/bait/troll. :lol
I saw that hook about 4 hours ago and just kept swimming by waiting to see who would bite, it had promise but was cut short when it was skuzzified...
hmm seems your news is outdated....prolly all of 5 mins later they announced that the MAIN hurrican dude is predicting 17 hurricans with 5 of them being cat 5's and dirictly threatening the us coast
he placed the blame on la nina
he went on to say that this year wil be VERY active due to the cooler winds from the pacific cruising the 3000+ miles over the US then south to the mid-lower atlantic.
Personally im hoping Richard C. Hoagland is right and there is a sekrit weather war going on ....:noid
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One of the best responses to the current trend of "shut down the engine of capitalism in order to cool the planet" activism that I've read in some time was actually produced by a group called ISA in response to the ECI's (Evangelical Climate Initiative) alarmist paper calling on Christians to support legislation that would create radical reductions in CO2 emmissions as a "moral duty." I heard about it because a friend of mine, Dr. Cal Beisner was one of the men who worked on the report. None of the men or organizations that worked on it have any connection to or funding from the oil or energy industries and no direct vested interest in one side or the other winning.
The paper points out the lack of direct cause and effect evidence even in the "scientific consensus," especially when one considers that the radical changes being called for would only result in a miniscule drop in emmissions, and then goes on to point out that the economic effects of the changes being called for would be devastating to the world's poor. The paper itself entitled "A Call to Truth" is available at: http://www.interfaithstewardship.org/pdf/CalltoTruth.pdf
Here is a tickler regarding the effects on the poor:
The ECI’s claim that “deadly impacts are being experienced now” is unsubstantiated. To substantiate it, the ECI would have to prove not just that global average temperatures are rising or that severe weather events are more frequent or more extreme, etc., but that (a) these things are significantly driven by CO2 emissions from fossil fuel consumption and (b) the numbers of deaths attributable to them match or exceed the numbers attributable to the known, well-understood causes listed above. No data anywhere suggest anything remotely like that. In fact, virtually everywhere death rates have declined over the last several decades, even as he globe has admittedly warmed–although they are rising in some areas that are sinking deeper into poverty or where malaria is resurgent and AIDS has become prevalent.42
Worse, by emphasizing these improbable risks and solutions, and by condemning the world’s poor to slower economic development by raising energy prices, the ECI asks the poor to give up or at least postpone their claims to modern technology that is essential for a better future for themselves and their children. It tells them they must not expect to have fossil fuels, electricity, or even ecotourism (because jets emit greenhouse gases and cause climate change). Other environmental activists tell them they must not use hydroelectric or nuclear power to generate electricity, because of fears of damming rivers and risks from handling nuclear wastes. So the world’s poor must remain indigenous, traditional, and poor–or as Leon Louw has put it, must continue living in “human game preserves,” so that affluent Westerners can visit them in their quaint villages.43
It is immoral and harmful to Earth’s poorest citizens to deny them the benefits of abundant, reliable, affordable electricity and other forms of energy (for homes, cars, airplanes, and factories) merely because it is produced by using fossil fuels. Foreseeable forms of renewable energy (other than hydroelectric) won’t provide reliable, affordable electricity at least for many years, in amounts that are adequate and necessary for modern hospitals, factories, homes, communities and nations. To tell poor families, communities, and nations that they can’t develop hydroelectric or nuclear energy either, because some people disapprove of them, is unconscionable.
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You guys are really wierd. Just sayin...
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
You guys are really wierd. Just sayin...
And you keep hanging around here, dont that kinda make you a tad "off" as well?
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It is a foregone conclusion I am off my nut. You have to be to do what I do for a living.
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The true scource of Global Warming (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/kenya/)
Here's your Proof!
Mac
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sort of like a sheppard...but for geeks.
:D
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Originally posted by Halo
Bowling? Now there's a safe topic. Shouldn't push many defensive buttons. Kegling (insider term) looks so easy. Just started in a pleasant senior casual league. Seems 200 should be routine. It's not. Few people break 200. Even a turkey (3 strikes in a row) is tough.
In! What's the highest game you ever bowled? :huh
My highest game was last year, 280. (spare, 10 strikes and then opened on the 10th frame.) on a 182 average last year. this year my average is down to 174.
200's are possible, secret is to pickup your spares. Strikes are good and lovely but if you cant pickup spares they're not much help.
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I have bowled two 299's and 12 298's. I was carrying a 268 average when I stopped bowling. Never managed to get a 300. I quit bowling when I was 19 after a car accident wrecked my shoulder.
Yes, I was set to turn pro. Had the sponsors lined up and ready to go. The wreck happened about 3 months before the tour was to start.
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wow skuzzy.
:)
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My dad was a pretty fair bowler. Averaged in the 190's. Anyway I remember once when he took my sister and I bowling. She scored a 9.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
My dad was a pretty fair bowler. Averaged in the 190's.
Kurt Tank was above average in the 190s.
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Wow, Skuzzy, those are impressive scores. And before you were 20 years old.
Fate. Mysterious.
The bowling world's loss is our gain.
Yeah, these forums are kinda weird, aren't they. But fun and often quite helpful.
Don't you sometimes feel like that old leadership quote, "There go my people, I must catch them because I am their leader."
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Topics?
I LOVE the O Club!
When it went away for awhile it was like telling old guys they couldn't go to the truck stop and chew over things like politics, their cars, guns, or talk about food...but when it came back? AWESOME!!!
When an Arkansan can chat about how to barbecue with someone in Russia...or some kid with a history question for his homework and get an answer from someone who LIVES there...regardless of state, province, or country....that, my friends, is a real community.
Example: on a routine trip back from Germany in the late '70's, since my luggage was the first on, it was the last off. I was in line behind an very eldery woman with a steamer trunk that was at least 100 lbs (she planned on staying with her relatives in Chicago for a few months and had brought gifts on top of her everyday clothes and supplies). Being a wrestler, I happly pressed her trunk forward in line as we chatted in German.
Turns out, "Anna" was from Schweidnitz, Silesia, and for some time worked as a gardener on the von Richthofen family estate. She even, at her age, blushed when she whispered to be that Manfred had, on ocassion, snuck up and "goosed" her backside while she was concentrating on the gardening.
For my fellow AH'ers unaware of Manfred & Lothar von Richthofen, you NEED to Google it! In this game, you NEED to know!
You would be surprised just how SMALL a world this really is!
This board is no different!
Topics.....ROCK ON!
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68ROX
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Amen, 68ROX. I rarely fly anymore but still marvel at Aces High and savor the opportunity that it's here whenever I want to test my mettle or make someone else's day. Best $15 a month I'll ever spend.
You're right, it has grown into an amazing community. Some 3,000 members (I think) all over the world. On the bulletin board, have a concern or ask a question, somebody knows whatever you want to know and usually is willing to share it.
HiTech and his crew are amazing. Many years ago, at an Air Warrior convention in Dayton, I wound up going to dinner with him and another guy when I was still writing and photographing some for Current Notes, the Atari news magazine.
The dinner was nothing arranged, just a "Hi, where's a good place to eat?" link-up. He seemed a bit young, kinda quiet, a little intense, but awfully knowledgeable. To think he had not only the vision to design the ultimate WWII air combat simulator, but to sustain it all these years, is incredible.