Oh gawd - an animated .gif that had me laughing outloud: Love your job
Time to slay. Vampires of the world beware!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2005 9:54:55 am PDT #9580 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2005 9:58:03 am PDT #9581 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
SCIENTISTS have been warned that their latest experiments may accidently produce monkeys with brains more human than animal.
In cutting-edge experiments, scientists have injected human brain cells into monkey fetuses to study the effects.
Critics argue that if these fetuses are allowed to develop into self-aware subjects, science will be thrown into an ethical nightmare.
An eminent committee of American scientists will call for restrictions into the research, saying the outcome of such studies cannot be predicted and may in fact produce subjects with a 'super-animal' intelligence.
A planet... where apes evolved from men?!?!?
Gudanov - Jul 13, 2005 9:59:34 am PDT #9582 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I mean really, this crap's pretty funny.
It can make it hard to tell reality from satire.
The funniest part of that transcript is the Harry Potter stuff though: I think the issue, what I take issue with is that this book very accurately portrays obviously a religion. And it is being read aloud in our classrooms across America, when other religious books have been banned from the classroom.
SCARBOROUGH: OK.
MATRISCIANA: So that's my issue and that is my concern.
SCARBOROUGH: So, you are saying you can't read the Bible, which promotes Christianity, but you can read “Harry Potter,” which you say pushes witchcraft?
MATRISCIANA: Well, it's a very, very accurate portrayal of witchcraft. It also encourages the children to go into Wiccan Web sites in the classroom. The teaching aids that come along with it do encourage children to learn more about witchcraft.
And, certainly, if they are allowed to do that, in all fairness, on all religions, then let's have that in the classroom. But are all religious...
SCARBOROUGH: Well, Steve—what do you say to that, Steve? If this book promotes the occult, if it promotes witchcraft, then why are we letting our kids read it in school?
ZEITCHIK: Well, there's a couple of issues here.
First of all, I am not convinced that it promotes witchcraft. If there's elements of witchcraft in it, you know, there are elements of religions and of—I mean, you read—you read “To Kill a Mockingbird,” you want to talk about something unsavory, “To Kill a Mockingbird” has racism in it.
And “Night” by Elie Wiesel has brutality and anti-Semitism in it. Certainly, there are unsavory things in the world. And we still read them in our classroom. In fact, we encourage our children to read them, because I think it will ultimately help them understand the world better.
If the message—look, if the underlying message of this book is not one that any person or parent or principal agrees with, then they should not assign it, the same way they should not assign other books. But the idea that somehow this “Harry Potter” phenomenon, because of its very success, is indicative of an anti-religious crusade or that it somehow connects to a separation of—or a violation of church and state to me just seems totally absurd.
To even have the "issue" of Harry Potter books being religious texts on your show is just so wingnut.
Daisy Jane - Jul 13, 2005 10:00:43 am PDT #9583 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I said in literary, Fox is Bizarro Daily Show.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2005 10:00:44 am PDT #9584 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
SCIENTISTS have been warned that their latest experiments may accidently produce monkeys with brains more human than animal.
Maybe those were the monkeys that got loose in Southeastern Ohio and bit the dude!
DavidS - Jul 13, 2005 10:01:41 am PDT #9585 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A planet... where apes evolved from men?!?!?
"It's the part I was born to play, baby!" - Troy McClure
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2005 10:02:18 am PDT #9586 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Maybe those were the monkeys that got loose in Southeastern Ohio and bit the dude!
Woah.
ION: Chocolypse Now
Vonnie K - Jul 13, 2005 10:03:09 am PDT #9587 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Oh gawd - an animated .gif that had me laughing outloud: Love your job
OMG I must go and share it with EVERYONE. *wipes tears of laughter*
bon bon - Jul 13, 2005 10:06:11 am PDT #9588 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I read that chimera article-- it bothered me that it didn't name this apparently "eminent" and "high-powered" committee formed only four years ago. I tried googling Ruth Faden to find out, and all I see is that she is indeed a prominent bio-ethicist but no committee. Searched google news for other instances of that article-- apparently, the Australian (paper?) is the only source. So what is going on here?
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2005 10:08:56 am PDT #9589 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
the Australian (paper?) is the only source. So what is going on here?
Australians are up to no good?