Random annoyances
 

Give me a break, Timmy, I'm sick.

Speaking of brain dead chimps, where's Flinty?

Disregard if not interested in football
 

OK, now he is claiming that he did not quit, while the Skins maintain that he did. Hmmmmm...

Disregard if not interested in football
 

Yes. he offered to resign, and snyder said okay before spurrier finished the sentence with "if you buy me out of the remainder of my contract for $5m."

Spurrier will be gone. It's just a question of how much danny boy has to pay to make it happen.

In 2004, I resolve to Not Annoy sebby.
 

I'll try to avoid using that word in the future. Kinda like my own little FB posting resolution.

Anyho....uh, speaking of New Year's resolutions, mine will include the 427th Annual "Not Bob Will Not Procrastinate This Year (And He Really Means It This Time)" resolution. I figure one of these days it will stick.

Other planned resolutions for 2004 include excercising more and eating healthier. I suspect those will work out well, too.

In 2004, I resolve to Not Annoy sebby.
 

Um. How old are you? You are very well preserved.

In 2004, I resolve to Not Annoy sebby.
 

Well, you know, a number of people age magnificiently.

Disregard if not interested in football
 

Word is, Snyder will be replacing him with 4 coaches.

In 2004, I resolve to Not Annoy sebby.
 

How old do you think he is?

In 2004, I resolve to Not Annoy sebby.
 

You are too kind.

I may be with Less in the too-old-for-hot-drunken-Portland State-coeds age classification, but we take comfort in the fact that our advanced age has brought us much wisdom, which makes up for the loss of youth. Really.

Random annoyances
 

No Clear Winner In Feces-Throwing Conflict
TABORA, TANZANIA—After several hours of fierce feces-slinging from both sides, no clear winner emerged Tuesday in the conflict between Tabora-area male silverback gorillas Lugo and Kamala. "While Lugo looked strong early on, heaving large quantities of his own dung at his opponent, Kamala came back with an equally impressive volley of his own," primatologist Dr. Donald Schayes said. "We might not have a clear handle on the outcome until mating season." The animals have tentatively scheduled an additional series of fecal flings over the next three weeks.
http://www.theonion.com/

In 2004, I resolve to Not Annoy sebby.
 

Classic symptoms of manspinsterhood. except for the wife thing. Coltrane, are you listening?

In 2004, I resolve to Not Annoy sebby.
 

I'm sorry. I can't hear you. There's a 22 yr old model screaming in my ear. She's a bitch. But she's got a tight ass.

Newsflash: Scientists prove hot chicks make men stupid
 

http://www.economist.com/printeditio...ory_ID=2299980

I have very nearly decided that all stereotypes are, in fact, true. However, this article made me feel all self-congratulatory that I have managed to keep my looks up this year, because my REAL best X-mas present (even better than a new phone) was a pair of earrings from the Mr. that, pace Fugee, I can't wear during the day.

Hey, big spender

Dec 18th 2003 | TORONTO
From The Economist print edition

Men lose their fiscal prudence in the presence of attractive women

YOU already knew it, but now science has confirmed it: a glimpse of a beautiful woman can change the way a man thinks. Change him, in this case, from the kind of chap who prefers $100 a year hence to $25 tomorrow, into one who simply cannot wait the extra 364 days.

Economists and psychologists have been exploring the notion of discounting the future for some time now. For most people, money today is worth more than the same amount in the future. But how about twice that in a few weeks' time? Or three times as much in a half year? It is already well-known that men discount the future more steeply than women and that certain types of people—addicts, for instance—discount more steeply than others. But it has mostly been taken for granted that the way a person discounts is a stable personality trait, and an arbitrary one.

Two researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, however, dispute these points. They have shown, in a study just published in Biology Letters, that an individual's discount rate can be manipulated. They also argue that the change makes good sense.

Margo Wilson and Martin Daly, famous for a study several years ago which showed that children are far more likely to be killed by step-parents than biological parents, tend to look at things from a Darwinian point of view. They reckoned the reason men discount more steeply has to do with the male reproductive imperative: score often, score early and, above all, score when you can. There is no point husbanding resources for the future when the opportunity is now. So Dr Wilson and Dr Daly wanted to see if they could put men into a “mating opportunity” mindset and temporarily alter the way those men valued present and future goods.

Over 200 young men and women participated in the study, which was divided into three parts. In the first, the participants were asked to respond to nine specific choices regarding potentially real monetary rewards. (At the end of the session, they could roll dice to try to win one of their choices, which would be paid by an appropriately post-dated cheque issued by the university.) In each case, a low sum to be paid out the next day was offered against a higher sum to be paid at a specified future date. Individual responses were surprisingly consistent, according to Dr Wilson, so the “pre-experiment” threshold of each participant was easy to establish.

The volunteers were then asked to score one of four sets of pictures for their appeal: 12 attractive members of the opposite sex; 12 non-lookers; 12 beautiful cars; or 12 unimpressive cars. Immediately after they had seen these images, they were given a new round of monetary reward choices.

As predicted, men who had seen pictures of pretty women discounted the future more steeply than they had done before—in other words, they were more likely to take the lesser sum tomorrow. As Dr Wilson puts it, it was as though a special “I-want-that-now” pathway had been activated in their brains. After all, the money might come in handy immediately. No one else was much affected. (Women did seem to be revved up by nice cars, a result the researchers still find mystifying. But the statistical significance of this finding disappeared after some routine adjustments, and in any case previous work has suggested that women are more susceptible to displays of wealth than men are.)

Dr Wilson and Dr Daly speculate that the simple act of regarding beautiful women is able to engage and manipulate the male brain's reward centres. This idea is supported by earlier brain-scanning studies which showed that looking at beautiful women, but not plain ones, arouses a man's nucleus acumbens, the part of the brain that evaluates rewards. That structure, in turn, is tightly linked to the orbitofrontal cortex, which has been shown to be activated by monetary rewards. So, ladies, it looks as though you were right. Men are just as gullible as you thought they were.

In 2004, I resolve to Not Annoy sebby.
 

That reminds me of a press conference I once saw Patrick Waaaaa give in which, in response to a question, he responded with something along the lines of "I can't hear you, I've got my Stanley Cup Rings in my ears."

Joltin' Joe has left and gone away.
 

Coltrane, my boy, I have one word for you: plastics.