feedback please
 

I think I've seen that "The Page Could Not Be Displayed" logo somewhere before.

feedback please
 

I think the "Could Not Be Displayed" thingie was more appropriate for the Findlaw boards than here.

feedback please
 

The link didn't work for me either, but I was able to see the designs by going to The Virtual Illusion Website

If you click on forums and look for leagleaze's post, you can see the three designs. None of them seemed impressive, but the second was the best of the lot.

feedback please
 

Try this one

http://www.thevirtualillusion.com/fo...t=0#entry10520

Mr. Personality
 

While I think this show is really kind of slow and boring and the sport of looking askance upon the tools and fools of reality tv is losing its pull for me (ie, what is your favorite chain restaruant was not a LOL moment for me), I will say that the final episode of this show might be entertaining as it is probably going to be something like meeting an FBer for the first time whose posts you have enjoyed for awhile. You are really curious and optimistic and inevitably you are horribly disappointed. But you get drunk anyway, hoping to force them back into your image of them.

Back to the coalmines.

Mr. Personality
 

This sounds an awful lot like my experiences thus far with online dating! Coincidence? Except my last date was at lunch time so I couldn't get drunk.

PJ, thanks for the link to that depressing article about lawyers trying to date!

Similarities
 

My thanks to whomever pointed out that the new Fleetwood Mac tune is basically a slowed down version of "Kodachrome." When that horrid FM tune comes on the radio, I can now hug my knees to my chest and rock comfortingly back and forth, thinking thoughts of a better song not being played. However, if this trick ruins "Kodachrome" for me, I will hunt you down and kill you. Your anonymity will not save you.

I realized last night that Zach Braff is Ray Romano minus 20 years. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

feedback please
 

Thanks, but it would help to know why you have the response you have. I need to direct them on how to make it what we want. So if you could be specific what do you like, what don't you like, what would you want to see.

Right now the colours are not a major part of it because it would need to be adapted for each of our themes.

Define "Anything"
 

And this is different from the way they cover Washington how?

The Eason Jordan thing made me squicky when I read it, no doubt. But sometimes it's hard to pick the lesser of two evils when there's a lot of evil going on.

Mr. Personality
 

I will read a book. Not a high-brow book about philosophy or world events or something else that requires thinking, just a regular book.

Speaking of Books . . .
 

I have no attention-span lately, so I haven't picked up a novel since I finished Dreamland in January. (Excellent book, by the way.)

Instead, I have been reading books of poetry.

I recently rediscovered a wonderful book that belonged to my mother: the Pocket Book of Modern Verse, edited by Oscar Williams, originally published in 1955. It opens with Walt Whitman and WH Auden is about as modern as it gets. It has all the heavy hitters of the period before they were fully accepted into the literary canon, so it provides an interesting survey of their work.

Mr. Personality
 

Sometimes, but not always.

A dangerous strategy to pursue. Sadly, Sidd gets no prettier as the process continues.

Gatti(though perhaps this explains why people drink heavily when they first meet me)gap

Mr. Dictionary
 

Stuff magazine is not a book.

not7yS

Similarities
 

You're welcome!

a( :D )V

Mr. Dictionary
 

And you're reading Details for the articles. Sure.

Inconceivable!!
 

Nice try. I believe I've gotten this response from you before. It means:

1. You didn't listen the last time I said I don't drink coffee.

2. That you know you are completely wrong.

3. You can't tell the difference between me making fun of Adder for a silly mistake and me being insulting.

4. You think you need to come to his defense for something so stupid.

Thurgreed(anxiously awaiting the "caffeine familiarity" nonsense you come up with)Marshall

Inconceivable!!
 

I could not be more thrilled that a post full of vitriol won a K. Congrats TM.
Note: This is an unofficial str8 count and I may be flat wrong. Wronger than Pronger. But at least I get to leave at 3:45 today so as to go watch the Buds. Good luck to all the northern teams today, the Buds, the Wild and the Canucks.

3 down . . .

New Bonds?
 

Rhys-Meyers for Bond?

Irish heart-throb Jonathan Rhys-Meyers may be set to become the next James Bond - taking over the role from fellow countryman Pierce Brosnan. The 25-year-old Bend It Like Beckham star screen-tested for the part of the world's favorite secret agent in London last week. . . . Other actors thought to be in the running include Gerard Butler and Clive Owen.

http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/#2

Paging St. Patrick
 

So does anyone else think Mr. Roy has looked amazingly mortal in the last two games?

I think that his thoughts today might turn back to a certain game 7 he "played" last year against Detroit. It'll be interesting how he looks the first time Marion rips a wrister low to the blocker side.

str(this post not to be confused with heresy, but predicting a 4-1 Wild win nonetheless)8

Inconceivable!!
 

By my count, we are at 2969 (this should be 2970). The other posts are in our archive thread.

So, I expect many Klever posts soon.

Edited to add: you can check the post count by clicking on "The Fashionable" to see the separate threads.

New Bonds?
 

I don't think a 25 year old is right for the role of Bond.

Isn't there a 20 year old (maybe 21?) actress playing the role of an attorney on The Practice or some show like that also? WTF? Doogie Lawyer?

New Bonds?
 

Dude, I loved Gmili! Perfect blend of strength/courage/humor for James Bond! Now that's a brave casting choice!!! Bravo to MGM for thinking outside the box.

str(I would have thought they'd go for Viggo, if anyone)8

New Bonds?
 

No, no NO! If I ran the world, Clive Owen would be the pick. He's perfect. Rhys-Meyers is way too young and too pretty.

But I would settle for anyone (except maybe Hugh Grant) who promised to make a real movie out of "Casino Royale." I won't start the rant I ranted many times on the Stalin Board about this.

New Bonds?
 

I love Clive Owen, but shouldn't Bond look like he stepped from the pages of GQ on his way to save the world?

Mr. Personality
 

You assume that I will spend the hour of 9 to 10 sitting on the couch doing nothing but watching TV. In fact, at the same time I will be paying bills, or straightening up, or reviewing documents, or skimming the newspaper. I am the queen of multitasking.

Though I did read a book last week--A Painted House.

New Bonds?
 

Absolutely. We need to line these guys up in a tux and see who can measure up. (It will take someone with better technological ability than I have.) Colin Firth? Ralph Fiennes?

Though I second whoever suggested Viggo. And if it's going to be that muttering one-trick pony Hugh Grant, I say just mercy-kill the whole series instead.

New Bonds?
 

GQ, maybe. Tiger Beat, no. So that rules out Rhys-Meyers. And don't let Manfred's avatar fool you. Owen cleans up pretty nicely.

Besides, the Bond films are increasingly going in a direction that the original books had gone --- where Bond gets the absolute crap beaten out of him, and just barely survives. The whole Roger Moore savoir faire-above-all thing wasn't very true to the character. The books have a lot more scenes like Brosnan getting tortured in North Korea for a year.

BTW, that Gimli thing had me going. But then I pictured Bond saying some of Sallah's lines in the Indiana Jones movies.

New Bonds?
 

Actually, John Rhys Davies cuts a fairly decent figure in a tux in Victor/Victoria. Not quite spy like, but good enough to pull off booking agent in 1930s Paris.

Paging St. Patrick
 

Yes. He looks like a bag of shit. Unlike Cechmanek and Belfour, who are playing great and ruining my beauty sleep.

Who is the avatar? Damaso Garcia? John Mayberry? Fred McGriff - I know nothing about baseball, just a few random Jays, and I know it's not Joe Carter or Paul Molitor (the only other ones I know).

A Dog with 9 Lives
 

Dog Survives Car Crash, Gunshot, Freezer

CLEARLAKE, Calif. - A dog named Dosha may have as many lives as a cat. _

She was hit by a car, shot in the head and kept in a freezer for two hours, but she survived and is now doing well under a veterinarian's care.

Local animal groups and the Humane Society of the United States have begun fund-raising efforts to pay for her care.

Last Tuesday, Dosha was hit by a car. A Clearlake police officer reported to the scene and no one could tell him who owned the dog.

Officer Bob MacDonald shot the dog, apparently to save her the pain of her injuries. Dosha, presumed dead, was taken to Animal Control, where she was put in a freezer.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...p/not_dead_dog

Paging St. Patrick
 

I'm thinking georg bell. although the name damaso garcia sure brings back memories of childhood. In there with Lloyd Moseby and Dave Steib.

Too much crap in the vestibule?
 

"Over a million New Yorkers used to life in luxury apartments may be taking out their own trash, fixing their own leaks and hailing their own cabs if doormen and handymen strike, as threatened, this week. "

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast...eut/index.html

Paging St. Patrick
 

ahh memories. And what about Kelly Gruber? I guess I know more Jays than I thought. I think you are right - but isn't it "Jorge Bell", although the Toronto media called him "George".

New Bonds? - More like Connery or More like Moore?
 

I don't think so. What about Connery when he was Bond? I don't think he could be classified as a GQ pretty-boy. He was more rugged and athletic than any of the other Bonds. Bond shouldn't go through an entire movie with nary a hair out of place. Remember, the character of Bond is basically a killer. Killers don't have manicures.

Of the three who tested, Owen is the one who most clearly fits the mold. Roger Moore? Ugh. Though probably the most commercially successful era of the franchise, (until the latest incarnation, anyway) it definitely was the least true to the character, in my mind. Much more about gagetry than about being a tough, resourceful guy. Bond should be, above all, tough and resourceful, not to mention worldly, thus eliminating someone who is too young.

Fametracker's Least Watchable Summer Movies of 2003
 

... can be found here. At first, I thought some of these listings were satirical, but apparently they are all real movies sure to suck ass in theatres this summer.

My favorite:

"2. Gigli*

Release Date: August 1

The Plot: Ben Affleck plays a conflicted hitman who becomes even more conflicted when a lesbian hitwoman (Jennifer Lopez) is dispatched to take over from him but then he and she fall in love together.

The Pitch: Originally notable as the film in which the now professionally betrothed Affleck and Lopez first met; now notable as the film that's rumoured to be so bad that the gnomish cheerleaders at Ain't It Cool News called it "unreleasable."

Why It's Inessential: Well, it's kind of essentially inessential, if it's really as bad as it is rumoured to be, which is Shanghai Surprise-level bad. The only way the schadenfreude could be more delicious is if the citizenry of the United States rose up, kidnapped Lopez and Affleck, put them in a rocket together, and shot them into space. In any case, Gigli, or whatever it ends up being called, is destined to be only the second best "I made a lesbian fall in love with me" movie of Affleck's career. So what could possibly be more inessential than that?...

*current title as of press time"

Real Jays
 

Sorry -- They he may have won a World Series there, but Joe Carter will always be a Cleveland Indian.

You want to talk "real" Blue Jays? How about?

Ernie Whitt

Garth Iorg - is there anybody who says "Blue Jay" more than Garth Iorg? I mean, come on!

Too much crap in the vestibule?
 

Hail my own cab?! Minion, fetch me the smelling salts!

Goddamned proles, uprising against us again...

Paging St. Patrick
 

That sounds right. I knew it wasn't the usual spelling of George. Took a bad guess.

Don't forget Jesse Barfield, or "Fettucine" Alfredo Griffin. Ernie Whitt was another long-timer worthy of mention.

Real Jays
 

Ah this thread is making me smile. But my avatar has yet to be mentioned.

My dad had seats behind 3d base at the Ex. My favorite part of any Jays game would be when our wonderful Right Fielder would throw some sucker out who tried to go from first to third on a single to right. Alas the number of runners who tried this started to decrease dramatically after his second or third year in the league. But in honor the legend, I have as my current avatar the Toronto Blue Jays' first AL Home Run champ, #29, Jesse Barfield.

Someone should make a movie about the 83-87 Jays -- it could start with Tippy Martinez picking off 3 Jays in the same inning (Barry Bonnell, Dave Collins and Willie Upshaw), possibly the strangest thing I've ever seen in sports. By the way, the consensus that has emerged is that Damo Garcia and Alfredo Griffin were both really bad hitters. I always thought Garcia was pretty good, but now I'm going to have to check the stats.

str(ok I'm boring everybody now)8

DC Chef arrested. Make your bail contributions here.
 

Unclear what he was doing in Wisconsin, though.

http://www.leadertelegram.com/story.asp?id=25907

[Spree: arrest regarding theft of 854 pairs of thong panties]