<<Thud>> (sound of knees weakened...I've fallen and I can't get up! Where's that damned med-alert button...danged dogs musta grabbed it again)
Your words so sweet have touched my soul, but I think I may have broken a hip in the fall.

Wait for me most dearest, once the bones set and the pins are taken out, we could trip the light fantastic!

IC, in all seriousness...you are truly gifted. <<bowing humbly at your feet>>> I honestly love your grace and style.

Goodness ... umm ... medic?!?!?!

As a longtime wordsmith, I thank you most heartily, Ohio. As a wordsmith, to be appreciated for one's words is the greatest compliment, whether given or received. That you would find me worthy of such regard finds me redfaced and rewarded with both backward bashfulness and undoubted delight.

I'm headed off to bed for the night, but I do hope that med-alert button has found its purpose, despite the dogs' disabling! I would hate to think that my lame and lunar ravings would lure a lovely lass to such lower lumbar leavings ... literally!

Love & Loratidol (I needs me allergy meds!)

AWWWWWWWWW SUCH IS LIFE EH SS

SOMETHING ABOUT PEEPS LIKE YOU

YOU CAN FOOL THE WEAK

BUT NEVER THE STRONG

LUCKY FOR YOU

AND US

WE LIVE IN AMERICA

WHERE FREEDOM OF SPEECH

IS JUST THAT

SO PREACH WHAT YOU PREACH

THEN ASK

WHO CARES

I KNOW I DON'T

I KNOW WHO I AM

AND DON'T NEED DIRECTION

ESPECIALLY FROM SOMEONE AS CLOSED MINDED AS YOURSELF

TAKE IT AS YOU WISH

READ IT AS YOU LIKE

INTERPRET AS YOU LIKE

THEN ONCE AGAIN ASK ME IF I CARE..............

I HOPE YOU KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT ONE

TO BE CONT...

MAYBE

YOU FEEDING THE TROLLS IC ?????????



TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

HERE'S A TIDBIT FOR YA SS

YOU DON'T READ MESSAGES HERE

BUT YOU REPLY TO THEM

AND YOU CALL OTHERS HYPOCRYTES

DO YOU KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD

OR IS IT SOMETHING YOU SAW SOMEONE ELSE WRITE

THOUGHT IT WAS COOL

SO TOOK IT AS YOUR OWN

SHRUG

WRITE ON SS

IF ANYTHING YOU HAVE PROVEN TO BE COMEDY RELIEF

TO BE CONT...

MAYBE

My sweetest you are much like a Mallomar, crisp chocolate shell, sweet white marshmallow center.

did you just call me a troll?

No, Ohio,

He wanted to know if you were feeding Shan....

Oh, thanks for clearing that up. Was thinking I might have to spend more time under the sun lamp and start wearing make-up again...phew.

Nope on the troll feeding. It has been banished to the nether regions.

I've been called a trollup before, but never a troll...that would have been a new one.

mmmMMMmmMallomarmmmMMMmmm

I never noticed how many things I craved till I quit eating so many of em!

It's kinda hard to say mmmMMMCelerySticksmmmMMMmmm

just doesn't sound or feel the same.

Nonono!!! Well, I indeed was feeding a troll, JustMe, but not in the post you quoted. Ohiofarmgirl has definitely not fashioned herself a troll in any way, shape or form, and has, on the contrary, become a very valuable member of the boards--she's been fun, witty and intelligent, so please welcome her with open arms.

The troll I was gleefully feeding in other posts was little miss shanshan2007, who has proven herself and solidified her title as the poster child for hypocricy and intolerance for the millennium's freshman decade.

OoOOoo!! I like Mallomars! All that graham-crackery goodness and the spunsugary puff of marshmallow enrobed in dark chocolate--I mean, who needs a Moon Pie when you've got a Mallomar, right? Of course, I might consider myself more a s'more if hard pressed ... (since a s'more kind of is hard pressed). I think if I had to describe myself, though, I'd be your average campfire marshmallow fresh from dangling over the coals--charcoal dusted and bubbling crisp on the outside, with a few charred and bitterly seasoned bits here and there where the flames went just a tad too deep, and all gooey and gushing on the inside. Why, snag me off the roasting fork too soon, and you might leave half of me behind, clinging valiantly to what poked me in the first place, lol!

It does make me curious, though ... for everyone here, if you could describe yourself as a food, what food would it be, and why ...?

I think I'd be a peach cobbler - a little crusty on the outside on first appearance, but sweet and, of course, fruity on the inside. Since I live in GA, it HAS to be a peach cobbler!

EXCELLENT question. I think I would be a blackberry pie. Nice crisp crust on the outside, sugar baked into the top with little hint of what's underneath except for the juices bubbling up, but the taste, oh my the taste. MMMMMM, sweet and tart almost perfect except the danged seeds that get stuck in your teeth, annoying you to dental distress until you finally pop that finely wedge bastid out of there. And what do you go and do? Take another big ole hunky mouthful, damn the seeds, full forks ahead.
That's what I would be.

Please forgive my need to stray from the sweets on this one, but I'd have to say a buffalo steak.

Why?

Lean, meaty, succulant, juicy, satisfying, Hint of sweet (if corn-fed), substantial, filling, warm, can be mean if seasoned incorrectly, better than cows, great for casual gatherings, but can also be the premier entree of any A-list dinner, fortifying, expensive, not another "white meat", deep in colour, rich in flavour, a little goes a long way, not something to be devoured...only savoured, a meal in and of itself, not to be shared, it's monogomous (get your fork away from my plate!)...any carnivores getting hungry yet?...seasoned with a light dusting of cracked white pepper and a smidge of garlic, grilled to perfection at medium rare

20 more pounds and I aspire to be a buffalo steak, or a Swenson's burger made with same said meat.

For those who may be vegitarians or vegans, I humbly appologize if I may have touched a nerve with my carnivorous desires, but I can't help myself...I'm a meat-eater.

Most of the people I deal with fear me...mostly because i hand out grades, which they put on pedestals not realizing that we learn more from our failures than our successes....silly young people.

To have you, a wordsmith with your ability, describe me as fun, witty and intelligent, is worth more than you know to me. Thank you for the compliment. I blush in your direction :-)

Oh my LORD! Kani, if and when you ever go to Ohio on a burger and ice cream quest, you need to hit some Ohio rural areas and get yourself some blackberries right off the bush. Be careful to let the farmer know you would like to wander his land to sample his fruits or you could get shot. If his wife is home, she'll have a blackberry pie cooling on the kitchen counter. Give her the look of "I haven't eaten in three days" and she'll slice you a homemade piece of heaven itself.

Ya big ole cowgirl.

Girlfriend, I don't need Ohio for that, I used to pick them on the highway medians in Virginia. And only pissed off the bees.

Cowgirl or BuffaloBetty?

MY BAD OFG

SHOULD HAVE SAID JUMPING IN

YOU ALL WERE HAVING SOOO MUCH FUN

JUMPED IN WITHOUT CLARIFYING IT

LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF

I'M THE VILLAGE IDIOT

KEEPER OF THE SOAPBOX

PEEPER IN THE KNOLL

JUSTMEAOD OR JUSTME

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

SORRY BOUT THAT IC

I WAS JUST CRUISING IN

AND JUMPED ON THE NEXT FRIENDLY POST THERE WAS

WILL BE MORE CAREFULL NEXT TIME LOL

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

I'D BE A ROCK LOL

CRUSTY AND INEDIBLE

BUT FUN TO PLAY WITH LOL

CAN BE SKIPPED ON WATER

THROWN THROUGH THE AIR

STEPPED ON

AND STILL COME OUT THE SAME LOL

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

I'm thinking maybe Buffalo Gal.

No problem at all Justme! You can call me anything you like, just don't call me late for dinner!

Now c'mon. Your self-defining food is a rock?

Well,

I have to agree with the rock analogy - just like the rock in the Chevy commercial - dependable, even keeled, and you can throw anything at him, but it doesn't do anything to him. He still keeps his same good 'ole sense of humor and perspective.

.......Not to mention the little kinky quirks!

**This poster is not endorsing Chevy trucks. This poster personally owns a GMC - God made Chevy**

My first English prof in college had a God-awful reputation for never giving his students "A" nods under any circumstances. He was feared by pretty much everyone. Now, my grandmother, a school librarian, taught me a love of words very early on. By the time I was in 8th grade, I had won several awards for my poetry and short stories. My mother was a true child of the 60's, suffering under yet overcoming a physical handicap by degrees, and who's fought tooth and nail for everything she's ever believed in.

What I learned from both Mom and Grandma (and Great Grandma, too, who was as stubborn as a fly-bitten mule in Alabama August) came in very handy when I got my first "B" paper back in freshman English class, knowing I'd done "A" work, and hearing "You did do "A" work, but I just don't give out "A" grades."

Without putting you and everyone else here through an ad nauseum play-by-play, I'll just say that when the dust settled, Mr. English Prof had lost his crabby crown, and I got what I deserved too -- an "A."



Seriously, I'm far from the greatest wordsmith here, and you'll find I'm longwinded as feck, but FWIW, you are most welcome. That blush goes back to you threefold.

So THAT'S where you got to be so good with poetry!

I could never stand to your calibre!

I know just what you mean about professors! I learned early how to write good essays. I HATE essays and research papers so I do them right the first time. I had a writing professor that refused to answer a question directly - always answered it with a question to get us to think "outside the box".

Well, after I **ahem** politely told him that I was paying good money for him to answer my questions with an answer, not a question (I was in my early 30's and not intimidated, even if he WAS the Dept. head), he answered MY questions. It wasn't long afterwards that all my other classmates passed me questions to ask so that we could get answers.

Stop that, now! I'm hardly that good!



Good for you, 2P! I've never subscribed to the notion that professors (or doctors or lawyers, etc.) are the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to definitive answers. When I graduated Summa Cum Laude in English, and was awarded the "Outstanding Senior In English" award the year I graduated, can you guess who presented me with the award? Yep!!! It was the very same English prof who'd never given out "A" grades my freshman year. He'd somehow managed (due to the death of his predecessor) to finagle the appointment to Department Head the year I graduated, and I took great relish when I crossed that stage and he handed me both my diploma and my award. I remember I gave him a decidedly poignant wink when he handed me the plaque.

As far as I know, he's still teaching. The cool thing is, according to my nieces, who've taken his class recently, he gives out "A" grades now, when warranted, 20 years after the fact, and the alumni still apparently speak of the year The Great Elton Glaser was taken to task by a freshman and lost.

So I guess I kind of made a lasting difference, and that's infinitely cool to me.

Lia

Admittedly, sometimes PhD stands for 'Piled Higher and Deeper" Depends entirely on the individual who earned the letters. My favorite profs in my tenure as a student (actually when you stop being a student, somehow you get a whole lot closer to death) were the truly tough ones. The ones where you had to go above and beyond to earn your grade and forced to do research for answers...and sometimes went as far as to set students up to fail some tasks.

There was a lesson behind ever moment. What I got out of it was that no matter how good I thought I was, there was always going to be someone either moving up the ranks close behind me or there was going to be someone slightly ahead of me. Therefor, my toughest competition would always be myself as well as my toughest critic.

I can see the point of being frustrated at a prof who "never gave out an A". Seems the guy was a tad lazy in sticking to the standards he set. There has to be a high end and a low end in the scale of general students' abilities. If he had to doctor the scale to keep to his "no A" policy, then yeah, I'd be pissed too.

But if this guy had told you from the get-go that it wasn't a grade you should be after, it's excellence...define excellence. Once you achieve it, what do you do next?

I'm having a rough time with the concept of "giving" answers. The whole idea of higher academia is to push, prod, poke students to become free thinkers. To have the ability to take new knowledge and apply it as opposed to regurgitate.

Do I give "A's"? Yes, when earned through hard work and original thought. Do I give out my answers as the ultimate truth...Hell no. All I give are guidelines to get to possible answers. The students who really are interested in the subject or field of study discuss their findings with me. The ones who are there for a grade get one. Maybe not the one they wanted, but the one they earned. It's a style of teaching called guided discovery. Very difficult to do, but much more rewarding in the long run for everyone involved.

I know being a student is tough...been there. Try it all from the other side of the podium...it ain't for sissies :-)

I'LL CONSIDER MYSELF WARNED OFG

BRINGS A QUESTION TO MIND THOUGH

DOES A LATE DINNER BRING JUST DESSERTS???




OH YEAH

FORGOT TO MENTION

JUST LIKE A ROCK

WHEN SKIPPING ON WATER

IF I DON'T MAKE IT TO THE OTHER SIDE.......

I SINK

AND LIKE A ROCK

I KEEP ROLLIN



TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

GEE THANKS 2P

CHEVY NEVER CAME TO MIND WHEN READING THE FIRST TWO SENTENCES LOL

MORE LIKE "TIMEX"

BUT UNLIKE TIMEX

IF GIVEN A LICKEN

I LICK BACK LOL

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

Ok, have to defend educators. Promise, I'll shaddup once I pose this last question. Here's a 1st or 2nd year level question. It's actually a final exam take home test.

You would be expected to not only come up with an answer, but also defend it by showing how you arrived at it.

The question seems simple enough, but arriving at the answer takes a lot of time staying awake and paying attention to lectures and discussions.

After considering the question, do you think you would rather work with a trainer / nutritionist / practitioner who could give an answer and defend it or spend $400 per 1 hr session at Jackie's Gym? (Not a leading question, I'm honestly curious about what you think)

"You've just eaten an Italian dinner where you had a single serving of pasta (no sauce, just plain pasta). A single serving of pasta is equal to approximately 50 grams of starch. HOW MANY ATPs (energy) can be gained from this amount of pasta?

Assume: 36 ATPs per molecule of glucose

You know that: each molecule of starch = 2500 molecules of glucose

AND that there are 6.02 x 10(23) molecules in every mol

NOTE: These two facts may or may not be necessary to solve the problem.

I GUESS YOU WERE LATE FOR DINNER EH OFG


AND THIS IS OUR JUST DESSERTS

QUOTE

"You've just eaten an Italian dinner where you had a single serving of pasta (no sauce, just plain pasta). A single serving of pasta is equal to approximately 50 grams of starch. HOW MANY ATPs (energy) can be gained from this amount of pasta?

Assume: 36 ATPs per molecule of glucose

You know that: each molecule of starch = 2500 molecules of glucose

AND that there are 6.02 x 10(23) molecules in every mol

NOTE: These two facts may or may not be necessary to solve the problem.

OK NOW

I HAVE FOUND THERE IS

ONE ELEMENT MISSING IN THIS EQUASION

THAT IS

HOW MANY MOLS IN A GRAM

I WOULD SAY "ALOT"

BUT BEING A FORMER CYCLIST

I WOULD SAY YOU WOULD NEED AT LEAST FOUR OF THOSE SERVINGS

BEFORE A RACE

AND THE CARBS FROM THE STARCH

WOULD BE BURNED OFF IN THE FIRST 15 MILES

MOVING AT A GOOD CLICK OF

25 TO 40 MPH WITH A CADENCE OF 150 TO 200 RPM

WITH THAT SAID

YOU HAVE TO ENTER IN THE "HUMAN" FACTOR

AS THAT STARCH EQUATES TO A VARIABLE RESULT

IT COULD MAKE SOME JUST FALL ASLEEP

AND IT COULD INFUSE ENOUGH SOME WITH THE POWER OF

THE ENERGIZER BUNNY

OK THERE'S MY ARGUMENT.......

SO MY ANSWER WOULD BE .....

1.5 VOLTS WITH 4500 MAMPS OUTPUT

CROSSING 6 OHMS OF RESISTANCE

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

P.S. I WOULDN'T USE A GYM LIKE JACKIE'S. I LIKE TO DO THE RESEARCH IN ORDER TO REACH DEVELOPMENT. BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO NEED THE PUSH. SO THE VALUE CAN AND ONLY WILL BE DETERMINED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS.

OK NOW I WILL TAKE MY PLACE IN THE BACK OF THE CLASS

GOOD TRY!!!!! You need to do some figurin to find Mols/g (Stoichiometry). You'd need to know the chemical structure and weights to do so (Chemistry). Also need to understand the krebs cycle and how many ATPs generated from phosphorylization of one glucose molecule (biology). Heck don't wander back there, c'mon up front and play with the rest of the brainiacs! It's fun!!!

Thanks for the answer to the Gym question. I wonder what it is that motivates folks to do what they do. Being a working stiff...$400 is out of my reach, so have to fall back on my ingenuity and know how to Git-er-done. I'm not really knocking Jackie's gym, just trying to justify $400 for a trainer who really doesn't have the education to back that kind of $$$. It really is interesting to see different perceptions to this questions. Exactly what is it that draws clients? Looks? Fame? Some folks have said she's a great motivator...I watched the same show, and saw lots of lesbian drama...not a whole lotta motivating. I heard her say the word "motivate" in a few sentences, but didn't really see what she was talking about. I musta got up to go use the potty or something and missed it.

Ohio,

Why no email? I told you I can't view your private message. Why are you scared to answer the question? You know there isn't a good one?

Again:

And why are homosexuals so intolerant of anyone who opposes homosexuality? Isn't that a catch 22 considering that they demand tolerance for themselves? That's a contradiction. Simply being intolerant of INtolerance itself makes you a hypocrite. You are BEING exactly what you say other people shouldn’t be. It makes no sense and just makes you all look silly. Until you answer that question you will never be taken seriously by society.



[b]Do you have no explaination for your hypocricy? For why you demand tolerance but are INtolerant yourselves? [/b][/size]



[b]Feel free to e-mail me at newrealityaccount@yahoo.com and let me know. I don't read the messages here. [/b]

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Oh my garshk!! Look who came back to spam us--I mean, see us! Our old friend shanshan2007, only in her "2006" suit! We missed you soooooooooooo much, luv!

Smoochies! MWAH!!!!!

My problem with the prof was this....

I understood his position that we needed to think outside of the box. But sometimes, we needed to have a frame of reference INSIDE the box before we could start thinking outside the box. He wasn't giving us the frame of reference.

I am also a teacher so it was that that he took into account in my personal arguement with him that eventually made him start to answer my questions. I wasn't asking him for the whole chicken, just a feather or two...

She got hungry ... for attention!

I think shanshan is trying to get a rise out of the wrong people. All of here seem to be perfectly comfortable with our sexual preference, whatever it is, and don't feel compelled to have to defend ourselves. I love debating issues but both sides have to listen and shanshan is only interested in her opinions.

:::whimpers::: I adore a medium rare buffalo filet!( Ostrich is pretty damn awesome too)

Meat, we want MEAT!

A few miles from me is an Ostrich Farm. I tried to do some stuff with the meat on the bubbaque, but not familiar enough with it yet to come up with the 'perfect' way to cook it yet. I'll keep ya posted on my experiments with it...unless you already know of the perfect way to bubbaque it....then fess up....lemme know what you do with it!

When ya get off the plane in Phoenix, head south (towords Tucson) on the I-10. Turn right when you smell the bubbaque wafting in the heated breeze. Dinner's at 6. If you get to Tucson, you went too far!

***tries to hold it in, trying to hold it in, busts out anyway ***

Don't stick it head first in the sand!

I'm sorry Ohio,

I really couldn't help myself! I'm going to put myself in time-out for that one. I was a bad girl.

Tempting, very tempting.

Let it loose girlfrien! Too funny!!!!

I've actually never tried it on the bar-b-burner yet. I lurves me my Foreman grill, and that's pretty much the way I've been cookin' my meats since I got with the George-man's program.

First time I ever tried ostrich was at the Ren Faire in Ohio in the early 90's. Loved it from the first bite, but I couldn't tell you how they cooked it except to say that it was a drumstick! First time I ever tried buffalo? Last night, and it was one of the best cuts of meat I'd ever had.

God, I wish I wasn't such a dedicated carnivore.

Well, God DID make you a carnivore. The dedication is all yours.

Me = Ominivore.