neko

i used to not mind it until the time i got food poisoning and spent the next 24 hours throwing up red beet vomit. it wasn't the beets fault, but the mind has a way of convincing you never to eat it again. that's a 'no' then.

i've been around a few of those in my time. in fact, i'm probably up there with dr. josef mengele with some of the torturous things i used to do with innocent feeding fish (i'm not proud of my past sometimes). when they die, or you just get bored with them, add one of these big bastards.... oscars don't take much shit either (this one apparently says 'allah' on it's side)

1.) gerrard 2.) torres 3.) alonso skrtel honourable mention

i agree with many of the choices, but my 'sleeper' would be this..... the man who would be king

how could this thread be on page three without someone adding 'the shining'

also counts nigerian 419 bank scams ! hilarious more bikes are produced than cars anyways...that's a good thing.

this will cheer everyone up - a clock for measuring world statistics, like population, death, disease, crime, energy use, global warming, etc....... http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf can't remember where i first found it ?

yoda ?

san diego super chargers by a country mile...... 44-14

same parrot, better video..... YouTube - Foul Mouthed Parrot surely if the parrot can't kill something, it could at least make you cry

like this one.....?

buffalo should beat the raiders at home, yes. (30-10), but what is your affection for the bills ? it would be nice to see them return to the upper echelon of the NFL, however. i'm sick with a cold, so i'm parking myself on the couch all day and not moving from my NFL sunday ticket (all games televised for about $10/week). the game of the week is definitely dallas at green bay tonight. i'll go 27-24 for the cowboys.

perhaps you're right - i'm a bit naive at times. i guess i'll have to take a shower now as well........

actually, they are a naughty couple, according to my wife (she is her best mate) they just got married - flew all their guests (including us) to a private island in northern ontario and we wined and dined for two weeks at no expense.....pure hedonism.

very special guests tonight - raw oysters with champagne and bacon wrapped honey figs and assorted cheeses for starters. fresh local black cod with lemon caper butter, steamed ginger carrots and new potato gratin with pecorino cheese. no dessert (says the wife) maybe a sauternes (nectar of the gods) or some port.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was an American born inventor who emigrated to England and adopted British citizenship. He was the inventor of the Maxim Gun, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun, and the ubiquitous mousetrap, and he lays a claim to inventing the lightbulb. Maxim was reported to have said: "In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility' ". Maxim founded an armaments company to produce his machine gun in Crayford, Kent, which later merged with Nordenfeldt and the Vickers Corporation in 1896, becoming 'Vickers, Son & Maxim'. Their updated design, referred to as the Vickers gun after Maxim's resignation from the board in 1911 on his 71st birthday, was the standard British machine gun for many years. With arms sales led by Basil Zaharoff, variants of the Maxim gun were bought and used extensively by both sides during World War I.

that's hilarious - my cats will stalk me sometimes as well. usually when they're hungry. i often tell mrs.neko that the difference between my cat(s) and her wretched thing is if you died alone in the house, my cats would just curl up with you, while her cat would immediately start eating your carcass.

In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted polio which left him severely disabled. This led him to devise an elaborate system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. This system was the eventual cause of his death when he was accidentally entangled in the ropes of this device and died of strangulation at the age of 55. Midgley died before the effect of CFCs upon the ozone layer became widely known in 1974.

ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country ?

you know, you're right - for something that took seven years to make, involving over 200 people, and meant to run for 250 years, they probably could have done a better job of filming it. it's a clock ! maybe worth showing for a minute at least ? and turn some lights on as well ?

well, if you get one for christmas, you can re-gift it to me. did you watch the short video ?

i know what i want for christmas already...... Maev Kennedy on Cambridge University's monstrous new clock | Art and design | guardian.co.uk The hour approaches. The beast's jaws gape, its tail quivers and then snap! Another minute has been devoured, and the hour strikes with the ominous clonk of a chain dropping into a coffin. The creature blinks twice in satisfaction. "It is terrifying, it is meant to be," said John Taylor, the creator and funder of an extraordinary new clock to be unveiled tomorrow by Stephen Hawking at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. "Basically I view time as not on your side. He'll eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he's salivating for the next. It's not a bad thing to remind students of. I never felt like this until I woke up on my 70th birthday, and was stricken at the thought of how much I still wanted to do, and how little time remained." Christopher de Hamel, an expert on medieval manuscripts and Fellow Librarian at Corpus Christi, described the clock as "hypnotically beautiful - and deeply disturbing". Hawking, celebrated as the author of A Brief History of Time, is returning from the launch of the particle accelerator at Cern in Switzerland to unveil Taylor's sinister vision of his subject. Taylor is an inventor whose thermostat switch is incorporated in 600m electric kettles all over the world. He first gave £2.5m for a new undergraduate library at his old college, and then offered to create and donate the £1m Corpus clock to the library. The work has involved 200 people, including engineers, sculptors, scientists, jewellers and calligraphers. Taylor regularly flew over in his own plane from his home on the Isle of Man to keep an eye as beady as his creature's on the work. For all its apparent eccentricity, the clock is based on solidly traditional clockwork - unusual in these days of digital electronic clocks. It has taken seven years' research and construction, incorporates six patented inventions, and is predicted to run for at least 250 years assuming the world lasts that long. Engineer Stewart Huxley refuses to reveal the secret of its tricks, which include the pendulum occasionally apparently catching and stopping for a heartbeat, and then swinging faster to catch up. The rippling gold-plated dial was made by exploding a thin sheet of stainless steel onto a mould underwater: none of the team actually saw it happen because the only place in the world which could make it was a secret military research institute in Holland. The monster momentarily stops the turning dial with its foot to mark the minutes, shown as blue LED lights shining through slots. It was originally conceived by Taylor as a literal interpretation of the grasshopper escapement invented by his hero, the Georgian clockmaker John Harrison whose fabulously accurate mechanisms solved the problem of establishing longitude at sea. The creature, modelled by sculptor Matthew Sanderson, was inspired by medieval armour and gradually became more ominous: part-lizard, part-stag beetle, a Chronophage – time eater.

there is loads of funny stuff like that at fresh99.com (search the archives) i used to go there all the time when bored, but it stopped updating back in march 2007.

he's good, and i especially like saying 'schweinsteiger' in a very german way, so it would be nice to say it more often.

funny enough, i had a dream last night that i was friends with fernando torres. he came to BC for a visit and i was showing him around the place. of course he was picking up girls everywhere and i was feeding off the scraps. all in all, it was a pleasant dream. he seemed to enjoy himself, and i was well pleased to have such a cool friend.