Get your post counts here! *read 1st post for rules*

[id3379]

A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

[id3379]

Cats can hear ultrasound.

[id3379]

On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.

[id3379]

7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

[id3379]

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

[id3379]

Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.

[jclo3313]

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

Not true, according to Spike Lee neither can white men.:biggrin:

[KCALB SIRAY]

Zicam rocks!

[jclo3313]

Zicam rocks!

I've taking it for three days now.

[KCALB SIRAY]

I've taking it for three days now.

I'm telling you, I was good within the first 3 hours:thumbup: That shyt rocks. I got the tabs that melt in your mouth, pretty tasty too. Like an orange cream sickle. The only thing I didn't like was how much water i had to guzzle down. I ended up drinking about a gallon and a half by the end of the night.

[jclo3313]

Citrus flavor rocks.

[KCALB SIRAY]

ghi j

[TKO]

I was wondering how far I was going to get before someone jumped in....:laugh:

[TKO]

1

[TKO]

2

[TKO]

3

[TKO]

4

[TKO]

5

[TKO]

6

[TKO]

7

[TKO]

8

[TKO]

9

[TKO]

10

[KCALB SIRAY]

here I come

[jclo3313]

I hate people.

[Astroman]

Me too!

[Astroman]

I hate being sick. Especially when I get sick a week after getting over from being sick.

[KCALB SIRAY]

Zicam baby that shyt is awesome. Took it yesterday and I'm not sick anymore.

[Astroman]

The first Jewish Yankees player, Phil Cooney (born Philip Clarence Cohen), played just one game for New York on September 27, 1905.

[Astroman]

I've been popping those like candy it seems. Deff. better, but now I got that whole mucas thing going on. Guess now it's time for mucenex.

Zicam baby that shyt is awesome. Took it yesterday and I'm not sick anymore.

[Astroman]

In the book of Alice in Wonderland there is a baby that Alice tries to save that eventually turns into a pig. This is symbolic for babies whose parents smoke opium while pregnant, the opium would cause babies to come out with pig like noses, and flatter faces. The author did this because of the extreme use of opium then.

[Astroman]

On average men speak 12,500 words a day. Women speak 25,000

[KCALB SIRAY]

I've been popping those like candy it seems. Deff. better, but now I got that whole mucas thing going on. Guess now it's time for mucenex.

I've never used it, does it work? I've not used it cause in my pea brain, I think producing more mucas is a bad thing:iono:. I'd rather hauk up some lung butter the old fashion way

[Astroman]

that thing at the end of your pencil, you know that thing that holds the eraser in place, well its called a FERRULE

[Astroman]

I've never used it, does it work? I've not used it cause in my pea brain, I think producing more mucas is a bad thing:iono:. I'd rather hauk up some lung butter the old fashion way

It doesn't produce more. What it does is breaks it up, so when you cough the mucus comes out. Also helps with chest congestion. Craps spendy though, the only time I bought it was because it was really cheap on sale.

[Astroman]

Chocolate chip cookies were invented by mistake. They were put into a cookie with the hope of melting and making a chocolate cookie but they never melted that way, thus, the chocolate chip cookie.

[KCALB SIRAY]

In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived.

[KCALB SIRAY]

Hitler was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.

[KCALB SIRAY]

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

[KCALB SIRAY]

In 410 A.D. Alaric the Visigoth demanded that Rome give him three thousand pounds of pepper as ransom.

[Bob_VT]

This is my tittle collection

.................................................. .................................................. ...................

.................................................. .................................................. ...................

.................................................. .................................................. ...................

.................................................. .................................................. ...................

.................................................. .......... .................................................. ........

.................................................. .................................................. ...................

.

Hmmmm one fell?

[Bob_VT]

wow I lost a bunch!

[KCALB SIRAY]

People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs.

[KCALB SIRAY]

Peter the Great executed his wife's lover, and forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.

[KCALB SIRAY]

During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a simple glass of water.

[KCALB SIRAY]

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes

[KCALB SIRAY]

When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.

[KCALB SIRAY]

In the 1550's, the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, embarrassingly left to travel for seven years because he had accidently farted when he had bowed down to Queen Elizabeth I. When he returned the Queen said to him, "My Lord, I had forgot the fart."

[KCALB SIRAY]

When Black Jack Ketchum was hung back in 1901 in Clayton New Mexico, the noose actually ended up taking his head off. The head had to be sewn back on so Black Jack could be buried properly.

[Astroman]

McDonalds is the worlds largest toy distributor.

[Astroman]

Identical twins, which come from the same egg before they are born, do not have the same fingerprints.

[Astroman]

Its legal to shoot a scotsman in york.

[Astroman]

a crickets ears are located just below their knees.

[KCALB SIRAY]

Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less chance they have of having a heart attack.

[Astroman]

the banana suitcase was invented for the safe travel of bananas

[Astroman]

You can't post just single letters here. Thread rules.

[KCALB SIRAY]

In certain towns in Scotland, you must allow a person to use your bathroom, by law if they knock on your door no matter what time of the day or not.

[Astroman]

Eating an apple in the morning gives you more energy than drinking a cup of coffee.

[Astroman]

The only letter not on the periodic table is the letter J.

[KCALB SIRAY]

Prosopagnosia refers to the inability to identify people by their faces. In severe cases people with prosopagnosia may not be able to identify themselves in a mirror.

[jclo3313]

my name starts with J

[jclo3313]

mikes name starts with M

[KCALB SIRAY]

Over 436,000 U.S. Troops were exposed to depleted uranium during the first Gulf war.

[Bob_VT]

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases

[KCALB SIRAY]

Bridget starts with the letter B =)

[jclo3313]

lisa has an L in it.

[jclo3313]

Matt is a member of YW.

[KCALB SIRAY]

smell ya

[jclo3313]

Thomas is French.

[jclo3313]

Later skater!

[Bob_VT]

On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving

[Astroman]

Hexadectylism is having six toes or six fingers on one or both hands or feet

[Astroman]

Hippotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia… the fear of LONG words

[Astroman]

A newborn kangaroo is about one inch in length

[Astroman]

the longest name ever is, Krungthep Mahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathani Burirom-udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amonphiman Awatansathit Sakkathattiya Witsanu Kamprasit other wise known as “Bangkok”, Thailand

[Astroman]

Africa is the second biggest content and is in all the hemispheres.

[Astroman]

Well, you know that of you commit the sin of incest, you go to hell, right? Well, according to the bible, we are all from the same two people: Adam and Eve. So wouldn’t that make us all related? Yes. So we’re all going to hell for being incestuous. Yay.

[Astroman]

DID YOU KNOW THAT IN SANTA CRUZ CALI. IT IS ILLIGAL TO CARRY A LUNCHBOX IN DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ???

[Astroman]

Almost 2/3s of people who graduate from Harvard graduate with honors.

[Astroman]

A jiffy is an actual amount of time, 0.001(sec), thats where the saying ”Back in a jiffy” comes from.

[Astroman]

A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.

[Astroman]

Believe it or not, but, celery has negative calories. It actually takes more calories to eat it, than are actually in the celery.

[Bob_VT]

Minimum wage was 0.25 per hour when it was first enacted in 1938

[Astroman]

The Earth weighs 560 billion billion tons.

[Astroman]

It would take a person one lifetime to count to 1 billion.

[Bob_VT]

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes

[Astroman]

Did you know that the name for the skin on your elbow is called your wenis. Ew I kno…and the inside is called the wagina. Ewer..

[Bob_VT]

There was no punctuation until the 15th century

[Astroman]

If you rearranged the letters in mother in law, they come out to Woman Hitler

[Astroman]

In Duluth, Minnesota it is illegal to wear high water snow pants when the temperature is below zero.

[Astroman]

In Hot Springs, South Dakota it is illegal to pluck your eyebrows.

[Astroman]

The girl in the Bus scene who says you cant sit here, to the young forrest gump is actually tom hanks daughter.

[Astroman]

Every one of these sentences is the same when read backwards or frontwards.
I man, am regal, a German am I.
Never odd or even.
If I had a Hi-Fi.
May a moody baby doom a yam?
A Toyota’s a Toyota.
O, Geronimo, no minor ego!
No ‘x’ in Nixon.
Rats live on no evil star.
Won’t lovers revolt now?
Race fast safe car.
Nurse, I spy gypsies, run!
Ufo tofu.
We panic in a pew.
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo.
God, a red nugget, a fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog.

[Bob_VT]

Medical reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking

[Astroman]

When Bush Sr. was in office, he took a trip to Australia. After the end of a lengthy speech, he did what he thought was the “v for victory” sign, which in Australia actually means “shove it.” Way to go Bush.

[Bob_VT]

Fear of clowns is called coulrophobia

[Astroman]

The human Red Blood Cell lives up to 120 days.

[Bob_VT]

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life

[Astroman]

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

[Astroman]

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

[Bob_VT]

The adult electric eel can produce a five hundred volt shock, which is enough to stun a horse

[jclo3313]

I just farted.

[Astroman]

Emus cannot walk backwards.

[Astroman]

The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S.Military Academy at West Point, NY.

[Astroman]

There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.

[Astroman]

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

[jclo3313]

I think the majority The Home Depot shoppers and employees are indeed retarded.

[Astroman]

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

[jclo3313]

You forgot my gut.

[Astroman]

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

[Astroman]

Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of "F."

[Astroman]

Camel's milk does not curdle.

[jclo3313]

I just ate some cheese.

[Astroman]

"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.

[Astroman]

I was eating hot and spicy cheez-it's

[jclo3313]

12855

[Astroman]

The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate."(MOdulateDEModulate)

[Astroman]

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

[Astroman]

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

[Astroman]

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

[Astroman]

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

[jclo3313]

I will keep post picture of little people untill this stops.

[Astroman]

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

[Astroman]

I like little people.

[Astroman]

one more

[Astroman]

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

[jclo3313]

12856

[jclo3313]

12857

[Astroman]

In Vaginas we trust? Or Vagina Washington?

[jclo3313]

12858
Last October the world marveled at the announcement of the discovery of a new species of hominid, Homo floresiensis, in a cave called Liang Bua on the Indonesian island of Flores. One conclusion was more shocking than the next. First, this hominid stood only three feet high, earning it the nickname The Hobbit. Second, it lived as recently as 18,000 years ago, which was some 30,000 years after our own species had already been in southeast Asia for 30,000 years or more. The scientists argued that Homo floresiensis was a separate species that might have descended from Homo erectus of East Asia–which would mean that the last common ancestor of the Hobbits and us lived perhaps two million years ago.

Homo erectus fossils have been found on Flores, dating back 800,000 years. The oldest H. floresiensis bones dated back 90,000 years. The researchers suggested that during the intervening period Homo erectus on the island might have dwindled from about six feet tall to three. And despite the Hobbit’s distant relation to our own species, not to mention its small brain (a third the size of a human’s, and about the same as a chimp’s), the scientists argued that it was a clever hominid. They pointed to the stone tools in the cave and the evidence they had found of fires. Just writing about this stuff nearly a year later makes me shake my head in shock.

As I have detailed in a series of posts here, things soon went from controversial to ugly. Several scientists went on the record with skeptical reactions. They pointed out that the bones came mostly from a single individual. They proposed that this individual was a pygmy (like the ones that live today on Flores), or was born with a congenitally small head, or both. One source of friction in the debate was the fact that some researchers see in the fossil record of hominids a lot of diversity while others see little. The fossils then wound up in the possession of a rival scientist who made casts of them, apparently damaging them in the process.

For the most part, Hobbit junkies like myself have had to content ourselves with reading gossipy articles in newspapers. The Hobbit’s discoverers published a brain scan of the fossil skull in April, but otherwise nothing appeared in scientific journals either from the discoverers or their critics. Until now.

In this week’s issue of Nature, the scientists describe bones from nine individuals from the Liang Bua cave. Some of the bones–parts of the right arm and jaw–belong to an individual. Other leg bones, shoulder bones, and various bits of fingers and toes come from other levels in the cave. They were laid down in the cave over thousands of years, the youngest being just 12,000 years old–around the time when our ancestors were inventing agriculture.

The key conclusion of the paper is that these fossils look a lot like the original Hobbit bones reported last year. The new jaw, for example, has the same peculiar roots on its teeth as the old one, and both also lack a chin. If the original Hobbit was just a pathological human, the authors argue, then all of these new individuals would have to be pathological too. And the fact that these fossils span 80,000 years makes it even harder to hold the pathology argument. According to Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman this pattern refutes the aberrant dwarf argument, which now "strains credulity," as he writes in an accompany commentary.

This is not the final chapter, by any means. Robert Martin of the Field Museum in Chicago has confirmed that he is putting together a paper that will dispute the claim that the Hobbit is something other than human, and others may well be up to the same. "Regardless of one’s stand on this issue," Dr. Martin wrote to me in an email, "it is about time that the message got out that there are serious grounds for doubt about current interpretation of the Flores remains."

This a vital part of the scientific process, but the high stakes in paleoanthropology always slow it down. And the bitterness caused by the tussle over Homo floresiensis’s fossils will probably make it even harder for these precious few fossils to be shared. Still, I’m curious to see how Martin and others expand their attack from the original individual to the expanded collection of Hobbits. (I’ll update this post when I come across any interesting responses from skeptics.)

If the Hobbits hold up under this scrutiny, there are still a lot of deep questions that will have to be answered. Were Homo erectus really their ancestors, for example? Tim White, a prominent paleoanthropologist at Berkeley, has suggested that they might be descended from our own species, having undergone a radical evolutionary change into a separate species of small-brained dwarves in just tens of thousands of years. The peculiar traits of Homo floresiensis such as its teeth might make that unlikely. The Nature author meanwhile offer some evidence that might suggest they belong to an even older branch of hominid evolution that Homo erectus. Earlier hominids, dating back before Homo erectus moved out of Africa, had the same overal body proportions as Homo floresiensis, as well as a small brain. Lieberman’s skeptical on this possibility, because there are so many traits that Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis share. Still, the exodus of hominids from Africa 2 million years ago still poses a lot of puzzles; maybe different pioneers leaving Africa around the same time gave rise to the two different species. And what about all the other islands of Indonesia? Are more little bones waiting to be found on them as well?

Unfortunately, on Flores at least, these questions may be left hanging. The dispute has led to the absurd situation that the team who found the Hobbits can’t get a permit to go back to Liang Bua. You have to wonder just how wise we are as a species.

More details here.

[jclo3313]

In Vaginas we trust? Or Vagina Washington?

:iono:

[jclo3313]

12859

12860

[jclo3313]

12861

12862

12863

[*MAD DOG*]

This is what happens when you go away from the forum for a while, you come back and it's midget madness!

[*MAD DOG*]

May as well add one

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x231/Lonewolff_01/midgetlolsos4.gif

[Bob_VT]

This is what happens when you go away from the forum for a while, you come back and it's midget madness!

No you left for a short time and things went that way! :biggrin:

[*MAD DOG*]

meep meep

[Kal-El]

Post whore thread!

:w00t:

[dvlnblkdrs]

wow that looks heavy.. hope that tower doesnt fall off.. lol

[dvlnblkdrs]

ya'll should go look at my pix from our san diego meet.. http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10032&page=3

[Treyz]

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/ChrisSisley/FAIL.png

[dvlnblkdrs]

nasty ass! lol

[*MAD DOG*]

meep meep

[Dess]

snarf!

[*MAD DOG*]

snarf! wtf is that?

[Dess]

LOL if i recall correctly, which my brain is a bit fuzzy (gg beer and 4am) in an old cartoon pinky and the brain, pinky said snarf all the time :D

[*MAD DOG*]

meep meep

[*MAD DOG*]

walka walka

[Black Yaris]

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

Also Toledo, Ohio is home of the Jeep/Willys/Overland

[*MAD DOG*]

check this out http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11017

[Kal-El]

:wink::redface::confused::laugh::frown::biggrin::m ad::rolleyes:
:smile::tongue::iono::cry::cool::eek::drool::broke nheart::wub:
:clap::thumbup::thumbsup::w00t::thumbdown::bellyro ll::laughabove:
:headbang::bow::eyebulge::barf::help::evil::drinki ng::smoking::bs:
:respekt::coolpics::burnrubber::bonk::thanks::offt opic::tweetz:
:flame::stupid::slice::middlefinger::moon::hitcomp uter:

[jclo3313]

Watch out Team America!
12873

[jclo3313]

12874

[jclo3313]

12875

[jclo3313]

12876

[Astroman]

ya'll should go look at my pix from our san diego meet.. http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10032&page=3

Fun pix!

[Astroman]

I can't wait for portland to have a big yaris meetup. :frown:

[cali yaris]

+1 (posts for me, that is)

[jclo3313]

12935

[Astroman]

vrooooom

[jclo3313]

12993

[jclo3313]

12994

[jclo3313]

12995

[jclo3313]

12996

[jclo3313]

12997

[jclo3313]

12998

[Astroman]

penis wrinkle

[Astroman]

humunahumuna

[jclo3313]

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

[jclo3313]

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Rodney Dangerfield

[jclo3313]

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

[jclo3313]

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein

[jclo3313]

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein

[jclo3313]

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein

[jclo3313]

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

[jclo3313]

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

[jclo3313]

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein

[jclo3313]

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

[jclo3313]

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein

[jclo3313]

what are you smoking jclo?

Just bored here @ work Pavel.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein

God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Albert Einstein

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert Einstein

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
Albert Einstein

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein

The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Albert Einstein

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein

The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Albert Einstein

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert Einstein

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

[jclo3313]

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
Robert E. Lee

[jclo3313]

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

[jclo3313]

13009

[jclo3313]

I'm leaving i six minutes, I can make it.

[*MAD DOG*]

meep meep

[jclo3313]

I'm outa here.:thumbsup:

[*MAD DOG*]

^
cya

[Astroman]

http://www.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads//2008/11/sandwish-with-greed-salad.jpg

[Astroman]

Going to Chico, CA for thanksgiving. :burnrubber:

[Astroman]

1218

[Astroman]

http://www.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads//2008/11/powerful-rooter.jpg

[Astroman]

1220

[Astroman]

http://www.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads//2008/11/no-alternation-to-the-determination.jpg

[Astroman]

*yawn*

[Astroman]

http://images.craigslist.org/1141fb13b3o23p13ld8bn1cf01e3174021c97.jpg

[Astroman]

Love craigslist:
to someone named "fuck you you ignorant fool" - w4m

Reply to: pers-931268918@craigslist.org (pers-931268918@craigslist.org?subject=to%20someone%20na med%20%22fuck%20you%20you%20ignorant%20fool%22%20-%20w4m) [? (http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/replying_to_posts)]
Date: 2008-11-23, 2:09PM PST


is this your whole name or just partial? and why did you feel the need to email me and share it? no one gives a shit if you exist or not, nor about your opinion. i wasn't talking to you so learn to mind your own business and STFU.

[Astroman]

http://www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2008/10/trembled-with-for-fear.jpg

[*MAD DOG*]

meep meep

[*MAD DOG*]

SLAP! *MAD DOG* slaps captavise with a glock 9mm

[*MAD DOG*]

SLAP! *MAD DOG* slaps PK198105 with a baby that's in a dingo's mouth for many good reasons!

[*MAD DOG*]

SLAP! *MAD DOG* slaps PK198105 with a law suit :) Koala's are a protected spieces here.

[Bob_VT]

A word to the wise..... If any one of your little animals or fish comes my way and knocks over my beer ....... I going to pull this car over and make you two walk home!!

[Bob_VT]

Oh no what am I going to do? There just is no more room in the basement to bury another body and renting that tree chipper is so much money.

[*MAD DOG*]

Hey, leave me outta this ;)

[engelm_]

no slapping... =(

[*MAD DOG*]

No ones getting hurt, it's an online slap meg :)

[dvlnblkdrs]

imma duct tape y'all to the ceiling if ya dont stop the online slapping fight immediately! cease and desist i say!

[*MAD DOG*]

imma duct tape y'all to the ceiling if ya dont stop the online slapping fight immediately! cease and desist i say!

That better be 3M cloth tape and about 300meters of it!

[dvlnblkdrs]

cloth tape, duct tape, mailing tape all layers! u aint goin newhere!

[dvlnblkdrs]

especially pk.. being such a brat tonight! :tongue:


passes pk some emotions.. u need this.. that heart is getting icy

[dvlnblkdrs]

i hear accident stories all day, its my job.. it doesnt matter if u actually care or not.. just dont come off like such a douche... thats like someone telling u they lost their job and u just say oh well look at the new porsche i just bought.. thats an asshole thing to do! im just tryin ta tell ya to be a little nicer.. even if u get pissed that someone did something stupid and an accident happen.. thats how 99% of accident happen.. people do things that they shouldnt.. its called being human sometimes.. not like the guy woke up and said, i think im gonna go total my car today! goodness gracious!

[dvlnblkdrs]

nope.. jaded is a terrible quality.. huge turn off.. i need someone who cares a bit... keep ur jaded-ness to urself.. blah

[*MAD DOG*]

Jill,

You still haven't upgraded your banner since you upgraded your wheels. R u going to?

[dvlnblkdrs]

i have been to lazy to take new pictures so joe can recreate it.. ill do it when i get to it.. its only been like 3 weeks.. lol

[Astroman]

whoa

[dvlnblkdrs]

u missed all the fun astro! :tongue:

[*MAD DOG*]

night pk

[jclo3313]

The spontaneous inventions have come to be nicknamed MacGyverisms and even led to the verb, 'to MacGyver' or 'to MacGyver-ize'. This word was used in Richard Dean Anderson's project Stargate SG-1, in a moment in the first episode when the character Samantha Carter (portrayed by Amanda Tapping) comments on the time and effort that had been required "to MacGyver" a replacement for the Stargate's long-lost control system. Anderson's character, Colonel Jack O'Neill, is seen to inwardly groan and roll his eyes, in the manner of one who is not being allowed to forget something. In a blooper later in the first season, while trapped under Antarctica with a seemingly broken dialing device (episode 18 "Solitudes"), Tapping complains that she can't "get the DHD working with duct tape and his army knife":

You spend seven years on MacGyver and you can't figure this one out? We, we've got belt buckles, and shoelaces and a piece of gum; build a nuclear reactor, for crying out loud. You used to be MacGyver, MacGadget, MacGimmick. Now you're Mister MacUseless. (crew & RDA start to laugh) Dear god, I'm stuck on a glacier with MacGyver!

MacGyverism is a derivative of the "robinsonade" genre, named after Robinson Crusoe (1719). In this genre, the protagonist is suddenly isolated from the comforts of civilization and must improvise the means of his survival from the limited resources at hand. MacGyverism is also an example of bricolage, and MacGyver himself is the paradigm of a bricoleur ("a person who creates things from existing materials, is creative and resourceful"). It was first used by Joanne Remmings (played by Pamela Bowen) in the second-season episode #3 "Twice Stung", in which MacGyver must con a con man. (The episode title is a reference to The Sting, with Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Dana Elcar.)

A Swiss Army knife is commonly called Macgybar Chakku in Bangladesh, Maekgaibeo Kal in South Korea, and Pisau MacGyver/Pisau Lipat MacGyver' in Indonesia and Malaysia. (Chakku, Kal and Pisau mean knife in Bengali, Korean and Malay, respectively.)[citation needed] In Malaysia, the term "MacGyver knife" (English) is also commonly used.[citation needed] In Poland it's known as the "Scyzoryk MacGyver'a", which means just "Macgyver's knife".[citation needed] In Norway and in certain areas of Finland, duct tape is commonly known, to some degree, as "MacGyver-tape", though it is more used in a joking manner.[citation needed] In Mozambique, fixing something by adapting locally-available parts is sometimes referred to as doing a "Macgyver".[citation needed] In Taiwan, a person who is knowledgable or skilled at a technical subject X is termed an "X magaixian" ("X MacGyver").[citation needed]

College theater programs have started an unofficial "MacGyver Society" to honor those students that are excellent problem solvers, or those that are good at thinking creatively. Members are commonly inducted at end of year award ceremonies within the programs, and are given a keyring sized Swiss Army Knife. They also recite a pledge about thinking creatively and staying calm, and pledging to continue "Making Something Out of Nothing."[citation needed]


[edit] In the media
In 2006, Anderson appeared in a MasterCard television commercial for Super Bowl XL. The spot poked fun at the character's ability to use everyday objects to perform extraordinary feats: In it, he manages to cut the ropes binding him to a chair using a pine tree air freshener, uses an ordinary tube sock as the pulley for a zipline, and somehow repairs and hotwires a nonfunctional truck using a paper clip, ballpoint pen, rubber band, tweezers, nasal spray and a turkey baster. In contrast to previous MasterCard commercials showing people making somewhat extravagant purchases to accomplish some mundane task, MacGyver is here portrayed as escaping from some sort of deathtrap using less than $20 worth of common household items. The commercial ends by showing him purposefully buying an assortment of such things at a department store with his credit card (as a tongue-in-cheek explanation for how Mac seems to always have items he needs on hand no matter where he goes). Although the commercial clearly indicates Anderson is portraying the role of MacGyver, he is never explicitly identified as such, possibly due to licensing issues related to the character.

The series is referenced in many episodes of The Simpsons, primarily detailing Marge Simpson's sisters Patty and Selma's obsession with the show and their crush on the MacGyver character. The sisters' regular viewing of the show is an unalterable element of their daily schedule to the point of death as demonstrated in the episode "Black Widower." The episode featured a fictional scene of MacGyver where he downplays his role in saving a village ("Don't thank me. Thank the moon's gravitational pull"). [13] In another episode, "A Star is Burns," Homer tricks Jay Sherman into insulting MacGyver in front of Patty and Selma; Sherman ends up being hung from the rain gutter by his underpants, and Bart asks "You badmouthed MacGyver, didn't you?" Anderson himself is an avid fan of The Simpsons, and even provided his voice for an episode of the show titled "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore", which first aired April 6, 2006.

In the Beavis and Butt-Head episode, Citizen Butt-Head (1993), the pair are abruptly confronted by a member of the Secret Service, to which Beavis says, "Look, it's MacGyver!"

In the season one episode titled "Brian: Portrait of a Dog" from Family Guy, Peter writes a letter to Richard Dean Anderson asking him to save his dog using the enclosed items from the envelope: a rubber band, a paper clip and a straw. Anderson puts these together and hits himself in the eye with the rubber band.

The New Zealand sporting skit show Pulp Sport had a running gag called "McIvor" in which the MacGyver theme is played, and a prank involving Sky TV sports presenter Steven McIvor is played out. This gag, instead, now targets TV3 sports news presenter Hamish McKay (dubbed "McKay-ver"). The pranks usually involve the office area (a mobile phone taped to the under side of a desk) or something happening to the car of the victim (placing a goat in the back seat).

In 2007, the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live featured a parody of MacGyver called "MacGruber" with Will Forte as the title character. The intros for these skits featured scenes from the MacGyver series. There were three installments of the pretaped, three-part sketch; one set in January in an episode hosted by Jeremy Piven[14] and another in May, hosted by former castmember Molly Shannon.[15] The sketch returned for the October 7, 2007 show, with host Seth Rogen,[16] and again on March 15, 2008.[17]

G4 aired a small series of MacGyver parodies about a young corporate cubicle worker known as MacGunner. He would construct ridiculous items out of cubicle materials, such as several dozen markers hooked end to end in order to reach over to his arch-enemy's cubicle and type a scathing email to the boss.

In Randall Munroe's xkcd comic on July 2nd 2008, he made a comic depicting a potentially lazy MacGyver.[18]

In the song by British band, the Million Dead of the same name where MacGyver is killed after being mugged by a group of kids. Some MacGyverisms are also referenced but MacGyver is unable to help himself and dies as a result of the attack

In 2008 the "What would MacGyver do?" phrase was used in a New Zealand television commercial for Gregg's "freestyle cooking" range of herbs and spices. The commercial featured the word MacGyver unfolding like a puzzle with a potato peeler and chopping knife opening out like the blades of a Swiss Army Knife.[19]


[edit] Mythbusters
In February 2008, the popular science show Mythbusters featured a MacGyver special which tested several of MacGyver's tactics. The first test examined MacGyver's famous cold capsule bomb, which utilized the explosive reaction of alkaline metals with water. Supposedly, dropping 1 gram of sodium metal into water will cause an explosive reaction powerful enough to blow a hole through a cinderblock wall. However, despite using 100 grams of sodium metal, the wall remained completely intact. It was "busted," along with MacGyvers's ultralight aircraft built from bamboo, garbage bags, duct tape and a cement mixer engine which failed to sustain flight and immediately crashed after travelling off a cliff.

However, some of MacGyver's tactics were confirmed. The Mythbusters were able to pick a lock using the filament of an incandescent lightbulb. Another "confirmed" MacGyver tactic was building an electromagnet using ordinary household batteries, tape and insulated wire (the insulated rubber surrounding the wire was removed with a cheese grater.) They then successfully used this device to magnetize an unfolded paper clip (by passing it repeatedly over the magnet) and then, by embedding the paperclip in a piece of cork and placing it in a small bowl of water, the paperclip acted as a compass (because it was magnetized, it pointed to the North Magnetic Pole.)

It was also implied, although it was not successfully tested, that it is possible to develop a roll of film using orange juice as an acid and ammonia as an alkaline fixer while holding a garbage bag over the setup to create a darkroom.

Another implied, but not successfully tested, tactic was creating a potato cannon using hairspray as a fuel, a camp stove as the ignition, and PVC pipe as the mortar (while hairspray might be a somewhat-plausible propellant, it doesn't have the required explosive force to make a workable potato-cannon fuel). [Note: A potato cannon of this type is not only plausible, but is simple to make and works perfectly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_cannon#Combustion_launchers]

Also, in Episode 15, in July 2004, a portion of the episode titled Car Capers featured the Mythbusters testing if an egg placed into a radiator of a car would subsequently cook and plug holes in said radiator. This was featured in an episode of MacGvyer titled "Bushmaster", and interestingly enough, was originally an idea sent in by a fan. The myth was deemed plausible by MacGyver and Mythbusters alike.


[edit] MacGyver's gear
MacGyver's Swiss Army Knife was constantly changing throughout the series. His first and most often used knife was a "Tinker-Small" model from Victorinox. In "Thief of Budapest" he gives it away; in the next episode he is using a "Handyman" model from Wenger, as noted by its long keychain. He is soon back to his "Tinker-Small." A few times he uses an Orange Peeler blade found on the Victorinox "Executive." It was used in "The Heist," "Hellfire," "Last Stand," "Countdown," "Ugly Duckling," and "Slow Death." In "Slow Death" it appears he is using a Huntsman to create a whistle, which would also mean he took two knives with him as he boarded the train. He also used the Sportsman ("Lost Love pt. 1 and 2"), the Recruit ("GX-1", "Widowmaker," and "Jack in the Box"), and the Climber ("Three for the Road"). "Kill Zone" sees the sole appearance of a Super Tinker. It is probable that he used the now-retired Standard model in "Cleo Rocks," a model featuring no toothpick, tweezers, or keyring. It also appears in "Hellweek". In "Tough Boys" he uses a Tinker (with the key ring removed) to unlock a large padlock. In the final episode he uses a metal saw of a cheap multi blade Swiss Army style knife, however it is a counterfeit inferior knife, most probably made in Asia. Several of the knives were bought by someone involved with MacGyver and printed with "MacGyver" on the handles as promotional items for the show in celebration of 100 episodes. This is particularly ironic given the theme of that episode. Another peculiarity is the appearance of the 111mm series from Victorinox, a larger size knife. It appeared in a few Episodes between "Runners" and "The Ten Percent Solution." It was a stunt double of sorts, as it was used for rather brutal tasks, such as chiseling ice twice and being hammered through a door with a rock. He also had a couple of non-production models that were obviously modified for the series. In "Serenity," he has a knife with wood handles on it, to flow with the time setting of the episode. In "Strictly Business" he used a Climber promotional model with the Victorinox shield on the back handle of the knife instead of the front. He seems to have used all of the slimmer models available at that time. The Tinker was (and still is) available in the standard size, which he may also have used. The Sportsman, Tourist, and Spartan are virtually indistinguishable with the blades closed, so he may have used any one of these three, or only one. In "Good Knight MacGyver Pt. 2" he carried a Compact model. Essentially, he almost always used a 2 or 3-layer Victorinox knife, and all of the implements he used could be covered with one knife, the Victorinox Mountaineer. He used the scissors very infrequently, and the file/saw but once, so really a Victorinox Sportsman encompasses virtually all of the uses MacGyver had for his Swiss Army Knife.

In addition to his Swiss Army Knife, MacGyver often carried a roll of duct tape in his back pocket, flattened out to make it fit. Other items he often seemed to have on hand were: a watch, strike-anywhere matches, a handkerchief, a paper clip, wire, fishing line, a flashlight, and lock picks. It could be argued that he had time to prepare in advance when he brought things like the lock picks or flashlight, however, it is certain he always had a Swiss Army Knife, his watch, and duct tape. The duct tape was Shurtape brand, as can be seen printed inside the roll in "The Heist." His watch was a Timex Camper for most of the series, with a black and silver chronograph watch appearing on his wrist towards the end. In the episode "Nightmares" which aired January 15th, 1986, MacGyver's captors gave him a Chronosport Navigator watch that had a timer.[20]

MacGyver rarely had any kind of a wallet with him. Although in a few episodes he was shown with a thin ID holder, most often money and IDs were loose effects in his pockets. Whenever forced to empty his pockets for an enemy, a minimal number of things would turn up, usually just an ID card, watch, his knife, and occasionally duct tape or matches. In "Ugly Duckling" it is shown that he had a toolbox in his Jeep, so it seems he had a tendency to keep things close at hand more often than in his pockets. Despite carrying more in his pockets than most people, he still appeared to have been a minimalist about it.


[edit] Vehicles
MacGyver drove a Jeep Chief Cherokee for the first part of the first season, which quickly changed to the Wrangler for the first half of the series, California license plate 1RJQ104. The last half saw him first driving a 1946 Chevy truck, and finally a 57 Nomad he inherited from his grandfather. For the final season, we see the brief return of the Jeep Wrangler. At different points in the series, he commandeered several exotic vehicles such as a Camaro Z-28 and a Ferrari 308. During a visit to Arkansas, he chose a Mustang convertible as his rental vehicle. He was also an able pilot, but perhaps unlicensed, as he usually left the task to Jack Dalton or other pilots, opting for the passenger seat.

[id3379]

jill left her phone here hahaha!

[*MAD DOG*]

meep meep

[Kal-El]

+1.........

[Kal-El]

1+1=2

[*MAD DOG*]

Maths........ NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

[Kal-El]

Ultimate :bs: thread.

Only a forum that's been hacked could get away with running a thread like this.

:tongue:

:thumbsup:

[*MAD DOG*]

Ultimate :bs: thread.

Only a forum that's been hacked could get away with running a thread like this.

:tongue:

:thumbsup:

Hey Kal-El,

I take offense to your comments. This is a very serious thread about very serious problems and such. You've cut me deep and all the other posters of this thread.

Look at this quality post for example....

In Vaginas we trust? Or Vagina Washington?

meep meep

[33OH]

hahahah nice.

[landrym28]

hahahahahahaha

[Bob_VT]

It's so quiet........

[*MAD DOG*]

MEEP MEEP....... there you go Bob, it just got LOUDER!

[Benggolf2]

What are you guys doing for food for Thanksgiving? :smile:

[PreciousPups4U]

What are you guys doing for food for Thanksgiving? :smile:

Fried Turkey, ham with brown sugar and pineapple glaze, dressing (stuffing), rice, gravy, macaroni and cheese, corn, green beans, sweet potato casserole, broccolli casserole, hashbrown casserole, rolls, pumpkin cheesecake, coconut cake, cranberry orange relish, chocolate delight (mmmm) and probably lots more stuff. Now I am stuffed.

[Benggolf2]

Fried Turkey, ham with brown sugar and pineapple glaze, dressing (stuffing), rice, gravy, macaroni and cheese, corn, green beans, sweet potato casserole, broccolli casserole, hashbrown casserole, rolls, pumpkin cheesecake, coconut cake, cranberry orange relish, chocolate delight (mmmm) and probably lots more stuff. Now I am stuffed.

Whoa! That's a lot of food. :biggrin:

[PreciousPups4U]

Whoa! That's a lot of food. :biggrin:

Well, I am in the South and down South it's all about the food. There's never too much and everyone is welcome. The more the merrier.

There's nothing a big pan of ooey gooey macaroni and cheese can't fix.

[dvlnblkdrs]

i went to my cousins house.. we had.... mashed chipotle sweet potatoes, fully loaded mashed potatoes, like a 20 pound turkey, sweet potato with marshmallows, string bean casserole, stuffing, broccoli with rice n cheese, cranberry, dinner rolls, brusselsprout salad, cookies shipped from ny, white chocolate banana mouse, pumpkin pie, fresh whipped cream



and all that for 6 people! :bellyroll:

[jclo3313]

13374

[KCALB SIRAY]

Turkey hash with scrambled eggs, yummmmmmmmy!

[Bob_VT]

YO! Good morning!

[jclo3313]

Turkey hash with scrambled eggs, yummmmmmmmy!

I'll take some of that.:biggrin:

[KCALB SIRAY]

Hola Bob! Still laughing at the picture you sent me, lol

[KCALB SIRAY]

I'll take some of that.:biggrin:

oh yeah, good shyt

[jclo3313]

Hola Bob! Still laughing at the picture you sent me, lol

Picture?:iono:

[Bob_VT]

FWD to John...... he might see that today!

[jclo3313]

Thanks I needed that.

[KCALB SIRAY]

FWD to John...... he might see that today!

done

[jclo3313]

13386
Remind you of anyone?

[Bob_VT]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EOLCNl0CIh4/SKm-CdXwtFI/AAAAAAAAADU/Ghzk3jroQrI/s400/Mega_Puke_gallery.jpg

[jclo3313]

13387

[Bob_VT]

Fried Turkey, ham with brown sugar and pineapple glaze, dressing (stuffing), rice, gravy, macaroni and cheese, corn, green beans, sweet potato casserole, broccolli casserole, hashbrown casserole, rolls, pumpkin cheesecake, coconut cake, cranberry orange relish, chocolate delight (mmmm) and probably lots more stuff. Now I am stuffed.

Okay..... I just got fatter reading that!!! :biggrin:

i went to my cousins house.. we had.... mashed chipotle sweet potatoes, fully loaded mashed potatoes, like a 20 pound turkey, sweet potato with marshmallows, string bean casserole, stuffing, broccoli with rice n cheese, cranberry, dinner rolls, brusselsprout salad, cookies shipped from ny, white chocolate banana mouse, pumpkin pie, fresh whipped cream



and all that for 6 people! :bellyroll:

OMG Cookies shipped from NY!!! I could kill for that. :biggrin:

[jclo3313]

13456

[jclo3313]

Bacon's real claim to fame is: not that he, as the lord chancellor, in 1621, was removed from office for accepting a litigant's bribe; nor, that he was the real writer of the Shakespearean plays (one of the controversies in English literature, the "Baconian controversy")3; but rather Francis Bacon is known as a philosopher, one of the first order. Bacon delineated the principles of the inductive method, which constituted a breakthrough in the approach to science, even though philosophers and scientists of the day, - and seemingly today, yet - repudiated both his theories and methodology, alike. Bacon argued that the only knowledge of importance to man was empirically rooted in the natural world; and that a clear system of scientific inquiry would assure man's mastery over the world. He was the originator of the expression, "Knowledge is power." He was quite taken up by the "materialist" theories and the resultant discoveries of both Copernicus and Galileo. Bacon, along with Galileo are known in the literature as "the great anti-Aristotelians who created the 'modern scientific' view of Nature."

Francis Bacon was born at London. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of twelve. He studied law and became a barrister in 1582; two years later he took a seat in the House of Commons. His opposition, in 1584, to Queen Elizabeth's tax program retarded his political advancement. While in the earlier days he supported the earl of Essex, Bacon, in 1601, was involved in his prosecution. With the accession of James I (1566-1625) and thereafter, a number of honours were bestowed on Bacon: he was knighted in 1603, made Solicitor General in 1604, Attorney General in 1613, and Lord Chancellor in 1618.

He had powerful enemies, foremost among them was Sir Edward Coke. "Bacon and Coke were bitter political rivals, in Parliament and the law courts." They even contended for the hand of the same woman, a widow, Lady Elizabeth Hatton, - "beautiful, widowed, and rich."

Bacon, not having come from a rich family, and always pressed for money: accepted, and this is one of the great surprises of history, a litigant's bribe. This was in 1621; so, just four months after he was raised to the peerage, Bacon was evicted from office. ("I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense.") Francis Bacon went into retirement and died in 1626; he was buried at Saint Michael's Church in St. Albans, just north of London, Hertfordshire.


The Elizabethan Times:-

If one is to get to know about another person's life and their work it will be necessary to take an historical look at the times during which that person lived; this is particularly so of Francis Bacon. Let us first start by looking to the principal actors of the age. Our leading lady is Elizabeth the First, the Queen of England.

Elizabeth I, lived between the years 1533 and 1603. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She was, after her mother's execution, declared illegitimate, but in 1544 Parliament reestablished her in the succession. On her accession in 1558 (she reigned until 1603) England's low fortunes, included: religious strife, a huge government debt, and failure in wars with France. Her reign took England through one of its greatest periods, a period that saw the country united to become a first-rate European power with a great navy; a period in which commerce and industry prospered and colonization began. Elizabeth followed in her father's footsteps and asserted the Tudor concept of strong rule. She reestablished Anglicanism, and measures against Catholics grew harsher. Although she had many favorites, Elizabeth never married, but she used the possibility of marriage as a diplomatic tool. Vain, fickle in bestowing favors, prejudiced, vacillating, and parsimonious, she was nonetheless considered to be a great monarch, highly aware of the responsibility of rule and immensely courageous.

Other personages of the time should be considered. There would be the 2nd earl of Essex, Robert Devereux (1566-1601) who quite literally lost his head over Elizabeth. Then there was the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley (1532-88), who received a number of favours from the queen. Dudley's wife Amy was reported to have committed suicide, but did she? Eventually, Dudley himself was found poisoned to death. Then there was James I (James VI of Scotland), son of Mary, Queen of Scots; and, indeed, Mary, herself. And a string of others, including: Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-98), Sir Francis Walsingham (1530-90), Sir Francis Drake (1540-96), Sir Edmund Spencer (1552-1599), Walter Raleigh (1552-1618), Edward Coke (1552-1634), Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), and Shakespeare (1564-1616). All of these historical figures should be looked up, I have no time but to only mention them at this place.

I have yet to undertake an exhaustive examination of Bacon's life; it has been done many times before. The standard biography is that of James Spedding.4

Before passing on to saying a few words about Bacon's philosophy it is worthwhile to make the comparison between Sir Thomas More and Francis Bacon, as Frederic R. White did:

"In many external respects, the life of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was similar to that of Sir Thomas More [1478-1535], a century before. Both came from distinguished families, and both received excellent educations. Both studied law and both practised that profession. Both entered public life at a comparatively early age, and both finally arrived, at the end of their political careers, at the Lord Chancellorship. Moreover, each fell into disfavour with his sovereign; each was accused of taking bribes; each was condemned and imprisoned in the Tower. Finally, each was the most distinguished writer and thinker of his time, and each was in a sense, a martyr to his faith. More died because of his steadfast devotion to his religion. Bacon, so the story goes, met his death through devotion to experimental science. While testing the preservation powers of snow, he contracted a chill and perished. This external similarity does not extend, however, to the characters of the two men. More was a man of the utmost integrity, sweetness, and generosity; Bacon was by no means admirable." (p. 207.)

Bacon's Philosophy:-
Francis Bacon's major contribution to philosophy was his application of induction, the approach used by modern science, rather than the a priori method of medieval scholasticism.

Up to and during Bacon's time there existed philosophies rooted not so much in reason but in pure faith; philosophies promoted by the church. [See Saint Anselm (1033-1109) and Thomas Aquinas' (1225-1274) and, more generally, the Scholastic School.] Bacon was "violently opposed to speculative philosophies and the syllogistic quibbling of the Schoolman ..., Bacon argued that the only knowledge of importance to man was empirically rooted in the natural world."

"There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms: this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried."
Thus, Bacon delineated the principles of the inductive thinking method, which, while as a method goes back to the times of Aristotle, constituted a breakthrough in the approach to science. It was just these kind of materialist theories that brought about the great discoveries of Copernicus and Galileo. Bacon could see that the only knowledge of importance to man was empirically rooted in the natural world; and that a clear system of scientific inquiry would assure man's mastery over the world.5

Bacon's Writings:-

"The style of Bacon has an idiosyncracy which we might expect from his genius."6
Earlier, we referred to the comparison which Frederic R. White made between Sir Thomas More and Francis Bacon. Their lives were remarkably paralleled, but as White points out there was little similarity between their writings. "More was a classicist and a humanist; his Utopia is well-planned ... Bacon ... [was a] scientist; his New Atlantis is incomplete, ill-proportioned, somewhat heavy in style, and dogmatically devoted to the glorification of natural science."
Bacon's first work was The Advancement of Learning (1605). His second came along in 1620, Novum Organum; it was part of his larger philosophical work known as Instauratio Magna, of which he only completed two parts: this, Novum Organum, and De Augmentis Scientarum.7 De Augmentis Scientarum, which came out in 1623, was an expansion of his 1605 work. Apothegms came out in 1624. His aphoristic Essays were continually worked on between 1597 and 1625. Bacon's utopian fable about the island of "Bensalem," the New Atlantis, came out in 1627, appended to Sylva Sylvarum. And his final work, The World, came out three years after his death.


Bacon the Man:-

Carlyle thought Bacon was one of the few who could "converse with this universe, first hand." And Lord Macaulay thought that Bacon "had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable ... brilliant, expedient"; but, nonetheless, Bacon was to Macaulay a "thoroughly dishonest man."8 One who so dazzled others by his brilliant mind that he made them forget "the standards of ordinary decency and morality." Bacon acknowledged his weakness: "I will not question whether you ... pass for a disinterested man or no; I freely confess myself that I am not, and so, I leave it there."

"Francis Bacon's life, with its slow rise to political power and its sudden awful fall, is a drama on the heroic scale of the old Greek tragedies. The world knows the famous last will and testament, where Bacon left his "soul to God above, his body to be buried obscurely, his name to the next ages, and to foreign nations." The world knows his writings, or the titles of them, at least. But there is a composition of Bacon's which the world has lately forgotten or overlooked. In the fullness of his power and reputation as Lord Chancellor of England, Bacon was impeached by Parliament for taking bribes in office, convicted, and banished from London and the law courts. ...
We shrink from the evidence; it is painful to see genius stoop for a mean prize. Perhaps the times were to blame. To live in the shadow of a Queen's favor, to strive continually for a King's smile, is not pretty work. It drove Sir Walter Raleigh to fantastic plots, to despair, egregious lying and the executioner's block. Outside the circle of royal patronage there was no way for an ambitious man to rise in government, no way at all." (Bowen, pp. 3-18.)