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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:09 PM
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I'm leaving DU (sorta, in 10 days or so) - ask me anything while you can!
Ok, it's neither by choice or because I'm mad - the Atlanta schools moved up the start of the summer program for alternative-certification types like me to June 1, and I'm going to essentially be gone for a while. (Don't worry, Skinner, I'm going to finish the "major media" section before then. :) ) Besides, it's Friday, I'm avoiding laundry, and I have a Beam-and-coke keeping me company. Political, personal, animal, vegetable, mineral.
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Angelus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:12 PM
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1. Ok...which mineral has the chemical formula...
(Mg, Fe)2SiO4?

Hint: It's the first mineral to cool in the Bowen's Reaction Series. ;)
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:16 PM
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4. olivine.
Yes, I googled.
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Angelus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:16 PM
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5. Cheater.
:hi:

And yes, you're right.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:15 PM
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2. What's your favorite animal? (nt)
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:16 PM
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6. pet or food?
Pet - dog.

Food - salmon.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:18 PM
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7. What about wild animal
Not as food but just to watch or admire either on TV or in person.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:24 PM
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9. good question.
I find myself thinking of predators, interestingly enough.

I guess I'd say wolves, but that's probably the dog thing in me.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:25 PM
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10. Will you ever eat wolf (as a meal)?
Is it even possible to eat wolf?
There, two questions for the price of one!
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:28 PM
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11. can't imagine it.
One never knows, though, given the context and a sufficient level of hunger. And I suspect it's entirely possible to do so.

"Donner, party of eight...seven...six..."
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:45 PM
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12. LOL about your last line
Another question:

What do you think about that mountain lion attack in Calif. a few months ago?
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:56 PM
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13. didn't hear about it.
Can you fill me in?
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:01 PM
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14. A few months back a mountain lion
attacked a women who was mountain biking. Hurt her pretty bad. Lots of cuts and bruises. Almost ripped one side of her face off.

That same lion also killed another man in the same location either that day or a few days before.
Saw the young lady on Larry King a few days ago and she looks surprisingly good.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 07:16 PM
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15. thanks.
What do I think? I think we're trespassing. I think we have a technological advantage that allows us to do things the long term implications of which we don't even begin to understand.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 08:38 PM
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18. I agree with your analysis.
Whenever someone mentions a wild animal, I hate it when they say 'Just kill them'.

Where else do the animals have to roam now that we built up on their land. I even ain't it when my mom knocks down the spider webs with the broom. They deserve a place to live.

What if some big creature came and was like 'Stupid humans' and knocked down our houses. How would we feel?
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:15 PM
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3. I'll miss ya honey
But boy am i glad that you will now be bitching about the Atlanta school system instead of those fundi's...keep on bitching ,Uly..good things happen when you do :D
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 04:20 PM
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8. as I'll miss you, dear one
It'll be good to get some perspective, though. And I'll be around, just not as much.
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 08:28 PM
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16. Why is it called a woodchuck, if it doesn't chuck wood?
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 09:00 PM
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19. the answer is in the potentiality of the wood chucked.
We may take, as given, that the woodchuck does not, in point of fact, chuck wood. There is every possibility, however, that what we know as the "woodchuck" will, at some point, evolve into a being capable of chucking wood, and in that eventuality, the moniker "woodchuck" will, at long last, suffice.

As to the quantity of the wood such a woodchuck might chuck given such an eventuality as a woodchuck that could chuck wood, we say not.
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BritishHuman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 05:48 AM
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23. Actually
It's a corruption of a Native American word "Wejak", meaning evil spirit.

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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 07:14 AM
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25. How much Jack
How much jack
Would a Wejak jack
If a Wejak could jack Jack?

--bkl
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 08:04 AM
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26. Imagine, - a priest of The Internet Oracle
knowing esoterica about the woodchuck. Whodda thunk...

:7
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 08:29 PM
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17. Sorry for our loss
Temporary as it may be... but our loss is some Atlanta students' gain. :thumbsup:
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 09:01 PM
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20. eh - it'll be a somewhat less gripe-ridden election season here.
:)
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 09:54 PM
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22. Who are you kidding...
get things under the belt... have a routine... you will find the time to come back and ... gripe about the politics du jour... and I am sure that there will be plenty interesting to comment on per your congressional district and state senate race... I predict we will see you reemerge before the election :D
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 09:16 PM
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21. I'll miss you while you're gone,
and save the hugs, the party, the dancing nekkid on NSMA's car for your return.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 06:56 AM
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24. You'll miss my 'blame the Greens' orgy, to be held in eleven days or so
I even ordered little 'scapegoat' horned hats for party favors, along with a 'Yes we CAN blame a complex problem on an indirectly related group of people!' banner.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 08:06 AM
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27. The place won't be the same without you. And I like your picture.
You're cute. :-)

Terry
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 08:53 AM
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28. bummer, another leftist bites the dust.
who'll help me save america from the neo-lib hordes invading DU?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 08:55 AM
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29. Can you send Peanut over here?
I don't move in until next week, but there's already a couple projects I'll need his help with. Stupid fence with it's leaning!
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 10:23 AM
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30. Ulysses, good luck on the certification program!
Over here in Athens, my last day of the school year will be Monday. Although the last school day was Friday, I have to return on Monday to shred teacher records of graduating seniors. With a single page shredder!
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