Ten lunchtime questions for the lounge...

1) What is your favorite restaurant?

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?

3) What was the last item you purchased?

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?

5) Do you bite your nails?

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?

7) Favorite vacation?

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?

1) What is your favorite restaurant? Yamato's steak and sushi.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? The existence of a higher power.

3) What was the last item you purchased? Deodorant and toothpaste for my teen.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? Black Friday shopping.

5) Do you bite your nails? Yes.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? Smurfs

7) Favorite vacation? Paris, France, my honeymoon.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? Not dressed yet. Not sure.

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? Beach house.

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? Yes.

I could never get into black friday sale shopping. Mainly because I don't like shopping or crowds. I had a roommate that would get up at 4am to get to the sales, which was amazing because the rest of the year, she slept through an alarm clock set for 8am. Are you that dedicated?

we were armed with walkitalkies and everything.
and no I am not making this up, my dad even prioritized list what to go after first and planned out who should get it, as well who was the keeper of the cart.

that's what my roommate used to do with her mom and kids. Not with walkie-talkies (that's clever)...but it was as coordinated as D-Day!:patriot:

I used to go with my mom and my aunt and cousin, so there are great memories. My mom is gone now, so I am hoping to continue the tradition.

This year, we will be in Manhattan for Black Friday...should be interesting.

1) What is your favorite restaurant? Cheesecake Factory

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? That Bush is a lying sack of shit. Oh wait. I can prove that...

3) What was the last item you purchased? a bagel

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? don't really have any

5) Do you bite your nails? Yes. :(

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? Back in the day, She-ra.

7) Favorite vacation? Hawaii, 2 weeks, last Christmas/New Years

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? lavender

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? New car

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? No. Oh crap.

) What is your favorite restaurant? a little Italian one! Mmm!

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? The existence of God

3) What was the last item you purchased? Surely it was a clothing item

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? Getting together with my family

5) Do you bite your nails? No, I have long nails

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? The Flintstones

7) Favorite vacation? Cancun, Mexico

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? Navy

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? A house

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? Nope, I procrastinate

1) What is your favorite restaurant?

Depends on what I'm in the mood for. Probably Sunflower Drive-In.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?

I have the cutest, smartest kid on Earth. Sure, I can't line him up next to every other kid and compare, but I still think it's true.

3) What was the last item you purchased?

Postage.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?

Lazing about like a sea lion while watching sports. If there isn't a good game on, my Dad brings over wrestling videos and we watch those.

5) Do you bite your nails?

Yes.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?

The Powerpuff Girls.

7) Favorite vacation?

A couple of years ago I got a really spiffy cabin next to a creek up in the Santa Cruz Mountians. Currently that's my favorite vacation, in a few months I may have a different answer, though. :D

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?

An oversized grey sweater with light blue stripes.

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?

I'd import the van I want (the Toyota Estima, basicly a hybrid Sienna) or I'd get a Prius.

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?

No.

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
August Moon, RIP. It burned down in January of 2003, and hasn't reopened.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
That there's an afterlife.

3) What was the last item you purchased?
A blueberry muffin and a bottle of water (breakfast)

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
Family dinner.

5) Do you bite your nails?
Yes. And my cuticles. Obsessively.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow.

7) Favorite vacation?
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Very relaxing, great weather, excellent food.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
Black mock turtleneck. It's only 20° out here!

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
A solid gold house. And a rocket car.


10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
Good God no! Not until Dec 23rd at the earliest.

1) What is your favorite restaurant? cafe soleil

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? afterlife

3) What was the last item you purchased? cd

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? going to Grandma's

5) Do you bite your nails?no

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?Calvin and Hobbes

7) Favorite vacation? maui

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? in my nightie...it is pink

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? a house

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? yes

1. Rocco Ristorante, NYC http://www.roccoristorante.com/
2. Some sort of higher power
3. The lunch I am eating (chinese food)
4. sneaking out (at 36) to grab a smoke with my brother
5. not anymore
6. scooby doo
7. napa valley
8. burgundy
9. a new house
10. nope

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
Haven't been since 1990 but I really liked La Rez in Chapel Hill

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
That Keith Moon is the greatest drummer ever

3) What was the last item you purchased?
Birthday present for my sister

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
A four day weekend

5) Do you bite your nails?
yes

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
The Far Side

7) Favorite vacation?
Grand Canyon is the most amazing place I've been so far

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
Maroon

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
A couple hundred CDs

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
No

1) What is your favorite restaurant? Kate's Joint (vegan white russians!)

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? the CIA and the mafia killed Kennedy

3) What was the last item you purchased? a bag of jalapeno-flavored potato chips

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? drinking

5) Do you bite your nails? no

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? when I was a kid, Speed Racer...now, Aqua Teen Hunger Force

7) Favorite vacation? I went to Maine once in the summer...I'd like to do that again some day

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? white

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? freedom from student loans...but I guess I'd have to win quite a lot of money

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? what, is it Dec. 24th already?

:P

I'd also like a new couch.



I'm just chock full of fancy ideas, I know.... :D

1) What is your favorite restaurant?

There's a charming one in Kensington which I go to fairly frequently when meetings friends for lunch it's called "The Oratory" and is handily situated opposite the Brompton Oratory.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?

Where to begin......a damn lot.

3) What was the last item you purchased?

A newspaper, two ciabatta rolls, and some milk - for consumption/reading during lunchtime - bought first thing this morning. Other than such routine stuff - a double C.D. Jehan Alain the complete works for organ, played by Kevin Bowyer - last week.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?

I'm English - no Thanksgiving over here 'coz we're all grumpy sods.

5) Do you bite your nails?

No, and I've forgotten where my nail-clippers are so they're getting too long.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?

At the moment - probably SpongeBob. If we could extend it to include all non-live action things, then it becomes Thunderbirds.

7) Favorite vacation?

Tuscany - can't be beaten, cradle of rennaisance culture.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?

White.

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?

Some champagne (sorry to be cliched).

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?

No.

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
I really don't know. I'm happy with some genuine British Fish and Chips.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
At one point in my life I will be teleported.

3) What was the last item you purchased?
Lunch.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
Spirits.

5) Do you bite your nails?
No.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
Donald Duck was consistently funny.

7) Favorite vacation?
No kids, no dogs, just me and my smokin' hot lady.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
Green with white piping.

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? Porsche 911 Turbo

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
Thinking about it.

Aurelio's in Homewood, IL & The Wharf, Grand Cayman (tie)

The Creator is feminine

Dog chewies

Turkey sammitch in bed w/. cold dressing on the side

No but I chew the cuticles sometimes

Spongebob

Cayman Islands

bleached out denim

Condo/timeshare on Grand Cayman

Hell no

I live about 4 blocks from there.

1) Tiffin

2) There is love.

3) Catfood

4) None

5) No

6) Tin-Tin

7) Cali

8) Mostly blue and tan, kinda.

9) A personal trainer

10) No

When the Beast Man and I win the lotto, we are getting a chef.

1) What is your favorite restaurant? Waffle House

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? That the sun revolves around the earth.

3) What was the last item you purchased? beer.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? we wait until people go on vacation and then make dinner in their houses. I am thankful for all travellers

5) Do you bite your nails? what nails?

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? GI Joe.

7) Favorite vacation? I skipped probation and crossed state lines to go cheap smokes in north cacalaky.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? do beaters come in any othere colors?

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? new blocks for the car in the yard.

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? why? ramadan is 11 months away.

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
Kingsway Fish and Chips. They make a dynamite Steak and Kidney pie, too.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
Too deep for me today. I'd have to give it thought.

3) What was the last item you purchased?
1"x8" pine boards for window casings.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
Making apple cider with an antique press. Of course, we do that in October up here.

5) Do you bite your nails?
Trim, only. I don't chew them.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
Bugs Bunny, bar none.


7) Favorite vacation?
Atlantic Canada, 8 years ago, followed by Manzanillo, Mexico, several times.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
Blue.

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
A house with workshop space.

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
NO

1) What is your favorite restaurant? Hrm... probably this little cafe in Austria that I don't know the name of. Or any one of a number of places I ate in Europe... love the atmosphere.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? Time travel/modification/stretching.

3) What was the last item you purchased? Sadly, McD's last night.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? Huge lunch with family!

5) Do you bite your nails? Not anymore.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? Animaniacs

7) Favorite vacation? European cities, or hangin' at the cottage at the beach.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? Purple :)

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? DSLR camera, and zoom lens!

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? Just a tiny bit...

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
I'm in a comfort food mood, so Threadgill's here in Austin.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
Oswald might have acted alone, but he was part of something larger.

3) What was the last item you purchased?
I bought socks yesterday.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
Leftover turkey.

5) Do you bite your nails?
Nope.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
Looney Toons

7) Favorite vacation?
The DC trip back in September was really f-ing good.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
White, with a design on the front.

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
I'd pay off my mortgage.

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
Shopping yes. Buying, no.

1) Teatro Goldoni

2) All women are insane. (Before you lynch me, I think all men are nuts too.)

3) Dayquil Sinus

4) High school football!

5) No

6) Aqua Teen Hunger Force

7) Hopefully, Italy this Christmas

8) Copper

9) A house

10) Holiday shopping doesn't begin until my holiday bonus arrives.

Hope the Dayquil kicks in soon!

It was actually last night, and it did the trick perfectly! :-)

1. The Yardhouse

2. The existance of extra-terrestial life

3. A new pair of headphones

4. Dont really have any.

5. Sometimes

6. The Simpsons (animated), Boondocks (comic strip)

7. Going to the Great American Beer Festival in Colorado a couple months
ago

8. Tan

9. A new house

10. Nope - I'm a 100% last minute shopper! :evilgrin:

1. the Melting Pot (on a fondue kick)

2. Some form of life after death

3. Gas

4. Long nap after the meal

5. Stopped when I was age 30

6. Jetsons

7. Carribean cruise on Princess cruise line

8. black

9. New car

10. No

So the Beast man and I have foudue every blue moon. :9

1) El Reparo. It's a Mexican restaurant in Alexandria. Good food made fast and run by honest to god Mexican-Americans.

2) That Hugo Chavez is an opportunistic douchebag. I guess that makes him a normal politician, though.

3) Blitz: The League. It's a video game.

4) Watching both of the Thanksgiving NFL games.

5) Yes.

6) The Tick.

7) I can't remember ant that I have had :(.

8) White/grey.

9) A car.

10) No.

1) What is your favorite restaurant?

Jax

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?

My law of universal pricing: when looking for, say, a new computer, you should just buy the first one that meets your specs, because all the differences in in-store/local/mail-order/tax/no-tax/shipping etc. all work out to everything being priced about the same; and if you factor in the value of the time you spent shopping and worrying, it all is a wash.

3) What was the last item you purchased?

Woman's Day Magazine

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?

Big family get-together at our house. Unlike other parties, we try and seat everyone at one big table - actually several tables pushed together - which stretches from our dining room out onto a patio.

5) Do you bite your nails?

No.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?

I love too many cartoons to make a choice.

7) Favorite vacation?

I haven't been on a vacation since 1986. Dunno.


8) What color shirt are you wearing today?

It's kind of purple, or mauve. It's a real odd color for a man's dress shirt. I bought it off the sale rack. Apparently they couldn't move this color very well. It looks good on me.

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?

I would buy the portion of my house that I owe the bank.

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?

No

1. La Pasadita, a cheap tacqueria in Chicago

2. The Riemann hypothesis (for the math geeks)

3. A bagel

4. Dinner with American and Ecuadorean elements

5. Not for about twenty years

6. Boondocks

7. Galapagos Islands. Been there twice. Amsterdam, soon. :smoke:

8. Grey, with a black sweater over it

9. A classical guitar - probably a Fleta, Smallman, or Cashimira. Or maybe one of each! B-)

10. Hell no!

1) What is your favorite restaurant?

Conos & Sons in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?

That perception, attitude, visualization, prayer, and thoughts in general shape reality in a significant way.

3) What was the last item you purchased?

A suit for my son

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?

Uncle Walter gives me a big piece of skin while he's carving the Turkey.

5) Do you bite your nails?

yes

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?

Felix the Cat

7) Favorite vacation?

The one I'm about to go on!

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?

black

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?

dinner

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?

no way

1) What is your favorite restaurant?

Brasa, currently. Which by the way we will *have* to posse up and visit that place for dinner one of these days, when we have some $flow to spare. I suspect yr man-half will LOVE the place.


2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?

I personally can't *prove* most of the things I believe. My basis for belief in things I haven't empirically confirmed is the weight of evidence, very little of which I personally research.


3) What was the last item you purchased?

A loaf of multigrain bread and a jar of green-olive tapenade. Dinner tonight's gonna kick ASS...


4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?

Just the family gathering itself is my favorite thing about that holiday.


5) Do you bite your nails?

Of course, otherwise they'd get too long.


6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?

Clone Wars.


7) Favorite vacation?

My recent trip to Portland was wonderful. Seeing Jerusalem in the '80s when it was relatively safe to be there was also amazing. Those would be my favorites, but for very different reasons.


8) What color shirt are you wearing today?

Blue t-shirt with a white Euclid Tavern logo. REPRESENT!


9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?

First, the balance of my college loans. Then, property in Oregon or British Columbia. Or both, hell, I won the fucking Lotto, why not?


10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?

No.

Have you been listening to Sir Mix-Alot lately?

:evilgrin:

1) What is your favorite restaurant? Hererra's

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? That I'm in love, and always will be.

3) What was the last item you purchased? lottery tickets

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? Cooking with my daughters

5) Do you bite your nails? no

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? The Tick!

7) Favorite vacation? can't decide

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? blue

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? a new vehicle

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? no

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
Consciousness Blossoms in Oldsmar, FL

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
I'd be an awesome rapper. Not like Eminem (solo) but maybe as the fourth Beastie Boy.

3) What was the last item you purchased?
My new gym membership.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
Fur Free Friday and Buy Nothing Day (both fall on the day after)

5) Do you bite your nails?
Yup.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
Tie: Loony Tunes, Animaniacs/Pinky and the Brain and I.M. Weasel

7) Favorite vacation?
Heh heh...vacation. Funny. The one I'm currently planning a short time from now.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
Black and silver striped polo

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
A house with acreage.

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
Hell, no.

'cause after the meat thread, I just cant resist.

"5) Do you bite your nails?
Yup."


protien difficient?

:P

No. Nervous habit. I do it in traffic.

Besides, I don't swallow them. Fingernails aren't vegan.

Ba dum bump, crash.

probably not that original idea: bbq flavored gum, like nicorette, for those trying to kick the habit.

1) What is your favorite restaurant? Iowa Machine Shed


2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? That true love exists



3) What was the last item you purchased? Bottled water

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? Making the dressing and baking the turkey

5) Do you bite your nails? no

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? Bugs Bunny

7) Favorite vacation? trip to New Orleans

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? Black, but changing into Navy Blue scrubs

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? New garage

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? no

1) What is your favorite restaurant? - L'Augerge Chez Francois in Great Falls, VA

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? - God

3) What was the last item you purchased? - All you can eat sushi Lunch. Or, if you want some sort of consumer good, a book - Caesar's Civil War commentaries

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? - Touch Football


5) Do you bite your nails? - Yes

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? - Looney Tunes

7) Favorite vacation? - Costa Rica

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? - Aqua

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? - A ridiculously fast car

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? - yes, online.

Haven't been there in a while, but what a great, great place.

Wedding Anniversary......

1) The Rattlesnake Bar and Grill
2) That I have a soul.
3) Two christmas music CD's
4) Watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation after supper
5) Yes, really badly. I wish I could stop myself, but I don't realize I'm doing it.
6) Loony Toons
7) Golfing
8) I'm wearing a light brown, cable knit wool sweater
9) A lake home in Northern Minnesota, near the Boundary Waters.
10) Yep

1. El Rodeo
2. The existence of some higher power
3. A DVD burner for my computer
4. The ceremonial unbuttoning of the pants and respective nap.
5. Yes.
6. Tom & Jerry
7. I haven't gone on a great vacation in a long time.
8. Black
9. Land (they don't make it anymore :))
10. Pshaw, right...

We are an old married couple, aren't we?

1) Dos Locos in Rehoboth Beach. Although it's about to be sold...

2)God exists.

3)A soda

4)None...hoping to start one this year at the shore.

5)yes

6)Animaniacs

7)The shore...although New Orleans was a lot of fun.

8) Blue, green, grey check. Although not exactly sure of the color
since I am color-blind

9) A big house at the shore with lots of room for guests.

10) Is it December 23rd already???

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
Riddle's in the University City, MO Loop. Andy Ayers, the chef and owner uses lots of seasonal vegetables and other products from area organic farms. Plus, he is a fantastic and inventive cook and has a huge beer and wine selection.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?


3) What was the last item you purchased?
A Korg electronic tuner and 10 boxes of Oliveri hand selected clarinet reeds.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
The food. We always have Thanksgiving at our house for friends who can't or choose not to go home. I always smoke a turkey with my own special spice rub and do a smoked, marinated pork tenderloin stuffed with crab and shrimp. We do a lot of the same vegetables and sides every year as well, things like roasted root vegetables, sweet potato souffle, wild rice and oyster casserole, and cheese biscuits.

5) Do you bite your nails?
Nope. Never.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
Bugs Bunny ( and other Loony Tunes) or Bullwinkle. It depends on my mood.

7) Favorite vacation?
A week at Lake Minoqua, WI with my wife and son. Beautiful cabin on the lake, relatively isolated. Very relaxing even though the fishing sucked.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
Tan colored corduroy shirt and brown sweater vest.

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
New replacement windows for my house.

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
Nope. I hate this time of year as far as gift giving goes. In December there is my anniversary, wife's birthday, mother's birthday, sister's birthday, and Christmas.

1. el ta patio
2. the deteriorating quality of the media led to the Bush presidency not the other way around. (although it didn't help any). Basically Bush is a symptom of a much bigger problem
2. my day pass this morning (for the bus)
4. a chocolate Turkey my uncle gets the huge milk chocolate turkey and serves it with desert
5. rarely
6. Calvin and Hobbes
7. The cruise to st. tomas and st. martin
8. red. but I have a blue sweater to put over it if I get too cold
9. hmm I don't know a car perhaps especially a hybrid
10. no but it isn't as big a deal for us Jews. Hanukkah is a minor holiday. (Like all other holidays it center's around food. gift giving is just an american custom, and a rather recent one at that. they don't give gifts in Israel)

because I think so too!

:tinfoilhat:

did you know that there are only 6 major media outlets, and one of them is Fox so there is realy only 5. 12 years ago there were 50!!!:tinfoilhat:

thanks!:hi:

under the fairness doctrine if a station had a pundit expressing one view they would have to give equal time to the opposition. They don't have to anymore.(Fox news would never been possible under the fairness doctrine, and it certainly wouldn't be legal) following that there have been increasingly lax regulations when it comes to mergers (either that or convenient ignorance or powerlessness on the part of the authorities) allowed big companies to buy out competitors. The final blow would be when news and entertainment were no longer separate divisions.
It's even worse now. To remain competitive all of the networks need some access to the president (interviews, or just being invited to his press conferences), and this administration has been said to be most cowed in the history of the united states. So to some extent the networks have to suck up to the pres if they want to be able to question him at all, cause if they don't they might not be invited back.

Of course, don't they learn in their jornalism 101 classes to show both sides of the story and be neutral? They should not have to have a fairness doctrine.

with Fox news and talk radio in general (excluding air america and NPR) Clear chanel is especially dangerous they are the ones that organized "spontaneous" anti- dixie chicks rallies after they said that they were ashamed that the president was from Texas (heck I'm ashamed that he is from the US period!). there isn't any left wing equivalent so mainstream media appears liberal in comparison. the mainstream networks then go out of their way to show that they aren't liberal (a bad word now a days)which means that they become increasingly conservative. and they don't have to give equal time so they don't it is expensive. They have to find more pundits. Besides they don't want too many liberal pundits least they be suspected of liberalism like pbs which always has an conservative AND a liberal. and as far as advertising goes the idea was that even if they can't afford to be advertised and everything they would still be given equal time, but they don't have to anymore and they are not going to give air time away for nothing.

So the powerful get more power and the weak grow weaker. The journalists have to worry about appearance more than fact, and the politicians don't even have to consider facts (unless you're the underdog). And the people become more and more confused and disappointed. they wonder why we can't get better leaders, and why they didn't know about these flaws before they voted.

And thus Bush becomes president.

1) What is your favorite restaurant?

Panda Garden Buffet

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?

A way of life that wouldn't mean our deaths and would prosper all

3) What was the last item you purchased?

Chocolate Lucky Charms :9

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?

Bringing in a non-traditional food item

5) Do you bite your nails?

Yes. Tastes like chicken.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?

Futurama

7) Favorite vacation?

None

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?

Black

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?

A hooker

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?

Fuck, NO

1) A local Chinese buffet, Great Prices and HUGE selection!!

2) No god!

3) Milk and Cereal from the gas station

4) Eating, Duh!?!?

5) Non-stop

6) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Early 90's version)

7) HAve not had it yet, it will be Civil War Battle Fields.

8) Gray

9) Chrysler 300, WITH A HEMI!!!!!

10) Noooooooooooooo!

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
TGIFridays

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
Evolution

3) What was the last item you purchased?
Books at B&N.com (goes w/question 10)

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
Have to go to the ILs, not my favorite by any stretch of the imagination.

5) Do you bite your nails?
No

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
Past -- Scooby Do, Present-- Dilbert

7) Favorite vacation?
Rome

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
Lavender Sweater

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
vacation somewhere warm

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
yes

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
DeLorenzo's Pizza in Trenton NJ

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
That there was a conspiracy behind the JFK assassination

3) What was the last item you purchased?
an iced tea at Wawa

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
Watching football with family

5) Do you bite your nails?
Yes, unfortunately

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
Gotta be the Simpsons

7) Favorite vacation?
Any place in New England

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
Gray

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
Lexus LS 430

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
nope

1) What is your favorite restaurant? Shorah's

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? that * is Satan himself

3) What was the last item you purchased? besides lunch? a lottery ticket

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? eating

5) Do you bite your nails? no

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? print: The Far Side, action: Looney Tunes

7) Favorite vacation? I've only really taken one... so nothing to compare it to

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? red

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? a shot of really good tequilla

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? no

1) What is your favorite restaurant? Oddly, Red Lobster. The food isn't even that great, but I love going there.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it? Aliens, God, time travellers...my list is long.

3) What was the last item you purchased? A chocolate creme Home Run Pie :)

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? Black Friday. I hate shopping, but make it a contact sport and I'm in!

5) Do you bite your nails? Till they bleed.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? Series: Cowboy Bebop or Yu Yu Hakusho. Movie: Princess Mononoke. Arguably the best animated movie in history.

7) Favorite vacation? Maui.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? Very light yellow.

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? A stiff drink.

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? No, but my wife has.

2 - there IS life beyond our solar system
3 - propane heater
4 - cooking turkeys on a 'smoker grill' with mesquite
5 - no
6 - tom and jerry
7 - spingtime in the mountains
8 - tan
9 - case of champagne (and invite my friends to share)
10- No

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
There's a great little place off the Via del Corso in Rome where they have the best penne arribiata I have ever eaten. :)

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
That there is nothing more important in the world than love.

3) What was the last item you purchased?
I bought lunch for me and DUer 1gobluedem this afternoon.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
Helping my mom put together meal.

5) Do you bite your nails?
rarely

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
Futurama

7) Favorite vacation?
Rome-Florence-Venice

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
Red

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
Honestly...I think I would first pay off the little bit of credit card debt we carry and set my parents and brother up... After that... I have no idea. Maybe a Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone.

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
Nope.

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
Mon Ami Gabi
2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
Bush knew and/or aided in 9/11
3) What was the last item you purchased?
Lunch
4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
Smoking the turkey
5) Do you bite your nails?
Yes
6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
Beanie and Cecil
7) Favorite vacation?
St Johns VI
8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
Green
9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
My wife a new car
10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
Hell no

1) What is your favorite restaurant? Rockfish

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
there is no god

3) What was the last item you purchased? CD - Neil Young's greatest hits

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have? I don't celebrate Thanksgiving

5) Do you bite your nails? No

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)? Zippy the Pinhead

7) Favorite vacation? England - just to eat real fish and chips again

8) What color shirt are you wearing today? Blue

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto? nothing for me, there's nothing I really want

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet? No; the only shopping I do is for the "angels" and they are not listed yet

1. A local Vietnamese restaurant called Wendy's II. Their Mongolian Beef is to die for, and the owner/manager, Wendy Au, is a walking dream of Asian beauty, grace and poise.
2. I believe that there is intelligent life on other planets in the galaxy.
3. Two CD's of music by Antonio Salieri. I thought it would be interesting to hear the music of the man proclaimed, wrongly I think, the murderer of Mozart. One CD of his piano concertos, and one of his operatic overtures.
4. Can't think of one; other than NOT watching football on that day.
5. Nope. Quit one day when I was thirteen or so. Just decided to stop, and never bit them again.
6. "What's Opera, Doc?" Warner Brothers' Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.
7. A month-long tour of Western Europe all by myself after getting out of the Army. England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and France. Great time.
8. I'm wearing medical scrubs, as usual; maroon with a navy blue tee-shirt underneath.
9. A new stereo system. And I'd have the whole house wired so the music would follow me from room to room.
10. Yep. I have gifts for my grandson and my nieces. Nobody else yet.

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
Eat-n-Park, before it went all posh and swanky
2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
Nothing
3) What was the last item you purchased?
A bunch of celery
4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
Pumpkin pie, and lots of it
5) Do you bite your nails?
No
6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
Tex Avery's "Wolf" series
7) Favorite vacation?
NYC, Feb 2002
8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
Plaid, blue & green
9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
Freedom from my student loans
10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
Yes

1) A local BBQ place called Virgil's. Their sauce is to die for.

2) Pickles Bush is an alien robot.

3) A video game called We Love Katamari. You roll stuff up in a big ball. No, I can't really explain it, but it's like crack.

4) Hiding from my family and having a private MST3k marathon (RIP Turkey Day)

5) No.

6) American? Jem. :P Anime, I'd have to say Kyou Mara Maou.

7) My family went on a church trip to Hawaii, Scottsdale, Az. and Las Vegas when I was 10. Coolest vacation ever.

8) Black (duh)

9) It wouldn't be for me, actually. I'd buy my mom a Prius. She really needs a new car.

10) I'm always one of the morons running around on Xmas Eve.:P

1) What is your favorite restaurant?

currently a little hole-in-the-wall, family joint in Aqua Prieta called Herradura - best plate of tacos durados con guacamole around for 3 bucks. And they do fabulous platillos de carne on those little table grills. mmmmmm and cold beer.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?

certain things about the ecosystem and our place in it, - only provable in abstract ways.

3) What was the last item you purchased?

two bags of steamed corn, a bag of sweetened horse feed, and 5 lbs of "Watson Mix" - special mixture of bird food for the boss.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?

LEFTOVERS

5) Do you bite your nails?

only if they get long, one breaks and I have no other way to trim it

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?

Bugs/Daffy/Roadrunner/Coyote

7) Favorite vacation?

Turkey, October 2002 (favorite travel, don't really do "vacations" - god that sounds snobby - oh well)

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?

It was yellow at one time - an accidental bleaching turned it light pink, it is well stained with other things now.

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?

I would buy the ranch next to ours (I would try to buy ours as well - family operation)

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?

What holidays? Halloween? Yeah, thanks for reminding me - I need to stock up on some candy.

(real anwer: no, but I am starting to stress about it already)

1.) Haven't been there in a long time 'cause it's in Boulder, CO..Russian Tea Room

2.) I believe my former dogs can hear me and I see them in the clouds.

3.) Groceries for my dogs. Roast beef, cheese, frozen green beans

4.) Eating out

5.) No, but I go on binges and over the last 20 years will bite them all off and then let them grow back.

6.) I like 'For Better or Worse' cartoon strip

7.) Ireland...love to vacation in Ireland.

8.) Dark blue

9.) Pay off my mortgage. Then would buy the best metal detector I could find.

10.) I'm done with my holiday shopping..finished about the end of October.

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
Le Grain de Sel, Fort Mahon Plage

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
Omar Sharif was from the Planet Spooge

3) What was the last item you purchased?
A six-pack of Tuborg Jul Bryg

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
Giving thanks for the fact that in Europe we don't have all those shenanigans to go through a month before Christmas :evilgrin:

5) Do you bite your nails?
Yup (cleaning up blood-stained keyboard at present)

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
Tom & Jerry - always brings the child out in me, I grin like an idiot just hearing the theme tune

7) Favorite vacation?
Anywhere in the world with my partner and all my children

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
White T-shirt with blue/gray jumper

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
Something totally and utterly pointless, like a marshmallow Steinway Grand Piano with a full set of lead-piping accessories and a small curly green metal thing with a spring on the end with NO apparent purpose at all. (Nurse... time for the medication)

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
Oh hell yes...

1) What is your favorite restaurant?
A local Chinese place. You wouldn't recognize it.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?
That the galaxy of Andromeda is actually an echo of our own galaxy from a couple of billion years ago. Actually it's my husband's theory, I've just heard it so much I'm starting to believe it too.

3) What was the last item you purchased?
A cinnamon roll and a pint of milk.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?
The usual--Eat too much, regret it later. No football though...

5) Do you bite your nails?
Nope. Used to though.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?
The Bugs Bunny & Road Runner show.

7) Favorite vacation?
Vacation? What's that?

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?
heavy Blue sweater

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?
A new computer. Mine is broken.

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?
No. I'm kind of a last minute shopper. :blush:

1) Cathay Inn
2) Change is always possible.
3) gas ($2.39 - two years ago, I would have died of shock.)
4) eating like a piglet.
5) yep
6) Darkwing Duck
7) To Canada and the duty free store! :)
8) grey
9) a house
10) Started yesterday.

1) What is your favorite restaurant?

Grassroots. It's an organic vegetarian coffeehouse and luncheonette in Manayunk about a block from my old apartment.

2) What do you believe is true enough even though you can't prove it?

Time as a 4th dimension in the universe. More precisely I don't think it exists but is a human construction of the mind and that all subsequent physics is based in non-real tangent thought resulting from that misassumption.

3) What was the last item you purchased?

A blueberry muffin...12:26PM yesterday.

4) Favorite Thanksgiving tradition you have?

Ruining it by making repeated reference to "the carcass which I am not about to eat" before, during or after grace.

5) Do you bite your nails?

eeeewww...yes.

6) Favorite cartoon (past or present)?

King Of The Hill.

7) Favorite vacation?

I don't vacation. I have no desire to go anywhere for "2 weeks"...I move a lot instead.

8) What color shirt are you wearing today?

grey and black striped paisley.

9) What would be the first thing you would buy for yourself if you won the lotto?

Tirreno Razza 4.0 Road Bike

10) Have you started to shop for the holidays yet?

What holidays?