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Huh, that's why my nose has been twitching when I'm trying to sleep!

This still going? Amazing. I'd given this place up for dead years ago.

Shhh, quiet, or you'll disturb the ghosts...

Nobody else seems to be on this morning, though!

Wow, I leave for 12+ years, and this thread is still going! (Ok, maybe it wasn't quite 12 years, and I probably did check in once or twice, but been a while, good to see a few familiar names still around.)

Craigv didn't make the claim. You did. What I said was "guilty of similar nonsense". I've shown how that is true. If either of you think it's worth that much effort, have at it, I'm not stopping you. I'm not running away from my statement in the least, if you don't think it's true, you haven't been listening to your party's windbags much over the last 20 years.

So you can't name one Repub who threatened to leave the country? Oh come on. I'd have to go looking for it, but I'm quite certain I hear that threat used "if Gore / Kerry wins". I honestly can't be bothered to look right now, you're so interested, why don't you? I'm quite sure I can find a whole metric {censored}ton of the other "you don't agree with us, so you have to move" variant.

I have trouble thinking of any conservatives who fall into the "windbag celebrity" unless I'm counting TV/Radio personas and political commentators. I guess there's always the Nuge. Those are, of course, the majority of the people I'm referring to. Their formulation of the statement is sometimes slightly different, of course - a roughly analogous statement is when they suggest (as several of them often have) that everyone who disagrees with them should move (or be forcibly moved) to some other country. The whole "move to France" thing in about 2002-2004 was a fairly representative example.

As much as I disagree with the majority of political sentiment here, I do agree with the general consensus on these idle celebrity "threats", though, regardless of which side they come from. I'm actually somewhat embarrassed that this silliness seems more prevalent amongst celebrities who identify themselves with the progressive side, though "regressives" as I call them aren't immune from it either, there's more than a few right-wing windbags guilty of similar nonsense.

Love it or leave it, baby! I have this philosophy no matter where you live. USA definitely has it's issues---but moving to another country doesn't solve anything IMO. I have a good friend who was basically disgusted with our country, so she now teaches overseas. She has repeatedly said she loves her job, but definitely appreciates USA and its freedom after living in several countries over the past 10 years. Most of those in disagreement with the current administration (and its would-be successor) are more in a mind to "Love it and stay here and fight for it". You bozos are once again making the absolutely incorrect assumption that most people who disagree with this administration and the Republican / "conservative" agendas do not love their country. We do. That's why we're upset. And that's also why we're going to win. Edit: I don't mean to lump you into that crowd unfairly, chubrocker, but that oh-so-typical "love it or leave it" attitude from the far right totally misses the point.

That is an interesting version of "Wicked Game". Still like the original better, but not bad... ...great song, that I somehow feel as if I shouldn't like, but I do. ...ok, just got to the very end, that last tack on was a bit much...

People often say that flats have more tension, but guage and length equal, I don't see how this could be the case. My suspicion is that they feel like they are higher tension because they are stiffer laterally. You get this across brands of rounds too. DIfferent construction methods fell different, but I would be surprised if they had any different tension on the neck. There's more metal in flats than rounds, for the same gauge - the flats have none of the gaps caused by the round windings. More metal = more strength = more tension when tuned to the same pitch. How much of a difference it really make, I'm not sure.

Originally posted by sludgebass69 Peanut butter and Arizona University? No, no, no. It's peanut butter and GOLD! (Au) Kind of like the sammich version of Goldschlager!

This thread makes me want to just toss in these two words: "butt pimples" Thank you.