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[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by bigheadache

Is the large intestine truly the ugliest human body part?

I think it's the ears. Now a warning....readers, I'm about to point out something and you will be far better off not having this added to your perspectives. It is a disservice, not a favor I'm about to do, so consider carefully before reading on.

There isn't anything attractive about the human ear. It is oddly shaped, has all those curves and bulges and the orifice itself looks like the entrance to a spooky cave. When ears are "attractive" that only really means that they are ordinary to the point where we do not notice them at all. Think about it...have you ever looked at another person's ears and thought..."Those are very nice looking ears?" Or is it the case that the only time you notice ears at all is if they are especially hideous in appearance? If they are too big, or they stick out too far, or they have an odd shape.....then you notice them because they contribute to...ugly.

If you do not believe me, select some person whom you consider attractive and study that person's ears. Before too long, they will look ugly to you because the ear itself is basically an ugly organ. You will realize that the person is attractive despite the ears, not because of them. Ears actually only come in two two types...ordinary not noticed ugly, and extra ugly. (Well, three types if we count Don Mossi....that would be extra extra ugly.)

The disservice I referenced is that before, you probably never paid any attention to ears and now you will probably start noticing. I've made your world a slightly uglier place.

[bigheadache]

Is it true that skrable's best feature is his ears?

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by bigheadache

Is it true that skrable's best feature is his ears?

Everyone agrees that his best feature is his large intestine.

[skrable]

Someone bought a replica of the General Lee on eBay from John Schneider for $10 million. Several questions spring to mind over this, but I'll stick to the most obvious three:

1. Why?
2. Should we spruce up the GrandMobile?
3. How pissed off is Tom Wopat?

[bigheadache]

Did Greenland get its name because Iceland, Finlad, England, Ireland and Disneyland had already been taken.

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by skrable

Someone bought a replica of the General Lee on eBay from John Schneider for $10 million. Several questions spring to mind over this, but I'll stick to the most obvious three:

1. Why?
2. Should we spruce up the GrandMobile?
3. How pissed off is Tom Wopat?

1) There is a mentality, utterly alien to me, which generates the belief in some people that owning a piece of property associated with some popular entertainment program, makes them as admirable as the people actually responsible for the program. You would only own a replica of the General Lee for the purpose of showing it off to people who came to your home. It's just a damn Dodge with a specific, and not especially imaginative, paint job. Anyone who wanted a replica of the General Lee could buy Dodge Charger from some auto wrecking yard for 50 bucks and either repair and customize it or hire someone to do it...for a few thousand bucks. But that isn't the purpose here, the purpose is extracting whatever ego points one extracts from bragging about the association of "me and the show." That is worth ten million dollars to those afficted with the mentality I am referencing.

2) When you sense that a buck is to be made, suddenly you're all for "sprucing up" the GrandMobile. Where was this spirit all the times in the past when I tried to get you to wash it?

3) Wopat is probably generally pissed that despite the fact he is a better actor than John Schneider, because Schneider was "the cute one" he has gone on to more fame as Jonathon Kent while Wopat was reduced to doing plays and bit parts on tv here and there.

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by bigheadache

Did Greenland get its name because Iceland, Finlad, England, Ireland and Disneyland had already been taken.

There is an actual answer to this. Iceland had some reasonably livable areas and was seen as desirable by the Vikings, Greenland was completely hostile to human life. Because they wanted to discourage others from seeking land in Iceland and also wanted others to waste time trying to settle Greenland instead, Iceland got a hostile sounding name and Greenland got a pastoral one.

Two nations which were named for purposes of deception.

[skrable]

Why do Turkey and Greece hate each other?

[jtur88]

Ar egzistuoja daiktai nepriklausomai nuo mūsų pažinimo?

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by skrable

Why do Turkey and Greece hate each other?

Greece is the nearest place to Turkey which provides a population and culture alien enough to justify unreasonable hatred. If Turkey looks south or east, it has fellow Islamic neighbors. It looks north across the Baltic Sea and there is the Ukraine which has only been an independent entity for a decade and a half, no time to build up animosities. A stone's throw across the Aegean to the west, there is Greece, full of Christian westerners, hell, they were the originators of western culture.

Of course they will select Greece as the object of their hatred. As for Greece their regional ire could be directed at the lower Balkans, but they already hate themselves, so that wouldn't be any fun. They could hate Italy, but that would be hating the co-founders of western civilization, Egypt is too far away to the south...but Turkey is convenient.

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Ar egzistuoja daiktai nepriklausomai nuo mūsų pažinimo?

Why don't you start your own Ar egzistuoja thread?

[perfectstormhits]

Why doesn't major league baseball have instant replay?

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by perfectstormhits

Why doesn't major league baseball have instant replay?

It's already a leisurely paced game with numerous interuptions. Each team throws 100 plus pitches, how many of those would be disputed if disputing was allowed?

On the other hand, might not the time lost to checking the replays, be made up by eliminating the long, game delaying arguments?

On the third hand, baserunners are often running or not running based on the call that the ump makes as the play unfolds. If we start having to reverse those calls, then how do we handle what happened with the runners whose decisions were based on the call which has been overturned??

At the very minimum, they could use instant replay to make sure on fair/foul calls down the lines when it is either a homerun or a foul. That would not involve deceived baserunners.

There are arguments for it and arguments against it and neither side is overwhelmingly persuasive. In such cases, the default position is hard to dislodge.

[bigheadache]

Who has 3 hands?

[LongtimeBravesFan]

While I agree that Martin and Herzog deserve induction and feel Anderson coasted his last decade in Detroit, I believe there was miscommunication in my last question. I meant to ask what non-players and non-managers hould get in. By this, I mean owners, GMs, commisioners or any other non-uniformed people. Sorry for the misundertsanding.