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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
-- Winston Churchill

The version I've always heard goes something like this:
(Participants: LA = Lady Astor, WC = Churchill)

LA: Winston, you're drunk.
WC: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober.

And another one listed on her ladyship's wikipedia page:

And in another similar instance with Winston Churchil in his fabled tangle with Lady Astor, who'd allegedly said she'd probably sleep with him for a £1 million.

When Winston suggested £10, Astor snorted: "What kind of woman do you think I am?"

To which Winston is said to have replied: "We've established what you are; now we're just haggling over the price."

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I think it depends on what type of steel and type of spider you are talking about.

Dunno about his spiders; the one I recall reading about was something like 'Golden Orb Weaver'.

Silk from the Black Widow spider was used by the US military in its WW2 bomb sights.

Interesting...

Spider venom liquefies its prey's insides and it sucks it out leaving only a chitinous shell behind.

Pound for pound, spider silk is 10 times stronger than steel.

Ten? I thought it was only five. May I request the name of whatever source material you found that in?

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Ooh, ooh, I know! It's a link!

In seriousness, the thing is reminding me of a gas cap for some reason, but I'm not sure why.

Wouldn't Superman work because he starts off as a nerd then switches from his secret identity to SUPERMAN

Actually, it's my understanding that the Clark Kent persona is a 'wimp', not a 'nerd'. If you feel that I am mistaken, please explain why.

@GrimJack:

I've looked over the site a bit; I'll admit what I've done is more skim than scan, but I've looked at some of it. I'll try to get more done over the coming weekend, or over the week if I discover extra free time; this is looking to be a possibility, although I cannot yet say how probable.

I do, however, have one question: In looking over the history listings, I saw that the CDC had the US definition of AIDS upgraded occasionally, but that appeared to be it. Has the African definition ever been upgraded, or are they still using the 1985 Bangui definition?

What's this?

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The future of Badminton?

I have some extra free time this evening; I'll follow on what you linked then. I apologize, but most of my free time is on weekends, and I tend not to think of Daniweb then.

Sigh! I was a life-time giver - gave over 10 gallons in 25 years then I had some minor liver problems and my system was flooded with Hep. anti-bodies and now i can no longer give (though I still do pheresis when I can find the time).

Maybe they should set up donation stations at Trek/sci-fi conventions.

Thanks for being a donor. I've given some in the past, but right now I'm on some kind of medication which, if I understand correctly, means I'm not going to be able to. Although this isn't its official purpose, one of the side effects does deal with lowering blood pressure.

I wonder if bias is a form of cencorship.

Yes. Read the book by that title for more information.

Their emphasis has turned away from rehabilitation towards profit.

Please explain to me why the emphasis was ever on rehabilitation in the first place. I was always under the impression that the purpose of prisons wasn't to rehabilitate criminals, but to keep them away from potential future victims, at least for a time.

"ladies first" adam ate the apple first.

If you're going to reference that, then please get the point right. One, it wasn't an apple, and two, Eve ate it first. Adam's crime was that he knew what it would do, and he neither stopped Eve, nor refused it himself.

Not really; I tend to cut my toenails after removing the socks.

(And yes, I know that's not what you meant.)

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Depends on what else he did during his life. For example do you know if he ever stopped beating his wife ?

False statement. Eternal destination has nothing to do with actions taken during life.

Please don't go looking for that reference - I think you are still looking up a different reference for me

Trying to track down the reference materials now; the author's footnote didn't mention the study itself, it mentioned a set of periodical materials that I'm assuming he drew his information from.

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US football vs UK football -- UK wins.

How? They're not even playing the same game.

The Merc Index carefully avoids using 'most toxic substance' because 'there can only be one' but they do list interesting comparisons but first I need to explain LD50 - this is the concentration that will kill 50% of a given population (I guess kind of like the half life in radioactivity).
Plutionium is .o15 per kg

I'm assuming that 'Plutionium' is plutonium, and the dose is .o15 what per kg? And how sure is this; I remember reading about a guy who offered to eat the stuff. Apparently, it was some kind of challenge to Ralph Nader, pound per pound, although I don't recall what Nader was supposed to eat. I'll have to go find that reference again.

Wow, 0.0000003mg per kg of body mass. That makes a bulging can of green beans a weapon of mass destruction! You have one of those and the US Air Force will come and bomb your kitchen!

With what, thier own similarly-bulging 'death carrot' munitions?

I want you to think, just not so much :P.

Sort of like having a passionate opinion.

What about the accents? They are both annoying if you ask me, but when I get pretentious I prefer using a british accent rather than an american one. It sounds pretty much cooler.

Define 'American Accent', please.

We're large enough we've got numerous accents, not a single one that's specifically the American accent. For a small sampling of the stereotypicals:

The Bostonian native will pahk his cah before going into a building.
-These 'r's apparently migrate, as...
The Texans, supposedly, all invest in erl wells,
And, of course, a good speaker of 'Southern' will inform you that you need to light the far once it gets dock outside.

These are the particular stereotypical accents I know of, though I've been informed that the Appalachian mountains have their own as well, a relative to the pre-brogue Scots accent.

My preference, frankly, is for 'Southern', not because of the accent, but because, with the (mostly)death of Middle English, this dialect is the only version of English which remains (to my knowledge, at least) to bear the distinction between the singular and plural forms of the second person. (Although admittedly, it does this indirectly.)

This article needs somebody playing the violin in the background.

Now, now. Daniweb serves, if I understand correctly, as a medium of information exchange. And the last thing we need is more violins in the media.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress.

meals -- they are probably bigger which is why we are fatter. If there is ever a world-wide famine we will be the only people on earth who will survive.

Depends on the source. If the source of the famine were some kind of blight (disease sense) or devastation upon our fields, we'd probably go down first.

And can it be described as a famine if food is available, but the means to transport it isn't? I was reading a book a while back which had the premise of a massive solar flare hitting the earth, and the difficulty of transporting goods and people without the tech we've become used to was one of the things it touched on.

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And which side would that be?

Conservatives (the real ones) don't, from what I've seen, think that the government should be allowed 'no limits' no matter what the conditions.

And Liberals hate the very idea of war, apparently.

Sounds about right for our current administration. ;)

Exactly what portion of the nation thinks of the state as being 'all knowing'?

'wohne illegal alien, twhoo illegal aliens, thuhree illegal aliens...'

Would you please cite your proof for the numeric statistic? It was my understanding that, in the United States at least, ~90%+ of occurences did appear among the somewhat overlapping groups of homosexuals and shared-needle drug addicts, and I would like to know where you get your statistics from.

world wide AIDS stats
Globally, around 11% of HIV infections are among babies who acquire the virus from their mothers; 10% result from injecting drug use; 5-10% are due to sex between men; and 5-10% occur in healthcare settings. Sex between men and women accounts for the remaining proportion – around two thirds of new infections.

Mea Culpa - I should have reversed the statistics and stated only 5-10% of world wide aids is spread by homosexual sex.

Do not think that the US is the world

I don't think the US is the world. I admit I haven't looked at your stats yet (I'll try to get around to it), but if you don't mind, how much of that count is located within Africa?

As to the survey, I've got the book I saw it mentioned in on hand, I just need to go back over the book and find the reference to follow the footnotes. More a matter of how much free time I have right now than anything else.

Teacher: If you had one dollar and you asked your father for another, how many dollars would you have?
Vincent: One dollar.
Teacher (sadly): You don't know your arithmetic.
Vincent (sadly): You don't know my father.

Teacher: Jimmy, if you had seven dollars, and seven friends, and you gave two of your friends a dollar each and nothing to the others, what would you have left?

Jimmy: Two friends.

[Yes, it's derivative.]

look up smoking tests on beagles in the 1960s, thats where they affirmed the linkx between dogs and snoking. Its in my college anatomy textbook.

If the textbook is your best evidence, would you mind posting the name and publication year?

Right and wrong at the same time. It is physically addictive to the mind, altering the production and response to several neurotransmitters.

I believe you meant to say that it is physically addictive to the brain. The mind is not a physical structure, and therefore cannot become physically addicted to anything.

...And cancers can be caused by things other than smoking.

"Celebrities Who Died From Smoking"
Tell y'all what. If anyone can produce a death certificate that lists the cause of death as "smoking", I'll believe that this title is completely unbiased. 'Til then, I'll take it as an unproven assertion.

(BTW, I am well aware that a correlation exists between smoking and certain diseases.)

Depends - does this include those who started smoking, then burst into full flame?

[Yes, I know that's a tired joke. I'm about to let it take a nap, I just thought I'd show it off one last time.]

But wasn't the new king/queen already Royalty? He/she simply experienced a change in state. That change of state doesn't occur until the new king/queen is aware of the death, such knowledge requiring time for transmission.

Even assuming that he/she were already Royalty, the state shift would be instantaneous; even if they were not aware of it, anyone directly in contact with the previous King/Queen would be. So the only limiting factor seems to be awareness of the previous monarch's passing; if no one is aware, then perhaps the state does not collapse.

Although, in fairness, I note that Wheedle is also supposed to have hypothesized a particle, dubbed the 'Republicon', which might be able to interfere with the transmission and/or state shift...

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.
~~~ Douglas Adams

Inaccurate statement. According to fictional philosopher Lin Ty Wheedle, Royalty travels faster than light. After all, you can't have two legitimate kings at the same time, but when the old one dies, the new one becomes king instantly, no matter how far away he (or she, in the case of queens) was from the original at the time.

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EnderX is a razor that does the washing up! It can communicate with your T-shirt and responds to temperature changes.

Interesting...

"Oh! Hey, 3DCR*, what's happening?"

*3 Degrees Celsius Rise

HAHA!

Wiki: In July 1977, Marley was found to have malignant melanoma in a soccer wound on his right hallux (big toe). Marley refused amputation, citing worries that the operation would affect his dancing, as well as the Rastafari belief that the body must be "whole":

But...but that's melanoma! That means it's a cancer, so it must be smoking related! Everyone knows that smoking causes cancer!

I don't know what my planned dream would be, but can someone tell me the answer to my long awaited to ask question?

How can I start to remember my dreams again? I used to almost every night, now I never do!

I just wake up in the morning and never remember my dreams. It pisses me off so much.

Does anyone have any tips on how to remember dreams?

Set an alarm clock. I'm serious about this.

From my own experiences, as well as what others have written that I've read, it's a lot easier to remember a dream if you wake up during it, rather than after. Given the hour which I have to wake up for work, I'm more likely to remember my dreams on a weekday (alarm clock going off) than on a weekend (sleeping myself out).

You'll still have to focus on them a bit; waking up from a dream and immediately going into something else in reality will cause you to forget the dream more quickly.

how about promoting more battery powered cars that do a top speed of 70 mph.
That would be good for the ozone layer & less on speeding fines to pay out too.
Like most things in the world it is all found out that it is bad years down the line when the damage has been done allready , but we will be paying for it till we die.

Exactly what portion of the exhaust of a normal car is damaging to the ozone? I was under the impression the supposed problem was at a somewhat lower level of atmosphere.

And exactly how would the battery-car be any better? The exhaust would simply be factory-created rather than engine-created; you still have to provide power for those batteries.

I'm assuming this will not be done by connecting them with copper wire then flying a kite off the last one during a thunderstorm.

Ownership of all the earths resources is predicated upon murder.

Mind explaining this one to me? I'm having trouble seeing how you arrive at this conclusion. Perhaps some of it is, but I fail to see how every single bit (you did specify 'all'), is based on murder.

No structure can be sturdier than it's foundation. The foundation of all business is ownership of the earths resources, and that means that death awaits any who wish to restructure the way things are.

Is this an opinion you hold, or are you willing to provide proof of it?

What I want for myself is irrelevant to anyone else, and I can live with that.

Except that if you are correct, it isn't irrelevant to some people, because by drawing on your own logic, in order for you to get what you want for yourself, then they will have to be deprived of something (apparently someone's life). If I am incorrect in this assessment, please point out to me where this occurs.

But I care that we be precise and honest about what's going on instead of deluding ourselves. Murder for property ownership for the purpose of profit taking is not "fair" .. at least, not in my book. It might be in yours, if so, the discussion has reached a point of understanding.

I'm still failing to see where you're getting the 'murder' part from; if I wished to own a certain piece of property, then I would …

HIV/AIDS - this is not a 'gay' disease, was not started in the gay community, is not god's punishment for anything. Of the worlds populations that have HIV/AIDS, 80% is transmitted through heterosexual contact. If you are going to use the bible, remember "judge not lest ye be judged"

Would you please cite your proof for the numeric statistic? It was my understanding that, in the United States at least, ~90%+ of occurences did appear among the somewhat overlapping groups of homosexuals and shared-needle drug addicts, and I would like to know where you get your statistics from.

As to your bringing up the scriptures,

1Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

To my mind, this always meant not judging others by a standard other than the one you hold yourself accountable to.

Or perhaps you refer to the phrasing of the gospel of Luke:

37Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:

38Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

As far as I can tell, same logic.

And the same One who …

I will not tolerate intolerance

What, you have a problem with people whose bodies reject toxins?

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