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Okay, replying to myself, I just looked up (and ordered from Amazon) "Breakfast of Champions", and it's by Kurt Vonnegut, which explains why I drew a blank on it. I had a bad reaction to Vonnegut many years ago, and have avoided anything and everything he wrote since then, though I've been...

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I don't think this is a spoiler, it's only the first chapter, but if you're sensitive to such, better not read further. The protagonist's sister dies, aged 15, and he then reads her books, over and over: I found the list very interesting, because I had read all but one of them myself, and several, &...

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I would like my hands, feet, nose and ears to be able to be uncovered while I'm outside for 10 minutes in 20 degree weather and not freeze. This is rather important, as I have to go outside and bring in firewood for the fire. I really hate having to go upstairs to put on socks, shoes, gloves and a ...

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Congratulations, Lyons!

Do women get to kiss the groom?

*KISS*

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*thumbs down* Deryni Magic by Katherine Kurtz. This is a sort of (fictional, of course) encyclopedia explaining all the stuff about the Deryni people. Their spells, their telepathy, dark magic, shape-changing, healing abilities, etc. If you want to read anything by her, though, you should find Dery...

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Wings. Wings (functional) would be _enormous_ physiological and biochemical change. Ones the size pictured on angels wouldn't work, humans are just too dense and heavy. Bird bones are hollow, and even as light as they are, need to take in enormous amounts of energy to fly and stay alive. We'd need ...

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I'd do it in a flash! as long as I got to pick which changes. I'm not deformed or anything, but my husband was genetically lean, and immediately transformed calories into either energy or muscle. His daughter picked up that trait, Thank God, along with others like my (and my mother's) nearsightednes...

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http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_prima

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My understanding was that putting marijuana in brownies or any other recipe involved making marijuana butter and using that in the recipe, not just dropping some of the stuff in the batter and baking it like that ...Interesting... Well, that would probably work, since the active ingredient is fat-s...

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I heard about this on NPR. I love how they called it a "bureaucratic blunder" instead of chalking it down to corruption.

Yeah, mustn't mention corruption in connection with the Clinton administration.

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uh... when you are talking about brownies... you aren't talking about that kind of sweet biscuit, right? :?: Well, yes, but specifically Alice B Toklas Brownies. I believe that the lady's surname is the origin of the slang term "toke", if it isn't short for "token". She was a Bo...

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Convenience stores: to be more precise, they are seldom pharmacies, and don't sell legal _prescription_ drugs. What they're supposed to sell is things like Aspirin, Tylenol, Over-The-Counter cold medicine (along with their real, basic trade in food, magazines, gasoline, basic automotive supples.) A...

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1. It's a convenience store. They're everywhere. They sell legal drugs. 2. No...toxic is POISON. To steal your example, even water can seriously affect your brain. A good amount of it makes you think better. Too much of it causes pain...etc...water is not toxic. As for overdose, you could overdose ...

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it's not dominating you if you're one of the people who smoke a lot every day; you're running away from something. Like me, running away from the depression of a failed relationship. I'm high right now, and will be tomorrow at this time, and every day for...a while... Better to use grass for your e...

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We only have a few (3) inches of powdery snow, but it packs down nicely for nefarious purposes such as snowballs and sledding. Where's all of the ice that you guys are talking about? Draw a skinny ellipse along an axis that runs from about Tulsa up to the center of Missouri, the ellipse maybe a hun...

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No, seriously though, I had strep last yearish and it was incredibly awful. I fought going to the doctor and almost refused the drugs completely, though. I am with Jan in the Less Anti-Biotics The Better Camp (see, we do have something in common :P) so they practually had to force feed me the stupi...

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Still iced in, and the school district I'm in is having snow day. The main highway in front of my house is reasonably clear, but the gravel county road my "kids" live on, and all the rest of the earth for miles other than main highways, is still a solid 3" sheet of ice. The temperatur...

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Yep ^_^ Jota Be is J.B. And would it be pronounced "Hota Be"? and with the accent on the first or second syllable of "Hota" or "Jota"? (I'm a non-Spanish-speaker, with just the vocabulary and general principles that anyone in the US picks up, what with place names, loa...

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I am a woman, and I did change my name when I married. When I divorced, I kept my husband's name, because I'd also be keeping our daughter, and I felt there were entirely too many complications in my life already without having a different name from hers. Now she's married, and has yet another name,...

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http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/national-78/1168908845240460.xml&storylist=national This seems to match the serious tone. "Soft Hemp" was grown around Lawrence, Kansas during WWII, when German attacks on shipping was cutting off US supplies of hemp, then a majo...

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It could kill pain killers. It's quite possible that if they sent a certain message in the media, it wouldn't kill them because people wouldn't believe weed works better than Aspirin. Even so, I think the main reason drug companies are all for keeping it illegal is that they fear it would kill thei...

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There's a very instructive record, called "A Child's Garden of Grass: a Pre-legalization Comedy". To the best of my knowledge, as I've never heard the CD, it contains the same material I once knew well on vinyl, http://www.amazon.com/Childs-Garden-Grass-Various-Artists/dp/B0001MMGM2 One c...

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You can get both. Just like you have to get a marriage license now, you would go down to city hall and get a civil union, then go to the church and get married. Some churches would let you get married without a civil union, some wouldn't, it's up to them. Does that make it clear? That's approximate...

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luminousnerd, if I'm of the opinion that you're always wrong, and opinions can't be disproved (according to you), does that mean it's true? No, because it's not an opinon that can't be disproved. I can disprove it right now by saying: The sky appears blue. Sorry, Lumi, but I am speaking from person...

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This article from Salon.com gives a good overview of why Marijuana is illegal in the United States. It's a story of racism, greed, yellow journalism and corruption that may surprise you (it surprised me). Enjoy. P.S. Digg readers, this is the article from the frontpage earlier today. Oh look! it is...

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Surely you aren't serious! Tylenol, aspirin, many other painkillers, don't make you nonfunctional while they're alleviating pain! Nor does marijuana. It only affects you, does not make you nonfunctional. Some studies have shown (though I won't be linking you to them because I only remember it, and ...

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Uh. I know plenty of people who have been married without a priest in sight. So on that point, you're dead wrong. Ordained Minister, or something. Maybe not a priest, per se. I'm not up on the terms. The law says that for a couple to be married there has to be some sort of religious leader present....

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Marijuana has been proven to help alleviate pain ie get rid of headaches help with body aches etc. if they legalized it marijuana would cause tylenol sales to go down. Surely you aren't serious! Tylenol, aspirin, many other painkillers, don't make you nonfunctional while they're alleviating pain! M...

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So, welcome, Kansas!

Got ice?

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Jota, What you're talking about is transfection. Viruses insert themselves into cells and change the genes. Currently, it's used (I think still in clinical trials phase) as a treatment for cystic fibrosis. The problem with this is that gene expression is not simple-- especially in eukaryotes and ev...

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Please give me a source on marriage being started by religious people. Because, see, marriage was everywhere, and it was everywhere long before Christianity and Islam (who seem to have the biggest gripe with gay marriage) existed. Marriage has existed in all cultures, all religions and none. But as...

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Hey, Lumi, I like you!

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Are you insane or just incompetant? *eats* Oh, chill out. Lots of people have dreams of meeting their favorite SF writer. Best to try for it at a convention, or maybe haunt Hatrack until he mentions some place and time he's open to it. When Stranger in a Strange Land made its second go-round as a c...

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http://www.george-macdonald.com/lindskoog3.htm "Time Out is an ingenious replacement for spankings, a most effective means of producing rapid decreases in the occurrence of problem behaviors; if a parent uses Time Out consistently, the effect is usually noticeable in three or four days. Time Ou...

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My dad used to say: "Children are like tree saplings. When they are young, you can tame them if they curve, and make them grow straight. If you let them grow twisted, when they are old, you can't make them straight again anymore." .... btw, what is that "time out"? In English, i...

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