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Old 17-May-2007, 04:55 PM
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Sometimes the statement just needs to be re-read or explained.

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A [local] student at St. Mary School in Elyria received a state award Wednesday for winning the national missing children's poster-essay contest
You get this award for winning an award.
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Old 17-May-2007, 05:34 PM
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I protest! Their award criteria discriminate against all the non-award-winners.
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Sweet. I've always wondered if there was an award for awards. You know, "Best Directing Award of the Year"
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I forget where I saw it - a skit.. "The Award Show for Award Shows" - of course, I didn't understand it, never having watched an award show.
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Here's a reporter with a good grasp of the english language.

A Record-Breaking Guitar Solo
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1,683 people showed up to play Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water."
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I thought they had cancelled this. Technically you can have more than one guitar playing the solo part. But the result is not a solo. But unless these people stood around only playing the solo (which i doubt) seems to me the headline is flubbed. So what else is new?
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Here in Europe we used have a "Cup Winners Cup" in football, where all the cup winning teams from different countries used to compete to win the "Cup Winners Cup", and the winning team were the "Cup Winners Cup" winners.
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Here's a reporter with a good grasp of the english language.

A Record-Breaking Guitar Solo
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1,683 people showed up to play Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water."
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Yes, but each of the 1,683 people played it in a different key, or at a different tempo, so it still counts as 1,683 solo performances.
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Being reported here now
COASTAL FLOOD WARNING in effect for :
Ashtabula, OH CUYAHOGA, OH Lake, OH

Lake Erie?
Per the weather channel definition...
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Coastal Flood Warning - land areas along the coast are expected to become, or have become, inundated by sea water above the typical tide action.
Now what the local channel is saying:

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...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 KNOTS TODAY COMBINED WITH WAVES OF 4
TO 6 FEET WILL ALLOW FOR RIP CURRENTS TO OCCUR ALONG THE
SHORELINE OF LAKE ERIE.
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Neat, so you guys get all the weather-related dangers of say, Florida, without all that pesky beautiful scenery to get in the way. Lucky dogs.

I remember when we were vacationing in upper-Michagen they had a rip-tide warning. One swimmer "bravely" (stupidly) defied it and swam out into the water. The tide grabbed them and slammed them into the jagged rock cliff that flanked the beach. It was the last "brave" thing they ever did.

[edit: on a completely unrelated side note: I also remember from that vacation that the "kiddie pool" that was next to the main pool in the lodge area had clearly painted "Depth: 6 inches. No diving." Even at age 10 it seemed to be a "well, duh!" thing. Although if there's a warning it means someone's probably done it in the past...]
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[edit: on a completely unrelated side note: I also remember from that vacation that the "kiddie pool" that was next to the main pool in the lodge area had clearly painted "Depth: 6 inches. No diving." Even at age 10 it seemed to be a "well, duh!" thing. Although if there's a warning it means someone's probably done it in the past...]
There's a warning because that "duh" someone was just smart enough to sue the pool maker... and probably won the suit.
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Step by step, researcher looks for sexuality clues

Ok; whether you agree or disagree on the cause, it doesn't hurt to research. But this one got me thinking...
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• Critics see no gay genetics, point to lack of inherited orientation
If rare/recessive traits require both parents to carry it, then wouldn't that mechanism be logistically impossible anyway?
So, if it were found to be genetic, it still wouldn't be inherited?

Beside; we should just rely on the poll... if 56% of Americans think that orientation is not learned, then it must be.
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Scientists at the University of Texas, Austin, say they have found the first strong evidence of a physical difference between lesbians and straight women -- a finding that the inner ears of gay women work more like those of men.
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Previous research has found that two parts of the brain are different in gay and heterosexual men. Other studies have found that some genes differ between gay and straight men.
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It's the "inherited" part that I am questioning. How do you inherit from two homosexual people. Doesn't it require heterosexual sex to inherit a gene from each participant?
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It's the "inherited" part that I am questioning. How do you inherit from two homosexual people. Doesn't it require heterosexual sex to inherit a gene from each participant?
I'm sure there are plenty of homosexuals who have taken part in heterosexual sex over the years --- and vice versa.
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Old 27-June-2007, 04:43 PM
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Well, yeah, it would. I worked with a guy who was gay but sufficiently in denial about it for about 7 years of marriage. He has a son. Another woman I worked with was married with two kids. We would have some very frank talks from time to time and from those she expressed no curiosity at all about being with another woman. She seemed similarly convinced about her husband. Despite this, her youngest kid, age 5, is showing a serious interest in dresses and make up, and has told her that he wishes he had different plumbing. (I don't recall the way she said he called, but I know it's not board friendly) A former girlfriend did choose to prefer women after some bad experiences with an uncle. She wasn't opposed to guys, but given the choice, preferred women.

If it is genetic, then it would seem that is something recessive in just about everyone.

My point with that link was that the one guy in the story said that there was no evidence at all to indicate that it was anything other than a choice. In 1998, it seemed there was. Looks like I butchered the links and quotes often enough trying to post it that missed adding that bit from the article.
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I'm sure there are plenty of homosexuals who have taken part in heterosexual sex over the years --- and vice versa.
But the child is not the product of TWO same sex homosexuals...
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But the child is not the product of TWO same sex homosexuals...
Go back to Mendel and the pea pods. In the hypothetical case of a recessive homosexual gene, some heterosexuals would still carry the gene. Just as a blue eyed child can be a product of a blue eyed parent and a brown eyed parent.
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Go back to Mendel and the pea pods. In the hypothetical case of a recessive homosexual gene, some heterosexuals would still carry the gene. Just as a blue eyed child can be a product of a blue eyed parent and a brown eyed parent.
But they are arguing that statistically among parents of homosexuals...so, statistically, it really doesn't matter because one of the parents is not homosexual. So, if the heterosexual partner can be a carrier, then statistically, there should be no difference in parents.
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