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Well, all I can say is if you've ever taken the "plunge" in the middle of the night when you are half asleep and forgot to look, or you have a rude visitor in your home that leaves it up after you have manged to train your own better half, you wouldn't even have to ask such a dumb question. It's just a nasty landing. Why do men have to have such a fit over a womans simple request? Is it not possible to be respectuful anymore without it becoming a equality issue? If it upsets your woman, why do you have to be an *bottom* and leave it up? Such a simple thing to do to keep peace in the home, why is it such a big deal? Put the dang thing down! Keep in mind, men allready have a big advantage over woman in the peeing department. You guys can go anywhere you can hang it out. We have to have our toilets. Cut us gals some slack would ya?

Yup, that's it in a nut shell. Every message board I have ever seen just nearly grinds to a hault in the summer months. Imagine that! People actually getting away from their computers and getting outside in the fresh air! I find it hard to get here enough myself to keep up hosting credits.

LOL, no need to worry, it will probably turn up on E bay before long!(gag) And the sad thing is some dummy will pay a fortune for it.

Watched an episode of the good doctor Phil the other day, and I have to admit I was truly shocked by his statistics on cyber bullying. I know there are lots of school age kids here; I thought it would be interesting to get some of your input on this subject. Is it really that bad? How many of you have been victims of cyber bullying?Of course, there was no such thing as cyber bullying when I was a kid in school, but we had our bullies of course, but it would be like maybe one or 2 per class, no where near the 50% Doctor Phil suggested. But at least those bullies did actually personally confront their victims. Even if they were twice their size they did their bullying in person. I fail to see the satisfaction these cyber bullies get from attacking someone anonymously. How is anybody going to think you are big and bad if your do your attacking from behind a computer screen? To me, that would make you out to be more of a chicken than a bully. I simply cannot get my head around the type of mentality that would make a person get pleasure from ruining or making someone else?s life miserable.

Wow! I am blown away by the number of people that don't believe we actually did land on the moon! I would of never dreamed that so many people thought it was a hoax. I have always assumed we did land there, but some of you are definatly makeing good argument to the contrary. Boy, would I be pissed off if we had had the wool pulled over our eyes all these years! I have always thought that we really did make the lunar landing. Honestly, I can't imagine why they would lie about it, even as much of a government conspiracy buff as I am. The thing about beating the Russians does make some sense though. And I have always wondered why we didn't go back. But I still think we really did do it. Hope so anyway. Interesting topic!

Well, I just heard something interesting on this topic on the news the other day. It seems that the average temprature of the earth has DROPPED a degree in the past 3 years! My guess? The global warming thing is all a bunch of hoopla and a government conspiracy to pass more laws, take away more of our freedom and give the government more control over our every day lives. It's to scare the masses of humans into giving away our rights and freedom so the government can "save" us. This old earth has been around for billions of years. It has gone threw many climate changes during all that time, even before man existed to screw around with it. So I really can't see blaming it all on us poor dumb humans.

I nearly always ignore the sponser ads, due to the fact that most of the time when I am doing a search, I am looking for information, not to buy something. For example, I was trying to find out when is the best time to dig and transplant Irises. If I click on a sponser link, I will find lots of companies that want to sell me Irises, but no information on propagating my own.

Ok, tell me truthfully, when you see drugs for various maladies advertised on TV, do you get the incredible urge to rush right out and get a prescription from your doctor because you have yellow under your fingernails, restless legs, thinning hair, no sex drive, or have to go pee more often than someone thinks you should?I mean, seriously, what difference does it make how often you feel the need to pee? And look at the side effects, dry mouth, nausea, cramps, and constipation. Seems to me it would be a whole lot better to just go pee and not have all those side effects. Who the heck wants stomach cramps? And who the heck ever even heard of restless leg syndrome until some drug company made a commercial about it? I never did. And I doubt many other people did either. Isn’t it just so kind of them to inform us about this terrible problem and how they can sell us a cure? Just the other day, the drug companies informed us all through the magic of television that the drug they are selling us for depression leaves over half the people who take it still suffering from depression. So from the kindness of their pea picking hearts, they have conjured up another drug you can take along with the one that doesn’t work to make it work better. Of course, they say nothing about not taking the first drug, just adding the new one to your pill popping regime. Now, please tell me, if the first one isn’t working, why on earth would you want to continue taking it??? Let alone add another one. And even crazier, they say the side effects on this one include suicide, now boy howdy, thoughts of suicide seem to me to be petty dang depressing and not something you would even consider getting from an ANTI depression medicine! I miss the good old days when Doctors, Lawyers, and major pharmaceutical company’s couldn’t advertise on TV. We got to see cool commercials like Playtex living bra’s or girdles. When was the last time you saw a girdle advertised on TV? And who could forget “Where’s the Beef?” Heck, even Beer commercials were better than drug commercials. We all knew that drinking too much beer wasn’t good for us, and we knew what would happen when we drank too much beer, but at least nobody was making up fake excuses to get us to drink beer. I suppose they didn’t have to though, we actually like to drink beer. Even if it does make us pee too much!Don’t even get me started on erectile dysfunctional medications.I hear they have a new one out, or at least an old one in new form. They have viagra in a nasal spray now, for pecker heads.

LOL, cool. Up until now my longest complicated word was superfecundicity. (I think that is vaguly the way it's spelled. )Anybody want to take a guess at that one?Why couldn't they come up with something a little more understandable, like trisixphobia, triplesixphobia or something a normal human could figure out?

Bonsai Kitten revisited!I remember the kitty, and the god awful uproar it created, the one before that was even funnier, and caused a much bigger stink, by a fellow who put up a web site telling people how to pick up free to good home dogs and then butcher and cook them. Had recipies and everything. The animal rights people where in a total melt down over that one. They got the site pulled several time, but somehow the guy kept finding new places to host it. The animal rights people would of had him drawn and quartered if they could of found him. Personally I think this particular little pet is rather hidious, and can't picture any great demand for it, but hey, look at the Puggle! (recent fad cross between a pug and a beagle) Those are butt ugly too, but sure were popular. Anyway, nothing alive is going to come packaged tightly in a bubble pack with no air. The comment about it being a great first pet is made to stir up controversey, and quite frankly, if they genetically engineered something this complex to begin with, they could of engineered some hair on the ugly dang thing, making it far more appealing. Don't you think some people have WAY too much free time on their hands?

Happy Birthday to Xisto!!!This month marks my second year here. I have to say, I have been pretty happy with the hosting service. in the 2 years my site has only been down once for any length of time. Many of my friends recomended going with a paid hosting service, said the free ones weren't very reliable, but I have not found that to be true at all here at Xisto. Of course, being the tighwad I am is a great incentive to the free thing. There is just one thing I don't get. Why is Saint_Michael considered evil?????He seems like a pretty good guy to me, why is everybody always picking on him???

Oh man, that sucks! Why all 4 at once? Seems like they would do one side and then the other, so you could at least eat/chew on one side. Mine were removed one at a time. The first when I was about 20. It bothered me for a long time, it would start to come up, and then go back down. It was actually the cutting of my wisdom teeth that inspired me to do the most unrational thing, a girlfriend of mine insisted that I try chewing tobacco for the pain, and believe it or not, it really helped a lot. Of course, it made a great gag on the old man at the feed store that was always offering the ladies a chew of his tobacco when I actually took one one time and chewed and spit just like an old pro......To this day I keep a pouch in the freezer for the occasional toothache. I hope you get threw this ok, like someobne else mentioned, have plenty of ice cream on hand.

And just when I thought it couldn't get any worse........Sunday my sister in law invited us to come by and play in their pool for awhile after dinner and a trip threw the local swap meet, and I happily agreed to that. I do love playing in water. I ended up with a tiny bit of sunburn on my belly. Not a bad one, I doubt if it even blisters, but it was pretty red and hot. The next day grooming though I discoverd real quick that even minor sunburns and sharp pokie dog hairs DO NOT MIX!!! Those blasted hairs went right threw the shirt and into my sunburn in the most madding, irritating, miserable way you can imagine. I will be SO glad when this springs grooming is over. If I hussel this week, I might get 'er done by the months end. the big problem now is we went straight from spring to blazing hot summer. I swear just 2 weeks ago it was still down in the 40's at night, but now we have temps in the 90's and the heat index today was 105!

Well, a car that gets 112 mile to a charge might be ok for some people, but we live in the boondocks, and the closest major city is 50 miles away, so it sure wouldn't do us any good. And I have to wonder just how well an electric car would do if we put 1/2 a ton of dog food in the back of it? Is switching to electric really all that much of an improvement over gasoline/diesel powered engines? Someone mentioned the internal combustion engine in the greenest car pollutes far greater than the least green power-plant, and while that may be true to some extent, what about the increasing need for electricity should the electric car gain in popularity? Will this not add to the increased demand for electric, hence the great possibility of the use of neclear power plants? While these may be none poluting in comparison to coal fired plants, the posibilities of disaster remains, and a neclear melt down would render the real estate around the plant for hundreds of miles totally unusable for the next 500 years or so. Now if we could get this extra electricity from wind or solar power, I might be a little more excited about electric cars.

I'll bet you really are just busting with pride! Cute kid, and of course, I love seeing the old cars too. Glad you were able to get extra copies of the paper.

Border Collies are great dogs, very intelligent and also very full of energy. While they were bred for heading, their agility and intelligence makes them a great dog for any competitive dog sports, agility, frisbee, etc. And since they are still generally used as a working dog, they are still a very healthy athletic dog, seldom prone to any serious health problems.

LOL, now that is a tough question! Makes me giggle. My hired man brings a sandwich with him to work, every time he heads towards his pick up truck to eat, my yard dogs line up next to him, and give him that soulful starving puppy dog look, that I am sure you are familar with. It's pretty funny. It got so bad there for awhile, I had a little yard goat too, and that little guy even learned to beg! Wish I'd Ive gotten pictures a few times, with that little line up waiting for a tid bit. If you break down and give them a taste, (and admittedly, it's tough to resist those eyes) your pretty much doomed. But some basic obedience can help. The word No, and go lay down if you can teach them that, and completely ignore them while you are eating. If they leave you alone, make it a point to save them a bite, and give it to them when you are finished.

Start out with milk and add potatoes, onions and celery. That works good for a base, and then you can start to add whatever you have available, You can make it good and hearty by adding virtually any type of meat, ham is good, those little smokie sausages, even sliced pepperoni is good. You can pretty much add any type of vegtables you like, carrots, peppers, green beans, anything that strikes your fancy. For seasonings, I use some tumeric to give it a nice yellow color, plenty of salt, as potatoes tend to absorb salt, garlic, pepper, curry powder if you like it, just whatever your favorite seasonings are. If you are not so worried about fat, a couple tablespoons of butter sure don't hurt it and add nicely to the rich hearty flavor. Only trick is to stir frequently, the milk likes to stick. you can help that a little by diluting your milk with a bit of water, if you want.

Oh boy, I have LOTS of those! Thanks for asking!Due to the shear volume of the shearing I have to do, for the most part I just clip the dogs completely down and call it good, but on occasion I do enjoy messing around trying new grooming things. I also need to occasionally take pictures of my adult dogs, and I think it looks a lot better to prospective puppy customers if the dogs are groomed in the manner that is expected of the breed, even if it is not always possible to do that with heavy coated breeds, like the Old English Sheepdogs, all that hair and giving birth to puppies is not a good thing. And I am a sucker for new grooming tools, trying new shampoo?s and anything new that is grooming related. I?d love to find a Mars Coat King someday at the swap meet, since I am too tight to spend $50 on a dog comb, but sure would like to try one. For many years I had a red female mini Poodle I called Rosie. She loved to be groomed, so I used her for lots of ?experiments.? (No, don?t freak, I mean grooming experiments, nothing that would hurt her) I once gave her a Mohawk, even sprayed purple glitter on it. I swear she thought she was really top dog, the way she strutted around looking like a punk rock dog. Don?t know what kind of dog you need to groom, or what kind of tricks would be most helpful for you. Lets start with ears. Whenever I groom my dogs, I always do the ears last. (dogs are not particularly fond of this part of the grooming routine, so we wait till the end) They should be checked carefully. Some dogs have a goodly amount of hair that grows right in the ear canal. It is important to pluck out this hair, at least thin it out somewhat. If is not too greasy you can usually pull it out just with your fingers, but I do have a special pair of hemostats that are rounded and blunt at the tip that work especially well for ear hair plucking. Look for the hair that is growing right down in the ear. It is usually a dark brown color. After you have removed all the dark hair, take a cotton ball soaked in alcohol and clean the ears thoroughly. This will go a long way towards preventing ear infections in your dog. Clean ears seldom ever get infected. Removing the excess hair allows for better air circulation and keeps the ears dryer. And a bit more handy ear info. If you notice your dog scratching at his ears, there is a good chance he has ear mites. You don?t have to douse him with toxic chemicals to kill the pesky little varmints. You can easily treat these by cleaning the ear as I explained above, and then putting a good healthy squirt of baby oil down each ear. Hold your dogs head until you get both ears filled so he doesn?t shake it out as fast as you squirt it in. Then put one hand on either side of his head just below the ears and rub in a circular motion. You should hear a sort of popping sound. This will get the oil all the way down in the ear canal. Just give it a minute or 2 to work down well into the ear. Then step back. Quickly. Matter of fact, I should of mentioned, you should probably do this outside, because as soon as you let go there is going to be some serious head shaking going on. It will sling oil everywhere, trust me on that one! You don?t actually have to use baby oil, any good oil will work, even vegetable oil, I just use the baby oil because it smells good and most kinds come with a flip up spout that is handy for squirting right down inside the ear. The oil coats the mites and suffocates them. It also helps soften up the gunk that the mites cause to form in the ears and makes cleaning them out easier. And now, if you haven?t been keeping up with your dogs ears, or he picked up a case of ear mites and scratched his ears into infection, and you have ended up with an ear infection, you may still be able to take care of the problem without a costly vet visit. Clean the ears first. It is an old wives? tale that a dog should not get water in their ears. If they need it, you can give the dog a bath and wash the ears right along with the rest of the dog if they are extremely cruddy, you may have to in order to soak loose the crud. After you have removed all the gunk you can, dry them off, and then instead of cleaning with alcohol, use hydrogen peroxide and the cotton balls. You will need to clean them every day until the infection is gone. You can tell when it is gone because the hydrogen peroxide will no longer bubble when it is in the ear. After several days of the hydrogen peroxide treatment, you might also do another cleaning with vinegar and water. This treatment will kill off any infections that are caused by yeast, another common cause of ear infections. If you don?t see at least some improvement in a week or so, you may have to take him to the vet for additional antibiotics to give him internally to fight the infection, but in most cases, simply keeping the ears clean will take care of the problem.If you have any questions about grooming on specific breeds, or some thing, just let me know.

LOL, the homestead is a lot easier to deal with, especially the critters, I just yell at them and they mind me. (for the most part) But I can scream obsenities at this machine till my teeth fall out and it doesn't seem to do one dang bit of good. Far as I know, Bill is still alive and kicking. Though I am sure the speeches at his funeral will be considerably wide and varried! kasperooney...thanks for the tip, I should try to learn more of those keyboard short cuts. I just am in the habit of using mouse only and forget about them. I actually don't know that many of them, control p to print is the only one I actually did know. Wonder if there is a list somewhere that gives all of them????k_nitin_r... As far as the free cd, it was just one of those with the software to use their dial up service, so they are just a promotion to get you to sign up with them. I got it at good old Wally World. But your right, there sure aren't very many free lunches out there anymore!Thanks guys.

I did a whole 12 years of school. They taught me how to read and write, and to do some math. (however the math part is still a bit dubious when you consider the difficulties I still have balancing my checkbook.) Like most of the things they teach you in public schools, a great majority of it is a basic waste of time. Some classes that would have been of great benefit to me in high school I was not allowed to take. I truly wanted to take auto mechanics, but they wouldn?t let me. This of course was back in the days when sex discrimination was still the way of the world. Knowing how to fix my own car would have been a great advantage I could of used for the rest of my life, unlike the facts pertaining to the war of 1812 which has never presented itself as something I needed to know that would make my life easier, or get me out of some sort of dilemma.. Aside from that, I have had to learn everything I know by myself. And unfortunately, it seems like most of what I did learn I had to learn the hard way. They say experience is the best teacher, and I can attest to the value of learning by doing. I think the computer is the hardest thing to learn without anyone to tell you to go here, click this, etc etc. I discovered that often when trying to accomplish some task on the computer, I would try so many different things, by the time I picked the right one I forgot what I did to make it work. It was extremely frustrating, and I said many cuss words in the learning process, but eventually you figure things out. It does give you a pretty good and satisfying feeling when you finally get it right.

I personally don't have a problem with cloning. Matter of fact, I find it a fasinating subject. However, to use clones to build up endangerd species or extinct species is not a particularly good way to go about replenishing a species. All the clones will have identical genetic material. Breeding them would be like breeding siblings, and problematic defects would make for an unhealthy and unstable animal. You would need to clone numerous different animals within the species to avoid this problem, which may be extremely difficult to do especially in the case of bringing back extinct species where your gene pool is going to be very limited.

LOL, this is NOT limited to Asian genes! I have plenty around my middle too. Ok, I may have some in other places, but those are "behind" me, so I don't notice that place so much as I do the middle since it's right there in plain site all the time.

Thanks. Glad you liked them. The Pet section at Trap 17 is always pretty slow. Which is very unfortunate for me, because that is the one thing I am the most qualified to talk about.

I have never heard of bhut jolakia peppers. Habanero are supposed to be the hottest, but I am pretty content with Jalapeno peppers, they are plenty hot enough to happily cook my mouth. I like the cayenne too. I too am pretty bad to try to kill my mouth. Mango seeds, that's interesting. I wonder how big they get and if they can tolerate cold climates? If they can't take cold, could they be grown in big tubs and brought inside in the winter? I did get a lot of new fruit and nut trees planted this year. Probably close to 15 or so. I had to replace quite a few from that very hard late freeze we had 2 years ago. I lost several well established trees, it was a big dissapointment. Here we are well into June and I haven't even gotten over to the garden for a couple weeks. I doubt if I can even find the onions we did actually get planted by now. Hopefully my canna's will be tall enough to find.