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Despite the fact that I have an entire large book shelf completely coverd with cookbooks, I'm one of those people who just generally puts a pot on the stove and then start throwing things in it. I often find our refrigerator full of little tid bits of this and that, not enough of any one thing to make a meal out of, so I sometimes have to get creative. That is how I accidentally came across a great potatoe soup. We had just a partial head of califlower leftover, so I decided to toss it in the potatoe soup, along with lots of other vegtables. While most people will add celery and onions to potatoe soup, the pot I made with the califlower was the best tasting pot of potatoe soup I had ever made. Ever since then I won't even make potatoe soup with out califlower. Try it sometime, it adds a very nice extra flavor to your soup.

LOL, well, I don't know that much about mongooses, but if they had just turned a pair of Wire Haired Fox Terriers into the caves, they wouldn't need all those mongooses! And you really would only want to use 2 dogs. Any more than that and they would just fight amoungst themselves. But 2 would have a great party killing snakes. Mine love to play tug of war with any witless snake that happens to crawl into their space. And 2 little dogs is not going to have that much impact on the enviornment, or be a problem to be dealt with when the snakes were all gone, they could just go back to being someone's pet.

I know I often complain about how computer illerate I am, you would think as long as I have been on line and owned a computer I'd be a lot better at this, but there is just so much about these wicked machines that still drives me crazy. So this past weekend, when my sister in law needed help with her computer she asked me to take a look at it for her. She was unable to get online. She had called tech support and was informed that she would have to pay $1.10 per minute for assistance. (Note to any prospective Net Zero customers. When you sign up you get free tech support for the first 30 days, after that, according to their literature, there is a "nominal" fee for tech support. Personally, I don't think $1.10 is all that nominal.) Anyway, it was a pretty easy fix, her error message said her copy of Net Zero software was corrupted. I figured that most of those type isp's have free cd's to install their programs, so it was just a matter of deleting the old Net Zero, and then finding a new copy, only had to go to 2 different stores to get a free copy. Had her up and running in nothing flat. Sure made me feel good that I could actually fix a computer problem. Even if it was just a little one. My poor sister in law was completely lost, she has never even put a cd in her disk drive, let alone deleted a program or added a new one. I had been wanting to get a look at Vista anyway, so I also got the oppertunity to do that while I was working on her computer. I sure had a hard time finding anything. There is one thing I didn't figure out, maybe someone here can explain to me how copy/paste works in Vista. All I could get was an option that said, "clip it" or snip it, something like that, and it brough up this whole new window with a bunch of crap on it I would have ablsolutely no use for. I do a lot of copying bits of info from emails and such things, and pasting them into notepad for future reference, and I didn't see a simple way to to that in vista.

What is it with shoes now a days??? Why are they making them SO UGLY???? All the recent styles absolutly look hidious, like the big ballon type cartoon charector shoes. You couldn't pay me to wear those ugly dang things. But you have not seen stretched out and yucky clothes until you have spent the entire day grooming dogs and you are covered from head to toe with dog hair, all over your clothes and the tiny hairs are sticking threw your clothes poking the dickens out of you, itching you to the point somewhere very close to insanity, it's not only on your clothes but in your eyes and up your nose, so THEN you can really say your clothes are yucky!

Just wanted to thank everyone for all their helpful ideas, after reading all the posts and getting some great ideas and other tricks to try I finally got the files to go by by. We sure have a good helpful bunch here at trap 17! Thanks again to all who helped!

Way to Go St. Michael!Now I just hope you went threw collage on scholarships, and didn't have to take out student loans that you will be stuck for the next 30 years trying to pay off!

In Missouri, we have learned that you are not really supposed to remove all the rocks. I remember seeing a cartoon years ago with a old farmer standing on the top edge of what looked like an excavation for a swimming pool talking down to a guy down in the bottom of the pit telling him he was not supposed to take out all the rocks. I did finally manage to get the flower bed along the driveway planted. We had to take the fork lift to it to get the tiller out. But other than that we missed the very short oppertunity to get any tilling done. It rained off and on almost the whole Memorial day weekend. Now all the grass has grown back up and all we can do is mow. Yesterday we managed to mow about 3 pens and the rider quit. Have yet to figureout it's problem.

I am beginning to think getting a garden out this year is going to be a completely hopeless case. A few weeks ago we got a good sized patch tilled up, and I got a very few things planted, basicly onions and peanuts, and my extra canna bulbs I didn't want to put back in the same flwoer bed where I normally plant them. And then the rains came. And came, and came. Toss in a tornado or 2 for good measure. So, a few days ago when the weather forcast showed a few dry days in a row my better half told me to make no plans for today, we were toing to plant garden, come hell or high water. Sure. We get over there, (our garden is next door) and the tiller/tractor has a broken belt, and won't start. So we come back to the house to get a battery and jumper cables. Finally get it started and bring it back home so he can fix the belt and till my flower bed over here. While we were at the garden I find that not a single one of the peanuts I planted has come up, so there's 1/3 of everything we had planted failed allready. And of course, after so long, everything that we allready had tilled not only needs to be re tilled, we will have to mow it first before we can till it. And to add insult to injury, in the process of tilling my flower bed, he hit a wet spot at one of the water hydrants, and burried the tractor/tiller. Completly. To the frame. Couldn't even pull it out with the 4 wheeler. Life is never easy.

You know, it would really suck if you had to spend your last hours in jail for doing something stupid. Maybe you should rethink your list? I know with my rotten luck I'd get caught before I could break more than one or maybe 2 laws. (Old fat ladies running naked just aren't going to get very far.) But I would like to learn to scuba dive, and water ski.

Since I'm sure nearly everyone here is more conputer savy than I am, hopefully someone can explain to me what I am doing wrong. I am trying to clear out all my old files, in an attempt to get the computer to run a little faster/better, it's really been dragging the past few weeks. I go to accessories, system tools, disk clean up and it shows I have something like 2,337,454 KB that can be deleted, I tell it to delete and it does, (or says it has done them) but I can turn right around and do it again and I still get the same, or close the the exact same number of KB it says can be deleted again. Even if I do one right after the other. I even tried shutting down the computer after and defragging and nothing will make that number go away. Any helpful hints?

Being a farmer is a dangerous occupation. Many are killed in tractor and equipment accidents. But does the government make it illegal to be a farmer? Of course not, you would all starve to death if it weren?t for farmers. Being a police officer, tight rope walker, or road construction worker are extremely dangerous jobs, but do you see the government putting an end to those jobs? No, because we need a force to control civil disobedience, entertainment, and good roads to drive on. So why is it the government feels they should protect us by forcing us to wear seat belts? When in fact, there are plenty of examples where seat belts do more damage than they prevent? Why has my choice and personal liberty been taken away from me? For the benefit of an insurance company? Or for just another excuse for the law to harass me when I am minding my own business driving down the road? For another source of income for an already out of control government? (Fines from tickets for not wearing seat belts) Where is the line drawn between government control of our lives and personal freedom?????In my lifetime, I have been in several car crashes. In none of them would a seatbelt have made any difference in preventing injuries. I have however, had 2, (not just once but twice) incidences of driving down the road minding my own business, and for no apparent reason, had my car catch on fire! The first time it happened, the first thing that happened was the flames hitting the brake line and solidifying the brake fluid, rendering the brakes unusable. Fortunately, I was on a city street, not driving too fast, and had standard transmission so I was able to down shift to slow the pick up truck down, and get it to a safe speed to bail out at. Now tell me, with the amount of natural panic, the cab filling with smoke and having to stay in control of the vehicle and keep it under control and make sure no one else would be in danger from my rolling, flaming metal cannon ball, do you really think I would have the time and control of the situation to unbuckle a seat belt and untangle myself from it and bail out without getting tangled up in it and possibly getting drug to death, or burnt up in the truck???? I think not! The second time I was behind the wheel of a rolling torch was very very late one night coming home from work. It is a rather funny story, at least when it was over with. And since I started on this car fire story, this is probably a good time to share it. I was driving down a lonely country highway, after many hours behind the wheel, I was pretty much in a fog mentally, just about half asleep. Eventually flashes of light bouncing in my rear view mirror got threw to my foggy brain and I started watching behind me. Just every little bit I would see a small fire ball bouncing on the pavement. I finally got curious enough to stop the car. Now this is how sleepy I was. When I looked under the car there was a chunk of something burning on the pavement. Like a complete idiot, my first thought to myself was, I better move my car forward off that burning blob before it catches my car on fire. Duh. .This sad realization of my true situation finally dawned on my feeble brain. Luckily, I had managed to get the car stopped in front of one of the few houses on the road. I started towards the house, when I saw, there in the yard, one of the biggest Doberman Pinschers in the entire world. Just standing there staring at me. With an evil look in it?s eyes. I looked at the Doberman. I looked back at my burning car. I looked at the Doberman again. Then back at my burning car, which I knew had an almost full tank of gas and would make a terrible explosion. I finally decide, ahhhh?screw it. I charged at a dead run across the yard and started screaming and pounding on the door, ?My care is on fire, my car is on fire!!!?I woke up the entire neighborhood. Before I roused the Dobermans owners, 2 guys from across the road came out and doused the fire in my car. When it was out and we were all standing around trying to catch our breaths and calm down, I felt something wet on my hand. It was a very friendly Doberman licking me.

Well, I don't know about elvish, but there are a lot of people that learned Klingon, and I read somewhere that doctors were actually telling their patients with emotional problems like lack of self confidence, to learn Klingon, because it is such a gutteral and forceful language that it actually helps build confidence in some people. Suppoed to be good for anger management, I guess it is more satisfying to give someone a good cussing in Klingon, lets you blow off more steam that way. Seems pretty weird to me though.

I suspect he is worm food by now. The point of terrorism is to terrorize, so if the dirt bad was still kicking, he would be showing his face at least with recent recorded tapes flanting his prowess and ability to avoid capture despite tremendous efforts and that million dollar bounty on his head. But unless I see a corpse, I would not be willing to say for sure. No. Just like that creature in Greek mytholigy, (wasn't it the Hydra, I've not been watching reruns of Hercules lately, so my Greek mytholigy is a bit rusty) When you cut off one head 3 more sprout out and try to eat you. Unless you burn down the whole creature, it will keep coming at you. It has to be cut out completely like a cancerous tumor.

People can only use you if you allow yourself to be used. I generally try to avoid this type of situation, and I can tell you, as you get older and hopefully wiser, it gets easier to see it coming. But it doesn't always work.My problem is the "karma" thing. I feel that I should try to help people, that it is the right thing to do, and even though the person you try to help may end up burning your butt one way or another, you can honestly say you tried to help, and what goes around comes around, and in the long run you will be better off for trying to help someone than to not do whatever you could of done to help them. Your science lab partners are no doubt taking advantage of you. And if you think about it, your not really doing them any favors by doing all the work. They aren't learning anything, except how to take advange of people, and if you are smarter than them, you don't need the practise and education as bad as they do. So take the advice of the gambler, Kenney Rodgers, know when to hold 'em know when to fold them, know when to walk away, and know when to run. Run from your lab partners, and find another group that appreciates your efforts, and will share in the responsibilities of the work.

ROTFLMAO! Now that's funny! Ah....that time of year again. Time to shed that extra baggage that seems to acumilate every winter. Actually, I think you need some extra winter fat, it helps keep you warm, and under all those baggy, bulky clothes you have to wear to keep from freezing to death, who is going to notice anyway? But now that the layers of clothes have to be pealed away, so does the flab. I started my own diet 5 days ago. So far, well, it's not going too great. I do the protien diet thing. In the past it has worked well for me. I tend to be carniverous anyway, so giving up carbs doesn't hurt my feelings that bad. Although I have to admit, the comercial about "what would you do for a Klondike bar" has certainly taken on new meaning! I like the protien diet because in theory you can eat as much as you want and still loose weight, providing you only eat protien. No sugar or starches. I suppose the people who came up with the idea did not consider the magnificent flavor of my better half's Bar B Q chicken, and my ability to wolf down 4lbs of chicken leg quarters. I remember a reciepe simular to your cabbage soup reciepe we used to call Peal A Pound soup. Supposedly it took more calories to digest it than it had in it. It sounded a lot like your version, but I don't remember it having tomatoes in it. I had made it a few times, and actually thought it tasted pretty good. Of course, not nearly as good as Bar B Q chicken. So, my battle with my buldge will continue, hopefully without the need to eat down the cabbage patch, or resort to surgical intervention.

I'm sure there are lots of wild animals that would happily chew up a human, given the oppertunity, though for the most part, we manage to stay on top of the food chain. Now, the most dangerous farm animal is the ram. (male sheep) They have a skull that will deflect bullets, and they are nearly always bad tempered. Unlike a buck (male goat) who will chase you down, and then rear up on his hind legs then butt you, a ram will make a dead run at you and then going full speed will jerk all 4 feet off the ground and hit you running full force. Believe me they can send you flying *bottom* end over teakettle. I didn't quite make it to the gate one day and nearly got my leg broke by one. They are flat out dangerous.

Happy Birthday Buffalo Help! But ahhh, come on, we know your not really 4 years old, fess up and tell us the truth, how old are you really? I'd bet at least 12!

Very interesting, I enjoyed reading your post. Some things there I had not heard, I certainly didn't know vegans had a shorter life span. Maybe because the meat eaters bonk them over the head when they go into public schools and try to preach being vegan??? I certainly believe that they would have more eating disorders, since eating disorders are mental problems and you would have to be crazy not to eat something as healthy and fantastic tasting as meat is. And most hard core vegans are also animal rights activists, and we all know those people are insane. When you think a pig and a rat and a boy should all be equal, you have to be nuts.

I think what Freedomoverdose is refering to is the fact that the way the human body is designed by nature, it has the ability to last for 145 years, or so. And there are a couple isolated villages in the world where people do live now to an extremely old age. It is a given that everything that is alive will at some point in time die. One can argue the fact that the earth is not exactly alive, that it is just a big hunk of rock, and there is only life living ON the rock. This planet has undergone many changes in the billions of years since it's existance. Huge land masses have broken up on it's surface and shifted about, the climate has changed from tropical to ice, then back again, and over the coming eons it will continue to do so. Using up all the resorses on earth would be almost impossible, in the case of natural resourses anyway. While we may eventually burn up all the oil and burn all the coal that is formed in the earth, anything derived from plant life will continue to grow, at least until our sun burns up. Trees will continue to grow to make lumber, plants will continue to grow to make us and the animals on earth food and fiber. And while it would be great if it could happen, you will most likely never stop war. Wars have gone on since the beginning of time. Indians in this country fought with other tribes, in medival times kings fought each other for more land, People of one religion fought with those of another religion, it just goes on and on and on. In reguards to Aliens...... Well.....Yea. It's hard to look up in the night sky and see all those million points of light and not think that somewhere out there life does exist. We would have to be pretty concieted to believe we are the only planet in this HUGE universe that has life on it.

Of all the supposed physic abilities, from mind reading to telekenisis, and various other out of body experiences, to me precognition is the most shakey, or unlikely, but I don't discount it completely. It's hard to fathom how you can pick up some energy from something or some event that has not happened yet that is not directly caused by human intervention. Precognition of a plane crash for examply, a physic person might be picking up mental input from a terrorist that plans to blow up the plane or something. Maybe the airplane mechanic had a hangover when he was working on the plane and did something wroung, and only thought about it after the plane took off. But since a human did not send the meteor it would be seemingly unlikely that anyone would know it was going to happen. Maybe you saw one of the many "Meteor hits earth" movies, or something that reminded you of one of those movies. Maybe you saw an actor that played in one of those type movies, the mind is really strange about the odd things it picks up from your surrondings and puts in your dreams. It is rather spooky about your having the dream on that particular day though. But probably coincidence.

Ok, that sounds really really tasty, but help me out here. How much is 80g of butter in cups/ounces? And what is custard powder? I've never heard of that one. And of course, 180 degrees celcius, that come to ??? in degrees farenheight? I am going to assume that vanilla essence is the same as vanilla extract, right?

Oh boy, you said that right, I'm not an economist either! Starting to build the economy at the local level really is a good way to start, each community knows it's own strengths and weakness and what their local situation calls for. There is a need for free trade though, lets face it, you can't cut timber in New York City, and you can't fish for tuna in Arizona. But free trade needs BALANCE. Right now the balance is way out of wack. The USA buys and buys and buys, but manufactors less and less and less. It just isn't going to work that way. I agree, we definatly need to scrap outsourcing. That is one of the biggest problems with the job market in this country right now.

While it will create jobs (unless as you mentioned, the Dept of Defense contracts outside the USA, in which case they should be hung ) but my concern with that is that those are going to be GOVERNMENT jobs and government contracts. Yes, the private sector will "bid" on those jobs, but I'm sure we all know how the good old boy network works, and it won't nessarilly go to the best contractor, but the one who offers the biggest kick back. Energy may create more jobs than you think, if they put into production factories for building solar panels and wind generators. Both of which are far better on the enviornment than coal fired power plants and nucs. We could use millions and millions of solar panels, in all shapes and sizes, the possibilites and aplications for their use is limitless, large roof top panels for homes, and other buildings, smaller ones for cars, trucks, boats and RV's, plus any outdoor equipment like electic fence chargers, which now come in either solar or the regular plug in type. There is a MAJOR difference between welfare and unemployment. I am glad to see them extending unemployment benefits as there is such a huge number of people loosing their jobs. But unemployment is something that your employeer pays in to the government when you work. Then you get it back in case of a lay off. Welfare is free handouts for lazy, good for nothings that won't even hold down a job. Big difference there. But anyway, they have passed the bill, so now we can all just sit back and see how badly we are going to get screwed.

Interesting question. I think I would have to go with number 6, all of the above. However, all of the brains activities depend on it's ability to function physically the way it was designed to do. So, if a person had a physical abnormality to the brain they might not do well in one or any of the first 5 of your list. Like, you can't run if you don't have legs? It is however, extremely difficult to define intelligence, I certainly agree with that. I have seen many many people who may seem in some subjects to be seriously mentally challenged, however, it seems that they will have one talent in which they often far exceed the average person.

You are quoting, word for word, the exact same retoric the humane societies have been using for years. The vast majority of which is BS. And as usual, totally missing the whole point. You even admit to being mad that some one dare mention buying a dog. Why? If you had actually though about what I said, you would of seen that I am thinking about the dogs welfare. Let me say it one more time. If HSUS would cough up some cash for spay/neuter free clinics there wouldn't be all those dogs in the shelter to die!!!! Get it???? It's not really that complicated. Just for fun, here are the facts from the HSUS 2006 tax return $91.5 million recieved from direct public support $85.8 million spent in functional expenses such as $28 million spent on salaries and benefits $17.8 million on mailing costs $8.9 million on publications and campaignes $3.7 million on travel costs $127 million Amount HSUS has in stocks, and publicly traded securities. None allocated to any support programs. Yes, all large breed dogs. Most people today are looking for small dogs, placing dogs in the large breed catagory is difficult. Research shows that less than 15% of dogs in shelters are purebred. However, the ancestory of the dogs is not the issue here. And I didn't say you couldn't get a purebred from rescue, of course you can, they steal purebreds from breeders all the time. As far as that often quoted line about how if you buy from a breeder a shelter dog will die, well, that's just hog wash. If a person wants a tiny maltese for their apartment, they are not going to go get a doberman from a shelter because it will die if they don't. Many apartments have size limits on dogs. So if they can't get a small dog, they basicly can't have a dog, and the dobbie in the shelter is doomed at any rate. That's very nice you volenteer at yor local shelter. For the record, HSUS has no connection with local shelters. They do not contribute money to the local level animal shelters. So, if you want to be mad, how about being pissed about that 28 million HSUS spends on saleries while you donate your time for free? Well, I thought I made it pretty clear, but in case you missed it, if the Humane Society of the United States would spend some of the millions and millions of dollars that it wastes on politicians, they could fund the spaying and neutering that would prevent all the dogs from being in the shelter in the first place. No it's not. This is about economic stimulus. Getting a dog from shelters does nothing for the economy. Although, I do think that it is very important that the public realizes what kind of a scam HSUS is running. All those poor little old ladys who faithfully send in those dontations thinking that they are helping animals are getting bamboozled big time.