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21 Funny Signs..er...etc etc etc (!)

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:15:03 GMT

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21 Funny Signs For Make Benefit Your Happy [PICS]

If I had a business that enabled me to put up signs, I would definitely have fun with it.

Reach Jesus faster

I knew this technique would work

Mommy, where do crabs come from?

Short and sweet

Also short, but not so sweet.

Read between the lines, get between my legs

In other words, don’t be an idiot…

Or you’ll end up in this cemetery, run by Nelson.

One of my favorites.

That’s how it is in this here parts.

Who let the dogs out?

Read this one, and read it carefully.

Understand?

Ever wanted to get rid of your kids?

She took half. Help a brother out!

Nuclear war, no problem. Cancer…

Ahh, the sensation

You be Bush, I’ll be Cheney.

Damn, so much for Sunday mass

Bugroff....the antisocial networking site

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:28:06 GMT

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Inside the palace of Augustus - pics

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:37:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Lived in by Augustus before he became Rome's first emperor in 27BC, the house is situated above the grotto where Romans may have worshipped Romulus, the city's founder, and was also handy for watching horse racing in the Circus Maximus at the foot of the hill. "Augustus wanted to be near the grotto, but could also see the races from up here," said Italy's culture minister, Francesco Rutelli.

The restoration, begun after the house was found in the 1970s, has reconstructed shattered frescoes in deep reds, yellows and blues featuring theatrical masks and mythical animals. "The extremely high quality of the frescoes befits the owner, although these were the fashions of the time and don't offer much insight into Augustus's individual taste," said Angelo Bottini, Rome's archaeological chief.

Tourists - who will be allowed in five at a time - may be surprised to see how modest the study, bedroom, entrance hall and dining room were. Augustus, Julius Caesar's great nephew, avoided excess

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1968: Archaeologist Claudio Moccheggioni examines pieces of painted plaster found in the three-room palace on Palatine Hill, in Rome. After it was discovered, experts identified the site as the house of the emperor Augustus

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Objects painted over brightly coloured backgrounds

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A visitor looks at vivid red frescoes

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Decoration in the fashion of the period

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The palace is situated above a grotto where Romans may have worshipped Romulus

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Decorative birds

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Mythical creatures are seen on some pieces of fresco

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The magnificent view over Rome from the palace

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A detail of one of the frescoes

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Visitors photograph one of the rooms

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Geometric patterns on a frescoed ceiling

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The fragile pieces of fresco show the painstaking restoration work

Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images

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Rome, Italy: The house of the Roman emperor Augustus opens after decades of painstaking restoration

Inside the palace of Augustus

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Films You'll Never See ( I hope)

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:27:19 GMT

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30 Things That Should Never be Adapted to Film

So they're making a damned Monopoly movie. Is there a worse idea for a movie adaptation?

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Million-to-one identical triplets dazzle their doctors

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:26:34 GMT

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VANCOUVER - Three tiny, million-to-one, celebrity triplets are making medical history at a Vancouver-area hospital, to the relief of their delighted parents.

"They took me into intensive care on my stretcher afterwards and I got to touch them and see them for the first time and that was a really amazing experience," said happy mom Thea Willson of Surrey, B.C. "I want to jump for joy. It's a great feeling that they are healthy children."

Born on Feb. 29 - Leap Year Day - the naturally-conceived, identical triplets had already beaten incredibly long odds.

But doctors say there's no previous medical record of a birth like that of Daniella, Alexis and Gemma.

"We recognized that this is a very unique triplet pregnancy among triplet pregnancies," said Dr.

"It's rare to have all three identical. We found that two of the babies were in the same sack and had their cords entangled, which is really a life-threatening scenario."

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Questioning Objectification

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:55:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The problem again is that this is a perfectly ordinary arousal cue, well within the range of normal arousal cues for women. The feminist movement should be encouraging women to explore their sexuality openly, not limiting what female sexuality is allowed."

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If there's one thesis I'd like to nail to the church door of feminism, it would be this:

Desire does not equal objectification.

Many women believe that when a man is aroused by the sight of a woman -- particularly by seeing and touching her face, hair, and body -- he reduces her in his mind to a "sex object."

Feeling aroused when presented with certain sexual cues is an involuntary biological response that has nothing whatsoever to do with a man's capacity to see women as whole people, as equals, as partners, as colleagues, etc.

For many men, feeling aroused by the female form is a fundamental component of their sexuality that no amount of "education" can possibly change any more than prayer will change a gay person into a straight person

If a woman is aroused by showing off her own body -- and in particular is aroused by seeing the effect she has on men -- then the doctrine of objectification tells her that she's disrespecting herself by turning herself into a sex object.