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Message 25291 - Posted: 13 Jun 2009, 19:11:55 UTC - in response to Message 25281.  

Swine Trek



if you ever watched the muppet shows. :p

Ooh wasnt thats "Pigs in space"?

Theres also Pig Brother 2009

Yep. Swine Trek was the ship.
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.
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Message 25292 - Posted: 13 Jun 2009, 19:14:02 UTC - in response to Message 25274.  
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I have had it for 1 and a half week now - No problem.
Its ok to be a bit pigish. ;p

Oh no say It ain't so! ;) Moon's becoming Piglet! Eek! ;) LOL

Seriously, I hope Yer feeling better now.


hehe .. It wasnt ment for you to see this SJ - i really didnt
know you would - `cause I know you would feel horrified. lol

..but yes - I do feel better, thanx. My ears looks a bit
strange thought.. and my tail doesnt want to stay where it ehh..
should be.. :p :o
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Message 25300 - Posted: 13 Jun 2009, 20:08:04 UTC - in response to Message 25292.  

I have had it for 1 and a half week now - No problem.
Its ok to be a bit pigish. ;p

Oh no say It ain't so! ;) Moon's becoming Piglet! Eek! ;) LOL

Seriously, I hope Yer feeling better now.


hehe .. It wasn't meant for you to see this SJ - i really didnt
know you would - `cause I know you would feel horrified. lol

..but yes - I do feel better, thanx. My ears looks a bit
strange thought.. and my tail doesn't want to stay where it ehh..
should be.. :p :o

Horrified, No, But no matter. I've been sick with the flu before, Just not in a while.

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Message 25848 - Posted: 17 Jun 2009, 22:16:27 UTC

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Message 25849 - Posted: 17 Jun 2009, 22:29:00 UTC
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@SJ
Send some of that heat up to the great white north please!! 33C thats just being greedy ;)you could spare 3 or 4 degrees C and still not have to wear a shirt!!Although sunburn may be an issue, so stay in the shade.
;-p
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Message 25881 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 7:02:21 UTC - in response to Message 25001.  

Hmmm... that was weeks ago wasnt it?
Wrong.
Since it's been forgotten about.
Wrong.
It doesn't have the rate to turn into an epidemic/pandemic. The news went ga-ga over it. Not even a mention about it now for weeks.
Wrong. Sure, blame the media. Such an easy out.
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Message 25886 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 8:04:46 UTC

Are you still counting the days
until you get this stuff?? ;o

Well.. thats a way to spend time also. LoL
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Message 25898 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 11:51:57 UTC

Hei Miss Moon. I'm too busy running around, it will have to catch me first! ;-)
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Message 25904 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 12:47:48 UTC - in response to Message 25898.  

Hei Miss Moon. I'm too busy running around, it will have to catch me first! ;-)


Thats a better way... ;-)
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Message 25909 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 13:33:06 UTC

Things we would all do well to keep in mind:

1. CNN, Fox New, et al, must fill 7x24 news cycles. "If it bleeds, it leads." is the age-old mantra in the news business. This means if something horrible isn't happening or about to happen every hour of every day, to people we identify with, heads will roll.

2. In the US alone, over 50,000 people die every year in traffic accidents, yet many people drive 75 mph on the freeways and the news people don't report the body count because nobody wants to hear it. We see what we want to see.

3. The leading cause of death is birth.

4. According to my Tarot readings, we're overdue for extinction. That's why the aliens have taken our genetic material. Once we're extinct in the wild, we'll make very valuable zoo specimens.

5. The deadly mutation of H1N1 that's going to appear any minute now is really so much nicer than nuclear war, big rocks from space, or being shredded in the black holes the Large Hadron Collider is going to create. At least a good plague leaves this pretty little planet intact and also keeps us from mucking it up any further.

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Message 25911 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 13:42:26 UTC

True enough!
The only thing i deny is to
end up in a zoo... :p

I`ll go and read my
tarot cards also.. Somewhere
you must have made a mistake.. ;-)

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Message 25927 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 15:47:01 UTC
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Message 25933 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 16:16:50 UTC - in response to Message 25909.  

Things we would all do well to keep in mind:
1. CNN, Fox New, et al, must fill 7x24 news cycles. "If it bleeds, it leads." is the age-old mantra in the news business. This means if something horrible isn't happening or about to happen every hour of every day, to people we identify with, heads will roll.

You would do well to keep in mind that if you sit there watching only one, to all three of those networks, and obtaining your news from no other sources, then, sure, you'll be one of those people sitting in fear or one of those people grumbling about the media. But when you're one of those people living within 10-15 miles of schools that close for a few days or a week (rightly or wrongly) to try to reduce the spread of H1N1, don't tell me or others that it's gone out of the news or that the worry has fallen off the map.
Now, any of you care to take a swipe at those small time local TV news shows as well, the ones where you could have continued to hear about H1N! at least once a week every week since this began?
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Message 25939 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 17:42:46 UTC - in response to Message 25933.  

But when you're one of those people living within 10-15 miles of schools that close for a few days or a week (rightly or wrongly) to try to reduce the spread of H1N1, don't tell me or others that it's gone out of the news or that the worry has fallen off the map.

The day I left the Dominican Republic in April of this year after a Caribbean cruise I started to sneeze and feel unwell. It was the worse illness with 'flu symptoms' that I have ever experienced, and I took time off work on doctor's orders who had nothing to give me for it so I stayed home. There are now 93 confirmed cases and one dead of swine flu in the Dominican Republic. I'm not saying I had swine flu and there aren't any cases anywhere near me, but I certainly didn't like that flu much, and I wouldn't dismiss those who decide that a pandemic is upon us for an illness where nothing can be given to cure, but maybe just to alleviate the symptoms.


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Message 25972 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 23:59:54 UTC - in response to Message 25849.  

@SJ
Send some of that heat up to the great white north please!! 33C thats just being greedy ;)you could spare 3 or 4 degrees C and still not have to wear a shirt!!Although sunburn may be an issue, so stay in the shade.
;-p

Sure I could ;), I've suggested the wind from here go and deliver a small blow torch to warm You up some, But not enough to melt any nearby permafrost of course. :D

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Message 26013 - Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 15:01:39 UTC - in response to Message 25911.  

Hey Az :)

True enough!
The only thing i deny is to
end up in a zoo... :p


Aw..It will be nice zoo, like one of those habitat things for gerbils, only bigger. But hey...what if we're already.....naw! Silly idea!

I`ll go and read my
tarot cards also.. Somewhere
you must have made a mistake.. ;-)


I agree. Checksum errors are my normal operating state. Besides, I forgot to ask the cards about gamma ray bursters and Betelgeuse blowing up. Major omissions! ;)
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Message 26014 - Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 15:43:43 UTC

Do you know what?

It's a real swine when you catch flu. Just ask SJ!
Go away, I was asleep


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Message 26020 - Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 16:59:06 UTC - in response to Message 26013.  

Hey Az :)

True enough!
The only thing i deny is to
end up in a zoo... :p


Aw..It will be nice zoo, like one of those habitat things for gerbils, only bigger. But hey...what if we're already.....naw! Silly idea!

I`ll go and read my
tarot cards also.. Somewhere
you must have made a mistake.. ;-)


I agree. Checksum errors are my normal operating state. Besides, I forgot to ask the cards about gamma ray bursters and Betelgeuse blowing up. Major omissions! ;)


Hehehe - I think we both have a problem.. ;-)
My cards denied to tell me the whole answer because
its too nice weather outside What a waste! ;-D
I guess we just have to wait and see where we go....when that time comes.. :p

Oh.. I got One answer though, but I didnt know exactly what to put in it -

"Aint no mountain high enough -
aint not swineflu bad enough -
aint no thread long enough -
To make you feel my way.."

;p hmmmm....
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Message 26034 - Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 19:54:51 UTC

"Aint no mountain high enough -
aint not swineflu bad enough -
aint no thread long enough -
To make you feel my way.."

;p hmmmm....


Hehehe! Okidoki, in the key of C or A minor?
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Message 26041 - Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 21:13:57 UTC - in response to Message 26034.  
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"Aint no mountain high enough -
aint not swineflu bad enough -
aint no thread long enough -
To make you feel my way.."

;p hmmmm....


Hehehe! Okidoki, in the key of C or A minor?


well.. I think all have to use the key they please. ;-))
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