Lady Alyx

Okay will tell her, thanks alot! (it is so cute cause they use Donald's familiar face)

crusty old lady (really a man) voice..."Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and eggs"

Christine, ah who needs a piece o paper anyways...lol! As Bess puts it...it is merely for the legalities of our society today as she notes...monies, property etc. There were no certificates back when peeps started out

Matty it sure does...3 people I used to work with as buddy partying co-workers that once they became supervisor, stabbed me in the back. It is always so shocking...but power does have that capability. Iron Bess it's tough to think of Merv as doing that, but insiders always know the truth.

Ha Ha Ha Iron Bess you had me laughing on that one..it trully would take a coffer o pennies to pay that off!!!!!! Iron Bess I sent a pic of that cute little duckie to my g/f who is a Disneyholic and she did not recognize the duckie...do they sell it at the Disney Park here in Anaheim?

Hey Patrick, what a fine illustrator you are Bravo...but ahem..eh...Excitement is with an E...he he he...unless you were just trying to get across the bad spelling of pyrates...lol Very good I am very impressed. Currently I am painting a Mermaid on 1/2" plywood about 2' x 3' for my g/f's 50th bday. I wanted her to have something to hang behind her jacuzzi in her lattice work structure that goes around her rainforest plants and jacuzzi to block out some of the neighbors view and thought a panel would be great. I will take a pic of it when it is done to show everyone.

Last nights tribute to him on Larry King live was very interesting. I did not know that he was behind Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. And he wrote th Jeopardy tune. Many on the show last attributed their success to him, it is a shame to hear that he may have stepped on others. But power does that to people. I see that happen even here every day at work. Sigh...oh well life goes on, gotta try to smile. And Matty I am glad you didnt despise Merv too much and his doggie Charlie Chan...lol! I wonder if Mike Douglas is still alive I will have to go check that out. I was surprised to hear of Hal Fishman passing. (so cal news anchor). I always liked his voice. sigh...I just checked out Mike he passes away last August on his 81st b day. Hoisting a late one to ya Mike!

For a minute I thought this topic was going to show "Spam" sculpture...as in ham spam...LOL LOL LOL

Well I liked and watched the Merv Griffin show as well. I wonder if Mike Douglas is still alive. Tonight on CNN Larry King live they will be doing a tribute. And Matty we all do get old and fat and it trully is important to have friends and family around us when we get old....it just goes to prove on how important that that is. Thanks Merv for all yer shows! Hoisting one for Merv.

Patrick they have trailers on line, but they won't work for me on the official website....but I found the trailer on YOUTUBE for the movie...check it out. Stardust Trailer

sigh, if only everone followed the golden rule there would be more love and respect. "Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself"

I know some folks mentioned this in another post and just recently I have been seeing the trailers [for Stardust]...looks really cool folks!

I would think it would be a lot more piratey for that amount of coin. Where's the treasure chest.. :angry:

Thanks for posting them!!!!!

I was almost going to send away for it...but thought naw...I have too much stuff. I am surprised it was a nice big size.

There are some loose ends in your story first of all...first we hear you asked her out...and then you say she says go home...what happened in between...what do you mean stonewall ya...that means she did not go out with you and did not intend to. I would leave it alone, unless you want to get hurt again. I would wait and see what she does and how she reacts for a long time first. Or just get it out of the way and ask her straight out.

While we have yet to design the perfect bridge....it does not mean they should shirk their duties for retrofiting...leaving them in marginal state full knowing something can go wrong is just plain wrong.

mmm why settle for imperfection...we can still strive for it...if there is a will there is a way I believe...if we use preventative measures instead of waiting for the last minute a lot can be accomplished...we choose to be lazy

these might be too pricey if you have to buy 500 but at least they are leather... pirate mechandise webby

...those water pistols are so cool, that would be great for faire!!! cool off everyone even yourself in a hip pyratey way!!!!!

Patrick, I hope one day I can run into you at one of these events. It would be nice to finally meet someone from here.

geez the name itself looks deadly

Seems to me these days (years) it is getting harder and harder to find a good man. When I tried the internet dating scene there were so many wierdos out there that I could not believe it. Where were are all the sane people I thought. To me a good man should have these qualities: 1). Attraction at least to each other. 2). Romantic and good lover. 3). Thoughtful and caring. 4). Willing to have a two way conversation and see the other persons side of things. 5). Helpful in all things. 6). Willing to try new things or go new places. 7). A decent job and paycheck. 8). A decent running car and abode. (and over a certain age no roomates that are a nuisance). Some money in the bank. (I despise a man asking me for sums of money) 9). Can dress him up or dress down. 10). A friend you can trust when all else fails.

Why Did the Bridge Fall? Time Article It may take several days to figure out how many people died in Wednesday's collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis — the official toll has hit five, but nobody expects it to stay there. Between 20 and 30 people are still missing, and while some of them may be lying in hospitals, unconscious and unidentified, plenty of cars are still submerged in the Mississippi River. Anyone trapped inside — and there are such people — is no longer alive. So recovery crews are picking their way carefully around the twisted steel and broken concrete that could shift without warning in the muddy current. Investigators, meanwhile, from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and from a private firm of forensic engineers hired by the state of Minnesota, have already arrived to begin trying to figure out what happened. NTSB chairman Mark Rosenker told reporters Thursday evening that the agency plans to use a special risk-analysis software program that will allow investigators to study each functional element of the Minneapolis span. According to Rosenker, the program "can take away every element of the bridge in a computer model, until it falls down." The hope is that the virtual facsimile will help illuminate which component ultimately failed. That might not be easy. Sometimes a bridge collapses for glaringly obvious reasons — being whacked by a barge, for example. That's what knocked down Florida's Sunshine Skyway bridge in 1980, killing 35 people, and the I-40 bridge near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, in 2002, killing 14, and a causeway in Louisiana in 1964, killing 14. But in other cases — the Mianus River Bridge in Connecticut (three dead in 1983) or the Silver Bridge, spanning the Ohio River between Ohio and West Virginia (46 dead in 1967) — the cause is far more subtle. The former was triggered by metal fatigue in a single steel pin: when it finally failed, the loss of support transferred excess stress on other parts, which couldn't handle it, failing in turn. The latter was finally traced, again, to a single piece of metal, which had been forged with a tiny, unnoticed crack that weakened further with corrosion. Corrosion may have played a role here as well: the Minneapolis bridge — what's known as a deck steel truss bridge — was a concrete roadway supported by gridwork of steel. "When you use both concrete and steel like this," says William Miller, an expert on bridge engineering at Temple University in Philadelphia, "there can be chemical reactions going on where these two very different substances meet. This is especially a problem in extreme climates where water can get into the cracks between supports, freeze and expand and cause a huge amount of damage." Beyond that, says Miller, "concrete is a very forgiving material, and so it can stand up to a lot of cracking and wear. Steel on the other hand, cannot." In a place like Minnesota, where road crews dump corrosive ice melter on roadways by the ton in winter, the problem is even worse. But since civil engineers know all this, how come they didn't spot the weak points? It may well be that the real breaking point was hidden, or simply wasn't obvious under normal inspection. In fact, as everyone knows by now, the bridge was deemed "structurally deficient" starting in 1990. That didn't result in an emergency repair order, but rather an intention to replace the bridge by 2020 — not unusual, evidently, since the designation doesn't suggest imminent danger. According to Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, speaking Thursday afternoon at a press conference, there are no fewer 70,000 to 80,000 bridges in the U.S. in the same category; at least another 80,000 are considered "functionally obsolete," or not up to current design standards, another label that fails to testify to a structure's safety for travel. It would be so expensive to fix hundreds of thousands of bridges that it's just not going to happen. But these numbers highlight the problem of the nation's infrastructure. No word is likely to make taxpayers' eyes glaze over more quickly. As a result, officials at all levels of government tend to defer maintenance on bridges and roadways; the voters wouldn't stand for the required expenditures, estimated at more than $9 billion a year. They might, however, be willing to pay for more frequent and thorough inspections, which could distinguish the structurally deficient bridges in imminent danger of failure from those that aren't. In Minnesota, Gov. Pawlenty announced an immediate emergency round of inspections of all of the state's bridges, starting with the three that have the same structure as the crumbled Minneapolis span. "The country is behind on infrastructure, and improvements need to be made," Pawlenty told reporters. "Anyone who looks at the national picture or the national statistics and says we don't have problems would be naive."

Funny thing I have never noticed anything go bad on a Friday 13th. Man made supersition for sure... !