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If this is the wrong place, feel free to move it, mods. I went to the doctor yesterday for something entirely unrelated, and through the urine sample, I was found to be diabetic. The doctor doesn't seem overly concerned, he gave me a month's...

The smell that surrounds you. Have you ever known anyone who has a smell altogether their own? I'm not talking about body odor or beer and egg farts or any of the other horrible smells that some people manage, I'm talking about.......like you know...

That is strange. Perhaps I'll go mug him for his PONY! PONY!!

This turned out much longer than I meant for it... Please try not to fall asleep! In an attempt to kill my 7 year lurkerist voyeurism that I've brought with me from the other board into something more productive, I'm coming out of the corner of...

This was a blog entry of mine from a couple of years ago and it's jibba-jabba-ish, not Guggenheim material, so I posted it here. The cutie pie that I’m dating can rest assured that I truly care about him. The reason that he can feel confident...

Actually I'm rather looking forward to it. We're in Greece and we were thinking about going back to the UK soon, but there doesn't seem much point at the moment (lack of jobs etc). Instead we're moving into a yurt for the summer. It's set in a...

The answer: Everybody does! Come join the party! My current computer is on its last legs. It's five years old, and I've already replaced the power supply and the hard drive once. The fan in the "new" hard drive has just failed, so the...

If you have brain cancer, that is.Guillermo Velasco and colleagues, at Complutense University, Spain, have provided evidence that suggests that cannabinoids such as the main active component of marijuana (THC) have anticancer effects on human brain...

My growing area: an upstairs deck, full sun, SoCal, 2 miles from the beach What I want to grow: Cilantro, chives (or garlic greens), parsley, thyme, rosemary, sage My growing materials: a few 10" diameter pots, some 8" diameter pots, some 6"...

I am unable to achieve an erection over this. Tell me how this is different from Facebook or 10 billion other social networking sites. I'm enthusiastically in favor of internet time sinks, so what am I not getting here?

Cecil's columns first drew me to the Dope and I still read them. The latest column deals with stopping/delaying aging and generally prolonging life. He speaks of calorie restriction which has shown promising results in laboratory animals. ...

Dad took it with his old Topcon 35mm. Yeah, this is me when I was 4 years old. That's my kat when she was 1 year old. Best friend I ever had. She went to God 17 years after this was taken. Do you have a pic that gives your avatar some...

I changed the desktop image on my laptop. It was a generic photo of some trees in autumn. Here's what it looks like now: It's Texas Stadium, the now-former home of my beloved Cowboys. I wanna see what y'all's look like. Use your judgment;...

My girlfriend in Cleveland has an Australian Cattle Dog, otherwise known as a Blue Heeler. She occasionally commented about how infrequently she would see other ACDs out in public, and it was a rare treat when another ACD showed up at the dog park....

While everyone likes to say that their pets (or even offspring) are incredibly bright and wonderful creatures, the fact of the matter is that some of them are downright dim. This is Courage, one of my cats, and possibly the dumbest cat I have ever...

It's after midnight, and there's an owl hooting outside. It's pretty cool. I can count on one hand the number of times I've heard one here at home before. I just listened to some calls online, and I"m pretty sure it's a Great Horned Owl. He keeps...

This could go in several places, Jibba Jabba, the Polling Booth, possibly the Guggenheim - not least of which, the drunk posting thread! My dad (darling man) home brews wine and beer. He's just bottled the latest Tamarillo (tree tomato) wine,...

I created this modified version of my usual avatar (an image of Cristina Llanos, the singer from Spanish punk rock/synth-pop band Dover) to mark my 666th post on Domebo Modified 666 version: Usual avatar:

When foreigners, including many Americans, come to Germany most seem to have a very specific picture in mind: Castle Neuschwanstein, Lederhosen, beer gardens, cuckoo clocks and Dirndls. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but that's only a...

I don't know about you, but I've longed for the day I can enjoy the comfort of a President that can kick ass all day, defend the universe and serve up some hot, hot dinner and love at the end of it all. My dreams have come true.

I'm trying to make plans for the summer. Between Airman's comings and goings, and two sets of grandparents who want the sprog, it's really difficult to arrange for everything. We have dates for the in-laws' vacation time, and I thought we had firm...

Poll question: Would you give up sexual activity for the rest of your life if it saved a total stranger from a gruesome death? This question seems to come out from left field, but I'd like people to answer as honestly as possible and why. After...

90%+ of this boards members used to or currently post at the SDMB, which is often "humorously" rearranged to BDSM. Now, we post on the DoMebo forums, or the Do Me Bo forums. Coincidence? I think not.

Following on from this thread there have been more earthquakes. During the night the same region was hit by another registering 4.3 on the Richter scale, and there are reports of one this morning in Rome. There is apparently some damage to the...

I'm not going to put a time limit on it.. But recent would be nice. This is from today: http://www.pressrepublican.com/0121_logs/local_story_095052056.html

Just looked at the spam mailbox of a spare Gmail account, and discovered hundreds and hundreds of messages with subject lines that are ... well, quite imaginative. Give your bomb longer timer You feel like a giant comparing to the midget in...

Or Autumn Festivals for those of us south of the equator. Easter, Passover, Walpurgis Night, whatever. Easter for me. I've made and decorated biscuits again - it's actually the same recipe as my Christmas gingerbread, but using the egg shaped...

So I just got called by a robot giving me a "final offer to lower my credit card interest payments". For about the 1000th time. It pisses me right the hell off, first of all because they call in the mornings, sometimes waking me up (today I was...

Our eight year old still loves being read to at bedtime. I read two nights, my wife reads two nights, and so forth. Wife has been going through Harry Potter, they're currently on "Deathly Hallows". He and I are almost finished "The Hobbit", not...

In The Hive , we were kicking around the idea of making it possible for regular users to post polls in Games and Sports and The Guggenheim, but all other poll related topics would be kept to The Polling Booth unless they evolved into debates/flame...

These are the fails that cracked me right up.

Thanks to jali, we were having a joke with CRSP's avatar this weekend. I see some people really took the idea and ran with it. Just for fun, please vote on who had the most creative avatar based on The Captain's avatar you saw this weekend. You may...

...posters with an interest in: (Just curious, if we were to target a specific demographic to attract here, who would you want us to target?)

Several years ago, I went to an educator's workshop where we got to work with horses (that's why I went. Horses. Not education. Horses.) The lady in charge was a real woo-woo out-there kind of character. Talked about the horses previous lives - not...

I just recently found a neat website: Academicearth.org that has full sets of university lecture videos available. Right now I'm in the middle of the Berkeley General Human Anatomy course. There's some great stuff available, mostly from MIT, Yale,...

This thread reminded me of my own school trips. What about your schools? Did you go on trips? Where did you go? All in all we went four times for about a week each. IIRC it was always from weekend to weekend, travel included. In fifth grade...

Am I alone in this? I am sitting at my desk here, munching on some (relatively) yummy dry-roasted edamame, feeling smug about how healthy I am being when, I notice this horror on the label: MADE IN CHINA I confess. This freaks me out. I...

Here's the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkknI1hTnjo. I guess it wouldn't be necessary to edit it, just a lot of practice or whatever, but was it at all modified digitally?

I've just received a nice shiny brochure inviting me to become a member of Phi Theta Kappa, the "official honor society for two-year colleges by the American Association of Community Colleges". It's $75 for a lifetime membership. Is this useful to...

I have tried yoga. I have tried prayer. I have tried hypnosis. I have sat quietly and sought a peaceful place in my mind. I have been told that this is how you hear your soul, by shutting out the outside. Yet, there's always a part of my mind that...

Jill suggested a theme of "Improve your mind, improve your life, improve your world" which I think sounds great. So what could you write? I could easily do a series of educational articles about kimono (what is it, how to wear, etc.). I've also...

Right now I'm using the jazzy ending tune from the Jeeves & Wooster TV show. My phone vibrates first, so I don't get to hear the song unless my phone rings when it's in my purse. Before this I was using the Linus & Lucy theme. I'm not really a...

Yay! :smile: It's sunny, and it's like 55º outside! I have one of the French doors open in the living room. Tomorrow will be sunny an 59º, and I'll be working from home so I can do the two-mile constitutional. Tuesday will be sunny and 58º,...

Beyond our own Thunderdome, wut! wut! reminds me of the Madness of King George, wherein George III has a fondess for ending his statements with "Wot? Wot? Being Canadian, I like to think it's the 'Eh?' of his time. :lol: Our title is a quote...

Oh yes we were! Set the stairgates a-rattling, the wind chimes a-ding-a-linging* and the lamps a-swaying it did. We were lucky though, far away enough from the epicentre to not have any damage or injury. Details and story here. *The wind...

Actually, my question is about how other people react to this usage of "grow" -- that is, to "grow something" meaning to "make something expand or increase" (as distinct from, say, to grow a crop or something like that.) Another user in a post...

Our eight year old is going to a birthday party over supper time. My wife and I can order Indian or Mexican!

Edible food, that is (eating dirt doesn't count). And we're talking relative to when you ate it, of course. If you drank fresh milk in 1953, that doesn't count. As for me, I don't think I've had anything all that old. I had some pickles from...