RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread Keith Johnson
Title: Message I've gotten myself down to one shake a week, usually on Saturdays as a treat. That's an accomplishment for me. Last week I got sick as a dog. Coming off a few weeks of cold/allergy problems I of course have been avoiding the ice cream, as the old body's producing quite enough

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread Keith Johnson
Title: Message Yeah, we're taught the wrong way, but that's the way of the whole medical/pharmaceutical industry. We're geared more toward treatment of ills, not prevention.  -Original Message-From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M C Je

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
HmmI could use a some dangerous weight loss... What is Milk Allergy? Casein should not be confused with lactose. Most people who have difficulty digesting milk are lactose intolerant, meaning that they produce too little of the enzyme (lactase) that breaks down milk sugar (lactose) so

RE: [scifinoir2] RE: Scifi on TV

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
I have yet to be disappointed with a performance by Dwight Shultz! Where ever he shows up, be prepared to be entertained!st.net> wrote: It had its moments, especially the last season or so when they made it serious. It was also funny to see how those idiotic stupid military guys were always ch

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
Dude...you must be some kind of holiday favorite to hang around...As to that mixture you made for study...how many of your friends caught you walking on the ceiling?Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Funny! I'm addicted to anything with ice cream or dairy. My favorite milkshake starts wi

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
lol...Let's just say there are 'ghosts' that are too friendly...M C Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LOLLOLLOL!!! But it's like 2 people are in the room, huh?   Of course, I have to spend the next 12 or so hours alone...    ---Original Message---   From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread M C Jennings
What is Milk Allergy? Casein should not be confused with lactose. Most people who have difficulty digesting milk are lactose intolerant, meaning that they produce too little of the enzyme (lactase) that breaks down milk sugar (lactose) so bacteria flourish in their gut to finish the job. L

RE: [scifinoir2] RE: Scifi on TV

2005-05-12 Thread Keith Johnson
Title: Message It had its moments, especially the last season or so when they made it serious. It was also funny to see how those idiotic stupid military guys were always chasing the team at the beginning of each show and always losing them! They couldn't find a damn black van driving all

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread Keith Johnson
Title: Message Funny! I'm addicted to anything with ice cream or dairy. My favorite milkshake starts with  vanilla Bluebell's ice cream. I get about half a gallon of it, add milk (skim!), about two tablespoons of sugar, a teaspon of vanilla extract, and a quarter cup of Irish Creme Liquer.

RE: [scifinoir2] diet and health -- TRUE Science Fiction! Was Ipods...

2005-05-12 Thread Keith Johnson
Title: Message If I don't mind having to blow my noise for about an hour, I can deal with dairy. Again, no other effects outside of the cold-like symptoms, though I'm sure that mucous is probably really developing all throughout my body when that happens.   I've read some things about the b

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread M C Jennings
LOLLOLLOL!!! But it's like 2 people are in the room, huh?   Of course, I have to spend the next 12 or so hours alone...    ---Original Message---   From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: 05/13/05 00:27:23 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can

RE: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" episode "Demons"--minor spoilers

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
OK guys...back away from the remotes...Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nooo! Why'd you have to say it out loud? Now someone's gonna start developing it. I envision a bunch of young hard bodies--blonde women with fake boobs, dudes with surgically-carved abs and impossibly white

RE: [scifinoir2] RE: Scifi on TV

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
A confession: I used to watch the A-Team just to see how they were going to get Mr' T's character to fly...Of course another ingenious (or not) way to know him out...Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Street Hawk's star was former pop idol and broadway star ("Pirates of Penzance") Rex Sm

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
My biggest weakness is rootbeer and gingerale floats...I have to sneak and have one at least twice a month...Of course, I have to spend the next 12 or so hours alone...Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, I'll try that. I do that sometimes, but have taken to drinking Propel water e

Re: [scifinoir2] Hollywood Worries as Decline Continues

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
Nope...Sorry guys, I don't think they will do it...That would make sense...[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/12/05 7:58:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's this? Hollywood worries about its box-office decline? Here's a fast answer certain to cure their ills! Make better movies...

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Next Mission Unclear for "Star Trek"

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
Send it in!!! It worked for Dallas, didn't it??? Oh yeah...Dallas was a POPULAR show...md_moore42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't tell meIt turns out that the last few years and the series itself has been a holodeck simulation !--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread M C Jennings
Amen on cutting the dairy!  cutting it OUT!   Is it just me, or does it seem like we aren't told to avoid the foods that might kill us...example...   Sure, Jim, you feel bloated!  Must be those peppers!  Take this chalky stuff, and go on and eat dem peppers!     Yeesh...     ---Origina

[scifinoir2] diet and health -- TRUE Science Fiction! Was Ipods...

2005-05-12 Thread M C Jennings
Keith, I can SURELY sympathize!  I am extremely allergic to dairy products!  Maybe I'm lucky that my reactions are so severe, because I usually never have the desire for dairy!  And believe me, you DON'T want to know my symptoms!   I wasn't going to go here, but I have found out that a pers

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
Lemon tea works also...An old trick used by singers...Also, try cutting done on milk products...M C Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did the site mention that one of the best ways to get rid of mucous buildup is to drink a glass of warm lemon water in the morning?  Since I've been doing

RE: [scifinoir2] RE: Scifi on TV

2005-05-12 Thread Keith Johnson
Title: Message Street Hawk's star was former pop idol and broadway star ("Pirates of Penzance") Rex Smith, wasn't it? I never got Viper. Seemed kinda low-rent to me. Stingray was definitely cool. I remember one show when the star was arrested and printed. His prints were sent off for match

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
So that's why I can't hear anything you guys have been writing?Kelly Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You know I have had enough.  "Microwave ovens make you sterile," "Cell phones cause brain cancer," "iPods make you deaf."  I can't hear you cause I my cell phone is ringing while I'm listening

RE: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" episode "Demons"--minor spoilers

2005-05-12 Thread Keith Johnson
Title: Message Nooo! Why'd you have to say it out loud? Now someone's gonna start developing it. I envision a bunch of young hard bodies--blonde women with fake boobs, dudes with surgically-carved abs and impossibly white teeth--jumping through time trying to right the wrongs created by

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread Keith Johnson
Title: Message Thanks, I'll try that. I do that sometimes, but have taken to drinking Propel water every morning. My biggest bane with mucous buildup in my body is dairy products. I'm lactose intolerant of cow's milk like many Blacks. I don't get gastrointestinal distress, however. The one

Re: [scifinoir2] Hollywood Worries as Decline Continues

2005-05-12 Thread GWashin891
In a message dated 5/12/05 7:58:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's this? Hollywood worries about its box-office decline? Here's a fast answer certain to cure their ills!   Make better movies... Let me add to this. (ahem) AND STOP IT WITH THE SEQUELS ALREADY! TRY SOME ORGINIALITY DA

Re: [scifinoir2] Arnie's not mad at the moon

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Pratt
So, he wasn't serious about mass destruction, merely vaguely funny and utterly insensitive toward women. One good thing about Mister Schwarzewhosis- he's Governator of California, and I live in Georgia. Never thought I'd be happy at that...Brent Wodehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.io

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Next Mission Unclear for "Star Trek"

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Pratt
And a clothespin for the nose as well. Kinda smelly...g123curious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks forposting this. Regarding Berman's comment, all I can say is this: I gotta go get some thigh-high boots. It's getting might deepin here.GeorgeCaptainThe USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston)--- In scifin

Re: [scifinoir2] Hollywood Worries as Decline Continues

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Pratt
What's this? Hollywood worries about its box-office decline? Here's a fast answer certain to cure their ills!   Make better movies...Brent Wodehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/movies/10holl.html?ex=1116475200&en=570e36cadf423c7e&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERFEATURESH

RE: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" episode "Demons"--minor spoilers

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Pratt
I had the most horrible thought the other night, after reading some of my backlog of e-mails, in particular the one about Shatner pitching the Starfleet Academy concept to Paramount. An idea that B&B would DROOL over. Are you ready?   Starfleet Temporal Investigations (shoot me NOW, for even MEN

RE: [scifinoir2] RE: Scifi on TV

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Pratt
Anything BUT. Street Hawk didn't do much for me, but Stingray was even cooler to me than The Equalizer, which I loved. Possibly the idea that Stingray might have some obscure government connection held some interest for a budding conspiracy theorist. Viper, I had every ep on video, got rid of th

Re: [scifinoir2] Black couple wins "Amazing Race" -- Again!

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Pratt
Somehow, this fails to surprise me. Angers me no end, yes. I really didn't know that they'd won (my reality experience being limited to Cops and Max X), and their story alone merits a segment on one of these morning talk shows (if it comes up anytime soon, I'll need a good lawyer). Unfortunately

Re: [scifinoir2] Anti-Aging Gene

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Pratt
Line forms behind me...Kelly Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anti-Aging Gene   Most of us think aging is inevitable. But one scientist has committed her career to proving us wrong. http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?language=english&type=article&article_id=218392210What if ther

[scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread Kelly Wright
Once again, I don't think it is the iPods that make you deaf, if is the excessive noise. It is the iPod that makes this article "sexy." I was thinking about this in the context of other "scare stories," which are really stories reflecting our ambivalence toward proliferating technological adv

[scifinoir2] Anti-Aging Gene

2005-05-12 Thread Kelly Wright
Anti-Aging Gene Most of us think aging is inevitable. But one scientist has committed her career to proving us wrong. http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3? language=english&type=article&article_id=218392210 What if there was a drug that made you feel like a 45-year old at the

RE: [scifinoir2] RE: Scifi on TV

2005-05-12 Thread Astromancer
I just came online in time to catch you guys talking about 'the faces' and their cars...Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now what do you have against the story of a man and his car? At least they got rid of KITT's voice and the cheesy '80s music done by anyone but the original artists

[scifinoir2] Well Endowed Fish Get the Girls

2005-05-12 Thread Brent Wodehouse
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050511_fish_organs.html Well Endowed Fish Get the Girls By Robert Roy Britt LiveScience Senior Writer posted: 11 May 2005 You might think it's grand to be a well endowed fish. After all, some female fish prefer mates with larger sex organs, a new study fi

[scifinoir2] Video game artists want more respect

2005-05-12 Thread Brent Wodehouse
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/news/3178806 Video game artists want more respect By BEN BERKOWITZ Reuters News Service LOS ANGELES - The portrait depicts a pop-culture icon past well his prime, toothless, slouched and hooked onto an intravenous drip of yellow pellets. Meet Pac-M

[scifinoir2] The End of the Empire

2005-05-12 Thread Brent Wodehouse
Minor S P O I L E R S -- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7773581/site/newsweek/ The End of the Empire Lucas closes the 'Star Wars' saga with 'Revenge of the Sith.' As Anakin finally gets bad, the director finally gets good. By David Ansen Newsweek May 16 issue - The Faithf

[scifinoir2] FW: A great article on Star Wars' and our culture

2005-05-12 Thread g123curious
FYI. Enjoy! George Captain The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston) - - - - - - - - - To: "USS McNair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Ken Dumas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:22:04 -0400 Subject: [ussmcnair] A great article This is one of the best articles I have ever read about how

[scifinoir2] Black couple wins "Amazing Race" -- Again!

2005-05-12 Thread KeithBJohnson
A Black couple won the one million dollar prize for "The Amazing Race".  Now *this* is what should be all over the news! Not fifty million Paris Hilton interviews or Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie sightings. And definitely not more (over)exposure of "The Apprentice" or Survivor!  From what I've hear

[scifinoir2] Re: Next Mission Unclear for "Star Trek"

2005-05-12 Thread md_moore42
Don't tell me It turns out that the last few years and the series itself has been a holodeck simulation ! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Given the show's somewhat contentious history, it perhaps was inevitable that even the final episode has been cloa

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [PSA] 'iPods can make you deaf'

2005-05-12 Thread M C Jennings
Did the site mention that one of the best ways to get rid of mucous buildup is to drink a glass of warm lemon water in the morning?  Since I've been doing that, my mucous level has been reduced by 90%.  If I go to 2 days without doing it, my ears and nose clog right up again.    Cheap, and