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Interesting comment, Lane. I've bitched endlessly about what would be best described as out and out noise that accompanies TV advertising these days. Seems auto advertising is the worst offender. I get the distinct feeling they think the consumer is a brain dead burned out druggie. Ever notice the emphasis on speed, typically accompanied with head banging *music*?

What the hell became of polite music,conversation and entertainment? Man, do I miss the good old days.

Harold

that depends on what you define as extra. many "basic" cable packages include channels that you pay for, cnn, cnbc, discover, animal planet, even the food channel/s. the true "basic" packages do not have these or have only a fraction of them, and cost 1/3-1/2 the price.

amc started w/commericals this past year, tcm is the only "basic pay for" that still is commercial free, afaik. --Loren

dress pants are not much better (than shorts). plastic "leathers" s/b illegal, you contaminate the burn with that crap because it _melts_ into the wound. well, at least that used to be the gossip.

i have dropped a bike or two, but never at road speed on pavment, that is just plumb scary... --Loren

ps, the old common "wisdom" was to avoid the temptation to get free of the bike, it will follow you, try to get on top of it. now that _is_ James Bond...

i will take a shot at this (rather than write off the ng ;-). the cat cannot clean it's own ears well, so by cleaning yours, he hopes that you will return the favor(?).

i would suspect that dog behaviour maybe the same. however, i would _not_ rely on that, if the dog is a large breed, he could possibly mistake your reaction/intentions. --Loren

Screw you, ain't nothing better than some hard core METAL! (OBMYC ;)

Tim (Now listening, erm, G'n'R - Paradise City... well.. there's some heavy metal on this playlist somewhere)

-- "That's for the courts to decide." - Homer Simpson Website @

When was that, Harold, the Victorian Era?

Gary

of course it has an answer.

Gunner

Liberals - Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing better except for Beethoven, Back, Haydn, Vivaldi, Mozart, Handel, MJQ, Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, Jacques Loussier, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Art Tatum, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat "King" Cole, Mel Tormè, etc., etc., etc........

When you outgrow your diaper maybe you'll understand it a little better, Timmy.

Harold

I'd settle for my memories of the big band era.

Harold

Plus the car/truck/bus behind you tends to try to avoid the bike, and often runs over you if you are free of the bike.

And yes..the plastic or plastic laminated leathers will indeed melt into your skin or road rash wounds. Happens if the exhaust system gets on you too.

Gunner

Liberals - Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. Benjamin Disraeli

My critters, both dog and cats love for me to jam a finger deep into their ears and gently swab around their folds. Its standard procedure when removing said now greasy finger..for them to lick the finger clean.

Doing this to both ears simultaneously will occasionally cause a complete failure of said critters motor functions as they collapse in their tracks during the cleaning operation. A full recovery in a few moments is normal.

Gunner

Liberals - Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. Benjamin Disraeli

You are taking the RF off the satellite dish LNA and splitting it to 8 out puts through the amplifier? What is the make and model of the multiplexor?

I'll agree with some of those (I don't know much classical) but the rest you listed (snipped) put a large question mark over my head. Get with the times. ;-)

Tim

-- "That's for the courts to decide." - Homer Simpson Website @

Boy, I thought I was the only one who knew that after I discovered it... just goes to show 'ya how bad a cat lover I am :( :-p

Tim

-- "That's for the courts to decide." - Homer Simpson Website @

"> >i have dropped a bike or two, but never at road speed on pavment,

I can say that, also, but I've had things happen that were at least embarassingly painful. My first large bike (not very large) was a Suzuki SP370, a large street legal off road bike. It had the cleated foot pegs. Once, before I had a chance to get well used to the bike, I stopped at a street intersection, tried to put one foot on the ground, and was critically slowed down by the high friction pegs. I fell over on my side just like the little Nazi on the tricycle on the old "laugh-In" show. Lost my "cool biker" image instantaneously.

Harold (Collum Puniceus)

You can remove that question mark by listening to the music that provided the foundation for what you listen to today. Jazz and blues with a little folk mixed in gave birth to rock and roll of the fifties. Heavy Metal, with Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild", arguably being the first of the genre, was merely an outgrowth and extension of work done by guitar artists of the late

Richard Coke

Careful, Gunner. Disraeli also said, "A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy" and "Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."

Richard Coke

Also, don't ever try to tie your shoe while at a stop light. Same results.......

Lane

Dang, Jack, you're gonna make me crawl under the house? It is an 8 outlet, 3 inlet, AC 120 volt powered device. It takes the signal from a single dish with a dual LNB feeding both cables into the unit and combines them in the unit, outputting to the 8 outlets, letting each outlet receive all channels. It also accepts broadcast TV antenna input into the third inlet. You use a single inlet, two outlet multiplexer at each TV that you want to have both satellite and broadcast capabilities. Otherwise, just the cable to the TV for satellite. Mine cost about $135 off the internet 2 years ago. I don't remember who makes mine, but I do know that RCA has at least a 4 outlet model. Internet search? Hope this answers some of your questions.

RJ

RJ