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Top Ten Most Frequently Used Dad Phrases

10. Quit tyin’ up the bathroom!

9. Get off the darn phone!

8. Give it a little gas... No...! Brake! Braaaake!!

7. You’re not leaving this house dressed like that!

6. It’s gonna cost HOW much?!?

5. Who turned up the thermostat?!?

4. When I was your age, I had to walk through three feet of snow to get to school!

3. If you don’t knock it off, I'm gonna turn this car around and take you right back home!

2. Don’t make me come up there!!

And the Number One Most Frequently Used Dad Phrase Is...

Go ask your mother! (Was there ever any doubt?)

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Have you noticed how the credits at the end of even el cheapo movies now go on about as long as the movie? Compare a movie today with one of the 30's, 40's...

Tip iffen you want to see what male stars are gay: in the credits note the gender of his "Assistant to Mr. John Doe"--if the assistant is female, then this is his cutie at the time the movie was made--if male, well, Mr. Doe is gay

If I could get to Oliver Stone to make "Wall Street II," I would have him hire Tom Cruise to do the character Cruise played in "Collectual" to kill legally on Wall Street

I love movie mistakes: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ES&btnG=Search
and bad movie science: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ce&btnG=Search

Is it just me, but have you ever wondered a problem with Wal-Mart might be same store sells suck, because now Wal-Mart seems eager to cannabalize same store sells by building as if Wal-Mart is a giant convenience store feeding off its other nearby stores?

I learned this week not to let a small butcher knife fall into the sink's garbage disposal and forget the knife...When you turn on the disposal and are looking down into the drain, wow--talking 'bout a sharp stick in the ol' eye...A good unit can be a real knife thrower--and when a knife whizzes by in the wee hours you certainly don't need coffee to get going...Wonder if Consumer Report might consider adding "Butcher Knife in Garbage Disposal" as something to rate?

Bill Gates retirement will go on longer than Barbra Streisand--gawd almighty, big shots and stars note: RETIRE WITH THE FREAKING CLASS JOHNNY CARSON DID, FOR GAWD SAKE!! JEZZ! GET-OFF-THE-DAMN-STAGE AND STAY OFF!!

Here in Ga the governor's race is beginning to get nasty and I am so loving it! Nothing like one scumbag calling a fellow scumbag a scumbag...I just hope we have some physical fights like they do in Korea's parlament! I so would love for that to catch on over here--and say, if we can legalize abortion, why can't we legalize dueling at least if the duelers are whores--oops, sorry, politicans--This would be the best imagineable type of term limits

Still love the Fair Tax and wish you did, too...Or at least give it a fair hearing by checking out fairtax.org

Have a nice week and maybe the FED chief will get laryngitis long enough for me to get out of the market with some dignity

I know judging by the title of this thread it sounds like it might be about discussing futures. But, I am starting this to vent about a peeve of mine.

Like many of you I follow, and have follwed, the price of crude per barrel for over a year now. For quite some time there seemed to exist a linear correlation between the price of gasoline and the price of crude. If crude went up a dollar, gasoline would be up 10 cents (hypothetical example).

But lately, there seems to be a disproportionate increase in the price of gasoline relative to crude. If crude goes up 27 cents per barrel gasoline will increase 33 cents per gallon (actually happened). This is just one instance where I have noted, mentally, this disproportionate increase.

I'm not naive to the partial independence of gasoline from crude oil due to refinery shortages or scarce supply of ethanol. But, this seems like a substantial increase, dare I say gouge?


Another thing that irritates the hell out of me is the rate at which these prices increase. Gas will jump 30 cents a gallon in a day if oil is up a buck but no one came to change the gasoline in the ground that day. I asked a station owner about this phenomenon and he said he recieves notice from, in this case Marathon, on what to charge. But my understanding is that is the floor. He can charge higher if the owner across the street decides to as well. This is why you see the rates higher typically around highway exits. Higher demand allows these gas stations to engage in collusion.

But back to the rate of increase. What bothers me is it will jump 30 cents a gallon in a day, but may take all week for the price to come back down. Even with oil tumbling I saw stations around here charging $2.95 for 87 octane. They're real quick to jack up the price but when it comes to lowering it...eh, that can wait. These ppl are a bunch of asses.

There ought to be a proportionate relationship between the price of the futures and the price at the pump. These ppl are making a killing being lazy in changing the signs to the downside but jacking them up at the first sneeze of some sheik.

So what are prices where you live? I'm in SW Ohio and it's on average 2.82 with $2.95 being the highest and $2.76 the lowest. It should be coming down with oil tumbling since these ar the same prices of petrol when oil was above $70/barrel, but don't hold your breath waiting for these crooks to lower it.

(1) Have in my will, every LEGAL citizen in Amnesia at the moment of my death would receive $1 million dollars, so our weasel illegal loving whoring politicians could fully enjoy the tsunami of illegals about to hit our shores

(2) To farther help our politicians, I would make the million dollars contingent upon the Fair Tax being passed to really strip them of their access to the lobbyist money bags

(3) In honor of not having an April 15th qua April 15th as Tax Day, Amnesians would be forced to demand April 15th be designated as "Rev. Ken Lay Day" (since this is his DOA--oops, sorry, DOB--My mistake) and be made a federal holiday--Hey, look, since a good Capitalist is sociopathic by nature then what in heck am I suppose to do since moi is at the top of food chain?! Rev. Lay is an honor to all us Capitalist, except he got caught--but he did not rat out anyone--but, I guess the case could be made he had no one to rat out being at the top--Anyway, Capitalism is better than napalm in morning, I do swear...

(4) Upon my death, I would have my super fine collection of blackmail material on everyone in power published on the internet (Remember ol' dress wearing J. Edgar Hoover had such a mighty fine collection he owned Washington, hot damn, gotta love him)

(5) I will want to be cremated and my ashes secretly spread about in Las Vegas's biggest gambling casino, just because I can do it and it seems sorta useless, but for a million dollars who will care?!

I know some folks have had some pain with commodities the last month. Dollar is strengthening, and the Fed is on seek and destroy with inflation. Taken just on its own numbers, the US economy is doing well depsite some points of fundemental weakness. This all ignores the 800lb gorrilla in the room that costs us something like 6 billion a month: Iraq. As tempting as it might be to politize here, let's focus on the money. And to me, things look a lot like the late 70s. There is a convergence of bad threads, most of which have yet to really take affect. An unpopular war, lack of faith in govt/economy, increasing trade def, increasing budget def, looming inflation, and a loss of international interest in our debt/bonds. Very gloom and doom i agree, but i also know some people made large sums of money in the late 70s. Perhaps by learning from thier actions, and drawing corelations to today's world, we can protect those close to us.

What did you guys think of the movie?

Someone explain to me why those pinheads in DC have a estate tax, or at least for normal people who arent Bush or Trump, why do normal people have to pay it? Its like a double tax or triple tax, sometimes I really dislike what our Govt is

I need to know if anyone here finds the forum too slow, or slower than other forums you have visited. I need to know because if there are speed issues for some users, I will move to an even faster server. Things are quiet around now, as they are for every market pullback, so now is a good time to get ready for the next bull run. Does anyone else beside me find the forum slower around rush hour, between 4 and 6?

Lets have an Avatar Contest...Winner gets free air.

We have to have something nice when the market is this ugly