Or, buy a USB-stick.

Too hard to email it to yourself.

...or send yourself a pm.

When you first posted it, I thought you were setting homework for us.

Me too.

Mike, if you're studying the Constitutional Convention, I'd recommend the book Miracle in Philadelphia, which was published in the late-80's. It's fact-filled, interesting and an easy read.

I'd do the same thing myself, except I do it in e-mails but that's the way to do it!

How bout those Dolphins!? Go Steelers

Thing is that you can't access e-mail in Miami Dade COunty Schools.

Here we go again.

Old Glory Doesn’t Fly Around Here Anymore
By: David A. Barrios

The familiar sites of a high school are present here in Hialeah. The clicks and all the usual suspects.: The jocks, the nerds, the Goths and all those wonderful individuals that make up a school comprised of some forty-four hundred students. Yet, of course, something was missing.
Where was old glory?
In the aftermath of the onslaught that was the 2005 hurricane season, among the other things we lost such as shingles, roofs, power and our sanity was the functionability of the main flag pole which looms high in front of the annex building. The pulley system employed to raise the flags and the anchor which is used to fasten the flag securely was damaged and for over a year, our nations flag did not fly above our school but instead sat in a small closet in the JROTC room, still unfurled.

Hollywoodland

United States, 2006
U.S. Release Date: 9-8-06

Stars: Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins

In all reality, we may never know who killed George Reeves, televisions original Superman during the 1950’s. Certainly, he was no great actor; just a bit-player on the MGM lot until fate came in and gave him a chance on a B-level show that somehow became a cultural phenomenon.
It is here we are introduced to Private Investigator Louis Simo; running an office out of a cheep, sleazy hotel room. With his son mourning after his Reeve’s apparent suicide and with hints from colleges that there may be more to this murder than meets the eye, he is drawn into the case and into a sea of mistresses, femme fetals and vicious studio executives.
The problem with Allen Coulter’s “Hollywoodland” is that with all the materials at hand, he just can’t seem to bring it together. The film feels as if it is meandering throughout. It just does not seem to know what it wants to be: a biography on an oft-forgoten man or a seedy murder investigation.
Let me make it clear: I have no problem with the juxtaposition of past events and present events that are dramatized in the film. Instances such as “The Godfather Part II” seamlessly allow this method of storytelling, making for an incredibly rewarding film watching experience and paying off ultimately. But here, the transitions between Reeves life and the events leading to his death and the subsequent investigation by Simo just come off as uninspired. Coulter, an excellent director that he is (Director of HBO series’ such as “Rome” and “Six Feet Under”), seems uninspired and creates a truly underwhelming film that makes you ask: “what was it all worth”.
In fact, there is more trouble than just the direction. The script is weak, with nothing original to bring to the table and more than that, there is a major miscast with Adrien Brody as Simo. Simo is not, at least in my mind, the personification of the hard-boiled, shop worn detective of film-noirs in the past. He is no Phillip Marlowe or Samuel Spade. He seems to try to inhabit his role but it’s just plain to see that it can’t be done.
However, it never seemed possible that a critic could be saying this but Ben Afleck is perhaps the best part of the work. And no: I have not forgotten about some of his masterpieces such as: “Gigli” or “Surviving Christmas” or that Oscar Winner “Pearl Harbor”. But in all seriousness, Afleck inhabits his role and seems to finally be coming on his own as a serious dramatic actor, maturing from his days as just the Hollywood heartthrob. Don’t take my word for it, but we should be anticipating some Best Supporting Actor nominations for him, especially after his big win at the Venice Film Festival in September. Afleck and Diane Lane work very well on-screen and show chemistry which adds believability to the torrid affair between TV’s Superman and the wife of an MGM executive.
But that does not change the fact that a lot of things just could not be done in this work. I hate to say it, but with the talent behind the camera and in front, “Hollywoodland” as a whole is about as dead as the subject being examined.

Manchester City got beat 1-0 last night by Reading.

I got this e-mail today. Let me know if you can't see it and I'll just type it out.


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TIS

I just see the red X TIS

Hmmm! Ok. There's a picture of a young couple sitting on a beach. It's evidently a "Miller's" beer ad and it says:

"She told me we couldn't afford beer anymore and that I'd have to quit. Though I caught her the other day spending $65. on make-up and I asked her "how come I have to give up stuff and you don't?" She said she needed the make-up to look pretty for me. I told her "that's what the beer's for." I don't think she's coming back."



TIS

The beer's cheaper too

I think my sex drive is completely gone. I haven't had any sexual feelings at all in at least a month. Anybody know what might cause this? Has anybody else gone through this? I'm starting to get worried.

Try watching some porn!!!!!

That depends if you already had some or not.

I had a box of chocolates on my lap. I ate one. When I picked up the second one, a teeny, tiny worm crawled out. They all had worms, as, I assume, did the one I ate. My skin is positively crawling.

That is gross.

Did the packaging look like this?

The last four or so posts literally made me bleed from each and every oraface on my body.

My skin is still crawling....my stomach is so queasy....

Was it the chocolates you got from Philly? So I take it thet weren't frozen worms huh?

No, it wasn't Philly chocolate. That chocolate was wonderful.

"Now, if you want to hear some real socialist verse, consider my latest composition:

There was a young lady from Queens/Who gobbled a plateful of beans/The beans fermented/And she was tormented/By embarassing sounds in her jeans!

Indicates the anal orientation of capitalist society"--Chairman Mao

It gives me the creepy crawlies just thinking about it. Ewwwww!!!! Although Geoff likes exotic foods, maybe he'd give it a try. Just look at it as chocolate covered worms.

TIS

Did you know that every person eats an average of one à two pounds of insects a year?

If there are worms in apples for instance, and they only use the apples to make mousse from, the worms stay in there.
As such mousse from apples is more healthier than just apples, cause bugs are generally healthy to eat, lots of proteins in it.

Worms - earthworms in particular - supposedly have more protein per pound than chicken.

It is true that most of us consume a quantity of insects each week. Apparently when grain is stored in silos, millions of small flying and crawling insects are attracted. I even heard that the Dept. of Agriculture has specifications as to the permissable amount of insects in our wheat.

Don't feel bad, SB. When my roommates from school and I were having a party years ago, I grabbed my can of beer, took a big drink and discovered that I had actually picked up the can that one of my roomies, who enjoyed smokeless tobacco, used for spitting his tobacco juice.

Thankfully, I was too inebriated to be as disgusted as I should have been.

That's disgusting klydon1

Mr. Babe kept telling me that chocolate-covered insects are a delicacy in some parts of the world, and extolling their protein virtues. I was so ill at the thought that the chocolate almost came back up, but that would mean that the WORMS came back up, too. I didn't know which would be worse.

The best part was that I decided to have a nice, soothing cup of lemon tea afterwards. My 11 year old saw me making the tea and said, "Trying to cook them, Mom?"

Speak for yourself,how can these people know these things...

Nope, never.

And all this talk about insects in food hasn't perked you up?? Hmmmm...