Hi, I call myself Ignatz after Dan Herriman's character in the old "Krazy Kat" comic strip. I'm 44, father of 3, husband to one, crazy about music and books and food and movies and history and martial arts. I've had some wild and crazy times in my life, and I figure I might as well put in some of my perspective.
I promise not to talk down to anyone or make fun,and I promise not to BS anyone. If you're old enough to ask a frank question, you're old enough to get a frank answer. Oh, and if you ask me a question directly, please be patient. I'll get back to you as soon as I can. My life's a bit hectic. :-)
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Okay so this is a bit of a weird question maybe, but bare with me.
I go to forums alot...so I have tons of posts. Nothing really to be ashamed of in them, but still.
But my question is just as the title says. Does content on the internet stay there forever?
Like if a forum got deleted would the posts still be *somewhere* online? Or if I searched in 20 years, even if the forum is closed down, could I still find my posts?
XD aaah this is bothering me so much.
Anyone know? (link)
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The length of time something is kept on line depends on how long the server's owners decide to keep the information. All your forum posts have a physical existence as electromagnetic pulses on a hard drive somewhere. If the server gets taken down and the hard drive wiped, there go your forum posts. If the server owners decide your forum archives are taking up too much room, they could be wiped out. If your forum post is popular and gets copied, it could show up in all sorts of places. (I'm still finding copies of a short poem I wrote ten years ago here and there.)
If you want a nightmare vision of your Internet past coming to haunt you, check out a story by Cory Doctorow called "Scroogled". It's freely available on the Internet, in a number of languages.
Hope this helps.
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I really ned some remedies for congestion! My mom is sick and she has this big business thing friday and she is hosting it and needs help!!! prefer home remedies and natural suff but i will take medicine too! she is just really trying to rest her body and clear up her congestion in her nose. plus she had a bad headache today. please help ASAP!!! THANKS!!! and i will rate all of your suggestions! :) (link)
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Zicam is a homeopathic remedy that some of my friends swear by. It's a bit expensive, but effective. Peppermint tea is a bronchiodilator that will open up her chest and head. Chicken soup with lots of garlic (homemade penicillin; garlic also has antibacterial properties). If that fails, feed her the hottest Thai curry or hot wings you can lay hands on. The capsaicin in the chiles will unclog her nose and get everything moving. Plus the endorphin rush will be a serious thrill.
Hope this helps.
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ok, all of my friends are hackin hilarious! but i'm not. And when i try to be funny, its normally not. so could you tell me some good jokes.
also, some like little songs or something like this:
from the windooww to the kitchen,
put gravy on my chicken,
mmm this chickens kickin,
mmm gobble gobble gobble.
do you think you guys could tell me some of these things? pppleeasseee!?!?! i am soo sick of not being funny! (link)
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Aw, cmahhhhn, tell some jokes!
A bear walks into a bar. The bartender asks him, "What can I get you?" The bear just says "....". So the bartender asks him, "Why the big pause?" (paws)
A grasshopper walks into a bar. The bartender tells him, "Hey, we've got a drink named after you."
So the grasshopper says, "I didn't know you had a drink named Sam."
Why do do marching bands march?
To get away from the noise!
What's green and sings?
Elvis Parsley!
What did the Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor?
"Make me one with everything!"
What did the hot dog vendor say when the Buddhist handed him a $20?
"Change must come from within."
Classic Monty Python:
What's brown and sounds like a bell?
Dung!
What do you get when you cross a pit bull with a collie?
A dog that rips your leg off then goes for help.
How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
Three to wind the giraffe and seven to put the alarm clocks in the bathtub.
For funny songs, you don't need much more than Tom Lehrer. Most public libraries have his stuff. Google the lyrics for "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" or "Masochism Tango" and you'll see what I mean. Also check out standup albums by Bill Cosby, Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and Steven Wright. You'll learn a lot about timing that way.
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What is the amount of cardio I should do each day to lose weight, or in my case I'm just trying to tone up. I'm fifteen and 5'3 and around 130lbs if that helps at all. I'm usually on an eliptical or exercise bike for around fifteen minutes to a half an hour five days a week, is that enough? (link)
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It's not bad. Cardio will help your heart and lungs, but it may not do much for your muscle tone (except for your legs). For that you'll need dynamic exercise: calisthenics, some weight training, whatever you're most comfortable with.
If you're pressed for time and want to make your cardio extremely efficient, try jumping rope (equivalent to 30 minutes of jogging) or intervals: go as fast as you can for a full minute, rest a minute, then go again until you've done five intervals or you pass out. It's a technique developed for the Japanese Olympic speed-skating team, and it really maximizes your cardio workout.
Hope this helps.
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How would a person get into being on the radio? (Like having your own show, etc)
Would you go to college? Is it hard to do? (link)
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look around for community radio stations in your area. A lot of these places are volunteer-driven, and can always use another set of hands. You may not get a show right off the bat, but you'll learn the ins and outs.
There are schools devoted specifically to broadcasting, and a number of communications majors eventually go into the field.
Or you can just do an endrun around the whole thing and do podcasts.
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Is giving a blowjob vegetarian? Because technically, semen is a human biproduct, yet, it's not as if I'm killing a human.... Just wondering... (link)
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Strictly speaking, yes. It's not an animal byproduct, no animals are harmed in its production (heck, no humans are harmed, unless you're really careless with your teeth), so you're good.
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I have a flat stomach and my legs are very toned. My problem is my arms. My bicepts are okay as far as I'm concerned, but my tricepts are horendous. I need to tone them and I'm hoping to see some progress by say...June? If that's possible and if not I'll settle for September. What is the easiest and fastest way to tone tricepts. I'm not asking for a list of tricpt excercizes. I have that. I'm asking which one you have used in the past that worked really well and should show atleast some results, but the time I asked. I have 1-3 lb weights and this stretchy cord with handles on the end, but I'm willing to go out and buy something, so please. HELP! haha
thanks so much (link)
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Diamond pushups will hit your triceps really hard, as well as working your core, chest and leg muscles. Place your hands palm down on the floor with the thumb and forefingers touching, forming the eges of a diamond shape. Start pushing. These really whaled on my triceps and gave me some killer definition pretty quickly.
Hope this helps.
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okay well im a soph. at a really good high school and im scared im not gonna get into a good college. i have mostly B's and some A's but i'm taking pretty hard classes.
FRESHMAN YEAR:
Hnrs World History
Biology Level II
Power Reading (extra class that is supposed to look good on your college app.)
P.E.
Spanish Level II
English Level II
Al/Trig
- i did swimming & gymnastics this year
- & a lot of community service
SOPH. YEAR
Child Development
Chemistry Level II
AP Psych
P.E.
Pre-Calc Level II
English Level II
Spanish Level II
- i'm doing gymnastics and either lacrosse/track.
- i'm in two clubs--> GIMA & EARTHWORKS
- i do community service pretty much every friday
- i want to get a job this summer.. probably as a camp counselor or at a clothing store
- i'm also doing this drug-free retreat program through the school
- and im joining a religious club outside of school and doing programs through that
what do you think? and what else can i do that would look good? and any tips on how to get my grades up? what colleges do you think i could get into?
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It sounds like you've got a pretty good courseload and range of activities. One thing you need to look at: what do you want to pursue? "Good" colleges vary, depending on what you need to learn. My own alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College, will prepare you wonderfully for a career as an academic or as an artist, but not so well if you want to be a geologist. Find something that interests you, and then learn which schools provide the best programs.
Looking at things longer term, most employers won't care much where your degree came from, as long as you have the degree. Plenty of twits graduate from Harvard and Yale. What matters is your ability to perform in the career you've chosen.
Hope this helps.
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Hey everyone, thanks in advance if you answer.
So I LOVE to act, and I've been told I'm good at it. I'd love to start a very small acting career like appear in TV ads or something but one small problem: I don't know how to start. My dad said ages ago those talent agencies are scams if they ask for money.
So where do I start? I'm 15 and I live in Australia. (link)
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Are there acting schools in your area? Local arts organizations will often give classes or workshops for young actors, and they're usually run by local professional actors. Ask one of the teachers for leads on good agents, advice for starting out, that sort of thing.
Also, keep an eye out for open auditions in your local paper. Keep hitting the cattle calls, refine your audition pieces, and take whatever roles you get offered. You'll start getting a reputation for persistence and a willingness to take direction. Once you have some roles on your resume, then you can angle for bigger parts.
Hope this helps.
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So I've recently admitted to myself that I'm bi sexual, or atleast bi curious. I a friend [we're both females] who is also bi curious. How to I tell her that I'm interested in experimenting with her?
..How do I tell her that and not sound like I just want to use her as a test subject or something? (link)
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Lay it right out on the line: you're interested in other girls, and you'd much rather try it with someone you already know and like than with an anonymous hookup. Does she know you're bi-curious? Chances are she's got a bit of an eye for you too, and she's just waiting for a sign.
Then try kissing, and see what you think.
Hope this helps.
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whats the name of the song that is about annie's restaurant its like 18 minutes long its like classic rock/oldies its like a guy talking but its a song (link)
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Ah, good old Arlo. The routine was based at least partly on his experiences with the draft in the Sixties, and also on his friendship with Alice and Ray Brock. There actually was an Alice's Restaurant (actually the Back Room Rest) in Stockbridge, MA, and they actually did live in a church. Arlo Guthrie bought the church in 1991, and created the Guthrie Center. It's a nondenominational, interfaith worship space.
Arlo's father was Woody Guthrie, famous for such songs as "This Land Is Your Land" and "Talking Dustbowl Blues". Arlo came by the music honestly. He's a pretty good songwriter in his own right. He put out a greatest-hits album a number of years back that has not only the Masacree but another routine involving a motorcycle, a traffic cop, and a four-foot-long kosher dill pickle. (Don't ask.) Then there's the one about going through customs at LAX while dropping acid. It's a good album, check it out.
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Can someone please help me translate this!
PLEASE!!
Any help is totally fine..
Sirenes
Nunc Ulixes ad insulam Sirenum navigat.
Sirenes erant feminae pulchrae quae corpora avibus similia sed capita puellarum habebant.
Carmen dulce canebant,qup naves ad saxa in quibus Sirenes habitabant atrabantur.
Ulixes alium dolum efficit!
Cera in auribus ponitur (carmen audire non possunt);
nautae Ulixem ad malum (mast) navis ligant.
Hoc facto, solus Ulixes carmen Sirenum audit, et sua navis et nautae tuti sunt.
I was given some hints.:
Carmen dulce canebant, (qup naves ad saxa [in quibus Sirenes habitabant] atrahebantur). This sentence has three clauses.
a/trahe/ba/ntur-- compound of traho hoc facto- this having been done
THANKS MAJOR in advance!!! (link)
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This looks like a pretty simplified version of a portion of "The Odyssey". This is the story of the Sirens, who had the bodies of birds and the heads of women. They sang so sweetly that sailors would forget what they were doing and wreck their ships on the rocks. Odysseus (Ulixes in Latin) had to get his ship past them, so he had the sailors stop their ears with wax and tie him to the mast. He was the only one who could hear the Sirens' song, and it nearly drove him mad. They got past safely, though.
So that's what happens in this passage. Just remember that the verb is always (or almost always) at the end of the sentence, and remember the case endings for your nouns, and this should work out very quickly.
Hope this helps.
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for christmas i want my belly button pierced, thats all i actually really want, except my step dad has been so against it. all i asked for was his permission, i even offered to pay for it and its still a no. my moms fine with it.
his reason is that he thinks its "hoeish"
which doesnt really apply to me at all
im 15/f, sophmore. i've never even been kissed.
i get good grades like straight a;s, i hang out with good people. and hes so stubborn about it.
he thinks im gonna go around wearing like nothing after, and im not, thats not even me. and i told him that
what could i do to change his mind. (link)
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This may not be what you want to hear, but please do read it.
Navel piercing is a pretty major body modification. It can take a long time to heal, and the piercing site can get infected very easily. (Just ask my sister-in-law; she had a navel piercing for about two weeks and had to remove it because it hurt so much.) Also, you can develop an allergy to the metal in the jewelry.
From your stepfather's viewpoint, if you're getting something pierced, it means you want to show that part of yourself off. (Same logic behind short skirts or low-cut tops; you're attracting attention to your legs or cleavage.) Your grades and behavior are irrelevant to him; all that matters is that you want to show part of yourself off, and he thinks you're too young to start doing that.
Unfortunately, in this culture women are judged by their looks and their dress. Men are to a lesser extent, but women get it really badly. You could be Marie Curie, Wilma Rudolph and Kelly Clarkson in one complete package, but if you show some leg all your talent and intelligence will be ignored. (Look at all the press that gets wasted on Condoleeza Rice's wardrobe.)
Like it or not, you've got to live there for the next three years. The last thing you need is additional tension, over and above the usual problems of being a teenager.
You might want to look into belly clips. This way you can still have the body jewelry without the permanent body mod, your stepfather doesn't blow a gasket, and you can decide if you really like having jewelry there. Then when you turn 18, you can get your navel (and anything else you like) pierced permanently.
Hope this helps.
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I love that video the guido fan club, and in one part the guy says 'and boy did he have a pair of latts, latts that went on for weeks' hah so i was wondering what are latts? i think they have something to do with muscles but idk? (link)
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Reach under your arm and feel the long muscle in your back just behind your ampit. That's your latissimus dorsi.
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I am thinking of directig a play next year for my school. I'll be a senior then. I was thinking of doing a play with anti-communism or anti-capitalism themes. I don't really want to do any adaptations of Orwell or Faranheit 451. I have a taste for last 1800s and and early 1900s Russian Literature. Like I was thinking of doing The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov or anything by Ayn Rand or Fyodor Dostoevsky.
In summary, does anybody know of a good play that is either Russian Literature or has anti-communism/anti-capitalism themes? (link)
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Neil Simon adapted Chekhov's "The Good Doctor" for the stage. The only problem with Neil Simon works is that you have to pay a licensing fee and get his permission to do the play. He's funny, though.
Bertholt Brecht's plays are anti-capitalist, but a bit tricky. "Mother Courage" is a pretty good one, and very anti-authoritarian, if you want to be overt in your politics. If you're truly insane, try "Threepenny Opera".
If you want to swing the other way, go with Tom Stoppard. He's really conservative. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" is his best-known play, and will confuse and amuse your audience.
Hope this helps.
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i had a pregnacy test 2 weeks before my due period cause my doctor suspected my nausea and vomiting and dizzy spells were due to that- it came up negative-since then I still have nausea, very sore breast- even raw and peeling, sore legs and hips lower back pain massive diaharea in the morning frequent urunation and find it hard to eat a full meal without wanting to or actually vomiting I had my period but it was light and normally I clot and have cramps and it lasts 7 days it only lasted a few days. My nipples have gotten larger- the areolas that is and no longer seem pink but more brown than ever-is there any chance based on my symptoms that the test could have been wrong if it was I would be almost 3 months- having had unprotected sex with my then boyfriend who ejaculated in me. If it is not what might it be (link)
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Did you have your period after you had sex? If you did, you're not pregnant. If you're pregnant, your period shuts off completely. The other symptoms may be due to some sort of intestinal problem: Crohn's disease, colitis, some sort of infection. Personally, I don't think you're pregnanat, especially if you've had your period.
Hope this helps.
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Last month I bought a few gallons of fresh, unpasteurized apple cider (in an airtight container). Now that I open it, it has become bubbly like soda and it smells like vinegar. It still tastes delicious and mostly normal. Is it now just a "harder" cider, or has it rotted? Is it safe to drink? Now that I've opened it, must I drink it immediately? Thanks! (link)
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I'd drink it immediately. Since it's unpasteurized, whatever wild yeasts that were on the apple skins have started to multiply and ferment the sugars. You may get a stomachache, but nothing majorly dangerous.
If you're feeling courageous, go to a homebrew store, get an ale pail, an airlock, some campden tablets, and some wine yeast and make hard cider. It's wonderful stuff, believe me. :-)
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What does your family eat for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner? I want to cook for my family this year and we have never celebrated either of those holidays before. (link)
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Turkey is the traditional Thanksgiving dish. It's usually roasted, though there are those who smoke the beast or deep-fry it. (Deep-fried turkey is really good, but it can be dangerous.) For the truly insane and intrepid, there is the turducken (a boned chicken, stuffed inside a boned duck, stuffed inside a boned turkey, with different stuffings in between each bird). Green bean casserole, various bread-based stuffings, some sort of green salad, rolls, scalloped potatoes, cranberry relish, and more pie than any person should have to look at.
Christmas varies a lot: ham is a big deal, as is English roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and horseradish sauce. One year I made a duck, boned and stuffed with a mixture of chopped apples, ground turkey, herbs and a little gin.My mother insists on Alsatian sauerkraut (bacon, carrots, gin, white wine and stock, all cooked very slowly for several hours). I like potatoes mashed with celery root and squash tossed with garlic, olive oil and rosemary, then roasted. But that's just me.
Hope that helps.
(Dang, I'm hungry now.)
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what do you think some good love songs are? i just really can't think of any good enough ones. i would reallllly like one in my relationship, and so does my bf. but he can't think of any either, and we don't have any "song we heard on first date" or anything. soo puh-leeze help mee!! (link)
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Any particular genre?
One of my favorites is "I Never Talk to Strangers" by Tom Waits. It's an early piece, from his "Foreign Affairs" album. Nice jazzy stuff.
Another favorite: "Message to My Girl" by Split Enz. Very '80s pop, but good '80s pop.
"New York City" by They Might Be Giants. Upbeat, bouncy poppy tune about coming to NYC to meet your girlfriend.
"Crazy" by Patsy Cline. Classic country ballad.
Jim Croce is a '70s songwriter who did a lot of romantic stuff. Might not be to your taste, but it's worth checking out.
Hope this helps.
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17/F
So yeah. I'm friends with a lot of boys in my school. Girls have never really liked me, so I surround myself with boys. I have about 20 good guy friends. All of my guy friends and even some guys that I'm not really friends with always make sexual references towards me. Anything that has to do with anything sexual, they'll bring me into it. They call me a slut, a whore, a hooker, whatever. I know they're joking around, but why do they do it? It's always me. It's always been me thats been called the slut or the whore.
The thing is, I am in no way a slut. I've kissed two boys in my life. They know that. I know I'm not skanky. But why do they say all these things to me? They all always watch me eat at lunch too, especially if I have a banana or something haha. Does this mean that they like me? That they think of me in that way a lot? What does it mean because its been confusing me for a year. Any input would help. Just so you know, it doesn't bother me emotionally. They're not taunting me or anything, it can just get annoying. (link)
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You said it, no way you're a slut. They've got no right to call you one, even as a joke. It's an ugly name.
This may be their clumsy way of trying to flirt with you. Or they may be trying to push your buttons and goad you into getting mad at them. Either way, it's immature and rude.
In your position, I'd just lay down the law, especially the guys that don't know you all that well. Just tell them thay've got no right to call you a slut, and it ends right there. If not, then you'll just start spreading rumors about them and their secret boyfriends. (Yes, I'm pretty evil when I get going!)
Hope this helps.
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