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Cacaphony, his Eulogy, Spoken in Monotony. Where is his soliloquy? Out upon the balcony. FGM-Lyn

Lost in the backseat of a car, a tiny piece of flesh. The few drops of blood record a rite of passage. FGM

MH - You may need to uninstall, and reinstall using the compatability mode. When you put the cd in the drive, and it wants to start, cancel out of that. Go to run and the drive letter to see the contents of the cd. right click on the install or set-up icon, and select the compatability mode. Try win98 first. When it installs, find the icon and right click on that, and again select the compatability mode, using the same setting as you did for the install. You may need to lower the video acceleration for this as well. For this, go to the control panel, and audio/video settings. There will be a slide bar to move - start by moving only one notch to the left at a time. You may have to lower your display settings from the control panel as well, to 600 by 800, or even 480 by 600, and lower your color settings to 256 colors. I can't give you exact settings, partly because I don't remember, and partly because each PC is a bit different from every other one. If this doesn't help, then uninstall and reinstall with the compatability set to Win95 for both the install and the running of the game. FGM

calamine, caramel and camomile yellow bellied sapsuckers and ruby throated sparrows FGM

Considering he's older, he's still a nice looking guy - even if he's not Tim Curry. President Emeritus John A. Curry FGM

My eighth grade teacher, Mr Curry, was absolutely wonderful. He knew how to reach kids and encourage them. He left teaching the year after I had him and went to work at Northeastern University, in Admissions. When I got to be a senior, he came to one of our functions and asked me to apply. I didn't know they had a Nursing Program, since it was primarily an Engineering school, but it turned out they were just starting it. He accepted me on interview, and actually gave me a ride home that day. He also got me a scholarship for my entire freshman year. He worked his way up the ladder there, and became acting President. Many of the profs protested this saying he wasn't qualified. There was quite an uproar over this and he was appointed President of the University anyway. By the time he left, 15 years later, as the only president of the University who graduated from Northeastern, he was acclaimed as the best President the school had ever had. He was an amazing man. I ran into him in a restaurant about 5 years ago, and hadn't seen him for close to thirty years and he greeted me by name! He was the one who taught me to look inside myself for acceptance, and don't worry about what anyone else thought. He was perhaps my own personal hero. FGM

What a cool word that is - automagically! Maybe I just haven't seen it before, but I love the image it conjures up! FGM

I know where you're coming from, yet I'm in there too. I kinda feel that way, yet not from being snobbish. I hate the commercials, can't get into sitcoms, etc. I, for a time watched a lot of PBS, science programs, history stuff, and they weren't bad, but, for me, I hate the time I spend with it. It feels like wasted time. I feel like I have to DO something when I watch it - during one basketball season that I watched all the Boston Celtics games with my sister, I crocheted a whole afghan! I guess on PC, it doesn't feel as wasted a time, because I'm reading and typing, or actively playing a game. TV is just so passive! I just keep thinking of all the stuff I could/should be doing instead of mindlessly sitting there. The last time my TV was even on, was New Years, when I had some friends over and we watched the ball drop in Times Square in NYC at midnight. I guess I just prefer the PC for my entertainment! shrug... FGM

Some people react this way when nervous and afraid to say the wrong thing. I kinda wondered the same thing, though. Ragnar was the most interesting, IMHO. FGM

Yes, it is mean, and he's a friend of mine, and believe me, he's very opinionated, but he's no Luddite. And he's not an old codger with a cane, he's only 43, lots younger than me! Okay, Okay, so I'm an old lady, but he's not an old guy! FGM

Sweeny Todd is what I put on the stereo when I have major housecleaning to do (boy do I hate housecleaning!). It's the darkness and passion of the music that suits my mood and gets me through that onerous job! I can slam and crash and bang things all around, and it just goes with the music. FGM

Deadworm, please don't think I was trying to malign you or any other guy by saying that. There are, however, many 6-10 yr old boys, for whom cleanliness is not the prime object, and these are the ones who get the complications, and in whom the foreskin shrinks (phimosis) and is unable to be retracted to get clean underneath. If it can't be retracted, then it is difficult to clean under the foreskin, and possibly even painful. A circumcision at this age is painful, and it would be better to have it done as a baby. Once past this age range, and with proper care, there isn't a problem. FGM

While originally done for health reasons, most American guys probably are circumsized since birth or shortly thereafter. (I'm in nurse mode, here) When boys don't push the foreskin back when bathing, it becomes tight and uncomfortable to do so. Then the dead skin layers become gross (smegma), and can infect the head of the penis (balanitis). It can also cause a constriction of the head of the penis, causing pain and swelling. Circumcision can cause some desensitization of the head of the penis, because it is now exposed to clothing and rubs on it, causing the male to ignore part of the sensation received. Because of the cleanliness issues, uncircumsized males may be more prone to some venereal diseases, though this is a highly political issue, and maybe just hyped up. Oral sex may be more difficult and less desired by the fellators if a foreskin is present, due to the smegma smell/taste, and more awkward reach of pushing back the foreskin. Vaginal and rectal sex seem to be unaffected either way. Anyway, there is no best answer, and reasons for doing it or not. I know a couple of guys who had it done as adults, and wished it had been done as a child. No easy answers here. FGM

I am of the nasty opinion that anyone who pumps you for personal info DESERVES to get any sort of crap you feel like spewing at them. Right on Yufster! FGM

Okay, I'll play - what's the ancient roman way of suicide? FGM

I haven't played Halo 2 yet, but I loved Halo. When the Xbox first came out, I played it a bit with my old roommate, before he died. Then last summer I played the whole game with a friend in dual mode - what a blast that was! The parts that all looked alike were for me like a maze in an adv game, just keep going till you find what you want and go on, and kill some more aliens. The plot got kinda convoluted at times, but it was still a great FPS, and the picture was gorgeous, even if I don't have a 43" plasma TV, but just a fairly new 27" Sony flat screen. My favorite part was driving that jeep that kept overturning - we rammed that into anything we could! We drove it into buildings, and over huge boulders! Oh, and Halo and Halo 2 are NOT the only good games for Xbox - don't be so jaded! If you don't want to put out the money for an Xbox, fine, but don't put down the many good games that there are for it. FGM

Jake, that's a wonderful observation and a great line! FGM

We ALL overlap to some degree or another, and yes, you're a lucky SOB! Enjoy!!! FGM

No, actually, there are more noxious chemicals in use now. Even the fertilizers seem to break down to estrogen-like compounds in the soil, and there have been many changes noted in small animals like frogs, and in fish that are in fresh water lakes. This stuff gets into the water supplies, and can affect people, though the estrogen-like compounds affect mostly men (and post-menopausal women). Since none have been shown to be androgens, there couldn't be any effect toward masculinization of women (ie - hermaphroditism). And BTW, how could I know if Moos or any other one of you is affected by this? But perhaps you were just being sarcastic? I didn't make the connection between adv loving male vs. the action loving male, and poisoning by environmental chemicals. That would be a huge leap of faith at this point. I once saw an article, years ago, that said if you took the most feminine of men and compared him to the most masculine of men, there would be a much greater difference than if you took an average man and an average woman and compared them. Meaning, I guess that since we all have both masculine and feminine traits, that there is a great deal of overlapping in the tendencies. FGM

There are differences between industrial and non-industrial countries, but there are so many differences, too: different food eaten, different activity level, environmental exposure to noxious chemicals, even different clothing (as I'm sure you know, constricting clothing can cause problems). As far as the Sims - PM me with your address - I have an extra copy of the original Sims, still sealed in box - I'll send it to you - it's only gathering dust here. FGM

No, most of the forums have it, but it is the only one I've seen with a w/t for it. FGM

Thanks Trep, and I do like Kingz, ornery fella that he may be, he's got his own reality and he's true to that, so I respect him as well. FGM

Well, I hope you don't get this response to it, Trep: "No one's going to read that, sucker!" Anyway, I'm looking forward to it. FGM

Thanks, Treesus, I think I did realize that, and was responding in kind. Although, if Yufster DID mean that she resented that comment, then I wanted her to know that THAT was definitely NOT what I meant. Maybe hedging my bets, as it were. FGM

While you could do worse than to write a critical article on Syberia, that's not what I'm asking. (On the other hand, you could try to refute Trep's excellent article on Syberia Even I wouldn't take that on!). Anyway, saying that it's just shit, without giving specific reasons why you think it is terrible doesn't give anyone any idea where you're coming from. There are many shitty games out there: Adventure at the Chateau D'Or(boring, repetitious, pretentious game), the Odyssey (terrible interface), Legend of the Lotus Spring (hardly any game - mostly walking around a pretty garden), etc. Journey to the Center of the Earth, for example, could have been a decent game, if only they had taken the time to beta test and fix the bugs - there were spots where Ariane would spin in circles all by herself, with no help from the player, and "black holes" where you couldn't get her to move out of them, where the game didn't freeze, but you were stuck, and had to restore. In comparison to these, Syberia is wonderful. Maybe you think I'm settling for mediocrity, by liking Syberia, but for me the game shows that there was a lot of love in creating it, and that comes through to the player. It's not my all-time favorite game, but neither is it shit. FGM