Post Race!

[dclamp]

I am going to have to wring my mind to get rid of this useless information

[dday9]

This race is posty.

[dclamp]

Do you sell volcano insurance?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yes, they are animals, here's a telling part of the reasoning:

They have a simple immune system – a sponge will accept a graft of its own flesh, but will reject that of another sponge. This rejection can be stopped by using an immunosuppressant widely used in medicine. In other words, we share a biochemical pathway that the body uses to distinguish self and non-self.

Note the implications of this statement. Are you aware of those scouring pads that have the sponge on one side and some kind of coarser material on the other side? Those are unnatural. Unnatural, I say!!! Those are GMO sponges. They are genetically modified frankencleaner sponges which should be banned from kitchens and households around the planet. Why, I'd bet that gal has never even tried eating one of those types of sponges!

[Bonker Gudd]

some kind of coarser material on the other side?

Never go to the other side.

[FunkyDexter]

If you blend a sponge, it reforms!

[dday9]

Do you sell volcano insurance?

Aren't we over due for a volcano?

[FunkyDexter]

There hasn't been one round my way for ages.

[Gruff]

Speaking of volcanos... Hot sponge baths for everyone!

[Gruff]

Speaking of volcanos... I was there when Mount St Helens blew. (About sixty miles away.)
It looked like the end of the world. A huge inverted cone of black that filled the sky.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I was around when Mt. St. Helens blew, as well. It didn't look like squat, to me, cause I was in New Hampshire.

[Pc Monk]

a programmer should retire at the age of ... ?

[homer13j]

a programmer should retire at the age of ... ?

237.3

[homer13j]

Meanwhile in Florida...

Man Kills Imaginary Friend, Turns Self In, Takes World's Saddest Mug Shot

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm not sure that it counts as bizarre if it happened in Florida.

[Gruff]

Ah Florida. Where Fluoride Toothpaste is grown on the vine.

[homer13j]

Currency markets have gone haywire since midnight UTC yesterday. The Euro was poised to drop below US$1 after the new year... at least that was the consensus among those who predict these things. And I want a new Italian shifter kart chassis, dammit!

An(other) excuse for the fed to hold off the inevitable interest rate increase? We're already $20 trillion in debt...

Sorry for going serious in a distinctly non-serious thread, but crap like this keeps me awake at night.

[Shaggy Hiker]

THAT keeps you awake at night?!?!?!?!?

My appreciation for your weirdness has never been higher, and that's a compliment, since I do appreciate the weird.

I think that an interest rate hike is inevitable this month, though it may be largely symbolic. There's talk of it being the first step on a march towards higher rates. I don't believe that. I think they'll bump it up a quarter point, then sit tight for quite some time unless inflation begins to spike upwards. However, I feel that they've laid down so much talk over the last few months that not raising rates might cause more alarm than raising them.

[homer13j]

THAT keeps you awake at night?!?!?!?!?

A certain relative of mine is a currency speculator and has been betting against the Euro for over a year now saying it will drop below the dollar. He was right until last March. Since then it's been a rough journey ending in the biggest spike (~4c in 4 hours after my last post) in several years. He still says the Euro will drop below the dollar in the first 3-4 months of 2016. My investment in this is minimal, but it still has the potential to pay off relatively handsomely if it all works out.

[homer13j]

...and I can get a new shifter kart chassis for about 25-28% less than I would have paid if I bought it last year!

[Shaggy Hiker]

That would be significant.

[dday9]

I have been busy.

[dday9]

That is the understatement of the year.

[dday9]

Everybody that I talked to said that starting a business was super easy.

[dday9]

oops I forgot my sarcasm tags

[dday9]

[sarcasm]Everybody that I talked to said that starting a business was super easy.[/sarcasm]

[dday9]

Oh no!!! GRUFF!!!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Oh no...picture.

[dday9]

Oh. Well it was some guy kneeling in anguish with some kind of mask on yelling "ROCKET!!!"

[dday9]

I never watched the movie or read the comics but I got the gist.

[Shaggy Hiker]

With a dead raccoon?

[dday9]

Oh yeah, I guess I should've mentioned that key feature.

[Gruff]

Gasp Gasp Arrrg!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Plenty of discussion for an absent picture.

[szlamany]

I thought we were supposed to use our imagination here...

[dday9]

[Bonker Gudd]

[Gruff]

Someone get your goat?

[Shaggy Hiker]

A unicorn goat? Is he less horny than the typical goat?

[Shaggy Hiker]

If that goat butts you, would you veer off to the left? Can he compensate by adjusting his stance?