Re: Diamonds are forever

In article <dul2rp$1enp$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Wilkins <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gary Bohn wrote:
Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:41:54 +1000, in talk.origins , John Wilkins
<john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> in <duj2te$1b9f$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gary Bohn wrote:
John Wilkins <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Marc wrote:
John Wilkins wrote:
Noone Inparticular wrote:
Marc wrote:
mvillanu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
theSalamander wrote:
In fact, most natural diamonds on the market are 3 - 4
billion years old! How do creationists account for the
formation of diamonds and how long do they think this process
takes?

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http://www.eazyuk.com/evolution
Speaking of diamonds...what's more frightening than Kent
Hovind being elected president?




Seeing your girlfriend put on her newlywed sister's engagement
ring and admiring it on her hand. AAACCKKKK!!!!
Now that you have seen the hint, bite the bullet and ask the
question.

It doesn't hurt as much as you might think, you can even bring
a tear to her eye and if you do it well you will be well
rewarded.

It is also fun to involve others - ask the sister if her ring
size was a good fit for the sister. Be very proper and go ask
her parents if they think this is a good step for the two of
you. Get a dinner party planned with a couple of your friends
and their girlfriends who know to clear out for a short time so
you can ask - be sure the manager of the restaurant is in on
it, too. You are the hunter and the game is in your sights,
the gun is loaded and the safety off - so take the shot!
WHAAT?! Marc! The lad's was a cry for help. Good lord, man, have
some compassion.

(signed) marc
Yes indeed. You should be telling him how to avoid this disaster,
and find a hermit hut somewhere up in the hills, with the wire
trigger landmines and the dead drops and hoohay, the pain, with
the sharp, pointy things, and the don't hurt me...
Ok... OK... OK Already!

I shall confess....

Back in my grad school days at Stanford, playing on the
volleyball courts behind the gym and in Menlo Park pickup
games, an older player told me in very clear terms that his
advice was to stay single until I was well into my 40's.
(I was 26 at the time.)

I did that. I was given advice and I took it. And it worked.
(Blokes are better able to do this than the sheilas.)

(slightly off topic, but a bloke would understand)
http://www.grudknows.com/lor/lor_blokes_r_gd.asp

Of course, having kids in primary school when you reach
your mid-fifties gets the question from time to time if they
are your grandchildren. (Then again most of the other kids
have mums who are in their mid- to late-20's.)

(signed) marc

..

My advice is have kids in your teens, so that your own parents have
to raise them and when you are in your 30s, you are still in touch
with Yoof Kultcha or whatever they call it these days. Then, when
you are in your fifties, you have a friend who happens to be your
son or daughter, and who can help raise any other sprogs you may
have engendered along the way, and who can also clean out your
gutters when you are too arthritic, drunk or lazy to do it
yourself.

Anything but having teenagers when you are over fifty, anything.

It works well if you have you kids in your early twenties too. If I
want help with work around the house I call on my daughter and then
send her home when she's done. If I want to have fun I call on my
grandson and then send him home when I tire.

I'm never too arthritic to do manual labour because the alcohol
always kills the pain. I'm never too drunk to tell my daughter what
needs to be done and how to do it. It's a win-win situation.

Gary, can I come visit you for hints next time I'm in the US?
No.



Why not?

I believe they still allow Philosophers across the border. As far as I
know they haven't been placed on the restricted list yet. Hell, we even
have some captive philosophers at the University.


Actually, my next visit is to Vancouver in November (brrrr).

Not, _that_ cold, why Victoria just across the sound has a Mediterranean
climate. Rain, I expect you will get. And long nights.

--
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any
charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgement of his
peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totali-
tarian government whether Nazi or Communist." -- W. Churchill, Nov 21, 1943

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