] Stand-up comedians have already incorporated the carp
] into their comedy routines at weddings. One gefilte
] company has considered changing its slogan to: 'Our fish
] speaks for itself.'

Word is made flesh as God reveals himself... as a fish

jessica wrote:
] ] In a study to be published in the journal Biology of
] ] Reproduction, researchers collected samples from the
] ] underarms of men who refrained from using deodorant for
] ] four weeks. The extracts were then blended and applied to
] ] the upper lips of 18 women, aged 25 to 45.
] ]
] ] The women rated their moods on a fixed scale for a period
] ] of six hours. The findings suggested something in the
] ] perspiration brightened their moods and helped them feel
] ] less tense. Blood analyses also showed a rise in levels
] ] of the reproductive luteinizing hormone that typically
] ] surge before ovulation.

I'd be interested to know if they cross-referenced the genetic type of the subjects involved. It reminds me of the "sweaty T-shirt" study done several years ago in Switzerland, where they asked women to smell T-shirts which had been worn by men of varying genetic types. What the study showed, was that women would rate men as "smelling sexier" if the man who'd worn the shirt had a different MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) than the woman who was doing the sniffing (as an interesting side note, women who were on the pill would rate men with the *same* MHC as smelling sexy).

More info here:
 http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/mhcsml.html

RE: Study: Male sweat brightens women's moods

Decius wrote:
] NEW YORK.- The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the
] entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations has
] been covered with a curtain. The reason for covering this work
] is that this is the place where diplomats make statements to
] the press and have this work as the background. The Picasso
] work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large blue
] curtain was placed to cover the work.
]
] A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate
] background if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N.
] John Negroponte, or Powell, talk about war surrounded with
] women, children and animals shouting with horror and showing
] the suffering of the bombings.

I'm not certain, but I believe that this is a link to the image in question:

  http://www.aestheticrealism.org/GUERNICA_dk.htm

A closeup of one section is here:

  http://www.impressionism.ru/images/Picasso/guernica.jpg

And a lengthier article with more background, in the Washington Times here:

  http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030203-13680812.htm

RE: Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN

Rattle wrote:
] If you follow this, I don't think you will be able to make it
] to the end of the speech without getting alcohol poisoning.

Heck, all you need to do is take a drink every time Congress applauds, and that's alcohol poisoning right there. ;)

BTW, anyone taking bets on which member of the Cabinet will be stashed in a bunker during the speech?

RE: The State of the Union Drinking Game 2003

Decius wrote:
] It is only fitting that I follow up with Googlisms for Elonka:
]
] ] elonka is grabbing ahold of gamemaster urion's head
]
] !?
]

Ah, that's from one of my company's conventions back in 1998 or so. There's a pic of me covering one of my contractors' ears (I was probably trying to protect his virgin ears from some dirty joke that somebody was telling) ;)

I don't much care for that pic, though there's a better one of me in medieval garb further down on the page. If you want to see it, it's here:

http://members.aol.com/simucon2/2e1.htm

Elonka :)

RE: Googlism

] "decius is an active member of the conspirators so he is very motivated into getting caesar to go to the senate house
] decius is an amiable sort
] decius is a renaissance building situated in a large park a little outside the city centre"

Googlism. Find out what Google thinks about you. (In this case, what Google thinks about Decius) ;)

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