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(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 3:39:23 pm)

(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 3:40:58 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Hello. Glad you stayed at home Murphy. I saw that ice storm stuff on the Weather Channel and got worried about you.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 3:47:24 pm)

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Tokyo - Recently a new "kind" of Ramen has been released. "Wanko" a play on words from the Japanese "wanko" which is slang for "doggie," is now on the market! Ramen Santoka, before releasing the ramen for dogs, first had to solve the problem of human ramen being too salty. "Dogs want to be like their masters," says the President of the ramen company, Ramen Satoka. To test the ramen, various dogs who had never had it before apparently scarfed it down in no time flat.

(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 3:49:09 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Soup
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 3:52:56 pm)

Queenie:
the japanese have clearly all gone insane
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 3:54:01 pm)

Heruka:
Soup?
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 3:54:31 pm)

Myk Murphy:
that's thoughtful of you, wax. yes, still home, although i probably would have been fine as i approached town. the way things are around here, downtown dc is always a couple degrees warmer, which put it above freezing by around 9am. still, i was able to get a lot done here at home, where i can access stuff i can't at the office.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 3:56:47 pm)

Queenie:
wow there sure are a lot of jobs in los angeles
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:06:52 pm)

(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:10:20 pm)

Myk Murphy:
yes, but then you'd have to live in los angeles. i've never really heard anyone say "gee, i love living in LA". people often love california but hate LA. the cost of living must be absurdly high.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:13:55 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Only the realestate is high. Food and junk and stuff is the same. I like LA a lot. I'd live there for sure.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:15:30 pm)

Chewing Wax:
A $150k house here would be well over a million in LA.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:16:01 pm)

Chewing Wax:
So you really have to be pulling down a household income over 200k a year to enjoy the place. Unless you're a dullard.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:16:44 pm)

Queenie:
we're talking about going commune-style, living with justina and donna and her kid. rental houses aren't that much, it seems, depending on where. and split four ways...
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:17:17 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Where's bela?
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:17:25 pm)

Queenie:
and justina would pay me to work at her theater. imagine!
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:18:00 pm)

Chewing Wax:
That's true. I lived in a commune for eight years working at In and Out Burger. And then Carl jr's.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:18:13 pm)

Queenie:
I searched for IT jobs in Portland, came up with 6 results, all stuff I can't do. Same search for LA yielded 108 results, many of them shit I could do blindfolded. You know, a lot of the placement agencies I've worked for up here have offices down there, I wonder what they could do for me.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:19:38 pm)

Queenie:
portland feels like a sinking ship these days. did you know that they may cut all high school athletics in portland? can you believe that?
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:20:14 pm)

Chewing Wax:
That's very sad
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:20:54 pm)

Chewing Wax:
What about that super rich Paul Allen guy? Can't he pony up the dough for athletics. The fucker wanted to steal our hockey team for Portland.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:21:44 pm)

Queenie:
a lot of kids who want to play college sports are just fucked. and what about all the potential recipients of athletic scholarships? lame and offensive, it is.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:23:06 pm)

Queenie:

damn, look at the belly on that girl
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:23:40 pm)

Chewing Wax:
I'm stuck on her nipples. Wait a second.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:24:42 pm)

Queenie:
Took me a while to find confirmation. Apparently it's not big news.

Team sports and the long-running Outdoor School will be tossed from the Portland School District budget next spring as part of a new batch of cuts Superintendent Jim Scherzinger disclosed Monday night.

(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:32:47 pm)

Queenie:
Meanwhile, a new round of state cuts announced Monday means that Oregon public schools will take about $47 million in additional hits this year. For Portland, which enrolls slightly less than 10 percent of Oregon pupils, that means an additional $4.5 million in cuts, Scherzinger said.

In total, the $360 million budget that Portland schools adopted this year is short about $55 million in revenue. As a result, the district proposes to cut 15 school days this spring and cut pay and benefits for teachers and all employees.

(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:33:20 pm)

Froupie:
good evening happy people
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:56:19 pm)

Heruka:
Taxes in California are high.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:56:36 pm)

Uh-hyuk.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 4:59:21 pm)

Froupie:
i suspect his foundation doesnt match his natural skin tone, tut tut
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 5:00:44 pm)

Queenie:
they got that pesky sales tax too. and they make you pump your own gas.
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 6:37:49 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Oh look. Her belly is completely flat!
(Wed Dec 11, 2002 - 8:22:37 pm)