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Mrs Dr GB:
I'm hungry.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 1:25:27 pm)

bela:

I bought a sweater just like this one on my vacation but its black with white skulls.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 1:47:16 pm)

Myk Murphy:
Bela ignored my tour date question.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 2:27:52 pm)

bela:
Oh sorry Myk, no I'm not sure what is going on now.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 2:35:18 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Hello
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 2:40:59 pm)

Decoy:
Wax, did you get my message yesterday?
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 2:43:12 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Yeh. That was funny.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 2:52:44 pm)

Chewing Wax:
I can't believe how much more time consuming not working is.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 2:53:01 pm)

Chewing Wax:
I'm waiting for the satelite guy to come and install my second dish absolutely free of charge so I can get two more local channels. Sometime between noon and five they tells me.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 2:53:58 pm)

Decoy:
There's a job for you: waiting for the cable/sat/phone/ guy for people. Hmm.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 2:57:27 pm)

Myk Murphy:
Heh heh, that's ok, bela. Glad you like your new office. Oddly enough, i'm moving offices here at the taffy factory. My new office could best be described as "internal exile". It may be a good thing, however. I never get a quiet office.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 3:06:00 pm)

A chimp who has grown up among humans may have developed the ability to talk, claims a research team from the US. Scabby, an adult pygmy chimp, is kept at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and, like many other primates, can communicate by pointing at symbols. By studying many hours of videotape, Dr Jared Taglialatela and Dr Sue Savage-Rumbaugh spotted four distinct sounds that accompanied particular actions, corresponding to "banana", "drink", "vodka" and "yes". "There have to be evolutionary precursors to what we do. We are beginning to find them in the primate world."
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 3:19:48 pm)

Chinese health officials have estimated that 30,000-50,000 people a day could be infected with HIV, the virus that leads to Aids, through blood transfusions. China's Deputy Health Minister, Yin Dakui, said most of these people were blood donors, many of whom had sold blood to illegal collectors. Officials said that over 30,000 people had been affected there in one village alone. The filthy blood was sold to pharmaceutical companies for the manufacture of blood products. It was a lucrative business that generated revenue for the local health authority as well as juicy kickbacks for officials involved. "No one wants to touch anything of the dead," says a festering farmer in a blue Mao jacket, lying by the roadside. "No one wants to farm their land or buy their watermelons or eat their vegetables." In the early and mid-1990s, the villagers of Wenlou, and many other villages, sold their blood for cash. Some villagers went repeatedly to the blood collection centres and made a living from it. But the needles were contaminated with HIV. And today, of those tested in Wenlou village, 95% are HIV-positive. The facilities at Wenlou's clinic - bare concrete floors, three wooden slatted beds - are terribly inadequate. A few bottles of saline dangle on pieces of rusting stands. There's no other medical equipment. Three people lie here weak, feverish and terrified. Their illnesses are Aids-related. "I know I'm going to die," says a man in his 20s. "I need to sell my kidneys, I don't have any money for the doctor and no one cares."
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 3:48:29 pm)

The final crushing irony of Wenlou's story is that the blood collection centres were set up by health officials. They bought the blood, extracted the plasma and sold it to pharmaceutical companies for profit. It was a cockeyed business scheme run by the very bureaucrats responsible for Wenlou's health services. "Everyone who sold their blood has Aids. If the government hadn't let us sell blood for large ammounts of cash, then we wouldn't have caught Aids. Now the only people left alive are the children and the insane old communists."
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 3:58:53 pm)

"We're facing a major challenge here. There's real cause for concern."
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 4:11:31 pm)

Queenie:
today's pimping day, gotta fill those seats tomorrow night
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 4:23:42 pm)

:
China has recently performed a test involving animals. In January 2001, a monkey, dog, rabbit and some snails were placed inside a Shenzhou capsule, which orbited Earth for seven days before parachuting back to ground in Inner Mongolia.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 4:25:07 pm)

Queenie:
For some reason that made me think of a joke I heard on Saturday Night Live a while back. It was the news with Jimmy Fallon, and he said, "Scientists in --somewhereoranother-- announced today that they were able to successfully grow pigs teeth in a rat. I don't know what the big deal is, they've been growing horse teeth in Carly Simon for years."
I remember I laughed so hard that I choked on my beverage.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 4:27:42 pm)

theo:
Congratulations Queenie on your short film completion!
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 4:30:09 pm)

Horse teeth??!
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 4:33:32 pm)

Queenie:
thank you theo!
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 4:33:49 pm)

theo:
Seem like you been working on the "Frank Principle" for a couple of years now..if now more..how long has it been really?
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 4:35:08 pm)

Queenie:
well... lessee... Ed and I started writing it in '99. I started work on the short film in May of this year. it's been a while for sure.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 4:38:03 pm)

Hmmm..
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 4:46:58 pm)

banana drink vodka yes!
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 5:03:25 pm)

Queenie:
I WANT THAT FARMHOUSE!! It's on 3 acres, part of it is orchard! I really, really want it! The move-in fees are damn steep though. Ugh. but the rent is dirt cheap.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 5:05:21 pm)

theo:

Snicker..
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 5:10:49 pm)

:
ew
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 5:30:12 pm)

:
Hello my name is Adrianna

I live in Russia and I am looking to get out, as I have no future here.
I have no good work here, and for me, all the men here drink a lot
or do not treat women good.

I am looking for a man who works hard and is nice to be with me in all ways.
I am joining this internet club at our internet coffee house to
find a man who wants to meet a nice girl and I can be special for him.

Please sign-up, and look for my name online so that we can meet.
You can post an Ad for FREE and browse pictures of many nice Russian
Girls looking to come to America and meet a nice man, like myself.

I hope to meet you soon. Wish me luck.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 5:42:36 pm)

Queenie:
I want my braids back
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 5:42:53 pm)

Decoy:
I think the point is that the Chinese should not spend their money on rocketry. Should the French leak that new chromosome 14 sequence to them?
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 6:29:36 pm)

Heruka:
None of this is making any sense to me anymore.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 8:13:04 pm)

Heruka:
They has something like that on C-Span this morning, Decoy. They were discussing the use of free foo for the poor as a political tool. As they were discussing this, they also talked about how Iraq and North Korea are spemding huge amounts of money on things like Saddams 47 new palaces, while he starves his people, and the NK's use of Bubbas money going into Nuke developement wile %10 of NK's popultaion has starved to death in the last 6 or seven years or so. It was interesting.
(Thu Jan 2, 2003 - 8:26:42 pm)