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rOb!:
I really want to know about all these pictures, but to tell the truth, I'm afraid to ask.
(Mon Jan 29, 2001 - 4:37:22 pm)

rOb!:
AAAARRGGHH! Refresh time....taking too long.....speech getting slower.......can't.....take.....it....any....more......
(Mon Jan 29, 2001 - 4:38:14 pm)

Chewing Wax:
You can click on the "no-picture" version of the lounge if you want.
(Mon Jan 29, 2001 - 4:44:13 pm)

MOH:
Bones unearthed by investigators at a remote Texas ranch this weekend may solve the puzzling disappearance of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair nearly five years ago, authoritiessaid.``We have what appears to be a femur of substantial size, cut off at one end, and finger bones and parts of a hand,'' FBI Special Agent in Charge Roderick Beverly told reporters at the scene.
(Mon Jan 29, 2001 - 5:45:03 pm)

Myk Murphy:
good afternoon, fellow atheists. i had the busiest day in ages. soon i hope to be online again during the daytime. let it be known that i will be going through a great deal of trouble to pull this off, so if it works, i want everyone to dance around in glee.
(Mon Jan 29, 2001 - 5:53:14 pm)

Sleepy:
Don't worry, I'm choreographing a routine as we speak. And I'm preparing special slippers with bells which we will all shake as we jump in the air. Hoopla!
(Mon Jan 29, 2001 - 6:13:59 pm)

Myk Murphy:
thank god she's in charge.
(Mon Jan 29, 2001 - 7:33:06 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Indeed. WIthout her I fear the dancing would be.. well, much less impressive.
(Mon Jan 29, 2001 - 8:02:02 pm)

Decoy:
Sequins, I must have sequins.
(Mon Jan 29, 2001 - 9:41:16 pm)

Mrs Dr GB:

This scares the crap out of me, I have to say.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 4:02:27 am)

Sleepy:
Hello. Why is New York called the Big Apple? Please summarise in less than 10 words so that I can enter and win a competition. Thank you.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 7:29:15 am)

Sleepy:
Positve thinking. Positive thinking.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 7:30:05 am)

orange:
cos it's rotten to the core?
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 7:43:40 am)

orange:
Because one bite is new enough
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 7:45:00 am)

orange:
if it falls on your head it hurts
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 7:45:19 am)

Mrs Dr GB:
If you want to win, you have to submit an entry that would make you thoroughly ashamed, like, "Because it's the apple of my eye" or some utter shite like that. People who win these competitions have no shame. Just nice free holidays.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 7:46:01 am)

Sleepy:
I think I've won already...
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 7:46:18 am)

Mrs Dr GB:
Personally though I'd go for orange's last answer.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 7:46:32 am)

Sleepy:
'Because it's a round fruit'. That's the winning caption.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 7:47:13 am)

Sleepy:
I've found a three paragraph explanation. It is wrong to submit the URL?
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 7:49:35 am)

orange:
don't forget the motor city
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 7:51:55 am)

Chewing Wax:
Good morning. What's London's nickname?
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 8:17:42 am)

Heruka:
Les Toilette! Or is that Paris?
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 8:22:02 am)

Chewing Wax:
It was raining this morning. Sweet cold wonderful glorious snowmelting rain.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 8:22:40 am)

Chewing Wax:
That's Paris.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 8:22:56 am)

Chewing Wax:
I think London is called Funky Townne
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 8:24:25 am)

Heruka:
Yes. It's Londonish weather. Very nice.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 8:24:35 am)

It's been over a week since I last dropped acid. I'm beginning to regain feeling in my flippers.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 8:26:06 am)

orange:
Funky Towne was Lipps Inc.... London is the Smoke.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 8:27:11 am)

Chewing Wax:
I knew it was something like that. Thanks.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 8:29:06 am)

orange:
where's Sleepy? i need to talk to her... it's urgent!. Probably off entering more competitions.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 8:45:52 am)

Chewing Wax:
The line for that Big Apple thing went round the block. She'll be hours.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 8:46:55 am)

Start spreading the news:
The sexual connotation of the word "apple" was well known in New York and throughout the country until around World War I. The Gentleman's Directory of New York City, a privately published (1870) guide to the town's "houses of assignation," confidently asserted that "in freshness, sweetness, beauty, and firmness to the touch, New York's apples are superior to any in the New World or indeed the Old." Meanwhile, various "apple" catch-phrases -- "the Apple Tree," "the Real Apple," etc. -- were used as synonyms for New York City itself, which boasted (if that is the term) more houses of ill repute per capita than any other major U.S. municipality.

William Jennings Bryan, though hardly the first to denounce New York as a sink of iniquity, appears to have been the first to use the "apple" epithet in public discourse, branding the city, in a widely reprinted 1892 campaign speech, as "the foulest Rotten Apple on the Tree of decadent Federalism." The double-entendre -- i.e., as a reference to both political and sexual corruption -- would have been well understood by voters of the time.
(Tue Jan 30, 2001 - 9:15:52 am)