Misc.

“Did Lindsey Graham get his pocket picked?

South Carolina Probing Graham Theft

By Matthew Murray
Roll Call Staff
October 16, 2007

South Carolina law enforcement and federal election officials are investigating whether a former staffer for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stole more than $200,000 from Graham’s campaign coffers during a more than four-year period ending in 2005.”

“About damn time. They normally do it to us.”

“200 G's?   Pocket Change! LOL”

“One can only hope it was an illegal alien (would serve the Jack@ss right)”

“
      A man walks into a bar.   Ouch.

”

“you forgot

'BLAM'




'mapes'”

“**insert joke here**

And so the Irish guy says, "I was so busy eating potatoes and listening to U2, I forgot to get drunk!"”

“what kind of bee gives milk?



'mapes'”

“A BOOBY!!!!”

“hey you cheated!

'mapes'”

“< ARGH >”

“What did the farmer say when he lost his tractor?   "Hey. Where's my tractor?"”

“ok your banned for dumb jokes.

at least include a blonde in your next one!

'mapes'”

“Okay, it was a blonde farmer.”

“How do you get a blonde out of a tree???






































































wave
last edited: 6/07/08 6:46:57 AM”

“LOL”

“
What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work?

A stick.

”

“


Misc:

ACBF………….American Craft Beer Fest
ACE…………...American Coaster Enthusiasts
ACORN……….Association of Community Organization for Reform Now
AD……………..Anno Domini
AFP……………Agence France-Presse
AG……………..Aktiengesellschaft
AIG…………….American International Group
AM……………..Ante Meridiem
AMBR…………America’s Most Beautiful Roadster
AOC…………...Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée
BASE………….Building, Antenna, Span, Earth
BCE…………...Before the Common Era
BD……………..Blu-ray Disc
BFT……………Big #&%!$ing Tree
BLC……………Beer Line Cleaner
BRG…………...British Racing Green
CAL……………Charlotte Abigail Luxe
CBGB………….Country, Bluegrass & Blues
CBO…………...Collateralized Bond Obligation
CDO…………...Collateralized Debt Obligation
CDS……………Credit Default Swap (fake insurance)
CE……………..of the Common Era
CHUD………….Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller
CIRVIS………...Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital
                            Intelligence Sightings
CITO…………...Cache In, Trash Out (geocachers cleanup)
CMO…………...Collateralized Mortgage Obligation
CMSO………….Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium
COMCRUDESPAC, which stands for Commander, Cruisers Destroyers Pacific
CPNI…………...Customer Proprietary Network Information
DNC……………Democratic National Committee
DNRC………….Dogbert's New Ruling Class
DSLR…….…….Digital Single Lens Reflex
EPICA………….European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica
ERIS……………Exoatmospheric Reentry-vehicle Interception System
FCOJ…………...frozen concentrated orange juice
FRAN.................Friendly Replicator Android
FTL……………..Faster Than Light
FTW……………#&%!$ the World
GBPS………….Great British Pounds Sterling
GERD………….Gastroesophageal Reflux Disorder
                             Graduate, Earn, Retire, Die
HSBC…………..Hey Sucker Banking Corporation
IATA……………International Air Transport Association
ICE……………..Immigration and Customs Enforcement
IOKIYAR……….It's OK If You're A Republican (pardoned for war crimes, etc.)
IWP..…………...Individual Water Purifier
KLOV…………...Killer List of Video Games
LIBOR…………..London Interbank Offered Rate
MBS…………….Mortgage-Backed Securities
MMS……………Minerals Management Service
MOHAVE………Measure of Haze and Visual Effects
                            (EPA – Grand Canyon)
MOU……………Memorandum of Understanding
MRSA………….Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
MTA……………Metropolitan Transit Authority
NAVSTAR……..Navigation System using Timing and Ranging
NDA……………Nondisclosure Agreement (bull#&%!$)
NiMH…………..Nickel Metal Hydride
NJMA…………..No Joke, Ma
                            New Jersey Mycological Association (Denville, New Jersey)
                             Mycology --- a branch of botany that studies fungi and
                            fungus-caused diseases (e.g. Athlete’s Foot)
NRS……………Northwest River Supplies
NTSB………….National Transportation Safety Board
NTSC………….National Television System Committee
OCE…………...Office of Congressional Ethics
OGPI…………..Okefenokee, Glee, and Perloo, Incorporated
OGWT…………Old Grey Whistle Test
OHA……………Open Handset Alliance
OK……………..a term of disputed origin
OMFUG…….....Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers
OSS……………Office of Strategic Services
                             (predecessor to the CIA)
PATRIOT……...Phased Array Tracking Intercept Of Target
PDN……………Presumed Democratic Nominee
PM……………...Post Meridiem
PMC……………Pod Music Countdown
PUMA………….Party Unity My Ass
PUPPP………...Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy
PUREX………...Plutonium and Uranium Extraction
RBC……………Rules and Bylaws Committee
RGE……………Roubini Global Economics
RICE…………...Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation
RMS……………Royal Mail Steamer (as in ‘RMS Titanic’)
RIK……………..Royalty In Kind
RTB/NFA………Reason-to-Believe / No Further Action
RTC…………….Resolution Trust Corporation
SABR………….Society for American Baseball Research
SACD………….Super Audio Compact disc
SAHC………….Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
SEDCO………..Southern Engineering and Development Company
SERE………….Survival Evasion Resistance Escape
#&%!$…………...Store High In Transit
SLR…………….Single Lens Reflex
SNCC…….……Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SPM…………...Single Point Mooring
TARP………….Troubled Assets Relief Program
TED……………Treasury EuroDollar
TOO…………...Target of Opportunity
TriBeCa……….Triangle Below Canal
TRO…………...Temporary Restraining Order
UBS……………Untold Billions Squandered
UCS……………Union of Concerned Scientists
UMRK………….Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
VEP……………Viellissement Exceptionnellement Prolongé
                             (VEP Elixer Chartreuse)
WAPO…………Washington Post
WHOI…………..Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
YCDBSOYA…..You Can’t Do Business Sitting on Your Ass
                             (Carl’s father’s tie-clip)
YM……………..Yucca Mountain
YTMND….…….You’re The Man Now, Dog (< argh >)
YTDNM………..You’re The Dog Now, Man (better)
ZPM……………Zero Point Module


”

“WGAF?”

“Wtf?”

“GRITS

Girls raised in the south”

“The resolution of a grism is proportional to the tangent of the wedge angle of the prism in much the same way as the resolutions of gratings are proportional to the angle between the input and the normal to the grating.”

“The tangent of 5.875 degrees is approximately 0.1, therefore there is about 1.6 mm of wedge in the grism going from 1.2 to 2.4 mm at the extreme edges.”

“The direction of dispersion is perpendicular to the radial direction in camera 3 where the radial direction is defined by a vector originating at the center of the field of view for camera 3 and pointing toward the center of the OTA axis.”

“Okay, can anybody translate this into english for me, please?”

““Okay, can anybody translate this into english for me, please?”
Euro hike
12:56:54 PM

It means t*lt has a great need to appear much more "edumacated" than the rest of us TT yokels.”

“watch our for them thar SUPER grisms...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG_AiZ76Ll4”

“nerds”

“Actually, as we all know, "A Time to Kill," is an adaptation of the resolution of Grisham’s novel - or so said the Kentwood Players' own Margie Bates.

source:

http://www.kentwoodplayers.org/bulletin/bulletin_2001-02.htm
last edited: 1/04/09 1:59:52 PM”

“1821 - out with the Turks!”

“
Dust.

Horrifying.

”

“more like a pain in the a$$”

“
Bullies' brains empathize, but with a twist

Adolescents with conduct disorder show greater activity in pain and reward regions of the brain while viewing clips of painful situations

By Elizabeth Quill
Web edition : Sunday, February 15th, 2009


CHICAGO — Seeing a hand slammed in a car door makes most people cringe. But others seem to lack such empathy, which might help explain why some are capable of repeatedly inflicting pain on others.

Now a study suggests that adolescents with aggressive conduct disorder — characterized by physical aggression, bullying and disregard for rules — may have robust rather than blunted reactions to others’ pain. Such adolescents may even get pleasure out of viewing other people in discomfort, Jean Decety of the University of Chicago reported February 15 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Using fMRI, Decety and his colleagues scanned the brains of eight adolescents with aggressive conduct disorder and eight adolescents without the disorder while showing them video clips of accidental, but painful situations.

Both groups showed activity in regions of the brain associated with pain, including the anterior cingulate cortex, insula and somatosensory cortex. But adolescents with conduct disorder showed a greater activation of these pain regions and also showed activity in the amygdala and ventral striatum, areas of the brain tied to reward responses.

“They do, so to speak, share the pain of others,” Decety said at the meeting. “But instead of finding it negative, they enjoy it.”

Those with stronger reactions in these reward areas also scored higher on standard scales for daring and sadism and reported more acts of aggression.

When viewing clips of people intentionally inflicting pain, adolescents with conduct disorder showed brain activity patterns suggesting, as expected, that they have trouble controlling their emotion, the researchers reported. Their study appears in the February issue of Biological Psychology.

Decety said the findings may have implications for intervention programs. Negative feedback, for example, may not work with adolescents who gain pleasure from such a response.

“If you enjoy it, you do it again,” Decety said.




Suggested Reading:

B. Bower. (2007) Crime Growth: Early mental ills fuel young-adult offending. Science News (Nov. 17) Vol. 172, No. 20, p. 308.


Citations & References:

Decety, J., Michalska, K.J., Akitsuki, Y., Lahey, B.B. (2009) Atypical empathic responses in adolescents with aggressive conduct disorder: A functional MRI investigation. Biological Psychology 80, p. 203-211

Decety, J. 2009. Empathy and Morality: Integrating Social and Neurosciences Approaches. American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, Chicago (Feb. 15).

”

“great, just fix it so it can be detected in the womb and then abort it along with the down syndrome babies.”

“That's Nigal's thing.”

“
Lagrange Points

L1  –  ACE, SOHO, WIND,
L2  –  WMAP, Planck, JWST, Herschel
L3  –
L4  –
L5  –

Tres Hombres (1973)
ZZ Top

”

“
\ bash
! bang
* splat


-- SINGLE CHARACTERS --

SPACE, blank, ghost&

! EXCLAMATION POINT, exclamation (mark), (ex)clam, excl, wow, hey, boing,
bang#, shout, yell, shriek, pling, factorial, ball-bat, smash, cuss,
store#, potion&, not*+, dammit*#

" QUOTATION MARK, (double) quote, dirk, literal mark, rabbit ears,
double ping, double glitch, amulet&, web&, inverted commas

# CROSSHATCH, pound, pound sign, number, number sign, sharp, octothorpe#,
hash, (garden) fence, crunch, mesh, hex, flash, grid, pig-pen,
tictactoe, scratch (mark), (garden) gate, hak, oof, rake, sink&,
corridor&, unequal#, punch mark

$ DOLLAR SIGN, dollar, cash, currency symbol, buck, string#, escape#,
ding, big-money, gold&, Sonne#

% PERCENT SIGN, percent, mod+, shift-5, double-oh-seven, grapes, food&

& AMPERSAND, and, amper, address+, shift-7, andpersand, snowman,
bitand+, donald duck#, daemon&, background*, pretzel

' APOSTROPHE, (single) quote, tick, prime, irk, pop, spark, glitch,
lurker above&

* ASTERISK, star, splat, spider, aster, times, wildcard*, gear, dingle,
(Nathan) Hale#, bug, gem&, twinkle, funny button#, pine cone, glob*

() PARENTHESES, parens, round brackets, bananas, ears, bowlegs
( LEFT PARENTHESIS, (open) paren, so, wane, parenthesee, open, sad,
tool&
) RIGHT PARENTHESIS, already, wax, unparenthesee, close (paren), happy,
thesis, weapon&

+ PLUS SIGN, plus, add, cross, and, intersection, door&, spellbook&

, COMMA, tail, trapper&

- HYPHEN, minus (sign), dash, dak, option, flag, negative (sign), worm,
bithorpe#

. PERIOD, dot, decimal (point), (radix) point, spot, full stop,
put#, floor&

/ SLASH, stroke, virgule, solidus, slant, diagonal, over, slat, slak,
across#, compress#, reduce#, replicate#, spare, divided-by, wand&,
forward slash, shilling#

: COLON, two-spot, double dot, dots, chameleon&

; SEMICOLON, semi, hybrid, giant eel&, go-on#

<> ANGLE BRACKETS, angles, funnels, brokets, pointy brackets, widgets
< LESS THAN, less, read from*, from*, in*, comesfrom*, crunch,
sucks, left chevron#, open pointy (brack[et]), bra#, upstairs&, west,
(left|open) widget
> GREATER THAN, more, write to*, into/toward*, out*, gazinta*, zap,
blows, right chevron#, closing pointy (brack[et]), ket#, downstairs&,
east, (right|close) widget

= EQUAL SIGN, equal(s), gets, becomes, quadrathorpe#, half-mesh, ring&

? QUESTION MARK, question, query, whatmark, what, wildchar*, huh, ques,
kwes, quiz, quark, hook, scroll&, interrogation point

@ AT SIGN, at, each, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, cyclone, snail, ape (tail),
cat, snable-a#, trunk-a#, rose, cabbage, Mercantile symbol, strudel#,
fetch#, shopkeeper&, human&, commercial-at, monkey (tail)

[] BRACKETS, square brackets, U-turns, edged parentheses
[ LEFT BRACKET, bracket, bra, (left) square (brack[et]), opensquare,
armor&
] RIGHT BRACKET, unbracket, ket, right square (brack[et]), unsquare, close,
mimic&

\ BACKSLASH, reversed virgule, bash, (back)slant, backwhack, backslat,
escape*, backslak, bak, scan#, expand#, opulent throne&, slosh, slope,
blash

^ CIRCUMFLEX, caret, carrot, (top)hat, cap, uphat, party hat, housetop,
up arrow, control, boink, chevron, hiccup, power, to-the(-power), fang,
sharkfin, and#, xor+, wok, trap&, pointer#, pipe*, upper-than#

_ UNDERSCORE, underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow, flatworm, blank,
chain&, gets#, dash#, sneak

` GRAVE, (grave/acute) accent, backquote, left/open quote, backprime,
unapostrophe, backspark, birk, blugle, backtick, push, backglitch,
backping, execute#, boulder&, rock&, blip

{} BRACES, curly braces, squiggly braces, curly brackets, squiggle brackets,
Tuborgs#, ponds, curly chevrons#, squirrly braces, hitchcocks#,
chippendale brackets#
{ LEFT BRACE, brace, curly, leftit, embrace, openbrace, begin+,
fountain&
} RIGHT BRACE, unbrace, uncurly, rytit, bracelet, close, end+, a pool&

| VERTICAL BAR, pipe*, pipe to*, vertical line, broken line#, bar, or+,
bitor+, vert, v-bar, spike, to*, gazinta*, thru*, pipesinta*, tube,
mark, whack, gutter, wall&

~ TILDE, twiddle, tilda, tildee, wave, squiggle, swung dash, approx,
wiggle, enyay#, home*, worm, not+

-- MULTIPLE CHARACTER STRINGS --

!? interrobang (one overlapped character)
*/ asterslash+, times-div#
/* slashterix+, slashaster
:= becomes#
<- gets
<< left-shift+, double smaller
<> unequal#
>> appends*, cat-astrophe, right-shift+, double greater
-> arrow+, pointer to+, hiccup+
#! sh'bang, wallop
\!* bash-bang-splat
() nil#
&& and+, and-and+, amper-amper, succeeds-then*
|| or+, or-or+, fails-then*

-- NOTES --

! bang comes from old card punch phenom where punching ! code made a
loud noise; however, this pronunciation is used in the (non-
computerized) publishing and typesetting industry in the U.S.
too, so ...
Alternatively it could have come from comic books, where the
words each character utters are shown in a "balloon" near that
character's head. When one character shoots another, it is
common to see a balloon pointing at the barrel of the gun to
denote that the gun had been fired, not merely aimed.
That balloon contained the word "!" -- hence, "!" == "Bang!"
! store from FORTH
! dammit as in "quit, dammit!" while exiting vi and hoping one hasn't
clobbered a file too badly
# octothorpe from Bell System (orig. octalthorpe)
# unequal e.g. Modula-2
$ string from BASIC
$ escape from TOPS-10
$ Sonne In the "socialist" countries they used and are using all kinds
of IBM clones (hardware + sw). It was a common practice just
to rename everything (IBM 360 --> ESER 1040 etc.).
Of course the "dollar" sign had to be renamed - it became the
"international currency symbol" which looks like a circle with
4 rays spreading from it:
____
\/ \/
/ \
\ /
/\____/\

Because it looks like a (small) shining sun, in the German
Democratic Republic it was usually called "Sonne" (sun).
& donald duck from the Danish "Anders And", which means "Donald Duck"
* splat from DEC "spider" glyph
* Nathan Hale "I have but one asterisk for my country."
* funny button at Pacific Bell, * was referred to by employees as the "funny
button", which did not please management at all when it became
part of the corporate logo of Pacific Telesis, the holding
company ...
*/ times-div from FORTH
= quadrathorpe half an octothorpe
- bithorpe half a quadrathorpe (So what's a monothorpe?)
. put Victor Borge's Phonetic Punctuation which dates back to the
middle 1950's
/ across APL
/ compress APL
/ reduce APL
/ replicate APL
/ shilling from the British currency symbol
:= becomes e.g. Pascal
; go-on Algol68
< left chevron from the military: worn vertically on the sleeve to signify
rating
< bra from quantum mechanics
<> unequal e.g. Pascal
> right chevron see "< left chevron"
> ket from quantum mechanics
@ snable-a from Danish; may translate as "trunk-a"
@ trunk-a "trunk" = "elephant nose"
@ strudel as in Austrian apple cake
@ fetch from FORTH
\ scan APL
\ expand APL
^ and from formal logic
^ pointer from PASCAL
^ upper-than cf. > and <
_ gets some alternative representation of underscore resembles a
backarrow
_ dash as distinct from '-' == minus
` execute from shell command substitution
{} Tuborgs from advertizing for well-known Danish beverage
{} curly chevr. see "< left chevron"
{} hitchcocks from the old Alfred Hitchcock show, with the stylized profile
of the man
{} chipp. br. after Chippendale chairs
| broken line EBCDIC has two vertical bars, one solid and one broken.
~ enyay from the Spanish n-tilde
() nil LISP
Version 2.5, 1997


The Original Jargon File

http://www.ss64.com/bash/syntax-pronounce.html

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“
Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)

”

“
It's okay.   They've both been dead for decades.

”

“tilt are you smoking crack?”

“Not lately, no.”

“So would you agree that this theory explains the prolapsed anus-like face that gazes back at you every morning from your bathroom mirror?”

“I think I need to smoke crack just to keep up..”

“ride that pony!!!!!”

“Hello Towndog.

What was the deal with that crazy rant about Gays and Lesbians the other day?   It looked like a copy&paste from Westboro Baptist.”

“Michael Jackson hasn’t been this stiff since Macully Culkin spent the night at Neverland Ranch.”

“
Murphy’s Law

I was wondering the other day…. who the hell was that guy Murphy, anyway?
(I mean, after all these years) It turns out he was an engineer for the Air
Force out at Muroc Field, now known as Edwards Air Force Base where
they’ve done all the Buck Rogers test pilot stuff for decades.


Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the
worst possible time, in the worst possible way.

(Murphy’s Law, generic)

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those
ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way.

Edward Murphy
Muroc Field
c.1948

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Anything that can possibly go wrong, does.

John Sack
The Butcher: The Ascent of Yerupaja (1952)
reprinted in Shapiro, Fred R., ed., The Yale Book of Quotations

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Given a 50-50 chance, it will go the other way nine times out of ten.

(expressed as a probability)




As far as I can tell he’s not related to Eddie Murphy at all.

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