Conference back40::soapbox

	depends on whether you have blue eyes or brown eyes.  ;>

	hi!!

    Not to worry.... evolution will take care of us...
    
    I figure that in the not too distant future, our eyes will be like a
    lemur's and our brains will shrink to prevent cranial overload...
    

    
    re: .3
    
    > and our brains will shrink to prevent cranial overload...
    
    It's happened already...
    

Andy, are you talking to yourself again?

    
    
    Yep!!!
    

    
    re: .6
    
    >Yep!!!
    

So I guess in Andy's case, the answer to "How do you cope with the Tube ??"
is "not very well."

    
    
    Sorta a quirk of Inter-Active Graphics Printed Circuit Designers...
    

    
    > Gor god's sake 
    
    This troubles me......
    

    
    
    And the dims will fix everything, right Meestah Topaz?

    re.2
    
    whats Ohio and Repubs got to do with this????
    
    

Oh, way to go, Ohio.

Thank goodness Ohio has that nice Lake Erie frontage to redeem it.

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    Too late.  Whew!  Singed my eyelashes, that did!
    

    How do I cope with the tube?
    
    Take a long break every year or so. Sorta alternate:
    
    Member of society/hermit/member of society/hermit
    etc.

    .20
    
    And you hadda pick this year not to be a hermit...

    strange, must be a different Ohio 
    o the Cuyahoga used to burn, it supports repetative salmon runs now
    o Rocky River had sewage from Berea, fairly clean now
    o the steel mills used to pollute big time, they are using scrubbers now.
    o most of the steel mills are now closed anyway
    o Lake Erie, one of the priemere Walleye destinations
    o Akron used to be a dump, nice town now
    o Columbus, Anhauser Busch, mostly steam from there
    o Cincy - pretty clean now
    o Dayton - air polution??? mostly planes from WPAFB
    o Some of the best deer hunting anywhere in Wayne Nat'l forest
    
    
    	Not that I would dare to assume that I would know more than you about 
    	where I spent 40 years....no not me....
    	
    sir, you are full of sour owl crap!!!!
    
    Still I do not see the connection between CRT's , Ohio and the Mr.
    Newt's Repubs
    

    dick,
    
    It's a conspiracy, that's what it is
    
    

    .21
    
    Yep, that's next year.
    
    Spent Feb-Dec of last year with no TV, no radio, no newspaper, 'cept
    what I saw in passing.

When it starts to empty I flatten it out at the bottom end 
and then I roll up the empty part so that it forces the paste 
up to the dispensing end and I keep repeating this procedure 
until it's all rolled up and then I throw it away.

    What Mr. Topaz really meant to say is that..... ah nevermind.

    As fer me, I use flat-panel displays as much as possible.  No_Problem!
                                                                  

    
    Well Dan, how do they get anything into one o' dem flat-panel tubers....
    
    Seems ta me that one o' does widn't hold much at all no how....
    
    %*}
    

    You talkin' bout potaters or electron tubers?  Hates ta tell ya, the
    flat-panel displays AIN'T tubes, really... they's LCD technology.
    
    As fer gettin stuff into LCDs, may I intro you to the wondrous concept
    of WIRES carrying ELECTRONS, the same way ya fill up electron tubers.
    
    hth.
    

    Shoot your television!
    
    (I would, but I don't have one.)

    The way it works is this:
    
    There are 3 kinds of electrons:  red, blue, and green.  When you buy a
    TV, the picture tube is loaded right up with them, and they fire 'em at
    the screen to make the nice colors.  In years past there only used to
    be two kinds of electrons: black and white.  Then a man named Kodacolor
    discovered the others.
    
    Anyhow, eventually the electrons get used up, and you have to get a
    rebuilt tube or just buy a new set.  When they rebuild a picture tube,
    the cut the neck off, shake out all the used electrons (nowadays they
    recycle them by pouring them back into a special electric outlet which,
    being AC and very powerful, rejuvenates them within a few hours.
    
    Then they fill the picture tube with fresh electrons and seal it back
    up, and there you go.  Where they get the fresh electrons is a deep
    dark trade secret -- it's how they make their profit.
    

    I hear they make 'em in the same asian factories that used to make
    their living in pasting the chaff back into punched cards & paper tape. 
    

 Blow up your TV
 Throw away the papers
 move to the country
 build you a home

 plant a little garden
 grow a lot of peaches (may have this line wrong)
 try to find Jesus
 on your own.


 ......John Prine "Spanish Pipedream"

    Drat!  I thought John Denver wrote that...

    Is this the best defense one can come with for Ohio?
    
    o Rocky River had sewage from Berea, fairly clean now
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    o most of the steel mills are now closed anyway
      ^^^^                            ^^^^^^
    o Akron used to be a dump, nice town now
                               ^^^^
    o Columbus, Anhauser Busch, mostly steam from there
                                ???????????????????????
    o Cincy - pretty clean now
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    o Dayton - air polution??? mostly planes from WPAFB
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
    -- Jim

    
    re:.30
    
    > Shoot your television!
    
    Jim, shooting your neighbor's TV would probably be even more helpful...
    
    
    re:.29 & .31
    
    Wow!  Them electron things sounds great.... Better 'n 'lectricty even!
    

    >Wow!  Them electron things sounds great.... Better 'n 'lectricty even!
    
    
    good one!

    re.35
    
    another sexual intellectual heard from
    
    still fail to see how it related to the topic.

    
    No matter what you say bad about Ohio, it still has one of the best
    places on Earth......
    
    
    
    Port Clinton (sp?)
    Fortunately there is no relation to Bubba.....
    Not by a LONG {ahem} shot....
    
    Dan

    When I get home I tend to listen to music and relax without the tube
    either computer or television. Working on the tube for eight hours does
    a job on your eyes, believe me, I know, coming home with a migrane on
    many occasion.
    
    

    
    Sometimes I couldn't cope.  Then I would take the bus.  It takes much
    longer to get to Marble Arch from the other end of Oxford street by
    bus, but at least there's a good chance you won't have to stand
    all the way.   Also, you don't have to listen to those bloody buskers
    singing the same four James Taylor songs off key to a guitar that's
    missing the G string.
    
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    You have to have the right tube. 
    to ascertain you do have the right one
    you simply check it has : 	Fully Imported
    			        Draught Guinness
    on the label

    
    .43
    
    Can't help wonderin' what those "partly imported" beers
    taste like.
    

    -1
    they come in concentrate or powder and water and c02 added later   :^)

    Bluuuuurgh!

    I'm afraid you haven't.

    you mean they REALLY do that. uuurgh.

    Yes, yes they do.

    Well, if you're referring to the Fallopians, we had hers tied.  Makes
    it soo much funner when her legs fallopen.
    
    HTH.
    

    Can't make a beer from powder by just adding water and carbonation.

    Tell that to the major breweries.

    
    re: .46
    
    > Bluuuuurgh!
    
     Is this the sound trousers make on the way down??
    

    .53
    Concentrate, yes. 
    Powder, no.

>no newspaper, 'cept what I saw in passing.

I usually see a newspaper while I'm passing too.

In fact, based on what's in the newspaper, it's a good thing I'm passing at the
time.

    .56
    
    hahahah!

    re.52
    
    correct, need to add yeast for awhile, then you can skip the
    CO2 part, the yeasties will do that for you..

    .58
    
    Hmm...wasn't thinking of yeast as a powder. I was thinking more along
    the lines of dehydrated beer. Tried this with my friend the chemist -
    tastes like moose piss.

    
    <-----------
    
    eeeerrrrr.....Jim?  How do you know what moose piss tastes like?
    
    

    Errr...ummm...I was just guessing! really!
    
    I've never tasted moose piss before! Nope!
    
    (Holding the jar in the right place is the tricky part...trust me.)

    there are "powders" called DME (dried malt extract), make a pretty good
    beer....unless you are a purist (yo Meg??)and brew all grain.

    She brews beer, too?
    
    (be still, my beating heart...)
    
    
    
    WAIT! Not that still...

    And only all-grain mashes.  DME will make an "acceptable" brew, but
    nothing compares to all grain.
    
    meg

    
    >there are "powders" called DME (dried malt extract), make a pretty good
    > beer....unless you are a purist (yo Meg??)and brew all grain.
    
    Actually, the "tell that to the breweries" was more in reference to the
    taste than the manufacturing processes, but the breweries for the
    masses (at least in the UK) do use a lot of powdered additives like DME
    to make up the wort.
    
    Moose Piss?  Is that brewed under the 'orsepisses of the Moose Head
    label?