Here is my recommended way to deal with someone who haggles just for the enjoyment of the exchange (so sayeth the author): "Go away. I do not negotiate."

This is bait for them to say something like, "Everything is negotiable."

The response is, of course, to ask how much for a night of sex with his wife.

Whoa! Ryan, chill dude. This is not the place for parallel vs. fast timesharing discussion. That place would have been a bar in downtown Minneapolis in 1982 when I (IBM) sat next to a systems architect from Cray.

As for the video clip, I have so wanted to do this.

For the sake of all humanity, please post your future travel plans months ahead of time.

Yep, Turing. Notice the rainbow on the sidewalk in front of him.

If you think that you can get away with anti-war propaganda by putting cats into it, think again.

(only quarter joking btw.)

At that age, everything was a crisis.

I was at an out of town trial that was supposed to take one day. It lasted one week. For that week I swapped between changes of clothing and lived with a minimal list of items: Besides the changes of clothing, I had a notebook, a cell phone and a toiletry kit. Everything else was either borrowed, rented or disposable.

I turned out to be a wasteful consumer and bothersome guest.

Not only is this old. They are doing it wrong: Two ping pong balls per trap.

I have a friend who got a tribal armband henna tattoo while on vacation. The artist had not disinfected his pen so my friend got a herpes infection everywhere the ink went.

As it healed, it turned into perfect scarification.

This is some of the worst @#$%@ advice I have ever read.

Step #1: Tell them you don not speak for all of mankind, only yourself.

Step #2: Answer their questions if they also answer yours.

Step #3: Tell them to talk to other people.

Step #4: Sell your story for as much as you can get.

Very shortly, the front facing camera will be used to track eye movements and we will navigate by staring and blinking.

As children, we would play his records almost constantly. Thanks for this post.

Rumor has it that Mud Flap Girl means a trucker who is sleeping in his rig at a truck stop is willing to be approached by woman looking to to trade companionship for remuneration.

No tiny pins. A long run of agreeing with Von Skippy has come to an end. There is nothing here beyond skill, practice and palm fronds.

The man is good and I give him bonus points for Matrix imagery, but check out what a local boy, David Elsewhere, was doing a decade ago. Here is his clip from 2004.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiLK7S2fXqQ