All categories - 19 August 2007

I mean, it's mostly the same drivers, right? And what ever happened to the trucks? That was pretty stupid.

It seems to me that once every blue moon you'll get an exciting NASCAR race (something any fan can get in to), like that really close one Ricky Craven won. So I am not a diehard.

It seems to me the playoff system was designed to attract fringe viewers like me; it also seems to alienate real fans whom NASCAR assumes will eat all their crap and grin no matter what.

Now, it also seems to me that NASCAR's plan to attract viewers like me is pretty stupid, because I, along with most of the rest of the American sports audience, will focus on football on Sunday.

So NASCAR crowns its champion using its incomprehensible points system (incomprehensible to a casual fan who doesn't know if a 100 point lead is small or huge), ending the season in as anticlimactic a manner possible. Since only the diehards care (in the face of the NFL competition), why punish the diehards?

2007-08-19 21:11:43 · 4 answers · asked by orwellian987 3 in NASCAR

2007-08-19 21:11:39 · 15 answers · asked by Dr. VanNostrand 4 in Polls & Surveys

Imagine this. You are in a glass sphere (15x15 feet) that has a glass floor located in the middle of it. This sphere is out in space heading towards an unspecified direction at 102mph. In this sphere on this floor is:


* You
* a flat bed with no sheets
* an automatically climate controlled environment
* a spherically shaped fridge with unlimted food and drink (healthy selection of various cuisines)
* a spherical toilet


NOTHING ELSE. No television or no books. No way to break the glass. No way to end your life!

Can one die of boredom? Would you go crazy? How wacked would this be?

2007-08-19 21:11:34 · 12 answers · asked by Peter N 1 in Astronomy & Space

2007-08-19 21:10:45 · 14 answers · asked by Marc O 1 in Insurance & Registration

2007-08-19 21:10:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-19 21:10:00 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

all cops are just so ewwwwwwwww I guess you could say hard on the eyes

2007-08-19 21:09:43 · 17 answers · asked by penny p 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

ever said you just wanted to be friends with a guy but really liked them? if so why? and were u playing hard to get?

2007-08-19 21:09:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

I'm noting that on these boards.
What do you think?

2007-08-19 21:09:10 · 16 answers · asked by Anthony 2 in Religion & Spirituality

has never smoked, if he starts a course of patches or gum now
will it help to avoid him smoking in future?

2007-08-19 21:08:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care

2007-08-19 21:08:38 · 1 answers · asked by Vinay Bhardwaj 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-08-19 21:07:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

To take me to your leader. Where would you take me to?

2007-08-19 21:07:30 · 5 answers · asked by ♥Charmed One♥ 7 in Polls & Surveys

2007-08-19 21:07:29 · 2 answers · asked by joyce s 1 in Chemistry

i cant stand it. i mean the music i like isn't for trendy purposes its because i actually like the music. not just because everyone else likes them.

and yes i know that people are entitled to like them too but in a few months they'll forget about the band and i'll still like them

i don't know how to describe it, i just hate it.

i'm starting to hate popular music now.

2007-08-19 21:07:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

apparently i am wearing glasses. lol

are you wearing one?

2007-08-19 21:07:08 · 60 answers · asked by ? 6 in Polls & Surveys

would you want to be saved?

2007-08-19 21:06:59 · 20 answers · asked by -)-(- 6 in Polls & Surveys

2007-08-19 21:06:49 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cooking & Recipes

I really need to know how much it is please

2007-08-19 21:06:46 · 1 answers · asked by Anthony C 2 in Las Vegas

see my problem is that i have a huge phobia of bugs. (crickets, grasshoppers, roaches, spiders, caterpillars etc.) my bf really thinks im kidding when i tell him or even mention it. everytime he sees one of these bugs he will point it out and watch me basically freak out. later i will go home and almost sob just thinking about how scared i was. he thinks its funny and wont take it serious. i have tried to sit him down and tell him that i really am scared and that he just makes me feel bad for it but then he only tells me to drop this joke. he has no real fears like this so he doesnt understand. what can i do to make him stop laughing at me and taunting me with bugs?

2007-08-19 21:06:38 · 22 answers · asked by BRASiL 01 5 in Polls & Surveys

I am 26 yrs old and was married for 5 yrs but together for 8.5 yrs. I am now divorced and starting to date again but am scared to ask if it bothers some people I have been on dates with if it matters that I was divorced. I have always wanted to get married, get a house and have kids and now I am scared that might never happen. I did not want the divorce, my husband did. having trouble moving on. I have been told by a friend that she thinks one of the guys I am seeing thinks that we are exclusive (she's know him for awhile) but I dont know if she is right. when I was in high school people asked each other to be their boy or girl friend but they dont anymore so how do you know if someone wants to be exclusive without scaring them? I NEED HELP!!

2007-08-19 21:06:35 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce

It is under the skin. It is the circumfrence of a pint glass. It has no colour. Any ideas?

2007-08-19 21:05:55 · 7 answers · asked by Moonbeam 2 in Cats

for example; " just got a little wet."

"my panties are a bit damp."

or other such statements.

please let me know your opinions on this matter. ps be as detailed as possible i am trying to understand etiquatte.

2007-08-19 21:05:54 · 13 answers · asked by so so lost 1 in Etiquette

2007-08-19 21:05:29 · 16 answers · asked by rosey 7 in Polls & Surveys

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided
>> that he'd just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab
>> some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and heaved it over
>> his
>> head at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit the would-be
>> thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window
>> was
>> made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.
>> 8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man
>> grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the
>> woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher.
>> Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in
>> the car
>> and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the
>> car and told to stand there for a positive ID to which he replied,
>> "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."
>> 9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked
>> into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun,
>> and
>> demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't
>> open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion
>> rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man,
>> frustrated, walked away.
>> ******A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER*****
>> 10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home
>> parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for.
>> Police
>> arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor
>> home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted
>> to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor
>> home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to
>> press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.
>> In the interest of bettering human kind please share these with
>> your friends and family ... unless of course one of these 10
>> individuals
>> by chance is a distant relative or long lost friend. In that case be
>> glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.

2007-08-19 21:04:52 · 3 answers · asked by Gina B 4 in Jokes & Riddles

does a bell ring when our Karma completes its route?

do i see any light as a sign of ending Karma?

2007-08-19 21:04:38 · 3 answers · asked by Helen from Greece 1 in Psychology

2007-08-19 21:04:36 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Royalty

2007-08-19 21:04:20 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Yes, it's again that magical time of the year when the Darwin Awards
>> are
>> bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
>> Here is the glorious Winner:
>> 1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended
>> victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber,
>> James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down
>> the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.
>>
>>
>>
>> And now, the Honorable Mentions:
>> 2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a
>> meat-cutting machine and submitted a claim to his insurance company.
>> The
>> company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for
>> himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The claim was
>> approved.
>> 3 A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car
>> during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman
>> had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.
>> 4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus
>> driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be
>> transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit
>> his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered
>> everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to
>> the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very
>> excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't
>> discovered for 3 days.
>> 5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from
>> serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he
>> received
>> the wounds, he said he was trying to see how close he could get his
>> head
>> to a moving train before he was hit.
>> 6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the
>> counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer,
>> the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which
>> the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and
>> fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he
>> got from the drawer: $15.
>> (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime
>> committed?)

2007-08-19 21:04:06 · 3 answers · asked by Gina B 4 in Jokes & Riddles

I went for a medical with a private dr for life insurance and dr said my ecg was abnormal as i had left axis deviation? Does anyone know what this is and do i need to see my usual gp about it?
Also he would not say if i would be able to get life insurance or not. I am in my forties and in good health

2007-08-19 21:03:43 · 6 answers · asked by sunnyday 1 in Heart Diseases