Test your vocabulary and feed the poor

[Thaurismunths]

( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)

That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.

[Heradel]

( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)

That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.

Actually, this raises a complicated theological issue. I am a noted atheist of N-sh, but yet I have risen to a position of authority and power within this world. Now, surely if N-sh was all powerful he would have prevented this because it dilutes his own power and authority. Unless, of course, I am here as a Nemesis to tempt all of you innocent forumites to the dark side.

Perhaps I've said too much.

Level 48, 4210 grains was my best score so far.

[Thaurismunths]

( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)

That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.

Actually, this raises a complicated theological issue. I am a noted atheist of N-sh, but yet I have risen to a position of authority and power within this world. Now, surely if N-sh was all powerful he would have prevented this because it dilutes his own power and authority. Unless, of course, I am here as a Nemesis to tempt all of you innocent forumites to the dark side.

Perhaps I've said too much.

Level 48, 4210 grains was my best score so far.

Your disbelieving in N-sh does not mean he doesn't exist.
It is as possible to abbreviate infinity as it is to dilute something that is all powerful. N-sh's power is not diminished by your elevation, only his burden.
What makes you so sure you would have been elevated to your current status were it not for N-sh's intervention?

[Tango Alpha Delta]

( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)

That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.

Actually, this raises a complicated theological issue. I am a noted atheist of N-sh, but yet I have risen to a position of authority and power within this world. Now, surely if N-sh was all powerful he would have prevented this because it dilutes his own power and authority. Unless, of course, I am here as a Nemesis to tempt all of you innocent forumites to the dark side.

Perhaps I've said too much.

Level 48, 4210 grains was my best score so far.

I think N-sh keeps guys like us around to use as a warning to his followers:  "look what a lack of faith can turn you into... a lego man and a trippy eyeball."   It's kind of like the way the Flying Spaghetti Monster put dinosaur bones in the ground and made them look millions of years old, just to test our faith.

[Darwinist]

( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)

That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.

Actually, this raises a complicated theological issue. I am a noted atheist of N-sh, but yet I have risen to a position of authority and power within this world. Now, surely if N-sh was all powerful he would have prevented this because it dilutes his own power and authority. Unless, of course, I am here as a Nemesis to tempt all of you innocent forumites to the dark side.

Perhaps I've said too much.

Level 48, 4210 grains was my best score so far.

I think N-sh keeps guys like us around to use as a warning to his followers:  "look what a lack of faith can turn you into... a lego man and a trippy eyeball."   It's kind of like the way the Flying Spaghetti Monster put dinosaur bones in the ground and made them look millions of years old, just to test our faith.

Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion? 
http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/miraculous_images.htm

[Tango Alpha Delta]

( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)

That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.

Actually, this raises a complicated theological issue. I am a noted atheist of N-sh, but yet I have risen to a position of authority and power within this world. Now, surely if N-sh was all powerful he would have prevented this because it dilutes his own power and authority. Unless, of course, I am here as a Nemesis to tempt all of you innocent forumites to the dark side.

Perhaps I've said too much.

Level 48, 4210 grains was my best score so far.

I think N-sh keeps guys like us around to use as a warning to his followers:  "look what a lack of faith can turn you into... a lego man and a trippy eyeball."   It's kind of like the way the Flying Spaghetti Monster put dinosaur bones in the ground and made them look millions of years old, just to test our faith.

Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion? 
http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/miraculous_images.htm

He did!  He appeared on an underpass in Chicago:  http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/its_only_rock_a.html

[Darwinist]

He did!  He appeared on an underpass in Chicago:  http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/its_only_rock_a.html

So he looks like Keith Richards?  Cool! 

[Thaurismunths]

Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion? 

Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.
Can any god who can't answer his own mail really call himself "omnipotent"?

[Tango Alpha Delta]

Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion? 

Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.
Can any god who can't answer his own mail really call himself "omnipotent"?

Can any god who can't hire an assistant really call hirself "omnipotent"?

[Darwinist]

Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion? 

Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.

Interesting.  I thought gods and the dead spoke to people using games like Pictionary (the Christian god's "images") or Charades (the dead "talking" to John Edwards and others using gestures and symbols). 

[stePH]

Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion? 

Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.

Interesting.  I thought gods and the dead spoke to people using games like Pictionary (the Christian god's "images") ...

I thought that was exclusive to the Roman Catholic god.  I've never heard of any Protestant sect's member claiming to have seen the Face of Christ burned into a piece of toast.

[wintermute]

Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion? 

Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.

Interesting.  I thought gods and the dead spoke to people using games like Pictionary (the Christian god's "images") or Charades (the dead "talking" to John Edwards and others using gestures and symbols). 

Whereas Allah prefers to leave messages written in Arabic inside vegetables...

[Tango Alpha Delta]

Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion? 

Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.

Interesting.  I thought gods and the dead spoke to people using games like Pictionary (the Christian god's "images") or Charades (the dead "talking" to John Edwards and others using gestures and symbols). 

Whereas Allah prefers to leave messages written in Arabic inside vegetables...

...to Quran on a grain of rice... and... BACK on topic!  TAD-ah!

[Thaurismunths]

Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion? 

Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.

Interesting.  I thought gods and the dead spoke to people using games like Pictionary (the Christian god's "images") or Charades (the dead "talking" to John Edwards and others using gestures and symbols). 

Whereas Allah prefers to leave messages written in Arabic inside vegetables...

...to Quran on a grain of rice... and... BACK on topic!  TAD-ah!

*golf clap*
Nicely done.

[Darwinist]

I wonder if Freerice is going to change the rules due to all the latest rice news.  The US Rice Federation spokesman says there is no shortage in the US but rice futures are at an all-time high and Costco and Sam's Club are limiting the sales of rice.  Maybe they should switch to FreeOreos or something. 

[wintermute]

I wonder if Freerice is going to change the rules due to all the latest rice news.  The US Rice Federation spokesman says there is no shortage in the US but rice futures are at an all-time high and Costco and Sam's Club are limiting the sales of rice.  Maybe they should switch to FreeOreos or something. 

Limiting the sale of rice to a mere 80lbs per customer! After that, you have to carry all that rice out to your car, and then go to all the effort of walking back into the store to get the rest of your rice! Can you imagine how huge a minor inconvenience this is going to be to... ummm.... whoever the hell it is that buys more than 80lbs of rice in a go? Anyway, that one guy, he's going to be slightly put out by this!

What definition of the word "limiting" is meant to apply here? I honestly don't see anything other than a way for Sam's Club to get their name on TV whenever the news talks about rice shortages..

[Darwinist]

I wonder if Freerice is going to change the rules due to all the latest rice news.  The US Rice Federation spokesman says there is no shortage in the US but rice futures are at an all-time high and Costco and Sam's Club are limiting the sales of rice.  Maybe they should switch to FreeOreos or something. 

Limiting the sale of rice to a mere 80lbs per customer! After that, you have to carry all that rice out to your car, and then go to all the effort of walking back into the store to get the rest of your rice! Can you imagine how huge a minor inconvenience this is going to be to... ummm.... whoever the hell it is that buys more than 80lbs of rice in a go? Anyway, that one guy, he's going to be slightly put out by this!

What definition of the word "limiting" is meant to apply here? I honestly don't see anything other than a way for Sam's Club to get their name on TV whenever the news talks about rice shortages..

From what I heard, some restaurants buy their rice bulk from Sam's Club or Costco so they would be the ones affected by this. 

[wintermute]

I wonder if Freerice is going to change the rules due to all the latest rice news.  The US Rice Federation spokesman says there is no shortage in the US but rice futures are at an all-time high and Costco and Sam's Club are limiting the sales of rice.  Maybe they should switch to FreeOreos or something. 

Limiting the sale of rice to a mere 80lbs per customer! After that, you have to carry all that rice out to your car, and then go to all the effort of walking back into the store to get the rest of your rice! Can you imagine how huge a minor inconvenience this is going to be to... ummm.... whoever the hell it is that buys more than 80lbs of rice in a go? Anyway, that one guy, he's going to be slightly put out by this!

What definition of the word "limiting" is meant to apply here? I honestly don't see anything other than a way for Sam's Club to get their name on TV whenever the news talks about rice shortages..

From what I heard, some restaurants buy their rice bulk from Sam's Club or Costco so they would be the ones affected by this. 

Hrm. 80lbs of rice is about 700 servings. So it's possible that some oriental restaurants would get through that much in a day. Oh no! They will have to either use the above-detailed "going back into the store" technique, or send more than one person shopping. Either way, you're correct: They will indeed suffer an almost-noticeable hardship because of this "limit".

[Darwinist]

Hrm. 80lbs of rice is about 700 servings. So it's possible that some oriental restaurants would get through that much in a day. Oh no! They will have to either use the above-detailed "going back into the store" technique, or send more than one person shopping. Either way, you're correct: They will indeed suffer an almost-noticeable hardship because of this "limit".

Yeah, big hardship. Send someone in to the store on the bank run and someone on the mail run.  Or shop at a store without the limitations.   At the China Buffet I go to I don't think 80 lbs of rice equals 700 servings, though.  You see some plates with about a pound of rice on them, and that's just the first trip.

[Thaurismunths]

I wonder if Freerice is going to change the rules due to all the latest rice news.  The US Rice Federation spokesman says there is no shortage in the US but rice futures are at an all-time high and Costco and Sam's Club are limiting the sales of rice.  Maybe they should switch to FreeOreos or something. 

Limiting the sale of rice to a mere 80lbs per customer! After that, you have to carry all that rice out to your car, and then go to all the effort of walking back into the store to get the rest of your rice! Can you imagine how huge a minor inconvenience this is going to be to... ummm.... whoever the hell it is that buys more than 80lbs of rice in a go? Anyway, that one guy, he's going to be slightly put out by this!

What definition of the word "limiting" is meant to apply here? I honestly don't see anything other than a way for Sam's Club to get their name on TV whenever the news talks about rice shortages..

From what I heard, some restaurants buy their rice bulk from Sam's Club or Costco so they would be the ones affected by this. 

Hrm. 80lbs of rice is about 700 servings. So it's possible that some oriental restaurants would get through that much in a day. Oh no! They will have to either use the above-detailed "going back into the store" technique, or send more than one person shopping. Either way, you're correct: They will indeed suffer an almost-noticeable hardship because of this "limit".

No kidding! How serious could a food "shortage" be if you're limited to 80lbs a trip? What kind of whiny losers get upset over rice shortages?
Oh, that's right. The ones below you on the economic ladder.
How inconvenient!

[wintermute]

No kidding! How serious could a food "shortage" be if you're limited to 80lbs a trip? What kind of whiny losers get upset over rice shortages?
Oh, that's right. The ones below you on the economic ladder.
How inconvenient!

Hey, I don't mean to suggest that there isn't a rice shortage, globally, or that people aren't going to die because of this. I'm just pissed off that Sam's Club have set up a fake limit that's not actually going to affect any of their customers (and therefore, their sales of rice) but will make sure that news anchors give them free advertising to illustrate the rice shortage, rather than pointing to people in the third world actually dying.

Seriously.

[Heradel]

A run on rice in Chinatown.

[Chodon]

...deer tail about $350 apiece...

There are about 10 roadkilled deer between my home and workplace that I drive past every day.  You mean to tell me I if I cut those tails off and ship them to SF I can make $350 each!?  Where is my knife?

[Darwinist]

...deer tail about $350 apiece...

There are about 10 roadkilled deer between my home and workplace that I drive past every day.  You mean to tell me I if I cut those tails off and ship them to SF I can make $350 each!?  Where is my knife?

.....and dried toad at $42/ounce??!!  Growing up in small town WI I could've paid for my college with all the toads I could've dried and roadkill dear tail I could've collected.   

[Raving_Lunatic]

I'd like to bump this, because it's a good cause.

Edit: Thanks Zathras

Since it's the season of giving, I thought that this would be a good time to bump this thread.  I understand that times are tough, and not everyone has the room in their budget for charity that they used to have.  But just about everyone that comes to this forum could spend a little time for a good cause.

Merry Zobmas, one and all!