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[PhantasticSanShiSan]

The night I listened to Gray, the stuff he was saying about straight ascorbic acid not being the most absorbable form of Vitamin C, and the other claims tied to alternate vit. C sources, really piqued my interest.  As far as the vitamin study goes, yeah, I heard it, but I don't fear it. It's too late for me if they are detrimental to my health. It is shocking, and a little scary I'll admit, but for me, it's too late to worry if they are all bad.

[Camazotz Automat]

The night I listened to Gray, the stuff he was saying about straight ascorbic acid not being the most absorbable form of Vitamin C, and the other claims tied to alternate vit. C sources, really piqued my interest.  As far as the vitamin study goes, yeah, I heard it, but I don't fear it. It's too late for me if they are detrimental to my health. It is shocking, and a little scary I'll admit, but for me, it's too late to worry if they are all bad.

You have to wonder about these studies. We often have no idea of the parameters or who performed the study, but they create a strong buzz in the media.   I'll take my chances, especially since I actually feel better taking the supplements.   

I notice I appear many years younger than my same age peers.  I have to believe the supplements play some part. 

Perhaps I am immortal. (Nervously recalling the Mephistophelian Incident....)
 
It's far more likely my years will be cut short by a fatal car accident than by my vitamin/supplement arsenal:

CAMAZOTZ AUTOMAT KILLED IN FREAKISH
HORSE & HUMMER CRASH

[PhantasticSanShiSan]

CAMAZOTZ AUTOMAT KILLED IN FREAKISH
HORSE & HUMMER CRASH

Just like Katherine the Great!

BTW, word is, Timothy Leary stole all the "Great Gazoos"!!!!

[Camazotz Automat]

CAMAZOTZ AUTOMAT KILLED IN FREAKISH
HORSE & HUMMER CRASH

Just like Katherine the Great!

BTW, word is, Timothy Leary stole all the "Great Gazoos"!!!!

(Kids, never ~ever~ mix a "hummer" and a horse.)

-o o o-

Somewhere, sometime else, where/when Philip K. Dick, Timothy Leary, and William Burroughs happen to still be alive (and unfortunately, Jonathan Lethem wouldn't coalesce this time, not even later on, as he did in our vector):

A policeman - who, ironically, looks like Harvey Korman and even more strangely, is wearing a name badge declaring: VONNEGUT - detects something not quite right with a park visitor.

"Alright, alright.... turn around.  Hands on the lion's head fountain, old man."

(pause)

"Okay, Dr. Turn On Tune In Drop Out, what are all these little green spacemen doing in your pockets?  They didn't just magically appear, did they?  Some kind of groovy suicide trip you're on?  Uh?  Is that your bag?  Is that what gets you off, Pops?  I could care less about your rights.  Stand up straight.  You're disgusting.  I hope you don't believe in doors, because where you're going, they throw away the key."

[PhantasticSanShiSan]

".....  I hope you don't believe in doors, because where you're going, they throw away the key."

You slay me man. "Gold I tell you Jerry, Gold!

[Camazotz Automat]

regarding the PC Magazine subscription rate... i believe their standard one-year subscription is over $25, but it's still waaaaay below that overpriced after dark rag.  however... i did find a discounted one year subscription for you here:  http://www.magazinemaster.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=1965&idAff=55

Finally ordered this today, Michael.  $5.99 total for 12 issues and they took Paypal.  Much thanks for the link.

[EvB]

regarding the PC Magazine subscription rate... i believe their standard one-year subscription is over $25, but it's still waaaaay below that overpriced after dark rag.  however... i did find a discounted one year subscription for you here:  http://www.magazinemaster.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=1965&idAff=55

Just took the offer myself - Thanks Michael!

[MV/Liberace!]

no problem guys.  jesus, these people should be paying me a commission for all the business i'm sending their way.

that subscription rate is so low that i know they HAVE to be losing money on it.  i'm assuming it's their hope people will stick around for another year or more after this first sub and at the regular price.  it's still worth it at the regular price, imo.  good magazine.

[VictoriaPandora]

i just heard a study released this week which says those who take vitamin supplements actually have a shorter lifespan.  we can't do anything right, apparently.

That's just cause they want to outlaw them. See Bill C-51 in Canada.

[VictoriaPandora]

Maya Calendar Disk vitamins. 

"Isn't it about Time you supplemented?  Before it's too late?"

Hee Hee. Curanderos Breakfast.

[slipstream]

  I bought the Art of Talk back in the day.  This one has Art's autograph.  I've wanted to buy other items, usually radios, but I never did. 

[VictoriaPandora]

I got a CC Radio, but the weather function goes off every five seconds. I really should read the instructions on the cursed thing.
As far as I can tell there is NO radio in range where I am now, worth tuning in to. Everything is online.
It is really well built tho.

[PhantasticSanShiSan]

I got a CC Radio, but the weather function goes off every five seconds. I really should read the instructions on the cursed thing.
As far as I can tell there is NO radio in range where I am now, worth tuning in to. Everything is online.
It is really well built tho.

What's the "weather function",

[MV/Liberace!]

it's the feature that causes the radio to automatically turn on when it receives tones from the NOAA which mean there is a severe weather event on the horizon.  most radios with this feature have to be programmed by the user to refuse certain classifications of NOAA alerts, otherwise, yes, you will be hearing the blasted thing every 5 minutes.  i guess basically, unless there's a huge funnel barreling toward your house, it's not something you're going to be interested in... hence the need to program it.

yes, i too have the CCRadio.  and yes, while i also have observed it to be well built, i have almost ZERO use for it in this era.

[VictoriaPandora]

Well, it has a lot to do with where I am... I honestly think I reprogrammed it when I moved here to cover three counties since I have family scattered about, but when you live in an area where 70 tornadoes can rip through in an average evening it just doesn't make sense. It never went off even once the entire time I lived in Sedona.
Really we get so much bad weather my roof would literally have to be ripped off before I'd go to the basement and disturb the cave crickets:)
I just hope George doesn't bring an earthquake with him. Maybe he should keep himself and his ouija board in L.A.

[MV/Liberace!]

Well, it has a lot to do with where I am... I honestly think I reprogrammed it when I moved here to cover three counties since I have family scattered about, but when you live in an area where 70 tornadoes can rip through in an average evening it just doesn't make sense. It never went off even once the entire time I lived in Sedona.
Really we get so much bad weather my roof would literally have to be ripped off before I'd go to the basement and disturb the cave crickets:)
I just hope George doesn't bring an earthquake with him. Maybe he should keep himself and his ouija board in L.A.

victoria... didn't you tell me at one time that you live in my hometown?

[Camazotz Automat]

THWACK!

(Throwing the Fred Flintstone multivitamins into the garbage.  Never felt quite right anyway, there not being any Harvey Korman-voiced Great Gazoos floating around in the bottle to call me "Dum-Dum" en mass.)

Alas, the Voice of the Great Gazoo passed into the Great Beyond today.  I was aware of the upcoming event (I remote view far better than Ed Dames, but who doesn't?) which is why I evoked the Great Harvey Korman a month ago on this board at the first logical opportunity - to time-stamp my vision.

Actual line from a Flintstones script:

Great Gazoo snaps his fingers and disappears.

Harvey Korman
February 15, 1927 ? May 29, 2008

[PhantasticSanShiSan]

He was truly awesome. I'll never forget early childhood memories of how much he and Tim Conway would make my dad howl, by making each other laugh on the set of The Carrol Burnett Show.  R.I.P. HK.

[Camazotz Automat]

He was truly awesome. I'll never forget early childhood memories of how much he and Tim Conway would make my dad howl, by making each other laugh on the set of The Carol Burnett Show.  R.I.P. HK.

Yes, that's where I knew him first, from his brilliant comedy on the Carol Burnett Show long before I knew he was the voice behind the little green cape.  Between Dick Martin who said "Goodnight, Dick" on May the 24th and Harvey Corman, it's been a very unfortunate six days from this fellow trickster's eyes.

Also within these six days, Earle Hagen, just left the room, taking all of his musical experience with him.  I imagine he had intersected paths with Martin and Corman several times.  How many of you have whistled the theme from The Andy Griffith Show?   

Earle H. Hagen (88) co-composer of the jazz classic Harlem Nocturne who also wrote memorable themes for The Andy Griffith Show, I Spy, The Mod Squad, and other TV shows. During his long musical career, Hagen performed with the top bands of the swing era, composed for movies and TV, and wrote one of the first textbooks on movie composing. For TV, he composed original music for more than 3,000 episodes, pilots, and TV movies, including theme songs for That Girl, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Gomer Pyle, USMC. He died in Rancho Mirage, California on May 26, 2008.

[EvB]

regarding the PC Magazine subscription rate... i believe their standard one-year subscription is over $25, but it's still waaaaay below that overpriced after dark rag.  however... i did find a discounted one year subscription for you here:  http://www.magazinemaster.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=1965&idAff=55

I subscribed - thanks!

[EvB]

The Carol Burnett Show was a weekly family event in my house.   I've heard that Tim Conway would often  decline to rehearse with the cast - he'd just read the script and "wing it" as the others did their best to stay in character.  This is one of my favorite out-takes from one of those tapings - where everyone, including "Mr. Tim" himself - fails the "Conway Test".

http://www.youtube.com/v/VbXdOs7bm68&hl=en"

[VictoriaPandora]

victoria... didn't you tell me at one time that you live in my hometown?

Yeah I do Michael, and it still sucks. But we have a new and improved Rush Limbaugh mural... that just brings joy to my soul everytime I walk to the river:)
Sorry, I thought I had this set to notification on new replies... so I never saw this post. But then again my email server is owned by comcast, aol, wal-mart and the kitchen sink. So lately they are just sending my e-mail to Mars to search for signs of life and have notified me not to worry my pretty little head about it all.

I do have some good news though, Matt Blunt has finally done something worthwhile... maybe. Since I bought this little house on the river, the new arts and drama campus has gone up half a block from me, and I have some sort of offer to rennovate my house based on the HERO grant. Got a simple little house here, with loads of stained glass in the windows (my own art)... I suspect they want me to be a showcase for those parents who are deciding where to send their babies off to university. Hey, I can do that, it's my area of expertise. Anyway, for me, it is good news. Up to $20,000 in grants for improvements. And if they want to fix my wiring, I'd be willing to make things even prettier.

[MV/Liberace!]

i am at this moment enjoying some pain pills as a result of a cracked rib.  i am also moving threads to new places to accommodate the recent changes we've made around this place.

i found this thread and thought it would be a good idea to post here and bring some new attention to it.  seemed like an interesting topic, especially since a lot of new people have come to this site recently and would certainly have something to add here.

sooooo... what have you bought as a result of what you've heard on coast to coast?

[EvB]

i am at this moment enjoying some pain pills as a result of a cracked rib.  i am also moving threads to new places to accommodate the recent changes we've made around this place

You smash your finger - you crack your rib.  GEEEEZE Michael, are you abusing yourself cuz you like the uber-drugs, or - are you just a klutz?   ;

[MV/Liberace!]

You smash your finger - you crack your rib.  GEEEEZE Michael, are you abusing yourself cuz you like the uber-drugs, or - are you just a klutz?   ;

ev... i have had such a bad run of luck lately health-wise.  just as my finger was almost healed up completely, i slipped and fell in the shower at a marriott suites hotel i stay in weekly.  i landed on the edge of the tub, on my god damned ribs.  there really is no more horrid way to land in such a situation.  thank god for my wife who has made things easier for me in every way she can think to.  i really depend on her so much.

[EvB]

ev... i have had such a bad run of luck lately health-wise.  just as my finger was almost healed up completely, i slipped and fell in the shower at a marriott suites hotel i stay in weekly.  i landed on the edge of the tub, on my god damned ribs.  there really is no more horrid way to land in such a situation.  thank god for my wife who has made things easier for me in every way she can think to.  i really depend on her so much.

Ouch Ouch OUCH!  Sorry to hear it - and only glad you did not hit your HEAD.  People die that way (now how's THAT for a "cheer up" thought?)

[VictoriaPandora]

That's strange, I got a topic notify on this and the forum is back to it's old formatting? It's much easier (for me at least) to see with the lighter background.
Michael, sorry to hear about your rib, I know how painful that is and I guess not much can be done about a cracked rib.

Hey, did you guys hear George say the other night that the Swastika was Hitlers "logo"? And he absolutely MAULED his guests name on the into but I didn't wite it down. Not sure the thing that came out of his mouth in place of an actual name could actually be depicted in mere letters.

Ian sucked last night too, really for the first time. His guest was the snitch who infiltrated the Hells Angels. I guess you can't expect a chior boy to understand those darker shades of society, he would have been better off steering clear of the whole thing.

Oh and as far as the topic of the thread...well since C2C is radio I think it would inspire me to buy a TV, especially since maybe George isn't going to get his new show on the history channel. (I think it was the history channel at least.)

[Caruthers612]

      A very good topic. Many years ago, late 90s I guess, a close friend of mine was about to turn forty. We were C2C buddies (he was the one who'd introduced me to it), and we used to joke about the C Crane Company and other products advertized on the show. He was a diehard listener, though, and I knew he had no family or others to give him any kind of present, and would really use and get a kick out of the CC Radio. So, I ponied up and bought him that. He went nuts when he got it.

M

[EvB]

His guest was the snitch who infiltrated the Hells Angels.

I found that show very interesting.  And, I thought the questions that were asked were exactly the sort of question many member of the general public would have.  I, too, had bought into the "Hell's Angel Light" public persona, and still suspect that the vast majority of the members are like the people i have casually known - perhaps a bit rough about the edges at times but gallant - rather like the old image of the trucker as the "Knight of the Road"  Around here - hoards of Angles (as well as other bike clubs - the the Angles stand out) rolling down the road on often very impressive bikes is as much a sign of spring as crocuses and apple blossoms.

The guest was - I realize - speaking of an aspect of life as a Hell's Angel that can't help but effect them all - but he was also talking, in the worst case scenarios, about a special group with the group.

That show was one of my "keepers"  (though most of my keepers are by Art)

And to try and bring this around to something on topic for the thread: is there a C-Crane Radio that can play MP3?  One of these days I'm going to get one of those radios!

[MV/Liberace!]

And to try and bring this around to something on topic for the thread: is there a C-Crane Radio that can play MP3?  One of these days I'm going to get one of those radios!

i have a ccradio, and the AM reception is probably better than any radio i've ever owned.  they call it a CCRadio, but when you look at it, the name SANGEAN is plastered on the front of it in big letters.  you can't go wrong, EVER, by getting a radio by sangean.  EVER.  remember that.

if you want a ccradio that can play mp3, i think you're going to be disappointed.  that ability, to my knowledge, is not explicitly built in to the radio.  however, the ccradio does have a line input jack so you can pipe in audio from an external source like your mp3 player.