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Okay, robotrippin' primer: $5 might get it, depending on how much it costs in your particular local plus whatever sales tax. There are generic brands available, but selection varies on a store-by-store basis. Your average bottle of Max Strength Tussin has a 118 ml volume with a dosage strength of 15 mg DXM per 5 ml of the solution, which works out to 354 mg of Dex. That's a respectable dose, should get you nicely to the second plateau, but don't expect a Woodstockian world-altering mindfuck. It feels more like being drunk than anything until it really kicks in, which can take anywhere from forty-five minutes or so to two hours depending on a variety of factors, so give it time. The effect will last a few hours, hard to gauge exactly how long because it's pretty random. Eating a little something beforehand is strongly recommended, cuz puking is par for the course with this stuff. While you're tripping, you'll be thinking a lot of Deep Meaningful Thoughts but articulating them is difficult; I keep meaning to get a tape recorder and keep a trip diary of sorts, but have never gotten around to it. Robotripping is best done alone, except for other fellow trippers, cuz otherwise everyone will laugh at how stupid you're acting. Truth be told, your best trip companion can often be just a stack of DVDs to watch. If you feel some depression on the way down, don't worry, that happens a lot. Oh, and don't expect to be able to get a decent erection for at least a day or so afterwards. That's about it.

I've argued this with you on several occasions, Mike, and I can never comprehend your stubborn resistence to the very simple equation of "most votes = winner". Majority rule is the most basic fundament of democracy, and we've had four elections now where the minority ruled. Big cities wouldn't dominate in a popular vote system. Nobody would dominate. Every single individual vote would be counted equally. "But what about big-city vote fraud" you'll say. Well, first of all, if there's no fraud or scandal in the elections these days and everything runs so smoothly, how would all this new fraud come about? And secondly even if that were an issue, my favorite voting system idea, doling out the electoral votes individually in each state based on the percentage of the popular votes that the candidates receive in that state, neatly sidesteps that issue altogether by narrowing the effect of any possible voter fraud to just one small area.

Why? Except for the parody trailers and the HOF inductions, all of it looks like filler crap to me. EDIT: although I will probably buy it myself, just for the parodies. Those fucking ruled.

Aw fuck. Every time I think I've innovated something, I find out later that someone else already invented it. First the theory of relativity, then West Side Story, now this. DAMN YOU THUMBTACK.

Supposedly you can boil it down some kinda way to just straight DXM itself, but I've never bothered trying. Some of the stuff on Erowid was kinda interesting, but a lot of it was just subjective junk that doesn't hold true for every different user. Plus the formatting & organization of the posts was really bad. On the subject of other hallucinogens, I want some shrooms sooooo bad. I've only done them once, and then it wasn't much, but goddamn it was fantastic. Best body buzz I've ever had. Always wanted to trip acid, but never got around to it. Used to want to try Xstacy, but then had a friend who OD'd and died from it so that kinda killed that urge.

Not quite. The casinos' security divisions are pretty friendly with each other and share information on card counters and other "inventory loss" risks. To quote The Sandlot: "FOR. EV. ER."

I was thinking of mentioning Xtina in "Dirrty", but managed to keep my raging testosterone in check.

Aw come on, they're not THAT bad. Fine stuff like Final Fantasy X and Kingdom Hearts were worth waiting through a bunch of crap for. How come they've never done a Mario Vs. Sonic game?

Eh, I dunno, I kinda like this idea. There are a lot of really busy people who have a hard time making it to the polls, plus the lines grow to epic lengths after work hours. As to the salary thing, I'm sure that some kind of special exemption could be worked out where the election workers are paid an ordinary wage. Also, aren't a lot of those people volunteers anyway? Election reform is certainly needed. After all, we've got a system that has given victory to the man who lost the popular vote in four separate instances now. But I hardly think that the 2004 election was rife with fraud and scandal; too many people were watching too damn hard and it would've been noticed.

I demand a post count of negative That Number.

Awww. I think that this board could use more hot Russian tennis-playing chicks, no matter how crazy they are. I'm probably a majority of one in this opinion, but I really liked her. It's been years since the incident, why not give her another chance?

I'm not exactly sure if I've ever made it to 4th. I've been reeeeeeeally royally fucked up on a few occasions, but don't know exactly where you'd put the cutoff mark. Especially since I rarely just do straight DXM and usually mix in other various cold meds, antihistimines, and other crap. Oh, and almost everything seems more nuanced, deep, and meaningful when you're robotrippin. Try watching some of the better Firefly episodes while you're in that state and you'll really see what I mean.

Any Weird Al Yankovich video.

The second one should've ended with Mario finding Luigi in the same position as the Princess. Now THAT would've been funny.

He was IWA Mid-South champion for about five minutes, but other than that nothing else comes to mind. Looks like a decent tournament on paper, even if they did go with the most obvious winners in each round.

The real story of who's most important to Vince: look at overall matches wrestled, and which top guys got days off. Triple H had fewer matches than any other active full-time wrestler on the roster. Kinda reminds me of how Hogan almost never wrestled on Nitro.

*bump* Just now finally got around to renting the DVD and seeing Firefly for the first time ever. Don't yell at me, there's a shitload of great movies/tv/books/music/wrestling in the world and I can't get to everything at once. Also, the idea of a "Space Western", starring three of my least-favorite Buffyverse villains, which had been cancelled before it even got a season finale, well it didn't exactly appeal to me. But watch it I eventually did... and Holy Random Chinese Cursing but did this show kick ass. It kicked so much ass that it had to lie down, take a nap, and allow the ass's wounds to heal just so it could wake up and kick it again. I know everyone had their various thoughts to share way way long ago, but dammit I never did, so here goes: -Alright, first off, the show wasn't perfect, so let me bitch just about one little thing. The Western theme. Didn't like it. Thought it detracted from the show a little, cuz it just didn't make sense to me to have people living in dirty shacks and riding around on horses in the era of spaceships. And the weakest episodes (Hearts of Gold comes to mind) all seem to have focused on the Western aspect more, while the strongest ones tended to be more about spaceships. If I wanted to watch a funny futuristic Western that was cancelled too soon, well the complete Adventures Of Briscoe County is just an ebay auction away. But anyway, that's pretty much the only big complaint I had. -The casting fucking ruled. They somehow found the most perfect actor to play each part. Even characters that should've been boring as hell (Book, Wash) or ones who seemed ripped off other Joss characters ("And now starring Adam Baldwin as Spike and Jewel Staite as Willowfred") instead seemed fresh and interesting thanks to the people playing them. -The fact that they'd bring minor one-shot characters back for another episode. I never expected to see Nischtka or Saffron again, and it was a pleasant surprise when I did. -Creepy villains that we practically never saw. Though we barely glimpsed the Reavers or the Men In Black & Blue, they were all the more effective because of that. -Making casual sex into an acceptable thing on the first season of a one-hour action/scifi/drama show. So much of the time on network TV, sex is either treated as a grave matter or just avoided entirely. (Shit, how long was it before anyone got laid onscreen in any episode of any Star Trek series, or X-Files, etc?) Even Buffy fell into this trap. But thankfully Joss seems to finally gotten a bit bolder in that department. To me, one of the biggest laughs of the whole show was the revelation of how Kaylee first got her job. -Casual shock violence also rules. Whether he's dealing with a slimey cop, an overly vindictive giant, a fencing fop, or even a wayward member of his own crew, I loved how Mal wasn't afraid to skip the small stuff and jump right to deadly force when necessary. -River Tam. And for that matter, Summer Glau. The perfect example of how this show could take a lame old idea and turn it into something captivating. I mean, come on, yet another Insane Genius Superhero who was operated on by an evil secret agency? Shit, that idea was already a cliche even when Wolverine first came around. Plus, the character of the Creepy Little Girl Who's More Than She Seems ain't exactly new either ::plays The Redeadening theme music::. But River turned out to be my favorite character on the show. (Well, second favorite. Jayne rules.) Glau's performance was so amazingly dead-on. I've known (and dated) a few stark raving psychopaths in my time, and the portrayal of River was right on the money as far as such people are really like: completely coherent and likable at some times, deadly mindfucking crazy at others. And the climactic moment where she "just did the math" was both a major mark-out and terribly unsettling. Like everyone, I can't wait til the movie comes out. But I do wonder how it'll address & tie up all the various loose ends and plot issues. There's a shitload of them: River's past, Mal and Imara's relationship, Jayne's disloyal streak, Book's past, Simon and Kaylee's relationship, the Reavers, Imara's past, Mal and Zoe's relationship, the Alliance, and the whole crew's endless quest for freedom. Quite a lot to polish off in just two hours. But if anyone can, it's Team Joss, so here's hoping.

Really?

***** Motherfucking OREGON TRAIL references. I love this board.

Well... shit happens.

With inflation, gas costs, etc, might as well reintroduce the $2 bill. Why not? After all, contemporary innovation did work so well with those gold dollar coins...

They should make a movie about this, it'll draw I tell ya!

I found a Blockbuster that has all of Joss's stuff to rent, and I've been watching and rewatching the Angel Season 5 dvd set. I gotta say, the extras were disappointing. Great, GREAT episodes, but disappointing extras. Also, I watched all of Firefly. I said godDAMN, but that was some amazing TV. I want to be Whedon when I grow up.

I don't know how to respond to that, so I'll just take it as a backhanded compliment. No, I was sincere when I wrote that. I was drunk too, kinda like I am now, but as best as I recall it was supposed to have been a compliment. Just a badly [drunkenly] worded one.

Now THAT'S funny.