Christian

"Dont really like sports

Am too shy or awkward around girls

Enjoy seeing chicks make out

Read whatever I can find

Am not athletic"

Yeah, most of these examples positively scream "SOCIALLY INEPT NERD!", not gay. I think some of you are confused. You're wishing women looked at you and said, "I think he's gay, I'll pass just to make sure.", when in reality they're thinking the truth about all of us, "Gee, that guy has absolutely nothing going for them. I bet he sits in his parents' basement reading comic books all day! snicker".

:lol:

John's first example could be just the use of imagery, but that second song talking about the shepherd coming to shepherd my heart (or whatever the hell) is very much Christian imagery (unless he's talking about Buddha....nah!).

And, as I said, crying dolphins are always a Buddhist image! Or, is that a pot-smoking, hippie image? I forget.

Yeah, well I normally just go around talking like that all the time!

No wonder I have no friends.....

"No seriously I've considered it, even tried it once but it really ain't for me. "

Oh, so that's all I was to you, just an experiment! :icon_cry:

It makes you feel positively dirty, this, doesn't it?

"he was just doing the old tradition of cutting out someone's family line - they kill you, and your children/wife so there's noone to come back for revenge.

That's positively medieval!

I'm guessing this practice is part of a tradition of feuding, which unfortunately still exists in some places."

The Mafia still practices it on some occasions.

What purpose?

It's become some sort of weird living experiment in alienation.

It's how one becomes Invisible, isn't it? One of the invisible people.

You have one thing left in your life and then that goes away. It must be a joke, a cosmic joke, but we just don't fucking get it!

No friends, no job, never married....But, you're still alive? Yes, you are! You are now one of the invisible ones. We can't feel, because no one ever sees us, and without a sounding board of another human being, we're obviously nothing.

Maybe next we can go live on the streets and mumble to ourselves about God being a terrorist. It's the final phase. We just disappear into another reality and nothing ever notices we're gone.

Shakira and I go way back.

Not long after I first met Terri, she asked me, "Do you know that song 'Underneath Your Clothes' by Shakira?" I replied, "Yeah, I know of it." She said, "That song describes how I feel about you."

It was at that moment that I knew I wanted her very badly.

Nice start, writing wise. Unfortunately, the art made me wonder why Chas was pining over Angie.

The logo is glaring and tacky on that cover.

It was nice of them to cram a small blurb about Mina's novels onto there.

This wasn't my favourite of the new covers we've seen either. John looks like a grumpy Fox Mulder and there's a widget dancing behind him.

I know the lead singer of Live was a Buddhist by the time of "Secret Samadhi", so either

A.) He converted and used to be a devout Christian, or

B.) Someone else in the band is a Christian and writes lyrics.

Please, don't squeeze the bunny. They have soft, delicate insides.

I think that woman is sexing her rabbit, actually....

I'm bi-sexual....in that I have to BUY sex!

Sorry.

Straight male. 30 years old. Holly, Michigan. I like to read, go for long walks on late evenings, and spend time with my dog Buddy. I'm looking for a woman between the ages of.... :lol:

I went through a period right after high school where I wished I was gay and sort of pretended like I might possibly be gay, but never did anything about it, just sort of dropped hints to people I know that I could possibly be gay....but then I realized that I had no interest in males and that I was more likely asexual....except it was just a phase of my life where I had no interest in ever dating or having a relationship.

Only been with women, only have interest in women, but thinking being an asexual looks inticing again right now.

Last I heard, I think Hilde is with her father who doesn't have internet access. At least, I think that's what she told me.

Pooka-

uhh........uhh......(?)..... :lol:

I have to pretend you are all males so that I can talk to you.

Either that, or there's lots of lonely males around here who need something to think about at night.

I quite enjoy "Live".

"Throwing Copper" is an amazing album and "Secret Samadhi" is also quite good.

What do you mean by "Christian Rock" though? is that an actual sub-genre or just saying that they put subliminal Christian thought into their lyrics? Because, if it's the latter, the lead singer is actually a Buddhist. You can tell when he starts singing about crying dolphins....

Is this really the lyrics to that song?! :lol:

"For you, I'd give up all I own

And move to a communist country

If you came with me, of course

And I'd file my nails so they don't hurt you

And lose those pounds, and learn about football

If it made you stay, but you won't, but you won't"

It was never implied anywhere that the bombing of the pain reliever of mass destruction plant was performed by W....unless you were just clarifying the point for people who may not be so well endowed (to the truth).

It was the beginning of the descent.

And yes, since we don't agree with your opinion, we are obviously in need of mental help.

Tefe is in "Swamp Thing".

At the end of Diggle's run she lost her powers and her memories of being a plant elemental and went away with Abby to be raised as a normal girl with weird vague remembrances of having a swamp man as her father.

Recently, I've heard, Dysart is planning to give Tefe her full memory and powers back, thereby making the current "Swamp Thing" a complete waste of time (not that it wasn't already)!

Yes.

I think with a new creative team.

They say you never forget your first kiss.

Well, how about it? Did any of you forget?

Who was your first kiss with? Do you remember her name?

When was it?

Where was it?

If you've never been kissed, that's ok too. You can make up a story about how your first kiss was with a famous person or a comic book character and we'll all believe you!

The first girl I kissed was Amanda Foran. I never forgot.

I was in 3rd grade, she was in 2nd.

We kissed at the end of school one day.

She had a crush on me and was chasing me around for weeks. I liked her, but I had to pretend like I wanted nothing to do with her, because I wanted to seem cool to all my guy friends.

Then one day after school, I passed by her desk, and she was saying something flowery to me, and I just shrugged my shoulders and kissed her. We "dated" (he he) for a few months after that, with much more serious kissing ensuing, but eventually being torn between my guy pals and her was too much, and I had to let go....alas!

She transferred schools at the end of that school year, and I kept in contact with her by phone for about a year, mostly talking about video games we both liked, and then I lost track of her.

Sorry, I can't do scans.

DeMatteis & Giffen's "Justice League" is certainly one of the feel good comics, ever.

Peter David's "Hulk" and "X-Factor" certainly had its moments.

Paul Jenkins' "Peter Parker:Spider Man" run put a smile on my face when it wasn't making me teary-eyed.

Peter Milligan's "X-Statix" is brilliant fun!

Kyle Baker's "I Die At Midnight" was pretty damn funny.

Alan Moore's "Supreme:The Return" had me laughing quite a bit.

Those fake ads that Chris Ware puts in his "Acme Novelty Library" are HILARIOUS!

Daniel Clowes has quite a few moments with most of the stories in his "20th Century Eightball" TPB.

The funniest comic series of all time....Alan Moore's "1963" mini-series! Alan Moore pretending to be Stan Lee had me laughing so loud and hard, I was afraid I wasn't going to stop.

That's off the top of my head.

Sorry little buddy, no No-Prize this time. We here at the batty Bullpen like to think of those kids as vampires and as every true Marvelite knows every vampire was wiped out way back in the classic Dr. Strange #29, when the good doctor recited the Montesi formula, and gee did he ever!

Thanks for keeping a sharp eye out though!

Keep working on those drawings and maybe you can be making minimum wage drawing for Marvel someday too!

-Your overheated, yet undersexed editor

From the Terrorism:Theirs and Ours files

People in America are always raving about how short-sighted American policy is. We all agree, right? ONLY, if you listen to a majority of these views, they all say that America goes into a foreign country, does a very good job blowing the place up, but then all that does is leave the poor U.S. the job of rebuilding everything. Well, that's not the reality and never has been, and here is more proof.

"Reconstruction, thy name is not the United States

The Bush administration has announced that it does not intend to seek any new funds for Iraq reconstruction in the budget request going before Congress in February. When the last of the reconstruction budget is spent, US officials in Baghdad have made clear, other foreign donors and the fledgling Iraqi government will have to take up what authorities say is tens of billions of dollars of work yet to be done merely to bring reliable electricity, water and other services to Iraq's 26 million people.[6]

It should be noted that these services, including sanitation systems, were largely destroyed by US bombing -- most of it rather deliberately -- beginning in the first Gulf War: 40 days and nights the bombing went on, demolishing everything that goes into the making of a modern society; followed by 12 years of merciless economic sanctions, accompanied by 12 years of often daily bombing supposedly to protect the so-called no-fly zones; finally the bombing, invasion and widespread devastation beginning in March 2003 and continuing even as you read this.

"The U.S. never intended to completely rebuild Iraq," Brig. Gen. William McCoy, the Army Corps of Engineers commander overseeing the work, told reporters at a recent news conference. In an interview this past week, McCoy said: "This was just supposed to be a jump-start."[7]

It's a remarkable pattern. The United States has a long record of bombing nations, reducing entire neighborhoods, and much of cities, to rubble, wrecking the infrastructure, ruining the lives of those the bombs didn't kill. And afterward doing shockingly little or literally nothing to repair the damage.

On January 27, 1973, in Paris, the United States signed the "Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam". Among the principles to which the United States agreed was that stated in Article 21: "In pursuance of its traditional [sic] policy, the United States will contribute to healing the wounds of war and to postwar reconstruction of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam [North Vietnam] and throughout Indochina."

Five days later, President Nixon sent a message to the Prime Minister of North Vietnam in which he stipulated the following:

(1)The Government of the United States of America will contribute to postwar reconstruction in North Vietnam without any political conditions. (2)Preliminary United States studies indicate that the appropriate programs for the United States contribution to postwar reconstruction will fall in the range of $3.25 billion of grant aid over 5 years.

Nothing of the promised reconstruction aid was ever paid. Or ever will be.

During the same period, Laos and Cambodia were wasted by US bombing as relentlessly as was Vietnam. After the Indochina wars were over, these nations, too, qualified to become beneficiaries of America's "traditional policy" of zero reconstruction.

Then came the American bombings of Grenada and Panama in the 1980s. There goes our neighborhood. Hundreds of Panamanians petitioned the Washington-controlled Organization of American States as well as American courts, all the way up to the US Supreme Court, for "just compensation" for the damage caused by Operation Just Cause (this being the not-tongue-in-cheek name given to the American invasion and bombing). They got just nothing, the same amount the people of Grenada received.

In 1998, Washington, in its grand wisdom, fired more than a dozen cruise missiles into a building in Sudan which it claimed was producing chemical and biological weapons. The completely pulverized building was actually a major pharmaceutical plant, vital to the Sudanese people. The United States effectively admitted its mistake by releasing the assets of the plant's owner it had frozen. Surely now it was compensation time. It appears that nothing has ever been paid to the owner, who filed suit, or to those injured in the bombing.[8]

The following year we had the case of Yugoslavia; 78 days of round-the-clock bombing, transforming an advanced state into virtually a pre-industrial one; the reconstruction needs were breathtaking. It's been 6 1/2 years since Yugoslavian bridges fell into the Danube, the country's factories and homes leveled, its roads made unusable, transportation torn apart. Yet the country has not received any funds for reconstruction from the architect and leading perpetrator of the bombing campaign, the United States.

The day after the above announcement about the US ending its reconstruction efforts in Iraq, it was reported that the United States is phasing out its commitment to reconstruction in Afghanistan as well.[9] This after several years of the usual launching of bombs and missiles on towns and villages, resulting in the usual wreckage and ruin."

From William Blum's newsletter:

"The sign has been put out front: "Iraq is open for business."

We read about things done and said by the Iraqi president, or the Ministry of this or the Ministry of that, and it's easy to get the impression that Iraq is in the process of becoming a sovereign state, albeit not particularly secular and employing torture, but still, a functioning, independent state. Then we read about the IMF and the rest of the international financial mafia -- with the US playing its usual sine qua non role -- making large loans to the country and forgiving debts, with the customary strings attached, in the current instance ending government subsidies for fuel and other petroleum products. And so the government starts to reduce the subsidies for these products which affect almost every important aspect of life, and the prices quickly quintuple, sparking wide discontent and protests.[1] Who in this sovereign nation wanted to add more suffering to the already beaten-down Iraqi people? But the international financial mafia are concerned only with making countries meet certain criteria sworn to be holy in Economics 101, like a balanced budget, privatization, and deregulation and thus making themselves more appealing to international investors.

In case the presence of 130,000 American soldiers, a growing number of sprawling US military bases, and all the designed-in-Washington restrictive Coalition Provisional Authority laws still in force aren't enough to keep the Iraqi government in line, this will do it. Iraq will have to agree to allow their economy to be run by the IMF for the next decade. The same IMF that Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist and dissident former chief economist at the World Bank, describes as having "brought disaster to Russia and Argentina and leaves a trail of devastated developing economies in its wake".[2]

On top of this comes the disclosure of the American occupation's massive giveaway of the sovereign nation's most valuable commodity, oil. One should read the new report, "Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq's Oil Wealth" by the British NO, Platform. Among its findings:

This report reveals how an oil policy with origins in the US State Department is on course to be adopted in Iraq, soon after the December elections, with no public debate and at enormous potential cost. The policy allocates the majority of Iraq’s oilfields -- accounting for at least 64% of the country’s oil reserves -- for development by multinational oil companies.

The estimated cost to Iraq over the life of the new oil contracts is $74 to $194 billion, compared with leaving oil development in public hands.

The contracts would guarantee massive profits to foreign companies, with rates of return of 42 to 162 percent. The kinds of contracts that will provide these returns are known as production sharing agreements. PSAs have been heavily promoted by the US government and oil majors and have the backing of senior figures in the Iraqi Oil Ministry. However, PSAs last for 25-40 years, are usually secret and prevent governments from later altering the terms of the contract.[3]

"Crude Designs" author and lead researcher, Greg Muttitt, says: "The form of contracts being promoted is the most expensive and undemocratic option available. Iraq's oil should be for the benefit of the Iraqi people, not foreign oil companies."[4]

Noam Chomsky recently remarked: "We're supposed to believe that the US would've invaded Iraq if it was an island in the Indian Ocean and its main exports were pickles and lettuce. This is what we're supposed to believe."[

"I never lost in face in you"

What the hell was that about?! :lol: