In a Yahoo 7 poll conducted here in Oz, 79% of nearly 8000 respondants prefer Barack Obama over John McCain as the next US President.... and the majority of callers to a Brisbane talk-back radio show think the only thing smart about Sarah Palin is her mouth... that McCain is an arrogant foul-mouthed pig with no respect for his wife/women (because of his temper, blurting out the trollop comment, calling her the C word).  It's something we Aussies view very dimly... but sadly, we can not vote for the better team.

In other news, Palin's 'moose meat to Britain' export hopes have taken a serious nose dive.  Apparently, the trade and foreign ministers of several Arab States, on the advice of Barack Obama, have approached Britain with a proposal to export live camel meat to make up for the shortfall in meat products caused by crazy cow syndrome.

It seems the Brits are extremely enthusiastic about the camel imports, not only because of the great boost to the meat industry, but also for the interim solution to traffic congestion, reducing greenhouse gas emmisions from cars and reducing Britain's high dependency of fossil fuels.  Given that camels have been such a reliable mode of transport for centuries, the Brits believe they are the better traffic solution to moose, which are not known for their intelligence and have been known to have a death wish when, for no apparent reason, stray into the path of hunters bullets.

Furthermore, given that Brits are reknowned for their superb 'English country gardens', the live export of camels is of specific interest to horticulturalists, who believe camel manure would be more benificial to rose gardens than moose dung, which may have properties likely to attract hunters and thus gunshot damage to prized English roses.... and while Ms Palin pleaded her case, promising to alleviate the dung issue by exporting only processed moose meat, the UK Health Minister declined the offer, saying that Palin's buckshot would increase the need for dental work and thus blow the health budget.

It seems, then, the McCain/Palin rescue package for the flagging US economy has hit rock bottom, being the Japanese also rejected her 'bridge to nowhere' exports, and the better/best bet for US finances would be the Obama/Biden ticket.  OK, so the camel meat exports to Britain do little for the US economy directly, but international/foreign relations are in better shape thanks to Barack Obama's suggestion to Arab States to open exports markets with the UK, a US ally.

My opinion?  Lower... .

Many pigs would be offended by that, Cap'n!  

Would that you were telling us about Ahmedinejad and Palin!

Probably because McCain is responsible for you losing your last dime.

Be patient. You just might get lucky. And if you do, don't blame someone else. We all share the good and bad, and you'll always have friends here, DrGuy no matter what yer political feelins', below decks we all be Pyrates!

... than a snake's belly that's a mile deep in a subterranean cavern at the bottom of the Pacific Trench.

True, they would be... if'n McCain wos of tha same species of swine....but he's not of that noble family.  He's a two legged pig descended from a species Neanderthal hog that disgraced itself with PUSS (Pigs Union of Senstitve Sows) and was banished to the wilderness, never ever again to be considered worthy of spare ribs, pork bellies or bacon.

Nah, Ahmendinejad refuses to deal with Palin, especially regarding moose meat... given that a great prophet of Biblical times foresaw  of a woman named Sarah who would inflict upon the Great Babylon a strange horned creature which had grazed upon grass that once was below the yellow snow.

hankers and wom have been working on a suite which includes the following: windowblinds skin, objectdock background and icons, iconpackager package, dx gadgets, cursors, and a wallpaper. it's pretty intense, i'm guessing, as they have been working on it for years. neither of them have been kind enough to even allow a preview or mockup of it to be shown, though. it's been widely told that their first design was scrapped when another skinner stole their idea and released his/her version of it first. i'm still baffled how the 'other skinner' knew what the design was since hank and wom are so secretive.

I was emailing it to Hank and accidently clicked on all contacts so it went out to dozens of people.  But so as to not embarress anyone, I'll keep the culprit a seret.

evil snidely whiplash. evil WOM. Ye be gettin' yers....Po'll make a vid o' ye an' I'll cackle.

hmmm...somehow, this has a tone that is anything but sincere or helpful lol ;also bear in mind that after 523 replies, the 'thread' has gone linear in having anything whatsoever to do with the McCain campaign ticket so I don't believe my post on this thread was misplaced

And do you know what really pisses me off... Bill still hasn't paid me for that bit of work, it's not like he hasn't had the time or money since Vista/Aero got released.

Sorry 'bout that, WOM and Hankers... but I swear I wos gonna share the money with you guys after I took my 90% commission.

*Oops, I just embarrassed meself *

Aye, I did 'ave a word in Gordon Brown's ear 'bout tha moose meat idear, tellin' 'im it wur not tha answer t' mad cow disease, an' 'e agreed wiv me... as did tha UK 'ealth Minister.  They reckuns tha Brit public wouldn' stand fer meat wot be full o' Palin's buckshot n' 'avin' ter pick it out so's 'em don't chip a tooth, etc.  Apart frum that products wot contain lead 'ave bin banned in Britain fer years now, an' when I told 'em tha Palin would prob'ly shoot most of 'em 'erself, they carboshed tha idear straight away.

Oh, an I doesn't 'ave ter wurry 'bout me nads none... ol' Maggie Thatcher bestowed upon I a 7 day supply o' iron drawers wot 'er 'ad made up speshul at Harrods like t' thank I fer services rendered t' tha country... she reckuned no emigrashun had e'er pleased 'er as much as wot mine did.

Yeah, I feeled so dejected when 'er took up wiv a toy boy wot wos even younger than I wur... an I wos only sixteen at tha time.

Aye but 30 what be th' question.

I figger 'e be lookin' like a miwyon (million) bucks.....all green an' wrinkled!

Rust at 16?  Ye be old!