Neat.  I never knew that Virginia is a hotspot to go Bigfoot hunting!


I wish them the best of luck. I can't imagine anything but guys out drinking and telling stories.


lol yes!  Do you still listen to the radio at all?


No, can't say that I do. I used to listen. Good for commuting. Now I use the Internet.


Me too.  In Canada, it's a law that all radios are required to have at least 40 percent Canadian music to be played on them.


The gov't wants to protect local artists, but now with the Internet, that is hard to do. People will listen to what they want, Canadian or not.


True.  There is a website people can go to listen to thousands of classic radio dramas for free.  Those were around long before my time.  Don't think I ever heard one.


I have. They're ok, but with the advent of video, not much reason to listen to radio.


I agree.  There is a finnish radio station that has broadcast a weekly news program entirely in classical latin since 1989.  I wonder who listens to that?  lol


There must be at least a dozen. They must love it! The news...in Latin!


Hi! Yes, I do like animals. How about you?


Right? lol  I have to get going.  It's been a pleasure chatting with you!  Have a good evening!


I love them!  There are about 20 quintillion individual animals on planet earth.  That's a lot!


I'd hate to have the job of counting them all. Might be interesting to defend them in court. There's a lawyer in switzerland who represents animals in court


That has to be an interesting job I would think.  In 2002 Germany became the first country in the world to give animals consitutionally guaranteed legal rights.  I wonder if does work in Germany?


It might. I guess some people thought that animals were as important as people. Animals from geographically distant areas often speak different "languages" or "dialects." Maybe dogs and cats speak a German dialect in Germany.


Wow.  I didn't know.  That's neat!  Under the 1912 Scottish protection of animals act, the Loch Ness monster is a protected species!


I guess Nessie would be able to get a good lawyer from Switzerland then.


LOL  Funny stuff!  Hiccups are something that has stayed around since early evolution when early land animals had both gills and lungs.


That's odd. I guess there are behaviors that we have that made sense a long time ago. Animals, like humans, have a dominant "paw" or side. I guess that makes sense because they have two brain hemispheres.


Hello! Are you excited for March Madness next month?


Wow! Talk about running in the family! That probably makes for some awkward family holidays.


Well, men made more money in the game, so he did okay.  The drama around the dinner table would be like all dramas, a little comedy and a little poetry.


And a lot of irritated mom and dad I'm sure! I recently learned that Jim Carrey doesn't do dramas anymore - apparently he refuses to do projects that don't project positivity. It's a nice idea, but that sounds like it REALLY limits his options


He is bi-polar, so he thinks differently that many people do.  The word drama comes from the Greek word "action".  Now if you look at movie lists, drama and action are two different genres.


Is he really? I had no idea! I know that Michael Caine got into acting because all the prettiest girls were in drama class - I wonder if any of them had any idea how great he would go on to become.


I had heard that before. I have been to the UK, and sadly none of the girls there were for me! John Hamm taught drama at his old high school and one of his student was Ellie Kemper who played on the Office.


Oh dear god, that just gave me the giggles. I've only seen a few episodes of the office, I just get too distracted to binge it. Even though I LOVE the deadpan looks to the camera.


Hugh Laurie was the highest paid dramatic actor on TV making $700,000 per episode in House.


And he was worth every penny! I can't believe that he's from the UK originally - his accent is so convincing. I know that the director actually had no idea he wasn't american at first!


I agree!  I was shocked when I finally heard him speak naturally on a talk show.  If you ever saw the show, you know we have to rule out Lupus.


I love it every year!  My son went to Kansas and I went to Oklahoma.  Kansas is not as strong as in recent years.


I'm not super into basket ball at all really, but that's what I hear! The NBA isn't my thing really. I know about the big players but that's about it. I know that they're some of the highest paid athletes.


Physicists have proven that shooting granny style is the best for free throws, but players have too much ego to use it.


Of course! It's not flashy enough! It's not sexy. I remember watching Jordan 'play' in Space Jam ages ago. It was flashy and fun to watch him. Did you know that they signed LeBron for a Space Jam 2?


No, I did not.  Air Jordan's were banned in the NBA but Jordan wore them anyway.  Nike paid a fine for every game he wore them.


Doesn't surprise me to be honest. The man has guts and doesn't care. I know LeBron did something sort of similar - he rejected a sponsorship from Reebok and just held out for Nike. Basketball players seem to really love the flashy lifestyle


Allen Iverson was pretty practical by comparison. He accepted low pay of $800,000 per season but gets a lump sum of $32,000,000 at age 55.


...I like that that's practical in the sports world. I mean, at least players like Duncan have the sense to finish college first.


Have you heard of Reggie Miller.  He once scored 40 point in a game and found out that his sister had scored 105 points and broken 8 national records.  They were both great players!


Hello there, are you a fan of comic books?


Yeah thinking about how much both franchises are worth is pretty crazy.  Speaking of Batman, who was your favorite actor to play him?


Definitely Christian Bale, too bad he didnt make more movies, I thought he was just great.


Yeah I thought he was great in those movies and I thought they were well done.  I would have to say Michael Keaton for me though.


I see, he was a great batman as well, did you happen to watch the Wonder Woman movie, the latest one?


No, but I really want to see it, I heard it was pretty good.  I also know it did really well at the box office.


I liked it, I thought it was pretty good, specially because the movie explained her past and how she came to be Wonder Woman.


Yeah and I also heard that Gal Gadot was awesome.  I think there will be more Wonder Women films to come.


There definetely will, there is a tough competition from Marvel although I like Marvel movies a lot more.


Yeah there will always be competition, but I think sometimes that is a good thing.


Yeah, it definitely is a good thing, did you know Wonder Woman was made as the secretary of the group, kind of sexist.


I am a fan of comic books specially Marvel, too bad Stan Lee died, did you know he ended every conversation with the phrase Excelsior


No I didn't know that, and yeah you can't get away with doing that these days, people are smarter.  Well it was nice talking with you today, I hope you have a good night.


Yeah that is sad to see him go, and no I didn't know that, very interesting.


Yeah apparently he did, I studied at Michigan State University and they have the largest comic book collection in the whole world.


That is impressive, I wonder just how many total comics they have there.  Do you know what the DC in DC comics stands for?


They must have thousands of comic books and no, what does it stand for?


Yeah I'm sure it's a ton.  And I guess it stands for detective comics, so its detective comics comics lol.


I see thats interesting, so do you like DC comics or Marvel comics better?


I think I would have to say Marvel, I grew up watching shows and reading those comics. How about yourself?


I would have to say DC comics only because of Batman, I love Batman, its crazy how high the comic market is valued at the US and Canada.


It might depend which colors are used in the office though. They may not be colorblind, but they still don't see as many colors as we do


Dogs are pretty good about their environment. Good hearing, good smell, so so vision. They complement our senses.


True! And we can get some of the vending machines from Istanbul that releases food and water


I like that idea. The dogs clean up and get fed. The Turks get better streets and well fed dogs.


And maybe the dogs on the streets can "interview" for jobs such as police and military


That would be cute! "Ok, where do you see yourself in five years?"


We could even teach them how to use the internet. Hopefully dogs don't get addicted to the novelty of clicking on links like we do


Dogs get addicted to people. That is their weakness. We don't deserve dogs.


If we could teach them to read, they could read the full terms for internet products that 93% of us don't read


That would be great! "Ruff ruff!" "What is it Lassie? Are the ToS a hazard?"


I wouldn't put them in charge of the backup copy of the internet though. That's too important. Nice talking with you!


I don't, but the family I nanny for does. She understands pointing fairly well, and elephants are another animal that knows that by instinct too


Oh, you're a nanny? That's great! What kind of dog do they have?


It's a rare Japanese breed. I wonder which of the 12 blood types she has. She might be a good contender to give blood at a dog blood drive


Not a shiba, is it? I've heard of the blood types. I wonder if there's a universal donor dog blood type.


I think so. There might be, but I wonder if the species varies the blood types


I wondered about breed as well. Certain breeds could be better donors, others better recipients.


Not to mention the size of the dog. Google likes all dogs though, so it might not be hard to find that kind of information


Google is great with dogs. I think that dogs can work well in an office. Cats, probably not. Too independent.


Television is called telly in some places.  Even my wife does it sometimes.  Do you?


You are dedicated beyond belief!  I don't know.  Animation can have some staying power without the characters getting old.  The last Family Guy episode attracted flowers from the Simpsons crew.


Toons are great, but what makes them come alive are the voices of the actors. Like THomas the Tank Engine, which was narrated by great voice artists such as George Carlin, Ringo Starr, and Alec Baldwin.


The are so many identifiable voices.  Is you PhD in a field where you could have an opinion about the power output of the sun?  I have heard that it produces enough energy for the earth in one second that would last 500000 years.


If this is true, why am I still buy rechargeable batteries? No, my expertise is not in the sun, but I still get to enjoy it's hot plasma pushing out electromagnetic energy on my face.


Can you imagine that it is only one billionth the size of the biggest star in our galaxy?


I think that star is named Bertha. She is one hot ball of gas. But did you know that the surface of the sun is not as hot as a lightening bolt? But it can still fry eggs if necessary.


I don't think I could keep from burning the eggs.  I live in Phoenix so some TV news station fries some eggs on the sidewalk each year.  News is just one of the genres on TV.


An egg has whites and yolks (which are yellow), but did you know that the sun is actually white, and only seems yellow due to atmospheric scattering. So next time you cook an egg, ask yourself, what color are egg whites really?


I have so many other things to worry about and now I have to worry about my eggs!  The fact that the sun is white is reassuring to me since my science classes taught me that a white star is hotter than a red star so our sun will surely last for my lifetime.


It is comforting. But poor old Neptune is probably out of the loop on this. Since 1846, Neptune has only made one full orbit around the sun.  Who knows how many episodes of Pokemon will be aired befoe it completes another orbit?


No. To me, "Telly" will always be the actor Telly Savalas. AKA Kojak. I'll usually call it the TV or the boob tube.


You and I will never know.  Nice talk.  Good evening


Nice to be reminded on Savalas.  TV now comes in color, 3D and of course sound.


It can be analogue or digital, live or recorded, but whatever shape it's transmission  is, it is mass media for advertising, entertainment, or news. I think mostly for sales of pharmaceuticals, since every other ad is for a drug of some sort.


Ha!  Drugs with disclaimers!  Do you plan to watch the Oscars this year?  They consist of 24 awards.


Probably not. More likely I will be watching old UK remakes of that 70s Show. They only made 10 episodes, so I can binge watch all in one night. How about you?


It depends on the counter programming.  I don't like the politics of it, but I do like some of the horse races.  Walt Disney still holds the lead with 22 Oscars.


I agree on the politics. I am a PhD scientist. I do not stand up in public and lecture people about the virtues of method acting. It would be silly since I am not a professional actor. Likewise, why should an actor, who only pretends to be a politician on TV, be considered an expert on world affars, national defense, etc. But I digress. The UK version of the 70s show was called days like these


Great analogy!  You know we have the Emmys as an award show for TV.  The Oscar show has been nominated for Emmys before.


Has Pokemon ever gotten an Emmy? I learned all I know about politics from watching the 750 Pokemon episodes.


I believe so, though I don't know what that means. I didn't realize Warner Bros. signed a contract with James to make a Space Jam sequel! That will make a lot of millenials and Gen Xers very happy.


I do remember that first version with MJ


Yeah, Michael Jordan is a legend. He regularly wore his Air Jordans, despite them being banned by the NBA.


That's because Nike paid the fines.  Id say theyve got their money back from that,


Definitely. I wonder if Tim Duncan has made back the money he lost by staying in college instead of going directly to the NBA?


Probably over time he has, he was a pretty successful player.


Even without shooting "granny style", which physicists have proved is the best way to consistently shoot a free throw.


I wish some players would use that method.  Theyd be more succesful.  Like Shaq


Yeah, but most players refuse to do it because it looks stupid.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar dunked so often, it got the shot banned in college basketball for over a decade.


It's a pretty lucrative position, evidently. Even a college basketball coach is one of the highest paid state employees of 39 out of 50 states.


That's crazy.  LeBron isnt doing too bad either.  90 million dollar deal from Nike.


Haha, yeah. He was right not to take that deal Reebok made him when he was 18 for only $10 million.


I would jump at that now.  But I wouldnt be gettin 90 mil from Nike either.


Reebok offered Allen Iverson a pretty sweet deal. He got $800k a year until he's 55, then he gets $32 million.


Man these stars getting all these crazy deals.  Lebrons high school games tickets would go for $100


He does some good, too, though. He was able to raise $6 mil for charity.


Hey did you watch the movie about Stephen Hawking? It was tragic to have him eventually pass away.


That is interesting too. How about the theory that only one electron exists in the universe? A bit out there if you ask me.


Thats a weird theory but who know maybe its right, the more we learn about the universe the more questions we have about it


Yeah exactly and sometimes the most craziest theories are correct. Earth will be virtually helium free by the end of this century!


I guess no more helium ballons and funny voicecs for us,


Bummer what's the fun in that! What's crazy is that days were only 5.5 hours long when the earth was first formed.


Can you imagine that? I would be like a 125 years old by now, really wise


Haha me as well! Unfortunately though more than 80% of the earth's natural forests have been destroyed...


More than 80% wow, ware abusing our planet, soon nothing will remain


Hopefully we can conserve what we have. Especially given that Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago!


4.5 billions and in just a few we managed to deplete many of its resources, crazy how we can know the age of earth based on a carbon 14 test


In my opinion he is the most brilliant mind ever to be born, sad, a real tragedy we have lost a lot


Unbelievable! The gravitational pull between earth and the moon causes the tides to change!


Yes I agree with you there. His ashes were buried but he will never be forgotten!


His ashes were laid to res in Westminster Abbey right? his theoris of the universe are so interesing


They really are. Yes and over 1000 people attended his memorial service. Very nice send off.


Thats not many considering his contributiions to society, I bet the people who attended his memorial were limited, his ashes are burried between two master geniuses


Yeah true. He impressed so many other scientists with his interpretation of Einstein's theory.


He spent a lifetime studying the universe, he had a motor neuron disease, sad but he could still use his great brain


Lucky for him. The universe is so vast. There is a region of space that may be pulling galaxies outside the observable universe!


That is amazing! there is also this theory that we might exist inside of a black hole


Hello did you know that an iphone has more computing power than an entire us nuclear icbm deterrent?


hmmm not sure,  but if it isnt then I think everyone is contributing to giving clean water!!  lol I hardly know anyone that actually makes phone calls.


Thats what I was hoping haha.  Speaking of funny, do you like comedy?


Seinfeld, friends and Frasier three of my favorite!  I have not watched 3rd rock though.


Those are all good.  I have watched 3rd rock,  its really funny.  That was a good era,  so many good shows.


Is it about aliens?  Not like a bromance like harold and kumar?


its a family who is disguised as humans and trying to live normal lives lol I also like how I met your mother,  great show.


Wait for it...........Legendary hahahah.   That is a comedy that got a lot out of dialogue.


Yesssss!  I think hes my favorite character!  Barney.  Its a great show,  I love the whole idea of it.


And to know that he is gay makes the character even funnier!


That actually scares me...Hopefully our enemies have less technology than an Iphone.


Absolutely,  hes a good fit for that character.  His husband actually plays Lily's high school boyfriend Scooter in the show. lol Its been great talking to you.


lol doubt it.  It is really scary,  so many things can be done with phones now.


Guess if I have to quickly call New York, I can just dial 212


I wonder why NY gets the fastest area code on a rotary phone ?  Do you remember those?


yeah, funny.  Did you know telephone cables just lay on the ocean floor?


I did,  thats crazy.  They arent worried about fish or crab gnawing through it


Not sure why Unicef wants us not to use our phones.


Not sure either,  but at least they are doing it for a good cause!  Water!


hey there, do you vote regularly during elections?


Yeah me too. I mean Trump has so much money so imagine what he had at that time


Yes but Trump does not have as much as he brags about - the president's guest house is larger than the White House but I wonder about Trumps real home?


yeah i guess they get lots of guests so they need a big house. Not sure about trump though, he must have multiple homes


Yes our president is unique.  Not as unique as the first president of Zimbabwe though - he was known as president banana!


and the president of indonesia too, he has released three pop albums


Yeah there are definitely some unique presidents out there!  But the white house is not unique - it has twin buildings in Ireland and France


I wonder if the presidents of those countries live in them as well


I am not sure.  I do not think so - did you know that Washington did not live in the White House?


oh no I did not know that. I wonder, did he live in the guest house maybe since it is bigger?


No the White House had not been built at that point.  Adams was the first one who lived there.


I always vote and am glad the Democrats got control of the house.   Its crazy people blame them for the shutdown when Trump couldn't get his wall when the Republicans ran everything


Oh that explains it then. and they still use floppy discs at the white house


Yes the White House definitely does not have the latest tech - it took the Secret Service days to realize that bullets had hit it.


Yeah, I think it is important to vote too.. I mean astronauts even vote from space.


Absolutely.  Luckily it is easier for us to vote than in some places - India had a polling place in a forest full of lions for a single voter!


yeah that is for sure very different. even in the uk not all men could vote intul 1918. i wonder how one qualified


Could be they had to be land owners or some such like it used to be in our country.  But even now 34% of the black male population in Alabama has permanently lost the right to vote.


I wonder if that has to do with the various laws that prevent persons with felonies to vote


Probably.   Voting for president is an important job - since they are the head of state in most republics.


exactly. citizens of austin texas once voted to rename their garbage dump after dred durst.


That is very funny.  I was surprised that George Washington was one of our wealthiest presidents.  I never realized he was rich.


hey there what do you think of our government?


no and I wouldn't ride on teh dutch bus that goes 160mph haha


I bet the bus has a special lane or something. People hate commuting. Probably not much commuting on Mackinac Island in Michigan. It has banned motorized vehicles for over a hundred years. How do ambulances and fire engines get around?


I've been there, and they do have those things for emergencies, but its mostly horses and the whole island smells like horse dung lol


Horse dung? Charming. It must do wonders for the appetite. Have you been to Japan?


no but I hear all their highways are tolls, is that true?


Yes, and rather expensive ones at that. But the roads are fast because there is much less traffic, so you get what you pay for.


ya, it also costs like $300 do drive across the country, so that also sucks haah


Trains are a better way to travel around Japan. Unlike Iceland.


no you can't even use trains there, weird you have to take planes from city to city


I would go nuts from going through security all the time. Maybe drive a car? Intercity Uber?


Hi! The gov't needs some changes. What about you? What do you think?


ya or just get a pack of huskies and mush your way around lol


ya I think so, each government has a type of constitution but ours probably has some issues that need changing like you said


The Norwegian government donated $1 billion to help save the Amazon rainforest. I wish that our gov’t would do something like that.


ya that is a nice thing, weird that almost 90% of nevada is owned by the US gov.


A man in France impersonated a government official, and managed to sell the Eiffel Tower. Maybe he could help the gov’t sell some of the land in the Nevada.


lol good idea, and he sold it not once but 2 times, how wild!


I guess he was good at conning people. Did you hear that Wikileaks published the government's plans to destroy Wikileaks? Seems ironic.


haha it does seem ironic, do you ever travel at all? could be done by foot, car, boat, or airplane, etc?


Travel is a great form of education. I don't know if I would go to Iceland though.


Yes I did hear that theory,  that would be crazy.  I know right, grrm really likes to kill off our favorite characters!  I am kinda scared my faves are gonna get killed off in this season.


haha I know, if they kill too many people then I won't have anyone to root for, did you know Arya is the fastest rising baby name in the usa?


I believe it.  It is really popular,  but I seen mostly Aria,  different spelling.


ah I haven't met one yet, did you know they film GOT mostly in ireland? that's why it looks so foreign to me I guess


Yeah My aunt and cousin went there in the summer and took pics at the sites and brought me back a bunch of souvenirs lol Definitely on my bucket list now!


well thats lucky! have you heard of the show game of lions? it follows a pack of lions as they live in the wild haha, probably lots of killing haha


yes I have I have only watched 2 episodes though.  I love those animal shows.  It was ok,  I like ocean stuff better.  Its funny that they chose a lion show though lol


haha ya of all animals, do you eat fast food? i guess the drive through was invented in 1975, would have thought it happened earlier personally


Not really anymore,  except french fries!  The drive thru is an amazing invention.


I want some right now! they should make a show like game of thrones but call it game of fast food, where fast food companies battle! but if you've seen Demolition Man then you already know that Taco Bell wins the franchise wars!


I do, I can't wait for it to start in april, what about you?


Haha I have seen that movie. "All restaurants are Taco Bell"  lol Its been great chatting,  have a good one.


Same!  I still cant believe this is the last season,  but I am glad this story will come to an end.  I wonder what spin off they will do,  I would like to see a series on the Tagaryen line.


ya I can't wait either! what is crazy is that harry lloyd, the guy who played a targaryen is actually related to charles dickens, thats wild!


That is crazy!  I really hated his character though lol Viserys Targaryen.


oh ya I didn't like that guy either haha, also there is a character on game of thrones related to charlie chaplin, lots of talented-related people on that show for sure!


yeah I read that too,  I dont know that character though.  Who is your favorite GOT characters?


ya I don't know that character either, well for the uncommon characters I really like Tywin Lannister, he is so awesome and ruthless, but dead unfortunately haha, what about you


My favorites are Tyrion Lannister and Arya Stark.  Uncommon character I like Oberyn Martell.  But he died too.


ya all the best characters are dying! did you hear the rumor that little finger is still alive? he used a shapeshifter and that was who was killed, that is the rumor


that sounds about right. it looks like it is really hard on the feet. I would rather sit and listen to jazz.


Do you know why jazz trumpeters grew goatees?


I saw that, i figured it was for style and coolness.


It was actually to provide comfort while playing.


I guess that makes sense. you have this instrument against your mouth. probably good to have hair. what about women though? LOL


I am not sure. Have you heard about Pakistan jazz?


I have not. they have jazz in Pakistan? color me shocked!


Pakistan has a jazz orchestra that is currently topping the charts!


That is great! Jazz really is universal. Anyway, great chat!


You too! I am going to go listen to some jazz music.


I am terrible at dancing. i do not dance. Are you good?


Bruce Lee was a legend. I had no idea that he was so good at dancing.


Me either. He won the hong kong cha-cha championship in 1958!


The guy must have had a great sense of rhythm. he probably killed on the dance floor! well, not literally.


True. Do you know how many shoes professional ballet dancers go through in a week?


At least one pair. I would probably go through a dozen! LOL


They actually go through 4 pairs in a week.


Hello there, do you follow basketball much?


Oh man, wonder what old Spencer is up to these days with all that $100,000?


Probably long gone sadly. NBA player Tim Duncan of the Spurs actually sacrificed money and stayed in college for four years instead of going directly into the NBA.


Yeah I heard about that years back when he chose to, I think it was a good move, he still had one hell of a career.


I agree. Nothing wrong with an education. I did not know that the NBA was one of four major professional sports leagues in the US and Canada. Somehow I thought there were more.


Yep one of the four major, and unlike everywhere else in the world, soccer is not one of them.


Now that is a surprise. I know NBA players are the world's best paid athletes by average annual salary per player


Yeah they sure make a ton of money, but their careers are usually pretty short.


I am not really sure how long their careers last, are you?


I think about 8-10 years would be considered a good career.


Wow. It's not a long time, but it is when you consider all the activity!  Well, the NBA is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world.


I do, I love it. I know the NBA is made up of 30 teams, which includes one in Canada.


It is, and it is becoming more of an international players league, my team has the best in the league and he's from Greece!  Nice talking to you, hope you have a good day.


Yeah same here, and my favorite team is doing really well so far this season so I'm pumped.  I think there will be at least 3 teams from Canada by 2030.


That would be interesting! SAs much as they make it's hard to believe that five years after retirement 60% of players are broke.


That is really hard to believe. They should be teaching the rookies that come into the league how to invest properly.


Yes, I agree they should. Did you know they fired coach Stan Van Gundy for saying NBA shouldn't be playing on Christmas day.


Yeah I think I read about that back when he said it, I can respect his view.


I can too! Back to the finances on NBA players, about 30 years ago legend Spencer Haywood chose $100,000 upfront instead of a 10% stake in Nike.


Holy cow!  Just think of what that stake would be worth today!


Today it would be worth a whopping $8.62 billion if you can believe it.


hi how are you? are you a football person?


i guess they need to compete for coaching talent too. everybody wants winning teams. not bright students.


Very few football players are. Russel Wilson was pretty smart plus he played baseball in college too, in fact he has a major league contract with the Yankees


that is impressive. i would play baseball. fewer injuries, longer career.


Yea, Russell is pretty talented though, he is on of only 2 black qbs to win the super bowl


Man, that is great. Who is the other qb? warren moon?


No Doug Williams of the Washington Redskins


oh, my bad. i dont really know much about football. thanks. I guess that tom brady has the most at this point?


Yea but he has never thrown a touchdown pass to himself like Brad Johnson


True! Who could plan that play? Brad must have got lucky! Anyway, great chat!


You too, I'm gonna youtube the fight song Snoop Dogg wrote for his son's football team


Yea, it's pretty fascinating that football can be Rugby, gridiron, and Gaelic depending on the location


Great idea! Snoop's fight song! Have a great day!


I dont really know the variants on the sport. i figure its all about violence and pain. except soccer. that is not about pain at all.


Yea, it's probably more painful lifting those huge american flags at football stadiums that weigh 1,100 lbs


how many people do they need to lift one? they are probalby pretty strong. like military.


I don't know, at least 20 people, the flags are also pretty expensive and cost 50,000 to make


wow. that is a lot. I guess it takes a special company to make one of those.


Yea, I wonder if 14 of the world's 25 largest stadium get a discount since they are college football teams


man, we put a lot of money into sporing spectacle and patriotism. i would like to see money going to education.


That would be nice but even in the department of defense they highest paid employees are the football coaches


did you know that we will run out of helium on earth by the end of this century?


haha good point, I do like knowing that mount everest has cell phone service if I ever go, that way I could stream netflix from the summit


Stuck on the summit with nothing to do? Netflix! I'd hate to be the Everest IT guy.


ya that would be annoying, also annoying that only 7 percent of people read the online terms of service, i'm shocked its that high honestly


That's true. I figure most people don't worry about the terms because they won't run into problems. Only big companies have the money to sue usually. Do you believe that there is a backup copy of the Internet at Alexandria? It sounds like bogus news.


ya I don't know how that's possible, and how often is it uploaded, like think of how much storrage that would take, the interent is crazy though apparently clicking links can become an addiction


I think it would take an entire Internet to backup the entire Internet. Anything can become addictive. I bet people get addicted to things like Amazon Turk. The clicks on the Internet sometimes provide pleasure, kind of like gambling.


haha I could see that, do you know that 3 line horizontal button that you see all over the internet is called a hamburger button? That makes me hungry and is probably addictive haha


Vegans and vegetarians and PETA probably call it something else out of respect for cows.


lol yes they call it a beanburger button, Judge Judy makes over 100k per episode, I wonder how many beanburgers she could buy with that haha


She's been doing that show forever. People love her sassy personality. I know that Hugh Laurie makes a ton for his work on House.


I guess we'll have to find another source if we're going to have balloons at parties! We could probably get some from fusion reactors, if we ever create them.


ya I think he made like 700k per episode or something, I can't blame him I would do that for as long as I could haha


haha that is true, also kind of scary is that we've already torn down 80 percent of earths old, natural forestry though too


We have an insatiable appetite for resources! When the aliens show up, they'll be shocked at how we've treated our home.


they will be, did you see that the UN has a person appointed as the ambassador to extra terrestrials? I want that guy's job he must do nothing all day


That sounds like a great job! I wonder what qualifications were necessary. If we ever get to Mars, the ambassador might have to go.


haha yes maybe he is an astronaut, whats wild is that if earth's history were a 24 hour day, humans would only occupy about 1 minute of time


We are truly newcomers to this world, yet we have changed it so much. The day was only 5.5 hours long when the earth formed. I wonder if the day will continue to get longer.


that is crazy, do you think that days get longer over time? like will we have a 40 hour day eventually?


A whole work-week within a day! People would go on strike. Plus, what would they do with their time? Are there enough shows on Netflix to keep them entertained?


Wow that is amazing. ESPN won an Emmy for the superimposed yellow line


I love it. DO you know why the managers wear uniforms?


Because they can play if the team needs them to


Wow cool. Do you know how many balls are used in a MLB season?


I have no idea. DO you know who used to do their schedule for a long time?


They use 160 000 balls and I have no idea who did that


Wow amazing. Did y know the CUbs won back to back world series?


I do. SNoop Dog once made a song for hi son's school team


WOw that is amazing. Nice chatting with you.


Nice. Did you know U of Iowa visitor locker room is pink?


Wow that is strange, is there a reason they did that?


I have no idea. Bowlers also made more than football players in the 60s


Wow that is huge. Coaches are some of the highest paid employees


Yeah I guess. Do you know the highest score in college football?


I have no idea but do you know Texas has a huge stadium for 18000 people?


WOw , the score was 222-0, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland in 1916


Wow, the stadium cost $60 million to build


Hi! Did you know that humans probably had body hair up to 240,000 years ago? That's crazy


I'm glad to see a woman contributed to computer technology. The space shuttles computer runs on only 1mb of ram.


Yes,  that must be a really slow computer. Bell distributed a manual cardboard computer to high school students in 1968 to teach them how computers work


That's interesting to think that computers weren't common back then. The fastest reader in the world is Anne Jones,who can read at 4,700 words per minute.


Wow thats really fast.  Louis braille, the inventor of the reading and writing system for the blind, braille, perfected it when he was just 15


I can't imagine being able to create that at 15! Starship Troopers is the first sci-fi novel on the reading lists of 3 military branches.


That was a great book! An elementary school replaced desks with "reading bicycles" and test scores skyrocketed.


I would have loved to read that way in school! Ender's Game was a suggested read for the US marine corps.


Thats a good one too! Young george r. r. martin began writing by selling monster stories for pennies to other neighborhood children, dramatic readings included


I'm glad he did that, that way he could start to be noticed for the great writer he is! Speaking of great writers, Cs Lewis and Tolkien held "you laugh, you lose" competitions over poetry.


That would be an awesome game!  That should be a tv show!  President andrew johnson never attended school in his life. his wife helped him learn math and reading.


I know right! Human fingers contain no muscles and are controlled by muscles in the arm and palm pulling on tendons


That's very cool. It's been nice talking to you and learning so much!


That's really cool. The body is full of surprises, like a human can regrow a rib in 2-3 months of having it surgically shortened.


Thats cool,  I wonder what situations you would need that. Humans are unable to burp in zero gravity environments.


That would be a clean environment. Sometimes fear is caused in humans by a sound frequency.


Yeah I wonder what this sound is,  or if we can actually hear it.Humans get goose bumps because of an evolutionary trait that was used to make fur stand up to make the animal appear larger.


That's a cool way of adapting. Speaking of cool ways to adapt, the Russians made a computer that ran on water in 1936.


Yeah,  I don't understand how that works lol Captcha is an acronym for "completely automated public turing test to tell computers and humans apart"


I had no idea that's what it meant and I've done so many captchas. If you have an Apple computer and smoke around it, the warranty is void. They say it's a biohazard.


Thats crazy,  so many people smoke,  they should fix that. The first computer algorithm was written by a woman named ada lovelace


I wonder how good they were, lol! Do you like snakes?


Not particularly and if so from a distance. You?


Same, they are quite fascinating. New Zealand doesn't have them if you are scared


I'll have to visit some day. are there really snakes that can fly, have you heard of them?


I have not, if so I am moving to New Zealand!


Apparently fear of snakes is hardwired in our brains as well as monkeys. Not touching that any more. lol!


I would hold a monkey but not a snake for sure. Crocodiles are the same for me even though they are closer to birds than anything else


I never seen a bird with teeth like that!! Why would they call a lizard with no legs a lizard. Sounds like a snake to me.


You too! shame about the legless lizards i mean snakes i think, lol!


Nope not one bit. I am glad he isn't one of the 3 wealthiest presidents. he would brag about that too!


Yeah but if you asked him a bet he would say he's up there with JFK who i can believe is one of them.


for sure, Trump needs to be called something else. The zimbabwe president is called president banana!


Wow is that he's real name do you know or is he being made fun of?


I wonder if any president ever recorded music before


Well apparently the president of Indonesia has released 3 pop albums. He must be really good.


Hello, are you interested at all in the election system?


Sometimes elections seem so pointless and strange, I can see why people are against them. I read that in ancient Athens, officials would be appointed by a lottery system, because people believed elections weren't democratic in the long run.


They might actually have a point, haha. In 2000 40 percent of Alabamans voted to keep the unenforceable ban on interracial marriage in their state.


Yeah that's very sad to hear especially in a modern society. That's one case we can be glad at how low voting rates are, I think for presidential elections it hasn't been above 63% in a century.


Well a lot of things need to be corrected for sure in our society but at least our government hasn't banned the word censorship lik China's government has.


I never knew that, literally the word! The US government wanted to destroy Wikileaks just so information couldn't come out. Ironically, Wikileaks was the one who exposed them.


Did you know the US publishes the names of anybody who renounces their citizenship?


I went to Nevada once and someone told me over 85% of all the land there belongs solely to the government.


Wow interesting! What do you think of the electoral vote? If Canada were one state it would have only 50 electoral votes.


I think it doesn't make sense but I don't know enough to dispute the system honestly. I think changes can be better in other areas, like one thing I like is Nevada having a "none of these candidates" option, would certainly stop people from just not going at all.


Living in Monaco seems kind of cool though. They got rid of income tax because the casino revenue was sufficient to sustain the government.


Not really as I am not into politics. I find it interesting that a cat named hank placed third in a Virginia senate election.


I'm sure one day everyone will have similar government systems, we all tend to think alike at the end of the day. Anyways it was nice chatting with you, have a good one!


Wow people are crazy, must have been a really poor ballot. Although maybe the cat was very tall, I hear the taller candidate tends to win the election the most.


Ha interesting! And maybe it is because he did not blink a lot. The faster blinker in presidential debates has lost every election since 1980!


Maybe they seem more nervous! It must be nerve wracking to have so many people watching you. And that's not even all of them either, like Astronauts vote from space somehow!


Nice! In Oregon they vote differently too, as all elections are conducted by mail there.


Different places really do have such varied techniques it's crazy. I think in India, they have a polling booth in  forest full of lions, just for ONE voter!


Wow, and I bet the lions are not up for vote. A dog beat two people in a mayoral election and was mayor for 13 years.


Ahah wow, at this point I'm convinced the lions still get to vote themselves. For some reason, 34% of the black male population of Alabama has permanently been banned from voting, that's crazy!


And I guess those of us who can vote don't always take voting seriously since there are various animals who have been elected or nearly elected. I 1998 a chimpanzee got 400000 votes for mayor in Rio de Janeiro, coming in third.


I prefer YouTube as well. Netflix spends 20 times more on postage than bandwidth


I think Neflix is over rated these days. It use to be pretty neat being able to stream movies. But then the cost went up and its not as awesome. Youtube is free and I can find lots more videos on random stuff.


I agree. Netflix is worth $2 billion though so they must be doing something right.


That is true. Do you like the movie Transformers?


I have never seen it, but I like Megan Fox. She's easy on the eyes. What about you?


I never watched it seemed to be pretty popular back in the day


I think it was popular. In the 2007 film, there are 1.53 explosions per minute.


Well it was distributed by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks. I think DreamWorks is the company that made Shrek.


I think they are as well. I love DreamWorks films.


I think they are a very good company also. Their animation keeps me pretty entertained.


I do like Netflix but not as much as I use to. It doesn't seem like they have been adding new shows lately


I used to like it better also. I only use it because we get it for free with T Mobile.


No not really. I tried to watch a couple of the movies but I couldn't get into them like some people do.


Did you know Netflix accounts for 33% of all bandwidth usage in North America from 9pm-12am?


I didn't know that but it doesn't surprise me. I guess its pretty popular around the world.


I guess so. Netflix and YouTube make up half the peak internet traffic in North America.


I watch more youtube than I do Netflix. Which do you prefer?


How's it going, are you one of the people who is addicted to the internet?


All you would have to spend was $27.95 and amazon would name a building after you


I would be living the high life! I'd be like "yea that's my building" haha. Can you believe how many miles amazon warehouse workers walk every shift?


No, I don't think I even walk 7 miles a week, I can't imagine doing an amazon shift of walking 15 miles


I'm sure they are in good shape, but who knows! They could be eating twinkies while walking! I didn't know Amazon owned IMDB as well!


Pretty smart buy, I know the movies on IMDB link to amazon if you want to buy them


I didn't know that! That's cool. Do you like to listen to country music?


Only when I've had a few drinks, kinda strange the Country hall of fame only has inducted 2 african americans


That is, but I'm glad more and more African Americans are getting into that genre to hopefully boost that stat up!


Yea, it's unfortunate Henry Ford financed country music due to his fear of jazz


That man was something else though haha. I like how the fender stratocaster was intended for country music. Anyways, great chatting with you!


I am one that says I know when to stop (but can't), so maybe? haha how about you?


It's hard not to be considered you have to utilize the internets for private, public, academic, business, and government uses


I agree! I'm always on it for work and personal matters! Can you believe there is 3g cell service at the top of mount everest?


No, it's sad Mt. Everest has 3g and I can't get a connection in my basement


You and me both! Are you one of the 7 percent that reads the full terms when buying a product?


Nope, I only read the full terms if it's not more than one page long


haha nobody has time for the 20 page long ones! Are you a member of Amazon Prime?


Yea, I'm always buying electronics and apparel on amazon


It is so reliable and fast! I love it! I wish I was the first person to buy something on it though!


Mine either. Did you know hockey players will lose up to 8 pounds in one game. I think I need to play hockey


That's crazy, and kinda gross if they're just sweating it out.


True and Canada is known for Lacrosse and Hockey.


It is the only country to have two national sports.


It is crazy to believe in the 90's they traded a player for $1 and he went to win 4 stanley cups


I wonder which player, that had to be humiliating for the team to realize afterwards.


I would be curious myself to see who it was


Speaking of Canadian past times, they have a law that all radio stations must play 40% Canadian music.


Well that is cool so people listen to their artists


Cool, but definitely seems like a silly law.


Hi.  I need to listen to am radio.  Apparently you can hear radio storms on Jupiter!


Jupiter also has radio storms so strong they can be picked up and heard by radio.


Yes. Crazy to think how far the radio waves have to travel to reach us.


Did you know that when south park aired its family guy episode finale the producers received flowers from the simpsons crew?


That's funny. There's only one episode of The Simpsons where Bart isn't on it or spoken of.


Yes and that is crazy when you think of how many episodes there are. Did you know that there were over 750 episodes of pokemon


That must be about 50 a year for 16 years! How has it remained popular so long?


I'm not sure. Did you know Ringo starr, alec baldwin and george carlin all narrated thomas the tank engine


That's a prestigious line up.  Luckily my son never got into Thomas the Tank!


He needed a contract like that, he spends way too much, from what I know of him


I'm on the other side of the spectrum when it comes to sports.  I might do better shooting granny style than the other way.  I read that physicists proved granny style might score more points.  I'm not sure if that's accurate though.


I know that Rick Barry popularized the granny shot, just from what I know of the NBA


I didn't know who made it famous.  I thought it just happened.  Something else that just happens is dancing to the music.  Did you know that babies smile more when they hit the beat to the music, and that they like to dance when they hear music playing?


Tupac also danced ballet, which I find pretty interesting!


That sounds funny, Tupac dancing in something like the Nutcracker.  Bruce Lee was apparently also a dancer, winning a hong kong cha-cha championship.  I think Bruce Lee won a lot of awards; he seemed very competitive.


I know he won them in the 50s, that seems like a long time ago now!


Yes it does.  It doesn't seem so long ago that Michael Jackson was dancing on stage.  I didn't know he patented a device to achieve some of his dance moves.


That is interesting, I wonder which moves he needed it for?


I don't know.  All I can think of right now is the moonwalk.  I tried to learn some dance myself back in the day, but I didn't do ballet nor achieve the moonwalk.  Nice chatting with you!


Good thanks.  I hope you are well.  I was reading about Dwight Howard, apparently a skilled athlete.


Nice chatting with you as well! I know the moonwalk was his big move!


He sure is, he is a character though, what did you hear about him/


I read that he helped the Washington Wizards have a better season.  Apparently he receives quite a big salary, and campaigned for the Wizards to get more athletic men on the team.


He is still a great athlete, I know that Gortat is also on that team as well, but he is old now


Yeah, it sounds like the Wizards are having trouble keeping their rosters full.  They signed on John Wall, a borderline MVP candidate.  I think he's one of their star players.  But with all the expensive players they have, they could be facing a tough season if they don't do well.


I know he was recently injured actually, John Wall, that is quite sad


I think he hurt his knee.  It's always hard for athletes to come back to such demanding careers after an injury, I think.  I think that's the same for other athletic careers like dance.


I agree, athletes have a really tough time, they are honestly underpaid I believe


I don't know.  I think they make other money on the side.  Like Allen Iverson, who signed an endorsement contract with Reebok for $800,000 a year.  That's quite a lot!


Hello,  do you know much about celebrities?


Yeah it's crazy,  and all their businesses are completely run by other people. They act like they are so stressed all the time.


How about a Harlem woman who has held a Jazz concert in her apartment every Sunday for 20 years!!! crazy


Thats pretty awesome.  Im sure the clean up is pretty bad to have to clean your apartment every sunday lol


Yep! and top performers occassionally stop by.


That  nice,  do you like jazz?  who is your favorite artist?


I really don't care for it. Tony Bennett impresses me.


Jazz trumpeters grew goatees because it provides comfort.


lol. What do you think of people who use surrogate mothers?


I think its a great idea,  it creates options for people who cant or dont want to carry a baby. what do you think of it?


No I dont know much lol there are too many celebrities.


Yep, I know about the Kardashian family and Kanye. They are always up to something.


Did you know that Pixar studios has a secret room for only celebrities?


No I did not know that until I read these articles. The favors celebrities get bothers me.


Yeah seriously,  kinda ridiculous.  Also,  how much they get paid,  I feel like actors and actresses dont even do the hardest work,  all the editing and music and stuff seems like way more work lol


I agree, Kim Kardashian earned $53 million in 2015, Judge Judy earns $123,000 per tv episode!! just mind blowing. There are people out there going to bed without food.


I really dislike that whole Kardashian family. I think  it is ridiculous how much money they make and they dont really seem to earn it.  I think I saw one episode where the younger one wants to buy a house and doesn't even know what credit is.


lol, they are socialites and the media has elevated them. Just revealing their 3 rd child's name - Chicago blew up social media.


Hi. Do you like to travel? What is your favorite mode of transportation?


How smart. I would hope my baggage would be close by on Mackinac Island in Michigan because there are no cars. You have to travel by carriage or bike.


That must be a nightmare for those poor residents. Ha! Imagine wanting to go see a presidential campaign rally or something and have to take a bike. No way! Ha! Speaking of presidents, can you believe Woodrow Wilson was the only president to have a PhD?


I would think there would be a lot more. I was shocked to find out that Trump was not in the top three wealthiest Presidents.


That is shocking! And I was also shocked to learn FDR was the last US president that fluently spoke a foreign language!


Wow. Our Presidents need to be a bit more versatile. Like the President of Indonesia has released 3 pop albums while in office.


Ha! That's kind of funny! I know in Guatemala, close relatives of former presidents aren't allowed to run for President. I believe they should implement that law here!


I think that would be fair because you wouldn't have the same Presidency twice. On the opposite side, in America the law as that the runner up to President automatically became Vice President. That's like two different presidencies at once.


Indeed it is. You mentioned the Indonesian president releasing 3 pop albums and it reminded me of something funny I heard: Lou Reed and his wife held a high frequency concert for dogs back in 2010. That was both sweet and humorous to me!


I really like that. What a fun fact to end on. Thanks for chatting and teaching me new and interesting things.


Oh, I'll tell you an even more unbelievable fact, Abba turned down $1 billion to do a reunion tour of only 100 concerts. It's like that is sad because it's such easy money!


I love air travel even though it's 10% slower than it was in the 1960s as they try to save on fuel costs now. What about you?


I think traveling by air is easiest although I do enjoy traveling by train. It is relaxing. I wouldn't be so lucky in Iceland. They have no rail service.


They don't? I wonder why that is? I bet it's a nightmare for residents. There's also a website I like to use when a travel that let's you crash on people's couches while traveling as well!


That is a great service. Iceland you would to take domestic flights if you do not have a car to travel between towns. Or crash on people's couches


That makes sense! You know what I find funny? People actually steal garden gnomes and take them traveling with them. Then they return the gnome to its owner with photos from their travels. That is hilarious! Ha!


I never knew that. I also did not know that the first King to travel around the world was King Kalakaua of Hawaii. I would have thought it was a European king.


I would think that as well, honestly. You know, during the age of discovery, ships would release rabbits onto islands to provide a food source for travelers. Wonder if that king stumbled across any rabbit islands? Ha!


I'm sure he did. He is just lucky he didn't travel on Japan's current highway tolls. It costs more than $300 to travel across the country.


That is crazy! About as crazy as airports making people walk farther instead of fetching their bags faster and it actually stops most of the complaints!


hi how are you doing over there? good day so far in this universe of ours?


then we would be miniholograms. i am chatting with a mini hologram.


According to them you just might be!  So many people have different ideas about the universe don't they?


Yes, but there are so many possibilities. like galaxies are being sucked out at the edges. Where do they go? Do they come back? i have questions.


So do i.  There's a theory that there's only one electron in the universe.  What does that mean exactly?


I guess we all share one electron that can manifest itself everywhere? i think that the math explains that possibility. i can figure it though.


Another question I have comes from what you said earlier.  If the universe is all of space, time, and their contents how could there be more than one?


because our experience with the universe is defined through our senses and sensory limits make it hard to imagine multiplicity? how can there by 26 dimensions? i dont know


Well that's interesting.  I guess then the definition of universe shouldn't be everything, it should be simply what we can perceive.  You had me thinking about the electron thing. I assume that's the God particle I hear about on the news every now and then?


no, that is something different. i think that is meant to explain how everything is tied together? if the particle is one way, then one model of the universe works. another way, another model.


Oh, then I need to do some research about this electron theory.  It sounds like you have done some research.


Hi! I am doing great over here and yes it's a good day so far in our universe.  How about you?


i dont really know much. i love that people research this stuff. today, it has no clear value, but then there is a huge innovation thanks to this knowledge.


i think that knowing about our universe can add value to our lives in a way. It can definitely expand our minds, our horizons.  Well, I've got to go do some research. It's been nice chatting with you!   Have a great day!


I am enjoying the universe. I abide within its confines. how old is the universe? i dont know, but thats fine. i dont judge.


Well you can abide in a vast amount of area because no one actually knows just how large the universe is.


and i hear that it keeps growing. it is an ambitious entity, i must say. i would probably slow down at that age, but the universe keeps going.


Do you think it is the universe that grows or us?  I mean the ancient Greek and Indian philosophers thought that the universe had earth as the center so their concept of size was probably smaller than today where we know the earth is not the center.


Yes, it is hard to fathom the vastness of the universe. I would like to think that our universe is not the only one out there. But i would like it to be one of the good ones.


Hmm, I never thought about there being more than one.  If that's true then I agree with you. I want ours to be one of the good ones too.


ive heard that there could be more than one, and that there is a competition among them. i guess its darwinism. that would suck if ours lost.


Definitely as I assume that would mean our deaths.  I've heard that the universe may not be real. There are those that believe it is one giant hologram.


I didn't know that. I do remember getting a dvd years ago.


Yes.  Netflix was even started because the founder had to pay a late fee on a rental


I remember how Netflix was putting Blockbusters out of business.


Yes Blockbuster should have bought netflix when it was offered to them for 50 million


Yes, It is funny to drive by places that use to be Blockbusters and to think that is how many of us spent Friday and Saturday night.


Yes and now with netflix and youtube they make up half of all internet traffic


Of course amazon is a huge company - I love prime video but I love the free shipping as well.


Yes, Amazon Prime is my favorite of all of them. It gives you so much for the subscription fee.


Yes and it is making Bezos rich  - he built a clock into the side of a mountain that should run for 10,000 years!


No I don't but I have a friend's password to netflix


Yeah - I just wish I was the first customer - I could have had a building named after me!


I have Amazon Prime. You can see most shows by streaming now instead of having cable.


Yes I have amazon prime and hulu myself.  Both are pretty cheap and my hulu comes with my phone plan on sprint.


I did have a free trial of hulu but didn't use it enough.


Yes I know I should not share passwords but I rarely watch netflix so I do not see the big harm


I don't share my passwords because no one wants what I have.


laugh!  Definitely lots of people use netflix though - in the evening it accounts for 33% of all bandwidth in this country


Yes, I hear people talk about it all the time and I don't think I have even watched Netflix.


Yes but did you know they still mail out dvds?  They spent more on postage than bandwidth!


Hahah I think we had a rotary phone until sometime during the early 80's.  We still get the phone books dropped off but haven't used one in years.  Why do you ask?


Apparently it is impossible to separate two phonebooks that simply have their pages overlapped. I don't really understand this.


Interesting.  I'm going to try it!  Do you have a favorite box office movie star?


I don't really. I like Disney films a lot. They were considering shutting down their animation studio because Sleeping Beauty was a flop.


wow.  They had a few stinkers then.  Treasure Planet was one of the most expensive box office flops of all time and it was also made by Disney.


Most Disney movies are really sweet. But speaking of sweet, on Valentine's day, The Silence of the Lambs came out. Wonder how many people brought their significant other to see it for Valentine's Day.


lol  Must have been a lot.  That movie was huge.  Tom Hanks is the highest all-time box office star.  Do you know how much his movies have made?


His movies have made over $8.5 billion in worldwide film earnings!  That's a lot of cash.


Not that much but I do have to for work. Luckily I don't smoke as smoking near Apple computers voids their warranty.


Right?  It's been nice chatting with you!


lol  I use them a lot.  The space shuttle's general purpose computer ran on 1mb of RAM.


Interesting! And someone has built a working 16 bit computer only using basic minecraft building blocks.


That's cool!  In 1936 the Russians made a computer that could run on water.  That is a good concept and I didn't know computers were around then.


Huh, that is pretty neat. Would you ever upload your mind to a computer and memory stick? Transhumanists want to do that.


I think I would just so I could leave a legacy for my kids, future grandchildren, etc.  Be neat.


Do you have an iphone? One iphone has more computing power than the entire us nuclear ucbm deterrent.


Whoa!  I have an Android.  Speaking of phones...New York's area code is 212 because it was the fastest number to dial on a rotary phone.


I used to have a rotary phone! That's neat! Do you still get the phonebook?


Hey there, Have you heard of this animated film "Sgt. Stubby?" It's about the adventures of a dog during WWI.  It's supposed to be based on a true story.


That's pretty amazing. Dog blood drives?  I could see that being turned into a movie as well.  Actually I could see that turning into a horror film! Though I don't care for horror films much.  Too gory and macabre.


Do you care for horror much?  I guess I'm ok with classics like Edgar Allen Poe but more modern stuff maybe not so much.  Even as a dog-lover don't care for those werewolf stories.


Well, I guess I am having problems too! I wrote Oh, I don't like either. I can sit thru some of them with one hand over my eyes. But most the time I will skip it. No gore for me thank you!


Yeah, I definitely won't watch it in the theatres.  Maybe on Netflix where I can stop and start as I please.  Did you know Netflix and YouTube together make up half of peak internet traffic in North America?


Yes, I saw that, makes sense. If I am watching movie or the like its usually those two places. Although we have a few other places we watch like amazon prime.  I guess getting a $40 late fee can really be inspiring to make a lot of money!


Late fees.  Ah, I remember getting those a Blockbuster.  You know I heard that Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix but they declined?  If they had accepted maybe the Blockbuster name would still be around.


Yes, think that was a mistake. I remember those days.  Do you like abstract art? Have you heard what the waterphone sounds like?


Not a big fan of abstract art.  Never "get it." Waterphones?  Is that the creepy metallic noises in scif and horror films?  Think I heard it recently in a dumb supernatural horror movie calls "Truth or Dare."


lol, yes, not a fan either seems stupid. How do you not know your in a horror film until several years later? thats horrible.


Here's a horror movie you might like.  Cujo?  It has a dog.  One of the only Stephen King movies I can watch.  Funny story... he was actually terrified of Bambi as a kid and considered that the first horror movie he saw.


I'm curious to see it with my kids.  We're a dog-loving family.  They're "man


Awww, we are too! We love dogs. Very interesting that dogs and elephants are the only animals to understand pointing. So when I point at my cat, he doesn't understand. lol


Sorry about that last message. Had meant to say they're "man's best friend" afterall.   Interesting.  Wonder why my dog doesn't understand it when I point to the red ball and ask him to fetch it.  Maybe he's color blind?


I am not sure if dogs are colorblind? I am not sure if its just black and white? very interesting google is a dog company, they like over cats.


Interesting.  So guessing as a dog lover you'd be willing to go see that Sgt. Stubby movie? What about that "Rampage" movie with Dwayne Johnson.  Not a dog movie but it has a gorilla.


Yes I would, I like gorillas. Ok, dogs are not colour blind, but they cannot see see some colors as humans. I would like to see the US have the same vending machines as Istanbul for stray city dogs!


Ha!  When you said vending machines for stray dogs, thought you meant they sold dogs via vending machines.  But then recalled reading something about those vending machines dispensing food for the strays.  That's pretty cool.  They should make a movie about that!  I'd watch it on Netflix!


I would too! You have Netlix too? I didn't know they have dog blood drives? Have you seen the police dogs that can do CPR? amazing.


Hello.  Do you like lebron james?  I heard he's the highest paid celebrity in the country.


Hmmm, that's something I have never thought about before.  I also find it surprising to learn that some men in the Uk had to get their right to vote in 1918.


I agree but a right to vote is positively something earned. Something I find interesting is that if one were to take all of Canada as a whole state; it would have 50 fewer electoral votes than the state of California. By size comparison that is a big difference.


It really is a big difference.  Is that based on land size or population size?


I believe it is a combination of both, California is so full of people and compact as compared to Canada being spread out.


There are people trying to get the country away from a democracy. I do wonder if they realize that means no more voting.


I wonder the same thing! I mean is  one willing to risk the opportunity to have one's voice heard and make a difference for the betterment of all involved or would one want to just go with the flow and not have a say in anything at all?


I know what you mean.  People don't realize that we vote because we are democracy. That is what a democracy is all about.  Once that is changed you lose that.


well i think that the constituents should be much better informed of said practices as well as the ramifications to follow of voting goes to the wayside. Could mean a disaster for many generations that follow.


I agree.  Constituents sounds like such a vague term when the media says it.  There could be people that don't realize that means them.


I totally agree! Many are so misinformed and quick to jump on someone else's band wagon when in fact they have no idea how the are hurting themselves.


I have heard of him as a basketball player but I do not watch much basketball.


True.  There could be a better way to handle elections as well. There are different ways to collect votes, perhaps there is a better way than what is currently being used.


I actually don't watch much either.  Do you follow politics?  What do you think about astronauts voting from space?


I feel that all citizens no matter one's location should be able to cast a vote; I mean if a chimpanzee can receive 4000000 votes in a mayoral election being in space should be okay.


I know what you mean.  Apparently India agrees.  They set up a polling booth in a forest full of lions just so one person can cast their vote.


I feel that would be an extreme measure but consider it to count. I personally would not want to be the having to retrieve the ballots.


Neither would I!  voting is important though.  Even the vote in Austin, Tx to rename their garbage dump is important, at least to them anyways.


Many issues are important to many different people for many different aspects; for example, JFK voted against the civil rights act in 1957 and in Alabama 40 % voted to keep the unenforceable ban on interracial marriage in 2000.


What I find odd about Alabama in this day and age is that there are still some people who have lost their rights to vote permanently.


I agree and find that those who have lost all rights to vote have done something very bad to get to that status of not being able to vote. I however; feel that if one does something to regain one's ability to vote such as time served one should again be able to vote.


Hi, how are you? Do you like this planet of ours?


no more birthday balloons. I think we might be able to make helium though.


Do you follow what goes on in Congress?  Did you know that Elmo is the only non-human to testify before the US Congress?


Elmo probably was looking to get some cash for sesame street. He knew that he needed to get that cash to keep his job. what other work could he do?


Well, as we know, there are perks to being a Congress-person.  There are three subway lines exclusively for congressmen to move between the Capitol and the House and Senate offices.  It must be nice!


Yes, i bet they get their own barbers and have people go shopping for them. a great life. I wonder how often they think about people like me. Hmm.


Yes, I agree.  On a lighter note, in 1916 the first woman was elected to Congress before she even had the right to vote in a National Election.  Gee Wiz.


What? That is silly. i know that the senate did not have a womens room at first. many women senators had to leave to go to the bathroom.


That would be ok as long as it was a paid break.  Did you know that the US Congress has played a Republican vs. Democrats baseball game every year since 1909?  The Republicans are leading by 3 wins.


Maybe more legislation would get passed if they used the game to decide things. anyway, great chat!


Yes, agree to that as well.  They do have Fantasy Congress where players draft member of Congress and points are based on legislative success.  Great chatting with you  as well.


Yes, I do it's my home.  Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. We should be taking better care ot it


we should. we have destroyed most of the forests. we have filled the seas with plastic. i wonder how much longer we'll be around.


Yes, I agree with that.  The earth was formed over 4.5 billion years ago and how long has man been on the earth?  Not that long to do so much damage as we have done.


Yes, we have been here for a mere minute or two. The day has gotten longer, but we have not recognized that in our time here. we dont know how the earth has developed.


Yes, that is also true.  More than 80% of the earth's natural forests have already been destroyed. That's a shame on us.


we need those forests, but we just keep destroying them to meet our immediate needs. maybe they will be gone in a hundred years.


Probably sooner than that.  If earth's entire history was viewed as a 24 hour period, humans would only represent 1 minute and 17 seconds. That's a really short amount of time to do so much damage.


Yes, i dont think we understand how long it took to develop the environment that supports us, and that when it disappears, we cannot replace it.


True again. Earth will be virtually helium-free by the end of the 21st century.


I'm a fan of the first president of Zimbabwe who was called President Bananda. lol  Seriously though, I was a fan of Trump's before he was elected but not so much anymore.  He hasn't delivered on his promise to bring jobs back to my area.  He won a ton of votes while campaigning here based on that promise.  Instead we're still losing jobs.


I don't know from what I've seen unemployment is actually the lowest it's been in like 30 years but I try to stay out of politics because I don't really like any people who are involved, maybe Trump should make some pop albums like the president of Indonesia has done? He could work with Kanye West because apparently they are friends


lol  I wonder if Kanye stays at the presidents guest house which is larger than the White House.


Haha that's a good question, I need to take a trip to DC to check that out and make sure that's true LOL


hahahaa  Did you know that we call trousers pants in America?


Haha yes but I'm going to start calling them trousers because it sounds funny or LOL. Did you know that Romans thought that people who wore pants were barbarians


Wow.  I didn't know that.  Aladdin's pants were modeled after MC Hammer.  That's funnnny!!!!


It is funny! I can see the resemblance, and I never knew that pants were invented because it's easier to mount horses with them on


I never knew that either.  I Collinsville, IL they have a law that prohibits saggy pants. hahaha


Haha I would not want to live there in case I ever wore sweatpants, did you hear about the small dry cleaning business that was sued for 67 million dollars and a pair of pants lol


Hey I don't have cable, but I have watched Fox News before, I try not to watch news in general though what about you


lol I hadn't have heard of that one.  Holy moly!  It was nice chatting with you. I have to get going.  Have a nice day.


I could take it or leave it.  Did you know that Richard Nixon partially helped to create Fox news?  I didn't know that.


Oh I didn't know that, Richard Ailes also helped, have you ever visited the website ign.com? Thats owned by Fox News too


I've heard of it.  Interesting.  Fox almost created a channel that would only air Simpson episodes.  That would have been neat.


Yeah I would definitely have watched that haha. What is weird is that Fox News is going to sue The Simpsons because they were making fun of them, but if Fox owns The Simpsons then would they be suiing themselves?


Me too! ...and yes that is odd.  lol  Fox news is watched more than CNN and MSNBC combined.  I didn't realized fox was that popular.


Yeah I didn't know that, I did know that their primary location was in New York though, but it's crazy that they broadcast to 86 different countries around the world


That's probably how they beat CNN and MSNBC.  lol


Haha I think you're right. Speaking of news, what do you think about the president? You know who the top three are in terms of wealth


There's speculation that he's not as rich as he claims to be and this is one of the reasons he refuses to release his tax returns.  That and explainable money coming from Russian "investments"!


Yeah I guess thats a valid theory, who knows whats under that hood, maybe not as rich as we think or maybe even richer and wants to get away with tax fraud


Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton was VP under Trump?  Apparently in 1805 the runner up in the Presidential Election automatically became Vice President.  People think the White House is having problems now.....


They would kill each other. It would be like Game of Thrones lol, good thing the law changed and I agree- the White House has a lot of problems under Trump's leadership


GOT - great analogy!  I'm very curious about what the future holds, definitely will be stranger than fiction or any movie (almost).


Im curious as well and kind of afraid to be honest, theres just too much controversy, you know there is a president called Banana


Yes - President Banana of Zimbabwe.  It would be interesting if he met up with our president.


Lol I bet it would, nice debate, the president of Indonesia is another weird character


Right, he's a pop star with moderate success.  I imagine him looking like Post Malone for some reason.


She's a great actor and I do enjoy most of her movies.  Very acclaimed and awarded and well deserved!


I agree, she also has a daugther that's an actress, who plays the role of an FBI agent on Mr Robot


I'm a big fan of his acting and movies and think it's awesome that he eviscerated Trump!


I agree with De Niro's take on Trump, even though it was pretty harsh


De Niro is stooping to Trump's level. Saying these things in front of people who think like him and also dislike Trump is not really getting the effect he desires. Criticizing Trump in front of an audience that's already critical of Trump is too easy.


Well I guess that's pretty clear lol, he kept intense profanity focused towards Trump so it seems like it's something personal against him


They're both New Yorkers so maybe De Niro takes it personally - I don't know.  Personally, I think he should switch tactics if he wants Trump out of office and focus on supporting Democratic candidates.  Remove him in the most American way - Vote him out!


I agree, now we'll just have to wait a few years, hopefully Trump won't get relected for another term, I would side with DeNiro if that ever happened lol


Totally!  If Trump remains president through this term, which is a little iffy, where do you think he ranks among the wealthiest president in history - top 3 are JFK, Washington & Thomas Jefferson.


I guess he will be the first one, he is super rich, his guest house is larger than the white house


Yes it is so sexist and it really needs to go though


I like him. DId you know he was a backup QB in high school?


Yes and he never got started even in tough games when they were losing


Yeah I bet you they are regretting that decision now


He is the QB that finished college in two years. DO you know how?


Yes he took lots of AP tests in high school


Such a smart guy, really planned everything ahead of time


Yeah. Do you know who invented the circular huddle?


I sure do. Did you know women can play too?


That was Paul Hubbard who was deaf and did not want others to understand him


Yes as there is no written rule against them playing


Yes if they qualify, then they get to play


Yeah. The average gameplay is only 11 minutes anyways


Yes. Engineers even make more over the lifetime than football players


Yes I guess they have longer careers too though


Yea good point. Did you hear of that rule for the Saints cheerleaders?


Yes they are not allowed to eat in the same restaurant as the players


Yes and worst, they also are required to leave mid meal if they walk in


As libraries close, I wonder if it is still true there are more libraries than mcdonalds.What do you think?


I wonder if he would change when presented with the Yankees stats.


He had a good time playing against Red Ruffing. He liked messing with him


It sounds like Appling used that strategy a lot.


Unfortunately we dont have enough stat going back far enough since at bats and pitch by pitch only started getting record in 1988


Do you think Brandon Belt could do the same


He used the same strategy to run out 12 minutes 45 seconds of gametime.


It is the longest at-bat since they kept stats on that.


Did you know baseball managers wear uniforms because they can technically play for their team?


I think its possible, They are very useful for everyone. The sacramento library even has a library of things


So they're ready to go on the field and sub in?


I believe so! That would be something to see!


A prisoner used the library resources to become a lawyer.


I know! it was a really good use of resources. He proved his innocence and now helps others do the same


That's amazing. There are all kinds of old stats and info to discover, too.


Yeah you can get unrestricted access to information in many different formats


Appling was busted on an old baseball story because researchers contradicted his claim.


I heard he was really good at fouling pitches. Including 14 straight.


It would be great to see a new interview with him but he passed away in 1991.


Yeah I would like to hear his opinion on Belt's 21 pitch at bat


Hello hows it going?  Do you shop at target?


I have noticed.  They have a good selection of vegetables and frozen foods.  That makes it so much more convenient,  one stop shopping!


I love the clothing from Target too, so cute. A lot of growth has comefrom their private label brands.


Yeah they have really updated consumer needs.  I love how they have vegetables and groceries too,   super convenient,  one stop shop.


It seems like there are a lot of factors in Target's recent success.


But Vermont doesn't have a Target. I wonder why?


Hmm...also, Target doesn't sell Rip Curl branded clothing does it? I heard it's made in North Korea but says Made in China!


lol Not sure.  Maybe North Korea bought it from China to sell in Targets!


And be careful if buying supplements from target. 80% of the supplements don't actually contain what they say they do.


I do occassionally though I go to Walmart more often. How about you?


What!  That is definitely a concern.  Well its been fun chatting.  Thanks for the info!


Yes,  I love Target.  Did you know that Target and Best Buy will price match Amazon?  Amazon must be doing great!  I love Amazon shopping the best though,  so convenient.


That's good to know in case I need something immediately.


It looks like Target is in every state of the U.S. except Vermont.


And Target is doing well despite other stores closing.


The closure of Kmart, Sears and Toys R Us may have helped drive traffic to Target as well.


The company was first named Goodfellow Dry Goods.


I know you can buy fresh vegetables from some places online but I guess some people like to pick fresh produce in person. Target has made a commitment to offer fresh groceries.


Play any cathode ray tube amusement devices? i.e. videogames?


That's a trooper! Chris Hemsworth is starring in a movie based on "Horse Soldiers" about Green Berets in Afghanistan.


cool! how about Jim Carrey...are you a fan?


Some of his older stuff. I know he doesn't like to do dramas any more.


Yes! He doesn't  make dramas any more because of his personal beliefs


He doesn't seem to make comedies either though. Haven't seen him much lately. I heard of some students riding a horse to school recently on "no vehicles to school day".


Wow! wonder if they rode Iceland horses. Iceland horses have a 5th speed called tolt.


That's like speed walking or something right?


yea...basically speedwalking for a horse


Lipizzaner horses take like 6 years to train. That's a lot!


wow!! they also are known for classical performances too


It's apparently illegal for kids in south korea to play video games past midnight. Ever hear that?


WOW,,,No never heard of that. I can believe it though.


A game designer claimed that as a planet we play 3 billion hours of video games per week. What do you think?


im not into video games at all. what i do know is its a lucrative industry. Speaking of money, I had no idea that Hugh Laurie is the highest paid actor for a TV drama.


Nice! Michael Caine got into acting for the pretty girls in high school.


who is Michael Caine? Never heard of that name


How about Jon Hamm? He taught Ellie Kemper drama.


thats cool! speaking of drama Clint Eastwood usually rides horse in his drama action movies but did you know he actually has an allergy to horses?


Seriously? How strange. Speaking of water, did you know that freshwater fish drink through their skin?


I did not know that. Did you know there is a fish called barreleye that has a transparent head?


No. I know there is a breed of jellyfish which is immortal, though.


Wow. There is a fish that lives on land all it's adult life.


Which fish? There is a black swallower that eats prey twice its length and ten times of it's own weight.


I'll have to look the fish up. Since jellyfish are 98% water the evaporate in the sun. Wow der how that works for the immortal one


Yes. That's a good question. Tetrapods are technically fish, did you know that?


I did not. There was a koi fish that loved 226 years.


That's such a long while. Not immortal, but still a long while.


I have. That's the feminest movement correct? Did Marie colvin write about it?


Oh, I see. Where was that? In Japan possibly?


Oh, wow. Did you know that UNICEF will donate a day of clean water for kids in need every minute you don't use a cell phone?


Wow. Wonder how we do that? There is a luxury phone maker that hires the London symphony orchestra to record it's ringtones.


You know the area code in NY actually is 212 because it is the fastest number for dialing on a rotary phone?


Hire* I didn't know that. In 1930s hedy lamarr heled to invent the cellphone,wifi and gps


Oh, interesting. An Iphone has more computing prowess than the US nuclear ICBM deterrent.


That's suprising. Well it was great chatting with you


Good chatting with you, also. Have a pleasant day.


Yes. She talks about the harassment that women faced at the jobs they had.


That's unfortunate. Do you shop for clothes alot? Did you know the Greeks made abestos clothing?


No. I didn't know. I do know Aplle had a clothing line out for 1986.


I think it's funny how clothes is mostly restricted to people but seems like animals are wearing them more.


That's funny. There is a store in Alabama that sells things like clothes that were in unclaimed baggage at the airports.


I hope they wash them first.  A man wore 70 pieces of clothing at an airport to avoid baggage fees


Whoa. That seems so hard to do. Rip Curl makes clothes in North Korea even though the label says China. That kind of seems like false claims.


That's is weird. People used to do their laundry in old faithful


Hello,  how are you doing? Soccer makes more money than football, basketball, baseball, golf, tennis and hockey combined.


Yeah,  maybe he really liked his friends that were still in the high school.


Kanye is so sensitive, I cannot believe that he actually cancelled appointments to rewrite his part of a song with Drake, after hearing Eminiem's verse.


Did you watch the show Degrassi? He was an actor on it, I've never heard of it.


I've heard of it never watched it though.  Is that Disney?


I'm not sure, as I've never watched it, even though it was on for seven years.


The rapper drake visited drake university in the middle of the night after students gave up trying to get him to visit during a tour stop.


That's funny, I bet he made their night. I was surprised to hear that he is signed with Lil' Wayne's label, instead of Dre's Death Row.


Yes,  that was very interesting,  although either way he still would've made a lot of money


I think One Dance is my favorite by him, it's also one of his most popular.


Hello, I'm doing great. Have you ever watched the variation that has three teams, instead of two?


me too,  that song was great!  good talking to you


Nope.  Did you know Jon stewart was a skilled soccer player in college and represented the us at the pan american maccabi games in brazil in 1983.


I do not follow soccer, I do remember reading about the German player who donated his bonus so 23 kids could have surgery.


Wow so generous!  thats amazing! Americans call it "soccer" because it was slang for association football


I find it fascinating that they used to dry the tennis couts for the 69' US Open with helicopters. I would have loved to see that.


I didn't know the rapper Drake, was Canadian, did you?


Yes. During a uk tour in 2011, drake spent an "obscene amount of money'' on first editions of children's classic books 'charlotte's web' and 'winnie the pooh'.


That's sweet, and it's interesting that he chose to graduate at 25, instead of getting his GED.


Yeah apparently the word apparently has been used in 16th century


That is interesting.  It  can be performed with a beatbox, but I rather prefer it acapalla.


there are so many versions of playing a genre of music nowadays. do you like eminem?


I do not like his music, but I do like his favorite choice of superhero - spiderman


Yeah and he even dreamt of becoming a comic book artist. Maybe he is good at that as well


Or perhaps he could be in a animated movie like Busta Rhymes was in the rugrats


Yeah, exactly, so many options to get involved. Have you heard of compliment battle?


I do not know much about it - just something that the Korean rappers invented.


yeah I think they sing rap style and just compliment each other.


That is pretty funny.  Like the judge who delivered her ruling in the form of rap when she was involved in a suit with Enimen


I do, but I am not a big fan of rap.  Some rappers like Kanye West are pretty out there.


Oh mine I would have loved to be in that courtroom and listen to that


true. and others like Tupac had such an impact that their music is considered of cultural significance


Yes.   I can't believe that he actually believes stuff like aids is man-made.  What's up with that?


It is strange, he is strange sometimes. But sometimes he is nice like that time he gave his fan in a wheelchair the mic.


That is very true.  His being best friends with Trump is pretty odd - he has made some odd statements at the White House.


Yeah for sure. Do you know the rapper big sean?


No I do not know anything about him.  I have heard of Chance the Rapper.


Big Sean was such a good student and ha d high gpa and turned down a scholarship to attend MSU


That is interesting.  Rap Music is quite different - its origins actually pre-date hip hop culture


did you see how fast that dutch bus can move


the bar is lower than that im afraid, i forget his name but the guy who plays walsh on firefly is a huge voice actor now,


I am not familiar with that one. How about Bill Nye getting His start in a Steve Martin look a like contest?


interesting fact there, bill nye doesnt hold a degree in science. that should have been their fact of choice for him


I though I heard on TV that Bill Nye is a bona fide scientist.


nope he is actually a reported, his degree is in scientific journalism. thats why hes so good at comunicating the information


Well, that goes to show, you can't believe everything you see on TV.


especially when it comes out of only 54 colors like the NES could do.


When it came out, that was pretty good for the technology at the time.


i know i had one, i didnt believe they still made them until 03.


Yes, and I remeber playing the original Pong game, speaking of limited technology.


atari version of pong or the orignal verson made by magnovox cause if you played the magnivox id be amazed


i didnt get to play much with the eary atari, outdated by my time since the NES was king


Well, it has been a nice exchange of information. Thank You.


its almost as crazy as how much judge judy makes. i knew it was high but not that high.


If I could make as much as her, I would do one episode a year.


i would do as many as they wanted for that price


at that point id pull a robin williams and go work for disney doing voice work.


I was looking at that, too. I could be a lot of fun.


i know its supposed to be hard to get into that line of work, they keep to their normal list of a listers it seems


Well, If we were as famous as Robin Williams, we may make the cut!


Oh that does sound good. But give me a turkey leg and I'll be good. Itll be lots of fun seeing everyone in costume


haha nice. Yeah that would be cool. There would be a lot of fun performers to see too. Led Zeppelin would be fun to see. They didn't title their fourth album to confuse the press!


Oh smart thatll make everyone want to see them perform it thenm im so glad all the money spent helps charity for children


Yeah that's very nice to hear. Aerosmith is a good band too but they made more money from guitar hero than any album!


Oh yeah I remember playing guitar hero and hearing all their songs. Would be cool to see bands continue a game like that. They need a game also that teaches dance better it'd be perfect at festivals like this. Imagine dancing like Michael Jackson with a game.


That would be epic. Even parrots are able to dance!


Never knew that! Theyre so smart being able to talk and dance. Wonder if its possible to have one teach a person lol


Lol good question. I would like to see those ballet slippers that make drawings from the dancers movements.


Oh no no ballet slippers for me lol. Unless it was after doing the beerlympics


Haha nice. I think it's pretty funny Emilia Clark did the funky chicken when auditioning for the Game of Thrones!


Hey. Just relax and travel maybe. I want to learn to dance. It would be cool to do the moonwalk which was developed in 1955.


That's too funny. Its surprising how dance helps make an impression. I cant believe someone like Bruce Lee danced.


Oh wow that is cool he danced I didn't realize that. Mr. Rogers also breakdanced! Have a good day!


Oh yea i was thinking the same. I would have to see if i could make it to d.c on August 24 to also see the film festival


That would fun. They even have a Beerlympics there usually right?


Yes! And it sounds like fun plus only $4 a beer win win


That would be epic. There is also the worlds largest bachata festival which is where i could learn to dance maybe.


That would be a great idea. And the music you would dance to sounds like it would be nice. And prices aren't bad at all.


Yeah for the weekend events it's less than 20 bucks. Cheaper for seniors and children!


Thats surprising i thought itd be more on weekends. Im glad they have food on the strip also i love to eat new foods


I think I would like it too because they have a section called "Taste of Southwest" which sounds delicious.


How's it going? Did you know amazon was founded all the way back in 1994?


I wonder where you can buy the shoes Michael Jackson patented for the extreme lean in his dances


Probably on Amazon as well, since they sell just about everything, apparel included.


I know amazon prime video has some good horror movies. Watching a horror movie can burn more than 180 calories


That's crazy. I would think to burn so many extra calories, you'd need to dance or something. Like Bruce Lee used to before he got famous.


Before Tupac was famous he did ballet in high school and even played the mouse king in a the nutcracker


That's funny. There's a silly trivia about famous people out there like that. Like how Stephen King was terrified by Bambi as a kid. Ha.


Wel the kid who played Danny in The Shining had no idea he was in a horror movies, I wonder how he didn't know


He probably couldn't hear all the creepy metallic noises the waterphone made. They always put those sounds in horror movies.


I wonder if listening to the waterphone alone will make you enjoy abstract art more instead of watching a whole horror movie


You might have to download some waterphone music and some art off of Amazon to know for sure.


Yes, I've heard that. The first customer they had spent only $27.95.


Maybe I'll try it. Well I got to go, nice chatting with you


Yep and Amazon named a building to honor him, that's pretty cool


That's pretty neat. I heard they also have the USPS delivery packages on Sunday. I think they're kind of cool by doing things like that, and naming that building after him.


Yea, it be nice if the mail came on sundays for all packages and not just amazons


I wish. It makes sense though, they're apparently one of the biggest retailers in the world, so they have a lot of sway, I suppose.


Yea, they move so many packages that Amazon warehouse worker walk 7-15 miles per shift


Jeez, that's a lot of walking. They must get really tired. It might be more fun if they were dancing, instead. Even babies like to dance when they hear music.


Well not if it's ballet, professional ballet dancer go through 4 pairs of shoes a week


That's a ton of shoes. Maybe they could buy more on Alibaba. It's the only place that sells more merchandise than Amazon online.


Some of the facts about television aren't very inspiring. Thomas the Tank? That's only interesting if you ever really saw it. They should have used some impressive stats, like global Super Bowl viewership or something.


I didn't know there was an episode of The Simpsons without Bart. That's weird.


He is a very integral part of the show, so I'm a bit surprised, but there have been a LOT of episodes.


But all of the family members are usually included. I can't recall an episode where any of them were missing.


I enjoy Marge's sisters the best. I can do a perfect impression of them, lol. I think it's funny that the 70's show tanked in the UK. I never watched it myself, but it was wildly popular here in the US.


Yes, it's a very US kind of show. Patty and Selma - that's hilarious.


I think it's funny that they're complete messes, but they always judge Homer and tell Marge she'd be better off living like they do, lol.


Yeah. I didn't know cars caught on faster in the US than in other parts of the world.


I was going to mention that too. Karl Benz patented them first, but Ford was widely accepted much more quickly. Goes to show how important the inventions of interchangeable parts and assembly lines were.


Yes, exactly. I guess that was Benz of Mercedes-Benz?


Good morning! Did you know that in South Africa, it is legal to equip your car with flame-throwers to prevent carjacking?


Yes, he's the one! I would imagine that the US would've lagged behind Europe had they adopted cars much more quickly.


Yes, interesting to think about. It's been great talking to you! Have a good day!


You too! Thank you so much! Hope you have a great day!