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Longshot from the X-Men had it and so did Bink from the Xanth series by Piers Anthony...the amazingly trippy talent for dumb luck.

Imagine being able to run across the freeway with your eyes closed, jump off a tall building and somehow evade injury, be practically invulnerable...no cares about your ...

askal= Johnson XXX
real first name= Todd "the ****" (rhymes with duck) Mcmillen
full name= Ron Cox

I've been lucky. I have three real friends whom I can completely be myself with. I can trust them with my darkest secrets and count on them to sincerely be happy for me when I succeed at something.

Recently, I've learned a few things about friendship:

Contrary to opinion, we do not choose our ...

Originally posted by Osiris
Solution to Askal's problem:
Remove one paper from the hat and eat it (or otherwise detroy it). Say that the paper you chose can be determined by looking at the paper still left in the hat. Since it says "death" the paper you chose must have been "life".

http ...

I like shapely feet.

among birds- crows(smart and sneaky) and not as stuck up looking as eagles
among mammals- toss up between mongoose and wolf (hence my siberian huskie fetish)
among reptiles- chameleons, corn snakes
among insects- beetles (because they look like tanks)
among crustaceans- lobsters (tasty)
among fish ...

Originally posted by Lintelyg
The wolf.

It's prettey accurate.

yep, it is.

I swear I didnt scroll down to see Scayde's answers. :)

I got another one:

You've been sentenced to death in an obscure foreign country which has a strange law. Before the sentence is carried out, two papers -- one with "LIFE" written on it and one with "DEATH" written on it -- are folded up and ...

1) How many months in this year have 28 days?
ANS: 12, because all twelve have at least 28 days in them.

2) What do you get if you divide 20 by half then add 10?
ANS: 20 or 12, depending if the guy who asked you is a grammar cop...(I'd go with 12)

3) A farmer has 15 sheep. All but 6 of them die ...

@Littiz

sorry,.. you were clear the first time but somewhere along the line I went off tangent taking your point not so much one step further but kinda sideways... :)

What you said about parachutes for planes reminds me of the Ford Pinto...I remember it because it was a case where an evil ...

Horse?...that was a surprise...

@Scayde

No offense taken. Drinking and driving do have inherent risks and I apologise if gave anybody the impression that even moderate amounts of alcohol do not somehow impair or at least affect one's judgement.

My position was simply that from my experience I can drink the same amount of alcohol ...

@Audace

Without meaning to sound argumentative...the traffic here is so congested that from school to house, I seldom ever need to go to 3rd gear because the next bottleneck is less than a kilometer away. :)

I can honestly say without kidding myself that I drive safely, with or without alcohol ...

Its a tie...

I sometimes get a compulsion to visit people I haven't seen in a long time or do something uncharacteristically nice for someone I know. Within a week or two...that person dies. It's happened about 5 times that I remember. Only one of those five was seriously ill. The rest died ...

Now I have a confession....

I drive drunk fairly often. I mean, if anybody did a breathalizer on me at 5 pm on any day of the week, I'm sure I'd qualify as drunk...people riding with me say my driving is a lot smoother when I've had a few drinks in me. I can hold my liquor and I know when to quit ...

sorry, my bad....i said homicide when I meant murder.

HLD said it all already. But to recap...murder has the element of malice; manslaughter refers to killing someone without specifying if malice was present; justifiable homicide is manslaughter with a well....justifiable reason for it...like self ...

Of course the law professor forgot to mention that paying restitution is just the civil aspect of the law and that deliberately killing someone to avoid paying more money is a criminal act and the difference between manslaughter and homicide; years in jail and life imprisonment. Somebody should tell ...

Re: Words of wisdom, pare...

Originally posted by Maharlika
...point duly taken, Askal. :cool:

Forgiveness is good, no, it's a GREAT thing to do...

...but what if it wasn't asked for? How could there be due closure when you lost your loved one and they insult you by offering 0.5 million ...

I'm not sure what I'm saying...


I don't condone what Ong did and I particularly detest the things he said after he ran down those kids. However, as much as being drunk can be considered an exacerbating circumstance, it can also mitigate the things he said. I'm saying, he was drunk and may not have ...

I hate the way:

...people claim to believe in something then don't fight for it.
...the people you hate are also the same people you love.
...people assume you can't handle the truth and lie to you.
...life has a way of bringing you close to someone who can't stay very long.
...life moves too fast ...