[creepy]

Jun 26, 2009 8:43:30 GMT -5 @gatorbait said:

Shouldn't that be a x0 on the bottom left hand side?

[creepy]

Does it make me an asshole if I'm wishing Ill will to Nicole Richeys' baby? I might not lose if that kid goes to Toddler Heaven.

[Fire-Babe]

Hasn't that kid been born yet?

[Byrntrigan]

Jun 27, 2009 7:12:09 GMT -5 Fire-Babe said:

Hasn't that kid been born yet?

Negative number? 101?

[Moosehead Jack]

Pretty sure no one had him, but Pitchman Billy Mays Found Dead at His Home

DEVELOPING: Television pitchman Billy Mays — who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday, FOX News confirms.

Mays was found unresponsive by his wife inside his Tampa, Fla., home at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, according to the Tampa Police Department.

Police said there were no signs of forced entry to May's residence and foul play is not suspected. Authorities said an autopsy should be complete by Monday afternoon.

Mays, 50, was on board a US Airways flight that blew out its front tires as it landed at a Tampa airport on Saturday, MyFOXTampa.com reported.

US Airways spokesman Jim Olson said that none of the 138 passengers and five crew members were injured in the incident, but several passengers reported having bumps and bruises, according to the station.

Authorities have not said whether Mays' death was related to the incident.

"Although Billy lived a public life, we don't anticipate making any public statements over the next couple of days. Our family asks that you respect our privacy during these difficult times," Mays wife, Deborah, said in a statement on Sunday.

[Byrntrigan]

Wow. He was a young guy. That's gonna hurt his TV show. That's too bad.

Whose gonna sell OxyClean now?

[Angle]

Jun 28, 2009 11:09:27 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

Wow. He was a young guy. That's gonna hurt his TV show. That's too bad.

Whose gonna sell OxyClean now?

[Andy]

Jun 25, 2009 19:25:52 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

Not to be any more morbid then my proclamation of being the Angel of Death

(say I like that)

Com'on fucking Steve Jobs, Walter Cronkite and Patrick Swayze.

After a week with this iPhone I'm hoping you're right about Jobs

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[Byrntrigan]

Jun 29, 2009 8:29:56 GMT -5 Andy said:

Jun 25, 2009 19:25:52 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

Not to be any more morbid then my proclamation of being the Angel of Death

(say I like that)

Com'on fucking Steve Jobs, Walter Cronkite and Patrick Swayze.

After a week with this iPhone I'm hoping you're right about Jobs

Shall we assume that you hate your iPhone? or that it's just a piece of shit?

[Fire-Babe]

Jun 27, 2009 11:14:08 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

Jun 27, 2009 7:12:09 GMT -5 Fire-Babe said:

Hasn't that kid been born yet?

Negative number? 101?

Well, my point is that I swear it was on someone's list last year. So either we've got the world's longest gestation happening here, or I've missed something.

And yeah, I guess fetuses would be worth 101 points, but that's just too weird or something. Maybe next year we limit it to people who are actually BORN.

[creepy]

I meant her kid she already had. Did she have a kid already?


Also,

A LIFE STARTS AT CONCEPTION!!!!! or something

[Deleted]

Sure, but legalized abortion led to a decrease in the crime rate in the 90's.

[Andy]

Jun 29, 2009 13:21:59 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

Jun 29, 2009 8:29:56 GMT -5 Andy said:

After a week with this iPhone I'm hoping you're right about Jobs

Shall we assume that you hate your iPhone? or that it's just a piece of shit?

My iPhone would be a really good candidate for the deathpool.

[Fire-Babe]

Jun 29, 2009 13:53:02 GMT -5 @gatorbait said:

Sure, but legalized abortion led to a decrease in the crime rate in the 90's.

Ah yes, *Freakenomics.* Not going to go into all that is wrong with that.

[Fire-Babe]

I will however post this, because I've been laughing at it all day.

It is nowhere even close to safe for work.

[Deleted]

Jun 29, 2009 14:53:35 GMT -5 Fire-Babe said:

Jun 29, 2009 13:53:02 GMT -5 @gatorbait said:

Sure, but legalized abortion led to a decrease in the crime rate in the 90's.

Ah yes, *Freakenomics.* Not going to go into all that is wrong with that.

Hey, I'm not saying everybody should go out and get abortions. I'm just saying it was an unexpected positive "side effect" of legalized abortion in the U.S.

[Fire-Babe]

But you missed the point of the book. It was an exercise and demonstration of spuriousness. The relationship between abortion and crime is about as meaningful as the relationship between ice cream consumption and the homicide rate. It's there, but not because ice cream consumption causes homicide.

Also, they're kind of incorrect. Abortion was legalized in the 1970s, not the 1990s. Crime was fairly high in the 1970s, but was starting to decline in some categories in the 1980s (with the exception of gun homicides among young men).

Sorry....

Um....anyone have Billy Mays?

[Deleted]

Jun 30, 2009 7:08:32 GMT -5 Fire-Babe said:

But you missed the point of the book. It was an exercise and demonstration of spuriousness. The relationship between abortion and crime is about as meaningful as the relationship between ice cream consumption and the homicide rate. It's there, but not because ice cream consumption causes homicide.

Also, they're kind of incorrect. Abortion was legalized in the 1970s, not the 1990s. Crime was fairly high in the 1970s, but was starting to decline in some categories in the 1980s (with the exception of gun homicides among young men).

Sorry....

Um....anyone have Billy Mays?

You're absolutely right. It was in no way saying there was a cause/effect relationship between legalized abortion and crime rate, but it did defend that there was a correlation. That's a very big difference in the world of statistics.

And where did they get it wrong? One wouldn't expect the crimes to decrease immediately after abortion was legalized (in the 70's as you stated). I'm not aware of many fetuses who commit armed robbery or rape. You would expect the statistics to show the drop 15-25 years after they were aborted (early-to-mid 90's) when they would've been in the prime age demographic to commit the crimes.

The book goes through great lengths to show that they considered all other alternatives to explain the sudden decrease in the crime rate in the 90's, but people tend to ignore those facets of the book because the acknowledgment of a correlation between the two is in contradiction with certain moral principles.

[Fire-Babe]

Except that age range was the one where crime (especially violent crimes w/hand guns) did NOT drop in the 1990s. Everything else did.

[creepy]

Karl Malden dies at 97. Didn't check, but I doubt anybody had him.

[Fire-Babe]

I didn't think so, but I double checked to make sure someone got their whopping 3 points if so required.

[Fire-Babe]

I'm guessing no one had Steve McNair?

[Byrntrigan]

As in football player? Damn, he was pretty young. Didn't hear about that.

64 points if someone had him.

[Fire-Babe]

No one had him.

And I can't believe you didn't hear. Double death, and last I heard they had not yet ruled it a murder/suicide, but they're pretty sure McNair was a homicide, due to the multiple gun shot wounds.