Just throwing that out there

[The Cid]

Lychee fruit is very, VERY underrated. Just throwing that out there.

[adciv]

Oh, and just an after-thought, if the air temperature below 10°, you have to use a different salt/chemical compound to melt the roads. Under -20°, no salt will work on icy roads. (Something my brother, who is an electrical engineer for Cargill told me once. He works for their salt-mining operation. Guess where Cargill made their money this winter?) Just throwing it out there.

Edit: It occurred to me, he's an engineer not a chemist, and neither am I, so I'm probably wrong about when salt is good for melting ice from roads and what-not.

Salt merely lowers the melting point of water, it does not directly cause it to melt automatically. At some temperature, it will still stay frozen regardless of the amount of salt added. Ah, found a summary on it.

When you add salt to water, you introduce dissolved foreign particles into the water. The freezing point of water becomes lower as more particles are added until the point where the salt stops dissolving. For a solution of table salt (sodium chloride, NaCl) in water, this temperature is -21°C (-6°F) under controlled lab conditions. In the real world, on a real sidewalk, sodium chloride can melt ice only down to about -9°C (15°F).

[StruckingFuggle]

It seems like if you want to get doping out of something like the MLB, the best way would be to insult the masculinity and prowess of dopers and not acknowledge or respect their accomplishments. They'd probably drop it quicker than Bender decided to blow up his statue.

[Blaze]

You think those guys really care about their records? Are you KIDDING?

No no no. They care about the dollar signs. Hit more home runs, get more dollars. Simple enough?

[StruckingFuggle]

Well if you build up enough shame, people might start avoiding such tainted records, and I dunno, kick 'em in their tiny little metaphoric balls enough and it might throw them off their game, too.

[adciv]

Not exactly metaphoric. Apparently one of the side affects of steroid abuse is shrunken testicles. (Hey, I watch House)

[StruckingFuggle]

Oh, I know, that's why I used "tiny". :p The metaphor part was that it's not really a literal kick to the balls so much as it's intended to be a metaphoric fittingly mean kick to something that's probably as sensitive - their egos.

[The Cid]

You think those guys really care about their records? Are you KIDDING?

No no no. They care about the dollar signs. Hit more home runs, get more dollars. Simple enough?

DISAGREE!

Blaze, think of the cases of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds.** Bonds had his money. In fact, BEFORE the juice he was holding franchises hostage for money. Clemens too had his money, coming from all those years in Boston and many endorsement deals. They took steroids (assuming they took steroids) because Bonds wanted The Record and Clemens wanted to hit a major milestone. It was all about accomplishments--being bigger than the game in every sense. In Bonds' case, jealousy was even thrown in there if we are to believe the fantastic Game of Shadows. In Clemens' case, it was a desire to keep in the game and, to some extent, to prove to his former employers that they were wrong for letting him walk away.

**If they did it, as the circumstantial evidence suggests.

[ampersand]

A low of -2° here tonight. If I have to hear about "make sure your pets are inside" one more time, I think I'll sic a naked man on the newscaster. Just throwing it out there.

[Blaze]

Cid: When you have fifty million dollars in your bank account, all you can think is how much you'd like 50 million more. If Bonds cared about the home run reccord, he would've retired after he got it this season.

[The Cid]

Blaze dude, I really don't know about that. Seriously, all accounts I've heard point to this being more a matter of pride than of money. Game of Shadows painted a portrait of Bonds that the man was so angry at Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's 1998 home run chase that he decided to do what many believe those two were doing. "Take this and you'll be the best ever." And if one is to believe this McNamee guy, Clemens was driven by fear that his career was coming to a close. Also, Bonds hasn't signed anywhere yet. Between the federal case against him, the Mitchell Report and Selig's admission that he's going to try going after some players, Bonds may well retire. I mean, it's either that or face the possibility of MLB scrutiny, and whatever punishment Selig would dole out.

Ditto Clemens. I think that these allegations and the several courtroom and congressional battles he's about to fight will take him out of the game for good. If nothing else they'll learn their lesson from Mark McGwire, and disappear where baseball can't bring them out on the carpet.

[ampersand]

So, I'm doing errands for my folks in town and I see on billboard at a gas station, "Jesus is cool for '08." Oh, really. What was he in '07...not cool? Not chic? Is Jesus to be the next biggest thing since Hannah Montana? Maybe it's just me, but when you have to imply that religion is just a fad to get your message across, that just drives people to become agnostics at the very least.

Just throwing it out there.

[Deacon]

when you have to imply that religion is just a fad to get your message across, that just drives people to become agnostics at the very least.

Your logic circuit is faulty. Just throwing that out there.

[collegestudent22]

"Jesus is cool for '08." Oh, really. What was he in '07...not cool? Not chic?
Just throwing it out there.

Since when does saying something is "cool" imply that it wasn't cool in the past?

[Sophira]

When you add a year after it.

Mostly, it's just a hokey-ass sign.