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To: Bucky Katt who wrote (18899)	8/15/2005 9:22:32 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 20773

HAHA! A fellow music lover! I would take your advice, but my 2 eyes still I need Going blind, out of reach Somewhere in the vaseline I remember geordi laforges mother saying something about if you do that you will go blind - scared the dickends out of me. It isn’t you, isn’t me Search for things that you can’t see Too 90's for me - lets go a decade back and across the pond: I’m all out of hope One more bad dream could bring a fall When I’m far from home Don’t call me on the phone To tell me you’re alone It’s easy to deceive It’s easy to tease But hard to get release Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face Got no human grace your eyes without a face. I spend so much time Believing all the lies To keep the dream alive Now it makes me sad It makes me mad at truth For loving what was you Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face Got no human grace your eyes without a face. When you hear the music you make a dip Into someone else’s pocket then make a slip. Steal a car and go to las vegas oh, the gigolo pool. Hanging out by the state line, Turning holy water into wine Drinkin’ it down I’m on a bus on a psychedelic trip Reading murder books tryin’ to stay hip. I’m thinkin’ of you you’re out there so Say your prayers. Say your prayers. Say your prayers. Now I close my eyes And I wonder why I don’t despise Now all I can do Is love what was once So alive and new But it’s gone from your eyes I’d better realise Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face Got no human grace your eyes without a face. Such a human waste your eyes without a face And now it’s getting worse. lyricsdepot.com Lets go back another decade: You made a fool of me But them broken dreams have got to end Hey woman you got the blues Cause you ain't got no one else to use There's an open road that leads no where So just make some miles between here and there There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in You took my body and played to win Ha, ha woman, it's a crying shame But you ain't got nobody else to blame Evil woman, evil woman Evil woman, evil woman Rolled in from another town Hit some gold, too hot to settle down But a fool and his money soon go separate ways And you found a fool lyin' in a daze Ha ha woman What you gonna do You destroyed all the virtues that the Lord gave you It's so good that you're feelin' pain But you better get your face board the very next train (repeat chorus) Evil woman how you done me wrong But now you're to wail a different song Ha, ha funny how you broke me up ]You made the wine now you drink a cup I come runnin' every time you cried I thoughjt I saw love smilin' in your eyes Ha, ha very nice to know That you ain't got no place left to go (repeat chorus) ' I hear in the 50's there was this song called Cathy's clown - where is the original memes anymore? You see its like a redundancy - recursion - the deeper in time we go - the patterns like fractal math - just repeat and repeat - hehe its all circular Fast forward to today - even the country boys singing all that hate - George Strait sang he hates everything - so much power in such a little stinky hole. hit-country-music-lyrics.com

To: Bucky Katt who wrote (18899)	8/16/2005 3:14:12 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 20773

timesofindia.indiatimes.com Nope cant take your suggestion and watch porno - it will REALLY make you go blind - crazy! Sexy images hurt your eyesight TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2005 11:29:01 PM ] Researchers have finally found evidence for what good Catholic boys have known all along – erotic images make you go blind. According to a report in New Scientist, the research has added to road-safety campaigners' calls to ban sexy billboard-advertising near busy roads, in the hope of preventing accidents. The new study by US psychologists found that people shown erotic or gory images frequently fail to process images they see immediately afterwards. And the researchers say some personality types appear to be affected more than others by the phenomenon, known as "emotion-induced blindness". David Zald, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Marvin Chun and colleagues from Yale University in Connecticut, showed hundreds of images to volunteers and asked them to pick a specific image from the rapid sequence. Most of the images were landscape or architectural scenes, but the psychologists included a few emotionally charged images, portraying violent or sexually provocative scenes. The closer these emotionally charged images occurred prior to the target image, the more frequently people failed to spot the target image, the researchers found. "We observed that people failed to detect visual images that appeared one-fifth of a second after emotional images, whereas they can detect those images with little problem after neutral images," Zald says. "We think there is essentially a bottleneck for information processing and if a certain type of stimulus captures attention, it can jam up the bottleneck so subsequent information can't get through," Zald explains. "It appears to happen involuntarily. The stimulus captures attention and once allocated to that particular stimulus, no other stimuli can get through" for several tenths of a second.

To: Bucky Katt who wrote (18899)	8/16/2005 11:55:20 AM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

WAL-MART WORRIED ABOUT GAS PRICES money.cnn.com (from Peak Oil Thread...) A wary Wal-Mart No. 1 retailer blames higher gas prices for soft second-quarter sales, worries about outlook. August 16, 2005: 9:27 AM EDT By Parija Bhatnagar, CNN/Money staff writer NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - While Wal-Mart Stores blamed higher gas prices for cutting into its sales in the second quarter, CEO Lee Scott said Tuesday he's concerned that the worst may be yet to come. "I do feel good about the economy, but I worry about the effect of higher oil prices," Scott said during the pre-recorded call that was monitored by telephone in New York. "Wal-Mart will continue to face a challenge as the year progresses." Tom Schoewe, Wal-Mart's chief financial officer, chimed in during the call, adding that Wal-Mart was hit with a double-whammy because of the escalating price of fuel. On one hand, higher gas prices will continue to cut into the pocketbooks of Wal-Mart's predominantly low-to-mid-income customers. "That will impact our operating income," Schoewe said. At the same time, Schoewe said more expensive fuel was costing Wal-Mart more on the back end of the business, primarily to use its vast trucking fleet to move freight around the country to its stores. "This impacted our operating profit by $30 million and our total utility expense rose by $100 million in the quarter," Schoewe said. Because of the "uncertainty" of the direction of oil prices, Schoewe said Wal-Mart was keeping its third-quarter and full-year profit forecasts within a "wide range." Wal-Mart (Research) expects third-quarter earnings to come in at 55 to 59 cents a share. That's below the top end of analysts' range of 57 to 62 cents a share for the period. Full-year profits are expected to be $2.63 to $2.70 a share, compared with analysts' forecasted range of $2.56 to $2.70 a share for the period ending Jan. 31, 2006. "Right now, the middle of the range seems reasonable," Schoewe said. The consensus analysts' estimate for the third quarter is for a profit of 60 cents a share for the third quarter and $2.66 for the full year, according to First Call. Wal-Mart is also struggling with keeping its expenses down, Scott said. "We did not meet our goals as our expenses in the quarter grew faster than our sales," Scott said. "Our inventory grew less than last year even as sales increased." These two factors will increase financial costs for the company, although Scott said he was confident that any negative impact of that would be offset by higher gross margins. On a positive note, Scott said inflation appeared under check as Wal-Mart customers paid about the same amount of dollars for the same basket of goods compared to last year. Sluggish sales Wal-Mart (Research), the world's largest retailer, said it earned a record $2.8 billion, or 67 cents a share for the period ended July 31, up 5.8 percent from $2.7 billion, or 62 cents, in the prior year. Sales for the period came in at $76.8 billion, up 10.2 percent. Analysts had expected the company to earn a profit of 65 cents a share for the period on sales of $77.4 billion, according to First Call. "Early in the quarter, our results were disappointing," Scott said. "However, July came in stronger than expected. Wal-Mart Stores did miss their plan as our customer continues to be impacted by higher gas prices, and it is difficult to improve our expense leverage in the current environment." However, hot and steamy weather pushed sales of bigger-ticket items such as air conditioners, helping to boost Wal-Mart's bottom line. Scott said he "felt good" about back-to-school sales. In its ongoing bid to attract higher-income consumers and compete more effectively with rival Target (Research), Scott said Wal-Mart was continuing to push for more depth in its mid- and premium-priced products, particularly in consumer electronics. Total U.S. comparable sales for the quarter increased 3.5 percent, which is represented by a 3.6 percent increase for Wal-Mart Stores and a 2.9 percent increase for Sam's Club.