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Orfan Powers
Pleasantly plump, Lazy old fellow, living in Seattle area since 1995.
The Japanese Yakuza – do they clandestinely help out the Japanese government in dealing with enemies of State?
Their existence must serve the State in some way maybe that's it?
5 AnswersJapan1 decade agoToilet was plugged earlier then cleared; then both our bathtubs half filled with overflow water. What gives?
Or - now what? We tried plunging the toilets.....toilets working fine but two bathtubs full of brown water....yukky!!!
3 AnswersOther - Home & Garden1 decade agoIs "pleasantly plump" as a description of oneself a compliment or an insult? Or does it depend on one's shape?
Like, if I am HUGE, it could be a kind word, but I have a small surplus tummy, it could be a 'dig'.....a muted insult.
How is the phrase used? By whom? How and why? On a movie I saw recently called Sex and the American Teenager or something, there is a fat teen dating a fatter teen and he says to her they would be a couple called Fat and Fatter and she gets mad and he says I meant just pleasantly plump...there it was meant to be a soothing phrase.
3 AnswersMarriage & Divorce1 decade agoMD &RNs: granted that swine flu resembles plain flu, does the order of appearance of Swine flu symptoms differ?
'cos I have a cold or flu in its fifth or sixth day which started with simple fatigue and just when I thought it over produces sniffing, sneezing and a low grade fever..... ¡Que pasa???!
1 AnswerInfectious Diseases1 decade agoYou know that absurd question, "What kind of car would Jesus Drive?" This is similar but sane: A Pastor's car?
I need a new car...want the most helpful, wise, compassionate, available, hospitable. I call it Helper-Car. An ambulance, maybe? A car within a car? ANY ideas?
8 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoIs nakedness a Sacrament? IMHO pagans and Catholics, agnostics, sexologists and naturists can all discuss this?
A sacrament reveals an inner reality of spirit, yes? Perhaps nakedness of one sort or another, e.g. emotional, moral is a kind of sacrament or a preparation or necessity for participation in one?
Now call me naive, but I see killing as called sacred all over the world, as a military duty to God. If death-dealing is sacred, then maybe life-giving clothes-shedding is too? So let's not be cloaked by prudishness in discussing a great subject
cf Tad Guzie, The Book of Sacramental Basics
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoCSI fans, for KidFund: Who do u Choose for a day's company - Grissom/Petersen; Caine/Caruso; or Taylor/Sinise?
You'd have to each of the three a score for:
acting
goodness
character
attractiveness
heroic quality
7 AnswersDrama1 decade agoChristians: An Indian bishop asks $800 to buy food for 400 at a wedding. A Filipino says that would feed 5800?
Do you think prayer can show where to send my $800? I am friends with the bishop in Andhra Pradesh, and the Filipino in Cebu City. How can we turn this dilemma into a blessing?
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoSo many tv shows - the criminal leaves bullet casing behind & so getting caught, Bullets without casings?
Surely there must be dozens or hundreds of guns firing Bullets without casings? The propellant only needs to be behind the bullet......
8 AnswersLaw Enforcement & Police1 decade agoAnger - an Issue for Men's Health: Shafted by justice officials: How to handle congealed rage to defuse it?
tips appreciated about my impotent fury at an injustice by government officials dealing unjustly with me......
4 AnswersMen's Health1 decade agoInvoluntary euthanasia as practised in Holland...anyone care to make a case for it? It was the Nazis' way, no?
Involuntary euthanasia is really State-sanctioned murder. SHould we prepare to dispose of the decrepit, or even the merely neurotic or unhappy as a vital [?!] duty of "the State".
Hello, No!
7 AnswersLaw & Ethics1 decade agoWhat are American War Aims in Afghanistan?
2 AnswersMilitary1 decade agoFrom Foodie to Artist in Eating? How many bites make a good chew, or how many gulps make a glutton a pig?
From Foodie to Artist in Eating? Is it possible? How many chews to a mouthful? Some say dozens, some say none....
1 AnswerOther - Food & Drink1 decade agoDEFCON2: How close was nuclear war in the 1962 missile crisis of Cuba?
Clancy and others say it was very close. Minutes away?
3 AnswersMilitary1 decade agoHow to help a brilliant 31 year old Colombian writer, who could be the greatest Spanish writer, to flourish?
He is too isolated, needs advice in harnessing his genius and not turning to suicide ....Can he be helped from the USA or Spain, what? Is there a school for Colmbian geniuses?
2 AnswersOther - Arts & Humanities1 decade ago