So, if you never want to sit in traffic, get a yellow car?

I have to admit that I am kind of a culprit here, sorry! But I do totally understand your plight. My wife and I had our first child 6mo ago, so we recently made the change from from being at the "no-kids table" to being surrounded by other couples with kids. Here's my defense that is probably no consolation:

Narnia.

Touché on the Big Bang argument, you are correct that it is a separate issue from Evolution. However, it does belong in the Creationism argument (i.e. Creationism is, in my opinion, the best explanation for the Big Bang), which is why I mentioned it, but is not necessarily related to what happened afterwards.

As a Christian who is also a proponent of Creationism (Reasons for such being: Cambrian explosion explanation? Cause of the Big Bang? Irreducible complexity? Transversing infinity? A transcendent Creator is still the best explanation. But I digress...) I still find this ad both funny and clever.

I think this is actually the first test of the Star Trek transporter technology.

You bring up an interesting point. I'd like to see all of these "books published" numbers translated into "words published" to get a better idea of prolific-ness. A single large novel can be more words than an entire trilogy of shorter books.

Business Casual is the code at my job in Long Beach, CA. We're an enormous automotive company with codes and policies that come from over-seas affiliates. To our local office the most casual form of our technically "Business Casual" code means I'm wearing leather shoes, cotton pants (like dockers), belt, and a company…

This story sounds a little fishy. You mean to tell me that this scientist just happened to not only have a chocolate bar in his pocket (who keeps chocolate bars in their pockets?), but he also happened to have un-popped popcorn kernels and an egg readily on hand, in his lab?? The two items that are particularly known…

I'm half joking. I've already read Hunger Games and many other YA novels in the past few years in addition to Classics, Non-Fiction, and regular old Sci-fi/Fantasy books!

I'll check it out as soon as I finish Hunger Games :-)

This paragraph:

Personal growth, maturing, and life changes are what seem to be the biggest friendship killers to me, but not in a bad way. Friendships are defined by having similar interests and similar/complimentary dispositions. When life changes, or you (or the friend) grows and changes, then those parameters have changed and…

I negotiated my salary when I was first hired and ended up getting exactly $5K more than was first offered. It wasn't very difficult. I just presented my case on what I was worth, put things in percentages instead of dollars, and the HR person said okay.

I negotiated my salary when I was first hired and ended up getting exactly $5K more than was first offered. It wasn't very difficult. I just presented my case on what I was worth, put things in percentages instead of dollars, and the HR person said okay.

No, not beavers, I think you mean HROSS!

At what point does in the incision make a new worm? Cutting off the head, the body grows a new head. Cutting off the body, does the body grow a new head? Does the worm then grow/multiply into two worms? Where is the demarcation of which side will grow back, and why?

Obviously, it is the wooden sword from the original NES version of The Legend of Zelda.

Mmmm, well done! After all this talk I think oliebollen are going to make an appearance at Father's Day this year, I can't wait until New Years!