Miniwhinny

Little girl

They're not cursed...they just SURVIVED two massive quakes....they're LUCKY hahahhaha

I'm in Redmond. Welcome.

oh I just LOVE your 'scaping.

Oh they are awesome I've always wanted a seahorse tank. That's great to hear that they are eating so well. Very cool (clap)

(laugh)(laugh)(laugh) See, I rest my case HAHAHAHAHA (clap)

hehe yeah - up in the corner by the blue and white, no, blue and red, no white and oooh you know, the stripes (laugh)(laugh)(laugh)

Okay, when I took my test they give you a booklet with the Q & A's so you can study. It was scarey just how many people picked it up and couldn't answer even the simple questions ... like how many stars on the flag DOH!

I bet its offered in another language (flame) I don't think 99.999% of Americans have any idea just how hard it is to LEGALLY come here. The years of waiting, background checks, health checks, getting on a very small quota list for your given country. Having to have a certain job and education, interviews, medical tests (not to mention the cost)....etc. I would never EVER have considered coming here illegally. That's a crime - to come into another country without permission and to work and take employment from someone who belongs there is a CRIME. I get so incredibly upset over the illegal immigrant issue here. The "people just want a chance for a better lifestyle" just doesn't cut it. Gosh, the entire world wants that. Everybody wants to live in America given the chance. But America has very stringent rules on just who and how many actually get that dream. The quotas are established by the State department for a reason. TO just come here is such a slap in the face of everyone who did it the proper way and even more...it's a slap in the face of every American. Getting off my soap box

I passed (whistle) Edited to add - I really DID pass when I became a US citizen 8 years ago ';-)

Oh NO !! I'm so sorry about all of your corals. How heartbreaking. I'm glad that your fish all survived though.

You know I'm not sure if it's the lower end of the scale or just as reefnjunkie mentioned that a lot of guys just have that curiosity and need to find out for themselves what things are like. Glad everyone enjoyed it as much as I did. It was posted on a horse message board that I visit but I wanted to share it here with y'all It sure gave me a good laugh (laugh)

Just try reading this without laughing till you cry!!! Pocket Tazer Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife... A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Tazer for their anniversary submitted this: Last weekend I saw something at Larry's Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest... The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse- sized tazer. The effects of the tazer were supposed to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety....?? WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home. loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button and pressed it against a metal surface at the same time, I'd get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs. AWESOME!!! Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave. Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn't be all that bad with only two AAA batteries, right? There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target. I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and then thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised. Am I wrong? So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and tazer in another. The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; and a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out ofwater. Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries. All the while I'm looking at this little device measuring about 5" long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference (loaded with two itsy,bitsy AAA batteries); pretty cute really, and thinking to myself, 'no possible way!' What happened next is almost beyond description, but I'll do my best . I'm sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to oneside so as to say, 'Don't do it stupid,' reasoning that a one secondburst from such a tiny lil ole thing couldn't hurt all that bad. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it. I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and ... HOLY MOTHER OF.. . WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION . . . WHAT THE ....!!! I'm pretty sure Hulk Hogan ran in through the side door,picked meup in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over andover and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side inthe fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs! The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clingingto a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over theliving room. Note: If you ever feel compelled to 'mug' yourself with a tazer, one note of caution: there is NO such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodgedfrom your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor! A threesecond burst would be considered conservative! A minute or so later (I can't be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape. My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace. The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was. My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs.. I had no control over the drooling. Apparently I had crapped in my shorts, but was too numb to know for sure, and my sense of smell was gone. I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head, which I believe came from my hair. I'm still looking for my testicles and I'm offering a significant reward for their safe return! P.s... My wife can't stop laughing about my experience, loved the gift and now regularly threatens me with it! If you think education is difficult, try being stupid !!!

It's dishonest - PERIOD (nono) When our hobby makes purchases based on COLOR then to change that color (and they never dull it - right lol) is dishonest. There's an online company that does this to all of their pictures. I got sucked into it before I realized and got a whole delivery of off colored corals. When I told them, they said "oh we're sorry we must have grabbed the wrong ones". I won't post their name but if you look at their site you can see that the white egg crate is suspiciously blue when showing blue corals and pink with pink ones etc. Since then (that was a couple of years ago) I never purchase corals online - I want to see them in person before I buy.

I voted no sand. I never put sand in my tanks

epicenter ---- oh that's so cooll if yours is spawning also. Ummm...maybe we could produce little "Taps" lol reef165...I don't think they'll fertilize (sad) I haven't found any info specific to torches and some corals can be male and female but I'm not expecting any miracles of birth Everything I've read does point to the lunar cycles so I bet having pitch black nights here - and never closing the blinds - is the reason this one spawned. Guess time will tell... may be little torches springing up all over soon

Yup watched it...all 3 hours. Very cool.

Thanks guys

Oh don't worry...the car is just the start...then comes the moddin' fun (rock2) Hey...oh and trying to convince your teenage sons that "just 'cus you've got it - don't mean you have to use it" lol AND trying to resist (which I already have do in the slightly modded WRX) not to challenge all the other 50 year old mom's in the schools carpool lane to a race. Life Motto..."Do NOT age gracefully" (laugh)(naughty)(naughty)(whistle)

AWESOME - thank you for sharing. I put a Perrin Street Racing exhaust on my WRX last year and the sound is SO sweet...certainly not the bee in a jam jar sound that you hear way too often. That vid has inspired me...well, that and watching Pastrana's 260+ jump at midnight on New Year. I'm going to up to an STI this year...but remember...don't and I mean DON'T borrow your hubby's GPS because he'll know just how fast you were actually driving on that closed circuit when he gets it back DOH!(laugh)(whistle)(clap)

Thanks guys. Now I have to set up an egg hatchery ready for next time.

oh thanks...will do

I don't know if it's okay to link...please remove if it's not but I so wanted to share this with you guys. I had no idea that it was a big deal when it happened....now I'm really excited. http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=220182

Oh my gosh - there are some adults around here with wayyyyy too much time on their hands lol