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Men have been trying to figure women out for thousands of years and THAT’S the best you could come up with??? Maybe we should just leave the difficult stuff to Madame Curie…
this secret has been kept for a long time because of the hiding place of it…. it is hidden behind the common sense and reason of the woman, and we all know those two things never see the sunlight!
an MSDS sheet for men would be quite helpful too! have any more hidden resources?
‘tine wrote: Men have been trying to figure women out for thousands of years and THAT’S the best you could come up with??? Maybe we should just leave the difficult stuff to Madame Curie…
The problem isn’t men, ‘tine, it’s women. You see, most men are problem solvers and here’s how we function (well, when we do actually function):
1) We observe the events or situation.
2) Identify the issues (problems).
3) Formulate a plan.
4) Implement the solution.
5) We move on — our job here is done.
Unfortunately (if you’re a man), woman will do everything in their power to convolute process items #2, #3 and #4.
What’s left is simple (and predictable to a woman) — we will look at the situation for a moment and move on!
Btw, ‘tine, Maria Sk?odowska-Curie (a.k.a. Madame Curie) has been dead for nearly 3/4 of a century. I don’t think your suggestion bodes well for civilization and scientific research!
Hmmm, funny how one of the most intelligent, highly respected female ‘scientists’ the world has ever known caused her own death by carrying radioactive materials around in her purse… You’d think she’d have put them in some Reynold’s Wrap or something… Ohhh look, pretty colours!
Psssh! Girls can’t be scientists… Only boys can be scientists…
Women should stay home in the kitchen and mind the babies, and leave all the scientificating to us men…
Well, Trouble, that wasn’t because she was a woman. That was because the scientific community wasn’t fully aware of the harmful effects of radiation.
Though she did comment on how pretty the isotopes were…
Don’t start quoting no Wikipedia to me missy… A woman’s place is in the home… More specifically in the bed… Naked…
Science is man-work… just ’cause some crazy French guy thought it was ‘Bring-your-woman-to-work day’ …every day, don’t mean the rest of us sane men need to go acting all crazy like… You didn’t see him carrying around that stuff in his wallet and dying of overexposure, did you?
So quit making excuses for her…
My name isn’t Missy so I assume you were talking to someone else…?
FYI, the comment about the isotopes was from Wikipedia (which I thought was an interesting tidbit). The other info was not.
It was an interesting tidbit altho you would think that someone as “brilliant” as she was would have noticed something wasn’t quite right as the bugs and things around her house started dropping dead.
Well to be fair to Mrs. Curie, considering that no one was fully aware of all of the effects at that time, even assuming that she had noticed, she may not have immediately suspected it was due to the radiation. That doesn’t mean she wasn’t a brilliant scientist. Things that are obvious to us now with the knowledge and information that we have may not have been then.
I mean, how do you think we figured that radiation was harmful?
Mara, they know that. They’re just being difficult.
Ah. Thanks, Christine. I’m just in a weird mood today. I watched The Departed last night and it just made me feel icky.
Mara (not Missy) said:I mean, how do you think we figured that radiation was harmful?”
By trial and error, of course! Marie Curie is not much different than Percy Spencer discovering the magnetron he was working on had melted a chocolate candy bar in his pocket (because of the microwaves) in 1946.
He figured it was the magnetron he was working on at Raytheon Co, so he tried a bag of popcorn (it popped) and an egg (it too got cooked) and so on. Raytheon, which had built the magnetron for a radar project, began producing microwave ovens which were then marketed as “the Radar Range”. You don’t hear that name much anymore — mostly senior citizens who also call the freezer the “ice box”. That’s what I called my second girlfriend, but that’s another story
Your “Second Girlfriend” 2 funny. I couldn’t remember my second girl friend if someone paid me $10k, but I could make up some excellent stories about her.
Hear that Chris? You’re just being difficult…
I wonder who I learned that trick from. Besides.. proving why women should not be scientist is just too easy of a point to make.
Goddammit, Christopher, you said I was your “second girlfriend.” You mean there was more than one other before me???
No wonder I couldn’t remember her… she’s the current girl… or I’m trying to block her out with all my might…
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