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Seems reasonable. After all, the Olympics don't seem to be suffering from not having salaried athletes. A sprint (half mile swim, 12.5 mile bike, 3 mile run) really should be doable for anyone without legitimate mobility issues, with a month or two of training. If I can ever manage a 5k run without my knee acting up, I'm going to give it a shot.

Control issues. Might as well just accept that you have a new religion now.

How about an even better solution: make it illegal to pay people to play games altogether. Save that celebrating and big payoff for when you save someone's life, develop a new product to make lives better or teach a child a useful skill. Games should be played entirely for the enjoyment of playing them. My girlfriend just finished her first full sprint triathlon a couple weeks ago. Second in her age division. She doesn't expect to ever make any money off of it, but she puts in an impressive level of effort for the satisfaction of accomplishing something most people will never even attempt.

On day one, He quit screwing around with commie kickball and started doing good things.

Easy, fair solution to the pay gap; pool all the money and let the teams play each other for it.

There's plenty of White House staff to share the yuge Chick-fil-A order with.

Hey MG, did you ever build that Clockwork Orange style theater room you were planning? Sounds like someone needs to be dragged in to test it.

Just like the way Dr Who traveled all over space and time for decades, meeting almost no species that weren't heterosexual, (Time Lords themselves being an odd exception since I seem to recall the opposite gender regeneration thing being established early on) but suddenly with the recent ones every other creature is either gay or bisexual.

Not Disney, but have you watched Rocky & Bullwinkle since your mid 20s? Quite a bit of adult humor was in several cartoons of that era.

People like that are the reason shunning should make a comeback. When nature finally brings us the long overdue apex predator, they can test their athletic abilities against it alone.

Nothing guarantees a win in the Supreme Court like a loss in the 9th.

No comments on the irony of the Peroxide Princess in the signing video?

Not to worry; there are plenty of sources for powder and ball, many with excellent shipping policies. You may, however, want to get with local cannon enthusiasts and split a 25lb case of powder, as the hazmat fees on single pound orders are a bit rough.

It's worse than that; he meant the Chinese army. I forget which dynasty though.

Yeah, because you're around some seriously desperate people.

Have you considered that maybe it's because no one likes you, and that last little bit of conscience you haven't yet managed to destroy is making you feel bad for forcing them to pretend they like you? Oh, wait...thought it was JAG for a moment. Never mind.

Every kind of job anyone will pay for benefits from an economic boom. Seems eventually those starving "artists" out there complaining about Trump would notice that the better the economy does, the more people have extra cash to spend on art and leisure.

Depends on the specific Atlantis belief; we've found plenty of sunken cities, so it's actually pretty likely that somewhere there's a major city, advanced for its time, that sunk. It's only some of them that believe it's somehow still functioning, whether populated with merfolk or under a giant air-filled dome.

What, in the 1940s? Even at $5/day, 5 days/week, with a week off, you're looking at $625 a year, and I haven't seen $5 lunches other than McD's dollar menu in a long time.

Back when the Mega Millions lottery jackpot was well past $1 billion, I was daydreaming about what I'd do with that kind of money. Large-but-normal house, (maybe 5k sq ft... I grew up in 3,200 and think every house should have at least one room where a couple can waltz without running into walls) Toyota Camry, hire a couple people I know who haven't been making full use of their talents as my cook and personal assistant and build houses for them just out of sight of the main house. $20 million in trusts for my kids. Huge dojo with a basic gym attached and bribe my favorite instructors to move their classes there. At least $5 million to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Then the Bat Cave like underground garage with a Lamborghini Countach and Ferrari Testarossa. (Yeah, we never really grow out of wanting the hottest cars on the market from the teen years.) Beyond that, I dunno. Probably 2-3 bespoke suits, saxophone lessons and some really awesome camping gear.

The three most wealthy guys I know in this area drive Ford or Dodge pickups. Two have crazily expensive houses with all the luxuries, while the third (the carpenter from before, who turned out to have a real talent for sales) has a 1,200 square foot normal looking house on 600 acres. His wife refuses to let him hire a maid so he built just enough to have what he wanted and two guest bedrooms for when their kids visit. She spends tens of thousands a year redecorating it, and he has a gun collection worth more than I could begin to add up, but meet them anywhere other than the range and they're the typical retired-to-the-country middle class couple.

Biggest problem I see with attracting women want money is that even the most successful people usually fail a few times. Nearly all of the $10M+ net worth people I've known have been flat broke, deep in debt and living out of a car or on a friend's couch at least once between making their first million and getting to where they are. Precisely one managed to keep the wife he had through that period, because they got married before he had any success, when he was a carpenter who spent most nights in the back of his truck or in houses he was working on. All the others have had at least one divorce resulting from the broke times. Which pretty much confirms gold diggers are dumb, too; you don't cash in a stock that previously performed well when it's at an all-time low.

Or perhaps you're a sociopath and incapable of recognizing their trauma. Or maybe none of them trust you enough to tell you. I find it hard to believe you - or anyone - could know multiple people who lead such charmed lives since birth that they've never experienced even one significant traumatic event. Frankly, if I found such a person I'd be tempted to beat them until they had that one to fall back on, just on general principle.

Anybody smart would use that list to rule out 2,500 gold diggers, then sell it to both other smart guys wanting to do the same and to guys looking for a list of hot women that will likely put out for a rich enough guy if they think it will give them an edge getting a life of luxury.

"Excuse me sir."