Posts by ZZucker

Statistically red cars have more accidents then yellow cars.

A side note:
A lot of fire departments have switched their trucks to a yellow color, away from the customary red.

Soy products have a tendency to enlarge your breasts because of estrogen like compounds. Nice for the girls, but not so good for the boys.

I couldn't live without chocolates.

To make this more general:

def remove_uni(s):
    """remove the leading unicode designator from a string"""
    if s.startswith("u'"):
        s2 = s.replace("u'", "'", 1)
    elif s.startswith('u"'):
        s2 = s.replace('u"', '"', 1)
    return s2

s = 'u"you\'re my favorite string"'

print remove_uni(s)  # "you're my favorite string"

Thanks to the 12th Amendment we won't have to put up with an ill conceived Hill and Bill, or Dick and Bush ticket.

LOL! :)

I love Texas pecan pie, but could only find a danish wth a few pecans on it in the cafeteria. See what you did Lardmeister? I am going to spend all day thinking about the sweet thing.

Blue eyed people are twice as likely to need glasses than brown eyed people.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my bedroom and was in bed before the room was dark.
--- Muhammad Ali

I read the officer was fired for what happend....

Good! He needs to send his application to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq! They are hiring this kind of trash.

aviation, aircrafts......just cannot live without 'em
thats why i devised <snipped URL>

I like those noisy beasts too! My steady BF is in the US Air Force.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves.

Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

--- Albert Einstein

I am a ZZ Top fan! "Ucker" is a mechanical device used in Norway to harvest hay from almost vertical slopes, mostly red clover, wild timothy, sweetgrass, and purple alsike. You feed this hay to cows and the milk they produce tastes exquisite.
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You have two lists, one list with all the cities you wanted to visit in your life, and another list of cities you have already visited. Now you want to create a new list of cities you have not visited yet:

# subtract/remove elements of one list from another

city = ['Lisbon', 'Paris', 'Reno', 'London', 'Oslo', 'Ypsilanti']

visited = ['Reno', 'Ypsilanti']

not_visited = [c for c in city if c not in visited]
# order of remaining elements has not changed
print not_visited

# simpler ...
not_visited = list(set(city) - set(visited))
# order of remaining elements has changed
print not_visited

"""
my result --->
['Lisbon', 'Paris', 'London', 'Oslo']
['Paris', 'Oslo', 'London', 'Lisbon']
"""

Just a Danish and a cup of extra roast Medellín coffee.

your guide at the top seems like everyday to me , lifes full of the brown stuff

Let me guess, you are a smoker and must be talking about tobacco. To some folks smoking is very relaxing and unstressing.

Eleven tons of human hair was stolen from a wig factory in Skokie this morning.
Police are combing the area.

Hey Ezzaral, nice find!

Used to be:
You are what you eat

Now:
You are what you vote

Reelect Bush and Cheney

Might be possible if Dick runs for president and Bush runs for the vice.

Has anyone seen the article on the front page of one of America's smut magazines that says Bill and Hillary will get a divorce if Hillary looses the election? I thought that was pretty funny, but probably not true.

Great discovery there AD! That means only one thing, Bill wants to be her running mate if she wins. Wonder if that would be legal?

Something we haven't tried yet to improve government:

Japan uses 20 pounds of disposable chopsticks per person each year.

Life isn't fair. Personally, I'm wondering why you chose CEOs to bash for making obscene amounts of money and not professional athletes or actors.

You are so correct! I guess entertainment is more important than anything else.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
--- Mahatma Gandhi

Q: Why do mice have such small balls?
A: Because not many mice know how to dance.

Anyone else out there?

The universe is a pretty big space. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So, if it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space, right?
-- Carl Sagan

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

All people are equal but some are more equal than others.

The universe is a pretty big space. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So, if it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space, right?
-- Carl Sagan

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo

Ron Paul would make a good running mate for McCain. At least he has some ideas about the economy.

I am sure Hillary will pull it off due to the super delegates (mostly old fashioned politicians). Her running mate could be perpetual whiner Edwards.

Honk if you are horny!

I think we ought to get back to the topic at hand!

What was the topic? IMHO the press is very biased, emphasizes some things and misses the boat on others. There are a lot more important things going on then the war on terror. Things like the war on povery, the war on drugs, debt, credit, jobs, cost of food, lack of education, lack of healthcare, aliens, illegal spying, torture, toxic FEMA trailers, Natallee Hollaway and more. Let's not forget all the nut cases with a gun killing students.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
--- Margaret Thatcher

Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.
--- Julien Krautmer

In China a woman gives birth every 2 seconds.

What is a newsliberal? Is that one of those characters on Fox News?

Here is a mild hint:

import re

s = "Lotus 123 is an older spread-sheet, still in use though!"

# sub all characters with empty "" that are not letters
p = re.compile("[^a-z A-Z]")
s2 = p.sub("", s)

print s2  # Lotus  is an older spreadsheet still in use though

yep, let's see your code, or see if you can repeat your problems with a shorter code. I am learning myself to code with the Tkinter GUI toolkit right now in my science class.

I am trying a Pepperidge Farm "Dark Chocolate Pecan cookie" with my usual steaming hot Maracaibo coffee. I will give the cookie a rating of 4 (max 10).

God created the poet, then took a handful of the rubbish that was left and made three critics.
--- T.J. Thomas

So we should pay to kiss... ;)

Might be worth it, if it's the right person.

Yahoo almost picked Hooray for its company name as it started up.

Just in time for Valentine's day:
John said to Mary, "I'll bet you a Dollar that I can kiss you on the lips without touching them."
"You're crazy," said Mary. "That's impossible. Here's a Dollar that says you can't."
The two Dollars were placed on the table and John then hugged Mary and for two minutes kissed her passionately. She broke away at last, panting and disheveled, and said, "You did touch my lips!"
John pushed the money toward her and said, "So I lose."

Ok
so maybe the question wasn't used in the right way. What I meant was if you a lot of money, what would you do with it...

I didn't think you guys would take it so literally...

The idea was good though! The answers so far were interesting. I would buy a ticket to heaven by giving it all to the Catholic Church.

If you spent normal amounts of money each year then you could keep it a secret.

Think, since nobody else has money, everybody could figure out where it is coming from.

My problem with Mike Huckabee is that he is a creationist, and I simply can't stomach that kind of medieval thinking. Otherwise he is sort of a folksy fellow. President no, TV preacher yes.

Just the usual trick to jack up the price. Microsoft will have to borrow more money, and Bernenke will screw around with the rate to make it possible.

Wow, now we can call you 2k-Serunson. You look good with 2 stars. A few months more and you will sail right by young jbennet.

I think you have to use either END or 'end' and 1.0 for line.column.

Oh my, we are down to liberals vs. conservatives, young vs. old, smart vs. not-so- smart, think vs. force again!

What was this thread all about?

Think! If you wanted to keep it a secret, you couldn't use it!

All of which produce masses of hot air and CO2... Not to mention human excrements in larger amounts than would be created had their operators not used them (and thus had to eat more to gain the energy to use them).

Plus for longer distances they're clearly impractical. Try biking from say Seattle to San Francisco. Unless you have a few weeks you're not going to get there in time.

Come on JW, you can't possibly be that dense. It is recommended for short distances, and you can't go to Hawaii with it. Large amounts of human excrement gets created no matter what, and it is after all biodegradable (has been for thousands of years).

A cup of turska kava and a slice of high fiber toast.