Thanks lads! Things is pretty OK here.

It's not the missiles you have to worry about though.

Nothing ever really happens here. They even shoot at each other's boats and the North shot a woman dead on the beach last year and still nothing happens.

<North Korea> is irrelevant, kind of like the political opinions of <acirce>.

There are 70,000 American soldiers here with submarines with Nuclear warheads that actually work.

A: I don't allow those INSIPID "smily face" thingies in here. Particularly when they are typed as a kind of GUTLESS DISCLAIMER at the end of a sentence which is rude, libelous, etc.

B: Nobody- and I mean nobody- criticizes the <Republic of Korea National Soccer Squad> in this forum.

C: Here is a message for you in Korean: <Si-bal! Baka yaro!>

Well actually the second part is colloquial Japanese.

If you want to post in my forum you have to obey MY PERSONAL posting guidelines.

I don't have to follow them though.

This is one of the priviliges of not being a MEALY MOUTHED CHEAPSKATE and all around FAN OF DICTATORSHIPS as so many, many of you people seem to be around here.

I suggest emigrating to the the US and buying a Premium Membership at CG.com, eating some hamburgers, maybe watch a few <Paris Hilton> films.

HAHAHA

A $2,000,000 Moron Museum.

I was reading up on this whole North Korean satellite business, and apparently they put one into orbit in 1998.

It was supposed to broadcast 'revolutionary melodies'

It's a shame that by all accounts it really crashed into the sea much like this latest attempt.

Just think how groovy tuning into those revolutionary beats could have been.

heh-- did you read about the mini match I played yesterday on <Yahoo>?

Also, I played a game on Saturday which I'm still analyzing, and I'm going to post parts of it.

So if you get time please take a look ok?

<North Korea> is backwards and laughable.

Unless you are a North Korean.

Then it is a hideous, indefensible dictatorship where the national sport is not SOCCER, but rather <starving to death>.

Let's put it this way- you don't have to give "food poisoning" to the North Korean National team to beat them.

A Middle School Girl's Field Hockey team could beat the North Korean Soccer team.

The <ROK team>, on the other hand, is playing most excellently.

Our new star "Yoon" is particularly strong at the moment and of course we still have Man U's <Park Ji-sung>.

Why are almost all of the <Pro-dictatorship> members of CG.com <non premium members>?

Is there a direct correlation?

Did you post it in your forum or somewhere else?

I'm looking forward to seeing your latest game. I will keep my analysis hat on standby in anticipation!

The games themselves were not of very high quality IMO- but psychologically it was a very interesting and very very enjoyable encounter with a tough (for me) opponent.

I'm going to post part of the <English game> I played this past Saturday though.

With FENS and I think there might be an instructive point.

Well you know <Howard> I almost mentioned this as well but we <Canadians> get sick and tired of a lifetime of watching the <constant America-bashing> from malcontent crap countries that don't even have plants in them.

I mean OK it's too bad that most people in the world have to endure crap lives in crap countries that don't have plants or grass in them.

Really, really too bad. No doubt about it.

But how that translates, exactly, to a license to gratuitously bash the USA 24/7 is beyond me.

Particularly since the USA spends more money on foreign aid- COLD HARD FREE CASH-- than all of the rest of the world combined.

America: Love it or Leave it. Or don't come to it in the first place.

If it's such a terrible place then why does EVERY SINGLE PERSON from those other crap countries try to emigrate to the United States?

And when they get there, why are they the FIRST to take <full, and very loud, advantage> of all of their new-found political freedoms?

Well, because they don't have <any> of those freedoms in their own countries.

Don't get me wrong- one can mount a strong, and accurate, critique of many aspects of American politics, history, policy--

But this knee-jerk American bashing.

I've heard it my whole life and it makes me sick.

If one is going to criticize the USA, please use actual facts and analysis.

Let's not just assume the USA is evil.

I met some nice Americans once in <Bellingham. Washington State>.

They called me a "cheesehead", because I'm from Canada.

HAHAHAHAAHAHA

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Well I'm sure you would make a fine <dictator>.

But first let's see you pass the <triple digit IQ test>:

NO GOOGING! NO LOOKING AT BOOKS! NO ASKING <Howard>!

Ok this contest is open to all.

Whoever supplies the correct answers to these questions gets to be World Dictator for Life:

1. Who has seen the wind?

2. What are the effects of gamma rays on man in the moon marigolds?

3. Are you there, God? It's me, <Big Crawdaddy>.

4. Quo Vadis?

5. The Lady or the Tiger?

6. What's the Difference between You and Me?

OK as you might have guessed, your actual task is to identify <who wrote> each of the six works I've just alluded to.

I will be truly impressed if anyone can get all six

NO GOOGLING

Ok?

If all fail, we will be stuck with <American democracy>.

I believe <Howard> is currently head of state, but I don't know much about politics, since I wasted the best years of my life garnering a <English Literature Degree>.

Which landed me in Korea where there is not a single piece of English literature.

Although I did notice <two> copies of a <German - Korean> dictionary in my classroom this morning.

heh

21 ... ♖f8-c8??

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I am *really* amazed that such a strong player as Wang Hao overlooked this elementary <INTERFERENCE> tactic, 22 ♘d3-c5!.

22 ♘d3-c5! <interference>

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Anand vs Adams, 1994

32 ♗g2-d5!

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32 ♗g2-d5! <BLOCKS> the line of <LIFE-GIVING FORCE> from the defending Black d8-rook to the 1-1 <LOOSE> Black d4-rook @ d5.

33 ♖e1-e5!

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1 I see the wind but the wind cannot see me. King Crimson.

2. They turn into the human torch.

3. God isn't there.

4. St. Peter dressed up like MickeyAngeloo's GHOD.

5. Tiger Lady.

http://www.blackheartgoldpants.com/...

6. I ask for your permission to exist. PRETTY PLEASE? ok then I'll just go back to my closet.

I will be truly impressed if anyone can get all six>

Hell I dont read many books I see the movie LMAO!! But I will try to answer your questions M'Lady Queen Of Fischer.

1. The singer songwriter Donovan, my rationale - Anybody who can write and sing 'Catch The Wind' must have seen it!

2. Damn thats a Jeapordy question and my buzzer isn't working. LOL

3. That is me, when I was walking The Point in a marine uniform.

4. A good Roman flick!

5. I think Lady's and Tigers are both beautiful but Ladies smell alot better!

Good grief OK you score <1> point for that stunning photo of the <Tiger Lady>, who has that terrible disease they made the Cher movie about <Mask>.

"Lionitis" it's called informally.

I'm adding one bonus point for <GHOD> because I cant' read it without laughing uncontrollably, plus I've been saying it to everyone I know for the last three days.

How did you do?

Well technically you rang in with a score of <0.0>.

However, I'm giving you one bonus point for humor.

So you have <1/6> in second place at the moment.

I don't like Dogs in sunglasses.

The <Iggy> vid is tremendously great, I have to say. But how could it not be?

It's Iggy!

I don't have room for a dog at the moment, sorry to say= also, they tend to get eaten here.

i would like to apologize for timing out on you in our <EPIC STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH> on chess.com. i'm pretty sure that chess.com gave my computer a nasty little virus, which i have only just now recovered from. i guess it's my fault for not updating my anti-virus package, but i won't make that mistake again. i will also not be visiting chess.com again. my interaction with the administrators at that site regarding the virus was...unhelpful, to say the least.