First off: This first story is how Rick Wakeman last made the news:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1240751.htmlSecondly, the discussion about military domanance reminds of a skit I
saw in an early Monty Python movie about how one unit of Allies took
on the enemy during WW2. The Allies, acting under the theory that if a
joke is funny enough, people would die laughing...so they marched
through enemy German territory en masse, reciting in unison a joke in
a language they didn't understand...so they were immune from the
lethal punchline. Germans crawled out of foxholes and appeared from
behind hiding places laughing hysterically until they succumbed.
Thirdly...what's with the pidgeonholing about Idaho? Too many
associate Idaho with spuds, rednecks and Republicans. The Aryan
racists were chased out looong ago from nothern Idaho, and at least
the Boise area is as progressive and diversity oriented as any modern
metropolis. I actually live across the Snake River from Idaho in
Eastern Oregon, where even Idahoans think we're about 25 years behind
the times. Now ∗THAT∗ I can understand.