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Old October 1st 06, 03:18 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Montblack[_1_]
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("Bob Noel" wrote)
How many accidents per sex hour are there?


define "accident" :-)



Accident is easy enough

....but what the #$%* is a "sex hour?"


Montblack :-)
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Old October 1st 06, 03:25 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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("Larry Dighera" wrote)
Even if it was a religious discussion, no PERSON would have died in that
case, as gamete cells are haploid.



Well that was 20 minutes at Wikipedia I hadn't planned on tonight.

My new word for today:
spermatozoon


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Old October 1st 06, 03:41 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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("B A R R Y" wrote)
In a religious discussion, the act of spilling seed would have wasted the
opportunity to create a human being, and thus have been equivalent to
committing murder.


I saw "Monty Pyton's Meaning of Life", so I fully understand... G



http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/mol/m-04-i-2.htm
[music]
I'm a Roman Catholic,
And have been since before I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics is:
They'll take you as soon as you're warm.

You don't have to be a six-footer.
You don't have to have a great brain.
You don't have to have any clothes on. You're
A Catholic the moment Dad came,

Because

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

CHILDREN: [singing]
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

GIRL: [singing]
Let the heathen spill theirs
On the dusty ground.
God shall make them pay for
Each sperm that can't be found.

CHILDREN: [singing]
Every sperm is wanted.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/mol/mol.htm
Main page


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  #144  
Old October 1st 06, 04:36 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default I'm tired of hearing how "dangerous" flying is...

Montblack wrote:
("Bob Noel" wrote)
How many accidents per sex hour are there?


define "accident" :-)



Accident is easy enough

...but what the #$%* is a "sex hour?"


Not going to say it...
Not going to say it...
Not going to say it...
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Old October 1st 06, 04:57 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Montblack wrote:

Accident is easy enough

...but what the #$%* is a "sex hour?"


A years worth, for you.
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Old October 1st 06, 08:17 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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In article ,
Judah wrote:

Ron Garret wrote in
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In article ,
Judah wrote:

According to http://www.deathreference.com/Ho-Ka/...Mortality.html
approximately 50,000 Americans per year die in occupational injuries.
So in other words, working is more dangerous than flying.


No, because most people work a lot more than they fly.

Take it to the extreme: more people die every year riding in GA planes
than they do, say, jumping off bridges. That doesn't mean that jumping
off a bridge is safer than flying.


I'm not trying to say it is. All I'm trying to say is that there are plenty
of things in life that are substantially more dangerous than flying. Yet
somehow, an extraordinary number of people have an innate fear of flying, and
it leads to things like insurance companies asking about it on their
policies.

I didn't see statistics for bungee jumping off bridges. But my guess is that
flying is indeed safer than bungee jumping, especially off bridges. Yet I
don't recall being asked on my insurance forms if I have bungee jumped within
the last 12 months... It's just not an issue.


I wasn't referring to bungee jumping. When I said "jumping off a
bridge" I meant it literally.

The reason a lot more people die on the roads than in the air is not
that driving is more dangerous than flying, it's that more people drive
than fly. Likewise, the reason more people die flying than (let's use a
different example) playing Russian Roulette is not that flying is more
dangerous than RR.

It's very hard to do an apples-to-apples risk comparison among two
different activities. What do you comapre? Deaths per year? Per
vehicle hour? Per passenger mile? Do you count the "avoidable" deaths
where someone just did something stupid (like take off without enough
fuel or jump off a bridge)?

rg
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Old October 1st 06, 06:57 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article ,
Judah wrote:

How many accidents per sex hour are there?


define "accident" :-)

Premature...oh, you know!



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Old October 2nd 06, 01:38 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"Judah" wrote in message
. ..
How many accidents per sex hour are there?


More so for Catholics than others... That damn "rhythm method" is just an
accident waiting to happen...


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Old October 2nd 06, 01:38 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"Judah" wrote in message
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Yet somehow, an extraordinary number of people have an innate
fear of flying


Or an innate fear of falling, crashing, or dying... Or perhaps it's just a
fear of heights... Personally, I find it interesting that if I look over the
railing of a building from a few hundred feet up, I feel different than if
I'm in a plane (at any altitude) and looking down... Even if I'm in a very
steep bank angle, it doesn't make a difference... Even if I was in a
gyrocopter where there is basically nothing around you, it didn't feel the
same... On the other hand, if I'm in a climbing harness and getting ready to
rapel down a clift, it doesn't bother me... Haven't quite figured out the
logic in that... Innate fear of buildings, perhaps? grin


 




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