whoa...so true, so true...Addiction to anything is the most toughest holic to overcome...

by the way people on here have been behaving recently, I guess we can rename AA thread to Attention Addiction from Alchoholics Anonymous...:D

"hey everyone, my name is (insert name) and I am an Attention Addict...":rolleyes:

ha ha funny i just wanted to share that with my friends at hdc. love you guys and i am not an attention holic. i just like to get
my point across.:p :D

(looking left and right) seen someone named minda around?

ok that i don't minda!:D

duh you thought I meant you? nahhh...you are much too mean to be an AA...the new AA that is...:D

i will take that as a compliment! thank you!;)

yw...although you have been nice to me so far...in patches...:D

whoa...I just re-did my signature, icon and tagline, in the 666 version...and look what my thread had, as a link to it...:confused: :eek: :confused:

http://www.horror.com/forum/showthre...666#post426666


uh oh...

You're in trouble now, mister! You better run and hide! :D

mark of the beast is upon me indeed...

cant hide from it...I might ask it to vote once in my tourney before it takes me though...:D

errr the 666 mark hasnt gone yet...

(grabs holy water and wafer from Dante and runs)

:D

Monkey-holics

This just in from the monkey research front (selected excerpts):

Drunk Monkeys Mirror People By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News


May 9, 2006 — Monkeys drink more alcohol when housed alone, and some like to end a long day in the lab with a boozy cocktail, according to a new analysis of alcohol consumption among members of a rhesus macaque social group.

The study, recently published in the journal Methods, also found that booze affects monkeys much the same way it affects people.

"It was not unusual to see some of the monkeys stumble and fall, sway, and vomit," Chen [one of the study’s authors and a researcher at the National Institutes of Health Animal Center in Maryland] added. "In a few of our heavy drinkers, they would drink until they fell asleep."

For the initial experiment, 21 females gained access to an aspartame-sweetened ethanol concoction during a group "happy hour." Neck collars registered the amount of fluid consumed, and each monkey received a blood alcohol level test at the end of the period.

In a follow-up experiment, 10 monkeys were housed individually during the "happy hour."

"The singly housed monkeys certainly drank more than the socially housed monkeys- at least two to three-fold more," Chen told Discovery News. "With the socially housed monkeys, there are a number of factors that can potentially compete with access to alcohol, such as social status or dominance ranking."

Lower-ranked monkeys and males tended to drink more overall, but certain individuals consistently drank more than others, regardless of status or housing conditions.

"Similar to humans, rhesus macaques have individual differences in taste preference, stress levels, drug tolerance and genetic background that lead to differences in alcohol intake," explained Chen.

In yet another study, the scientists gave a group of male monkeys 24-hour access to the beverage dispensers. According to the researchers, a spike in consumption immediately followed the facility’s working hours.

"Like humans, monkeys are more likely to drink after stressful periods, such as soon after the daily 8-5 testing hours and after a long week of testing," said Chen.

Look for Bush Administration officials to invoke the new evidence as further support for ethanol subsidies. "I'm workin hard to give Americans a comprehensive energy policy, one that's funnier than a drunk monkey."



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