Recent content by FunkMastaFlex

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    CA porn industry has an HIV scare......

    The risk of contamination is much, much lower than that depending upon the type of sex that you undergo. If you know beyond a doubt that your partner is positive, here are the odds: Receptive anal sex is a 1 in 120 chance Insertive anal sex is somewhere around 1 in 1500 Receptive Vaginal sex...
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    Why is Frodo considered the hero? Why wasn't it Sam?

    Actually, Sam did wear the ring, after Frodo was stabbed - he used it to hide from the orcs who recovered Frodo, and, because he was invisible, learned that Frodo was alive. Frodo was the Ring-Bearer, the only one on the planet who could have taken the Ring to the Crack of Doom. However...
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    Graduate School Question (Advice Needed)

    What were you going to grad school in? Thanks, Funk
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    Graduate School Question (Advice Needed)

    There is a tuition waiver and funding, but the tuition waver only takes care of about 2/3 of the tuition, so I'd be paying $7k to go to school, and making around $12k in salary. So I'd need about $10k in loans to make ends meet. -Funk
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    Graduate School Question (Advice Needed)

    Hello, I'm going for my Ph.D in Instructional Technology, and I have been offered a Research Assistantship at the University of Virginia school of Education. The Assistantship essentially involves developing multimedia training modules for teachers in the Pre-K field. It is grant funded and...
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    Review my Cover Letter, Please!!

    Gang, Here is a cover letter I have written applying for a job as an Advisor at a regional university in the area. What do y'all think? ************************************************************************* Dear Ms. Jones, Each summer during the last four years, I would find myself...
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    For you anti-death penalty folks, tell me why

    Because Justice isn't about revenge. Sure, there is little else I would like to see than this man suffer, but that's not my call to make. I'd rather this man rot in prison for the rest of his life and not die, than have an innocent man executed under death penalty statutes, which has...
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    What You Leave Behind.

    Hello, (Warning: this may sound like a self-congratulatory rant, but I really do appreciate any solid advice) Just two days ago, I left my job working with students in a dorm/school setting with Upward Bound. The job was nuts, 16 hour days, whatnot. Even so, I ate it up, I loved it. Now...
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    "Smells Like Teen Spirit" named best song of the last 25 years.

    Any list which includes MMMBop and doesn't include Pearl Jam's "Black" should be instantly destroyed. And there isn't one song from DMB, Jodeci, etc....ugh... -F
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    Graduate School Question

    Gang, I have been offered admission to Columbia's Ed.D program in Educational Technology and the University at Virginia's Ph.D program in the same. However, neither of the schools has offered me anything but loans in terms of financial aid. I was under the impression that getting funding...
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    What Is With This Girl?

    russ, if you want an answer to that one.. rent the movie the tao of steve, and you will get your answer.... - Funk
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    List of movies every guy *has* to see.... feel free to add on, i'm sure i forgot some

    The Shawshank Redemption "Get busy living, or get busy dying....that's goddamned right..."
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    Bush officially stepping up war on drugs, 5 year plan seeks to decrease use by 25%

    << Also, can you deny that one can partake of a limited amount of aldohol without having altering affects????? Thsi can and has been proven. Now, on the other hand, what other possible use does say, Meth have other than to produce a mind altering affect????? >> What the heck does this have...