﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Oobleshmerfadarkle's Xanga</title><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/</link><description>Latest Xanga weblog from Oobleshmerfadarkle</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>The Weblog Community</title><url>http://s.xanga.com/images/xangalogobutton.gif</url><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/</link></image><item><title>survey</title><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/559091531/survey/</link><guid>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/559091531/survey/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 23:03:03 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;TABLE style="COLOR: #000000"&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD align=middle colSpan=2&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;Survey About Yourself&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=middle colSpan=2&gt;&lt;B&gt;About You&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Eye Color:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;brown&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Hair Color:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;black&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Height:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;5 ft. 11 in.&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Favorite Color:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;red or green but not together because it reminds me of Christmas. But I like Christmas&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Screen Name:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;oobleshmerfadark&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Favorite Band:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;dunno...White Stripes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Favorite Movie:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Favorite Show:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Simpsons or Futurama&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Your Car:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;don\'t have one...parent\'s white van, occasionally their other car&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Your Hometown:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Paris, Tennessee&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Your Present Town:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Marietta&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Your Crushes First Name:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;n/a&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Your Grade:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;10&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Your Style:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;? I don\'t understand the question. Like my stereotype or what?&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=middle colSpan=2&gt;&lt;B&gt;Have You Ever&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Sat on your rooftop?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;someone else\'s&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Kissed someone in the rain?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Danced in a public place?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Smiled for no reason?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yeah&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Laughed so hard you cried?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yeah&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Peed your pants after age 8?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Written a song?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Sang to someone for no reason?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Performed on a stage?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Talked to someone you don't know?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Gone out of your way to befriend someone?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Made out in a theatre?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;no&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Gone roller skating since 8th grade?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Been in love?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=middle colSpan=2&gt;&lt;B&gt;Who was the last person to&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Say HI to you?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Some little kid at camp&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Tell you, I love you?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;some little kid at camp&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Kiss you?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Eran Mordel, but it was fake and a joke&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Hug you?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Reagan, camp counselor at Chattahoochee&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Tell you BYE?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;reagan&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Write you a note?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;my mom&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Take your photo?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;my dad&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Call your cell phone?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;770-977-1028&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Buy you something?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;parents pitched in with me to buy a guitar&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Go with you to the movies?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;parents, went to see borat&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Sing to you?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;jon notice brooks&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Write a poem about you?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;nobody.....sigh&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Text message you?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;those people at Cingular&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Touch you?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;I don\'t know, some kid. they were all brushing against me as they ran past me.&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=middle colSpan=2&gt;&lt;B&gt;What's the last&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Time you laughed?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;when I was eating crackers with lobster spread a couple of minutes ago&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Time you cried?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Visine tears, my eyes hurt&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Movie you watched?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Borat&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Joke you told?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Why do gorillas have big nostrils? because they have big fingers&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Song you've sang?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Time you've looked at the clock?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;just a few seconds ago, at the corner of my computer, because you asked&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Drink you've had?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;apple juice&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Number you've dialed?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;828-388-4949&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Book you've read?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Euro textbook&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Food you've eaten?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;crackers with lobster spread&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Flavor of gum chewed?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;winterfresh&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Shoes you've worn?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Columbia shoes, they don\'t have shoelaces! it\'s awesome, they have this stretchy thing instead&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Store you've been in?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Costco&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Thing you've said?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;\"what was that store we bought those shoes at?\"&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=middle colSpan=2&gt;&lt;B&gt;Can You&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Write with both hands?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Whistle?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Blow a bubble?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Roll your tounge in a circle?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;no, and it\'s \"t-o-n-g-u-e\"&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Cross your eyes?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Touch your tounge to your nose?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;with effort&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Dance?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes!&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Gleek?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;don\'t know what that is. sounds klingon&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Stay up a whole night without sleep?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Speak a different language?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Impersonate someone?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Prank call people?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Make a card pyramid?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;Cook anything?:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;yes, instant noodles, easy mac, and chef boyardee&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=middle colSpan=2&gt;&lt;B&gt;Finish The Line&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;If i were a ...:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;genie, I\'d live in a bottle.&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;I wish ...:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;I could read minds&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;So many people don't know that ...:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is an amaznig movie&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;I am ...:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;full&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right&gt;My heart is ...:&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD align=left&gt;beating&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD align=middle colSpan=2&gt;&lt;A title="Take this survey" href="http://www.123mycodes.com/myspacesurveys/1.php" target=_blank&gt;Take this survey&lt;/A&gt; | &lt;A title="Find more surveys" href="http://www.123mycodes.com/myspacesurveys/" target=_blank&gt;Find more surveys&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;</description><comments>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/559091531/survey/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Kenny's personal list for YOU of Things to Watch/Listen to Before You Die, or Before You Forget. The</title><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/556923614/kennys-personal-list-for-you-of-things-to-watchlisten-to-before-you-die-or-before-you-forget-the/</link><guid>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/556923614/kennys-personal-list-for-you-of-things-to-watchlisten-to-before-you-die-or-before-you-forget-the/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;P&gt;I'll keep adding. Some of these may be things you've probably done a long time ago, and if you haven't, are a moron for not doing them earlier like me. Others you may have done already but didn't know.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Things to Listen to:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;BR&gt;(Not the version you're used to. I think. Because I guess I don't know you well enough to tell which version you're used to. I personally think it's better than the version you're used to. If the version you're used to is the Wizard of Oz version. Moving on...)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;"American Pie" by Don Maclean&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;(One of those things I did a couple of days ago and you should've done a long time ago)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;"Mr. Blue Sky" by Electric Light Orchestra, a.k.a. ELO&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;(Also, these are really a matter of opinion)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;"Beautiful Day" by U2&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Total Silence&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;That voice in your head&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Things to See:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;The Truman Show&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;The Simpsons Movie&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;(I know it hasn't come out yet, but we will all have to see that before we die)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Shaun of the Dead&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;(Haven't seen it yet, but it sounds great.)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Prince of Egypt&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;(yeah.)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Fantasia 2000&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;(Definitely; it's amazing)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Forrest Gump&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;(Oh, come on, who hasn't seen Forrest Gump?)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;</description><comments>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/556923614/kennys-personal-list-for-you-of-things-to-watchlisten-to-before-you-die-or-before-you-forget-the/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Friday, December 15, 2006</title><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/556126724/item/</link><guid>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/556126724/item/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:25:05 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;H1 class=head&gt;Panda Porn Helps Spark Birthing Boom in Captive Breed&lt;/H1&gt;&lt;P class=date nd="23"&gt;Thursday, November 23, 2006&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV class="gallery_container short"&gt;&lt;A class=gmain id=gmain_0 onclick="rst.gmain(this);return false;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,231578,00.html#" target="_new"&gt;&lt;IMG id=gallery_main alt="" src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/241362/0_61_112306_panda.jpg"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN id=intelliTXT&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;CHIANG MAI, Thailand&amp;nbsp;—&amp;nbsp; After years of painstaking research, scientists say they have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world's most beloved but endangered animals, China's &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="javascript:siteSearch('giant panda');" target="_new"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;giant panda&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P nd="1"&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;A bit of panda porn has helped too, they say.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P nd="2"&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;"It works," enthuses Zhang Zhihe, a leading Chinese expert, about showing uninitiated males DVDs of fellow pandas mating.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P nd="3"&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;It is one of many techniques tried over the decades to get captive pandas — notoriously poor breeders — to do it, and do it right. The efforts to understand and simulate conditions for mating and raising cubs have paid off in &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A class=iAs style="COLOR: darkgreen; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgreen 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,231578,00.html#" target=_blank itxtdid="2629006"&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;China&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;, the panda's native habitat. Now comes the next test: getting the magic to work outside China.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P nd="4"&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;The big day will come in January, when Prasertsak Buntragulpoontawee hopes to bring off a successful mating between male &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="javascript:siteSearch('Chuang Chuang');" target="_new"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;Chuang Chuang&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt; and partner &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="javascript:siteSearch('Lin Hui');" target="_new"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;Lin Hui&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt; in this northern Thailand city.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;</description><comments>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/556126724/item/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Stuff</title><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/550573174/stuff/</link><guid>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/550573174/stuff/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:53:18 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;P&gt;Things I Learned This Week, Most of Which I Should've Known a Long Time Ago&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Pineapples are brown on the outside&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Columbus didn't&amp;nbsp;sail to America on the Mayflower&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Black comedy isn't like &lt;U&gt;Barbershop &lt;/U&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Art is completely illogical; more of an inside joke&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Beck has two different eye colors&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Marylin Manson has two different eye colors&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;agh, maybe I"ll add something here later, fill up the space.&lt;/P&gt;</description><comments>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/550573174/stuff/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Quite an Eventful Week</title><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/535974475/quite-an-eventful-week/</link><guid>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/535974475/quite-an-eventful-week/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:44:02 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;P&gt;Things that were important and happened - Important things that happened.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Spaced out on the date for Panda Express; I heard that expression (spaced out)&amp;nbsp;on the Simpsons, not sure if it works. &lt;LI&gt;Found a never ending pencil in my house; you put a stick of lead in and it automatically supplies lead as you write without you pressing the button &lt;LI&gt;Never ending pencil ran out during math test &lt;LI&gt;Most stressful school day on Friday academically&amp;nbsp;- world history essay on the one topic I didn't really study, Ms. Dosch, in the nicest way possible,&amp;nbsp;told me she was felt like killing me, math test where I kept stressing about one question and had two problems left after the bell rang and wrote them down, really really had to go to the bathroom, rushed to language and took the vocab test, which I felt like I failed &lt;LI&gt;went to the bathroom for possibly the longest time in my life; I'm serious. People came and went, fall changed to winter, winter to spring... &lt;LI&gt;Splattered spaghetti sauce all over girl in next table at lunch; it wasn't pretty.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;a href="http://avatars.imvu.com/Guest_Oobleshmerfadarkle?from=power-av" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.imvu.com/catalog/web_av_pic.php/u/1205897/img/avatar.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;</description><comments>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/535974475/quite-an-eventful-week/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>What I've Learned This Week</title><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/534241071/what-ive-learned-this-week/</link><guid>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/534241071/what-ive-learned-this-week/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:22:25 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;P&gt;This is becoming quite fun. This might be the last time I do this, though, unless I have an amazing week.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Nail polish tastes like crap. (no, I didn't eat it out of of the container)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Mosquitoes are twice as attracted to the color blue than any other color (read it out of a book)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Most of the stories I tell come from like, five or more years ago.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;I have about five real friends.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;It's easier to get four quarters from four people than a dollar from one&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;I have money&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;You can blow up hamsters by microwaving them&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;The anti-theft systems at Border's don't work&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Most of the scents at candle stores are repulsive and nobody would buy them.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Fuzziwig's is amazing.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;we were really stupid in middle school&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;</description><comments>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/534241071/what-ive-learned-this-week/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Motivational Speech for Next Football Game</title><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/530150628/motivational-speech-for-next-football-game/</link><guid>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/530150628/motivational-speech-for-next-football-game/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:23:48 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Friends....allies....comrades.....I ask you to look over at the other side of the field. They have nothing! they have no spirit, they have no patriots, and they have no courage.&amp;nbsp;They are so pitiful, their&amp;nbsp;feeble cheers don't even reach across this field!&amp;nbsp;They invade from distant lands, while we fight within our own walls! These barbarians are challenging out rule, and it has come to our decision, whether we will let them go any farther, or whether we will crush them beneath our feet. Will we let these foreigners, these huns, take what is rightfully ours? no! So let this be our time! let this be our hour when we let them know that we are by no means giving up, that we will destroy them like so many before us!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'll add more moral-boosting-but-meaningless junk when I feel spirited again.&amp;nbsp;And I'll probably end up never doing it. Anybody else, up for the risk, be my guest!&lt;/P&gt;</description><comments>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/530150628/motivational-speech-for-next-football-game/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>What I've Learned This Week</title><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/529976008/what-ive-learned-this-week/</link><guid>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/529976008/what-ive-learned-this-week/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:42:13 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;P&gt;A safe alternative to making up random things to say or filling in surveys. Or rather,&amp;nbsp;another attempt to make up random things to say.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Fuji Hana has more than just fried rice, sushi, and shrimp&lt;LI&gt;Don't drink coffee to stay up if the test you're studying for is near the end of the day, because you'll just crash while taking it.&lt;LI&gt;Biting nails is bad for playing piano.&lt;LI&gt;"Buffalo&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; buffalo&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Buffalo&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; buffalo&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; buffalo&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp; buffalo&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;| Buffalo&amp;nbsp; |&amp;nbsp; buffalo" is a valid sentence&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;FONT size=2&gt; city,&amp;nbsp;animal, city, animal, v. to annoy, v. to annoy, city, animal&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Meaning of sentence above: buffalo from Buffalo that Buffalo buffalo annoy, annoy buffalo from buffalo. It's redundant, but it's still cool, and useless to know.&lt;LI&gt;my uncle is really cool&lt;LI&gt;Mrs. Bryan really is annoyed by what I do in class&lt;LI&gt;Mrs. Bryan has no taste in music&lt;LI&gt;Companies now advertise their products by paying people to wear flashing buttons that say what they advertise.&lt;LI&gt;Domenico will never trust me&lt;LI&gt;Sunday is the worst day of the week&lt;LI&gt;Mary is bad at remembering to call people back (lol)&lt;LI&gt;Nobody cares what you say at a football game&lt;LI&gt;Chinese people make the dumbest, crappiest, lowest quality tv shows on the planet. (I'm half-watching this retarded "vegetable king" where these people compete for title of "vegetable king" by showing off their knowledge about vegetables. THe reporter is using a pepper as a microphone. It's not really a microphone, put it down!)&lt;LI&gt;Gavin Degraw is really good at singing&lt;LI&gt;Gavin Degraw isn't black&lt;LI&gt;Now the vegetable king competitors are eating vegetables blindfolded and guessing what they are.&lt;LI&gt;Edwin parties like, every weekend.&lt;LI&gt;There's no signal inside a rock climbing facility&lt;LI&gt;It's possible for a song to suck and have amazing lyrics at the same time.&lt;LI&gt;It's possible for a song to sound amazing and have crappy lyrics&lt;LI&gt;The grand piano is louder than my mom's voice&lt;LI&gt;Razr's aren't as fragile as I thought they were&lt;LI&gt;If you try to learn about dreams, you'll have them every day.&lt;LI&gt;It's pronounced "Tu-pock"&lt;LI&gt;Music make you lose control&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;Don't overanalyze it &lt;EM&gt;too&lt;/EM&gt; much&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;And listen to it all the way, there's an amazing part near the end.&lt;BR&gt;This is one of those songs that sounds amazing &lt;EM&gt;and &lt;/EM&gt;has amazing lyrics&lt;/P&gt;</description><comments>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/529976008/what-ive-learned-this-week/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Monday, September 04, 2006</title><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/525948248/item/</link><guid>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/525948248/item/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:40:29 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;P&gt;Steve Erwin, the Crocodile Hunter, died. He was stung by a stingray while filming "world's deadliest animals" and went over a stingray, and it stung him in the chest, and he died at noon. I think I speak for everyone when I say I regret being stupid enough to make fun of his show.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;possibly &lt;/EM&gt;my favorite song. &lt;EM&gt;maybe&lt;/EM&gt; not. I change my mind too much to have a definite favorite.&lt;/P&gt;</description><comments>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/525948248/item/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Saturday, September 02, 2006</title><link>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/525173108/item/</link><guid>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/525173108/item/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:17:46 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;P&gt;next time you want to tell someone something but can't quite figure out how, wait until 12:30 am and then do it. and make sure you're kind of dizzy. Like spin around or something&lt;/P&gt;</description><comments>http://oobleshmerfadarkle.xanga.com/525173108/item/#firstcomment</comments></item></channel></rss>