Nobody wants a Smart Bullet coming after them, I mean heck, last time I saw this, it was with Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons. :)

The ocean scares the hell out of me :P

The ocean!? Would you like to see a list of the stuff that has gone down on the Great Lakes? :P

What do you think Islands are for...and maybe, just maybe, larger land masses. :)
The Great Lakes, our Oceans, what's next? The corner store we all frequent?
I agree with your sentiment, but necessarily your delivery, still funny nonetheless. :)

Well I know of this thing : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Storm_of_1913 which I once read about when I was supposed to be studying :P The most amazing story I've read though is the voyage of Ernst Shackleton from Elephant Island to the South Georgia in that tiny little James Caird boat of theirs. That was just insane

Reading about true stories that happened and how they ended up is A+ in my list.

I bought a diet Pepsi.

(Have fun. Learn to swim, it's easier than riding a bicycle.)

Two months before I was born The Fitzgerald went down about 100 miles from my current doorstep. Boat was 850 feet long and went down in approximately 20 seconds. The last boat to see it's light still travels that same route by my place every week or so, The Anderson.

We all did it in our mothers' womb, right? :)
So many things happened in the before, after, here and now. It's the now you have the time to change things, do things differently, change opinion.

No, not loot your local store you frequent for your sustenance, change your leaders and the incompetent people they put in charge.

....and yes, the people who loot during a riot are just that, criminal.

I was at flea market and bought a bunch of national geographics for dirt cheap. That's where I read about it for the first time. I'm sure it's the best survival story I've ever read, although the one in the film Touching the Void was insane as well. That part where he decided to descend deeper into the crevasse without tying a knot to the bottom of the rope because, well, if you he got to the end of the rope and there was nothing there then he wouldn't be able to climb back up anyways... damn...
I also found the story of Hinterstoisser and the Hinterstoisser traverse to be fascinating, but sadly it doesn't have a good ending.

Everyone likes a happy ending. I actually own a book called "Formulas for home, farm and workshop".

You seriously need to say that while sitting on a wicker chair, on your front porch, smoking a pipe and looking off into the distance with a blank expression on your face.

Wow, oh wow.

That should be easy, a blank expression is the only one I ever have. :D