artfizz wrote: "Kissinger in his role as Secretary of State, was a globe-trotting, trouble shooter...I thought he might be useful in the forums."
I too have sometimes thought of inviting Kissinger to join the forums. But only when I think we need to bomb a small non-combatant nation, or engineer a military coup against a democratic government, say.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/CaseAgainst1_Hitchens.html
er...possibly getting a little off topic here...
Did Kissinger play slow chess?
Wow, Sasha's right, I've got a lot of comments to catch up on here. 
Regarding the "Holy..." Batman quotes, check out this link:
http://www.usfamily.net/web/wpattinson/otr/batman/shoholy.htm
As far as my movies go, I doubt you've seen anything yet. The biggest movie was 61* which was on HBO and can be found in your local video store, but I was just an extra in that one. So there's only one scene that you can see me, but you can see me really well. It was so cool going down to the Fox Theater for the Premiere and seeing myself larger than life on the big screen. For those not from Detroit, the Fox Theater is the ritziest entertainment venue in the Detroit Area. SUPER fancy!! SUPER cool!!
My biggest role was in Long Live the Dead, which you can order at the link Diana posted (thanks Diana). Most recently I was the title character in a short film called The Silencer which won 1st Place and Best Use of Character in the Detroit-Windsor International Film Festival this year. I am working on getting a copy in a format that I can post online at YouTube, MySpace, AtomFilms, etc. I will be putting it on my profile here as soon as I can, so hopefully you'll be able to see it very soon.
If you go to www.MySpace.com/Billium248 you'll enter the world of Billiumania where you can find links to my film projects like Long Live the Dead, Count Billula, Blood Games, Guns, Drugs, and Dirty Money, Black Eagle, Super Zombies, as well as my old band Serious Jester (I was the drummer).
Thanks IrishMike for showing me someone else who's average time per move is also over 23 hours. However, at the moment Jhaber37 is at 23 hours 15 mins and I'm at 23 hours 21 minutes. You said he was down to 3 hours in a 3 day time control, and I just made moves in 2 games that were down to less than one hour on a 7 day time control. Actually, I had gone past my 7 days and my auto-vacation kicked on to save me from timing out. That's so bad!! I so suck!!
kingchild wrote:
To be american is a passport itself,I guess.. To people no familiar with humour,it was just an irony
I have a passport and I've actually used it too! I guess that puts me in the top 20%.
@Billium: Cool. I'll check out your myspace.
Good for you Billium248 - playing slow is the way to go ... I thought I was slow but I'm a Blitz player in comparison to you ...
We need to know who the other celebrities are on chess.com - one for Vote Chess I think - famous against not-famous.
artfizz wrote:
This much I do know: there are no uninteresting players on chess.com.
Well, at least a few people have a positive view of the world. I wouldn't be so quick to make that generalization... 
artfizz wrote: This much I do know: there are no uninteresting players on chess.com.
Argonaut314 wrote: Well, at least a few people have a positive view of the world. I wouldn't be so quick to make that generalization...
I have a mathematical proof for it.
Haha. Okay, I'll bite. Show me!
Proof
Claim: There is no such thing as an uninteresting player on chess.com
Proof by Contradiction
Assume that you have a non-empty set of players on chess.com that are not interesting. Due to the well-ordered property of being uninteresting, there must be some least interesting player in the set of uninteresting players. Being the least interesting member of a set one might consider not interesting makes that player interesting. Since the players in this set were defined as not interesting, we have reached a contradiction because this least interesting player cannot be both interesting and uninteresting. Therefore the set of uninteresting players must be empty, proving there is no such thing as an uninteresting player on chess.com.
There are, however, uninteresting posts - such as this one.
Diana - Lol. No prob. This is the most activity any thread of mine has ever had.
Wormrose - Thanks for taking my crown. I feel like the 2003 Detroit Tigers when they won the last game of the season thus staying out of the record books with the most losses in a single season. "We're not the worst!!" - "I'm not the slowest!!"
Chrish - I don't know that I qualify as "famous" yet, but thanks for the vote of confidence. However, since you can now go into your local video store and find me, I no longer play the "Everybody's Related to Kevin Bacon" game, I play the "Everybody's Related to Me" game.
For example: My Kevin Bacon number is 2. Kevin Bacon was in Animal House (as Chip Diller) with Bruce McGill (as Daniel Simpson "D-Day" Day) who was in 61* (as New York Yankee Manager Ralph Houk) with me. Give me another one. 
Jermaine Mckenzie from flight of the conchords. That should be an interesting bit of seperation for you :D.
And to people who freak out when people take too long to move - might I suggest finding something else to do? A watched pot never boils. Even something as simple as starting to write analysis for the game you are playing with possible variations would by no means be a waste of time ;)
And that old batman show was so awful it was good. i still remember the shark repellant spray!
The highest time per move I have seen is 16hrs and 5min for purushothama other than you. Congratz.
exiledcanuck wrote:
Jermaine Mckenzie from flight of the conchords. That should be an interesting bit of seperation for you :D.
Talk about throwing me a curve ball on the 1st pitch!! I've never even heard of Jermaine McKenzie OR Flight of the Conchords. But that's ok. I'm always up for a challenge!
Since we're playing a "correspondance" version of the game rather than "over-the-board," I'm going to have to assume that the use of online databases is not "cheating" (inside joke for anyone following along in the CC vs OTB debate threads). I must also assume you mean Jermaine Clement and Bret McKenzie rather than Jermaine McKenzie (or were you deliberately trying to throw me off?). But here goes:
4 degrees: Jermaine Clement and Bret McKenzie were in Flight of the Conchords (as Jermaine and Bret) with Rachel Blanchard (as Sally) who was in Snakes on a Plane (as Mercedes) with Samuel L. Jackson (as FBI agent Neville Flynn) who was in Deep Blue Sea (as Russell Franklin) with Thomas Jane (as Carter Blake) who was in 61* (as Mickey Mantle) with me. Give me another one!
artfizz wrote:
Proof
Claim: There is no such thing as an uninteresting player on chess.com
Proof by Contradiction
Assume that you have a non-empty set of players on chess.com that are not interesting. Due to the well-ordered property of the being uninteresting, there must be some least interesting player in the set of uninteresting players. Being the least interesting member of a set one might consider not interesting makes that player interesting. Since the players in this set were defined as not interesting, we have reached a contradiction because this least interesting player cannot be both interesting and uninteresting. Therefore the set of uninteresting players must be empty, proving there is no such thing as an uninteresting player on chess.com.
There are, however, uninteresting posts - such as this one.
Impressive! Okay, I'm a believer.
Does being asymptotically uninteresting make one interesting? Oh man... my head hurts now! 
kingchild wrote: you are exaggerating now, lol
Am I now? I'll have to talk to my lawyer before responding to that accusation, Miss Leon.
Well, at least you can play more than one game at a time. I have yet to play more than one at a time! As for speed, I'm not sure how the time is calculated but I use a board and only come back to make moves when I am done, so I suspect my move time is far longer than reflected in the time listed. I've seen people listed 23 plus hours though I don't recall where. So long as you make the time limit and enjoy the number of games you are playing, it's cool. I saw the title of your post on the front page and thought, really, someone slower than me. I'm not so sure you are...but doesn't really matter does it?
In 1972, Bobby Fischer, intensely patriotic but reluctant to play due to a pathological fear of losing (as Edmonds and Eidnow recount in Bobby Fisher Goes to War), eventually did his duty as a cold warrior at the prompting of US national security adviser Henry Kissinger. http://www.greenleft.org.au/2004/583/32473
Did you know? Although Kissinger was a frequent traveller, it is estimated that only 20% of Americans hold passports. http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2003/01/31/how_many_america.php