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[Melampus]

[Ecks51]

I don't know, Mel. I'd like it to be for us, but I hope a trailer comes out sooner than that. One month before the movie opens is a bit late, to me.

Perhaps some kind of 'underground' site against Tagurato warning against the use of the DSN. Why not? Everything these days has an 'underground' internet movement against it.

Only problem I see with my idea is ... why would that be a gift?

9dec07
[jamie opens the box] "A card?"
[opens envelope] "Happy (insert lame Hallmark holiday/anniversary here)"
[opens card and read to self]
[gets confused looks] "What is NectarOfTheDemons.com, Teddy?"
[looks in box again] Oh! Cranberry pills!

[Nighthawk]

I'm just hoping it's an alien crawler that, when she opens the box, it will leap out, attach to her face and suck out what little brains she has left. At least until Marlena comes in and beats them both with a baseball bat.

Hey, I can hope, can't I?

[McPhearson]

[McPhearson]

Haha! Coincedence is a heckuva thing.

I googled "120907", and #3 on the hit list was a link that sent me to, of all places, NutriBiotic (a health product website with the slogan "Where Science Works Naturally"). Going to their "About Us" webpage, we can read the following:

In 1980, after nearly ten years in the nutritional supplement industry, NutriBiotic was founded based on the principle that everyone deserves good health. Inspired by the research and recommendations of the world's only two-time Nobel Laureate, Linus Pauling, Ph.D., we began work on development of a variety of forms and dosages of Vitamin C and other nutrients. We felt that the public should have the best possible variety of the best possible nutrients at the best possible price, and our initial successes with our family of products showed that you thought so, too.

Soon after we began filling the need for quality nutritional supplements, we found another need - the need for high quality, nutrient dense protein in a hypoallergenic form for the chemical and food sensitive individual. Our Rice Protein powder meets that need without soy, milk, egg, wheat or yeast.

In 1987 we pioneered the process and use of grapefruit seed extract. You will find the fruits of our labors in our range of products containing Citricidal™, including our skin cleansers, shower gel and bubble bath, dental gel, deodorant stick, foot powder, multi-purpose liquid concentrate, CapsulesPlus, and more.

At NutriBiotic we stand committed to providing the very best for you and your family and are pleased to be able to offer you an ever-expanding range of quality nutritional supplements and personal care formulas developed with the intent of protecting and enhancing your health.

Hmmm... their Rice Protein meets the customer's need without anything else.... they have pioneered a process to enhance their products.... they sell anything from shower gel to health pills

Cranberry pills, perhaps?

SOURCE: http://www.nutribiotic.com/AboutUs.html

[Chump Force 1]

[McPhearson]

I wondered why, of all the days to produce a new clue, the producers picked December 9th. So I Wikipedia the date December 9th, and came up with the following. (Bare with me, it's a long list)

536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters in Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire.
1425 - The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
1531 - First apparition of the Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Guadalupe) to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on Tepeyac Hill
1793 - New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
1824 - Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
1835 - The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
1851 - The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
1856 - The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1861 - American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
1872 - In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
1875 - Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded.
1888 - Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
1892 - The football clubs Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End merge to form Newcastle United F.C.
1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.
1905 - In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
1917 - In Palestine, Allenby captures Jerusalem.
1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.
1931 - The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing - Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.
1940 - World War II: Operation Compass - British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
1941 - World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
1941 - World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attack Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
1946 - The "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" began with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation.
1950 - Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1953 - Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company
1958 - Red Scare: The John Birch Society founded in the United States.
1960 - The first episode of ITV soap-opera Coronation Street is aired.
1961 - The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with him being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.

Shuttle Discovery after launch of STS-116.1968 - NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
1987 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank
1990 - Lech Wałęsa becomes the first directly elected president of Poland.
2003 - A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2006 - Moscow suffers its worst fire since 1977, killing 45 women in a drug addict rehabitational center.

Births
1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
1508 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
1561 - Sir Edwin Sandys, British-born Virginian colonist (d. 1629)
1571 - Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
1579 - Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
1594 - Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
1608 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)
1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
1748 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
1751 - Maria Luisa of Parma, queen of Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
1787 - John Dobson, British architect
1806 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)
1837 - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
1842 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
1847 - George Grossmith, English actor (d. 1912)
1850 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
1868 - Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
1871 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
1876 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
1882 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
1883 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)
1886 - Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)
1889 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish Olympic gold medalist (d. 1966)
1891 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
1895 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
1897 - Hermione Gingold, British actress (d. 1987)
1898 - Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979)
1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937)
1901 - Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
1901 - Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
1902 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
1905 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)
1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. 1992)
1909 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
1911 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
1911 - Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese chairman of the board of Asia University (d. 2007)
1912 - Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
1914 - Frances Reid, American actress
1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006)
1916 - Kirk Douglas, American actor
1917 - James Rainwater, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1918 - Jerome Beatty Jr., American author
1919 - William Lipscomb, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
1922 - Redd Foxx, American comedian (d. 1991)
1925 - Dina Merrill, American actress
1926 - Henry Way Kendall, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer
1928 - Dick Van Patten, American actor
1928 - André Milhoux, Belgian racing driver
1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
1929 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
1930 - Buck Henry, American actor
1931 - Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor
1931 - William Reynolds, American actor
1933 - Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. 2001)
1934 - Dame Judi Dench, British actress
1934 - Junior Wells, American harmonica player (d. 1998)
1937 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
1938 - Deacon Jones, American football player
1938 - David Houston, American country music singer (d. 1993)
1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor
1941 - Dan Hicks, American musician
1942 - Billy Bremner, Scottish former footballer (d. 1997)
1942 - Dick Butkus, American football player
1943 - Pit Martin, National Hockey League player
1944 - Ki Longfellow, American novelist
1944 - Neil Innes, British singerBonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
1944 - Bob O'Connor, American politician
1945 - Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
1947 - Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
1948 - Dennis Dunaway, American musician. Bass player for Alice Cooper
1949 - Tom Kite, American golfer
1950 - Joan Armatrading, West Indian-born British singer
1952 - Michael Dorn, American actor
1952 - Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
1953 - John Malkovich, American actor
1953 - Monique Miller, French Canadian actress
1954 - Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian
1957 - Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
1958 - Rikk Agnew, American guitar player (The Adolescents)
1958 - Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House)
1960 - Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player
1961 - David Anthony Higgins, American actor
1961 - Joe Lando, American actor
1962 - Felicity Huffman, American actress
1963 - Masako, Crown princess of Japan
1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
1965 - Joe Ausanio, American baseball player
1965 - Vecepia Towery, American Survivor contestant
1966 - Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
1966 - Toby Huss, American actor
1967 - Joshua Bell, American violinist
1967 - Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
1968 - Kurt Angle, American amateur and professional wrestler
1968 - Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer)
1968 - Dave Harold, English snooker player
1969 - Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers)
1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
1969 - Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor
1971 - Petr Nedved, National Hockey League player
1972 - Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
1972 - Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player
1975 - Dino Morea, Indian actor
1976 - Chris Booker, American baseball player
1977 - Saskia Garel, Canadian actress
1977 - Imogen Heap, British singer and songwriter
1978 - Jesse Metcalfe, American actor (Desperate Housewives)
1979 - Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer
1980 - Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian professional cyclist
1981 - Mardy Fish, American tennis player
1981 - Diya Mirza, Indian actress
1982 - Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
1983 - Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
1983 - Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
1990 - LaFee, German singer
1991 - Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian prince

Deaths
1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland
1437 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
1565 - Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
1603 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
1641 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
1669 - Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
1674 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)
1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist
1706 - King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. 1650)
1793 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (b. 1757)
1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
1858 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1887 - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
1916 - Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, American baseball player and founder of the Negro National League (b. 1879)
1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1941 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
1955 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (b. 1887)
1965 - Branch Rickey, American baseball commissioner (b. 1884)
1970 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan
1971 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1971 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)
1972 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
1975 - William A. Wellman, American movie director (b. 1896)
1979 - Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop and television preacher (Life is Worth Living) (b. 1895)
1981 - Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955)
1982 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (b. 1905)
1984 - Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
1990 - Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-born professional wrestler and actor (b. 1907)
1992 - Vincent Gardenia, American stage, film and television actor (b. 1922)
1993 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (b. 1926)
1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939)
1996 - Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (b. 1956)
1996 - Mary Leakey, British archeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
1996 - Alain Poher, French politician (b. 1909)
1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
1998 - Archie Moore, American boxer and World Light-Heavyweight Champion (b. 1913)
2002 - Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (b. 1966)
2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)
2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
2005 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances
Calendar of saints:
Saint Leocadia; Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin : optional memorial
Peter Fourier, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame
Peru: Army Day
Sweden: Anna's Day. Recognizes everyone named Anna, and marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve.
Tanzania - Independence Day (of Tanganyika from Britain, 1961)

I thought about sifting through it myself, but I thought a couple more sets of eyes wouldn't hurt. Maybe it's nothing, but no harm in looking.

[Nighthawk]

It's also exactly 40 days from 1/18/08, isn't it?

[McPhearson]

Even if it is, what does the number 40 have to do with it?

[HerOdyssey]

[Drone41279]

Similarly if you take the date 011808 (US format) and divide by 6 you get 1968 and there was some major stuff happened that year too that technically changed the world as we know it.

I have to admit having posted speculation on some other mumblings regards the number six I could not help but respond here mainly in recognition of a comment regards begin able to tumble numbers to mean anything eventually.

Its all possible, probable, good luck on a definitely told ya so.

[Ecks51]

[Nighthawk]

[Chump Force 1]

I know its been discussed earlier in this thread, but I think it's a good possibility Jamie's present will also be the name of the movie or lead to the name of the movie. Dec 9 will be just over a month away from the release and at that point a more traditional marketing campaign could (should) start up (TV ads, theatrical trailers, etc). In order to reach a larger market I think Paramount would want to avoid confusion and make sure there is a name attached to the movie.

In any event, we'll know in exactly 60 days!

[rose]

Not a box of Slusho ingredients?

Would they melt?