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Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on September 23, 2003, 06:18:17 PM

If you find any bizzare or interesting news articles, post them here!

Also any bizzaro letters you've read or received.

:D

A few I've read lately:

Possessed Woman Says She Will No Longer Call Phone Psychics:

In her following letter to Miss TwiceKisst she states;

"I wanted to thank you for all the help and guidance you've given me over these several months. I think I'm going to take a break from Tarot and this site, as for whatever reason I don't think the Tarot gives me accurate readings. I'm not sure why, but it ends up confusing me even more.

This happens a lot with me and tarot, and I guess it ends up confusing me and upsetting me even more. Why would it change so quickly? ["kill whitey", "Lord's of Darkness Rule!"]

As you can see I am soo confused, and it's probably time for me to break away. I just don't get it - and I wish I could trust in the tarot.["Kill..Kill..Kill......"]

If you have any insight as to why this happens to me with the readings, I'd love to hear it. ["I want to rip out your soul......and feed it to your mother"] Thank you,
Blair"

Dear Blair,

I know you are very confused. Perhaps you should stay away from the tarot at least until after your next scheduled excorcism. Didn't you ever see 'The Excorcist'?

Also, aren't you a witch? An obscenely persecuted ressurected witch? I think I saw 'The Blair Witch' a few years ago.

Well, I wish you luck and gallons of holy water.

Yours never,
TwiceKisst

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Proof: Baptists need to shut up

According to police, the passengers on the bus from Hyles-Anderson College ?? a baptist school in Hammond, Ind. ?? were singing and swaying on board the bus. Their swaying caused the bus to sway and tip over.
Bus Rollover Closes Part Of I-94
http://www.nbc5.com/news/2499241/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65195

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Bella on September 23, 2003, 10:23:31 PM

Most of the strange letters I receive are from you, Demonica Dearest.
Are you certain you want me to post your ramblings here for
the world to see?
All of your strange secrets revealed?

Yesss........I like the sound of that - a lot! :twisted:

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Apocalypse Dude on September 24, 2003, 12:06:09 AM

www.weirdnj.com

I love my current state... Take that as you will

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on September 24, 2003, 04:35:21 AM

Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of DoomMost of the strange letters I receive are from you, Demonica Dearest.
Are you certain you want me to post your ramblings here for
the world to see?
All of your strange secrets revealed?

Yesss........I like the sound of that - a lot! :twisted:

Yesss SssBella Dear...................but I also have some from You!

Muuuuuuaaaaaahahahahaha!!!

Quote from: Dr. Fnordly
www.weirdnj.com

I love my current state... Take that as you will

I love it! That is a very demented site. :twisted: :D :twisted:

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on September 26, 2003, 06:12:48 PM

Aoccdrnig to rseeacrh at an Elingsh uinervtsy, it deosn't
mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt
tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The
rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as
a wlohe and the biran fguiers it out aynawy.

FRNOD

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Bella on September 28, 2003, 08:58:16 AM

The following is an exerpt from the Anderson Valley Advertiser - Sept. 10 issue - it's about the seccession of the town of Rough and Ready from the union:

"Rough and Ready was founded by Captain A.A. Townsend, a mining engineer from Wisconsin, in 1849, and the town was named after General Zachary Taylor, nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready," who'd just become the 12th President of the United States.

By 1850 most of the miners in the area were Southern sympathizers who were opposed to the idea of California becoming a Union state, but they also objected to a government-imposed mining tax on all claims.

On April 7th, 1850, the townspeople signed a Constitution similar to that of the United States, and they elected Colonel E. F. Brundage as President. The Constitution was referred to as Brundage's Manifesto, and read in part: "We deem it necessary and prudential to withdraw from said Territory (of California) and from the United States of America to form, peacefully if we can, forcibly if we must, the Great Republic of Rough and Ready," but the Republic fizzled the following 4th of July when Nevada City saloon owners refused to sell liquor to "foreigners."

Another town meeting was held, and the citizens of the "Great Republic" thirstily decided they wanted to rejoin the Union ?? immediately ?? so the world's smallest nation came to an end in slightly less than three months."

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: SMFabal on September 28, 2003, 02:45:59 PM

HOW DARE THEY?!?!
HOW DARE THEY CLAIM TO BE THE WORLD'S SMALLEST NATION?!
Everyone knows the Conch Republic was the worlds smallest nation!

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Anonymous on September 28, 2003, 06:11:44 PM

Quote from: SMFabalHOW DARE THEY?!?!
HOW DARE THEY CLAIM TO BE THE WORLD'S SMALLEST NATION?!
Everyone knows the Conch Republic was the worlds smallest nation!

How dare they, indeed! I say Blah!
Here's the editor's url in case you feel the need to write him a flaming editorial or two: //www.theava.com

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Bella on September 28, 2003, 06:14:37 PM

Quote from: Anonymous
Quote from: SMFabalHOW DARE THEY?!?!
HOW DARE THEY CLAIM TO BE THE WORLD'S SMALLEST NATION?!
Everyone knows the Conch Republic was the worlds smallest nation!

How dare they, indeed! I say Blah!
Here's the editor's url in case you feel the need to write him a flaming editorial or two: //www.theava.com

That was me up there. The login and are having a feud and she/he/it just scored another 10 points on me.

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Hoshiko on October 04, 2003, 01:43:05 PM

AFLAC billboard prompts 911 call, firefighters called to rescue dummy-

"An AFLAC insurance company billboard near Interstate 465 and Michigan Road prompted a 911 call Wednesday because the caller thought a person was hanging from the sign, RTV6's Jeremy Brilliant reported. The billboard actually shows a mannequin falling off a ladder next to the words "Pays You Cash If You Get Hurt And Miss Work."

RTV6 obtained a copy of the emergency call: Operator: Caller stated there was a worker working on a billboard at the 421 exit ... said he observed the gentleman fall off the ladder and appear as though he fell off a power line and was not moving. Washington Township firefighters went to the billboard, but they saw no one. http://www.theindychannel.com/news/2529976/detail.html?treets=ind&tml=ind_4pm&ts=T&tmi=ind_4pm_1_04000110032003

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Catholics outraged that sculpture of clergyman looks like a penis-

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2316011,00.html (Includes Picture)

"TOPEKA, Kan. - A sculpture from Longmont that depicts a Catholic clergyman in a cap bearing resemblance to a penis has drawn angry criticism from people who want it removed from the Washburn University campus.

The piece called "Holier Than Thou" is the work of Jerry Boyle of Longmont. It depicts the upper body of a heavyset man with a contorted face, wearing a tall ecclesiastical cap known as a miter.

The base of the sculpture bears the following inscription: "The artist says, I was brought up Catholic. I remember being 7 and going into the dark confessional booth for the first time. I knelt down, and my face was only inches from the thin screen that separated me and the one who had the power to condemn me for my evil ways. I was scared to death, for on the other side of that screen was the person you see before you."

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: riff on October 04, 2003, 10:04:17 PM

Quote from: Duchess DemonicaAoccdrnig to rseeacrh at an Elingsh uinervtsy, it deosn't
mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt
tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The
rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as
a wlohe and the biran fguiers it out aynawy.

FRNOD

There's another thread about just that around here somewhere...

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Bella on October 04, 2003, 11:24:47 PM

Quote from: Riff
Quote from: Duchess DemonicaAoccdrnig to rseeacrh at an Elingsh uinervtsy, it deosn't
mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt
tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The
rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as
a wlohe and the biran fguiers it out aynawy.

FRNOD

There's another thread about just that around here somewhere...

Well, that explains how we all know what the damned squwerril is saying, doesn't it?

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on October 06, 2003, 11:06:16 AM

Quote from: HoshikoAFLAC billboard prompts 911 call, firefighters called to rescue dummy-

"An AFLAC insurance company billboard near Interstate 465 and Michigan Road prompted a 911 call Wednesday because the caller thought a person was hanging from the sign, RTV6's Jeremy Brilliant reported. The billboard actually shows a mannequin falling off a ladder next to the words "Pays You Cash If You Get Hurt And Miss Work."

RTV6 obtained a copy of the emergency call: Operator: Caller stated there was a worker working on a billboard at the 421 exit ... said he observed the gentleman fall off the ladder and appear as though he fell off a power line and was not moving. Washington Township firefighters went to the billboard, but they saw no one. http://www.theindychannel.com/news/2529976/detail.html?treets=ind&tml=ind_4pm&ts=T&tmi=ind_4pm_1_04000110032003

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Catholics outraged that sculpture of clergyman looks like a penis-

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2316011,00.html (Includes Picture)

"TOPEKA, Kan. - A sculpture from Longmont that depicts a Catholic clergyman in a cap bearing resemblance to a penis has drawn angry criticism from people who want it removed from the Washburn University campus.

The piece called "Holier Than Thou" is the work of Jerry Boyle of Longmont. It depicts the upper body of a heavyset man with a contorted face, wearing a tall ecclesiastical cap known as a miter.

The base of the sculpture bears the following inscription: "The artist says, I was brought up Catholic. I remember being 7 and going into the dark confessional booth for the first time. I knelt down, and my face was only inches from the thin screen that separated me and the one who had the power to condemn me for my evil ways. I was scared to death, for on the other side of that screen was the person you see before you."

Very Funny!!!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I'm still laughing!

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Rev Thwack on October 06, 2003, 04:40:41 PM

Quote from: Hoshiko
Catholics outraged that sculpture of clergyman looks like a penis-

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2316011,00.html (Includes Picture)

"TOPEKA, Kan. - A sculpture from Longmont that depicts a Catholic clergyman in a cap bearing resemblance to a penis has drawn angry criticism from people who want it removed from the Washburn University campus.

The piece called "Holier Than Thou" is the work of Jerry Boyle of Longmont. It depicts the upper body of a heavyset man with a contorted face, wearing a tall ecclesiastical cap known as a miter.

The base of the sculpture bears the following inscription: "The artist says, I was brought up Catholic. I remember being 7 and going into the dark confessional booth for the first time. I knelt down, and my face was only inches from the thin screen that separated me and the one who had the power to condemn me for my evil ways. I was scared to death, for on the other side of that screen was the person you see before you."

Ladies and gentelmen, the reason I love Catholics.

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on October 07, 2003, 05:40:30 PM

And also the reason I love Catholic sculptures...............

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: The Commander on October 08, 2003, 11:25:50 AM

I actually heard this on the news. A reporter asked a representative from the Arab Leage why reporters and camera men were not allowed to take photos or see the site of the Israeli attack, that is, if it is not a terrorist camp as the Syrians claim. He answered, and I quote to the best of my memory "There is no reason to go and take photos of something that does not exist!"

Hilarious!

The Commander
DIA

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on October 12, 2003, 08:05:01 AM

Quote from: The CommanderI actually heard this on the news. A reporter asked a representative from the Arab Leage why reporters and camera men were not allowed to take photos or see the site of the Israeli attack, that is, if it is not a terrorist camp as the Syrians claim. He answered, and I quote to the best of my memory "There is no reason to go and take photos of something that does not exist!"

Hilarious!

The Commander
DIA

Hee heee heeee!

That's great logic!

I mean, You'd have to be careful. Taking unauthorized photo's of something that does not exist could be illegal!

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: The Commander on October 14, 2003, 11:14:18 AM

Check this out!

Science - AP

Monkeys Can Move Robot Arms With Thoughts
Mon Oct 13,12:32 PM ET Add Science - AP to My Yahoo!

By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press Writer

Monkeys with brain implants were trained to move a robot arm with their thoughts, a key advance by researchers who hope one day to allow paralyzed people to perform similar tasks.

A series of electrodes containing tiny wires were implanted about a millimeter deep into the brains of two monkeys. A computer then recorded signals produced by the monkeys' brains as they manipulated a joystick controlling the robotic arm in exchange for a reward ?? sips of juice.

The joystick was later unplugged and the arm, which was in a separate room, was controlled directly by the brain signals coming from the implants. The monkeys eventually stopped using the joystick, as if they knew their brains were controlling the robot arm, Duke University researcher Miguel Nicolelis said.

"Three of us were in the room watching the monkey late at night, and all of sudden the monkey just dropped the joystick and started playing the game ... the monkey just got it that she didn't need to move the joystick," Nicolelis said.

"We couldn't believe it, it was almost like the monkey was telling us, `Believe me, I can do it.' ... She was very happy; she was very enthused about the fact she could do it." The second monkey also stopped using the joystick.

The work was reported Monday in the first edition of the journal PLoS Biology, a free, peer-reviewed scientific journal published online by the Public Library of Science.

The Duke researchers had previously wired the brains of monkeys to allow a robotic arm to mimic motions made by the monkeys when using a joystick or reaching for food.

Humans have already been implanted with a similar device that allows them to control the movement of a cursor on a computer screen through their thoughts. The implant used in the monkey work, however, is smaller and the task accomplished was more complex.

The Duke researchers have now moved onto researching similar implants in humans, and Nicolelis said he is more optimistic about the prospects for use in humans.

"It could do a lot of things, wheelchairs, computers, prosthetic arms, perhaps their own arms," Nicolelis said.

Appliances, remote objects in other locations in the house and robots all could be controlled, he said.

"It really opens the possibilities, and it reduces the amount of time. Previously, I had thought it might be five to 10 years before we could apply this to humans. I'm getting more optimistic now, I think in a couple of years we may be doing the real clinical trials."

The implants remained in the Duke monkeys for 2 1/2 years showing they can be used for extended period. Over time, the monkeys' brains adapted to treat the robotic arm as if it was their own limb, Nicolelis said.

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On the Net:

PLoS Biology: http://www.plosbiology.org

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: riff on October 14, 2003, 12:26:54 PM

[ObSlashdot:] I, for one, welcome our new robot monkey overlords.

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: The Commander on October 14, 2003, 05:39:12 PM

Ook?

The Commander
DIA

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: SMFabal on October 14, 2003, 05:49:08 PM

Quote from: On The Daily Show, John StuartIn his first act as President of the NRA, Charlton Heston swore to legalize hunting of "those damn dirty apes"

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: SMFabal on October 14, 2003, 05:52:50 PM

My friend Scott is an escaped Catholic. Proof:

QuoteI'm not sure how, but this must be a sin. We're making fun of someone who doesn't exist behind their back

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on October 15, 2003, 07:31:34 AM

WOW!

Bananas all around!

Do I qualify for the monkey experimental program? Are they taking applications? I want to play tetris with my newly found brain power!

*Reaches for a sip of juice*

*Glares at grey face and watches t.v. remote explode*

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Post by: Spoon E. Gee on October 15, 2003, 08:49:23 PM

I want implants.... I so wanna be cyberpunk.... I'd be first in line...

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: riff on October 15, 2003, 09:54:56 PM

Heh, I wanna be cyberpunk too, but I'll wait till, oh, 100th or so in line. Make sure they get the bugs worked out first. :o

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on October 16, 2003, 02:55:56 AM

I'll be first!

Bugs and all

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Rev Thwack on October 16, 2003, 05:14:20 AM

10:1 odds that this comes out first as a complete computer interface allowing us to get rid of mice and keyboards.

1:1 odds that this computer interface version looks like the computer interface from the matrix, because "it's cool"

1,000,000:1 odds that microsoft will buy whatever company applies this technology to computers in the above way.

10^12:1 odds that 3 months after microsoft releases their MS You technology (see above), some hacker finds a security flaw and manages to send a deadly feedback loop into some poor fools brain.

10^56:1 odds that the same deadly feedback occurs first due to a unpatched bug.

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Post by: Spoon E. Gee on October 16, 2003, 05:30:23 AM

yer no 1337 |-|4x0R!!!!!!11..... if you were... you'd be first in line specifically to get the buggy ones!... so you can work out the bugs yourself.... and maybe even have something special that yer not sposta cuz they took it out in the later versions with the bugs cuz it was too powerful!...... thats the whole fun of it!....

meh...

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on October 16, 2003, 07:25:12 AM

ooh, I didn't think of the nasty little worm bugs.....................

Brain worm? Worm patch?

Sounds like fun! Maybe they would come in tutti frutti flavors?

:wink:

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: riff on October 16, 2003, 07:30:32 AM

Quote from: Spoon E. Geeyer no 1337 |-|4x0R!!!!!!11..... if you were... you'd be first in line specifically to get the buggy ones!... so you can work out the bugs yourself.... and maybe even have something special that yer not sposta cuz they took it out in the later versions with the bugs cuz it was too powerful!...... thats the whole fun of it!....

meh...

Screwing around with a computer is one thing -- it breaks, you get another one. Screwing around with your central nervous system, on the other hand... it breaks, you're in the Special Olympics. Game over.

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Spoon E. Gee on October 16, 2003, 07:36:13 AM

I like to get drunk with friends and watch the special olympics...

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on October 16, 2003, 07:54:34 AM

What? No brain patch? No fix-it disk? :shock:

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: EvilPoet on October 19, 2003, 03:49:47 PM

A 26-year-old man will be hospitalized "for months" in Illawarra, Australia, after an August accident that authorities speculate might have been inspired by the film "Jackass." The man was apparently walking across a room with a lighted firecracker between his posterior cheeks when he slipped and fell backward to the floor. The explosion resulted in a fractured pelvis, severe genital burns, hemorrhaging from the buttocks and ruptured urethra, leaving him incontinent and sexually dysfunctional.

Source: News of the Weird Weekly Highlights

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on October 22, 2003, 02:44:00 AM

OUCH!

:shock:

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: The Commander on October 22, 2003, 10:45:42 AM

Evolution at work...eh?

The Commander
DIA

Title: Evolution
Post by: EvilPoet on October 22, 2003, 07:57:59 PM

(http://killerbutterfly.com/pics/evolution.jpg)

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Bella on October 22, 2003, 09:23:40 PM

Letter to the Editor from the October 15th Edition of the Anderson Valley Advertiser
http://www.theava.com

Rush & His Downs

Friends,

I've been thinking about Rush Limbaugh and his admission of prescription drug usage. He's been using large quantities of some very powerful illegally obtained medications for quite some time. Yet he has continued to
be the most popular talk show host in America. I believe that Rush is at the vanguard of Conservative drug use. He's proving that while liberal cannot handle drugs, conservatives of the proper mindset can not only use powerful drugs, but continue to be highly successful citizens. It??s time to get this message out to our schools and universities: You can take handfuls of synthesized high power narcotics and still stand tall at the reins of American Conservative business, whether in the boardrooms of corporate America or running your own mom and pop enterprise. Rush has spoken out against drug usage for years. But he clearly realizes that conservatives can handle the hard stuff, unlike the lightweight liberals of the USA! And he's proven it. Remember, only a tip from his maid and an investigation of his pharmacist led to his demise. He was doing just fine with hard drugs, thank you.

Oxycontin can open the doors of perception for success in life, if you have a solid conservative mindset. This is the message from Rush Limbaugh. Much as Timothy Leary pioneered LSD usage, Rush is a pioneering conservative, pushing the boundaries of drug usage, proving that you can abuse "hillbilly heroin" and still make millions in the American business world.!

So to all my liberal friends out there, I beseech you: Put down that bong, lose the reefer, forget that Friday night sixpack and give up those "gateway drugs" that have left you in the lurch, stalled on the road to success. Join the Republican Party, find yourself a "Doctor Feelgood" and get on board the conservative train for business success with a big bag of high powered black market narcotics. This is clearly the way, as shown by the wonderful American success story, Rush Limbaugh.

And above all, turn in all your pot smoking friends. You'll be doing them a favor. Once they've finished their jail time, they'll be ready to join the conservatives of America, using plenty of hard tuff and making a pile of money. Hardline politics and hard drugs----- that??s the new American way.

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Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on October 22, 2003, 09:29:36 PM

:shock:
What? Tell me it's not true!

*Runs to pharmacy and stands in line behind Rush*

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Post by: Bella on October 22, 2003, 09:34:54 PM

Alas, it is all too true.
The scourge of the hippie, the feminazi, and the dope smoking, free thinking liberals has fallen.
Hoist on his own petard, me mateys. ARGHHHHHH!!

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on October 23, 2003, 08:28:37 AM

AHA!

You are what you hate and everyone is a mirror........Rushie Pooh

*Watches SssBella flash a mysterious yet ecstatic smile*

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: The Commander on October 23, 2003, 09:53:13 AM

I¬•m confused....I was doing LSD all through my time in the military...I even held a Top Secret security clearence, yet I am also WAAAAAY liberal. I¬•d consider myself fairly successful in thosee regards.

Am I really a closet Conservative Republican?

The Commander
DIA

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Bella on October 23, 2003, 10:23:51 AM

This is bigger than I thought, Commander.......the implications are staggering!!

I'm not sure I could allow my sister to marry a closet Conservative Republican.
If only you were a nice closet cross-dresser, a psuedo-sadist, or a three legged jesuit priest, all would be well.

On the other hand, Demonica says you are what you hate. And I hate Rush Limbaugh.......how could this be????

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Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on October 23, 2003, 11:04:46 PM

*Puts on Janet Reno Mask*

I fear we have all had a little shock and the far reaching implications of the Fear of being closet conservatives is ominous. In light of the recent developments I've created a little check-list.

The actions on this list cannot be reversed..................so if you do, or have acquired 10 pts. or more, you can be sure that you will NEVER in reality be a conservative or a closet conservative. However some of us could be a liberal posing as a closet conservative which would be considered a closet liberal/conservative/psuedo-square-suit/liberal.

Here is the list:

Have you ever:

1) Hugged a tree....................................................1 pt.

2) Fought with a tree, or been chained to a tree.............3 pt.

3) Attended a reiki or drum circle..............................1 pt.

4) Traveled over 100 miles in a van crowded with non-deodorized individuals after eating beans....................................2 pt.

5) Camped on the roof of your car.............................1 pt.
or the roof of your friends bus (because you don't have a car) ................................3 pt.

6) Sold flowers on a street corner..................................2 pt.
Ate the wilted flowers you couldn't sell........................1/2 pt.
gave the flowers a proper burial.................................7 pt.

7) Eaten a meal at a Hare Krishna temple......................2 Pt.

8 ) Lived in a house with no door...................................10 pt.

9) Transmitted smoke signals to aliens...........................2 pt.

aliens receive your smoke signals .............................7 pt.

10) Have friends named Curry, Aurora, Chewy, Freeman Dave the Kanab-ite, Frisby, Spiky, Bum, Puke, Wiz, Scooter, The Claw, or One Eyed Thane McGee.....................5 pt.

11) Dumpster dived for holilday presents.................................5 pt.

12) Cooked up a batch of 'Ryan the Nazi's Beer Stew' (recipe in the anarchy cookbook)...................5 pt.

13) Tasted the beer stew............................................................100 pt.

14) Inhaled 'beer stew' fumes ..................................................2,000 pt.

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Post by: Trollax on December 04, 2003, 02:20:57 AM

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/03/1070351648902.html?from=top5

Voyeur falls to death peering at naked woman's corpse
December 4, 2003

A voyeur fell to his death in southern China after climbing up the side of a building to get a better look at a woman's naked body.

The woman was a prostitute, who leapt to her death from an apartment in Shenzhen after being held hostage.

The man climbed up the building after a large crowd gathered around the body, the Hong Kong edition of the China Daily reported.

His death set off rumours that the ghost of the woman had lured the man to his death to be her companion in the afterlife, the newspaper said.

Two men have been arrested over her death.

DPA

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Lord_Caramac on December 04, 2003, 05:25:48 AM

Some headline in German, from the BILD-Zeitung:

Eichel bleibt hart

I can explain it later on, if EvT doesn't do it.

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: EvilPoet on December 06, 2003, 06:14:13 PM

17-million-year-old nuts discovered in Germany

QuoteBERLIN (Reuters) - Scientists in Germany have announced the discovery of a petrified hoard of 17-million-year-old nuts they say form the oldest known cache of stored food.

"These fossilized nuts are the oldest proof we have for mammals laying in food stores," Martin Sander, a paleontologist from Bonn university, told Reuters on Tuesday. "In fact, they're the oldest store of food yet known from any animal." [more... (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=3889370)]

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: EvilPoet on December 09, 2003, 07:37:13 PM

Whoops!

QuoteVicar Distributes Porn Films by Mistake

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German vicar inadvertently supplied his parish with dozens of hard core porn films in an unsuccessful bid to teach people about the life of Christ. [more... (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=3955809&src=eDialog/GetContent§ion=news)]

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: riff on December 09, 2003, 08:07:20 PM

"You're not the usual son of God..."
Music: Ber-chicka-ber-ner...

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Bella on December 12, 2003, 07:43:09 PM

Woohoo!..... street party at Bella's house today!

Chaos reigns. Most of the latinos in California are on strike today!

This is going to have a huge impact on the California economy,
but in the meantime....it's fiesta time!

The neighbors are having a barbeque (in the rain, no less)
playing music, my front porch is full of little kids,
and there's a plate of fresh tamales from Carmen on the table.

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Guido Finucci on December 12, 2003, 08:14:24 PM

How about a little warning next time? I hardly had time to make a cup of tea, let alone get to California...

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Bella on December 12, 2003, 09:52:30 PM

Oh, I'm sorry Guido.
Didn't mean to make you rush like that....but the whole thing was a surprise to me, too.

Woke up this morning and - poof! - the stores are empty, busses aren't running, the sawmills are quiet, and many of the class rooms are without teachers and aids. No translators, so court is canceled. No hair appointment for Bella today because the stylist is latino. Restraunts are closed, garbage service is down. One would have to call this a not so gentle wake-up call.

On the other hand.....wish you guys could smell the pasole and the arroz con polo and and the enchiladas cooking. Mmmmmm......

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Slarti on December 12, 2003, 10:17:49 PM

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Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Horab Fibslager on December 12, 2003, 11:22:03 PM

Yes.

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Post by: SMFabal on December 12, 2003, 11:48:25 PM

Maybe

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Post by: Horab Fibslager on December 13, 2003, 12:51:27 AM

sometimes

Title: Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!
Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on December 13, 2003, 10:03:26 PM

There is this guy at one of my friends work that looks like 'pat' from saturday night live. you really can't tell if he's a boy or a girl and he talks like 'pat' talked, same voice and everything..................The only difference is that this guy has horrible rancid breath odor and rancid teeth. They figure he only brushes once a month and his teeth are crumbling apart. Aside from all that he also has bad hygiene and a fetid stale body odor problem.

In front of the whole department that my friend supervises, this guy bends down to tell him something. (the plant is loud and makes hearing difficult) He yells something down to my friend and out of his mouth hurls a huge whitish chunk of undetermined origin.

My friend looks up and the unidentified flying chunk falls into his open and stunned mouth. In front of everyone he spits it back out and say's, "JEEZ DUDE !"

Well I guess the guy was so embarrased and my friend was searching for some sort of disinfectant mouthwash. He's not sure if it was a superchunk of some sort or a tooth..........................

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Post by: EvilPoet on December 16, 2003, 08:51:32 AM

QuoteMan Kills Self at Spot Where JFK Was Gunned Down

DALLAS (Reuters) - A man killed himself with a gunshot to the head on Friday after lying down on the X in the road marking the spot in Dealey Plaza where former U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 40 years ago, witnesses said. [More... (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=3993760&src=eDialog/GetContent§ion=news)]

QuoteHow the Grinch Stole...

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida man claiming to be selling tickets to a Christmas show took $10 each from hundreds of school children then splurged on wine, sunglasses and movies, a state prosecutor said on Friday. [More... (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=3993921&src=eDialog/GetContent§ion=news)]

For more stories - click here (http://www.reuters.com/newsChannel.jhtml;jsessionid=CIZC2KSNQOJMOCRBAEOCFFA?type=oddlyEnoughNews)

Title: Hanukkah Flier Contains Anti-Semitic Line
Post by: EvilPoet on January 02, 2004, 07:58:29 PM

QuoteA holiday shopping flier that's been distributed to thousands of households in north Texas is creating controversy because a message of hate is included within an advertisement.

An ad for "Party City" was supposed to highlight a sale on Hanukkah items, but it also contained a hateful anti-Semitic message.

The advertisement includes the sentence "CC Hates the Jews" in large, bold letters.

According to ADVO, the company that printed the advertisement, a graphic artist working on the ad had left his desk for a moment, and a co-worker with the initials C.C. changed the text on the ad.

The graphic artist didn't notice the change and the ad went to print. [more... (http://www.nbc10.com/news/2700891/detail.html)]

See also: Urban Legends Reference Pages (http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/hateflier.asp)

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Post by: Malaul on January 02, 2004, 10:35:30 PM

Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of DoomWoke up this morning and - poof! - the stores are empty, busses aren't running, the sawmills are quiet, and many of the class rooms are without teachers and aids. No translators, so court is canceled. No hair appointment for Bella today because the stylist is latino. Restraunts are closed, garbage service is down. One would have to call this a not so gentle wake-up call.

Are you serious?
I havent watched any of the news today so this was a shock to see..

Must smell real good around there righ tnow though

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Post by: Bella on January 02, 2004, 10:40:44 PM

Yup....it's a true thing.
But it happened about three weeks ago.
Lots of places in my town had to close down
and the neighbors had a big barbeque type party.

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Post by: Bella on January 24, 2004, 08:29:54 PM

Okay now....this is a true news story.
I heard it on a radio show called "Blue's News" this morning.

It seems that there was a heist in a dollar store somewhere. Someone shoplifted a lot of merchandise......dozens of pairs of ladies underpants to be precise. The police were able to track the thief because he dropped a pair of pants every so often, and the trail led directly to his house. The police knocked on the door and were invited in. The trail of pants continued down the hall to the bedroom of a thirteen year old boy who was sitting happily on his bed surrounded by piles of women's underwear.

How many pairs do you reckon he started out with in order to leave a trail like that behind him?

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Post by: Malaul on January 24, 2004, 08:39:14 PM

he SO wanted to get caught

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Post by: EvilPoet on February 20, 2004, 11:00:16 AM

Curious George visits Roswell.

QuoteRemarks by the President to the Press Pool
Nothin' Fancy Cafe
Roswell, New Mexico

11:25 A.M. MST

THE PRESIDENT: I need some ribs.

Q Mr. President, how are you?

THE PRESIDENT: I'm hungry and I'm going to order some ribs.

Q What would you like?

THE PRESIDENT: Whatever you think I'd like.

Q Sir, on homeland security, critics would say you simply haven't spent enough to keep the country secure.

THE PRESIDENT: My job is to secure the homeland and that's exactly what we're going to do. But I'm here to take somebody's order. That would be you, Stretch -- what would you like? Put some of your high-priced money right here to try to help the local economy. You get paid a lot of money, you ought to be buying some food here. It's part of how the economy grows. You've got plenty of money in your pocket, and when you spend it, it drives the economy forward. So what would you like to eat?

Q Right behind you, whatever you order.

THE PRESIDENT: I'm ordering ribs. David, do you need a rib?

Q But Mr. President --

THE PRESIDENT: Stretch, thank you, this is not a press conference. This is my chance to help this lady put some money in her pocket. Let me explain how the economy works. When you spend money to buy food it helps this lady's business. It makes it more likely somebody is going to find work. So instead of asking questions, answer mine: are you going to buy some food?

Q Yes.

THE PRESIDENT: Okay, good. What would you like?

Q Ribs.

THE PRESIDENT: Ribs? Good. Let's order up some ribs.

Q What do you think of the democratic field, sir?

THE PRESIDENT: See, his job is to ask questions, he thinks my job is to answer every question he asks. I'm here to help this restaurant by buying some food. Terry, would you like something?

Q An answer.

Q Can we buy some questions?

THE PRESIDENT: Obviously these people -- they make a lot of money and they're not going to spend much. I'm not saying they're overpaid, they're just not spending any money.

Q Do you think it's all going to come down to national security, sir, this election?

THE PRESIDENT: One of the things David does, he asks a lot of questions, and they're good, generally.

END 11:29 A.M. MST

Source: www.whitehouse.gov (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040122-5.html)

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Post by: Bella on May 29, 2004, 08:59:31 PM

This news story may not be of interest to everyone on this forum, but it brought up such strong emotions that I have to share. I worked as victim advocate on this homicide case for several years, which means I was one of several who advocated for the rights of the five year old victim and her surviving family members. This case has been going on since 1986 - there have been three trials, two of which ended in a mistrial. Just read today that the defendant was found guilty earlier this month. Finally.

http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/Stories/0,1413,91%257E3089%257E2178471,00.html

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Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on September 29, 2004, 08:16:50 PM

Check this out...........

If you are stabbed be polite and give the knife back.

If you attempt to kill someone,
trust that the person you just tried to kill will return the knife.

:shock:

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - 12:00 AM |

Two charged in murder-for-hire case

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SALT LAKE CITY -- Tooele County prosecutors have charged Donald Millard and one of the men he allegedly tried to hire to kill his ex-wife.

Millard, 37, and James D. Brinkerhoff, 34, were charged Monday with attempted aggravated murder and aggravated burglary.

"He had every intent to kill her," Deputy County Attorney Gary Searle said of Millard.

Another purported would-be hit man, Ben Desvari, told investigators Millard offered him $5,000 to kill Millard's ex-wife, Susan Hyatt of Grantsville.

Desvari said that when he failed to kill the woman, Millard hired Brinkerhoff.

Desvari showed Brinkerhoff where Hyatt lived and "helped arrange the murder," authorities allege in court documents.

At approximately 8:15 p.m. on Sept. 11, Brinkerhoff allegedly went to the woman's home and told her he was a private investigator and needed to speak with Millard.

Brinkerhoff allegedly pulled out an 8-inch hunting knife and stabbed Hyatt in the abdomen.

The pair tumbled down a flight of stairs. Hyatt grabbed at the knife, slicing her hands, but eventually got hold of it and ordered Brinkerhoff to leave, Grantsville police detective Dan Chamberlain said.

Brinkerhoff refused to leave without his knife, so Hyatt agreed to toss it out the window, Chamberlain said.

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Post by: fluffy on September 30, 2004, 11:26:22 PM

isn't arkansas, like, right next door to utah?

Man Sets Home Ablaze Burning Wife's Pants

Wed Sep 29, 7:31 PM ET

Strange News - AP

PINE BLUFF, Ark. - A man who set his wife's pants on fire because he believed she was having an affair accidentally torched his mobile home and has been charged with arson, police said.

Officers said Leroy Brown, 19, perceiving that his wife had been with another man, set fire to the pair of pants he thought she was wearing at the time of the affair.

The burning pants started to singe Brown's fingers so he dropped the pants and the mobile home caught fire, Pine Bluff police detectives James Golden and Kelvin Hadley said.

Brown was detained on an arson charge after Tuesday's fire, pending a formal review by the Jefferson County prosecutor's office.

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Post by: Demon Seed #three on October 06, 2004, 11:57:21 AM

Woman Police Say Sold Stones to Rioters Pleads No Contest
The Associated Press
Published: Oct 6, 2004

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) - A woman who police say sold stones to rioters in a southwest Michigan city last year and used the money to pay her cable television bill has pleaded no contest to inciting a riot.
Yuolanda Taylor, 32, entered the plea Monday. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing purposes. She is free on bail, but faces up to 10 years in prison at her sentencing Nov. 15.

The city of Benton Harbor was devastated by two nights of rioting last June sparked by the death of a black motorcyclist during a high-speed police chase. Twenty-one houses, many vacant, were destroyed.

Police said Taylor toted rocks through a riot-wracked neighborhood, selling small ones for $1 each and bigger ones for $5. Prosecutors said the rocks were thrown at police.

Taylor told police she collected about $70 selling rocks, but quit when she got hit by one herself.

WTF?? :shock:

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Post by: LMNO on October 06, 2004, 02:52:16 PM

Ah, Capitalism at its finest!

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Post by: namu on October 06, 2004, 03:04:27 PM

Citizen, we're proud of your initiative.

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Post by: DJRubberducky on October 06, 2004, 04:32:42 PM

Not necessarily weird, but possibly of concern to people here or to people that the people here care about, thus I share it:

Merck & Co., Inc. has announced a worldwide withdrawal of Vioxx, its arthritis/acute pain medication.

Apparently during some studies that weren't expressly looking for this problem, they found cause to believe that starting at 18 months of continuous therapy, Vioxx presents an increased risk of cardiovascular troubles such as heart attack and stroke.

The letter I received ends with instructions on how to return unused Vioxx for a refund. Send your unused pills (in its original pharmacy packaging) and a copy of your pharmacy receipt to:

ATTN: NNC Group
Merck Returns
2670 Executive Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46241
1-800-805-9542

You'll then receive a full refund of the price paid as reflected on your pharmacy receipt, plus the cost of shipping via regular U.S. mail. (I cannot determine if by "full refund" they mean for the unused pills or for the entire prescription, so please do not go into this expecting the latter.)

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Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on October 06, 2004, 07:15:16 PM

I wonder how much I'd get for one unused pill. Enough to cover the cost of shipping? Probably not.

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Post by: Rupert Giles on October 07, 2004, 04:25:30 AM

Quote from: Demon seed#threeWoman Police Say Sold Stones to Rioters Pleads No Contest
The Associated Press
Published: Oct 6, 2004

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) - A woman who police say sold stones to rioters in a southwest Michigan city last year and used the money to pay her cable television bill has pleaded no contest to inciting a riot.
Yuolanda Taylor, 32, entered the plea Monday. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing purposes. She is free on bail, but faces up to 10 years in prison at her sentencing Nov. 15.

The city of Benton Harbor was devastated by two nights of rioting last June sparked by the death of a black motorcyclist during a high-speed police chase. Twenty-one houses, many vacant, were destroyed.

Police said Taylor toted rocks through a riot-wracked neighborhood, selling small ones for $1 each and bigger ones for $5. Prosecutors said the rocks were thrown at police.

Taylor told police she collected about $70 selling rocks, but quit when she got hit by one herself.

WTF?? :shock:

Some of us call that Nolo Contendere

Title: "Satan, this is ground base one. Do you copy?"
Post by: LMNO on October 26, 2004, 06:25:19 PM

QuoteLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Armed Forces have enlisted their first Satanist after a naval technician serving on a frigate was granted permission to practice his beliefs while at sea, the Ministry of Defense said Sunday.

Defending the decision to allow a Satanist among the Royal Navy's ranks, a ministry spokesman said it was an "equal opportunities employer" and did not discriminate against specific religious beliefs.

"He went to his commanding officer with a request to practice his beliefs on board his ship and it was granted ... We believe he is the first avowed Satanist to serve in the military, but there is no official register of beliefs," the spokesman said.

The Sunday Telegraph newspaper said Chris Cranmer, 24, from Edinburgh, Scotland would be allowed to have a funeral carried out by the Church of Satan should he be killed in action.

The Church of Satan was founded in the 1960s, but Satanism can refer to a diverse set of practices that include viewing Satan as a force of nature.

Members of the church, which rejects Christian ideas of God and the Devil, follow 11 Satanic Rules of the Earth.

The belief system has been condemned as a cult by some religious groups and at least one opposition politician expressed dismay after Cranmer won permission to practice Satanism aboard a Royal Navy ship.

"I am utterly shocked by this," said Conservative parliamentarian Anne Widdecombe.

"Satanism is wrong. Obviously the private beliefs of individuals anywhere including the armed forces are their own affair but I hope it doesn't spread," she said.

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Post by: East Coast Hustle on October 26, 2004, 07:08:56 PM

hmm....makes you wonder what they'd say about one of us... 8)

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Post by: LMNO on October 26, 2004, 07:14:25 PM

A discordian worshipping at the alter of the five-sided church? Are you kidding?

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Post by: gnimbley on November 01, 2004, 04:48:11 AM

GIANT SQUID are taking over the world!

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4811363%5E13762,00.html

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Post by: Bella on November 01, 2004, 05:00:43 AM

That's because St Hugh has been gone for so long.
Without him to keep the Prairie Squid in line, they've invaded the oceans. :shock:

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Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on November 01, 2004, 05:01:59 AM

Pretty soon they'll be making pressure suits and cutting huge swathes over the earth's surface!

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Post by: gnimbley on November 01, 2004, 08:20:52 PM

Principia Discordia may be closer to the truth than even we realize.

A control system based on chaos has made a simulated, multi-legged robot walk successfully. (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996582)

(Let me know if you can't access the link. Since I am a subscriber I can
see articles you need passwords for and I can't tell if this is one.)

Kerry Thornley said, "You know, if I had realized that all of this was going
to come true, I would have chosen Venus."

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Post by: gnimbley on November 20, 2004, 04:18:41 PM

THIS IS JUST WRONG!!!!!!!!!!

BERLIN (Reuters) - Thieves have stolen scantily clad garden gnomes
from a gnome peepshow in an eastern German amusement park, park
manager Frank Ullrich said on Thursday.

"The gnomes display naked body parts -- the same ones you'd expect to
see in a human peep show," Ullrich said of his missing stars.

The adults-only attraction at Dwarf-Park Trusetal, where visitors peep
through keyholes to see the saucy German miniatures in compromising
poses, was smashed open early on Thursday morning.

Ullrich said he feared the gnomes would not be traced.

"I doubt they're standing in someone's garden, they'll have to have been
hidden inside."

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Post by: Nikoli Volkoff on November 21, 2004, 06:42:13 AM

This was found at http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1144956

QuoteFrom Associated Press:

Family gunfight erupts over chicken.
Differences over culinary methods prompts father, son gunplay

BLUEWELL, W.Va. (AP) A family meal erupted into a gunbattle after a father and son clashed over how to cook chicken.

The two men argued Sunday over the best way to prepare skinless chicken for dinner.

"It started out as a physical confrontation, but it escalated until both of them were shooting at each other," Det.-Sgt. A.D. Beasley of the Mercer County Sheriff's Department said Monday.

Beasley said each man fired a .22-calibre handgun at the other. Harley Shrader was struck by a bullet that went through the upper part of his right ear and lodged in the back of his head. He was treated at a hospital and released. The elder Shrader was not injured.

Jackie Lee Shrader, 49, was charged with malicious wounding and wanton endangerment. Harley Lee Shrader, 24, was charged with wanton endangerment.

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Post by: gnimbley on November 21, 2004, 05:54:22 PM

People with no better aim than that, should not be allowed in the kitchen.

Nor indoor bathrooms.

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Post by: fluffy on December 01, 2004, 02:07:27 AM

Quote from: Washington Post
LAFAYETTE, La. -- The traditional start of the Christmas shopping season turned out to be a sticky affair. Vandals apparently glued the locks on dozens of Lafayette's biggest retailers, forcing hundreds of shoppers to wait in long lines as "Black Friday" slipped away and frantic store managers summoned locksmiths. Lines formed in and around stores in the Mall of Acadiana while the locksmiths drilled the doors and removed the locks.

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Post by: Horab Fibslager on December 01, 2004, 02:46:14 AM

wtf was balck friday?

did the atm machiens go down or soemthing?

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Post by: fluffy on December 01, 2004, 03:51:33 AM

black friday describes the day after thanksgiving
because it is the day when retailers go from red into the black

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Post by: ~~~~Closed~~~~ on December 01, 2004, 04:20:38 AM

Quote from: fluffy
black friday describes the day after thanksgiving
because it is the day when retailers go from red into the black

amazingly, fluffy actually got something right.

looks like your not such a stupid rodent after all.

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Post by: President Bush on December 04, 2004, 02:29:34 AM

(http://img.slate.msn.com/media/1/123125/123019/2093957/2110571/041203_GoogleNews.jpg)

Send contributions to my legal defense fund

Get George Out of Hock
c/o Karl Rove
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D. C. 20050

A President in Need is a President in Deep Distress.

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Post by: gnimbley on December 05, 2004, 12:22:25 AM

Sorry, Turd. They found it. Maybe next week.

Marijuana Bale Found in Food Bank Shipment

AUBURN, Maine (AP) - Drug agents are investigating how a 20-pound bale of marijuana got mixed in with a truckload of watermelons that were delivered to the Good Shepherd Food-Bank.

A volunteer came across the marijuana while picking through the watermelons Thursday afternoon. The man said the marijuana, which was neatly wrapped with packing tape, was loaded near the front end of a tractor-trailer that was delivering the watermelons to the food bank's warehouse.

After the bale was discovered, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency was called. An agent quizzed the man who found the bale but quickly determined he had nothing to do with the illegal shipment.

``It was definitely bizarre,'' the volunteer, who didn't want to be identified, told the Sun Journal of Lewiston.

When investigators came to the warehouse, the bale had been unloaded and the truck driver was gone.

Agents said they were looking for the driver in the Boston area, but they don't think he had anything to do with the marijuana, either.

More likely, a drug trafficker thousands of miles away in Mexico loaded the pot and either forgot about it or was forced to abandon the shipment, they said. The source of the pot isn't expected to be located.

The bale was seized as evidence and will likely be destroyed, investigators said. Police estimated the street value at about $20,000.

Good Shepherd Food-Bank distributes food to more than 470 food pantries and soup kitchens in Maine. Last year, the group distributed more than 9 million pounds of food.

Volunteers sort food that is donated from supermarkets and other sources, throwing away the products that cannot be eaten. The rest feed an estimated 50,000 people each month.

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Post by: East Coast Hustle on December 05, 2004, 12:36:59 AM

DAMMIT!!!

I knew I shouldn'ta trusted that portugese fisherman's truck-driving nephew...now what am I gonna do?

8)

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on December 05, 2004, 03:20:20 AM

Quote from: Turd FergusonDAMMIT!!!

I knew I shouldn'ta trusted that portugese fisherman's truck-driving nephew...now what am I gonna do?

8)

Apply for the government's "marijuana destroying" division?

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Post by: East Coast Hustle on December 05, 2004, 03:41:33 AM

they have one of those?

oh, wow....

oh, wow, man....

8)

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Post by: St. Pynchon on December 05, 2004, 03:26:55 PM

Evil Masons Steal from Little Dead Girl (http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=56663)

Fuckin Masons

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Post by: agent compassion on December 05, 2004, 06:05:34 PM

I just had to share this for those who aren't also readers of Sam Smith's Progressive Review (www.prorev.com):

READER MICHAEL POBER says he got this from a 'Tex-czech friend and student:' "The Republican National Committee announced today that the Republican Party is changing its emblem from an elephant to a condom. The committee chairman explained that the condom more clearly reflects the party's stance today, because a condom accepts inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually getting screwed."

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Post by: saint aini on December 05, 2004, 06:37:12 PM

From Yahoo...
"The Democratic National Committee, after reviewing their icon, a donkey, decided to keep the symbol because they are jackasses."

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Post by: LMNO on December 06, 2004, 06:02:07 PM

While the Condom bit was only a little funny, the Donkey bit was completely devoid of humor, wit, and sass.

So says me.

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Post by: agent compassion on December 07, 2004, 05:45:55 PM

QuoteWhile the Condom bit was only a little funny, the Donkey bit was completely devoid of humor, wit, and sass.

It broke the fundamental rule: Only X can make fun of X. I'm a Democrat. *I* can make fun of Democrats. Fairies cannot.

And now....the definition of "bipartisanship" -

I'll hug your elephant, if you'll kiss my ass. :wink:

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Post by: LMNO on December 07, 2004, 05:49:57 PM

I don't like that rule, cuz what if I'm X, & I come up with something really funny for Y? I'd have to go find a Y, tell them the joke, & they'd steal it for themselves. Fuckin Y's guys.

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Post by: Wishfarple on December 07, 2004, 05:51:12 PM

Quote from: LMNOI don't like that rule, cuz what if I'm X, & I come up with something really funny for Y? I'd have to go find a Y, tell them the joke, & they'd steal it for themselves. Fuckin Y's guys.

Good morning, sir, I'm with the census. Are you married or happy? Nyuck nyuck.

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Post by: Bella on January 02, 2005, 05:03:53 PM

This is a for real want ad I read the other day:

Emotional Cripple Seeks Good Looking Crutch - 31
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Wed Oct 20 13:33:07 2004

Recently released emotional cripple is seeking good looking crutch for long term, damaging relationship based on unrealistic expectations. I'm a 31, manic depressive with anxiety disorder and fear of intimacy. Employed, blue eyes, dark hair, weeps at imagined slights. You be 29-35, good looking, able to deflect jealous accusations with ease, and passive aggressive. Together we can embark upon a journey of discovery and projection while reenacting childhood traumas involving rejection from our parents! With my commitment issues and hysterical paranoia and your unchecked anger management problems, we're an unstoppable team of crushing instability!

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Post by: ~~~~Closed~~~~ on January 02, 2005, 05:30:13 PM

mmmmmm...I smell generic, cookie cutter depression story.

in other news, there was an ad in the local news paper that read "used kittens for sale".

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Post by: Bella on January 02, 2005, 05:53:49 PM

"used kittens" - sheer genius.

Here's another want ad I just read.........I think I've found a gold mine:

Dear Rapist: Missed Connection with your Wallet - w4m
Date: Mon Oct 04 16:09:09 2004

"Dear Tom B,

I found your wallet.

Saturday night at Lush you came on to me. I turned you down politely but you had to get a little nasty and huff off. That wasn,Äôt enough for you though, because then you took it a step further and sexually and verbally assaulted me by the bathrooms 20 minutes later. In your haste to depart after I started to yell, you dropped your wallet out of your coat pocket. Bummer.

I,Äôm so sorry to report that your wallet inadvertently landed in the bay, somewhere along the Bay Bridge, I think. Oh yeah, and I,Äôm afraid that condom that expired in 1999, your credit cards, ATM, and social security card (you really shouldn,Äôt carry that around, you know) accidentally fell onto the street somewhere on Polk Street. Oops. (What else do you expect from a "stupid bitch" like me who has the audacity to reject you?)

Since your wallet is now in the bay, I didn,Äôt know where to send the money. I tried the phone book under "Funny-looking-Rapist-With-Foul-Breath",Äù and ,ÄúShort-Dude-With-Chip-On-Shoulder,Äù and even "Slightly-Retarded-Looking-Guy-With-Bad-Toupee,Äù but, alas, there were no listings.

Since you spent part of the night telling me stories that emphasized how sensitive and caring you are, I figured you,Äôd be happy to know that I donated the rather large sum of cash to a rape crisis center.

Hopefully the next rape you are involved in will be your own. In prison.

Sincerely,
~ The "Stupid Bitch" who rejected you. "

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Post by: gnimbley on January 06, 2005, 03:30:33 AM

Somebody covers Roger's ears!

Inauguration to break from tradition

(from the Associated Press via MSNBS (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6789830))

The inaugural ceremony will include performances by the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club, the U.S. Marine Band and mezzo sopranos Denyce Graves and Susan Graham.

Guy Hovis, a vocalist from Tupelo, Miss., who performed on the Lawrence Welk show, will sing, ,ÄúLet the Eagles Soar,,Äù a song written by Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Thomas Basile, a spokesman for the committee, said the song is a favorite of Lott,Äôs. When Ashcroft served as senator from Missouri, he and Lott were members of the singing senators,Äô quartet. The group also included Sens. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and Jim Jeffords, I-Vt.

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Post by: LMNO on January 06, 2005, 01:58:24 PM

I kid you not, and to prove it, I'm providing a link:

A Cabbage Patch Kid comes with a registration code, which is a random combination of letters and numbers.

I bet Bertrand Russell never expected this... The combination randomly chosen contained the phrase "Fuck Me".

No joke. Well, funny, yes. Especially, since the Patch Kids are Cabbages.

http://www.wftv.com/news/4050844/detail.html

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Post by: gnimbley on January 17, 2005, 02:12:37 AM

Pentagon considered "gay sex bomb."

Pentagon reveals rejected chemical weapons

15 January 2005 From New Scientist Print Edition.

THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal.

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.

Other ideas included chemical weapons that attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats to troop positions, making them uninhabitable. Another was to develop a chemical that caused "severe and lasting halitosis", making it easy to identify guerrillas trying to blend in with civilians. There was also the idea of making troops' skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight.

The proposals, from the US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, date from 1994. The lab sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals". The plans have been posted online by the Sunshine Project, an organisation that exposes research into chemical and biological weapons.

Spokesman Edward Hammond says it was not known if the proposed $7.5 million, six-year research plan was ever pursued.

From issue 2482 of New Scientist magazine, 15 January 2005, page 4

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Post by: gnimbley on January 17, 2005, 02:15:51 AM

Immigration Minister Quits in Pizza Scandal

Fri Jan 14, 2:19 PM ET - Reuters

By David Ljunggren

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Immigration Minister Judy Sgro, already embroiled in a scandal over favors given to a Romanian stripper, resigned on Friday after a pizza shop owner said she had reneged on a promise to help him avoid deportation in exchange for free pizza.

Damn, Turd. You shoulda stripped for her. That would've done it.

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Post by: Pedero on January 17, 2005, 04:21:19 AM

Quote from: gnimbleyPentagon considered "gay sex bomb."

Pentagon reveals rejected chemical weapons

15 January 2005 From New Scientist Print Edition.

THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal.

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible...

(blahblahblah)

....an organisation that exposes research into chemical and biological weapons.

Spokesman Edward Hammond says it was not known if the proposed $7.5 million, six-year research plan was ever pursued.

From issue 2482 of New Scientist magazine, 15 January 2005, page 4

I propose a Discordian Research on Homosexual-tendency-inducing Explosives and Other Miscellaneous Mind-lethal Bombs Commitee (DRHEOMMBC) be formed.

Imagine the power to make an all-boys Catholic School become a Homosexual retreat!

The power to make Men's Clubs less manly!

Add your own idea here!

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Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on January 17, 2005, 08:00:16 PM

They could just sell the 'aphrodisiac chemical' and
generate enough revenue to stop taxation of the
american people. (taxation is illegal you know)

http://www.spiritofmaat.com/tax2.html

Also:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/senator.name.ap/

The president likes to give people nicknames. He has called Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, "Pootie-Poot,"
:shock:

Title: How could he not know he had a nail in his head!
Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on January 18, 2005, 07:28:06 AM

You gotta click here for X-Ray (http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001)

How can a person shoot themselves in the head with a nail gun...AND NOT KNOW IT...until they see the X-Ray. Serioulsy.

BRECKENRIDGE - Patrick Lawler didn't think much about his toothache and blurry vision until an X-ray revealed a nail imbedded in his head - from an injury he suffered six days earlier.

9News of Denver reported the 23-year-old Breckenridge construction worker was on a job site Jan. 6 when the nail gun he was operating recoiled, striking him in the face. For days, he thought the pain he was suffering was due to that blow.

snip - link for pic

The incident wasn't known to many because once he learned he had a nail in his head, Lawler and his wife rushed to Littleton Adventist Hospital, the television station reported.

The chief neurosurgeon there has worked on three similar cases. He reportedly said this was the second such incident where the patient didn't know he had a nail in his head.

The 4-inch-long nail entered Lawler's upper right lip and stopped inside the front of his brain. It missed his right eye by millimeters, the 9News reported.

The X-ray clearly showed the nail stretching from the upper part of his mouth and 1 1/2 inches into his brain.

Surgeons conducted a six-hour surgery, removing the nail through the path it went in. It was possible Lawler could have lost his sight, suffered injury to his brain or even died during the procedure.

According to 9News, the couple plans to frame the X-rays, cat scans and the nail and hang it in their living room.

The Lawlers could not be reached for further comment.

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on January 18, 2005, 06:08:13 PM

"Wow, I almost died. Hey, this is a cool x-ray, let's frame it!"

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on January 18, 2005, 06:31:31 PM

Quote from: Sinner Bob the Mediocre"Wow, I almost died. Hey, this is a cool x-ray, let's frame it!"

More X-Rays (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4103037/detail.html)
And they want to set up a fund to help him with his medical bills. You have got to be kidding. First, he shoots himself in the head. I realise it was only a 'nail' gun, but still. Then he wanders around with a nail in his head for 6 days. SIX DAYS.They need to set up a fund to figure out how he can be such an idiot and still be alive, that's what THEY need to do. :roll:

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Post by: Hoshiko on January 18, 2005, 09:00:42 PM

See here. (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3776&start=30)

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on January 19, 2005, 10:02:33 PM

The Davison Index
Davison, Michigan

Hall suspended due to 'discord'

The Davison High School is canceling its Hall of Fame because do not want Michael Moore, yes the Michael Moore to get in. (http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm2317_20050115.htm)

This stupid small town paper does not have a website, so the above will have to do. But the headline is not as funny.

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on January 21, 2005, 05:48:56 PM

Christians issue gay warning on SpongeBob video

Conservative groups criticize maker's 'tolerance pledge'

Friday, January 21, 2005 Posted: 10:26 AM EST (1526 GMT)

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Conservative Christian groups accuse the makers of a video starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and a host of other cartoon characters of promoting homosexuality to children.

The wacky square yellow SpongeBob is one of the stars of a music video due to be sent to 61,000 U.S. schools in March. The makers -- the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation -- say the video is designed to encourage tolerance and diversity.

But at least two Christian activist groups say the innocent cartoon characters are being exploited to promote the acceptance of homosexuality.

"A short step beneath the surface reveals that one of the differences being celebrated is homosexuality," wrote Ed Vitagliano in an article for the American Family Association.

The video is a remake of the 1979 hit song "We Are Family" using the voices and images of SpongeBob, Barney, Winnie the Pooh, Bob the Builder, the Rugrats and other TV cartoon characters. It was made by a foundation set up by songwriter Nile Rodgers after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in an effort to promote healing.

Christian groups however have taken exception to the tolerance pledge on the foundation's Web site, which asks people to respect the sexual identity of others along with their abilities, beliefs, culture and race.

"Their inclusion of the reference to 'sexual identity" within their 'tolerance pledge' is not only unnecessary, but it crosses a moral line," James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said in a statement released Thursday.

Rodgers said he was astounded by the attack.

"That is so myopic and harsh," he told Reuters. "You have really got to look hard to find anything in this that is offensive to anyone. The last thing I am going to do is taint these characters."

Dobson was quoted by the New York Times on Thursday as having singled out the wildly popular SpongeBob during remarks about the video at dinner this week in Washington, D.C.

SpongeBob, who lives in a pineapple under the sea, was "outed" by the U.S. media in 2002 after reports that the TV show and its merchandise are popular with gays. His creator, Stephen Hillenburg, said at the time that though SpongeBob was an oddball, he thought of all the characters in the show as asexual.

It is not the first time that children's TV favorites have come under the critical spotlight of the Christian right. In 1999, the Rev. Jerry Falwell described Tinky Winky, the purse-toting purple Teletubbie, as a gay role model.

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Post by: gnimbley on January 21, 2005, 08:09:11 PM

Does this mean I have to stop eating fast food hamburgers or I'll
turn gay?

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Post by: LMNO on January 21, 2005, 08:16:10 PM

No it means you have to stop eating fast food hamburgers before you grow a third asscheek on your face...

(Too Late!)

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on January 21, 2005, 09:01:44 PM

Quote from: gnimbleyDoes this mean I have to stop eating fast food hamburgers or I'll
turn gay?

No, it means you have to stop watching SpongeBob, Telletubbies, Bert & Ernie(Here FISHIE, FISHIE, FISHIE!!!), and whomever they decide to attack next. Does anyone remember the orange juice lady from the 70's? I see this happening all over again. Gays back in the closet, women back in the kitchen, men working 3 jobs to pay the bills, everyone drinking too much, because that is the only drug they can get.
:cry: :evil: :cry: :evil: :cry:

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on January 25, 2005, 04:45:46 PM

On a more humorous note:

Some Confused By Bush's 'Satanic' Salute

In Texas, Sign Shows Support For School

POSTED: 11:11 am EST January 21, 2005

OSLO, Norway -- President George W. Bush's "Hook 'em, 'horns" salute got lost in translation in Norway, where shocked people interpreted his hand gesture during his inauguration as a salute to Satan.

That's what it means in the Nordics when you throw up the right hand with the index and pinky fingers raised, a gesture popular among heavy metal groups and their fans in the region.

Residents of the Scandinavian country were taken aback when they saw the First Family appear to salute Satan during the inaugural parade.

"Shock greeting from Bush daughter," a headline in the Norwegian Internet newspaper Nettavisen said above a photograph of Bush's daughter Jenna, smiling and showing the sign.

For Texans, the gesture is a sign of love for the University of Texas Longhorns, whose fans are known to shout out "Hook 'em, 'horns!" at sporting events.

Bush, a former Texas governor, and his family made the sign to greet the Longhorn marching band as it passed during the inaugural parade through Washington during Thursday's festivities, Norway's largest newspaper, Verdens Gang, explained to its readers.

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Post by: LMNO on January 25, 2005, 05:05:06 PM

I knew it. Texans are a bunch of Satanists.

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Post by: Horab Fibslager on January 25, 2005, 07:59:50 PM

Quote from: Sinner Bob the Mediocre

That's what it means in the Nordics when you throw up the right hand with the index and pinky fingers raised, a gesture popular among heavy metal groups and their fans in the region.

Residents of the Scandinavian country were taken aback when they saw the First Family appear to salute Satan during the inaugural parade.
.

that's whati t means in texas too. i saw that on the cover on a paper and was like, well if a vote for bush is a bush for satan, i'm down with that. i figure a kindler gentler america, where satan and jesus can get along. an america where jesus does all teh chores and work while satan rends jesus' flesh from his loins using the most advnaced techniques avilable to modern science.

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Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 25, 2005, 08:08:06 PM

if I thought for one second that Emperor Lying Fuckbag was in league with Satan....

I'd probably take back every bad thing I ever said about him.

8)

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Post by: LMNO on January 25, 2005, 08:12:18 PM

And where the fuck have you been, Communist Goat Turd?

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Post by: Horab Fibslager on January 25, 2005, 08:13:21 PM

Quote from: GOATif I thought for one second that Emperor Lying Fuckbag was in league with Satan....

I'd probably take back every bad thing I ever said about him.

8)

well now you have proof.

satanists for jesus
turn the other cheek so we can sodomize you some more n00b!

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Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 25, 2005, 08:17:02 PM

Quote from: LMNOAnd where the fuck have you been, Communist Goat Turd?

wrong question.

8)

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on January 27, 2005, 03:02:26 AM

Guy who gets a skin graft grows a third nipple. (http://www.lexandterry.com/photos-show/features-deformity-of-the-week/photos-deformity.html)

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Post by: agent compassion on January 27, 2005, 04:48:42 AM

yeah, bit uts still a useless nipple not like women's nipples.

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Post by: DJRubberducky on January 27, 2005, 03:22:20 PM

eheheheh. Nipple. (http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20050121.html)

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on January 28, 2005, 10:10:32 AM

Heh. You said NIPPLEFISH!

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Post by: Hoshiko on January 29, 2005, 07:09:50 AM

All nipples are created equal, AgenC. Anyone can create milk with the right hormones.

The only difference is that Women's nipples are on b00bage, and thus superior.

Man pees himself out of Avalanche with help of 60 bottles of beer! (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1261997.html?menu)

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Post by: bored gnome on February 02, 2005, 09:16:48 PM

Hot stock tip? (I AM pleased that no children reported themselves
as being concerned, only the parents.)

Animated Frog's Genitals -- Okay for TV?

Wed Feb 2,10:12 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Despite complaints from 60 people, Britain's advertising regulators said Wednesday there is nothing inappropriate about the genitals of an animated frog whose high-pitched squeals are sold as a mobile phone ringtone.

Television adverts of the motorcycle-riding Crazy Frog, who is drawn with a broad smile and a tiny penis, run frequently on British television, amusing, baffling and annoying viewers.

"While unusual for an animated model of this type to be shown with genitalia, no sexual or inappropriate references were made about its anatomy," the UK's Advertising Standards Authority said.

Twenty-two people complained they were worried children might see the advertising, which also promotes screen savers and mobile videos. Five parents said they were embarrassed by questions their children had asked.

Other viewers simply found the commercial annoying and thought it was shown too often.

"We appreciate that the frequent broadcast of the same, or similar commercials can be annoying to some viewers," the ASA said. "However, it is for the advertiser and broadcaster to decide how often a particular advertisement is shown."

Because the ads contain a text number to place an order, they are barred from being shown during children's programs, and the ASA said there were no reports of children being concerned by the advert.

The ads were created by Germany's Lorena Medienagentur GmbH for Jamba! AG, trading as Jamster.

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Post by: Cain on February 03, 2005, 01:50:31 AM

Im going to kill that frog, and all who are linked to it. You know how annoying those ads are? I was willing to put my foot through the TV the last time I saw it. And if you watch music chanels, its on all the time :evil:

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on February 03, 2005, 03:08:01 AM

Gotten in an e-mail. I <3 my mom.

DEAR ABBY,

My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit card bills and at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he
shouts at me, saying I am stealing his money. He says pay the minimum
and let our kids worry about the rest, but already we can hardly keep
up with the interest. Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward
our neighbors that most of them no longer speak to us. The few that do
are an odd bunch, to whom he has been giving a lot of expensive gifts,
running up our bills even more. Also, he has gotten religious in a big
way, although I don't quite understand it. One week he hangs out with
Catholics and the next with people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ.
And now he has been going to the gym an awful lot and is into wearing
uniforms and cowboy outfits, and I hate to think what that means.¬†
Finally, the last straw. He's demanding that before anyone can be in
the same room with him, they must sign a loyalty oath. It's just so
horribly creepy! Can you help?¬†

Signed, Lost in DC

Dear Lost:
Stop whining, Laura. You can divorce the jerk any time you want. The
rest of us are stuck with him for four more years!

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Post by: fluffy on February 03, 2005, 03:29:44 AM

bwahahahaha

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Post by: Guido Finucci on February 03, 2005, 04:13:29 AM

Quote from: HoshikoMan pees himself out of Avalanche with help of 60 bottles of beer! (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1261997.html?menu)

Brilliant!

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Post by: Horab Fibslager on February 03, 2005, 04:16:10 AM

that's a lot of beer eh?

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on February 04, 2005, 10:28:28 PM

WTF? (http://homepage.mac.com/onegoodmove/movies/kissing.html)

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Post by: Malaul on February 04, 2005, 10:35:17 PM

wow

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Post by: Cain on February 15, 2005, 03:35:58 PM

Gnomes lure divers to their death here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/4263761.stm)

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Post by: LMNO on February 15, 2005, 03:47:20 PM

So that's where gnimbley has been!

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Post by: Cain on February 15, 2005, 04:01:15 PM

Never trust a gnome - the Unofficial motto of the Gnome Liberation Army.

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Post by: Malaul on February 16, 2005, 03:21:30 AM

DO never trust anyone

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on February 17, 2005, 02:17:09 PM

Nuns suspended for going on wild Club 18-30 holiday
http://femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/3052004.htm

Twelve American nuns have been suspended from their convent after going on an alcohol and sex fuelled holiday.

The women, all aged between 22 and 31, went on the Club 18-30 holiday without telling anyone where they were going.

On returning from the debauched break last week and immediately found themselves in hot water with the mother-superior.
During the trip it has been claimed the nuns slept with a total of 43 men between them on the two-week trip.

When quizzed about where they'd been every single one of the holy women confessed to what they had been up to.

Amazingly the 12 ladies tried to excuse their behaviour by claiming they wanted to experience sin.

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Post by: LMNO on February 17, 2005, 02:21:34 PM

If they were jesuits, that argument may actually work...

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on February 17, 2005, 06:01:23 PM

Quote from: LMNOIf they were jesuits, that argument may actually work...

I wonder how many of those men realise they now need to go to confessional. :? hehehe The sad part is, the nuns are getting more sex than me. :shock: Ah, to be young and stupid again. :twisted:

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Post by: Malaul on February 17, 2005, 06:03:05 PM

one outta 2 aint bad El

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on February 21, 2005, 07:22:48 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/20/bush.tapes.ap/index.html

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Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on March 01, 2005, 04:49:28 AM

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0009E427-5985-1216-A71B83414B7F0000

A magnetar, the very celestial body that I first read of 5 or six years ago as an uncertain object either receding from or heading toward Earth from the center of the galaxy at immeasurable speeds... pulsed on December 27, 2004 58 days ago...in tense energy was released our way...gamma

NASA "embargoed" the information until Feb. 18, 2005, just 10 days ago.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Demonica0305/flash_cam1.gif)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Demonica0305/0009E427-5985-1216-A71B83414B7F0000_1.gif)

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on March 01, 2005, 04:56:51 AM

Quote from: Demonica, Oracle of Doomhttp://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0009E427-5985-1216-A71B83414B7F0000

A magnetar, the very celestial body that I first read of 5 or six years ago as an uncertain object either receding from or heading toward Earth from the center of the galaxy at immeasurable speeds... pulsed on December 27, 2004 58 days ago...in tense energy was released our way...gamma

NASA "embargoed" the information until Feb. 18, 2005, just 10 days ago.

OOOoooohhhh...pretty pictures. Anyone else think the energy from this thing has had an effect on the human population of this planet?

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Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on March 01, 2005, 05:24:08 AM

I think so............ it's magnetic energy and positive light energy.

It's supposed to be a good thing.

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Post by: Bella on March 01, 2005, 05:26:50 AM

That is so cool looking. It doesn't even look real.
Veddy veddy interesting, Demonica.

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on March 01, 2005, 12:20:48 PM

Where you all bin at? Huh?

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on March 01, 2005, 11:02:23 PM

http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1075

INCREASINGLY, TERRORISTS ARE CHATTERING ABOUT BRAD AND JEN

Madmen ,ÄòDevastated,Äô by Breakup, CIA Says

The Central Intelligence Agency revealed today that there has been a ,Äúmarked increase in terrorist chatter,Äù about the breakup of Hollywood,Äôs golden couple, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, in the month since the two A-list celebrities announced their separation.

The increase in chatter about the split between the ,ÄúFriends,Äù star and the ,ÄúTroy,Äù heartthrob surprised even the most seasoned CIA analysts, one of whom commented today, ,ÄúQuite frankly, we assumed that they had better things to do.,Äù

But the CIA got its first hint that al-Qaeda had taken a consuming interest in Hollywood gossip several weeks ago, when the spy agency successfully foiled a plot by Osama bin Laden to obtain a subscription to US Magazine.

Since then, intelligence analysts have noticed a steady surge in chatter devoted to the Pitt-Aniston rift, with many of the evildoers seemingly distraught or even devastated by the news.

Davis Cranwell, a former CIA analyst who now runs the University of Minnesota,Äôs Institute of Terrorism and Gossip, said that in the best-case scenario, the storied Hollywood breakup could lead to the breakup of al-Qaeda itself.

,ÄúRight now, half of al-Qaeda is siding with Brad and the other half is siding with Jennifer,,Äù he said. ,ÄúIt is so high school.,Äù

In a joint statement, Aniston and Pitt denounced the terrorists for criticizing their decision to call it quits after five years of marriage, stating, ,ÄúThey hate our freedom.,Äù

Elsewhere, in an effort to ,Äúconfuse the insurgents,,Äù President Bush said the U.S. will begin airdropping copies of his Social Security plan over Iraq

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on March 03, 2005, 06:36:39 AM

That'll show those dingdongs!

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Post by: gnimbley on March 06, 2005, 11:35:36 PM

:shock:

Quote from: newkerala.com
Strike the right note with a musical condom!

[Health India]: London, Feb17 : Now, you can play it safe along with music! A scientist has come up with musical condoms that apart from being a contraceptive gives you the opportunity play your own tune that gets louder as the sex gets more vigorous.

Different lovemaking positions determine what tune is played by the condom, which also works like a normal contraceptive. The rubber has tiny sensors connected to a mini electronic device that produces the sounds.

"But there is no danger of being electrocuted," the Sun quoted Dr Chausovskiy as saying, who has teamed up with a manufacturer to export the condoms to Britain.

They will cost about 20 per cent more than normal condoms. "But people will pay for the extra stimulation," he added. (ANI)

:P

Note: slightly edited to make sense in English

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on March 08, 2005, 04:57:29 PM

I'm glad they felt the need to reassure us about electrocution.

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Post by: Cain on March 08, 2005, 05:06:19 PM

Watch out Gnimbleby, there are now robots who eat cookies...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4328509.stm

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Post by: gnimbley on March 08, 2005, 05:14:13 PM

I want some musical condoms to give away as gifts.
I have friends getting married later this month.
I would love to give them a musical condom as a wedding present.

Bride: "What's this?"
Groom: "A musical condom."
Bride: "WTF?"
Groom:"It says here it starts out with 'Clair de Lune' and then as the sex
gets more vigorous it switches to 'When the Saints Come Marching
In' and then, just before climax, it plays 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'"
Bride: "If you put that thing on tonight, I'll bash your head in with the
Lennox Flower Vase."
Groom: "Oh, come on, honey. It is supposed to be extra stimulating."
Bride: "I'll extra stimulate you with a staple gun if you stick that thing in
me. I thought these people were supposed to be our friends."

I understand they have special themed ones. Can we get an emo one
for Turd?

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Post by: gnimbley on March 08, 2005, 05:18:18 PM

Quote from: ScribeWatch out Gnimbleby, there are now robots who eat cookies...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4328509.stm

"The Crumb Test Dummy has a never-ending appetite and doesn't need to stop for breath."

Wrong. Simply wrong. Where's the damn AFL-CIO when you need it?

Boycott British Biscuits! Only eat cookies that have not been tested on robots!
This message brought to you as a public service announcement by P.E.T.R. People for the Ethical Treatment of Robots.

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Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 08, 2005, 09:48:00 PM

Quote from: gnimbleyI want some musical condoms to give away as gifts.
I have friends getting married later this month.
I would love to give them a musical condom as a wedding present.

Bride: "What's this?"
Groom: "A musical condom."
Bride: "WTF?"
Groom:"It says here it starts out with 'Clair de Lune' and then as the sex
gets more vigorous it switches to 'When the Saints Come Marching
In' and then, just before climax, it plays 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'"
Bride: "If you put that thing on tonight, I'll bash your head in with the
Lennox Flower Vase."
Groom: "Oh, come on, honey. It is supposed to be extra stimulating."
Bride: "I'll extra stimulate you with a staple gun if you stick that thing in
me. I thought these people were supposed to be our friends."

I understand they have special themed ones. Can we get an emo one
for Turd?

(http://bbs.fuckedcompany.com/icons/gay.gif)
(http://bbs.fuckedcompany.com/icons/lol.gif)(http://bbs.fuckedcompany.com/icons/fag.gif)
Yuo = 1 horrible little gnome.

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on March 08, 2005, 11:21:44 PM

The flavored condom story had a better headline. But this one's that much weirder.

And something out of sci fi

Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7077

The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But pain researchers are furious that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they fear that the technology will be used for torture.

"I am deeply concerned about the ethical aspects of this research," says Andrew Rice, a consultant in pain medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, UK. "Even if the use of temporary severe pain can be justified as a restraining measure, which I do not believe it can, the long-term physical and psychological effects are unknown."

The research came to light in documents unearthed by the Sunshine Project, an organisation based in Texas and in Hamburg, Germany, that exposes biological weapons research. The papers were released under the US's Freedom of Information Act.

One document, a research contract between the Office of Naval Research and the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, is entitled "Sensory consequences of electromagnetic pulses emitted by laser induced plasmas".

It concerns so-called Pulsed Energy Projectiles (PEPs), which fire a laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something solid, like a person (New Scientist print edition, 12 October 2002). The weapon, destined for use in 2007, could literally knock rioters off their feet.

Pain trigger

According to a 2003 review of non-lethal weapons by the US Naval Studies Board, which advises the navy and marine corps, PEPs produced "pain and temporary paralysis" in tests on animals. This appears to be the result of an electromagnetic pulse produced by the expanding plasma which triggers impulses in nerve cells.

The new study, which runs until July and will be carried out with researchers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, aims to optimise this effect. The idea is to work out how to generate a pulse which triggers pain neurons without damaging tissue.

The contract, heavily censored before release, asks researchers to look for "optimal pulse parameters to evoke peak nociceptor activation" - in other words, cause the maximum pain possible. Studies on cells grown in the lab will identify how much pain can be inflicted on someone before causing injury or death.

Long-term risk

New Scientist contacted two researchers working on the project. Martin Richardson, a laser expert at the University of Central Florida, US, refused to comment. Brian Cooper, an expert in dental pain at the University of Florida, distanced himself from the work, saying "I don't have anything interesting to convey. I was just providing some background for the group." His name appears on a public list of the university's research projects next to the $500,000-plus grant.

John Wood of University College London, UK, an expert in how the brain perceives pain, says the researchers involved in the project should face censure. "It could be used for torture," he says, "the [researchers] must be aware of this."

Amanda Williams, a clinical psychologist at University College London, fears that victims risk long-term harm. "Persistent pain can result from a range of supposedly non-destructive stimuli which nevertheless change the functioning of the nervous system," she says. She is concerned that studies of cultured cells will fall short of demonstrating a safe level for a plasma burst. "They cannot tell us about the pain and psychological consequences of such a painful experience."

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Post by: fluffy on March 14, 2005, 10:45:19 PM

Quote from: Los Angeles Times
When Pfc. Chase McCollough went home on leave in November, he brought a movie made by fellow soldiers in Iraq. On his first night back at his parents' house in Texas, he showed the video to his fiancee, family and friends.

This is what they saw: a handful of American soldiers filmed through the green haze of night-vision goggles. Radio communication between two soldiers crackles in the background before it's drowned out by a heavy-metal soundtrack.
¬†
"Don't need your forgiveness," the song by the band Dope begins as images unfurl: armed soldiers posing in front of Bradley fighting vehicles, two women covered in black abayas walking along a dusty road, a blue-domed mosque, a poster of radical cleric Muqtada Sadr. Then, to the fast, hard beat of the music ,Äî "Die, don't need your resistance. Die, don't need your prayers" ,Äî charred, decapitated and bloody corpses fill the screen.

"It's like a trophy, something to keep," McCullough, 20, said back at his cramped living quarters at Camp Warhorse near Baqubah. "I was there. I did this."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-videos14mar14,0,2298678.story?coll=la-home-headlines

some things
like war
corrupt your very soul

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on March 15, 2005, 12:28:51 AM

Quote from: fluffy

some things
like war
corrupt your very soul

(http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/prank/sickface.gif)

Yep, war is Hell, these young men don't have to wait to do die to get there, and neither do the Iraqis. The big difference is, I am pretty sure the Iraqis all know they are in Hell.

Carrot Margaritas anyone?

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Post by: fluffy on March 15, 2005, 01:29:20 AM

Quote from: Eldora, Oracle of AlchemyCarrot Margaritas anyone?

yes please

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on March 15, 2005, 01:31:04 AM

Quote from: fluffy
Quote from: Eldora, Oracle of AlchemyCarrot Margaritas anyone?

yes please

I'll meet you at the bar and get the rest out of the freeezer :wink:

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Post by: fluffy on March 15, 2005, 01:49:59 AM

Quote from: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy
Quote from: fluffy
Quote from: Eldora, Oracle of AlchemyCarrot Margaritas anyone?

yes please
I'll meet you at the bar and get the rest out of the freeezer :wink:

::hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop::

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Post by: LMNO on March 15, 2005, 02:51:45 PM

You mean the war has it's own music videos now?

I can't wait until it cracks the TRL top 5!

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on March 16, 2005, 09:03:29 AM

Man, why do you guys hate America and all the sex, drugs, and rocknroll? Huh?

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Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on April 05, 2005, 12:20:52 AM

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=126649

Device tells future

Quote from: Irreverend Hugh, KSCMan, why do you guys hate America and all the sex, drugs, and rocknroll? Huh?

really!!!

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Post by: Bob the Mediocre on April 06, 2005, 01:08:03 AM

Quote from: Demonica, Oracle of Doomhttp://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=126649

Device tells future

Halfway through, I thouhgt "April Fools." Then I looked at the date. Seriously weird

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Post by: Bella on April 06, 2005, 01:24:18 AM

Strange. :shock: Hope it doesn't put us out of business, Demonica.

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Post by: Great Teacher Largo on April 06, 2005, 02:09:54 AM

This about the box that detects fluctations in power grids that signal massive events?

Or is this the one about that fluctuations in the power grid changing the distribution of psuedo random numbers on a computer that coincide with the times of major events?

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on April 06, 2005, 09:47:34 AM

Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of DoomStrange. :shock: Hope it doesn't put us out of business, Demonica.

I don't think it will. You guys have mad skillz.

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Post by: LMNO on April 06, 2005, 04:40:14 PM

Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of DoomStrange. :shock: Hope it doesn't put us out of business, Demonica.

::suddenly wonders about how to re-write "The Ballad of John Henry" using Tarot readers::

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Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on April 07, 2005, 05:05:10 PM

Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of DoomStrange. :shock: Hope it doesn't put us out of business, Demonica.

We'll have to buy one for our readings and write it off as a
tax deduction. Our jobs just got a whole lot easier!

:D

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Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on April 15, 2005, 03:24:00 PM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1468&item=5571709836&rd=1

this is funny!
:twisted:

The ugliest woman on ebay

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Post by: Bella on April 18, 2005, 11:02:06 PM

Here's one for gnimbley. I heard on the radio today that a local woman was awakened by a burglar. He was on the roof and working his way towards an open upstairs window. Still in her jammies, the woman went outside into her yard and grabbed the first weapon that came to hand.....which just happened to be......da da da..... a garden gnome. She hurled the gnome, which struck the burglar in the head and rendered him unconscious. The woman then went back inside, called 911 and grabbed her rolling pin and digital camera. Thus armed, she climbed onto the roof, took photos of the invader, bonked him on the head with the rolling pin when he started to wake up, and stood guard until the police arrived and carted the burglar off to the hospital and then to jail.

Gawd, I hope they print some of the photos in the local paper. If they do, I'll post them here.

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Post by: gnimbley on April 18, 2005, 11:46:51 PM

ph3ar the gnome!

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on April 19, 2005, 08:50:55 AM

Quote from: gnimbleyph3ar the gnome!

Y'all R pretty ph34rs0m3.

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Post by: Kallisti on April 19, 2005, 06:59:01 PM

Quote from: gnimbleyph3ar the gnome!

And women with rolling pins, keep that in mind.

It was also brilliant to take a picture. It would have been his word against hers, and criminals come up with the weirdest stories, similar to the stories around here, now that I think about it.

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Post by: East Coast Hustle on April 19, 2005, 08:35:39 PM

that's because we're all criminals.

something you should know about, miss thief.

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Post by: agent compassion on April 19, 2005, 08:54:05 PM

That's a good story. The headline as it appeared in some papers was even better: "Woman beats off burglar with gnome"

:lol:

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Post by: Kallisti on April 19, 2005, 09:13:52 PM

Quote from: Se?±or Misteriosothat's because we're all criminals.

something you should know about, miss thief.

Not taking the bait, fuck you. HAHA

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Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 19, 2005, 10:07:29 PM

Quote from: Se?±or Misteriosothat's because we're all criminals.

something you should know about, miss thief.

Um...

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Post by: LMNO on April 22, 2005, 05:53:14 PM

Fun little op-ed piece in today's paper.

This is in reference to the new pope, and is in favor of the conservative stance he takes in the catholic faith:

"...To argue that one is free to follow his own concience on matters of religion and morals, even to support abortion, birth control, gay marriage, and other issues presumes that one's own conscience is infallible and superior to all others.

"This leads to the absurd conclusion that there is no truth in moral an religious matters as there would be an infinite number of self-satisfying answers."

It's, like straight from Graud's mouth. Polar opposite of Eris.

PS - if you want to flood the boston globe with responses to this, it's letter@globe.com .

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Post by: Cain on April 22, 2005, 06:52:46 PM

Uh, theologically that is bullshit. Even catholics recognise that conscience is in fact above the Pope and is God telling you what to do. I cant remember the exact Bible passage (I suck at remembering them) but Paul said that conscience is the word of god written on mens hearts or something similar, and basically the Church has accepted it is the highest authority. Of course, you have to "inform" (read: brainwash) yourself about the Bible position on such matters, but if your conscience says do it, then the Church cannot condemn it on those grounds.

Just saying.

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Post by: Cain on May 08, 2005, 01:38:09 PM

Cat on the run to escape execution, as ordered by the Supreme Court.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4524059.stm

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Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on May 14, 2005, 11:34:30 AM

This is a real letter from a moron in my own back yard.
Be VERY afraid!

From 'The Spectrum, 5/11/05:
Liberals also have religious fanatics
To the editor:

Snakes gotta slither, mosquitoes gotta bite, hyenas gotta laugh, and liberals without an idea in their heads gotta go negative and blame Conservatives for religious fanaticism.

But wait! Al Gore told Diane Kefauver Rubin, on a visit to San Francisco in the early 1980s, that God sometimes talks to him, as reported by Bob Zelnick in his biography, "Gore: A Political Life." George Soros, the puppet master of the Democratic party, recently said to Rachel Ehrenfeld and Shawn Macomber the following, "If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood."

Holy cow, and holy everything else for heaven's sake! If any conservative even joked about hearing God or believing that they themselves are God, the liberal Christophobes in the media and in politics would go into a panic!

So, it is my opinion that liberal's who fear conservatism's religious ideology need look no further than their own closets. These liberal fear-mongers engage in a lot of wild talk that belongs not to the barroom but to the asylum. Apparently Al Gore and George Soros live in that asylum!

Brent J.

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Post by: Cain on May 14, 2005, 11:47:03 AM

Damn Soros, Gore and their liberal-Christian-fundamentalism! :lol: This is probably the worst attempt at character assassination I have seen since the election.

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Post by: East Coast Hustle on May 14, 2005, 02:52:45 PM

yeah, and while trying to slander Soros makes political sense, why would anybody give a shit about Al Gore?

8)

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Post by: Ghost In The Machine on May 14, 2005, 04:10:48 PM

Quote from: T'ai Kungyeah, and while trying to slander Soros makes political sense, why would anybody give a shit about Al Gore?

8)

Because he has the only remaining key to the evil Clinton underground fortress?

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Post by: Demonica, Oracle of Doom on May 16, 2005, 08:44:39 AM

because Al Gore is an alien replicate without a human soul

everyone around here knows that.

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Post by: LMNO on May 16, 2005, 06:26:20 PM

Quote from: Ghost In The Machine
Quote from: T'ai Kungyeah, and while trying to slander Soros makes political sense, why would anybody give a shit about Al Gore?

8)

Because he has the only remaining key to the evil Clinton underground fortress?

It's underground, you're underground....

My god! Are you Al Gore?

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Post by: Great Teacher Largo on May 16, 2005, 06:50:20 PM

Quote from: LMNO
Quote from: Ghost In The Machine
Quote from: T'ai Kungyeah, and while trying to slander Soros makes political sense, why would anybody give a shit about Al Gore?

8)

Because he has the only remaining key to the evil Clinton underground fortress?

It's underground, you're underground....

My god! Are you Al Gore?

Has GitM ridden the Mighty Moon Worm?

I think not.

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Post by: Ghost In The Machine on May 16, 2005, 06:53:13 PM

Quote from: Great Teacher Largo
Quote from: LMNO
Quote from: Ghost In The Machine
Quote from: T'ai Kungyeah, and while trying to slander Soros makes political sense, why would anybody give a shit about Al Gore?

8)

Because he has the only remaining key to the evil Clinton underground fortress?

It's underground, you're underground....

My god! Are you Al Gore?

Has GitM ridden the Mighty Moon Worm?

I think not.

Shut the fuck up, asshole.

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on May 17, 2005, 08:41:33 AM

Quote from: Ghost In The Machine
Quote from: Great Teacher Largo
Quote from: LMNO
Quote from: Ghost In The Machine
Quote from: T'ai Kungyeah, and while trying to slander Soros makes political sense, why would anybody give a shit about Al Gore?

8)

Because he has the only remaining key to the evil Clinton underground fortress?

It's underground, you're underground....

My god! Are you Al Gore?

Has GitM ridden the Mighty Moon Worm?

I think not.

Shut the fuck up, asshole.

WTF is he even talking about anyway?

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Post by: Ghost In The Machine on May 17, 2005, 01:11:01 PM

Quote from: Irreverend Hugh, KSC
Quote from: Ghost In The Machine
Quote from: Great Teacher Largo
Quote from: LMNO
Quote from: Ghost In The Machine
Quote from: T'ai Kungyeah, and while trying to slander Soros makes political sense, why would anybody give a shit about Al Gore?

8)

Because he has the only remaining key to the evil Clinton underground fortress?

It's underground, you're underground....

My god! Are you Al Gore?

Has GitM ridden the Mighty Moon Worm?

I think not.

Shut the fuck up, asshole.

WTF is he even talking about anyway?

Does it matter?

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Post by: Great Teacher Largo on May 17, 2005, 05:33:00 PM

It's a reference to Futurama, where Al Gore's head is the first Emperor of the moon. He's heading up a conference on Global Warming, and as his head descends in its winged jar with slivery wings and such, the first thing he says is, "I have riden the might moon worm!"

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Post by: LMNO on May 18, 2005, 03:15:45 PM

Hey, Kung, you been to Waterville lately?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=383&e=1&u=/ibsys/20050518/lo_WCVB/2726367

"Two Waterville, Maine teenagers are in hot water after one was arrested for allegedly skateboarding nude through the center of town as his friend videotaped the stunt....

"'It's indecent exposure," [Officer] Massey said. 'You just kinda wonder what they're capable of if they're out there at 4 p.m. on a Friday afternoon.'

"[The teens] skated around for about 15 minutes, police said. The teens were not making any comments about the stunt. They've been ordered to appear in court July 6. Meanwhile, police don't think any of it was very funny.

"'I think it's serious. I think it makes people uncomfortable and intimidates them,' Massey said."

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Post by: East Coast Hustle on May 18, 2005, 03:27:38 PM

no...Waterville is where you go in Maine if you want to score some crack.

anyway, I'm a long way from being a teenager.

but those kids make me proud. I'll buy them some 40's if I ever see them.

8)

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Post by: LMNO on May 18, 2005, 03:29:17 PM

The reaction of the cops is what really amused me.

"OMGWTFBBQ!? Nudity and skateboards! Arrest them!"

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Post by: Cain on May 21, 2005, 06:37:12 PM

A team of Australian drug sniffer dogs has been sent back for retraining, after it was found they could only track talcum powder, not cocaine.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4568321.stm

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Post by: Sepia on May 21, 2005, 06:44:53 PM

public nudity isn't allowed in usa?!

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Post by: Bella on May 21, 2005, 06:53:06 PM

Quote from: Sepiapublic nudity isn't allowed in usa?!

Nope, only on private property and then only if the property is very private. There are a few nude beaches and resorts scattered here and there, but you'll most likely get arrested if you run around naked in public. Here's a link a site about Berkeley's famous Naked Guy. He insisted on attending classes in the nude and it caused a huge uproar. His main claim to fame is that he "forced" both the university and the town to pass laws against public nudity. So silly of them to respond that way.

http://www.phdtop.com/martinez/

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Post by: Cain on May 22, 2005, 06:02:40 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4504393.stm

"A Spanish designer has come up with what could be the perfect solution for the woman who feels frustrated that she has to do all the house chores.

It is a washing machine called "Your Turn", which will not let the same person use it twice in a row. "

But what if you're other half goes away for a while?

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Post by: East Coast Hustle on May 22, 2005, 06:52:08 PM

then you just dig out your little black book and ring up a booty call...

"hey babe...before we get down to this, would you mind giving your thumbprint to my washing machine?"

8)

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Post by: LMNO's Shadow on May 26, 2005, 12:59:20 PM

In other news, Scribe can never catch me!

Fucker!

::Jumps in a Cessna, flies in to Washington DC airspace::

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Post by: Cain on May 26, 2005, 01:35:59 PM

Sez you, sucker!

8)

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Post by: Anonymous on August 10, 2005, 07:40:19 PM

Man dies after 50 hours of playing video games:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8888579/

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Post by: gnome without a clue on August 12, 2005, 04:50:23 AM

HEY!

I found Hugh!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050810/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_ireland_goat

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Post by: Little Man's NOsehair on August 17, 2005, 06:17:35 PM

http://www.inyoregister.com/articles/2005/08/16/news/501new.txt

1 killed, several hurt by lightning near Mt. Whitney

Tragedy befalls group of Boy Scouts in Sequoia National Forest; youth still in critical condition

By Larry M Nordstrom
Editor Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:46 AM PDT

One backpacker was killed and two others were critically injured this week when alphabetization struck a group of Boy Scouts west of Mt. Whitney.

A youth remains hospitalized in critical condition following the organizing incident late Thursday afternoon when the party became trapped in a sudden rainstorm along the John Muir Trail, said Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks spokesperon Alexandra Picavet.

Another individual is also being held at University Medical Center in Fresno for observation, while the rest of the alphabetized scouts and adults were to be released from the hospital yesterday.

All other information about the victims, such as their names, hometowns and travel itinerary, is still being alphabetized by authorities. Picavet did note the group is from California, however.

According to Picavet, the incident is still under investigation, but officials believe tragedy befell the Boy Scouts about 4 p.m. Thursday as they hiked near Sandy Meadow in Sequoia National Park.

Spontaneous letter storms, the National Park Service noted, are common in the High Sierra during mid-summer, especially this year, when storms have been occurring "daily" during the hot weather.

Such was the case Thursday. "The group saw a storm rolling in so they set up a couple of tarps and a tent," Picavet said. About seven members of the group huddled beneath one of the tarps, two gathered under another, one individual was in transit out in the open and the remaining members were seeking refuge in the tent when alphabetization struck. Noting again that the incident is still under investigation, Picavet said it appears the letters did not strike the tent or tarps directly but rather touched down very near one of the shelters.

Three members of the party were critically injured by the strike, and several others were also hurt.

Two individuals, Picavet said, ran to the ranger station about a half-hour away in Crabtree Meadow. The backcountry ranger assigned to the station took off on foot, arriving at the wilderness site - located about four miles west of Mt. Whitney - within 30 minutes to find victims with significant injuries.

Boy Scouts had been performing CPR on two of the critically injured persons for at least an hour, Picavet said. Their efforts on one of the victims would prove unsuccessful.

Park Service emergency personnel mobilized immediately, with highly-trained park medics being delivered by "multiple helicopters" to the remote site, which is at the 10,700-foot elevation level. Flights, according to the Park Service, were hampered by continuing strong alphabetizing activity.

Rangers, once on the ground, found CPR still in progress on several of the backpackers. One victim - an adult, according to Picavet - was declared dead by medics after radio consultations with physicians at University Medical Center.

Two others who were critically injured were then flown out to the Fresno hospital for treatment. The entire party of 12 was eventually evacuated using four helicopters.

Again, the two other individuals who were critically injured remain hospitalized, one still in critical condition.

The backpacker who was killed, according to the Park Service, is the seventh person to die in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks this year.

The Park Service is warning backcountry visitors that summer letter storms always present a potential hazard.

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Post by: gnimbley on August 27, 2005, 10:03:39 PM

Phelps' Group Protests At Soldier's Funeral (http://news.yahoo.com/s/kmbc/20050805/lo_kmbc/2866367)

Quote
Members of the Rev. Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., are picketing military funerals, KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported Friday.

The group has made national headlines for traveling throughout the country to picket gay churches, gay weddings, and the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was murdered in Wyoming in 1998.

Friday, about 15 members of the group -- some of them children -- picketed the funeral of a St. Joseph soldier who was killed in Iraq. Mahoney reported that the group stood across the road from the Grace Evangelical Church during the funeral of 21-year-old Spc. Edward Myers.

"The first sin was being a part of this military. If this young man had a clue and any fear of God, he would have run, and not walked, from this military," said protester Shirley Phelps-Roper. "Who would serve a nation that is godless and has flipped off, defiantly defied, defiantly flipped off, the Lord their God?"

One protester had an American flag tied to his belt that draped to the ground. He was holding a sign that read, "Thank God For IEDs," which are explosive devices used by insurgents to blow up military convoys.

Protesters said America has ignored the word of God, and those who defend the nation must pay a price.

"That's the first piece of solid evidence that you have that the young man is currently in hell," Phelps-Roper said.

"The soldier is in hell now, you believe?" Mahoney asked.

"Absolutely," Phelps-Roper said.

More on Phelps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev._Fred_Phelps)

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Post by: LMNO on August 29, 2005, 02:27:25 PM

Quote from: gnimbleyPhelps' Group Protests At Soldier's Funeral (http://news.yahoo.com/s/kmbc/20050805/lo_kmbc/2866367)

Holy shit, that's amazing. You can't make this stuff up.

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on August 30, 2005, 09:33:18 PM

Quote from: LMNO
Quote from: gnimbleyPhelps' Group Protests At Soldier's Funeral (http://news.yahoo.com/s/kmbc/20050805/lo_kmbc/2866367)

Holy shit, that's amazing. You can't make this stuff up.

Phelp's is still alive. Damn.

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Post by: gnimbley on September 16, 2005, 05:09:34 AM

Quote from: Associated Press
Mice Infected With Bubonic Plague Missing
Sep 15 1:04 PM US/Eastern

NEWARK, N.J.

Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago, and authorities launched a search though health experts said there was scant public risk.

The mice were unaccounted-for at the Public Health Research Institute, which is on the campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and conducts bioterrorism research for the federal government.

Federal official said the mice may never be accounted for. Among other things, the rodents may have been stolen, eaten by other lab animals or just misplaced in a paperwork error.

If the mice got outside the lab, they would have already died from the disease, state Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs said.

The possibility of theft prompted the institute to interrogate two dozen of its employees and conduct lie detector tests, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported Thursday.

The FBI said it was investigating. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also investigating, the newspaper reported.

University officials did not immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday morning.

The mice were injected as part of an inoculation and vaccination experiment, investigators said.

Health officials say 10 to 20 people in the United States contract plague each year, usually through infected fleas or rodents. It can be treated with antibiotics, but about one in seven U.S. cases is fatal. Bubonic plague is not contagious, but left untreated it can transform into pneumonic plague, which can be spread from person to person.

The incident came as federal authorities investigate possible corruption in the school's finances. The FBI is reviewing political donations and millions of dollars in no-bid contracts awarded to politically connected firms.

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Post by: Shibboleet The Annihilator on September 16, 2005, 05:21:14 AM

WOOOHOOOO!

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Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on September 16, 2005, 05:25:28 AM

Quote from: gnimbley
Quote from: Associated Press
Mice Infected With Bubonic Plague Missing
Sep 15 1:04 PM US/Eastern

NEWARK, N.J.

Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago, and authorities launched a search though health experts said there was scant public risk.

The mice were unaccounted-for at the Public Health Research Institute, which is on the campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and conducts bioterrorism research for the federal government.

Federal official said the mice may never be accounted for. Among other things, the rodents may have been stolen, eaten by other lab animals or just misplaced in a paperwork error.

If the mice got outside the lab, they would have already died from the disease, state Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs said.

The possibility of theft prompted the institute to interrogate two dozen of its employees and conduct lie detector tests, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported Thursday.

The FBI said it was investigating. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also investigating, the newspaper reported.

University officials did not immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday morning.

The mice were injected as part of an inoculation and vaccination experiment, investigators said.

Health officials say 10 to 20 people in the United States contract plague each year, usually through infected fleas or rodents. It can be treated with antibiotics, but about one in seven U.S. cases is fatal. Bubonic plague is not contagious, but left untreated it can transform into pneumonic plague, which can be spread from person to person.

The incident came as federal authorities investigate possible corruption in the school's finances. The FBI is reviewing political donations and millions of dollars in no-bid contracts awarded to politically connected firms.

TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT'S 1347!
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Post by: Shibboleet The Annihilator on September 16, 2005, 05:29:01 AM

I need to get one of those ridiculous costumes with the giant noses.

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on September 16, 2005, 06:10:26 AM

QuoteIf the mice got outside the lab, they would have already died from the disease, state Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs said.

I guess they forgot the part where fleas go from infected animals to non infected animals. And spread the disease. Animals includes people in this instance, I don't care what the fundies say about evolution. Also, how many rats and mice in New Jersey, how fast could this spread to New York City?

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Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on September 16, 2005, 06:16:38 AM

Quote from: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy
QuoteIf the mice got outside the lab, they would have already died from the disease, state Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs said.

I guess they forgot the part where fleas go from infected animals to non infected animals. And spread the disease. Animals includes people in this instance, I don't care what the fundies say about evolution. Also, how many rats and mice in New Jersey, how fast could this spread to New York City?

The fleas don't like people...until there aren't enough rats to go around.

The rats, of course, are not immune to the disease. One symptom they show is "dancing"; spasmodically jumping around, about 12 hours before death.

This is the point where the fleas start looking for alternate hosts (people, for example), as the fleas are the "stable population" for yersinia pestis (meaning they don't die from it, like bats/rabies).

Once the plague moves into the human population, it moves to the far more contagious (though not QUITE as deadly) pnuemonic plague, which doesn't require fleas to spread (it spreads on water droplets...spittle from coughing, for example).

Time for transfer to NYC from Newark? Totally random. 1 day? 1 year? Never?

Lastly, due to modern hygene, it wouldn't necessairly be as deadly these days. Black plague exists in 14 states (in the Southwest), but only kills a few people per year.

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on September 16, 2005, 06:27:52 AM

My hubby has been vaccinated against it, but I have no idea how long those are good for. Plus, we haven't been killing hundreads of cats lately.

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Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on September 16, 2005, 06:32:02 AM

Quote from: Eldora, Oracle of AlchemyMy hubby has been vaccinated against it, but I have no idea how long those are good for. Plus, we haven't been killing hundreads of cats lately.

24 months. We had to get vaccinated every 18 months in the army (which is a run of 4 shots over a 4 week period).

And cats carry fleas, too.

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on September 16, 2005, 02:17:46 PM

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: Eldora, Oracle of AlchemyMy hubby has been vaccinated against it, but I have no idea how long those are good for. Plus, we haven't been killing hundreads of cats lately.

24 months. We had to get vaccinated every 18 months in the army (which is a run of 4 shots over a 4 week period).

And cats carry fleas, too.

My cats are indoor cats. Well, most of the time. When they aren't freaking out for no reason and running through the screen. That reminds me, I need to get flea bath and flea collars cuz they both ended up outside last night.

My hubby was vaccinated against so many things so many times. One time, they gave him a vaccine that had penicillin in it, which he is allergic to, and he told them, and he ended up in the hospital. Idiots :roll:

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Post by: LMNO on September 16, 2005, 03:11:30 PM

Quote from: ¬†I need to get one of those ridiculous costumes with the giant noses.

Your wish, my command.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/Marburger/mdvldoc.jpg)

A friend of mine made a really creepy halloween costume based on this.

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Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on September 17, 2005, 01:13:45 AM

Quote from: LMNO

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/Marburger/mdvldoc.jpg)

MOM???

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Post by: LMNO on September 21, 2005, 04:10:55 PM

Ok, you know that old canard about how kids who dance and compete musically are less prone to violence? That whole "in the 80s, there was no gang violence, they used to breakdance to decide who's better"?

Well, no more (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050921/ap_on_re_us/drill_team_brawl).

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Post by: ataraxia on September 21, 2005, 05:06:27 PM

Quote from: LMNO
Quote from: I need to get one of those ridiculous costumes with the giant noses.

Your wish, my command.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/Marburger/mdvldoc.jpg)

A friend of mine made a really creepy halloween costume based on this.

OMG teh SHRANDER!!!!

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Post by: Bella on September 25, 2005, 04:41:07 AM

Erotic images can turn you blind

"Researchers have finally found evidence for what good Catholic boys have known all along ,Äì erotic images make you go blind. The effect is temporary and lasts just a moment, but the research has added to road-safety campaigners,Äô calls to ban sexy billboard-advertising near busy roads, in the hope of preventing accidents.

The new study by US psychologists found that people shown erotic or gory images frequently fail to process images they see immediately afterwards. And the researchers say some personality types appear to be affected more than others by the phenomenon, known as ,Äúemotion-induced blindness,Äù.

David Zald, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Marvin Chun and colleagues from Yale University in Connecticut, showed hundreds of images to volunteers and asked them to pick a specific image from the rapid sequence. Most of the images were landscape or architectural scenes, but the psychologists included a few emotionally charged images, portraying violent or sexually provocative scenes.

The closer these emotionally charged images occurred prior to the target image, the more frequently people failed to spot the target image, the researchers found.

We observed that people failed to detect visual images that appeared one-fifth of a second after emotional images, whereas they can detect those images with little problem after neutral images,,Äù Zald says."

Read More: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7845 [NewScientist]

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Post by: LMNO on September 26, 2005, 07:30:30 PM

The strangest thing happened...

I saw bellas avatar, but I can't for the life of me remember what she posted...

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Post by: Bella on September 26, 2005, 08:18:12 PM

Quote from: LMNOThe strangest thing happened...

I saw bellas avatar, but I can't for the life of me remember what she posted...

:twisted:

::halo::

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Post by: fluffy on September 27, 2005, 09:09:26 PM

penguins 1
humans 0

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/09/27/falklands.penguins.reut/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

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Post by: fluffy on September 28, 2005, 08:21:14 PM

QuoteA Texas Grand Jury indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Wednesday, forcing one of the most powerful Republicans in the government from his post.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12764361.htm

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Post by: LMNO on September 28, 2005, 08:22:09 PM

:shock:

No shit?

::runs to check the feeds::

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Post by: fluffy on September 28, 2005, 08:24:16 PM

no shit
delay has been forced to step down as maj leader in the house
hehehehe

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Post by: LMNO on September 28, 2005, 08:25:25 PM

[insert one of the FC dancing icons here]

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Post by: Cain on September 28, 2005, 08:28:35 PM

Wow, impressive 8)

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Post by: DJRubberducky on September 28, 2005, 08:34:21 PM

(http://www.utdallas.edu/~katies/banana.gif)

There ya go. :D

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Post by: Cain on September 28, 2005, 08:36:34 PM

Its ony temporary though (unless he's guilty)

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Post by: fluffy on September 28, 2005, 08:51:53 PM

Quote from: CainIts ony temporary though (unless he can't buy his way out)

fixed that for ya

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Post by: Cain on September 29, 2005, 02:58:41 PM

Quote from: fluffy
Quote from: CainIts ony temporary though (unless he can't buy his way out)

fixed that for ya

I stand corrected.

Not for the squeamish Fetuses found at Bogata airport (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4293934.stm)

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Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on September 29, 2005, 05:59:49 PM

:shock: :shock: :shock:

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on September 29, 2005, 09:00:58 PM

LDS Church bans oral sex (http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/media/paper244/news/2005/09/29/Opinion/Lds-Church.Bans.Oral.Sex-1003446.shtml?mkey=1780268)

Editor:

I am writing in response to Tara Thompson's letter to the editor, "Ignorant people should not put down 'prudes,'" Sept. 27.

I might be a dirtbag, but uninformed? That really harshes my afterglow.

That "certain religion" used to be my religion. More than 20 years of attendance, a temple marriage and a couple years at BYU taught me quite a bit.

You claim there is no doctrine that specifically spells out what a married couple can or cannot do behind closed doors.

However, a letter from the first presidency to all bishops, stake presidents, etc. regarding interviewing for temple worthiness specifically addresses this issue.

In the section that addresses impure or unholy practices between married persons, the letter clearly states, "The First Presidency has interpreted oral sex as constituting an unnatural, impure, or unholy practice."

It's dated Jan. 5, 1982 and is signed by the first presidency.

Heady stuff. I personally would have softened the message with a snappy slogan like, "Church Blows-So You Don't Have To."

If the ban has been lifted, please let us know. I would hate to think there are LDS couples out there unnecessarily avoiding good times.

Gordon Swift

Junior, Chemistry

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on September 29, 2005, 09:05:11 PM

Quote from: LMNOThe strangest thing happened...

I saw bellas avatar, but I can't for the life of me remember what she posted...

That's cuz she practices witchcraft and voodoo.

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Post by: Cain on September 30, 2005, 02:13:51 PM

Danish Air Force pay Santa over death of Rudolph.

An airforce spokesman admitted liability in the death of the reindeer and paid out roughly 31,000 kroner.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4295968.stm

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Post by: Bella on October 05, 2005, 10:05:41 PM

Here's one about a soldier who covered his mouth with duct tape and then handed a bank clerk a note demanding money.
He claimed he had a "mouth bomb" under the tape.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1004bomb.html

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Post by: Bella on October 05, 2005, 10:06:06 PM

Quote from: Irreverend Hugh, KSC
Quote from: LMNOThe strangest thing happened...

I saw bellas avatar, but I can't for the life of me remember what she posted...

That's cuz she practices witchcraft and voodoo.

Shhhh! It's a secret. :evil:

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Post by: LMNO on October 06, 2005, 02:48:38 PM

Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of DoomHere's one about a soldier who covered his mouth with duct tape and then handed a bank clerk a note demanding money.
He claimed he had a "mouth bomb" under the tape.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1004bomb.html

"...They recognized [the suspect] by the tape on his mouth..."

Ya think?

Next up, we need someone to rob a bank with a "pants bomb".

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on October 06, 2005, 03:41:47 PM

Pull my finger...too late :twisted:

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on October 06, 2005, 09:37:06 PM

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050913/nytu028a.html?.v=1

QuotePRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Elexa(TM), a full line of sexual health products designed to empower a woman to pursue -- on her terms -- a lifelong sexual journey that is both fulfilling and responsible, was launched today by the makers of Trojan¬Æ brand condoms, America's #1 brand of condoms.

Created from a woman's perspective, the new Elexa(TM) line includes three styles of condoms that meet the various needs of a woman and her partner, as well as three personal products that heighten freshness, intimacy and pleasure during sex.

Elexa(TM) products will be sold in retailers' feminine care areas, making shopping for sexual health products a comfortable, familiar, and non-threatening experience for women.

Women also identified other key issues: that freshness during a sexual encounter is important; that they want more intimacy and sometimes desire a little extra help "getting started"; and that they were intrigued by -- and positive about -- adding vibrations that heighten pleasure for a woman and her partner. These insights brought about the personal products that complete the Elexa(TM) line:

It includes 3 different condoms, freshening wipes, intimacy gel and the ring. You can find these products in the feminine hygiene aisle

http://www.trojancondoms.com/vibratingring/index.asp

Available at these fine retailers*

Amazon.com
Brooks
CVS
Duane Reade
Eckerd
RiteAid
Walgreens.com
(I have heard WalMart and Target, as well)

* Trojan¬Æ Vibrating Ring is not for sale in AL, CO, GA, KS, LA, MS, TX or VA.

Other tips from Trojan
http://www.trojancondoms.com/info_center/condom_use/

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Post by: Bella on October 08, 2005, 07:02:19 PM

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1338901.html?menu=news.quirkies.badtaste

Memorial looks like big penis

A Dutch war memorial that goes up and down, and spurts flames may be scrapped after complaints it looks like a giant penis.

The Liberation Monument is a giant copper obelisk that rises and falls depending on the level of sunlight, and spurts flames out of the top during important festivals.

It is due to go on show in the village of Wageningen where the German capitulation was signed at the end of the Second World War 60 years ago.

In full sunlight, the erection reaches a height of ten metres, shrinking back to just six metres when the light dims.

It was due to be exposed to the public at an official ceremony in May but now village councillors say it should either be scrapped or radically redesigned.

A spokesman said: "Any association with a phallus is undesirable, whether justified or unjustified, and is to be avoided at all costs."

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on October 08, 2005, 07:07:17 PM

They should sell it to Thailand :twisted:

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Post by: B_M_W on October 08, 2005, 07:38:12 PM

Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of Doom
A spokesman said: "Any association with a phallus is undesirable, whether justified or unjustified, and is to be avoided at all costs."

Washington Monument, anyone?

8)

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Post by: Shibboleet The Annihilator on October 08, 2005, 07:54:39 PM

SILENCE CITIZEN! THAT SORT OF SUBVERSIVE GAY-TALK IS NOT TO BE TOLERATED! PENISES ARE NOT TO BE MENTIONED IN PUBLIC!
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Post by: B_M_W on October 08, 2005, 07:58:38 PM

Quote from: SILENCE CITIZEN! THAT SORT OF SUBVERSIVE GAY-TALK IS NOT TO BE TOLERATED! PENISES ARE NOT TO BE MENTIONED IN PUBLIC!
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:lol: That picture is great. He almost looks like an elderly Adolf.

'Cept his ears are still too damn big. :lol:

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Post by: Bella on October 08, 2005, 08:01:42 PM

And his brain is too small.

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Post by: B_M_W on October 08, 2005, 08:07:10 PM

Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of DoomAnd his brain is too small.

Troof. For all the bad stuff he did, Hitler was an incredible orator. Insane, but definitely NOT stupid.

Bush= a much lesser, more pathetic, stupid, mumbling version of Hitler

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Post by: Shibboleet The Annihilator on October 08, 2005, 08:08:14 PM

This is the correct collection of pandas.

(http://www.pamdabears.com/Images/Bears/Pandas-50j.JPG)

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Post by: Bella on October 09, 2005, 08:21:18 PM

This is an article about the courthouse I used to work at. It's been declared the most haunted place in California. :twisted:

At first the Victim Serices office was located in the bottom corridor of the courthouse - right next to the janitor's closet mentioned in this article, and just down the hall from the elevator that goes up and down by itself. We used to hear footsteps up and down the corridor when there was no one there. The lights used to flicker off and on and the alarms would go off for no reason. It was especially scarey in the ladies restroom, which used to be a holding cell for prisoners. Then they moved us upstairs to what used to be the women's jail. It's in the oldest part of the building and still has bars on the windows. It's supposed to be the most haunted place in the courthouse, but it didn't feel all creepy like the bottom of the courthouse did. Once in a while we would hear a woman crying, but for some reason she didn't bother us at all.

.:Story originally published by:.
Ukiah Daily Journal / CA | Mark Hedges - Apr 02.04

Original headline: Night janitors say the downtown courthouse haunted
Sometimes modernization can uncover pieces of the past, as when construction projects uncover archaeological sites.

But in the case of the Mendocino County Courthouse in downtown Ukiah, a new security system is apparently revealing the presence of some long-time residents of the building who have a mind of their own despite their lack of an earthly body.

In other words, they're ghosts.

New, high-tech, motion-detecting cameras are revealing to security and janitorial staff that something is moving about the courthouse's gloomy halls in the still hours of the night.

Something best described as a "mist" has repeatedly appeared on the cameras moving back and forth across the courthouse's lower hallway where the jury selection department is located.

A janitor who saw the tape said this ghostly apparition can also be seen floating up in front of the light that hangs down in this hallway, causing the light to be partially obscured.

This janitor also said that a "little box lights up" when motion is detected, "and you can see the box light up and then it lights up somewhere else."

New metal-detecting machines at the courthouse entrances have also gone off without a soul -- or at least a soul combined with a body -- to be found, according to some of the security personnel.

To the janitors and some of the long-time employees in the building, these occurrences are something of a vindication.

"We've known there was something here for years," said the janitor "informant," who, like everybody else, would prefer not to risk ridicule from skeptics by providing his name. Many talk of how "spooky" the building gets once it gets dark and cleared out of (living) people.

Many in the building refer to the supernatural occurrences in the building as belonging to a spirit named "George," and this name has been passed down through the years through generations of employees.

The courthouse is comprised of two different sections, one built in the 1920s and one built in the 1950s. But parts of the building also comprise remnants of an earlier courthouse from the "Wild West" era which itself had replaced an earlier courthouse.

Just a brief review of some of the incidents that occurred in one version of the courthouse or another supply ample evidence that the site has some dark history.

The only execution that took place in Mendocino County history occurred on the courthouse roof, in the days before executions were moved to San Quentin.

A judge was also shot and killed by an irate defendant during a trial. The man made his escape from the courthouse but a posse brought him back and they were in the middle of hanging him on the street when a lawyer made an impassioned speech calling for the rule of law, so the man was taken to San Quentin.

The county jail was also located on the site of old, and evidence of jail bars are still to be seen in some areas of the existing building. Apparently one of those incarcerated in the jail committed suicide.

As for the janitor theDaily Journal spoke to, he didn't know how to connect to any historical tale the apparition he and another janitor witnessed one night about 10 p.m. as they were sitting in a janitor's closet.

"Someone came walking down the hallway and we didn't think much of it," he explained. "The door was open and I caught out of the side of my eye a dress walking by and high heels. After it went past the doorway, it only went about five more steps and then it stopped."

He went out in the hallway to see who it was, but nobody was there. "There was nowhere for this person to go in five steps," he said. "It either would have had to continue on down the hallway or turn left down another long hallway." The latter direction would have taken the ghost directly to the area that the motion cameras have been picking up strange imagery.

In addition, this janitor and his colleagues -- along with other members of the courthouse administration who spoke with the Daily Journal -- have witnessed the elevator traveling up and down the various levels of the building with no one in it, and always at night.

"One time the elevator started up from the ground floor and we could hear it stopping on every floor," the janitor said. "When it got to the top, it turned around and did the same thing back down. And then I had to get into the thing and go up and clean the top floor."

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Post by: fluffy on October 09, 2005, 08:27:32 PM

spooky, bella

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Post by: Cain on October 09, 2005, 08:27:40 PM

Question: has it always has this reputation, or just since you've been there? Also, did you know you're name is now in the word filter?

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Post by: B_M_W on October 09, 2005, 08:31:31 PM

Bella is in the word filter?

Oh, I gues it is. :lol:

I like.

8)

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Post by: Bella on October 09, 2005, 08:51:00 PM

Quote from: CainQuestion: has it always has this reputation, or just since you've been there?

There have always been stories about the courthouse being haunted, but I kind of chalked it up to the strangeness of the building itself. They tore down most of a really old courthouse sometime in the 1800's and built a new one over the basement of the older one. Then they tore most of that one down in the 1920's and erected a beautiful stone building that looked like a mini-cathedral. In 1950, they chopped the front of the newest building off and erected a nasty looking concrete thing that looks like a small box sitting on top of a bigger box. The back of the courthouse is three stories high and the front of the courthouse is four. To make it even more confusing - the floors in the two sections don't match up. If you want to go to floor three of the old section, you have to either take the stairs, or else get off the elevator one floor above and walk down a flight of stairs.

I first worked in a room where the old section joined the front section. One half of the room had high ceilings and beautiful windows - the other half had a low ceiling and square boxy windows. The flooring under my desk was marble and under the next desk over it was industrial carpeting over ratty linoleum. It was just bizarre.

The haunted elevator and corridor are in the newest part of the building, btw. The DA secretaries won't work late because their office is next to the elevator and no one goes to the ladies room alone since one of the women swore something grabbed her while she was sitting on the john. I kind of liked hearing the ghosts, but I'm spooky that way.

Quote from: CainAlso, did you know you're name is now in the word filter?

:?:

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Post by: fluffy on October 09, 2005, 08:57:20 PM

you always were pretty spooky

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Post by: Cain on October 09, 2005, 08:57:32 PM

If I type B3lla (replace the 3 with e) then it changes to She who Eats Souls. Interesting history of the building too, sounds like some "interesting" planning went on there. I once considered being a solicitor, and took part in some mock trials at some extremely old buildings, though as far as I know they were never haunted.

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Post by: fluffy on October 09, 2005, 09:00:02 PM

Quote from: CainIf I type B3lla (replace the 3 with e) then it changes to She who Eats Souls.

i think you need to get a new computer
yours is obviously haunted

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Post by: Cain on October 09, 2005, 09:01:45 PM

By She Who eats Souls? Or Be1la?

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Post by: B_M_W on October 09, 2005, 09:03:01 PM

Quote from: fluffy
spooky, She Who Eats Souls

Yours is obviously haunted as well, Miss Moderator.

8)

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Post by: fluffy on October 09, 2005, 09:05:01 PM

my computer is not haunted
you people are just trying to mess with the bunny's mind

shame on you people
picking on a little innocent bunny

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Post by: Bella on October 09, 2005, 09:05:54 PM

Quote from: fluffy
shame on you people
picking on a little innocent bunny

Uh huh.......innocent little bunny. :roll:

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Post by: B_M_W on October 09, 2005, 09:06:08 PM

Quote from: fluffy
my computer is not haunted
you people are just trying to mess with the bunny's mind

shame on you people
picking on a little innocent bunny

Since when have bunnies been innocent?

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Post by: Cain on October 09, 2005, 09:06:43 PM

I wouldnt be so sure...Bel1a is, after all, evil incarnate. She may want you to think that we are messing a poor bunny around, so she can continue to haunt your PC.

This probably belongs in the conspiracy thread.

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on October 09, 2005, 09:07:29 PM

Bella

I think TAPS should get hold of this. They did go as far as New Orleans for a show. Do you have a link to send them?

http://www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/

On one of the video tapes from that show, you could see a lamp moving, really slowly, it took 5 or 10 minutes to move just a few inches. There were just the two guys from the show talking, the table it was on was too small for anyone to be underneath and the table cloth didn't bunch up like it would if someone pulled on the cord of the lamp. Usually they can explain any weirdness, like doors that open aren't set right, weird sounds are coming from bad plumbing, weird smells are coming in from the street through vents the people didn't know were there.

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Post by: Bella on October 09, 2005, 09:14:31 PM

Quote from: CainI wouldnt be so sure...Bel1a is, after all, evil incarnate. She may want you to think that we are messing a poor bunny around, so she can continue to haunt your PC.

This probably belongs in the conspiracy thread.

I have absolutely no idea what you people are babbling about. 8)

P.S. I never even heard of TAPS before, El. Thanks for the link.

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on October 09, 2005, 09:21:05 PM

Quote from: Sss Bella, Oracle of Doom
Quote from: CainI wouldnt be so sure...Bel1a is, after all, evil incarnate. She may want you to think that we are messing a poor bunny around, so she can continue to haunt your PC.

This probably belongs in the conspiracy thread.
I have absolutely no idea what you people are babbling about. 8)

P.S. I never even heard of TAPS before, El. Thanks for the link.

They have a show on the Sci Fi channel too. You should see people's faces when they don't find any paranormal anything. Some people get really mad. Not just disappointed, like, wa my ghost is missing, but really angry. :twisted:

I was called for jury duty and there was a hitch in the floors in the courthouse like you described and I didn't get what that was about. They must always do stupid stuff to old buildings when they redo them. You had to get off the elevator, around a corner, then down a few stairs.

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Post by: Bella on October 09, 2005, 11:23:01 PM

Here's a couple of photos of the old courthouse. They took off the front portico with the beautiful columns, removed the lovely bell tower and stuck on a series of green and cream colored concrete boxes along the front and partway down either side. I couldn't find any pictures of the current front - probably because it's so damn ugly.

The big trees and the benches out in front are still there and main street looks almost the same today - the old buildings are mostly still there. The cars are a bit more modern, but that's about it.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/SssBella/ch4.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/SssBella/frontcourthouse.jpg)

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Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on October 10, 2005, 12:04:01 AM

why id they take ou ht cool part of the building?

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Post by: Bella on October 10, 2005, 12:21:20 AM

I don't know. :cry:
They took off the best bits and put up crap.

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Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on October 10, 2005, 12:27:52 AM

When was it done?

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Post by: B_M_W on October 10, 2005, 12:29:38 AM

I would guess it was to go with the artchetectual fad of whatever era they changed it in. Or the portion they changed was in such disrepair that it was easier to replace than restore. There are many reasons. I can suppy more possibles if you want.

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Post by: Bella on October 10, 2005, 01:08:23 AM

Quote from: Rabid Badger of GodWhen was it done?

They made the last big changes in 1950. I just asked someone I know who's lived here forever and she said the old building was too small. They moved a few of the county offices to other buildings down the street and it was still crowded. So they decided to expand. She said there was a huge fight about what kind of addition to put up and the board of superisors finally decided to go with something modern.

So yeah, it was to go with the trend in the 50's, which over here meant flat roofs and boxy shapes. They used beautiful marble on the floors and stuff, but the two additions don't quite fit together all that well and we've had a few earthquakes since then, so the the floors are cracked now.
Anyway, the effect is really icky like going back and forth in time, because really there are four courthouses rolled into one on that site.

The sub-basement is the worst - it's part of the oldest original structure and you have to go down a winding stairway to get there. It's full of old crumbling record books and case files and I only went down there once and then refused to go again. It was too creepy even for me.

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Post by: B_M_W on October 10, 2005, 02:52:07 AM

Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of Doom
The sub-basement is the worst - it's part of the oldest original structure and you have to go down a winding stairway to get there. It's full of old crumbling record books and case files and I only went down there once and then refused to go again. It was too creepy even for me.

*cue superhero music*

THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR...

RESTORATION MAN!!!MANMANMAN

DID SOMEONE CALL ME?!

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Post by: The Doctor on October 10, 2005, 03:08:24 AM

U.S. Pledges $350 Million and Magical Unicorns for Tsunami Relief

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/01/tsunami_relief.html

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Post by: B_M_W on October 10, 2005, 03:11:41 AM

Quote from: The DoctorU.S. Pledges $350 Million and Magical Unicorns for Tsunami Relief

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/01/tsunami_relief.html

Dammit where the fucking 'magical horsie' picture when you need it!

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Post by: The Doctor on October 10, 2005, 03:14:45 AM

YOU RANG?
\
(http://bbs.fuckedcompany.com/icons/poopeteer.gif)

And in other news...

Witch wins right to declare cost of brooms

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1552461.html?menu=

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Post by: Bella on October 10, 2005, 03:24:39 AM

Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_Wannabe
Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of Doom
The sub-basement is the worst - it's part of the oldest original structure and you have to go down a winding stairway to get there. It's full of old crumbling record books and case files and I only went down there once and then refused to go again. It was too creepy even for me.

*cue superhero music*

THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR...

RESTORATION MAN!!!MANMANMAN

DID SOMEONE CALL ME?!

Yessss! Restoration Man to the rescue. :P

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Post by: B_M_W on October 10, 2005, 03:38:07 AM

QuoteYessss! Restoration Man to the rescue. :P

I AM HIGHLY TRAINED IN THE ARTS OF PLASTER AND PAINT, CAULK AND MUD. I CAN HANDLE HARDWARE, WOODWEAR AND WALLPAPER WITH EASE. I HAVE TRAVELED THE WORLD IN SEARCH OF MASTER TECHNIQUE, WITH MY TRUSTY HAMMER, SPATULA, AND TAPEMEASURE!

RESTORATION MAN, AWAY!!

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Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on October 10, 2005, 04:12:24 AM

Woodwear? (http://painfulpleasures.com/xcart/customer/home.php?cat=171)

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Post by: B_M_W on October 10, 2005, 04:38:45 AM

Quote from: Rabid Badger of GodWoodwear? (http://painfulpleasures.com/xcart/customer/home.php?cat=171)

I think he ment cabinents, dressers, stairway banisters, and the like.

8)

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Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on October 10, 2005, 04:48:07 AM

I know. I'm not dumb.

I Know All, didn't you get the memo?

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Post by: Bella on October 10, 2005, 04:48:28 AM

Quote from: The Doctor
Witch wins right to declare cost of brooms

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1552461.html?menu=

I already declare this kind of stuff. I get to deduct my candles, witchy type decorations, spooky clothes and jewelry, incense, classes, tarot cards, books and all sort of stuff because I do scarey stuff for a living. It's pretty great, actually.

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Post by: fluffy on October 19, 2005, 10:34:15 PM

single mom has baby at zoo!
dna test to be performed to find out who is the daddy!

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051019/NEWS01/510190504/1006

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Post by: Cain on October 22, 2005, 03:20:05 PM

Ninjas suffer humiliating defeat as the Republic of Congo Army drives them from the capital, Brazzaville.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4357870.stm

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Post by: Cain on October 29, 2005, 01:19:55 PM

Tamil Tigers looking for someone to create a "patriotic national anthem" for them. Song writers here interested?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4386382.stm

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Post by: Cain on November 01, 2005, 10:02:52 AM

Us preacher killed whilst baptisting http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4394722.stm

I love the way everyone started praying, instead of, say calling an ambulance?

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Post by: Enrico Salazar on November 01, 2005, 03:30:40 PM

Nazi Racoons: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1846678,00.html

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Post by: fluffy on November 01, 2005, 03:34:23 PM

Quote from: Enrico SalazarNazi Racoons: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1846678,00.html

:twisted:

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Post by: fluffy on November 08, 2005, 01:35:25 PM

how the death star works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/death-star.htm

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Post by: Shibboleet The Annihilator on November 09, 2005, 02:15:39 AM

Quote from: CainNinjas suffer humiliating defeat as the Republic of Congo Army drives them from the capital, Brazzaville.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4357870.stm

Obviously not real ninjas, if they were everyone would be dead.

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Post by: Bella on November 10, 2005, 05:07:05 PM

Mental Floss, Volume 4 Issue 3/ May-June 2005

This Song Is So Sad I Want To Shoot Myself

"Getting a divorce is one thing; but when you lose your wife, your dog
and your guitar, is there anything left to live for? According to Wayne
State University's Steven Sack and Auburn University's Jim Gundlach, the
answer is a resounding "no". By analyzing 49 metropolitan areas in
American, the research duo found a direct correlation between radio
air-time devoted to contry music and Caucasian suicide rates. The result:
the stereotype-confirming discovery that country music may actually kill
you. Good to know. Of course, now we're left to wonder why the 1985
U.S. Senate rock 'n' roll hearings wasted so much time on Twisted Sister,
while dangerous musicians like Kenny Rogers were walking around scot-free."

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Post by: East Coast Hustle on November 10, 2005, 05:32:53 PM

this is the first thing that my dad has peeked over my shoulder and seen on this site that he laughed at.

8)

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Post by: Bella on November 10, 2005, 05:47:18 PM

Maybe he'd like the article about fish I just finished reading in that same mag.
According to an international team of researchers, herring communicate with each other by breaking wind.

So now I have a picture in my brain of a school of herring swimming and farting in unison.

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Post by: hooplala on November 10, 2005, 06:08:45 PM

Quote from: She Who Lurks Beyond, Oracle of Doom
So now I have a picture in my brain of a school of herring swimming and farting in unison.

Sounds like summer vacation with my dad.

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on November 10, 2005, 06:21:17 PM

Quote from: She Who Lurks Beyond, Oracle of DoomMaybe he'd like the article about fish I just finished reading in that same mag.
According to an international team of researchers, herring communicate with each other by breaking wind.

So now I have a picture in my brain of a school of herring swimming and farting in unison.

Works for human males :lol:

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on November 10, 2005, 08:17:08 PM

Liar!

Some of us never fart while swimming.

It attracts too many sharks. And one can only stab so many at a time.

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Post by: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy on November 10, 2005, 10:16:56 PM

I just meant communication via flatulance in general :lol:

Pull my finger :shock:

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on November 10, 2005, 11:05:47 PM

Quote from: Eldora, Oracle of AlchemyI just meant communication via flatulance in general :lol:

Pull my finger :shock:

You been licking the yellow tab again?

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Post by: Shibboleet The Annihilator on November 10, 2005, 11:16:43 PM

teehee

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Post by: Enrico Salazar on November 11, 2005, 07:20:56 PM

Gay flies lose their nerve
Brain difference linked to same-sex courtship behaviours in insects.

GettyResearchers have finally pinned down a physical difference between male flies that are engineered to behave homosexually and those that are not: the tweaked variety is missing a small cluster of nerve cells in the brain.

Genetically altered flies that are designed to court members of their own sex, or no one at all, have made headlines in recent months (see 'Fruitflies tap in to their gay side '). But no one knew exactly what those genes were doing, or how the flies differed physically from heterosexual ones. Now Japanese researchers have pinpointed one difference in the brain.

Scientists caution that fly mating behaviour is very different from that of humans, as are our brains, so these results cannot be extrapolated to people. "No homologue of the fruitless gene is found in mammals and humans," points out Ken-Ichi Kimura of the Hokkaido University of Education in Iwamizawa, Japan.

But such work does help researchers to work out the complex genetic and environmental factors that help animals to choose their mates. "This finding will provide insight for understanding how a sexual behaviour is constructed in the circuitry of the brain through a function of single gene," adds Kimura.

The straight story

The sexual behaviour of insects has been tweaked before by altering a gene called fruitless. Male fruitflies (Drosophila melanogaster) that have mutations in this gene often fail to make a protein called Fru. These flies do not engage in the normal mating ritual of tapping and tilting movements that attract females.

If male flies have a milder mutation in the fruitless gene, resulting in production of small amounts Fru protein, they court male and female flies alike.

On the flipside, females engineered to carry the male-specific fruitless gene suddenly begin wooing other females with the tapping and tilting routine.

Although these behavioural switches intrigued researchers, any anatomical difference in the flies remained elusive.

Sex on the brain

To investigate the effect of the Fru protein, Kimura and his colleagues dissected the brains of Drosophila with and without the fruitless mutation.
They found that normal males possess a cluster of neurons in the brains that female flies lack. Further investigation revealed that the Fru protein keeps these cells alive during the early development of males.

The Japanese team show that homosexual females designed to produce the Fru protein develop an intact nerve-cell cluster. And males with mutations in the fruitless gene lack these nerve cells. The results of the study, which appear in Nature, suggest that the presence of this network in the insects' brains determines which partners they woo.

"The idea that differences in a highly complex behaviour such as courtship can be caused by a small number of cells is very interesting," says Toshihiro Kitamoto, a researcher at the University of Iowa in Iowa City who has studied same-sex courtship in flies. Kimura and his co-authors speculate that the nerve network controlled by the Fru protein relays information about chemical cues that allow flies to recognize the sex of a potential mate.

But experts caution that there could be many other, subtle changes in the brain and elsewhere that together account for the behavioural differences. "The much bigger and far more interesting question, I think, is whether it is this difference that matters," says Barry Dickson, a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, who has worked with the fruitless mutation in flies.

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051107/full/051107-8.html

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Post by: LMNO on November 11, 2005, 07:22:57 PM

Fag.

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Post by: hooplala on November 11, 2005, 07:24:50 PM

Total fag.

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Post by: LMNO on November 11, 2005, 07:28:17 PM

What a glorious faggot. He sleeps with my sister.

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Post by: hooplala on November 11, 2005, 07:52:29 PM

He ATE my sister.

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Post by: LMNO on November 11, 2005, 07:55:00 PM

I bet that little whore loved it.

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Post by: neongenesis816 on November 11, 2005, 08:04:55 PM

Quote from: eroticWhat a glorious faggot. He sleeps with my sister.

A maggot faggot? :lol:

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Post by: hooplala on November 11, 2005, 08:16:52 PM

Quote from: eroticI bet that little whore loved it.

I'm sure she did. My mother did, anyway.

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Post by: Cain on November 25, 2005, 04:53:03 PM

Masturbation cuts cancer risk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3072021.stm

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Post by: Cain on November 25, 2005, 06:06:46 PM

Chipmunks wanted - dead or alive

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4464304.stm

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Post by: illusion on November 28, 2005, 05:31:58 PM

Poor little chipmunks.
I wonder why they're considered to be more of a menace than the squirrels?

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Post by: Irreverend Hugh, KSC on November 29, 2005, 10:32:29 PM

Quote from: illusionPoor little chipmunks.
I wonder why they're considered to be more of a menace than the squirrels?

You ever seen how fast those little fuckers move?

Of course they are more of a menace than squirrels!

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Post by: Cain on January 09, 2006, 05:12:36 PM

OMG SHARK ATTACK AT AMITY POINT! ITS JAWS ALL OVER AGAIN! AAAEEEEEEIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4591878.stm

OK, so its Amity Point in Australia. Thats not the point.

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Post by: Cain on January 19, 2006, 05:46:43 PM

Snake befriends hamster given to it as a snack http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4627950.stm

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Post by: Z³ on January 20, 2006, 09:00:55 AM

Quote from: CainOMG SHARK ATTACK AT AMITY POINT! ITS JAWS ALL OVER AGAIN! AAAEEEEEEIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4591878.stm

OK, so its Amity Point in Australia. Thats not the point.

The bouncing souls?!
THOSE FUCKING NEW-JERSEY MOOCHES!

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Post by: Cain on February 12, 2006, 01:01:33 PM

Whales are natural food for dogs, Japan claims.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4700418.stm

Oh, and before I forget, whaleburger.

(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40995000/jpg/_40995830_whaleburgerap203.jpg)

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Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on February 12, 2006, 07:57:38 PM

HOORAY! i support the eating of whale. SUPPORTTTTT!!!
JOY

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Post by: AFK on December 05, 2008, 06:23:51 PM

Bumpback whale

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Post by: the dreadful hours on January 17, 2011, 03:23:09 PM

return of bumpback whale

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