Panning Around the Compact Muon Solenoid
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Quicktime VR panoramas of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, from photographer Peter McCready:
One, two, three, four, five, and six.
(Hat tip: Boing Boing.)
300 comments
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notutopia Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:22:42pm |
Unbelievable and awesome feat of technology and engineering!
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Killian Bundy Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:24:26pm |
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
/have they fixed it yet?
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Bloodnok Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:24:35pm |
There’s something vaguely suggestive about that photo, but I think I’ll just leave well enough alone.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:25:16pm |
Underground experimental cavern
I gotta get me one of those.
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HelloDare Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:25:52pm |
The Large Hadron Collider is so cheap. Only $6.4 billion. Remember back when that was a lot of money. I think it was back in 2008.
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Bloodnok Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:26:06pm |
Typical French -there doesn’t seem to be anyone at work.
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KingKenrod Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:26:19pm |
re: #13 Killian Bundy
/have they fixed it yet?
The last I heard repairs were delayed, 4Q09 before it is working.
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Wishing Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:27:13pm |
re: #20 KingKenrod
The last I heard repairs were delayed, 4Q09 before it is working.
Whew, have some time before the black hole sucks us all down.
/
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Colonel Panik Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:27:40pm |
Looks like something that would be a part of the engines on an Earth Alliance Omega Class Destroyer…
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ConservatismNow! Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:27:42pm |
re: #12 Jetpilot1101
I wish I could upding more than once.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:27:58pm |
Pic six is cool. Notice the color?
Is that Muon Rouge?
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USBeast Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:28:18pm |
re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Black hole in 5…4….3….2…
Hey Bastard, I happen to know a fat vegetarian bastard who is involved in kitchen remodeling. Just what time zone do you inhabit?
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Manfred the Wonder Dog Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:28:20pm |
I like all of my singularities naked. LOL
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:29:21pm |
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ConservatismNow! Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:30:09pm |
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HoosierHoops Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:30:34pm |
re: #12 Jetpilot1101
I LOVE SCIENCE!
Me too..My favorite scientist in the whole world on the web is a humble genius. You can ask him any question and he’ll post for 3 days the math and theory…Great guy..and you girls..he’s pretty handsome and fit.
[Link: coraifeartaigh.wordpress.com…]
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HelloDare Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:31:21pm |
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Bloodnok Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:31:49pm |
re: #28 wrenchwench
Wow, I can make the room spin…..
If I get really, really drunk and watch when I try to go to sleep will the collider spin in the opposite direction? Will it stay stationary?
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:31:55pm |
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ArmyWife Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:32:12pm |
re: #29 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I’ve had a job offer extended to me which would require a move to Virginia - Hopewell/Richmond area. I’m doing all kinds of searches for houses right now, trying to figure out schools and such before I make a decision.
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Hucbald Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:32:30pm |
It’s nice to see there are still some things you can’t make without 2x4’s.
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NonNativeTexan Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:32:49pm |
Caption: How does this food processor work exactly?
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jcm Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:33:34pm |
re: #34 HoosierHoops
Me too..My favorite scientist in the whole world on the web is a humble genius. You can ask him any question and he’ll post for 3 days the math and theory…Great guy..and you girls..he’s pretty handsome and fit.
[Link: coraifeartaigh.wordpress.com…]
I owe a lot of my success in college to a humble math teacher. He wrote original math works that got published, got astounding offers from big schools, yet taught a community college because he loved teaching, and not all the stuff that went with a big university. I’m not naturally inclined to math, with his help I survived to get through vector analysis and linear algebra.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:33:35pm |
re: #38 ArmyWife
There are some great neighborhoods in the Richmond area.
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Jetpilot1101 Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:34:14pm |
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Nevergiveup Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:34:15pm |
So something built by the lowest bidder isn’t working?
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screaming_eagle Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:34:47pm |
Gonna be a tight fit getting all 6 billion of us through that opening.
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Bob Dillon Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:34:53pm |
re: #24 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Pic six is cool. Notice the color?
Is that Muon Rouge?
See the little + in the top left and the - in the top right? You can zoom in and out!
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USBeast Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:34:58pm |
re: #40 NonNativeTexan
Caption: How does this food processor work exactly?
On a grand scale, I should think.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:36:00pm |
re: #38 ArmyWife
I’ve had a job offer extended to me which would require a move to Virginia - Hopewell/Richmond area. I’m doing all kinds of searches for houses right now, trying to figure out schools and such before I make a decision.
Have you looked at [Link: www.zillow.com…]
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Bloodnok Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:36:39pm |
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USBeast Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:37:13pm |
re: #47 screaming_eagle
Gonna be a tight fit getting all 6 billion of us through that opening.
They’ve got it worked out. We go through in alphabetical order, according to height as we appear.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:37:18pm |
re: #37 reine.de.tout
I don’t know because I don’t have an underground chamber yet.
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HelloDare Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:37:31pm |
Is there a Small Hadron Collider somewhere?
Is this as big as colliders will get or will they eventually bring out a Grande and then ultimately a Venti Hadron Collider?
I’d prefer a Venti Hadron Colliderpuccino.
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:37:34pm |
I made one of those in Cubs Scouts…no big deal
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Bloodnok Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:38:07pm |
re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Black hole in 5…4….3….2…
So great that not even 0bama’s ego will be able to escape its pull.
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twincitiesgirl Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:38:34pm |
I wish I could work there. The fact that I’m not qualified shouldn’t matter, should it? Just ask Barry, he’s my role model.
I love science!
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wrenchwench Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:38:48pm |
re: #59 albusteve
I made one of those in Cubs Scouts…no big deal
Out of popsicle sticks and Elmer’s glue?
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jcm Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:38:56pm |
re: #59 albusteve
I made one of those in Cubs Scouts…no big deal
Your troop is really pissed they are stuck in Alpha Centauri with no return ticket.
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HelloDare Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:39:19pm |
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:39:36pm |
my son was a Hadron Collider when he got his drivers licensere: #65 jcm
Your troop is really pissed they are stuck in Alpha Centauri with no return ticket.
I haven’t seen those guys for a while you know?….
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Colonel Panik Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:39:41pm |
re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Black hole in 5…4….3….2…
That’s RACIST!
It’s a “light deprived hole” or “photon deficient locality”.
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Bloodnok Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:40:04pm |
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USBeast Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:40:19pm |
re: #64 wrenchwench
Out of popsicle sticks and Elmer’s glue?
No, Silly. Aluminum foil and duct tape.
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Macker Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:40:46pm |
So this is the huge atom smasher which could destroy the world, eh. Hey, these are great!
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SlartyBartfast Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:40:47pm |
re: #65 jcm
Your troop is really pissed they are stuck in Alpha Centauri with no return ticket.
One minute, you’re standing by waiting to have “mountains of coleslaw.” The next minute…
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:40:53pm |
Brings me back to my undergrad and grad school days in nuclear and high energy physics, before I realized I’d actually be able to support myself and a family in a different field (and academia sucks) and left for software.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:40:57pm |
COOKBOOK SALES UPDATE:
81 books sold, total “revenue” $405.00, February revenue will be posted to the cookbook paypal account April 1st and will be disbursed 1/2 to LGF, 1/2 to Soldier’s Angels.
There are a couple of errors:
Page 5 - the last two “preparation” directions for this bread recipe say to marinate the meat. There is no meat. This got inserted from another recipe somewhere. This has been fixed for future printings.
Page 117 - This is Sharmuta’s recipe for Wassail, not Jemima’s.
If anyone is interested in a Volume 2 - I’m game, so is FlakMusic. You can go ahead and send recipes in - click my nic and see the post about Volume 2.
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HelloDare Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:41:12pm |
re: #68 Colonel Panik
Upding for “photon deficient locality”.
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Colonel Panik Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:41:36pm |
I hear there is an Italian physicist there who is going to see what kind of energy is released when pasta collides with antipasta.
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Cognito Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:41:51pm |
re: #75 Sharmuta
I like precise handling of delicate equipment.
Are…. are we still talking about the Hadron thing?
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Bloodnok Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:41:51pm |
I notice that in picture 3 they have a genuine “Armoire” brand armoire. That would go well next to my “Chair” brand chair.
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Nevergiveup Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:41:53pm |
“You know that tough times for America often mean tougher times for African Americans. This recession has been no exception,” Obama told the 10th annual “State of the Black Union” gathering, noting that the unemployment rate among African-Americans is five points higher than the national average.
[Link: www.breitbart.com…]
But I thought he is the President of all of us?
” to transform our country”
Thanks but no thanks
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:41:55pm |
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Bloodnok Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:42:53pm |
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USBeast Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:43:01pm |
re: #76 HelloDare
Upding for “photon deficient locality”.
Is that the same as “where the sun don’t shine”?
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Salamantis Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:43:07pm |
re: #58 HelloDare
Is there a Small Hadron Collider somewhere?
Is this as big as colliders will get or will they eventually bring out a Grande and then ultimately a Venti Hadron Collider?
I’d prefer a Venti Hadron Colliderpuccino.
It makes me hunger for the US to reverse course and decide to go ahead and build the one we were planning in the Southwest.
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:43:28pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:43:38pm |
re: #22 Colonel Panik
Looks like something that would be a part of the engines on an Earth Alliance Omega Class Destroyer…
Such primitive technology compared to us Vorlons and Shadows.
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ArmyWife Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:43:39pm |
re: #52 MandyManners
No, thanks! I wish there was a place to go that said “this is a great neighborhood with fabulous schools” or “don’t go to this neighborhood, the schools are cruddy”
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Wyatt Earp Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:43:55pm |
re: #80 Bloodnok
I notice that in picture 3 they have a genuine “Armoire” brand armoire. That would go well next to my “Chair” brand chair.
Until it gets stolen by local sexually ambivalent toughs - a la Seinfeld.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:43:56pm |
re: #41 jcm
I owe a lot of my success in college to a humble math teacher. He wrote original math works that got published, got astounding offers from big schools, yet taught a community college because he loved teaching, and not all the stuff that went with a big university. I’m not naturally inclined to math, with his help I survived to get through vector analysis and linear algebra.
How do you pass college Trig without knowing it? I had a tudor in college that taught me every question in trig can be answered if you can remember an Indian Chief..Chief Sohchatoa.. I got an A- in trig and still don’t get it..
Sahchatoa
S=a/h
C=H/a
T=O/a
who knew? I’m a fri’g genius..LOL
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DEZes Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:44:31pm |
re: #75 Sharmuta
I like precise handling of delicate equipment.
OK, I know someone is gonna run with that one in 3…2…1….
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:44:50pm |
re: #74 reine.de.tout
Vol 2 - great!
Did you get the recipes I sent?
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notutopia Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:44:54pm |
re: #74 reine.de.tout
reine, when we send future recipes, Is there a certain format or template that you can make available online, it would save you oodles of time, if we could just type the recipe in, so you don’t have to re-format them.
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Wyatt Earp Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:44:57pm |
re: #91 HoosierHoops
How do you pass college Trig without knowing it? I had a tudor in college that taught me every question in trig can be answered if you can remember an Indian Chief..Chief Sohchatoa.. I got an A- in trig and still don’t get it..
Sahchatoa
S=a/h
C=H/a
T=O/a
who knew? I’m a fri’g genius..LOL
A Tudor? Henry the 8th taught you trig?
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Wishing Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:44:59pm |
re: #91 HoosierHoops
How do you pass college Trig without knowing it? I had a tudor in college that taught me every question in trig can be answered if you can remember an Indian Chief..Chief Sohchatoa.. I got an A- in trig and still don’t get it..
Sahchatoa
S=a/h
C=H/a
T=O/a
who knew? I’m a fri’g genius..LOL
..and I was stuck with a rancher…go figure…
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Bloodnok Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:45:49pm |
re: #92 DEZes
OK, I know someone is gonna run with that one in 3…2…1….
I’m waiting until someone typo-s “large hadron”.
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DEZes Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:46:37pm |
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swamprat Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:46:39pm |
re: #74 reine.de.tout
So I guess you have some of the collectible…..I mean “flawed” books left?
Just an idle speculation.
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jcm Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:47:01pm |
re: #91 HoosierHoops
How do you pass college Trig without knowing it? I had a tudor in college that taught me every question in trig can be answered if you can remember an Indian Chief..Chief Sohchatoa.. I got an A- in trig and still don’t get it..
Sahchatoa
S=a/h
C=H/a
T=O/a
who knew? I’m a fri’g genius..LOL
We hired some new college grads. They saved money like mad for 3 or 4 years, bought and boat and spent the next two years sailing it around the boat. The name of their boat?
Sahchatoa.
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Cognito Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:47:42pm |
re: #97 cronus
Just in time for the Angels & Demons premiere.
That cover illustration is absolutely astonishing. Brilliant.
Shame the same can’t be said of Dan Brown.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:47:47pm |
re: #89 ArmyWife
No, thanks! I wish there was a place to go that said “this is a great neighborhood with fabulous schools” or “don’t go to this neighborhood, the schools are cruddy”
Can you get the test scores for various schools? They’re no guarantee but, they’re better than nothing.
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:47:55pm |
this is what my daughter is doing tonight at the historic State Theater in Kalamazoo….she copped some back stage passes from a guy she knows….Daddy taught her very well…heh
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Jack Burton Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:48:01pm |
re: #98 Bloodnok
Theres a website dedicated to that very typo… I wont link it though.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:48:03pm |
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Cato the Elder Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:48:25pm |
Is this the one they’re (not sure who “they” are) afraid will create tiny black holes that will eat the earth and the solar system?
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Wyatt Earp Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:48:55pm |
re: #108 Cato the Elder
Is this the one they’re (not sure who “they” are) afraid will create tiny black holes that will eat the earth and the solar system?
Oh, a few black holes never hurt anyone.
/
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HelloDare Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:49:12pm |
re: #86 Salamantis
It makes me hunger for the US to reverse course and decide to go ahead and build the one we were planning in the Southwest.
Didn’t know about that.
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swamprat Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:49:19pm |
re: #65 jcm
Your troop is really pissed they are stuck in Alpha Centauri with no return ticket.
They are from France!
/coneheads
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Wyatt Earp Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:49:38pm |
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HoosierHoops Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:49:47pm |
re: #74 reine.de.tout
COOKBOOK SALES UPDATE:
81 books sold, total “revenue” $405.00, February revenue will be posted to the cookbook paypal account April 1st and will be disbursed 1/2 to LGF, 1/2 to Soldier’s Angels.There are a couple of errors:
Page 5 - the last two “preparation” directions for this bread recipe say to marinate the meat. There is no meat. This got inserted from another recipe somewhere. This has been fixed for future printings.Page 117 - This is Sharmuta’s recipe for Wassail, not Jemima’s.
If anyone is interested in a Volume 2 - I’m game, so is FlakMusic. You can go ahead and send recipes in - click my nic and see the post about Volume 2.
You’ve done a wonderful job driving this project..Kudos!
Ok..in the desert section with the Robert Redford pie in says it serves 2.. I’m thinking if you eat half that pie..( And I submitted it) A lizard may be found flopping on the floor in a sugar induced high from eating half a pie and 911 will be called or ( to save us from a lawsuit) we change it to read the pie serves 6-8.. just a thought..
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:49:49pm |
re: #107 reine.de.tout
You’re welcome. Now, I just have to wait for vol 2.
If I come up with anything else, I’ll send it.
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Salamantis Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:51:00pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:51:05pm |
re: #109 Wyatt Earp
Oh, a few black holes never hurt anyone.
/
Really small black holes evaporate quickly. Just keep them away from food, which is anything at all.
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screaming_eagle Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:51:40pm |
re: #85 USBeast
Is that the same as “where the sun don’t shine”?
That’s where the US Gov is getting their money from.
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Fat Jolly Penguin Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:51:48pm |
Panning Around the Compact Muon Solenoid
…Sounds like a rotating title to me. :D
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Jack Burton Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:51:52pm |
re: #108 Cato the Elder
Yep, and “they” are generally the luddite-left and the jindal-right. They love to leave out the part about microscopic singularities only lasting for a microscopic amount of time: ~1 unit of plank time which is 5.34E-44 sec.
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Wyatt Earp Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:52:01pm |
re: #116 Kosh’s Shadow
Really small black holes evaporate quickly. Just keep them away from food, which is anything at all.
So, treat them like we treat Rosie O’Donnell?
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HelloDare Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:52:17pm |
Rumor has it that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton aren’t allowed at the same venues anymore. Scientists are afraid of a critical mass of black a-holes.
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Nevergiveup Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:52:23pm |
If the huge black hole only eat Europe, how would that effect Nato?
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:52:36pm |
re: #113 HoosierHoops
You’ve done a wonderful job driving this project..Kudos!
Ok..in the desert section with the Robert Redford pie in says it serves 2.. I’m thinking if you eat half that pie..( And I submitted it) A lizard may be found flopping on the floor in a sugar induced high from eating half a pie and 911 will be called or ( to save us from a lawsuit) we change it to read the pie serves 6-8.. just a thought..
HH- I had to guess on the servings, and I based my guesses on what I thought my hubby would consider a serving!
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cronus Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:52:38pm |
re: #103 Cognito
That cover illustration is absolutely astonishing. Brilliant.
Shame the same can’t be said of Dan Brown.
I sincerely hope it doesn’t actually create any antimatter. A black hole would be nothing compared to the explosion of Brown’s ego…
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Bloodnok Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:53:11pm |
re: #119 ArchangelMichael
Yep, and “they” are generally the luddite-left and the jindal-right. They love to leave out the part about microscopic singularities only lasting for a microscopic amount of time: ~1 unit of plank time which is 5.34E-44 sec.
But that’s when they getcha.
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ArmyWife Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:53:23pm |
re: #104 MandyManners
Yes. I found a newsweek article that named a close by high school in the top 3% of the nation - now I’m trying to figure out just what that commute would be.
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Cato the Elder Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:53:45pm |
re: #116 Kosh’s Shadow
Really small black holes evaporate quickly. Just keep them away from food, which is anything at all.
Well, if something goes wrong, Switzerland (and the UN in Geneva) will be the first to go. That’ll be a small comfort for however long it takes to work its way over here…
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HoosierHoops Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:53:54pm |
re: #95 Wyatt Earp
A Tudor? Henry the 8th taught you trig?
Whoops..I got 4 hrs. a week for a Tudor paid for by the state of California..
The prof’s got extra money on the side so everybody came out ahead
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HelloDare Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:54:51pm |
re: #122 Nevergiveup
If the huge black hole only eat Europe, how would that effect Nato?
It would spit out the French.
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Wishing Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:55:23pm |
So if they make any astounding discoveries. they will belong to the French, oui? I mean they get the credit?
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:55:26pm |
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Jack Burton Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:55:35pm |
re: #125 Bloodnok
But in order for all the particles in my body to be sucked into a black hole in Geneva in the span of 1 plank time unit. They would have to travel faster than the speed of light, so no they wont get me.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:55:53pm |
re: #113 HoosierHoops
Serves 2 sounds okay to me.
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Nevergiveup Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:56:05pm |
re: #132 Wishing
So if they make any astounding discoveries. they will belong to the French, oui? I mean they get the credit?
Only until the Germans march in.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:56:05pm |
re: #129 HoosierHoops
Whoops..I got 4 hrs. a week for a Tudor paid for by the state of California..
The prof’s got extra money on the side so everybody came out ahead
TUTOR, HH. Henry VIII wad a TUDOR!
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Wyatt Earp Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:56:38pm |
re: #137 CapeCoddah
TUTOR, HH. Henry VIII wad a TUDOR!
He didn’t get my subtle correction, I guess. :)
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Achilles Tang Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:57:38pm |
I have one of those stuck on my refrigerator.
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HelloDare Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:58:41pm |
re: #95 Wyatt Earp
A Tudor? Henry the 8th taught you trig?
I thought Henry the 8th drove a four door?
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Wyatt Earp Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:59:02pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:59:35pm |
re: #140 HelloDare
I thought Henry the 8th drove a four door?
I thought he got married to the girl next door. You know, the one who’s been married seven times before.
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Cato the Elder Sat, Feb 28, 2009 3:59:58pm |
re: #119 ArchangelMichael
Yep, and “they” are generally the luddite-left and the jindal-right. They love to leave out the part about microscopic singularities only lasting for a microscopic amount of time: ~1 unit of plank time which is 5.34E-44 sec.
Yes, I read that months ago in the NYT (so it must be true!). Apparently we’d be more likely to raise up dinosaurs from ancient DNA than do any harm with this thing.
Can’t wait to see what it has to teach us.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:00:12pm |
re: #123 reine.de.tout
What’s the deadline on the recipes? LOL I am such a non-cook, I’d need time for research and development. I do have my Grandma’s recipe for Tennessee slick dumplings.
I love my cookbook. Haven’t tried any recipes yet but had a good time reading the comments, puns, etc. LOL I hadn’t seen them all on the threads.
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Catttt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:00:12pm |
re: #137 CapeCoddah
TUTOR, HH. Henry VIII wad a TUDOR!
Tudors are ok, but….
Here is my house (I wish.)
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HoosierHoops Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:00:38pm |
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wrenchwench Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:00:52pm |
re: #133 albusteve
ha!..great spoof!
That’s not spoof! It’s educational! Here’s the website of the rappin’ chick.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:01:08pm |
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Wyatt Earp Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:01:29pm |
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:01:51pm |
re: #142 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I thought he got married to the girl next door. You know, the one who’s been married seven times before.
no Willy or a Sam?
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:02:12pm |
re: #145 Catttt
Tudors are ok, but….
Here is my house (I wish.)
Nice, but I love the old houses. The new designs have no soul.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:02:33pm |
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Bloodnok Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:02:46pm |
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:03:45pm |
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NonNativeTexan Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:03:54pm |
re: #152 CapeCoddah
Nice, but I love the old houses. The new designs have no soul.
But the new ones do have running water….
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Nevergiveup Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:04:04pm |
re: #155 Bloodnok
If so I don’t think the marriage is going to last long.
Then how do lesbians stay married?
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HoosierHoops Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:04:15pm |
re: #151 Catttt
You mean you wish she WERE here……/
Cattt I am in so much trouble…I’ve really got to big or go home here..Sorry..
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Catttt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:04:23pm |
re: #152 CapeCoddah
Nice, but I love the old houses. The new designs have no soul.
Well, not sure what you mean by “the old houses.” Southwestern style homes are just about the oldest in the country.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:04:25pm |
Hey Wyatt, BTW, the Boston City councillor whose wife wanted in on the BPD after failing the test was told to pound sand by the appeals board. Said there were many, many more in her situation who would come ahead of her if another crack at it were allowed.
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Catttt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:04:58pm |
re: #160 Catttt
Well, not sure what you mean by “the old houses.” Southwestern style homes are just about the oldest in the country.
Oh - maybe Cape Cod style? :D I hate them. Good thing we aren’t married! Heh.
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Shr_Nfr Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:05:13pm |
re: #81 Nevergiveup
As far as I am concerned, Obama is 50% black and 0% American. Sorry to insult blacks.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:05:42pm |
re: #157 NonNativeTexan
But the new ones do have running water….
I have an indoor pump AND a water closet!
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NonNativeTexan Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:06:47pm |
re: #164 CapeCoddah
I have an indoor pump AND a water closet!
First time overseas— What the hell is a WC?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:07:28pm |
re: #166 NonNativeTexan
First time overseas— What the hell is a WC?
You’re from Texas? It’s the outhouse.
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NonNativeTexan Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:08:01pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:08:15pm |
My wife just shot me the finger.
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pat Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:08:53pm |
What do American Jews think of Obama now? Are they even aware that Chas Freeman is in charge of Middle Eastern intelligence? An anti-Semite, Muslim tool? Not a word from the GOP?
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Cato the Elder Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:09:32pm |
So this is what Laurie Anderson was singing about: “Big Science” (sorry no video on the web).
How much will this thing have cost when it’s finished?
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:09:36pm |
re: #160 Catttt
Well, not sure what you mean by “the old houses.” Southwestern style homes are just about the oldest in the country.
Just about, but we have the old 17th and 18th century houses in New England.
I would kill for one of those. I have a huge collection of Pumpkin pine floorboards with the Kings mark on the back of them, to denote that they came from the “Kings Forest”. Pumpkin pine is extinct here now. Got them when the old houses on the Cape are refinished. People tear that stuff up to put down pergola. A SIN!
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NonNativeTexan Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:09:40pm |
re: #169 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
My wife just shot me the finger.
My wife does that to me , I say U promise?
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Bobblehead Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:11:27pm |
In other science related news: The Science Behind Naval Lint
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:14:27pm |
re: #162 Catttt
Oh - maybe Cape Cod style? :D I hate them. Good thing we aren’t married! Heh.
LOL. We would have to be lesbians for that!. You would not believe the treasures you find in those homes. Beehive ovens walled up, circular brick root cellars, broadsheets from the pre and revolutionary war period in the walls… treasure troves. Plus, they are still standing solid after 3-400 years.
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debutaunt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:14:28pm |
re: #101 swamprat
So I guess you have some of the collectible…..I mean “flawed” books left?
Just an idle speculation.
I ordered a cookbook today and don’t know if I will get the fantastically valuable first-addition, or the revised ordinary one.
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Catttt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:14:37pm |
re: #172 CapeCoddah
If I were filthy rich, I’d have that house in the desert and a penthouse in NYC. :D
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Cognito Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:14:45pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:14:45pm |
re: #175 Bobblehead
IIRC, a printing company mis-spelled Naval Academy diplomas with Navel. On real sheepskin. Suckage.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:14:49pm |
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Bobblehead Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:16:09pm |
re: #181 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
IIRC, a printing company mis-spelled Naval Academy diplomas with Navel. On real sheepskin. Suckage.
That’s funny.
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Catttt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:16:09pm |
re: #177 CapeCoddah
LOL. We would have to be lesbians for that!. You would not believe the treasures you find in those homes. Beehive ovens walled up, circular brick root cellars, broadsheets from the pre and revolutionary war period in the walls… treasure troves. Plus, they are still standing solid after 3-400 years.
I wouldn’t have said married, but isn’t Cape Cod in Mass. :D hehehee
I love to tour places like that. Does it count that I’ve been to Williamsburg? :D
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:16:21pm |
re: #94 notutopia
reine, when we send future recipes, Is there a certain format or template that you can make available online, it would save you oodles of time, if we could just type the recipe in, so you don’t have to re-format them.
No, all I need is the recipes typed.
If I need more info. I’ll contact you.
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ConservatismNow! Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:16:37pm |
re: #172 CapeCoddah
Like painting mahogany! A SIN I tell you!
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:16:37pm |
re: #166 NonNativeTexan
First time overseas— What the hell is a WC?
“Water Closet”, polite British for toilet.
And this page has two versions of a joke based on a misinterpretation of WC.
Note: this WC is not to be confused with this WC, as the first uses water and the latter won’t touch the stuff.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:16:51pm |
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Bobblehead Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:16:57pm |
re: #185 reine.de.tout
No, all I need is the recipes typed.
If I need more info. I’ll contact you.
You’re open for new recipes?
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:17:08pm |
re: #101 swamprat
So I guess you have some of the collectible…..I mean “flawed” books left?
Just an idle speculation.
Not anymore!
Unless you want my first copy with everything printed SIDEWAYS LOL!
What a mess that was.
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Cognito Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:17:35pm |
re: #166 NonNativeTexan
First time overseas— What the hell is a WC?
Water Closet. Toilet. Loo. Potty. Commode. John. Head. Ye olde porcelain throne.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:18:05pm |
re: #183 Bobblehead
That’s funny.
I have been intrigued by typographical errors nearly all my life,” Emory alumnus Max Hall writes in the preface to his new book, An Embarrassment of Misprints. “As a newspaper person, Washington information officer, book editor, and teacher of writing—and simply as a reader—I have seen plenty of mix-ups.”
What follows are some of those mix-ups, culled from An Embarrassment of Misprints:
* “In the spring of 1990 the United States Naval Academy presented 990 diplomas to its graduating class with `Naval’ spelled `Navel.’ A representative of the Academy told me the flawed documents arrived from the printer the day before the ceremony, and there was nothing to do but hand them out. A corrected version was later sent to each graduate.”
* “According to a history of the Washington Post, that paper once printed this headline on the front page of its first edition: FDR IN BED WITH COED. Actually President Roosevelt was in bed with a cold, as the story made clear. Chalmers Roberts, author of the history, wrote that this misprint probably occurred in 1940, and that the President phoned the paper and ordered a hundred copies to send to his friends. But Roosevelt didn’t get his copies, because the circulation department had scurried around to retrieve the edition and shred it.”
* “On January 18, 1961, the International Edition of the New York Times, published in London, referred to [the Archbishop of Canterbury] as the `red-nosed Archbishop’ (meaning `red-robed’).”
* “W.B. Yeats, in his poem `Among School Children,’ mentioned Plato and then `solider Aristotle,’ but the printer made it `soldier Aristotle.’ That version went unchanged in several printings of Yeats’s complete poems while he was still alive, suggesting that he may have decided he could live with `soldier.’ In the edition of 1947, eight years after his death, `solider Aristotle’ was substituted.”
* “When my friend Randolph Fort [who went on to be editor of Emory Magazine] was appointed Beauty Editor of the Emory University Yearbook in the early 1930s, a misprinted headline in the Emory Wheel made him the `Betuty Editor.’ For the rest of his life his friends called him `Betuty.’ “
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lifeofthemind Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:18:08pm |
The NY Tea Party was over 100 strong I think, mostly well spoken if not professionally organized. The Jr Press stringers who showed probably found someone embarrassing to interview if they tried hard enough. Hope we keep plugging away.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:18:21pm |
re: #144 Pvt Bin Jammin
What’s the deadline on the recipes? LOL I am such a non-cook, I’d need time for research and development. I do have my Grandma’s recipe for Tennessee slick dumplings.
I love my cookbook. Haven’t tried any recipes yet but had a good time reading the comments, puns, etc. LOL I hadn’t seen them all on the threads.
No deadline for Vol 2 - it will be awhile before I begin and then I’ll set a deadline. If I get 100 recipes, I’ll start right away. Otherwise, I’ll announce the beginning of the vol 2 project in a couple of months.
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ConservatismNow! Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:18:58pm |
re: #194 reine.de.tout
I’ve got at least 3 from the missus.
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:19:16pm |
While we’re on the subject, another song about supercolliders
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:19:18pm |
re: #189 Bobblehead
You’re open for new recipes?
Yes.
Click my nic, look at the Vol 2 post at the blog, and send me what you’ve got.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:21:08pm |
re: #195 ConservatismNow!
Type ‘em up and send ‘em in!
Include your nic.
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debutaunt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:21:12pm |
re: #178 debutaunt
I ordered a cookbook today and don’t know if I will get the fantastically valuable first-
addition, or the revised ordinary one.
Oh lord, PIMF edition
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:21:13pm |
re: #179 Catttt
If I were filthy rich, I’d have that house in the desert and a penthouse in NYC. :D
My favorite house belongs to a client of mine, use it on my website. An OLD house, brought back to original, with a HUGE new portion, incorporated. If you want to see it, I will post my website address.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:22:11pm |
re: #194 reine.de.tout
No deadline for Vol 2 - it will be awhile before I begin and then I’ll set a deadline. If I get 100 recipes, I’ll start right away. Otherwise, I’ll announce the beginning of the vol 2 project in a couple of months.
That sounds like a smart move. I’ll seriously have to work on a recipe or two.
LOL If you don’t get enough recipes, maybe you could do a whole book of funny posts, puns, etc., and give it a title of something along the lines of “LGF - Light Reading Material for the Water Closet.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:22:15pm |
re: #184 Catttt
I wouldn’t have said married, but isn’t Cape Cod in Mass. :D hehehee
I love to tour places like that. Does it count that I’ve been to Williamsburg? :D
LOL, a bit south of here. Come to the Cape, I will give you a tour you will not soon forget.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:22:40pm |
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Bobblehead Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:22:44pm |
re: #197 reine.de.tout
Yes.
Click my nic, look at the Vol 2 post at the blog, and send me what you’ve got.
Goody! I love my cookbook. Volume 2 will have more artwork by Jaunte?
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:22:59pm |
re: #201 Pvt Bin Jammin
That sounds like a smart move. I’ll seriously have to work on a recipe or two.
LOL If you don’t get enough recipes, maybe you could do a whole book of funny posts, puns, etc., and give it a title of something along the lines of “LGF - Light Reading Material for the Water Closet.
We could include some of the song parodies, and other jokes.
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NonNativeTexan Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:23:00pm |
re: #191 Cognito
Water Closet. Toilet. Loo. Potty. Commode. John. Head. Ye olde porcelain throne.
Yep, #164 CapeCoddah called it a water closet, reminded me of the
WCs in GB
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:24:12pm |
re: #199 debutaunt
Oh lord, PIMF edition
Oh, you’ll get the revised one.
Or I’ll send you the one I have, the very first one printed, where it’s printed SIDEWAYS with half the stuff missing.
that’s the real collector’s item.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:24:14pm |
re: #205 Kosh’s Shadow
We could include some of the song parodies, and other jokes.
Absolutely. I am still rotfmao over Buzzsawmonkey’s Tree sitting poem.
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:24:29pm |
re: #202 CapeCoddah
LOL, a bit south of here. Come to the Cape, I will give you a tour you will not soon forget.
you have not seen anything til you see upper end tradtional lifestyles in New Mexico….blow you utterly away, there aint no clapboard and paint out here amigo
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:24:31pm |
re: #186 ConservatismNow!
Like painting mahogany! A SIN I tell you!
Our first house had Walnut wainscoting that had been painted. I wanted to hunt down the perp and hang them. Took us a long time to fix it. Hubby did it piece by piece.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:25:19pm |
re: #201 Pvt Bin Jammin
That sounds like a smart move. I’ll seriously have to work on a recipe or two.
LOL If you don’t get enough recipes, maybe you could do a whole book of funny posts, puns, etc., and give it a title of something along the lines of “LGF - Light Reading Material for the Water Closet.
We’ll include stuff like that.
Ya’ll should all keep your faves, or send them to me when you find them so I’ll have them for Vol 2
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debutaunt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:25:40pm |
re: #207 reine.de.tout
Oh, you’ll get the revised one.
Or I’ll send you the one I have, the very first one printed, where it’s printed SIDEWAYS with half the stuff missing.
that’s the real collector’s item.
How sweet! I’ll go with the revised, but that was quite a sales job, reine!
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Catttt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:25:54pm |
re: #200 CapeCoddah
I’d love to, but don’t post your Web site address unless you feel comfortable with it. You never know who is reading what we write here.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:25:55pm |
re: #207 reine.de.tout
Do Soldiers’ Angels know about this yet? I haven’t noticed any postings about it over on their member’s forum.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:26:36pm |
re: #212 ploome hineni
Ah-ha!
The Ploomester has arrived!
Let the fun and games begin.
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ConservatismNow! Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:26:38pm |
re: #210 CapeCoddah
Our first house had Walnut wainscoting that had been painted. I wanted to hunt down the perp and hang them. Took us a long time to fix it. Hubby did it piece by piece.
On the opposite side, our first house (a rental) had 100 year old barn wood screwed into the walls on the bathroom…poorly. The owner was going for a, ahem shall we say, rustic look. Too bad he never got that claw footed tub in…
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:26:38pm |
re: #197 reine.de.tout
Yes.
Click my nic, look at the Vol 2 post at the blog, and send me what you’ve got.
I will be sending a couple, Reine, A seafood and Great Grandmas molasses cookies.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:27:20pm |
re: #216 Pvt Bin Jammin
No, I thought I would just contact them when I’m ready to send out the donation, which won’t be ‘til April when Lulu.com will post the revenues to the project paypal account.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:30:38pm |
re: #221 reine.de.tout
I stay in touch with the founder, so let me know. I haven’t wanted to mention it in case it was a surprise. She will be tickled to death. I love soldiers’ angels. The only problem with our forums is that we are not allowed to discuss politics so I am constantly on LGF instead.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:31:00pm |
re: #215 Catttt
I’d love to, but don’t post your Web site address unless you feel comfortable with it. You never know who is reading what we write here.
It is a business, open to the public. Good advertising. ANd, any lizards who come this way and need a ride can know how to find me, there is a substantial lizard discount for lizards in good standing.
www.carriagehouselimos.com
You have to click thru the tabs to see all the pics. There is only 1 private home featured.
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debutaunt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:31:35pm |
re: #223 godfrey
Evening, lizards. What’s for dinner?
Page throught the cookbook and pick something nice out.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:31:57pm |
re: #218 ConservatismNow!
On the opposite side, our first house (a rental) had 100 year old barn wood screwed into the walls on the bathroom…poorly. The owner was going for a, ahem shall we say, rustic look. Too bad he never got that claw footed tub in…
Some people are dumb as rocks.
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ConservatismNow! Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:32:12pm |
re: #223 godfrey
I already had my dinner. Blackened chicken platter with some red beans and rice. My belly loves me but my heart hates me.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:32:37pm |
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:32:39pm |
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:33:20pm |
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godfrey Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:34:28pm |
I’m still eating on leftover etoufee and red beans.
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godfrey Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:37:06pm |
Dunno on the tacos, but ploome loves potato flakes, which go great with champagne and pearled rugs.
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albusteve Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:38:18pm |
re: #238 godfrey
Dunno on the tacos, but ploome loves potato flakes, which go great with champagne and pearled rugs.
as long as the flakes are above room temp
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:39:54pm |
re: #224 Pvt Bin Jammin
I stay in touch with the founder, so let me know. I haven’t wanted to mention it in case it was a surprise. She will be tickled to death. I love soldiers’ angels. The only problem with our forums is that we are not allowed to discuss politics so I am constantly on LGF instead.
I see no problem with letting her know!
Just be sure to let her know the $ won’t be available until the first part of April.
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ConservatismNow! Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:40:54pm |
re: #240 godfrey
my next recipe will be rump roast
I will be having crock-pot pork chops on Monday. HEAVEN. HEAV-UN.
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Catttt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:41:11pm |
re: #225 CapeCoddah
It is a business, open to the public. Good advertising. ANd, any lizards who come this way and need a ride can know how to find me, there is a substantial lizard discount for lizards in good standing.
[Link: www.carriagehouselimos.com…]
You have to click thru the tabs to see all the pics. There is only 1 private home featured.
Nice!
Also, your biz reminds me that I could use a driver tomorrow. (Actually, I dislike driving and would have a driver or just take cabs if I were rich.) Comcast Internet connection is down (my laptop is running the ‘net on Netgear), and it’s going to freezing rain/snow here. I’m going to have to cab it to the office. SIGH (normally I telecommute).
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:42:42pm |
re: #246 Catttt
Nice!
Also, your biz reminds me that I could use a driver tomorrow. (Actually, I dislike driving and would have a driver or just take cabs if I were rich.) Comcast Internet connection is down (my laptop is running the ‘net on Netgear), and it’s going to freezing rain/snow here. I’m going to have to cab it to the office. SIGH (normally I telecommute).
LOL, I Love driving, in ANY weather, anywhere, anytime.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:45:15pm |
re: #241 reine.de.tout
I’ll e-mail her now and let you know what I hear back from her. She’s going to love it!
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:47:29pm |
re: #242 Pvt Bin Jammin
check your e-mail.
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Catttt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:47:34pm |
Driving story from today:
I had to go to Best Buy on the beltway. On the way home, I had a feeling someone was going to screw up. I thought - big truck might crush those three vehicles. Then I noticed the back vehicle center lane had two big metal file cabinets/lockers upright at the back. I slowed down to give it space (as always, I was in the slow lane). Maybe the red car will spin out?
Just then, one of the lockers toppled off the back of the truck and bounced straddling my lane and the middle lane. The car behind it was not tailgating and slowed down, and I had left a lot of room, because I had a hunch SOMETHING was about to happen. I don’t know about you all, but when I get these hunches, they usually turn out to be useful.
So no one hit anyone - at least not initially (It happened right at my turn off). Called 911 and reported it to the troopers - good deed for the day, yes?
Thanks to the powers that be for the head’s up.
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jim in virginia Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:48:08pm |
re: #247 godfrey
godfrey! How’s the running?
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nyc redneck Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:49:25pm |
speaking of dinner. i have been excluded from a gathering this evening because
my presence is an issue for some individuals who have been invited.
these are a group of friends i have known for yrs.
of course since i have had my post 9-11 awakening and they have not, the relationships have become somewhat strained.
oddly, now, more so than ever. (and their asshole won.) wtf?
i only found out abt. the party because i was talking to one of my friends and she said she was going over to ‘so and so’s tonight. then there was an awkward “uh-oh” moment of silence.
and of course i realize instantly i am not invited.
well, i knew the break was coming. inevitably.
so, i’m fixing to dump me some libs. 2 at least.
it is just too difficult to have ‘friends’ like this.
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CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:50:24pm |
re: #252 Catttt
Driving story from today:
I had to go to Best Buy on the beltway. On the way home, I had a feeling someone was going to screw up. I thought - big truck might crush those three vehicles. Then I noticed the back vehicle center lane had two big metal file cabinets/lockers upright at the back. I slowed down to give it space (as always, I was in the slow lane). Maybe the red car will spin out?
Just then, one of the lockers toppled off the back of the truck and bounced straddling my lane and the middle lane. The car behind it was not tailgating and slowed down, and I had left a lot of room, because I had a hunch SOMETHING was about to happen. I don’t know about you all, but when I get these hunches, they usually turn out to be useful.
So no one hit anyone - at least not initially (It happened right at my turn off). Called 911 and reported it to the troopers - good deed for the day, yes?
Thanks to the powers that be for the head’s up.
Had a similar incident w/ a lumber truck years ago. Scary shit. My 6th grade teacher, who was an avid bicyclist, was killed after he retired when an improperly tied down canoe blew off the roof of a car and hit him.
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Cato the Elder Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:51:01pm |
re: #193 lifeofthemind
The NY Tea Party was over 100 strong I think, mostly well spoken if not professionally organized. The Jr Press stringers who showed probably found someone embarrassing to interview if they tried hard enough. Hope we keep plugging away.
Wow - 100 people. For a party with no program and a stupid name.
I didn’t think there were that many morons even in New York.
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:52:14pm |
re: #252 Catttt
I have a story from a couple of years ago. I got off the highway to go home. I always slow down when I reach the next street, but don’t stop if nothing is coming. (Only a Yield sign and a good view of oncoming traffic.)
This time, I stopped, and wondered why. After I started again, there was a car heading towards me on the wrong side of the road; he was far enough away to get into his lane, but if I hadn’t stopped, he would have hit me.
Those couple of seconds made a difference.
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debutaunt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:52:25pm |
re: #254 nyc redneck
speaking of dinner. i have been excluded from a gathering this evening because
my presence is an issue for some individuals who have been invited.
these are a group of friends i have known for yrs.
of course since i have had my post 9-11 awakening and they have not, the relationships have become somewhat strained.
oddly, now, more so than ever. (and their asshole won.) wtf?
i only found out abt. the party because i was talking to one of my friends and she said she was going over to ‘so and so’s tonight. then there was an awkward “uh-oh” moment of silence.
and of course i realize instantly i am not invited.
well, i knew the break was coming. inevitably.
so, i’m fixing to dump me some libs. 2 at least.
it is just too difficult to have ‘friends’ like this.
Sometimes I have a delightful email to forward and have fewer people to send to now - they are missing much more than I am.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:52:51pm |
re: #254 nyc redneck
speaking of dinner. i have been excluded from a gathering this evening because
my presence is an issue for some individuals who have been invited.
these are a group of friends i have known for yrs.
of course since i have had my post 9-11 awakening and they have not, the relationships have become somewhat strained.
oddly, now, more so than ever. (and their asshole won.) wtf?
i only found out abt. the party because i was talking to one of my friends and she said she was going over to ‘so and so’s tonight. then there was an awkward “uh-oh” moment of silence.
and of course i realize instantly i am not invited.
well, i knew the break was coming. inevitably.
so, i’m fixing to dump me some libs. 2 at least.
it is just too difficult to have ‘friends’ like this.
Oh my my my.
How sad for you, but especially
for them.
They have chosen to keep their blinders on, apparently.
| 262 |
CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:56:11pm |
re: #254 nyc redneck
speaking of dinner. i have been excluded from a gathering this evening because
my presence is an issue for some individuals who have been invited.
these are a group of friends i have known for yrs.
of course since i have had my post 9-11 awakening and they have not, the relationships have become somewhat strained.
oddly, now, more so than ever. (and their asshole won.) wtf?
i only found out abt. the party because i was talking to one of my friends and she said she was going over to ‘so and so’s tonight. then there was an awkward “uh-oh” moment of silence.
and of course i realize instantly i am not invited.
well, i knew the break was coming. inevitably.
so, i’m fixing to dump me some libs. 2 at least.
it is just too difficult to have ‘friends’ like this.
Their loss, NYC. They were never your friends, acquaintances maybe, never friends.
| 263 |
CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:58:33pm |
brb, gotta go to the end of the street and decide if we want pizza or fish and chips.
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Colonel Panik Sat, Feb 28, 2009 4:59:29pm |
re: #259 LieSeeker
“That’s no muon…”
Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader will flip the switch and ZAAAAAAP…good bye Alderaan…
| 265 |
Colonel Panik Sat, Feb 28, 2009 5:01:09pm |
re: #191 Cognito
Water Closet. Toilet. Loo. Potty. Commode. John. Head. Ye olde porcelain throne.
The Altar of St. John of the Swirling Waters.
| 266 |
nyc redneck Sat, Feb 28, 2009 5:19:44pm |
re: #256 Cato the Elder
Wow - 100 people. For a party with no program and a stupid name.
I didn’t think there were that many morons even in New York.
they went down to city hall to protest O’s fuking sinister attempt to bankrupt this country. i applaud them. 100 patriots is a good beginning.
i would have gone myself but i had to work.
and you are going to insult people trying to make their voices heard.
wtf could you possibly be thinking?
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UncleRancher Sat, Feb 28, 2009 5:22:08pm |
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Catttt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 5:26:12pm |
re: #255 CapeCoddah
Oh, lumber trucks! I’d pull off at the next exit! Too many movies seen where the culprit in a chain-reaction crash is a lumber truck.
| 269 |
Catttt Sat, Feb 28, 2009 5:33:35pm |
re: #248 CapeCoddah
LOL, I Love driving, in ANY weather, anywhere, anytime.
Really? You married? /wink :D
Seriously, I’d take the Light Rail downtown and switch to the Metro, then walk the rest of the way before I’d drive tomorrow. And in Colorado, where I’m from, I used to go the speed limit on ice and snow of all sorts. But I had studded snow tires there! Here, my truck does ok on ice, but it scares the heck out of me, because I hit black ice twice in the past and spun out in different vehicles. Both times, I was going about 30 mph.
| 270 |
Cato the Elder Sat, Feb 28, 2009 5:38:39pm |
re: #266 nyc redneck
they went down to city hall to protest O’s fuking sinister attempt to bankrupt this country. i applaud them. 100 patriots is a good beginning.
i would have gone myself but i had to work.
and you are going to insult people trying to make their voices heard.wtf could you possibly be thinking?
I’m thinking one of the reasons for making fun of moonbats is their persistent delusion that marching up and down the streets with stupid signs, costumes and (shudder) giant papier mâché puppets - I doubt the “American Tea Party” has those, yet, but wait and see - will somehow effect some kind of change. So in all fairness I apply the same standard to these goofs.
Get serious. “The American Tea Party”? (Motto: Pass the Scones!) Led by the likes of not-Joe the not-Plumber? I find the whole thing about as effective as this, though not nearly as entertaining.
It’s über-lame, and just plain embarrassing.
| 271 |
Maui Girl Sat, Feb 28, 2009 5:51:20pm |
What exactly is this piece of scientific monstrosity supposed to do and how will it benefit mankind?
| 273 |
CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 6:01:15pm |
re: #269 Catttt
Really? You married? /wink :D
Seriously, I’d take the Light Rail downtown and switch to the Metro, then walk the rest of the way before I’d drive tomorrow. And in Colorado, where I’m from, I used to go the speed limit on ice and snow of all sorts. But I had studded snow tires there! Here, my truck does ok on ice, but it scares the heck out of me, because I hit black ice twice in the past and spun out in different vehicles. Both times, I was going about 30 mph.
LOL, Yes. To a very fine specimen of construction worker male.
| 274 |
CapeCoddah Sat, Feb 28, 2009 6:07:01pm |
re: #270 Cato the Elder
I’m thinking one of the reasons for making fun of moonbats is their persistent delusion that marching up and down the streets with stupid signs, costumes and (shudder) giant papier mâché puppets - I doubt the “American Tea Party” has those, yet, but wait and see - will somehow effect some kind of change. So in all fairness I apply the same standard to these goofs.
Get serious. “The American Tea Party”? (Motto: Pass the Scones!) Led by the likes of not-Joe the not-Plumber? I find the whole thing about as effective as this, though not nearly as entertaining.
It’s über-lame, and just plain embarrassing.
Wondering if you find the original Boston Tea Party embarrassing? It was a protest of taxation. Seems perfectly appropriate to me.
| 275 |
eastvillageinfidel Sat, Feb 28, 2009 6:13:36pm |
Why should moonbats get to have all the fun? Seriously, these people are frustrated and don’t feel like their representatives are listening. I bet most of them voted and have written letters and signed petitions and some of them might even be bitchy and superior on blogs, to no avail. I’m actually relieved to know there are at least 100 people in NY that don’t blindly worship Obama.
| 276 |
nyc redneck Sat, Feb 28, 2009 6:15:28pm |
re: #270 Cato the Elder
It’s über-lame, and just plain embarrassing.
you think it’s “uber lame” that decent americans, for a change, will show up and speak out. this is an american tradition that lead to the founding of our country. there is nothing lame abt. it.
and you find it “just plain embarrassing” that patriots gather at city hall and exercise their right to free speech at such a critical time in history?
i applaud these concerned citizens. i find them inspirational.
just like the people who showed up to protest dinnerjackert’s party at the hyatt
and to back down the moslems w/ their “freedom go to hell” and ” kill the juice” posters.
some of us are going to push back.
if that embarrasses you, it’s your problem.
| 277 |
Mardukhai Sat, Feb 28, 2009 6:31:45pm |
By the way, anybody miss threads about the Middle East?
| 278 |
Mardukhai Sat, Feb 28, 2009 6:34:18pm |
re: #271 Maui Girl
What exactly is this piece of scientific monstrosity supposed to do and how will it benefit mankind?
I suppose it will help us learn more about the nature of matter and the origins of the universe.
And, perhaps, the meaning of life. (Yes, I know, it’s “42”!)
| 279 |
Cato the Elder Sat, Feb 28, 2009 6:36:09pm |
re: #274 CapeCoddah
Wondering if you find the original Boston Tea Party embarrassing? It was a protest of taxation. Seems perfectly appropriate to me.
Read your history. It was an act of civil disobedience, requiring courage and imagination. Naming an opposition group today “The American Tea Party” and hanging tea bags from your glasses while strolling aimlessly around a park is just silly.
re: #275 eastvillageinfidel
Why should moonbats get to have all the fun? Seriously, these people are frustrated and don’t feel like their representatives are listening. I bet most of them voted and have written letters and signed petitions and some of them might even be bitchy and superior on blogs, to no avail. I’m actually relieved to know there are at least 100 people in NY that don’t blindly worship Obama.
Right, because everyone who didn’t show up at this lame-ass “protest” is an Obama devotee.
re: #276 nyc redneck
you think it’s “uber lame” that decent americans, for a change, will show up and speak out. this is an american tradition that lead to the founding of our country. there is nothing lame abt. it.
So you keep trying to tell me. Look, decent or indecent, everybody has the right to make fools of themselves. Pardon me if I don’t swoon with admiration, regardless of who it is prancing around on any given day.
and you find it “just plain embarrassing” that patriots gather at city hall and exercise their right to free speech at such a critical time in history?
So now they’re patriots? As opposed to Obama supporters, who are not? Get a grip.
And every time is a critical time in history. Sashaying around in front of City Hall does exactly nothing to change anything, except give some people a little exercise. I’m all for that.
i applaud these concerned citizens. i find them inspirational.
just like the people who showed up to protest dinnerjackert’s party at the hyatt
and to back down the moslems w/ their “freedom go to hell” and ” kill the juice” posters.
some of us are going to push back.
if that embarrasses you, it’s your problem.
And if you expect it to accomplish diddly-wah-doo, that’s yours.
| 280 |
mrberner Sat, Feb 28, 2009 6:38:56pm |
“Welcome to the Black Mesa compound…”
Just can’t stop thinking about half-life when looking at these photos. I am rooting for the head eating aliens.
| 281 |
avanti Sat, Feb 28, 2009 6:50:28pm |
| 282 |
Gus Sat, Feb 28, 2009 6:53:58pm |
| 283 |
Salamantis Sat, Feb 28, 2009 7:00:59pm |
re: #271 Maui Girl
What exactly is this piece of scientific monstrosity supposed to do and how will it benefit mankind?
It can tell us whether or not Garrett Lisi has indeed figured out the Grand Unified Theory Of Everything, that finally unites the four fundamental forces of nature - the electrostrong, electroweak, electromagnetic, and the gravitational, and unites Einstein’s relativity theory and Feynmann’s quantum mechanics:
[Link: arxiv.org…]
| 285 |
Sunlight Sat, Feb 28, 2009 7:12:31pm |
| 286 |
astronmr20 Sat, Feb 28, 2009 7:21:25pm |
re: #89 ArmyWife
No, thanks! I wish there was a place to go that said “this is a great neighborhood with fabulous schools” or “don’t go to this neighborhood, the schools are cruddy”
Armywife,
I grew up in Richmond.. lived there for 30 years, and my Dad taught in area schools for most of his life.
PM me if you want to know more. My Dad still subs and we could steer you in the right direction.
| 287 |
Miles Sat, Feb 28, 2009 7:22:34pm |
re: #35 HelloDare
Yeah, but why do you hate Christians?/
You’re goofy (inspired by a goof, here, who called me goofy, for my beliefs).
I don’t know a single Christian who believes that science is blasphemy.
| 288 |
Perplexed Sat, Feb 28, 2009 7:32:56pm |
Just to think that we could have had the SCSC (Super Conducting Super Colider) right here in the US had Congress not pulled the plug on the developement. It would have provided many, many jobs in and around Waco, Tx. Guess that the politicos either couldn’t or wouldn’t handle Texas weather.
| 289 |
Salamantis Sat, Feb 28, 2009 7:52:39pm |
re: #288 Perplexed
Just to think that we could have had the SCSC (Super Conducting Super Colider) right here in the US had Congress not pulled the plug on the developement. It would have provided many, many jobs in and around Waco, Tx. Guess that the politicos either couldn’t or wouldn’t handle Texas weather.
David Koresh died near Waco on April 19th, 1993; the SCSC was killed by Congress, over Bill Clinton’s objections, shortly thereafter. Perhaps there was opposition to the building of such a large and expensive machine, one designed to plumb the deepest secrets of the universe, so close to the home ground of the Waco Wackoes, where it might be vulnerable to Luddite sabotage.
| 290 |
ErnieG Sat, Feb 28, 2009 7:57:37pm |
re: #50 FrogMarch
I love big machinery.
“Stay away from that wheelbarrow, chile. You don’t know nothin’ about machinery.”
-Brother Dave Gardner
| 291 |
ErnieG Sat, Feb 28, 2009 8:00:54pm |
A t-shirt I saw at Reddit.com:
THINKING ABOUT PHYSICS GIVES ME A LARGE HADRON
| 292 |
Perplexed Sat, Feb 28, 2009 8:04:43pm |
re: #289 Salamantis
One does not treat liquid helium with contempt. Nor do they screw with superconducting magnets. Koresh and his nutburgers had little to do with the shutdown. More of an issue was the continuing cost overruns and the fact it was being built outside of the normal research corridors.
I had several coworkers who hired onto the preliminary staff with SCSC who found themselves unemployed before ‘93, due to the budget cutbacks. Engineering jobs were difficult to come by because of DOD cutbacks in ongoing defense contracts.
| 293 |
ErnieG Sat, Feb 28, 2009 8:04:54pm |
| 294 |
Salamantis Sat, Feb 28, 2009 8:09:30pm |
re: #293 ErnieG
Well, if Higgs lost it, he should pay for finding it.
Higgs didn’t lose it; he merely discovered that it was lost, by discovering that it should exist, even though we’d never seen one, or evidence of one.
| 295 |
ErnieG Sat, Feb 28, 2009 8:13:31pm |
re: #294 Salamantis
Higgs didn’t lose it; he merely discovered that it was lost, by discovering that it should exist, even though we’d never seen one, or evidence of one.
I know. I was joking. It’s a lot funnier after a few Hornitos.
| 297 |
LieSeeker Sat, Feb 28, 2009 9:17:34pm |
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Skinless Frank Sat, Feb 28, 2009 10:32:59pm |
That looks like the part of my car that they said had become infested with evil spirits and could only be cured with a full exorcism and a valve job. A shitload of money to propitiate the hostile supernaturals was required, of course. Can’t have brownies, knockers, Europeans, gremlins, check engine codes, hobgoblins, zombies, and postmodernists rattling around in the engine compartment now, can you?
| 299 |
Seax Sat, Feb 28, 2009 10:36:11pm |
Engineer , (the guy with his hands in his pockets),
says to the two scientists…
” See…I told you it could cook a whole chicken “
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