There’s been a massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Andaman Islands: 10-degree Map Centered at 15°N,95°E. (Hat tip: Rednek.)
UPDATE at 8/10/09 1:39:48 pm:
About 12 minutes later, there was an apparently unrelated magnitude 6.4 quake in Japan: Magnitude 6.4 - NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN.
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:31:42pm |
If there are tsunamis, will the cowboy Obama send in a carrier group to render assistance?
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Ward Cleaver Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:32:11pm |
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Ward Cleaver Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:32:48pm |
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NelsFree Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:33:00pm |
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Ward Cleaver Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:33:36pm |
re: #4 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
If there are tsunamis, will the cowboy Obama send in a carrier group to render assistance?
Nope, an iPod loaded with uplifting speeches. To cheer them up.
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King of the Douche, now you may bow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:33:40pm |
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NelsFree Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:34:34pm |
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Creeping Eruption Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:35:16pm |
re: #6 Kosh's Shadow
How long before the jooos are blamed?
Who was it that claimed we had an earthquake generating machine? Some pali IIRC
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Neutral President Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:35:22pm |
re: #6 Kosh's Shadow
How long before the jooos are blamed?
Zionist Honcos testing antimatter weapons at the bottom of the ocean!
/
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NelsFree Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:35:41pm |
Earthquake close
tidal wave
get in line
Burma Shave
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reine.de.tout Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:36:19pm |
re: #12 Cannadian Club Akbar
Katrina was blamed on the Russian Mob.
Well that was silly.
Everybody knows Katrina was Bush's fault.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:36:29pm |
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shiplord kirel Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:36:31pm |
39 minutes now. A tsunami would have reached the Bangladesh and Myanmar coasts by now. A lot can depend on bottom topography and many, many other factors though, so the closest areas are not always the hardest hit and sometimes they are not hit at all.
IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA, GET TO HIGH GROUND RIGHT NOW!
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:36:32pm |
I sincerely hope there is no tsunami, but as Shiplord siad in the last thread,
IF YOU ARE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AREA, HEAD FOR HIGHER GROUND.
There is no tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean rim as there exists in the Pacific Ocean.
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Randall Gross Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:37:15pm |
From the position I'd say Burma / Myanmar could get hit. The depth of the Andaman sea makes it unlikely that Malaysia is in great danger. If a very large quake hits the tip of the ridge in the Andaman sea (which it didn't in this case) then the resulting tidal wave through the Malacca and Singapore straits would create biblical proportion death tolls.
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King of the Douche, now you may bow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:37:31pm |
re: #17 reine.de.tout
Well that was silly.
Everybody knows Katrina was Bush's fault.
Only because he hates black people.
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Racer X Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:37:32pm |
Am I the only one who has to slap the "new comments" button several times for it to activate?
Only noticed this since the "pending comments" feature was implemented.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:38:18pm |
flat tops changing coarse...headed in for duty...C-5s loading on the flight line...get some USA
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debutaunt Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:38:34pm |
re: #23 Racer X
Am I the only one who has to slap the "new comments" button several times for it to activate?
Only noticed this since the "pending comments" feature was implemented.
Use the auto feature and relax.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:39:41pm |
re: #17 reine.de.tout
Well that was silly.
Everybody knows Katrina was Bush's fault.
Georgio Bushski
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Randall Gross Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:39:51pm |
They've got warnings at Narcondam Island and Campbell Shoal
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:41:19pm |
Well I hope that nothing happens to Myanmar - those people suffer enough as it is.
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:41:52pm |
Talk about shitty timing, from this morning:
Tsunami warning buoy for Phuket now dead in the water
Supplied as part of US$16.6 million in funding for the US Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System (IOTWS) Program, the buoy gave Thailand for the first time the ability to detect directly any tsunami waves before they hit land. That ability is now history, the victim of a dead battery.
According to the US Government’s National Data Buoy Center, the buoy sent out the last of its 15-minute-interval signal messages on June 16 this year.
Chotenarin Kerdsom, who heads the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket Office (DDPM-Phuket), confirmed that the buoy’s battery is dead.
“The original battery was designed to power the unit for one year, but fortunately it ran for two years. If we install a new battery it will resume sending its signals,” he said.
The National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC) that is now responsible for maintaining the buoy has yet to get budget approval to install a new battery, he said.
“They will have a chance to get a budget in fiscal 2010, but it will require approval from the Budget Bureau,” he said.
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:41:56pm |
Another tsunami disaster would be horrible. Please, God, not again.
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haakondahl Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:42:00pm |
Iceweasel,
We may not have much time. The whole world could end tonight, and...
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Enkidu90046 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:42:08pm |
re: #1 Sharmuta
I hope a tsunami isn't triggered.
If it is, no doubt the hated United States military will provide humanitarian aid to all those affected... and the world will go on hating us regardless.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:42:20pm |
God help them. That entire peninsula isn't much 'above" sea level. A tsunami of any great strength would put it all underwater
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:42:36pm |
Let's not forget that the whacked out clerics told us that the last tsunami was Allah's vengeance.
So what pissed off Allah this time?
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:42:41pm |
re: #29 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Talk about shitty timing, from this morning:
President Obama, you have my permission to rush through a bill that contains just one item: Change the battery.
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Sharmuta Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:43:03pm |
re: #32 Enkidu90046
If it is, no doubt the hated United States military will provide humanitarian aid to all those affected... and the world will go on hating us regardless.
And we'll keep doing it too, because we're a moral people like that.
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tradewind Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:43:26pm |
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albusteve Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:43:28pm |
re: #33 sattv4u2
God help them. That entire peninsula isn't much 'above" sea level. A tsunami of any great strength would put it all underwater
don't worry, the Chinese can handle it
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:43:41pm |
re: #35 EmmmieG
President Obama, you have my permission to rush through a bill that contains just one item: Change the battery.
He'd blame Bush for not changing the battery.
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:43:48pm |
Ring of fire is quite active right now. Baja last week.
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midwestgak Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:44:07pm |
re: #1 Sharmuta
I hope a tsunami isn't triggered.
A huge 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit off the Andaman Islands in eastern India, triggering a tsunami alert across the Indian Ocean, the US Geological Survey reported Tuesday.
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:44:27pm |
Another EQ in Japan shortly afterwards?
Did Jörmungandr let go of his tail?
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Enkidu90046 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:44:31pm |
re: #36 Sharmuta
And we'll keep doing it too, because we're a moral people like that.
No good deed goes unpunished...
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:44:32pm |
re: #31 haakondahl
Iceweasel,
We may not have much time. The whole world could end tonight, and...
I heard some aliens are coming to save us.
They motto is "To Serve Man"
/
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Sharmuta Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:44:36pm |
re: #41 karmic_inquisitor
Ring of fire is quite active right now. Baja last week.
Stop plate tectonics!
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Randall Gross Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:45:30pm |
I'm not an expert, don't take my word -- however there is a sub ocean plateau west of the quake that could breakwater a wave, and the oceans are deep to the west of the quake.
zoom in on the red dot here
[Link: hisz.rsoe.hu...]
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:45:42pm |
re: #37 buzzsawmonkey
Don't forget the Israeli aid that was refused last time around.
Was the aid refused in Indonesia, too? I know a few years later Pakistan refused Israeli aid, unless they removed anything that indicated it came from Israel.
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Last Mohican Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:45:46pm |
re: #29 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
The battery required is not expensive, but the mission to replace it would require a budget of at least 10 million baht, he said.
That's about $294,000. I don't really understand why it would cost so much to replace a battery, but perhaps it would be worth it.
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Enkidu90046 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:45:49pm |
re: #37 buzzsawmonkey
Don't forget the Israeli aid that was refused last time around.
Well... after all, it was no doubt evil JOO-RAYS that caused the tsunami in the first place!!!
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:46:14pm |
Collect your own set of Tectonic Plates!
Only $100,000,000 each!
Operators are standing by to take your call.
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theuglydougling Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:46:40pm |
re: #36 Sharmuta
Despite what many in our own country would like to believe...
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haakondahl Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:47:10pm |
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Sharmuta Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:47:27pm |
re: #44 Enkidu90046
No good deed goes unpunished...
By and large, the American people are soft hearts and we want to help. Even if the only satisfaction we get will be knowing we helped without recognition or a trade-off, we will continue to help because it's a part of our national character.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:47:29pm |
re: #50 Last Mohican
That's about $294,000. I don't really understand why it would cost so much to replace a battery, but perhaps it would be worth it.
Maybe they need to build a boat to go out and replace the battery?
Actually, it probably costs a lot because it requires a specialized ship to go out to the buoy, and running ships tends to be expensive.
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:47:31pm |
re: #35 EmmmieG
President Obama, you have my permission to rush through a bill that contains just one item: Change the battery.
Would that be considered meddling?
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albusteve Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:47:44pm |
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shiplord kirel Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:47:46pm |
re: #42 midwestgak
A huge 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit off the Andaman Islands in eastern India, triggering a tsunami alert across the Indian Ocean, the US Geological Survey reported Tuesday.
Good to have some official backing. I think Thanos is right, the bottom topography is in our favor this time. We will soon know.
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King of the Douche, now you may bow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:47:49pm |
re: #52 Cygnus
Collect your own set of Tectonic Plates!
Only $100,000,000 each!
Operators are standing by to take your call.
Crap! Still paying off my Obama Plate collection! Oh, well.
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:47:50pm |
re: #29 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Talk about shitty timing, from this morning:
They must not have arranged with Central Services to maintain the buoy. Although they would have had to get the request in the pipeline 3 or 4 years before the buoy was actually deployed.
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:47:53pm |
re: #41 karmic_inquisitor
Ring of fire is quite active right now. Baja last week.
It usually is active, but this is a differnet plate boundary, away from the Pacific Plate.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:48:01pm |
re: #52 Cygnus
Collect your own set of Tectonic Plates!
Only $100,000,000 each!
Operators are standing by to take your call.
And they come with a free set of martini glasses.
Shaken, not stirred.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:48:15pm |
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haakondahl Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:48:16pm |
re: #58 Kosh's Shadow
Maybe they need to build a boat to go out and replace the battery?
Actually, it probably costs a lot because it requires a specialized ship to go out to the buoy, and running ships tends to be expensive.
I could do it in a Zodiac on a calm day.
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:48:19pm |
They must have fired off Destiny.
/The Core - good movie
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HelloDare Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:48:56pm |
Bush's fault.
Bush ruined the economy > Obama stimulus package > Crushing national debt > Pressure on tectonic plates > Earthquakes on the other side of the world.
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:49:09pm |
re: #64 Honorary Yooper
It usually is active, but this is a differnet plate boundary, away from the Pacific Plate.
Was refering to the Japan update.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:49:14pm |
re: #63 CyanSnowHawk
They must not have arranged with Central Services to maintain the buoy. Although they would have had to get the request in the pipeline 3 or 4 years before the buoy was actually deployed.
They did, but the request got garbled and said they were to replace a battery in a tuoy.
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:50:10pm |
re: #50 Last Mohican
That's about $294,000. I don't really understand why it would cost so much to replace a battery, but perhaps it would be worth it.
Boat, crew and personel, capturing and opening the buoy, the production of a long term, water safe battery which I assume has various environmental safeguards, plus redeployment, guessing these things add up.
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:50:17pm |
We've GOT to get a Tsunami warning bill through congress RIGHT NOW before the wave gets here!
We don't have time to debate it, just get it passed!
//
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:50:47pm |
re: #70 buzzsawmonkey
I'm tsurprised nobody has made a movie about Tsurfing the Tsunami.
Johnnny Lingo Dangerously?
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:50:47pm |
re: #38 tradewind
Burma the name
Not Up to Par
So They Renamed it
MyanMar.
BURMASHAVE
To steal a country
Just change the name
No one will see
Your guilty shame
BURMASHAVE
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The 1SG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:50:55pm |
re: #64 Honorary Yooper
The island chain had a series of quakes on the 26th of July. Must've been a prelude to this shaker.
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midwestgak Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:50:58pm |
re: #61 shiplord kirel
Good to have some official backing. I think Thanos is right, the bottom topography is in our favor this time. We will soon know.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:51:13pm |
re: #70 buzzsawmonkey
I'm tsurprised nobody has made a movie about Tsurfing the Tsunami.
Paul Tsongas is on it.
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Pianobuff Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:51:38pm |
re: #74 eschew_obfuscation
We've GOT to get a Tsunami warning bill through congress RIGHT NOW before the wave gets here!
We don't have time to debate it, just get it passed!
//
And by all means, let's appoint a Tsunami Tsar.
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midwestgak Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:51:42pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:51:59pm |
There goes the latest attempt to get the crew and passengers of the Minnow off the Island...
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shiplord kirel Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:52:00pm |
re: #70 buzzsawmonkey
I'm tsurprised nobody has made a movie about Tsurfing the Tsunami.
Niven and Pournelle's SF novel
Lucifer's Hammer
has a great scene in which a surf bum rides a monster tsunami right into downtown LA after an asteroid hits in the ocean just offshore.
The hell of it, to me anyway, was that such a scenario is not impossible at all. In fact, given enough time, it's inevitable.
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Enkidu90046 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:52:03pm |
re: #55 buzzsawmonkey
You joke, but there was some muttering of that sort at the time.
I know... that's what is so damned scary...
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:52:10pm |
Didn't it take like an hour last time for the tsumani to hit?
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:52:15pm |
re: #70 buzzsawmonkey
I'm tsurprised nobody has made a movie about Tsurfing the Tsunami.
Kurt Russel says he's in.
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HelloDare Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:52:16pm |
re: #70 buzzsawmonkey
I'm tsurprised nobody has made a movie about Tsurfing the Tsunami.
There was one. It starred Sylvester Cat.
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:52:17pm |
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Pianobuff Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:53:18pm |
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doppelganglander Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:53:31pm |
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:53:36pm |
re: #88 DaddyG
Kurt Russel says he's in.
I was just thinking that, but refuse to make comments referencing that particular film
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badger1970 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:54:22pm |
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:54:31pm |
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Charles Johnson Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:55:10pm |
I just embedded a Google Map of the region above... refresh to see it.
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budgrayjr Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:55:13pm |
It's Global Climate Change I tell ya! Repent now! Obama save us!
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Pianobuff Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:55:18pm |
re: #85 buzzsawmonkey
The Tsongas ended, but the melody lingers on.
You hardly ever hear the verse, and it's a wonderful one as so many of theirs were, but yet are skipped.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:55:22pm |
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jvic Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:55:30pm |
re: #4 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
If there are tsunamis, will the cowboy Obama send in a carrier group to render assistance?
Let's hope he doesn't put the carrier group under UN command so as to show what a goo-goo transnationalist he is. The long-term consequences, for our national interest at least, could be worse than the damage caused by the tsunami.
Of course, I hope there is no tsunami.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:55:33pm |
re: #92 doppelganglander
Now you're just being tsilly.
We can appoint an official who is in charge of procuring fuel from tar sands for scandanavian airlines.
Tar Tzar SAS. /
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:55:46pm |
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:55:47pm |
Here's what causes earthquakes - from the parody textbook "Science Made Stupid" (no longer in print, alas):
1. Earthquake prediction appears in press.
2. Alarmed public starts 'earthquake-proofing' homes, buildings.
3. Birds and animals, sensing fear among humans, and upset by commotion of increased construction work, become agitated.
4. Vibration from construction and from animals jumping and down on surface is transmitted to fault.
5. Earthquake occurs.
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midwestgak Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:55:57pm |
The Japan Meteorological Agency says a strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 has shaken Tokyo and surrounding areas. No casualties were immediately reported.
The agency issued a tsunami warning from the temblor early Tuesday, which centered off the Suruga Bay, southwest of Tokyo.
The quake rattled furniture and walls in Tokyo but there have been no immediate reports of damages or casualties.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:56:19pm |
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:56:31pm |
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debutaunt Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:56:36pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:56:44pm |
re: #85 buzzsawmonkey
The Tsongas ended, but the melody lingers on.
Yes, his wife got elected. I think at least half the people who voted for her thought they were voting for him.
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:56:57pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:57:46pm |
re: #107 Cygnus
And an Earthquake Earl.
How about a Prince of Pyroclastic Flows? (You try finding something to go with "Volcano")
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:58:23pm |
re: #88 DaddyG
Kurt Russel says he's in.
Speaking of Kurt, do you know how 3000 miles to Graceland ended dg? I watched practically the whole thing then turnwife called me away from the screen right at the end when Kurt got shot in the chest by Kevin and flew over that railing.
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Pianobuff Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:58:24pm |
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:58:47pm |
re: #112 EmmmieG
How about a Prince of Pyroclastic Flows? (You try finding something to go with "Volcano")
Vizier of Volcanoes.
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doppelganglander Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:58:48pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:59:38pm |
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:59:52pm |
re: #70 buzzsawmonkey
I'm tsurprised nobody has made a movie about Tsurfing the Tsunami.
There's a perfectly hysterical scene in Lucifer's Hammer where a guy surfs the "end of the world" tsunami caused by a giant asteroid.
About the only humor in that book, but I loved it.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 1:59:57pm |
re: #113 turn I missed that one. With the kid G's around Sky High was my last Kurt Russel movie.
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Racer X Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:00:07pm |
Shakin' All Over - The Who (Live at Leeds)
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theuglydougling Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:00:11pm |
Americans are driving too fast and too much, which accelerates the movement of the earth's crust.
//
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Ben Hur Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:00:18pm |
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Coracle Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:00:38pm |
re: #84 shiplord kirel
has a great scene in which a surf bum rides a monster tsunami right into downtown LA after an asteroid hits in the ocean just offshore.
The hell of it, to me anyway, was that such a scenario is not impossible at all. In fact, given enough time, it's inevitable.
The sucky part of that scene, as I recall was that he got the wave, but ended the scene just before smacking into a skyscraper.
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:00:43pm |
re: #118 Ben Hur
Israel/US/Japanese/Indian Nuke test?
Does anyone know where the Bush/Rove/Halliburton earthquake machine is?
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:00:45pm |
re: #124 theuglydougling
Americans are driving too fast and too much, which accelerates the movement of the earth's crust.
//
No, we're all getting so fat the Earth is hurting. Blame McDonald's.
///
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Ben Hur Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:01:04pm |
Global warming or Bush/Cheney.
Take your pick.
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:01:12pm |
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:01:31pm |
re: #122 DaddyG
I missed that one. With the kid G's around Sky High was my last Kurt Russel movie.
It's worth watching, I hope it has a happy ending. I was used to Cosner playing the good guy, he does one hell of a job at a bad guy.
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RightOnTheLeftCoast Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:01:36pm |
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:01:48pm |
re: #130 Ben Hur
Global warming or Bush/Cheney.
Take your pick.
Zionist Earthquake Satellite Weaponry
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:02:14pm |
Two rumblers in one day...OMG it's 2012 come early...nice knowing you all...see you on the other side...re: #122 DaddyG
I missed that one. With the kid G's around Sky High was my last Kurt Russel movie.
One of my 8 year olds favorites...so, are you a Hero or a Sidekick?
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Shiplord Kirel Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:02:38pm |
re: #120 Dianna
There's a perfectly hysterical scene in Lucifer's Hammer where a guy surfs the "end of the world" tsunami caused by a giant asteroid.
About the only humor in that book, but I loved it.
I thought "the massacre of the Comet Wardens" was hysterical but I'm depraved like that.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:02:47pm |
re: #132 turn
It's worth watching, I hope it has a happy ending. I was used to Cosner playing the good guy, he does one hell of a job at a bad guy.
makes sense...he's a bad actor
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:02:55pm |
re: #127 jcm
Does anyone know where the Bush/Rove/Halliburton earthquake machine is?
I coulda sworn that was a hurricane machine? Does it make earth quakes too?
(Maybe I'll check with Doktor Evil/)
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:02:59pm |
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theuglydougling Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:02:59pm |
Another disaster czar position:
Meteorite Monarch
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:03:24pm |
Ayalon: Attacks on Israeli targets abroad will be blamed on Hezbollah
Speaking in response to the news of the arrest of a terrorist cell in Egypt that had planned to assassinate Israel's ambassador there, Shlomo Cohen, and attack the embassy building in Cairo, Ayalon said that "if an Israeli diplomat or Israeli citizen is harmed abroad, Hezbollah will suffer the consequences."
Israel's former ambassador to Washington also said that the government of Lebanon will also be held directly responsible for any attack that Hezbollah might carry out. "They will not be able to remain free of responsibility," he said.
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:03:35pm |
Tso -
Thailand has a quakes on two tsides of it - tsunami tsandwich?
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:03:41pm |
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:03:59pm |
re: #135 Desert Dog
Two rumblers in one day...OMG it's 2012 come early...nice knowing you all...see you on the other side...
One of my 8 year olds favorites...so, are you a Hero or a Sidekick?
Sidekick definitely.
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:04:04pm |
re: #126 Coracle
The sucky part of that scene, as I recall was that he got the wave, but ended the scene just before smacking into a skyscraper.
I think that happened, but the good part was the guy who watched it. He thought the surf-bum was having the time of his life.
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:04:35pm |
re: #136 Shiplord Kirel
I thought "the massacre of the Comet Wardens" was hysterical but I'm depraved like that.
Well...I didn't say it!
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itellu3times Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:05:18pm |
twist and shout
come on come on baby now,
work it on out
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albusteve Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:05:22pm |
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:05:30pm |
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:05:55pm |
re: #136 Shiplord Kirel
I thought "the massacre of the Comet Wardens" was hysterical but I'm depraved like that.
It was pretty cool that some kid with a homemade telescope totally aced out Mr. Big Bucks Hamner and found the comet first.
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:05:57pm |
re: #142 buzzsawmonkey
"If you think you can survive a tectonic plate shift--go ahead, magma day."
--"Gaia Harry" Callahan
"I know what you're thinking...was it a magnitude 5 or a magnitude 6? In all this confusion, I kinda lost track myself. But, see how this is a friggin earthquake, the most powerful force in nature and could blow your head clean off. You have to ask yourself a question. Do I feel lucky today? Well, do you, punk?"
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itellu3times Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:06:17pm |
re: #144 karmic_inquisitor
Tso -
Thailand has a quakes on two tsides of it - tsunami tsandwich?
Quakes to the right of me,
Quakes to the left
Here I am,
Stick in the middle with tsu.
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:06:55pm |
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:07:14pm |
re: #151 albusteve
sorry...it's true
I'll watch the bodyguard just about every time it rolls around. I'm not saying Cosner is my favorite actor but I enjoy most of the movies he stars in.
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The Optimist Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:07:16pm |
Obama will give them his best "hope" speech and then apologize for America's role in the damage done.
In the last tsumani, Bush sent the Navy with helicopters and supplies because it was the right thing to do. We only wanted to help.
Obama will help the dictators and terrorists out in hope that they will become his friends.
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:07:43pm |
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:07:46pm |
re: #125 Ben Hur
Gee - given that it was in response to a Congolese student's question, wasn't her snit a bit culturally insensitive? Tsk Tsk Madame Secretary
(I love when feminism and multi-culturalism collide).
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:07:55pm |
re: #157 turn
I'll watch the bodyguard just about every time it rolls around. I'm not saying Cosner is my favorite actor but I enjoy most of the movies he stars in.
Waterworld?
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:08:06pm |
Despite my jokes (gallows humor) I'm quite worried that these quakes could result in a tsunami. #1 son was moved to a mission area in a rural area of the Philippines and has described what the locals live like. That part of the world is not a place I'd like to be stuck after a disaster.
On a positive note he used some of his scouting and Eagle project skills to build a widow a new door for her abode using bamboo.
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:08:06pm |
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:08:15pm |
re: #142 buzzsawmonkey
"If you think you can survive a tectonic plate shift--go ahead, magma day."
--"Gaia Harry" Callahan
Go ahead. Pumice me all you want.
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:08:28pm |
re: #163 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Waterworld?
No way, that was a horrible movie. I couldn't make it through that one.
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itellu3times Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:08:31pm |
re: #158 venezuela lover
Obama will give them his best "hope" speech and then apologize for America's role in the damage done.
Pelosi will call the earthquakes Nazis.
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:08:43pm |
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albusteve Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:08:49pm |
re: #157 turn
I'll watch the bodyguard just about every time it rolls around. I'm not saying Cosner is my favorite actor but I enjoy most of the movies he stars in.
I liked Dancing With Wolves, but not because he was in it...so I guess that does not count
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:09:01pm |
re: #161 karmic_inquisitor
Gee - given that it was in response to a Congolese student's question, wasn't her snit a bit culturally insensitive? Tsk Tsk Madame Secretary
(I love when feminism and multi-culturalism collide).
Heh... I was having the same thought, but I figured someone would tell me misogyny isn't cultural.
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theuglydougling Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:09:04pm |
I always enjoy how quickly these comment threads devolve into puns. You guys are good.
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:09:05pm |
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Neutral President Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:09:14pm |
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:09:16pm |
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:09:25pm |
re: #163 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Waterworld?
Krager, did you see Graceland? I want to find out how it ended, the jury is stsill out on that one for me.
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:09:35pm |
I think this blog should focus on the really important issues of the day.
Health Care / Earthquakes are just trivia compared with what's important!
Kamloops yoga instructor told his shorts are too short
A taste for short shorts has landed a Thompson Rivers University lecturer in hot water with Kamloops City officials, who say his outfits are too revealing for the city's largest recreational complex.Mohd Abdullah, a pilates and yoga instructor who also teaches computer science at TRU, says he's been warned twice by officials at the Tournament Capital Centre that the shorts he wears when working out there are too short.
/// a little short in the sarc depart...
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The Optimist Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:09:36pm |
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itellu3times Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:09:54pm |
re: #174 ArchangelMichael
I'm wondering what the odds are on her quitting before 2012.
You mean, 8:12 PM tonight?
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:09:58pm |
re: #167 turn
No way, that was a horrible movie. I couldn't make it through that one.
As the MST3K guys once said,
"Its like a bad scene from Waterworld."
"There were good scenes?"
"Good point."
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:10:06pm |
re: #170 albusteve
I liked Dancing With Wolves, but not because he was in it...so I guess that does not count
Field of Dreams was pretty good...so was Open Range.
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:10:06pm |
re: #171 eschew_obfuscation
Heh... I was having the same thought, but I figured someone would tell me misogyny isn't cultural.
But remember - matriarchies are, damnit!
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:10:12pm |
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:10:13pm |
re: #172 theuglydougling
I always enjoy how quickly these comment threads devolve into puns. You guys are good.
We have tsuperior punning tskills.
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midwestgak Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:10:52pm |
OT Glenn Beck showing the White House switchboard phone number at the bottom of the screen. Telling people to call and be polite.
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Captain Amercia Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:10:53pm |
These folks just can't catch a break. Prayers for safety going out.
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:10:58pm |
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Shiplord Kirel Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:11:18pm |
re: #148 Dianna
Well...I didn't say it!
Massacre of the Comet Wardens (I wrote this a few years ago. It is online but thoroughly buried)
One of my favorite scenes in all of science fiction is "the massacre of the Comet Wardens" in Niven and Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer.Lucifer's Hammer, 1977
time: late 70s
place: mostly Southern CaliforniaAn amateur astronomer named Tim Hamner discovers a new comet on a course that will take it very close to the Earth. The comet nucleus will rain mountain size chunks all over the Earth if it happens to hit, causing tsunamis, drastic weather change, and effects akin go nuclear winter.
In the weeks and months after Hamner's discovery, the chances of a collision grow from one in a million to one in a hundred to one in ten. A new religious cult, the Comet Wardens, forms in Southern California. Playing on the discoverer's name, their leader declares that the comet is the "hammer of God" sent to punish humanity for its wickedness. The Wardens dress in white robes and oppose all efforts to prepare for a possible collision, insisting that only prayer and repentance will save humanity.
By the morning the comet is due, millions have already fled the LA basin for the hills and deserts. With a collision deemed ever more likely, the last hold-outs run for the hills, jamming the freeways.In a final spectacular demonstration, the white robed Comet Wardens chain themselves across a major traffic artery, snarling traffic for miles and trapping the panic stricken hordes in the city.
The comet actually hits, dropping a huge asteroid into the ocean just off LA. It is clearly visible from the city, God's own tsunami is headed their way and thousands cannot escape.
The Comet Wardens have thrown away the keys to their chains, there is no time or equipment to cut the chains and open the highway, and the police have fled.
Thousands of would-be refugees realize that they are doomed and that they could have gotten away if not for the Comet Wardens, now helpless in their long chains as the vengeful mob pounces. They have about half an hour before the tsunami hits.Read it, it's good.
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:11:19pm |
re: #177 jcm
I think this blog should focus on the really important issues of the day.
Health Care / Earthquakes are just trivia compared with what's important!
Kamloops yoga instructor told his shorts are too short/// a little short in the sarc depart...
Tspeaking of links that need a warning.
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:11:23pm |
re: #172 theuglydougling
I always enjoy how quickly these comment threads devolve into puns. You guys are good.
Yeah, they know how to go with the flow when things heat up. Some puns are lavaish.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:11:35pm |
re: #181 Desert Dog
Field of Dreams was pretty good...so was Open Range.
actually he was pretty good in Open Range...just good enough, Duval will do that to you
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Pianobuff Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:11:52pm |
re: #181 Desert Dog
Field of Dreams was pretty good...so was Open Range.
I liked No Way Out. But I enjoy almost anything that Gene Hackman is in.
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itellu3times Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:11:53pm |
re: #188 Cygnus
Oh, tstop!
I thought that's supposed to be:
Oh, don't, stop, don't, stop, don't, ...
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:12:00pm |
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HelloDare Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:12:14pm |
re: #152 eschew_obfuscation
Wow... if I saw that wave coming at me, I'd run too. ;-)
Ava Lanche came in second.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:12:18pm |
re: #164 DaddyG
Despite my jokes (gallows humor) I'm quite worried that these quakes could result in a tsunami. #1 son was moved to a mission area in a rural area of the Philippines and has described what the locals live like. That part of the world is not a place I'd like to be stuck after a disaster.
On a positive note he used some of his scouting and Eagle project skills to build a widow a new door for her abode using bamboo.
Oh, well, if we are going to be responsible and all that...
NOW is a good time to get together a 72 hour kit for you and your family. There are no disasters at hand, and prices are normal.
Think about what your individual area might get hit with, what your family's needs might be, and so on. Portability is a necessity. Our kits are in backpacks on the wall of the garage.
[Link: 72hours.org...]
[Link: www.co.whatcom.wa.us...]
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snowcrash Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:12:23pm |
re: #177 jcm
The story wouldn't be complete without the photo!
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:12:25pm |
re: #172 theuglydougling
I always enjoy how quickly these comment threads devolve into puns. You guys are good.
I lava good pun thread.
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:12:26pm |
re: #194 Pianobuff
I liked No Way Out. But I enjoy almost anything that Gene Hackman is in.
That was good too...
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:13:07pm |
re: #180 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
As the MST3K guys once said,
"Its like a bad scene from Waterworld."
"There were good scenes?"
"Good point."
That movie was the most expensive flop in history IIRC.
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Bob Dillon Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:13:11pm |
This Indian Ocean quake was just a few miles north from the 2004 quake that resulted in the massive Tsunami. Several orders of magnitude less tho. 7.6 vs ~9.1
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itellu3times Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:13:54pm |
re: #202 turn
That movie was the most expensive flop in history IIRC.
but it didn't cost $700,000,000,000, even after inflation.
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:14:09pm |
re: #189 Shiplord Kirel
I regard that as karmic justice, instantaneously applied. Great review.
I snorted for days over the scene where they're spinning dog fur into yarn for socks.
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:14:10pm |
re: #202 turn
That movie was the most expensive flop in history IIRC.
I think Heaven's Gate still holds that honor
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:14:26pm |
re: #198 EmmmieG
Oh, well, if we are going to be responsible and all that...
NOW is a good time to get together a 72 hour kit for you and your family. There are no disasters at hand, and prices are normal.
Think about what your individual area might get hit with, what your family's needs might be, and so on. Portability is a necessity. Our kits are in backpacks on the wall of the garage.
[Link: 72hours.org...]
[Link: www.co.whatcom.wa.us...]
We sorted through ours last year and threw out the stuff that got old. My boys enjoyed the MREs for campouts and we replaced them with newer stuff my brother sent from Afganistan.
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Pianobuff Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:14:28pm |
re: #202 turn
That movie was the most expensive flop in history IIRC.
Barry Lyndon, Bonfire of the Vanities, Ishtar, and that Bennifer movie are also notable duds.
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:14:35pm |
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Charpete67 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:14:42pm |
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:14:44pm |
re: #200 Kosh's Shadow
I lava good pun thread.
Except there is no way to make a pun out of 'pyroclastic flow'. Darn.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:14:53pm |
re: #208 DaddyG
We sorted through ours last year and threw out the stuff that got old. My boys enjoyed the MREs for campouts and we replaced them with newer stuff my brother sent from Afganistan.
Yep. We got rid of the diapers and ate up the MRE's.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:14:53pm |
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Last Mohican Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:15:11pm |
re: #186 midwestgak
OT Glenn Beck showing the White House switchboard phone number at the bottom of the screen. Telling people to call and be polite.
Well, that's an improvement for him.
Did he tell everyone to be polite before or after he warned us that secret White House death squads are currently sneaking around in our living room, watching all our personal DVDs and possibly poisoning our pets?
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JustABill Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:15:23pm |
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:15:30pm |
A question for Hoops or other geologists around...
Would it be possible to have a major sea-floor displacement without an attendant shock wave registering with detectors?
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:15:52pm |
re: #202 turn
That movie was the most expensive flop in history IIRC.
You're probably right, but I remember Heaven's Gate. My, oh, my was that dreadful! And a downer, too.
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:15:58pm |
re: #209 Pianobuff
Barry Lyndon, Bonfire of the Vanities, Ishtar, and that Bennifer movie are also notable duds.
Battlefied Earth is also up there.
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midwestgak Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:16:56pm |
re: #193 Ben Hur
Wow, I could only watch 3 1/2 minutes of that interviewer's constant interrupting and spewing.
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:16:57pm |
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:17:09pm |
re: #180 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
As the MST3K guys once said,
"Its like a bad scene from Waterworld."
"There were good scenes?"
"Good point."
It was a blatant ripoff of Mad Max, only in the water. It should only be shown at Gitmo AFAIC.
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:17:13pm |
re: #205 itellu3times
but it didn't cost $700,000,000,000, even after inflation.
Coming to a theater near you Obamacare staring Blinky Pelosi and Dingy Harry Reid. You must watch it now, it will only run until August.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:17:17pm |
Last thanksgiving, the pie was eaten up by the relatives who rowed out to the island. They had taken a class on water safety, so they could go with the elastic flow of the water.
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John Neverbend Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:17:17pm |
Here's a pop quiz. Can anybody name the detective story in which the Andaman Islands play a significant role? As far as I know there's only one such story.
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Neutral President Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:17:31pm |
re: #193 Ben Hur
LOL. I couldn't watch the whole thing so I'll take their word for it being the worst ever. I watched about 10 seconds of it... Saw Peter Schiff and busted up laughing. If Paulian tin-foil hat wearing tax protesters are the only hope against Democrat grifters who helped to give us the financial crisis... we're BONED.
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:17:33pm |
re: #219 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Battlefied Earth is also up there.
Did anyone go see that? Really?
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:17:48pm |
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:18:00pm |
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:18:07pm |
re: #207 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I'm going to have to go google that ...
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:18:07pm |
re: #225 EmmmieG
Last thanksgiving, the pie was eaten up by the relatives who rowed out to the island. They had taken a class on water safety, so they could go with the elastic flow of the water.
I bow in the face of your pun greatness. Whoa.
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:18:08pm |
re: #222 right_wing2
Those who make puns need to be punnished
Who will rid me of this troublesome punster!
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haakondahl Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:18:14pm |
re: #112 EmmmieG
How about a Prince of Pyroclastic Flows? (You try finding something to go with "Volcano")
Viscount. Viceroy. Vicar.
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:18:20pm |
re: #225 EmmmieG
Last thanksgiving, the pie was eaten up by the relatives who rowed out to the island. They had taken a class on water safety, so they could go with the elastic flow of the water.
That was quite a looong trip for a pun ;-)
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:18:33pm |
re: #232 Cygnus
I bow in the face of your pun greatness. Whoa.
Yeah, it would have been nice to have a sentence that made some kind of sense, though.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:18:40pm |
re: #212 Cygnus
Except there is no way to make a pun out of 'pyroclastic flow'. Darn.
Pele pads, for your heavy pyroclastic flow.
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right_wing2 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:18:54pm |
Prayers out to the people in the quake affected areas.
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theuglydougling Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:18:56pm |
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Charpete67 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:19:21pm |
re: #230 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
That reporter needs to get smacked with a cluebat.
...so...in summary...Peter Shciff wants to kill old ladies...///
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RightOnTheLeftCoast Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:19:59pm |
re: #228 Dianna
Did anyone go see that? Really?
It was probably declared to be a sacrament for Scientologists...
/ or would that be a tsacrament for tsientologists?
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:20:02pm |
re: #228 Dianna
Did anyone go see that? Really?
Didn't all the scientologists have to go, since their prophet wrote it? (He never did stop writing science fiction)
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:20:10pm |
re: #213 EmmmieG
Yep. We got rid of the diapers and ate up the MRE's.
We are still eating canned dry good from the big push in 1999. I've learned lots about storing what we eat. Did you know dried broccoli never goes worse (it starts out bad)?
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:20:34pm |
re: #231 turn
I'm going to have to go google that ...
Heaven's Gate held the honor at the time and was responsible for UA collapse and being sold to MGM, it probably has been surpassed now, but the numbers might not take inflation into account for adjusted dollars.
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Ben Hur Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:20:37pm |
re: #220 midwestgak
Wow, I could only watch 3 1/2 minutes of that interviewer's constant interrupting and spewing.
They're hitting back.
What? You thought all that BS about 100s of 1000s being swept up in euphoric volunteerism, etc etc because of The One meant young people?
They meant journalists.
Because as far as I can tell, they're the only ones who have been motivated...
Say? Where are all those inspired hordes we were promised?
Quite the dud.
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:20:50pm |
re: #218 Dianna
You're probably right, but I remember Heaven's Gate. My, oh, my was that dreadful! And a downer, too.
It busted United Artists, what an impressive lineup of actors though. I have never seen it.
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yochanan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:20:51pm |
[Link: www.chicagotribune.com...]
arafish twin
and arafish is still dead.
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Kenneth Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:21:09pm |
Speaking of Burma...
Is Burma trying to obtain nuclear weapons?
Here is a photo of a suspect Burmese building that concerns intelligence experts. As you can see, it is near a river –- like the 5 MWe reactor in Yongbyon, North Korea, whose basic design was copied and built in Syria as well. The building has large power lines feeding it. And it’s certainly an unusual building to have in a remote part of impoverished Burma.
While the prospect of Burma's repressive regime going nuclear is a disturbing one, what's more disturbing is the presence of North Korea as Burma's nuclear patron. You may recall that the Syrian el-Kibar reactor that was destroyed by Israel in September 2007 had been built by the North Koreans and financed by the Iranians.
The Axis of Evil just got a new member.
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:21:36pm |
OT - anyone ever noticed how Hawai'ian has a bunch of vowels in it? And how Serbian has hardly any?
Someday I want to write a comic play about a Gitmo guard who makes a Hawai'ian detainee play Scrabble against a Serbian detainee and gets put up on war crimes charges for torture as a result.
/Yes - I have a twisted mind.
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:22:39pm |
re: #244 DaddyG
We are still eating canned dry good from the big push in 1999. I've learned lots about storing what we eat. Did you know dried broccoli never goes worse (it starts out bad)?
Canned brussels sprouts make some people phlegmish.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:22:48pm |
re: #249 Kenneth
Speaking of Burma...
Is Burma trying to obtain nuclear weapons?The Axis of Evil just got a new member.
They've been evil for a long time, but I didn't see them exporting their evil.
The reactor is probably paid for by Syria; build it somewhere out of reach of Israel.
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:22:58pm |
re: #250 karmic_inquisitor
OT - anyone ever noticed how Hawai'ian has a bunch of vowels in it? And how Serbian has hardly any?
Someday I want to write a comic play about a Gitmo guard who makes a Hawai'ian detainee play Scrabble against a Serbian detainee and gets put up on war crimes charges for torture as a result.
/Yes - I have a twisted mind.
ROFLMAO!
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Kenneth Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:23:01pm |
re: #226 John Neverbend
Here's a pop quiz. Can anybody name the detective story in which the Andaman Islands play a significant role? As far as I know there's only one such story.
Sherlock Holmes... something about an ape-man...
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:23:26pm |
re: #243 Kosh's Shadow
Didn't all the scientologists have to go, since their prophet wrote it? (He never did stop writing science fiction)
No clue. I didn't ever read the books, and the movie looked as if the production designer just ripped off the movie version of Dune without credit. I went and hid, and didn't even look at the science fiction boards for a bit; I was afraid of the reviews and the accusations that would follow.
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:23:36pm |
re: #249 Kenneth
Speaking of Burma...
Is Burma trying to obtain nuclear weapons?
The Axis of Evil just got a new member.
If we can keep Burma from getting nukes that'll be a close shave...
/
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:23:37pm |
re: #203 Bobibutu
This Indian Ocean quake was just a few miles north from the 2004 quake that resulted in the massive Tsunami. Several orders of magnitude less tho. 7.6 vs ~9.1
No, it was hundreds of miles away. The 2004 quake was off the coast of Indonesia (Sumatra, IIRC).
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:24:04pm |
Since we're on geology: My nomination for the most innocent phrase that you cannot google without bad results:
Bedding cleavage: Cleavage of a rock parallel to the bedding (the layers of rock.)
It's a totally G-rated term.
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John Neverbend Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:24:06pm |
re: #254 Kenneth
Sherlock Holmes... something about an ape-man...
Excellent. Have some karma. He was a pygmy, not an ape, but you got the right idea.
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Shiplord Kirel Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:24:11pm |
re: #244 DaddyG
We are still eating canned dry good from the big push in 1999. I've learned lots about storing what we eat. Did you know dried broccoli never goes worse (it starts out bad)?
I suspect that archeologists will still be finding cached Y2K pork and beans a thousand years from now.
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Kenneth Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:24:18pm |
re: #252 Kosh's Shadow
Paid for by Iran, more likely. The Iranians paid for the Syrian reactor, also built by the NoKos. Syria is broke.
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Pianobuff Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:24:32pm |
What is this world coming to when even Robert Reich says that "our democracy is in terrible shape" due to the deal Obama cut with the pharm industry?
Reich astutely points out:
In return, Big Pharma isn’t just supporting universal health care. It’s also spending a lots of money on TV and radio advertising in support. Sunday’s New York Times reports that Big Pharma has budgeted $150 million for TV ads promoting universal health insurance, starting this August (that’s more money than John McCain spent on TV advertising in last year’s presidential campaign), after having already spent a bundle through advocacy groups like Healthy Economies Now and Families USA.
Bad Reich. Bad Reich.
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:24:44pm |
re: #247 turn
It busted United Artists, what an impressive lineup of actors though. I have never seen it.
Don't. It's almost as apt to have you muttering, "Where's the razor blade?" as the last version of 1984.
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Cygnus Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:25:01pm |
OK, now I really have to get going.
'Heavy pyroclastic flow' - LOLOL!
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:25:05pm |
re: #260 Shiplord Kirel
And they will donate every can to charity
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:25:12pm |
re: #228 Dianna
Did anyone go see that? Really?
i READ bATTLEFIELD eARTH AND i WAZSN'T ABOUT TO SUBMIT MYSELF TO A BIG SCREEN VERSION WITH jOHN tRAVOLTA IN A RUBBER MASK. (Whoa caps lock issue...)
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:25:21pm |
re: #257 Honorary Yooper
No, it was hundreds of miles away. The 2004 quake was off the coast of Indonesia (Sumatra, IIRC).
It looks like this one was deeper in the ocean floor. The 2004 was closer to the surface and bred that killer surge. I think we would have heard something by now, those waves travel 500-600 mph. I hope that is the case.
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:25:32pm |
re: #217 eschew_obfuscation
A question for Hoops or other geologists around...
Would it be possible to have a major sea-floor displacement without an attendant shock wave registering with detectors?
Not really. It takes a lot of force to have a major sea floor displacement. Any such displacement would show up on a seismograph as a large earthquake easily.
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Pianobuff Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:25:35pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:25:58pm |
re: #254 Kenneth
Sherlock Holmes... something about an ape-man...
Not the story for which the world is not yet prepared; the tale of the giant rat of Sumatra?
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:26:12pm |
re: #268 Honorary Yooper
Not really. It takes a lot of force to have a major sea floor displacement. Any such displacement would show up on a seismograph as a large earthquake easily.
Thanks! just curious
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:26:20pm |
re: #258 EmmmieG
Since we're on geology: My nomination for the most innocent phrase that you cannot google without bad results:
Bedding cleavage: Cleavage of a rock parallel to the bedding (the layers of rock.)
It's a totally G-rated term.
My favorite was my wife, who is not a big computer or net user. Wanted to find glass storage jars for the alternative flours we use (she's gluten intolerant).
Her first search term?
Jugs.
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midwestgak Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:26:37pm |
re: #254 Kenneth
Sherlock Holmes... something about an ape-man...
Holmes and Watson returned home. The front door was in the shape of a lemon.
Watson: Holmes, what's this?
Holmes: Why, it's a lemon entry, my dear Watson.
Old joke.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:26:42pm |
re: #272 jcm
My favorite was my wife, who is not a big computer or net user. Wanted to find glass storage jars for the alternative flours we use (she's gluten intolerant).
Her first search term?
Jugs.
Oh. Dear.
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:26:45pm |
re: #258 EmmmieG
Since we're on geology: My nomination for the most innocent phrase that you cannot google without bad results:
Bedding cleavage: Cleavage of a rock parallel to the bedding (the layers of rock.)
It's a totally G-rated term.
I play that game with Google Image.
Also fun, Google a name and see how many results you get before you hit a picture of someone naked. Short version - Safe Search Off, Long version - Safe Search On.
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:26:51pm |
re: #270 Kosh's Shadow
I'm over here in this tree suit..beastly dog soaked my trunks
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:27:08pm |
re: #272 jcm
My favorite was my wife, who is not a big computer or net user. Wanted to find glass storage jars for the alternative flours we use (she's gluten intolerant).
Her first search term?
Jugs.
How did that work out for her?
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:27:13pm |
re: #255 Dianna
No clue. I didn't ever read the books, and the movie looked as if the production designer just ripped off the movie version of Dune without credit. I went and hid, and didn't even look at the science fiction boards for a bit; I was afraid of the reviews and the accusations that would follow.
I haven't seen it or read the book, but I did read the review at the It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie site.
For that matter, I've never read Dianetics, either, although someone donated it to the college science fiction society.
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Kenneth Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:27:31pm |
re: #259 John Neverbend
Did you ever see the Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett? Brilliant stuff.
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:27:41pm |
re: #277 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
she got her Ph double D
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John Neverbend Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:28:22pm |
re: #270 Kosh's Shadow
Not the story for which the world is not yet prepared; the tale of the giant rat of Sumatra?
No, not that one, and not even the story of the politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant.
It's The Sign of Four. Skulduggery in the Andaman Islands comes back to haunt the perpetrators some years later.
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Lee Coller Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:28:30pm |
re: #50 Last Mohican
That's about $294,000. I don't really understand why it would cost so much to replace a battery, but perhaps it would be worth it.
I don't understand why they didn't add a small solar panel to keep the battery charged, then it would last upwards of 7 years (with the potential for much longer).
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RightOnTheLeftCoast Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:28:41pm |
re: #272 jcm
My favorite was my wife, who is not a big computer or net user. Wanted to find glass storage jars for the alternative flours we use (she's gluten intolerant).
Her first search term?
Jugs.
Heh, heh... lots of pr0n references, and a few random entries on radar guns.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:28:43pm |
re: #258 EmmmieG
Since we're on geology: My nomination for the most innocent phrase that you cannot google without bad results:
Bedding cleavage: Cleavage of a rock parallel to the bedding (the layers of rock.)
It's a totally G-rated term.
I learned that lesson the hard way with housewife.
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:28:50pm |
re: #277 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
How did that work out for her?
I was in the kitchen and heard a shriek from the office...
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callahan23 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:29:14pm |
re: #189 Shiplord Kirel
Excellent call. Niven and Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer. Which page was that scene with the "Massacre of the Comet Wardens" in again ?
I hugely enjoyed the tsunami surfing as well.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:29:21pm |
re: #276 quiet man
I'm over here in this tree suit..beastly dog soaked my trunks
That dynamo of detective energy has switched a new light on current events, sparking the positive hope that he's going to run the negative force to ground.
Joe Beets
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yochanan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:29:34pm |
re: #250 karmic_inquisitor
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
this is something i did not know about at all.
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MandyManners Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:30:33pm |
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:31:43pm |
re: #286 jcm
I was in the kitchen and heard a shriek from the office...
lemme guess ... a slew of historical sites on Republic P-47s?
/
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:31:52pm |
re: #289 Kosh's Shadow
Senators soubrette found naked in detectives flat...
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:31:56pm |
re: #276 quiet man
I'm over here in this tree suit..beastly dog soaked my trunks
You can bank on me. I'll just open a branch.
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Pianobuff Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:31:58pm |
re: #291 MandyManners
Who is that asshole
doing the interviewverbally abusing that guest?
Lawrence O'Donnell, filling in on Ed Schultz's show.
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:32:07pm |
Charles:
Geek question... how often does the new comments button poll for comments? ... or is the count somehow "pushed"?
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:32:22pm |
Funny story, my kids were watching the Incredible Hulk movie last night, and they dont quite get how movies work yet. One had picked the Abomination to root for and the other picked the Hulk and were smack talking each other thru the whole movie about it.
"Oh yeah, think he's tough, he just got kicked, I'm gonna win!"
"You just wait, OOOH, WHO IS WINNING NOW? YOU SEE THAT!"
The little victory dances made the movie for me.
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:32:28pm |
re: #258 EmmmieG
Since we're on geology: My nomination for the most innocent phrase that you cannot google without bad results:
Bedding cleavage: Cleavage of a rock parallel to the bedding (the layers of rock.)
It's a totally G-rated term.
Only if you remember to use the "safe search." Otherwise, the unfortunate result of typing "naked mole rat" in the search bar (not on safe search) for your biology professor may be repeated.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:32:37pm |
re: #293 quiet man
Senators soubrette found naked in detectives flat...
But I'm not flat. Listen AAAH!!!
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:32:43pm |
re: #294 Kosh's Shadow
Taking aim with my trembling webley, I fire point blank!
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:32:48pm |
re: #290 yochanan
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
this is something i did not know about at all.
Wow - a dudes only island? In an EU country?
Wonder if there has been an EU human rights claim on that one.
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midwestgak Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:32:52pm |
re: #280 buzzsawmonkey
The Sign of Four.
"Holmes," I whispered, "a child has done this terrible thing."
That reminds me of the original The Bad Seed.
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John Neverbend Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:33:01pm |
re: #280 buzzsawmonkey
The Sign of Four.
"Holmes," I whispered, "a child has done this terrible thing."
"He smiled gently. 'It is of the first importance,' he said, 'not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, - a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money, and the most repellant man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.'
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yochanan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:33:20pm |
re: #290 yochanan
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
this is something i did not know about at all.
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:33:22pm |
re: #291 MandyManners
Who is that asshole
doing the interviewverbally abusing that guest?
I guarandamntee if the Republican had lost his temper and smacked the idiot it would be more "evidence of the unhinged right wing" against the health care plan.
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:33:34pm |
re: #296 eschew_obfuscation
Charles:
Geek question... how often does the new comments button poll for comments? ... or is the count somehow "pushed"?
5 seconds. AJAX.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:34:04pm |
re: #295 Pianobuff
Lawrence O'Donnell, filling in on Ed Schultz's show.
It's a LOT like some of the "discussions" here ... "so you want..."
LOL.
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Charles Johnson Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:34:53pm |
re: #296 eschew_obfuscation
Charles:
Geek question... how often does the new comments button poll for comments? ... or is the count somehow "pushed"?
At five second intervals.
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:34:53pm |
re: #307 karmic_inquisitor
5 seconds. AJAX.
Thanks! Is that an Ajax default or you knew that from some other source?
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:35:05pm |
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:35:10pm |
re: #292 OldLineTexan
lemme guess ... a slew of historical sites on Republic P-47s?
/
LOL! What's worse is one of wife's areas of expertise in Physical Therapy, is working with post surgery incontinence, strengthening the muscles etc...
Search for articles is challenging.
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:35:24pm |
re: #300 Kosh's Shadow
The lights went out in the bathroom and I missed everything!
Don't hog the ones with the cherries in the middle, Kosh
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:35:35pm |
re: #301 quiet man
Taking aim with my trembling webley, I fire point blank!
Mrs Moriarty - By the blood of St. Menses, I'm as used to ducking bullets as you are to ducking billets.
Hemlock Stones - Don't worry, we'll have this month's rent as soon as Fleet Street runs our latest penny dreadful through the press.
Mrs Moriarty - I never worry, Mr. Stones, not when there's some high-heeled foreign lady and her heathen servant waiting on the footpad below.
Stones - Well, show her up.
Moriarty- Mr Stones will see you now, you cheap whore!
(That'll show her up)
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:35:59pm |
re: #299 Dianna
Only if you remember to use the "safe search." Otherwise, the unfortunate result of typing "naked mole rat" in the search bar (not on safe search) for your biology professor may be repeated.
Got a crush on Ron Stoppable do you?
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:36:07pm |
re: #278 Kosh's Shadow
I haven't seen it or read the book, but I did read the review at the It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie site.
For that matter, I've never read Dianetics, either, although someone donated it to the college science fiction society.
I read it, in junior high. I figured that people must be really desperate for anything to make them feel better. Every few years, I pick up the most recent "self-help" best seller, and have that impression reinforced.
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John Neverbend Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:36:09pm |
re: #279 Kenneth
Did you ever see the Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett? Brilliant stuff.
Certainly. It was magnificent. Still, I prefer to read the stories, but Brett's delivery was absolutely stunning to watch.
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:36:13pm |
re: #291 MandyManners
Who is that asshole
doing the interviewverbally abusing that guest?
Lawrence O is an giant A-Hole...why is he on TV like he's some kind of journalist? Political HACK. He is one of the biggest KoolAid Drinkers going. This guy didn't take his shit either...good for him!
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:36:17pm |
re: #313 eschew_obfuscation
Thanks to you also!
And I'll bet there is some code somewhere that alerts you whenever someone posts a comment with the word "Charles" in it ;-)
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:36:27pm |
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turn Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:36:37pm |
re: #309 Kenneth
Gneiss cleavage!
Some people just take you for granite Kenneth, but that's a darn good pun. Later lizards, time to go walk the lab along the American.
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Neutral President Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:36:57pm |
re: #291 MandyManners
Who is that asshole
doing the interviewverbally abusing that guest?
This is Asshole vs. Idiot. I don't really care who wins, it's lose-lose. Peter Schiff is one half-step away from being Ron Paul.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:37:09pm |
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:37:22pm |
re: #316 Kosh's Shadow
you know your Firesign..
think you can go three rounds with this water heater sailor? Looks easy but sealed in the back of this metal mother is a stamping and seizing module
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WinterCat Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:37:55pm |
re: #321 Desert Dog
Lawrence O is an giant A-Hole...why is he on TV like he's some kind of journalist? Political HACK. He is one of the biggest KoolAid Drinkers going. This guy didn't take his shit either...good for him!
I have to hand it to the guest. He did not lose his cool. I would have.
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:37:56pm |
Americans' entry into Iran linked to vote unrest: MP
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A leading Iranian lawmaker said on Monday the illegal entry of three detained U.S. citizens into the country may have been related to unrest that erupted after Iran's June presidential election.
Iran detained the three Americans more than a week ago after they strayed across the border from Iraq, according to Iraqi officials.
"Their illegal entry cannot be altogether unrelated to the post-election unrest ... What mission were the three pursuing in Iran? Why did not they apply for Iran visas?" said Mohammad Karamirad, a member of parliament's Foreign Affairs and National Security Committee, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"In the most optimistic scenario, we think that the three had plans to interfere in Iran's internal affairs," Karamirad said.
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yochanan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:37:56pm |
Bedding cleavage i looked this up and all i got was a bunch of cold rocks
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Charpete67 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:37:59pm |
re: #326 ArchangelMichael
This is Asshole vs. Idiot. I don't really care who wins, it's lose-lose. Peter Schiff is one half-step away from being Ron Paul.
he looked pretty rational in the video...but, that says more about the host
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:38:02pm |
re: #325 Cato the Elder
Good luck everybody.
What happened? Are we over the jump site? Is the green light on?
/
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:38:39pm |
re: #333 OldLineTexan
What happened? Are we over the jump site? Is the green light on?
/
Geronimo!...
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:38:52pm |
re: #327 DaddyG
No, I'm actually preparing my lessons for the geology unit this fall, which reminds me: Never tell middle-schoolers that Halite is salty.
"Oh, for pete's sake, stop licking the halite!" (They all had to do it.)
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:39:31pm |
re: #335 EmmmieG
No, I'm actually preparing my lessons for the geology unit this fall, which reminds me: Never tell middle-schoolers that Halite is salty.
"Oh, for pete's sake, stop licking the halite!" (They all had to do it.)
Halit Berry good.
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Last Mohican Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:39:42pm |
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yochanan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:39:45pm |
re: #335 EmmmieG
well how did you find out it was salty to begin with?
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doppelganglander Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:39:46pm |
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:39:52pm |
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:40:15pm |
re: #339 yochanan
well how did you find out it was salty to begin with?
Licked it after a middle school teacher told her it was salty./
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A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:40:16pm |
re: #333 OldLineTexan
What happened? Are we over the jump site? Is the green light on?
/
I didn't get a parachute! It's a packback Sgt! Nooo...
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:40:22pm |
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:40:23pm |
re: #340 doppelganglander
Great! Geology pun threads rock!
Its easy to take pun threads for granite.
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John Neverbend Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:40:42pm |
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Neutral President Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:40:59pm |
re: #332 Charpete67
he looked pretty rational in the video...but, that says more about the host
I'm sure he didn't get a chance to start ranting about the Federal Reserve or advocating the gold standard (among other Paulistinian kook bullshit he espouses) in the time available with the host pretending it was a debate rather than an interview.
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Ben Hur Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:41:02pm |
re: #330 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Yeah.
Linked in that they were probably there to support the regime.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:41:08pm |
re: #345 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Its easy to take pun threads for granite.
I can't find any fault with that.
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:41:10pm |
re: #330 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Send Bill!
Hiker's in the wrong place at the wrong time, now their pawns in the Mad Mullahs game.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:41:19pm |
re: #342 DaddyG
Licked it after a middle school teacher told her it was salty./
opening line to most XXX films I've seen !!
ummm,,, damn , did I type that out loud!?!?!?!
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yochanan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:41:19pm |
re: #342 DaddyG
wonder who was the first person to eat a snail or lobster?
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:41:21pm |
re: #341 OldLineTexan
That was an igneous comment to make.
/
My dog bitumen. They were both very upset.
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:41:37pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:41:39pm |
re: #328 quiet man
you know your Firesign..
think you can go three rounds with this water heater sailor? Looks easy but sealed in the back of this metal mother is a stamping and seizing module
I know it's from Bozos, but I don't remember the next lines.
Oh well, close B clothes mode on Deputy Dan.
(In college, I probably could have quoted whole albums, and we even recorded our own Firesign-ish audio comedy.
But if you were to go into a record store and ask for them, they would think you were crazy.
(I can't give the name of what we did, as it could identify me. Maybe. I just googled one of our pieces and find it mentioned, with our group name, in many languages, but not English. Weirod.)
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:41:49pm |
re: #352 yochanan
wonder who was the first person to eat a snail or lobster?
The first guy that discovered alcohol...
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calcajun Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:41:54pm |
re: #345 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Its easy to take pun threads for granite.
Time to wipe the slate clean, though.
(BTW-- I go to lunch and the world start's coming to an end-- go figure)
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:42:02pm |
re: #346 John Neverbend
Is it like this (x 2)?
I'll bet that's in the U.K.? Probably a signaling hill?
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:42:32pm |
re: #358 eschew_obfuscation
I'll bet that's in the U.K.? Probably a signaling hill?
What are they signalling? The start of bikini season?
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sngnsgt Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:42:36pm |
re: #262 Pianobuff
What is this world coming to when even Robert Reich says that "our democracy is in terrible shape" due to the deal Obama cut with the pharm industry?
Reich astutely points out:
In return, Big Pharma isn’t just supporting universal health care. It’s also spending a lots of money on TV and radio advertising in support. Sunday’s New York Times reports that Big Pharma has budgeted $150 million for TV ads promoting universal health insurance, starting this August (that’s more money than John McCain spent on TV advertising in last year’s presidential campaign), after having already spent a bundle through advocacy groups like Healthy Economies Now and Families USA.
Bad Reich. Bad Reich.
That should make getting re-fills more of a circle-jerk than they already are. I just spent over an hour calling in 2 of my dear ol' Mother's re-fills to Nellis AFB. (Dad's USAF retired, and has Tri-Care For Life) They only give her a 30 day supply for a med she's been taking for 10 years. I have Epilepsy and am on disability and will probably be on the same meds for the rest of my life. My Dr writes 3 re-fills for these meds. I sometimes have to call them in a week in advance as it is, I wonder what it's going to be like under Barry-care..? Or will I be one of those too ill to treat because I'm disabled and am going to croak soon anyway?
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sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:42:38pm |
re: #352 yochanan
wonder who was the first person to eat a snail or lobster?
Or an egg
Oogg ,,, 100 million BC ,,,"You know Grog, I'm going to eat the next thing that comes out of that chickens ass! "
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:42:42pm |
re: #351 sattv4u2
opening line to most XXX films I've seen !!ummm,,, damn , did I type that out loud!?!?!?!
I'd threaten to *whack* you but you would probably use that as a dirty joke too. /
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:42:52pm |
Are we all just going to sit around and mica buncha puns?
Pumice me that we'll stop...
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calcajun Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:42:56pm |
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:43:15pm |
re: #355 Kosh's Shadow
I lived that life too. The new stuff is almost as good.
I need to shut down the government tweeny on this one..
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:43:19pm |
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midwestgak Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:43:21pm |
re: #356 LGoPs
Hey LGoPs. Callahan23 was looking for you yesterday. Was concerned because your last post was July 31.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:43:22pm |
re: #352 yochanan
wonder who was the first person to eat a snail or lobster?
Who was the first person to kiss them afterwards?/
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:43:33pm |
re: #349 DaddyG
I can't find any fault with that.
And if you're pun moho is strong, there is no discontinuity.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:43:37pm |
re: #362 DaddyG
I'd threaten to *whack* you but you would probably use that as a dirty joke too. /
opening line in scene 2 of every XXX movie I've ever seen
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RightOnTheLeftCoast Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:43:45pm |
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calcajun Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:44:00pm |
re: #368 DaddyG
Who was the first person to kiss them afterwards?/
Second person to discover alcohol.
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:44:03pm |
re: #357 calcajun
Time to wipe the slate clean, though.
(BTW-- I go to lunch and the world start's coming to an end-- go figure)
Damn you! it was your turn watch the control panel, AND YOU WENT TO LUNCH!
/;-P
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:44:04pm |
re: #364 calcajun
Chalk it up to experience.
These pun are getting a tad bit rocky for me. It almost quartz to read them.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:44:11pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:44:53pm |
re: #365 quiet man
I lived that life too. The new stuff is almost as good.
I need to shut down the government tweeny on this one..
How time flys.
Anyway, there's Billville, the Town that Nature Forgot to Hate - that's one of their new ones.
The one I want to find, but seems to be unavailable, is "Lawyers' Hospital". I waited to get a CD player before I got it, and it disappeared before then.
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:44:53pm |
whose fault are these rock jokes in an earthquake post?
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John Neverbend Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:44:58pm |
re: #358 eschew_obfuscation
I'll bet that's in the U.K.? Probably a signaling hill?
I'm not sure what it is, but you are correct as to its location. It's in Wiltshire near the stone circle at Avebury. There are various theories as to its purpose.
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DaddyG Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:45:02pm |
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:45:10pm |
re: #367 midwestgak
Hey LGoPs. Callahan23 was looking for you yesterday. Was concerned because your last post was July 31.
Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for him. Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated...
:)
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Ben Hur Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:45:13pm |
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:45:13pm |
re: #359 Desert Dog
What are they signalling? The start of bikini season?
Yes... you light a fire right at the top and women come from far and wide to put it out. Ancient technique.
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:45:20pm |
Some of the bravest people in existence were the first people to try new foods, but for every guy who tried lobster for the first time, there was another who thought puffer fish might be a tasty treat.
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calcajun Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:45:27pm |
re: #372 RightOnTheLeftCoast
Don't start with that schist!
Don't take that tone. It's all "shale fellow, well met" here.
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:46:36pm |
re: #371 sattv4u2
opening line in scene 2 of every XXX movie I've ever seen
"Some one report a fire?"
"Yeah, its in my pants."
"You're lucky I brought the hose."
/que bowchika-bowwow
| 388 |
calcajun Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:46:52pm |
re: #378 quiet man
whose fault are these rock jokes in an earthquake post?
The responsibility is mine.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:47:04pm |
re: #386 yochanan
Coprolite
I gave some to my nephew for his birthday. I've been threatening to do it for years.
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John Neverbend Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:47:22pm |
re: #383 eschew_obfuscation
Yes... you light a fire right at the top and women come from far and wide to put it out. Ancient technique.
Well, it does stand on a lay ley line between Stonehenge and the circle at Winterbourne Abbas.
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callahan23 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:47:25pm |
re: #193 Ben Hur
What an absolute dick the interviewer is.
I would like to %&§$ his (%§$ and make him puke his stomach empty. %P% Rant Off %P%
He is the example par excellence for an arrogant lib/socialist media hack that will not get facts anywhere near his preconceived set of ideology.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:47:39pm |
re: #387 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
"Some one report a fire?"
"Yeah, its in my pants."
"You're lucky I brought the hose."
/que bowchika-bowwow
Or, from Firesign Theatre
"Where's the fire"
"In your eyes, Lieutenant"
| 398 |
calcajun Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:47:40pm |
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:47:48pm |
re: #384 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Some of the bravest people in existence were the first people to try new foods, but for every guy who tried lobster for the first time, there was another who thought puffer fish might be a tasty treat.
I wanna know who figured out that Rocky Mountain Spotted Frog gives off a hallucinogen if you lick it?
And more importantly, what else did he lick...
Grizzly bear?
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Egregious Philbin Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:47:57pm |
I was in the area 3 weeks before the huge Tsunami in Krabi, and went back to Phuket a few weeks after.
The power of the tsunami is pretty amazing, and scary. Thankfully I am so cheap that I stay further inland. I was in Phuket in December and noted that tsunami warning horns are everywhere on the island.
| 401 |
CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:48:27pm |
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:48:40pm |
re: #399 LGoPs
I wanna know who figured out that Rocky Mountain Spotted Frog gives off a hallucinogen if you lick it?
And more importantly, what else did he lick...
Grizzly bear?
We know the frog came before the grizzly on his list...
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:48:46pm |
re: #384 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Some of the bravest people in existence were the first people to try new foods, but for every guy who tried lobster for the first time, there was another who thought puffer fish might be a tasty treat.
Some of the smartest are the ones that convinced the bravest to try the new foods.
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Ben Hur Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:48:57pm |
re: #395 callahan23
What an absolute dick the interviewer is.
I would like to %&§$ his (%§$ and make him puke his stomach empty. %P% Rant Off %P%
He is the example par excellence for an arrogant lib/socialist media hack that will not get facts anywhere near his preconceived set of ideology.
He is a Disciple.
He is The One's voice on Earth.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:49:31pm |
re: #402 jcm
We know the frog came before the grizzly on his list...
And the grizzly was last, whether he meant it to be or not
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callahan23 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:49:59pm |
re: #381 LGoPs
Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for him. Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated...
:)
Hello LGoPs, at last you are back on in Lizardia, buddy. How' it kickin' ?
| 408 |
LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:50:14pm |
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doppelganglander Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:50:16pm |
re: #395 callahan23
What an absolute dick the interviewer is.
I would like to %&§$ his (%§$ and make him puke his stomach empty. %P% Rant Off %P%
He is the example par excellence for an arrogant lib/socialist media hack that will not get facts anywhere near his preconceived set of ideology.
That could explain why he's on MSNBC and I've never heard of him.
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calcajun Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:50:35pm |
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:50:41pm |
re: #404 Ben Hur
He is a Disciple.
He is The One's voice on Earth.
Every time i see that self-pretentious pompous ass on TV I want to punch him right through he screen. I hate that guy
| 413 |
CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:51:07pm |
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:51:10pm |
re: #403 Desert Dog
Some of the smartest are the ones that convinced the bravest to try the new foods.
Hey, try this.
Not bad, what is it?
No clue, just found it lying in the bushes over there.
| 415 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:51:31pm |
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:52:00pm |
re: #407 callahan23
Hello LGoPs, at last you are back on in Lizardia, buddy. How' it kickin' ?
Hi my friend. I'm doing fine. Just went to ground for a few days but I'm back.
How bout yourself?
| 417 |
callahan23 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:52:20pm |
| 418 |
A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:52:31pm |
| 419 |
Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:53:07pm |
Been thinking I need to take an LGF break for a few weeks, need to study for a cert and I keep finding myself back here
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doppelganglander Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:53:17pm |
re: #412 Desert Dog
Every time i see that self-pretentious pompous ass on TV I want to punch him right through he screen. I hate that guy
Did you notice the backdrop? "Fear Factor" with an image of a giant elephant looking like it's about to sink its tusks into the cute little donkey. Feh.
He's obviously trying to hurt Schiff but he only made himself look foolish. Of course, my dog could beat Chris Dodd in 2010 if she were a Connecticut resident. (She's old enough in dog years.)
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:53:47pm |
re: #399 LGoPs
I wanna know who figured out that Rocky Mountain Spotted Frog gives off a hallucinogen if you lick it?
And more importantly, what else did he lick...
Grizzly bear?
A while back a lizard posted an article that theorized a lot of the experimentation was done by shaman apprentices, the shaman looking for new cures and mind altering substances. The shaman would watch for reactions in the apprentice.
There is a method, taught in survival classes for determining if something is edible. Rub a little on your arm, watch for reaction, then rub a little bit inside the mouth, then taste and spit out, then eat a tiny bit.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:53:57pm |
re: #419 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Been thinking I need to take an LGF break for a few weeks, need to study for a cert and I keep finding myself back here
Maybe we could ask Stinky how much sh&t you could pull for a three-week timeout.
;)
| 425 |
calcajun Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:53:59pm |
You guys are a bunch of moraines with these puns.
| 426 |
callahan23 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:54:35pm |
re: #416 LGoPs
Hi my friend. I'm doing fine. Just went to ground for a few days but I'm back.
How bout yourself?
I am doing alright. Trying to built up new relations. Hard work but gratifying.
| 427 |
yochanan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:54:39pm |
Coprolite now how old is this stuff?
/// hehehe
| 428 |
Ben Hur Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:54:43pm |
Sanctions Unlikely to Stop Iran's Nuclear Quest
If a left wing magazine writes about Iranian nuke plans, and a Rep is no longer president, is it still a lie?
| 429 |
OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:54:44pm |
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:55:00pm |
re: #424 OldLineTexan
Maybe we could ask Stinky how much sh&t you could pull for a three-week timeout.
;)
LETS GO STREAKING!
WHOOO!
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eschew_obfuscation Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:55:21pm |
re: #422 jcm
A while back a lizard posted an article that theorized a lot of the experimentation was done by shaman apprentices, the shaman looking for new cures and mind altering substances. The shaman would watch for reactions in the apprentice.
There is a method, taught in survival classes for determining if something is edible. Rub a little on your arm, watch for reaction, then rub a little bit inside the mouth, then taste and spit out, then eat a tiny bit.
Think I'll try that with that stuff that looks like poison ivy in my back yard... thanks for the tip!
/
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WinterCat Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:55:39pm |
re: #350 jcm
Send Bill!
Hiker's in the wrong place at the wrong time, now their pawns in the Mad Mullahs game.
I gotta ask. What the hell were they doing there?
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:55:57pm |
re: #422 jcm
A while back a lizard posted an article that theorized a lot of the experimentation was done by shaman apprentices, the shaman looking for new cures and mind altering substances. The shaman would watch for reactions in the apprentice.
There is a method, taught in survival classes for determining if something is edible. Rub a little on your arm, watch for reaction, then rub a little bit inside the mouth, then taste and spit out, then eat a tiny bit.
That would be a hell of a task if you're in Africa and the only thing around is an elephant...
/
| 436 |
jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:56:42pm |
re: #428 Ben Hur
Sanctions Unlikely to Stop Iran's Nuclear Quest
If a left wing magazine writes about Iranian nuke plans, and a Rep is no longer president, is it still a lie?
I think the only think left is it MOP up...
| 437 |
Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:56:58pm |
| 438 |
yochanan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:57:01pm |
so how old is Coprolite? 6,000 years?
just kidding.///
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:57:02pm |
re: #426 callahan23
I am doing alright. Trying to built up new relations. Hard work but gratifying.
I wish you the best of luck. German gals are wunderbar!
:)
| 440 |
Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:57:03pm |
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Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:57:24pm |
re: #433 WinterCat
I gotta ask. What the hell were they doing there?
Hey, they are men (and one woman), there was a mountain, it was there...
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:58:03pm |
re: #434 LGoPs
That would be a hell of a task if you're in Africa and the only thing around is an elephant...
/
How do you eat an elephant?
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callahan23 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:58:10pm |
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WinterCat Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:58:33pm |
re: #441 Desert Dog
Hey, they are men (and one woman), there was a mountain, it was there...
And now we are going to kiss A's you know what to get them back.
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:58:40pm |
re: #441 Desert Dog
Hey, they are men (and one woman), there was a mountain, it was there...
Oh god. Just think of the nagging that mistake is going to cause.
/ducks, runs, looks for cover...
| 448 |
callahan23 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:58:41pm |
| 449 |
midwestgak Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:59:01pm |
| 451 |
LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:59:15pm |
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:59:36pm |
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Ben Hur Mon, Aug 10, 2009 2:59:48pm |
re: #436 jcm
Massive Ordnance Penetrator Direct Strike Hard Target
OK.
You can't tell me they don't do that on purpose.
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Last Mohican Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:00:08pm |
re: #428 Ben Hur
Sanctions Unlikely to Stop Iran's Nuclear Quest
If a left wing magazine writes about Iranian nuke plans, and a Rep is no longer president, is it still a lie?
I'll have to check the current edition of the Moonbat Manual.
I think this falls into the realm of "the disastrous results of the previous administration's failed policies."
| 455 |
Bob Dillon Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:00:31pm |
re: #257 Honorary Yooper
No, it was hundreds of miles away. The 2004 quake was off the coast of Indonesia (Sumatra, IIRC).
Yes it was North of Sumatra - that's why it is called the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake.
I am willing to bet this one is on the same fault. It is very close geologically speaking.
| 456 |
CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:00:58pm |
| 457 |
Last Mohican Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:01:02pm |
So any signs of tsunamis? Can they sound the all clear yet?
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:01:14pm |
re: #453 Ben Hur
OK.
You can't tell me they don't do that on purpose.
Sam Kinison tried to tell you, The US military is full of the kind of jokers that put a video camera on the nose of an air-to-surface missile.
| 459 |
A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:01:24pm |
re: #442 jcm
How do you eat an elephant?
7 grain bread, Tomato, lettuce and Mayo...A dash of avocado is nice also..
| 460 |
callahan23 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:01:54pm |
re: #409 doppelganglander
That could explain why he's on MSNBC and I've never heard of him.
I am doing the same exact thing with the German state TV. I ignore their news and political analysis, too biased. Often enough in ways that are way too unsavory i.e. modern anti-semitism.
| 461 |
jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:02:01pm |
re: #453 Ben Hur
OK.
You can't tell me they don't do that on purpose.
A DoD bureaucrat with a sense of humor?
Never in a million years!
;-)
| 462 |
LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:02:15pm |
re: #459 HoosierHoops
7 grain bread, Tomato, lettuce and Mayo...A dash of avocado is nice also..
Ah...the godd old ELT.
Yum.
| 463 |
quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:02:16pm |
re: #459 HoosierHoops
maybe save that elephant grass for later, dude
| 464 |
Desert Dog Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:02:29pm |
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:02:33pm |
| 466 |
yochanan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:02:34pm |
re: #459 HoosierHoops
well you could start with a elephant ear sandwich. but make sure you have the bun.
| 468 |
jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:02:40pm |
re: #459 HoosierHoops
7 grain bread, Tomato, lettuce and Mayo...A dash of avocado is nice also..
ELT!
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Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:02:52pm |
re: #459 HoosierHoops
7 grain bread, Tomato, lettuce and Mayo...A dash of avocado is nice also..
Define a "dash" of avocado? I always waver between half of one and a whole one.
why, yes, I have a thing for fat. How did you know?
| 470 |
opnion Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:03:05pm |
Nancy Pelosi & the Pope were on stage together in front of a multitude of people.
The Pope looked at Pelosi & said, "With one wave of my hand I could make thes people deliriously happy & the joy would last.
Pelosi looked at him with a sneer & bugging eyes & said , "I doubt that, show me."
So the Pope slaped her.
| 472 |
OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:03:23pm |
| 473 |
Ben Hur Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:04:01pm |
What do you do when an elephant comes in your window?
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Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:04:12pm |
re: #461 jcm
A DoD bureaucrat with a sense of humor?
Never in a million years!
;-)
Are you kidding? They work hard to come up with things which sound dirty. Then when someone says something, you can act suprised and act like the person who noticed is the perv.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:04:14pm |
re: #469 Dianna
Define a "dash" of avocado? I always waver between half of one and a whole one.
why, yes, I have a thing for fat. How did you know?
its an organic vegetable!/fruit!
mother gaia would not harm you
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RightOnTheLeftCoast Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:04:24pm |
| 477 |
quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:04:32pm |
re: #472 OldLineTexan
we often have those elephant left testicle sandwiches during tiffin..and we take tiffin purt near early in these parts buckaroo
| 478 |
Last Mohican Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:04:43pm |
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:04:52pm |
re: #471 Killgore Trout
Fast moving threads today.
it's all the time i'm saving not pushing an empty "new comments" button
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LGoPs Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:04:56pm |
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:05:09pm |
re: #477 quiet man
we often have those elephant left testicle sandwiches during tiffin..and we take tiffin purt near early in these parts buckaroo
Bored of the Rings!
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CyanSnowHawk Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:05:10pm |
re: #465 OldLineTexan
Linky no worky, but no, it's like nice slacks with a polo vs. a sportcoat vs. a suit and tie vs. a tux ... hardware chosen on the basis of the occasion
/
Freaking blogspot killed my joke. It was a drawing of a pistol. Here's another one. Not Blogspot, it should work.
| 483 |
quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:05:12pm |
re: #476 RightOnTheLeftCoast
I feel as if I am assaulted right now!
| 485 |
WinterCat Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:05:43pm |
Is anyone else receiving junk mail looking for people to become social workers? I have been getting tons of that kind of stuff spouting off that Obama is funding these positions with the "stimulus".
| 486 |
Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:05:45pm |
re: #473 Ben Hur
What do you do when an elephant comes in your window?
Grab a mop, bucket and hipwaders.
| 487 |
midwestgak Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:05:51pm |
re: #457 Last Mohican
So any signs of tsunamis? Can they sound the all clear yet?
Just checked Drudge. No update yet.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:06:33pm |
re: #482 CyanSnowHawk
Freaking blogspot killed my joke. It was a drawing of a pistol. Here's another one. Not Blogspot, it should work.
that right there is enough to get you tossed outta fourth grade right quick
| 489 |
Ben Hur Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:06:59pm |
re: #484 buzzsawmonkey
I've been trying to figure out why Western politicians think "sanctions" will work on societies that don't get much from the countries that would abide by the sanctions anyway.
The whole point of sanctions is to cause pain to the society by denying it various needed imports, and markets for its exports. But what does Iran import from the US--from the West, for that matter--and what does it export to us (aside from, perhaps, oil whose source can be easily concealed, since oil is fungible) that will affect its economy in a major way? Not a whole hell of a lot.
So where's the threat?
They import most if not all their gas.
| 491 |
Shiplord Kirel Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:07:26pm |
re: #287 callahan23
Excellent call. Niven and Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer. Which page was that scene with the "Massacre of the Comet Wardens" in again ?
I hugely enjoyed the tsunami surfing as well.
It's around 239-244 in my Fawcett trade paperback copy. Because of the episodic nature of the novel, the opening of the scene (the Warden's blockade) is much earlier, around 211-214.
Gil's epic but ill-fated surf ride is on 233-236.
| 492 |
quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:07:28pm |
re: #481 OldLineTexan
It was pity thst stayed his hand
"It's a pity I ran out of bullets"
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jcm Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:08:04pm |
re: #484 buzzsawmonkey
I've been trying to figure out why Western politicians think "sanctions" will work on societies that don't get much from the countries that would abide by the sanctions anyway.
The whole point of sanctions is to cause pain to the society by denying it various needed imports, and markets for its exports. But what does Iran import from the US--from the West, for that matter--and what does it export to us (aside from, perhaps, oil whose source can be easily concealed, since oil is fungible) that will affect its economy in a major way? Not a whole hell of a lot.
So where's the threat?
Especially with regimes where the goal is worth the pain of sanctions.
| 494 |
Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:08:24pm |
re: #475 OldLineTexan
its an organic vegetable!/fruit!
mother gaia would not harm you
Fat is fat. I may not have a sweet-tooth, but man, do I love fats. And my waistline is beginning to prove it, to my dismay.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:09:42pm |
re: #492 quiet man
It was pity thst stayed his hand
"It's a pity I ran out of bullets"
"Floop!" suggested the tar pit.
| 496 |
John Neverbend Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:09:48pm |
re: #428 Ben Hur
That's an interesting photograph in the article, and it's crying out for a caption.
I think the guy on the left is saying:
"Do you mean that fuel rod over there, the one that's glowing blue? You want to do what with it to Mousavi?"
| 497 |
Kragar Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:10:10pm |
re: #490 Bear
You owe a new keyboard
The corralary to that particular joke: Whats gray and comes in gallons?
| 498 |
OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:10:37pm |
re: #494 Dianna
Fat is fat. I may not have a sweet-tooth, but man, do I love fats. And my waistline is beginning to prove it, to my dismay.
Ask your Male to put you on a strict regimen of exercise and food deprivation in the Poconos.
/
| 499 |
Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:10:52pm |
re: #486 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Grab a mop, bucket and hipwaders.
There's a scene in one of Christopher Moore's books where a scientist who studies whales becomes a lesbian. That applies.
| 500 |
quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:10:58pm |
re: #495 OldLineTexan
Couldnt we just pawn it and swallow the ticket??
| 502 |
OldLineTexan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:11:34pm |
re: #500 quiet man
Couldnt we just pawn it and swallow the ticket??
This nearer tar-pit has a certain hole-like flavor.
| 503 |
calcajun Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:12:22pm |
re: #473 Ben Hur
What do you do when an elephant comes in your window?
Paint the house so it does not look like another elephant. You don't want THAT happening again, do you?
| 504 |
Dianna Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:12:24pm |
| 505 |
Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:13:11pm |
re: #333 OldLineTexan
What happened? Are we over the jump site? Is the green light on?
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Heh. I meant all the people out there in the way of the storms and tsunamis and all. I know they're reading LGF right now, I just know it!
And good luck to all Lizards, too. Needs to be said once in a while.
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:13:12pm |
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calcajun Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:14:06pm |
re: #506 quiet man
I still hate being referred to as the man with the pointy shoes
Stop being so elf-centered.
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:15:44pm |
re: #507 calcajun
And so it's said most everywhere;
In ballad, lay, and poem;
Only trust an elf or dwarf
As far as you can throw 'em
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callahan23 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:16:30pm |
re: #491 Shiplord Kirel
Thanks a lot.
*grin* What a coincidence I also got a Fawcett Crest paperback copy.
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:16:58pm |
re: #508 jcm
These jokes have certainly taken a troll on you today...
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calcajun Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:18:15pm |
re: #511 quiet man
These jokes have certainly taken a troll on you today...
No== he normally has that golem expression.
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snowcrash Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:18:31pm |
re: #510 callahan23
Hi Cal! Never read that author, but the book looks good.
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beens21 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:19:24pm |
re: #428 Ben Hur
It's amazing to me that the 2007 NIE report, which stated that Iran had stopped its nuke program in 2003, is now ignored by Dems and MSM. 2005 NIE reports Iran is working on nukes, 2007 says it quit in 2003, 2009 reports Iran will have nuke by 2013.Surely these flip flops were not driven by politics. //
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:20:24pm |
re: #512 calcajun
Maybe if he got anew car it would cheer him up..like a Uruk Hyundai
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MandyManners Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:20:55pm |
Wow, man. Watching the numbers go up in the new comments again this afternoon. Mesmerizing. There it goes again. I should start smoking pot again. This is awesome.
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yochanan Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:28:23pm |
re: #514 beens21
It's amazing to me that the 2007 NIE report, which stated that Iran had stopped its nuke program in 2003, is now ignored by Dems and MSM. 2005 NIE reports Iran is working on nukes, 2007 says it quit in 2003, 2009 reports Iran will have nuke by 2013.Surely these flip flops were not driven by politics. //
this is spinning about as fast as a Iranian centrifuge
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debutaunt Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:32:18pm |
re: #485 WinterCat
Is anyone else receiving junk mail looking for people to become social workers? I have been getting tons of that kind of stuff spouting off that Obama is funding these positions with the "stimulus".
Do not remove your clothes. It's a scam.
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lurking faith Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:33:40pm |
re: #506 quiet man
I still hate being referred to as the man with the pointy shoes
At that, Bromosel started to sprint, but catching his feet in his sword belt, he tripped and impaled himself on his pointed shoes.
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haakondahl Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:35:10pm |
re: #258 EmmmieG
Since we're on geology: My nomination for the most innocent phrase that you cannot google without bad results:
Bedding cleavage: Cleavage of a rock parallel to the bedding (the layers of rock.)
It's a totally G-rated term.
Try "nubile".
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Bob Dillon Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:35:55pm |
re: #257 Honorary Yooper
No, it was hundreds of miles away. The 2004 quake was off the coast of Indonesia (Sumatra, IIRC).
You are correct - I finally got off my butt and checked it out. Still - very close - even a couple of hundred miles for such large quakes is close.
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callahan23 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:39:29pm |
re: #513 snowcrash
Hi Cal! Never read that author, but the book looks good.
I very much recommend that Niven and Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer for it's hard sci/fi with a lot of sarcasm and real 'how would man-kind react' scenario. And then consider it was written in 1977!
That book made me wanna read more of Pournelle's sci/fi.
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quiet man Mon, Aug 10, 2009 3:41:33pm |
re: #520 lurking faith
This is indeed a queer river, said Bromosel, as the water lapped at his thighs.
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