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Ricochet 
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 27 2005 Location: Nauru Status: Offline Points: 46301 |
 Posted: December 15 2007 at 15:39 |
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 Well, I can have beer too. And only for doing a bit of cleaning up in the house.  |
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Jared
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Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Online Points: 19823 |
Posted: December 15 2007 at 15:40 |
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^^^ Peter, what are you doing with Raff's cat in a basket??
I think you'll find 'Chicken in a basket' would be far more satisfying, washed down with a few beers after a long, hard shovel....
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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micky
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46838 |
Posted: December 15 2007 at 15:40 |
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if you save me from having to endure 'he who hath no name* being in Xover' I'll buy you a whole six pack and deal with the hell from your mother later Edited by micky - December 15 2007 at 15:40 |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Ricochet
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 27 2005 Location: Nauru Status: Offline Points: 46301 |
Posted: December 15 2007 at 15:59 |
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sweeeeet!  |
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micky
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Posted: December 15 2007 at 16:02 |
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just don't tell Dean I'll make it a 12 pack... Busch LIte .. ahhh.. ..good stuff Rico |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Padraic
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 16 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31169 |
Posted: December 15 2007 at 17:19 |
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And really, who wouldn't? If you're planning to do any physics in your life, this semester contains essential concepts - Maxwell's equations, in particular, make use of divergence and curl, and manipulations of said equations from differential to integral forms require the Divergence Theorem and Stokes' Theorem. Geek lesson over - back to shoveling (and drinking)!  |
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: December 15 2007 at 20:43 |
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micky
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Posted: December 15 2007 at 20:46 |
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damnit... got found out hahahhahahha
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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rushfan4
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2007 Location: Michigan, U.S. Status: Online Points: 66485 |
Posted: February 01 2008 at 09:54 |
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Hey Peter. How is your schedule looking today??? We are expecting 8 - 12 inches of snow here in Michigan today. Is your shovel handy? There are probably some beers in it for you.
  
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stonebeard
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Joined: May 27 2005 Location: NE Indiana Status: Offline Points: 28057 |
Posted: February 01 2008 at 13:23 |
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We got a good bit of snow here too. Not the possible 15 inches we were warned about (ridiculous, we've probably never had that much in one snowfall), but a good 5 inches I'd say. The wet, sticky kind of snow too, it crunches under yer feet.
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rushfan4
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2007 Location: Michigan, U.S. Status: Online Points: 66485 |
Posted: February 01 2008 at 13:37 |
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After all was said and done we got less than 4 inches, and it seems that is all that we are supposed to get. Pretty ticked that the weathermen were so off from actual again, but can't complain too much because that is so much less to have to shovel.
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Angelo
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13244 |
Posted: February 01 2008 at 14:31 |
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^Stop trusting weathermen.... About two years ago, the Dutch weather organisation KNMI became familiar with (or made up) the concept of 'weather alerts'. Hilarious, they had to withdraw an alert twice last year, and this week they send out an alert for a storm two days in a row which they obviously didn't dare withdraw. Warned us about heavy winds, blinding rain and huge traffic jams. Nothing happened of course.....
Wish we had some snow here though... |
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ISKC Rock Radio
I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
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rushfan4
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2007 Location: Michigan, U.S. Status: Online Points: 66485 |
Posted: February 01 2008 at 14:40 |
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I am actually reading a book called The Weather Man by Steve Thayer. It is about a Minnesota Weather Man who has an uncanny ability to predict the weather accurately, and once each season there is a severe weather occurrence. On each of these days there is a woman who gets murdered. I haven't gotten in to the book far enough to know if he is the killer or not. It has a blurb on the cover from Stephen King promoting the book, so I suppose it is from the horror genre. Definitely a work of fiction though: a weatherman who can actually predict the weather.
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Peter
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
Posted: February 03 2008 at 13:05 |
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^ Some still predict the weather via the examination of a pig's spleen -- and reportedly attain greater accuracy than the learned meteorologists with their science & satellite images:
 Here's another interesting article about using other natural, traditional means to forecast weather:Well, rushfan4, it's just as well your great snowfall didn't materialize, because when I got to the aerodrome to wing my way down to your aid -- and to avail myself of your ale
 -- they wouldn't let me check my snow scoop in with my carry-on luggage. (I guess they feared I might brandish it to wrest control of the aeroplane.)Unwilling to let "Scoopy" be consigned to confinement in some common cargo-hold, discouraged and disheartened, I trudged torpidly across the tarmac (albeit, all the while admiring my awesome alliterative abilities), to wend my lonely way home to my own spartanly-shoveled driveway, there to seek some sodden solace from my own splendid stock of snow-chilled ale.
 Ah well, the thought was there....
 Yes, forget your piddling, back-breaking little shovels -- this is the proper tool for the snow-relocating job, as employed by wise & manly-muscled Canadians with much snow to shift, but a mind for maintaining the health of heart and back:
 Mine is heavy-duty plastic, but these things are a MUST! (
 Sorry Progtologist -- snowblowers are for lazy, limp-wristed, crippled- up, air polluting girly men! ) My "acoustic" scoop is just as fast or faster, silent (I play motivating music via a portable tape-deck in my garage), free to operate, keeps me warm, and gives me EXERCISE! Get real -- go green -- go natural!
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372 |
Posted: February 03 2008 at 13:21 |
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Don't your weathergirls wear skimpy clothes and do strip teases, or is that my imagination?  |
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Angelo
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13244 |
Posted: February 03 2008 at 14:17 |
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^ Not as far as I know, James. I do know there's a station called Naked News on the web - but it's Canadian. Suppose Peter can help you out there.....
@Rushfan4: I think the guy in the book has changed from pig's spleen to woman's spleen - but I haven't read the book, so I can't be sure. @Peter: Nice picture - my kids would love to stay with you over winter holidays. We had 2 cm of snow overnight earlier this week, and it melted away by 10AM.... |
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ISKC Rock Radio
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: February 03 2008 at 14:44 |
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The reason it melted, was due to Alex Lifeson's guitar solos, Angelo.
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Angelo
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Posted: February 03 2008 at 14:51 |
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Alex was in our village in the Netherlands? You're kidding, right?
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ISKC Rock Radio
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rushfan4
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2007 Location: Michigan, U.S. Status: Online Points: 66485 |
Posted: February 03 2008 at 15:36 |
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Peter, Thank you for making the effort. I am not sure about the pig spleen, but I am hoping that the "pigskin" today will foretell the coming of warm weather. (For those not familiar, pigskin is a term used to refer to the football in American football). I made up my own groundhog folklore today in my review of the Tiles concert in the concert review section, and oddly enough there were no responses, but I could probably tell the temperature from the sound of the crickets on that thread.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: February 03 2008 at 15:46 |
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I was referring to you having your stereo volume too loud, thus melting the snow with Lifeson's face-melting solos. |
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