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sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.  not something I'd ever gotta do.  but if t ever lose my mind more than it has already been lost, you nver know...

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As if I didn't need something else to make my life rage-worthy...
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HE'S DONE IT!

19.19 seconds, 200m, Usain Bolt.

A 1.1 second record improvement, just like in the 100m.

Phenomenal, and out of this world!

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/20082009/58/berlin-2009-bolt-smashes-200m-world-record.html

Silver and the rest were 30 meters and 0.70 seconds behind. Simple spectators.


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Bidets anyone?  My first encounter with one was in a hotel room where my sister was getting married.  I turned it on and squirted the ceiling.  I never actually tried to use it as it was intended after that. LOL

Scotland frees terminally ill Lockerbie bomber who killed 270 people, mostly Americans 8/21

Maybe we could hook him up with Squeaky Fromme?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/05/squeaky.fromme.release/index.html


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We get dentists soon, too

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote crimhead Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2009 at 10:46
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Armpit ban on rollercoasters

"Rollercoaster riders at a Surrey theme park are being banned from putting their arms in the air - after complaints about body odour"

"staff have been issued with deodorant sprays for customers"




No potential for customer offense there, then...


Since when do the Brits have a hygiene problem? They've had indoor plumbing for quite some time now.


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Armpit ban on rollercoasters

"Rollercoaster riders at a Surrey theme park are being banned from putting their arms in the air - after complaints about body odour"

"staff have been issued with deodorant sprays for customers"




No potential for customer offense there, then...

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I don't know but I do know Barney doesn't need this:


Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Go Barney, go!

Rep. Frank lashes out at protester for Nazi remark

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090819/ap_on_re_us/us_health_care_frank

DARTMOUTH, Mass. – Rep. Barney Frank lashed out at protester who held a poster depicting President Barack Obama with a Hitler-style mustache during a heated town hall meeting on federal health care reform.

"On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked the woman, who had stepped up to the podium at a southeastern Massachusetts senior center to ask why Frank supports what she called a Nazi policy.

"Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it," Frank replied.

He continued by saying her ability to deface an image of the president and express her views "is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated."

Frank, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, sought to assure more than 500 people attending the rowdy meeting that the average taxpayer wouldn't be hurt by plans currently under consideration in Congress.

Some of those attending the meeting organized by the Democratic Town Committee of Dartmouth shouted and booed as Frank and others addressed the crowd.

At one point, Frank asked the crowd: "Which one of you wants to yell next?"...LOL






What's the Vegas line that those people were either Insurance/Drug company shills or FoxNews watchers?
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Go Barney, go!

Rep. Frank lashes out at protester for Nazi remark

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090819/ap_on_re_us/us_health_care_frank

DARTMOUTH, Mass. – Rep. Barney Frank lashed out at protester who held a poster depicting President Barack Obama with a Hitler-style mustache during a heated town hall meeting on federal health care reform.

"On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked the woman, who had stepped up to the podium at a southeastern Massachusetts senior center to ask why Frank supports what she called a Nazi policy.

"Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it," Frank replied.

He continued by saying her ability to deface an image of the president and express her views "is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated."

Frank, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, sought to assure more than 500 people attending the rowdy meeting that the average taxpayer wouldn't be hurt by plans currently under consideration in Congress.

Some of those attending the meeting organized by the Democratic Town Committee of Dartmouth shouted and booed as Frank and others addressed the crowd.

At one point, Frank asked the crowd: "Which one of you wants to yell next?"...LOL






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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090819/ap_on_he_me/us_med_life_expectancy

I wonder if this will effect Medicare and the whole heatlhcare debate.
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Hurricane Bill Intensifies
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/08/hurricane_bill_intensifies_hea.html

Man, and they ain't even passed a healthcare bill yet. Tongue

Also, whatever you do, don't snort your currency:
Study: Cocaine residue lingers on most currency
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/08/17/2009-08-17_new_study_finds_that_90_of_us_currency_has_cocaine_residue_on_it.html


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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Nice to know scientists are not wasting their time or funding:

Zombie attack would threaten civilisation

"If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively.

That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out by researchers in Canada.

They say only frequent counter-attacks with increasing force would eradicate the fictional creatures."




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"Professor Ferguson, from Imperial College London thinks that some of the assumptions made in the paper might be unduly alarmist."



I love scientists.


I do hope that this happens so that I can come back as a fast zombie. That's one thing about all these movies with the fast zombies...you never see a geriatric zombie. Why is that? There is no way a 80 y/o person can out run something that fast. Even on a rascal electric scooter.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dean Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2009 at 06:37
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Nice to know scientists are not wasting their time or funding:

Zombie attack would threaten civilisation

"If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively.

That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out by researchers in Canada.

They say only frequent counter-attacks with increasing force would eradicate the fictional creatures."




[edit]

"Professor Ferguson, from Imperial College London thinks that some of the assumptions made in the paper might be unduly alarmist."



I love scientists.
Pah! all that is needed to is to decapitate all corpses before burial - or enforced cremation. Prevention is better than cure.
What?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jim Garten Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2009 at 05:58
Nice to know scientists are not wasting their time or funding:

Zombie attack would threaten civilisation

"If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively.

That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out by researchers in Canada.

They say only frequent counter-attacks with increasing force would eradicate the fictional creatures."




[edit]

"Professor Ferguson, from Imperial College London thinks that some of the assumptions made in the paper might be unduly alarmist."



I love scientists.


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Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Bolt claims he can run 9.40.




Maybe, but he ran for good this time, instead of slowing 200 meters ahead, smilling at the camera, pickin' his nose, or waving back at Asafa. Wink

The difference: 0.11 seconds.

It's still 0.18 seconds until 9.4.


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Bolt claims he can run 9.40.


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Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Usain Bolt runs 9.58 seconds to break the world record in the World 100m Final

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/8203852.stm




Your generation, Tony, can now fully rest assure, they have seen history made with their own eyes. (If they watched it, of course. LOL)

Probably gonna see a re-run of it too, if Bolt improves. LOL
 
But I'm now fully wondering if my generation will end up seeing someone else go below 9.50. I myself doubt it. Bolt can probably go faster (but not by much, he didn't relax this time on the last meters, so it was a full throttle record), but another guy like him. I feel it improbable.

I thought Beijing was memorable, with both 100 and 200m records smashed. It was, indeed, remarkable to see it live.

But this -- this -- almost 9 and a half seconds. This is epic.
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