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ScottFromWyoming wrote: You see what happens when you get greedy? I stopped at $2 billion, with the help of counseling. Oh wait, that was another one of those damn dreams, wasn't it? I liked it better when I never slept.
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samiyam
Location: Moving North
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Jun 14, 2009 - 1:52pm |
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manbirdexperiment wrote: That's funny because I just lost 134 billion in treasury bonds.
Got a receipt?
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Manbird
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Jun 14, 2009 - 1:47pm |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote: That's funny because I just lost 134 billion in treasury bonds.
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arighter2
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Jun 14, 2009 - 1:42pm |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote: unfathomable...
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samiyam
Location: Moving North
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Jun 14, 2009 - 1:40pm |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote: Well... the exchange rate's a killer!
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jun 14, 2009 - 1:40pm |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote: Holy crap! No wonder the country's broke!
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Zep
Location: Funkytown
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Jun 14, 2009 - 1:37pm |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote: That's a lot of chocolate.
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ScottFromWyoming
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Jun 14, 2009 - 1:34pm |
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oldviolin
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Jun 13, 2009 - 12:39pm |
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musik_knut wrote:
Er, yea...I know the Onion is make-it-up stuff...just shooting for some levity...
That's over in the Breaking Wind thread...
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musik_knut
Location: Third Stone From The Sun Gender:
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Jun 13, 2009 - 12:37pm |
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JrzyTmata wrote: you do know the onion isn't breaking real news? maybe you can post those stories here or here Er, yea...I know the Onion is make-it-up stuff...just shooting for some levity...
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Jun 13, 2009 - 12:30pm |
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you do know the onion isn't breaking real news? maybe you can post those stories here or here
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Jun 13, 2009 - 12:29pm |
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The Onion strikes again!
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musik_knut
Location: Third Stone From The Sun Gender:
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Jun 13, 2009 - 12:26pm |
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Wrongly Imprisoned Man Won't Shut Up About ItJOLIET, IL-George Howard Buell, an inmate wrongfully imprisoned at Stateville Correctional Center for third-degree sexual assault and aggravated battery, won't shut the hell up about being innocent. Buell, 46, an Elmhurst, IL electrician, was convicted of raping and burglarizing his elderly neighbor in 1994, despite the fact that he was at work when the crime occurred. He was mistakenly sentenced to a prison term of 20 years to life. Since then, his imprisonment has been a source of nonstop bellyaching. "I'm completely innocent of the charges brought against me," Buell said in yet another long-winded jailhouse statement last week. "I am a victim of inept police work, conflict-of-interest issues among the prosecution, and a lackadaisical defense. Anyone with even a peripheral familiarity with my case could see the inconsistencies. It's a complete miscarriage of justice." Buell's insufferable tirades have taken the form of numerous appeals to state and federal courts, unsuccessful attempts to launch public petitions, and e-publishing a 400,000-word autobiography titled Won't Someone Please Hear My Anguished Plea? "Okay, I get it-he's innocent already," said Eric Holsapple, Buell's court-appointed attorney. "Like I don't know that. I only toiled for, like, forever years making a case out of it. Every time I talk to him, I have to brace myself-okay, here comes the sob story, again." After spending four years trying to capture the media's attention with the story of his innocence, the wrongfully imprisoned inmate began pestering the courts in 2001 for additional DNA testing or a declaration of a mistrial. "I will take a lie-detector test. I will do anything. I don't belong in prison," the incessant motormouth said. "The security tape in the garage where I work shows me pulling into the lot at the time the crime took place. It wasn't admitted as evidence. That fact alone should be grounds for a mistrial." Buell's cellmate, Bob Hannan, has heard the "in jail for a crime I didn't commit" song and dance "about a million times." Said Hannan: "The parking lot surveillance videotape, the horrible injustice. I've heard it all. A lot. I didn't like the way they handled my case either. But you don't hear me yammering about it all the time. It's called moving on." The consortium of attorneys and social-justice activists who were unlucky enough to have been assigned the task of getting Buell and his big, wrongfully imprisoned mouth out of jail have gotten perhaps the biggest earful of his whining. Darron and Eugene Buell speak to reporters after dragging themselves to yet another prison visit to hear their brother go on and on about his innocence. Tania Schultz, a senior staff attorney at Northwestern University's Center On Wrongful Convictions, has worked on Buell's case for over two years. Although she is convinced that Buell is innocent, she is "fed up" with the subject. "Even the unjustly incarcerated should do other things in prison, like lift weights, or knit," Schultz said. "Sadly, securing his freedom seems to be George's sole interest in life. He's obsessed with getting his life back." Added Schultz: "All the time, it's 'free me' this, 'free me' that. Me, me, me, me, me." Buell's brother Darron, who visited the prisoner last Friday, reported afterward that Buell "did most of the talking." "No prizes guessing what he was talking about," Darron added. Buell's sob story will be heard by the Illinois State Supreme Court during its next term. "I can't wait. Since being incarcerated, my innocence is all I have to cling to in this horrible, horrible place," said Buell, echoing comments that he has made to anyone who's had the misfortune of being in contact with him at any time during the past decade. "This goes beyond my worst nightmares of anything I could imagine ever happening to me, and I hope the justice system finally does something-anything-to free me from this living nightmare." "I just wish he'd shut his trap about it," attorney Holsapple said. "I'm working on his appeal. That's more than most prisoners get. But is he satisfied? No. All he cares about is getting out of jail. I'm like, 'George, get a life.'"
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musik_knut
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Jun 13, 2009 - 12:06pm |
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Bee Stuck Between Screen Door, Front Door Going Fucking Nuts
June 11, 2009 HUNTSVILE, AL-Users of the front door at 1418 Sycamore Avenue report the appearance of a common bumblebee ricocheting back and forth between the front and screen doors in a manner described as "pissed." According to witnesses, no one has been able to ascertain how the bee became trapped between the two portals, but it is totally losing it and will absolutely sting someone if it gets out, most likely in the eye. "Look at the size of that thing," homeowner Tony Paris said. "He's just going nuts. Just fly out of there, bee, come on." At press time, the bee was resting for a moment before resuming flipping the fuck out.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jun 13, 2009 - 11:37am |
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jadewahoo wrote: Insert Neo-Luddite response here {_____________}
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jadewahoo
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Jun 13, 2009 - 11:33am |
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Zep wrote:That's pretty cool - although those superheavy elements are fused together by nuclear bombrdment and are very unstable, so they decay quickly, making them less than useful in practical applications. But it's interesting to see that scientists are still pushing the envelope.
musik_knut wrote:
Zep. Exactly. Of little use in a practical manner, but of great instruction in learning about interactions, stability and structure. I would hope naming this new element would defer to the German scientists. It's their baby.
mk
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musik_knut
Location: Third Stone From The Sun Gender:
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Jun 13, 2009 - 10:50am |
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Zep wrote: That's pretty cool - although those superheavy elements are fused together by nuclear bombrdment and are very unstable, so they decay quickly, making them less than useful in practical applications. But it's interesting to see that scientists are still pushing the envelope.
Zep. Exactly. Of little use in a practical manner, but of great instruction in learning about interactions, stability and structure. I would hope naming this new element would defer to the German scientists. It's their baby.
mk
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Manbird
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Jun 12, 2009 - 12:20pm |
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phineas wrote: Ha! The whole menu there looks pretty suck of crazy. Squid to Pil Pil?
Gateway Drug
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phineas
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Jun 12, 2009 - 11:54am |
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JrzyTmata wrote:I dunno. but here it is in spanish Ha! The whole menu there looks pretty suck of crazy. Squid to Pil Pil?
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Zep
Location: Funkytown
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Jun 12, 2009 - 11:31am |
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musik_knut wrote:Superheavy element joining periodic table
Element 112 gets permanent place on chemical list; will need new name ... ~~~~~~~~~ I hope this will suffice as a breaking news item... That's pretty cool - although those superheavy elements are fused together by nuclear bombrdment and are very unstable, so they decay quickly, making them less than useful in practical applications. But it's interesting to see that scientists are still pushing the envelope.
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