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14Bore17 Jun 2011 2:18 p.m. PST

the record? Yes, except that's Emerson, Lake and Palmer, not just Lake. You know Brain Salad Surgery is a fantastic album to listen to when you're so screwed out of your gourd, that you're not sure if (click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP17 Jun 2011 3:42 p.m. PST

fro is to and two is four, or how many hedgehogs it
takes to make a Saladin, or if ecru is really a valid
color for a cross-country horse or if hoarse is a
legitimate state or if stateless persons really exist

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Etranger18 Jun 2011 2:18 a.m. PST

outside of the author's fevered imaginaton. Another of his febrile ideas is ….

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP18 Jun 2011 3:42 a.m. PST

knotting meat – I mean, he'd heard of Nottingham, yes,
so the idea came to him for knotted chicken, details
to be worked-out.

Knotted steak will take a bit longer, given the grain

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Etranger18 Jun 2011 5:38 a.m. PST

silos have been known to spontaneously explode, with dire consequences for ….

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MacrossMartin18 Jun 2011 7:21 a.m. PST

me and you and a dog named Boo—

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28mmMan18 Jun 2011 7:50 a.m. PST

Berry, reputedly the first blueberry-flavored cereal, was released in 1973, and Fruit Brute the following year. Fruit Brute was discontinued by 1983 and replaced in 1987 by Fruity Yummy Mummy, which also had a short life as it was discontinued in the 1990s.

In the recent past, the three cereals still in circulation could be primarily found during the autumn months, in time for Halloween. According to a General Mills source,[8] Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry are all produced year-round, making their seasonality an issue based on decisions made by retailers. As of late 2010, information such as nutrition data and historical factoids can still be found on the official General Mills website at all times of the year.

Though retired, Fruity Yummy Mummy and Fruit Brute still appear occasionally on official merchandise: in recent years, bobblehead dolls have been sold in their images.

The television commercials for the cereals usually featured the monsters competitively touting their own cereals to children, but would get frightened when anything interrupted their one-upmanship…(click)

capncarp18 Jun 2011 5:56 p.m. PST

oars and prepare to repel boarders," cried the midshipman, resplendent in his Royal Navy uniform, brandishing his…

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP18 Jun 2011 6:47 p.m. PST

hanger. 'Drat,' he exclaimed, 'I appear to have lost
my dress coat !'

'Sir,' said the AB, 'is that it drifting

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CLDISME19 Jun 2011 6:34 p.m. PST

…to the outside lane! He barely has enough room next to the wall. Does he have enough power to overtake the leader?! They are neck and neck as the exit the final turn! Both are giving all…

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capncarp19 Jun 2011 6:44 p.m. PST

Anytime at all,
Anytime at all,
All you gotta do is call,
And I'll be there.

If you need somebody to love, just look into my eyes, I'll
be there to make you feel right.
If you're feeling sorry and sad, I'd really sympathize.
Don't you be sad…

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP19 Jun 2011 6:48 p.m. PST

-est of sacks, Sir, but we don't have to let them look
like it !'

'Generally, that'd be true, Sergeant, but we've just come
off a pretty tough exercise and it'd probably be best
to cut 'em a little slack

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Etranger19 Jun 2011 6:53 p.m. PST

music such as Gorecki's "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" transcend cultural and lingusitic barriers to achieve ….

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP20 Jun 2011 2:45 a.m. PST

greatness ! Just ONE pill a day, each day, every day,
for the rest of your life and YOU

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CLDISME20 Jun 2011 7:12 a.m. PST

…light up my life.
You give me hope
To carry…

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28mmMan20 Jun 2011 2:07 p.m. PST

on after getting fired…This is a major disgrace. Forget MIT or Stanford now. They wouldn't touch us with a ten-meter cattle-prod."

"You're always so concerned about your reputation. Einstein did his best stuff when he was working as a patent clerk!"

"You know how much a patent clerk earns?"

"No!"

"Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."

"For whatever reasons, Ray, call it fate. Call it luck. Call it karma. I believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe that we were destined to get thrown out of this dump."

"For what purpose?"

"To go into business for ourselves."

"This ecto-containment system that Spengler and I have in mind is going to require a load of bread to capitalize. Where are we going to get the money?"

"I don't know. [drinks from a flask] I don't know…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP20 Jun 2011 7:47 p.m. PST

by now that any attempt to frammis the potrzebie is doomed
from the outset – not to say

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28mmMan20 Jun 2011 8:29 p.m. PST

viddy well, little brother, viddy well,welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

Appy-polly-loggies. I had something of a pain in the gulliver so had to sleep. I was not awakened when I gave orders for wakening…(click)

Etranger21 Jun 2011 2:25 a.m. PST

the dead is not a spell to be conducted lightly. A form of necromancy, it is liable to significant …

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP21 Jun 2011 3:23 a.m. PST

savings at the Crazy Horseman, all week-end ! We got
'em all – sub-compacts, compact, sedans, e-dang-normous
gas guzzlers to fit your mother-in-law's tonnage !

Jump on in – the savings are great at

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CLDISME21 Jun 2011 8:03 a.m. PST

…three and two. Men on second and third with one out. Sullivan has fouled off eight straight pitches to keep this at-bat alive. I cannot quite tell if he has Rojo's number or not. Rojo is tiring from this inning. Rojo sets and here's the pay off…

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP21 Jun 2011 11:24 a.m. PST

-color jokes – y'know, the kind 14 year-olds snigger
at behind their school books ?

Nope, just give us the good old raunchy down 'n dirty

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28mmMan21 Jun 2011 11:55 a.m. PST

Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich, based on the novel by E. M. Nathanson and starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson and Jim Brown. The film was originally released in a blown up 70 mm format called "Metroscope".

In England, in the spring of 1944, Allied forces are preparing for the D-Day invasion. Among them are Major John Reisman (Lee Marvin), an OSS officer; his commander, Regular Army Major General Worden (Ernest Borgnine), and his former commander Colonel Everett Dasher Breed (Robert Ryan). Early in the film the personalities of the three men are shown to clash and the characters of the individualistic Reisman and the domineering Breed are established.

Major Reisman is assigned an unusual and top-secret pre-invasion mission: take twelve soldiers convicted of felony offenses, either serving sentences of hard labor or condemned to death, and turn them into a unit capable of carrying out a specific task. They are to infiltrate a château near Rennes, in Brittany, used as a retreat for senior Wehrmacht officers, on the eve of the invasion. Without having complete intelligence as to the identity of the guests, it was felt that the elimination of officers in the German high command or senior staff could cripple or confuse the German military's ability to respond at the time of crisis. It is quickly established that both Reisman and the generals with whom he frequently clashes consider the mission to be a suicidal long shot. After a long period of convincing and training the men, they are deployed to attack a chateau in France, housing German commanders, intending to disrupt the German command structure. After the parachute drop, the dozen discover that Jiminez broke his neck on landing. The others then proceed to the chateau, whilst eliminating several German officers, stealing their car. The Dozen then launch their attack, in which they are picked off one by one. Maggott betrays the dozen and kills a German woman, only to be shot dead. The others see that the German officers have fled into an underground bunker only accessible by several air vents, through which the dozen drop grenades and oil, which is then ignited, killing all the officers. The remaining members of the dozen then escape in a German Halftrack. the film then cuts to a scene where the survivors are shown to be Major Reisman, Sargent Bowren…(click)

capncarp21 Jun 2011 2:44 p.m. PST

nching the anchor from its holding tackle. The next wave was worse, breaking over the bow and actually buckling…
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Etranger21 Jun 2011 8:31 p.m. PST

on my parachute, I rushed to the hatchway, only to be blown back by the slipstream…..

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP22 Jun 2011 3:56 a.m. PST

full of speckled trout ! Joy ! Rapture ! DARN -
as he discovered that he'd forgotten his newly-tied
flies !

Well, nothing for it but

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CLDISME22 Jun 2011 7:00 a.m. PST

…a relaxing day at the spa. Pamper your worries away. For a 20% off coupon, just use the promo code…

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP22 Jun 2011 5:53 p.m. PST

di-di-dah-dah-di-di

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28mmMan22 Jun 2011 7:27 p.m. PST

e, damn thee die. Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear…(click)

capncarp22 Jun 2011 7:51 p.m. PST

mint,Peppermint, Wint-O-Green, Tropical Fruit, Stik-O-Pep--Your favorite flavors in a little Lift-Savers' candy!
Buy them for yourself!
Buy them for a friend!
Buy them for…
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28mmMan22 Jun 2011 8:42 p.m. PST

gotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; – vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing…(click)

Etranger22 Jun 2011 8:49 p.m. PST

… for goodness sake!
O! You better watch out!
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why

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28mmMan23 Jun 2011 12:05 a.m. PST

do you walk the earth? Why'd you come to persecute me? And what is that great chain you wear?

I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it, link by link and yard by yard, while on Earth, and now I will never be rid of it, any more than you will ever be rid of yours!

[shocked] Mine?

It was as heavy and long as this seven Christmases ago. It's a terrible, ponderous chain you are making, Scrooge!

Tell me more, Marley, but speak comforts to me!

I have none to give.

None?

Comfort comes from other sources, Ebenezer Scrooge, and is given by other ministers than I to other kinds of men than you. When I lived, my spirit, like yours, never walked beyond the narrow limits of our counting house.

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.

Mankind should be our business, Ebenezer, but we seldom attend to it…as you shall see…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP23 Jun 2011 3:31 a.m. PST

to shining sea ! This vast, this beautiful, this
bountiful and plenteous

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CLDISME23 Jun 2011 7:59 a.m. PST

…harvest in our Produce Department. We use all local farmers. Our Meat and Fish Department will custom order any cut of meat for you. Our dairy products are so fresh you would think the cows were right next door.

Check our in-store flyer…

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP23 Jun 2011 5:44 p.m. PST

but gave up the trapeze to become a clown – more in
keeping with her personality, I thought, not to say
her excess avoirdupois

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Etranger23 Jun 2011 8:08 p.m. PST

gave her a certain gravity …..

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP24 Jun 2011 3:33 a.m. PST

well, we don't really consider him to be one of our,
uh, more outstanding examples of scholarship – but
then, there are so

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Jovian124 Jun 2011 7:44 a.m. PST

Kleen King, Kleen King, we give your carpets the royal <click>

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP24 Jun 2011 7:53 a.m. PST

PITA, not just your *normal* PITA.

So, we'll

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CLDISME24 Jun 2011 8:45 a.m. PST

…in the sky keeps on turnin'
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow.
Wheel in the sky keeps on…

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14Bore24 Jun 2011 10:41 a.m. PST

Turnin'
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
Rollin' rollin' rollin on the river
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
Pumped a lot of pain in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
Till I hitched a ride on (click)

28mmMan24 Jun 2011 6:20 p.m. PST

and you must come with me.

Who are you?

What? No. My name's not important. You must come with me, or you'll be late.

Late for what?

Well, um, what's your name Earthman?

Dent. Arthur Dent.

Well, late as in *the late* Dentarthurdent. It's a sort of threat. You see?

No.

Your friends are safe, you can trust me.

Trust a man who won't even tell me his name?

Well, um, my name is, um, it's[hurriedly]Slartibartfast.

What?

I *said* it wasn't important…(click)

Etranger25 Jun 2011 3:10 a.m. PST

of being Earnest, written by Oscar Wilde, was adapted for a movie by ….

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP25 Jun 2011 3:52 a.m. PST

four, when a six by six was called-for by the local
building code.

The collapse of the structure resulted in

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CLDISME25 Jun 2011 6:02 p.m. PST

…"Death of a Salesman" will be performed this weekend by the Tiny Shoppe Players at the Tiny Shoppe Dinner Theatre. The role of Willy Loman will be played by…

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP26 Jun 2011 3:15 a.m. PST

By Birdie', which was the actor's last role before
succumbing

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Etranger26 Jun 2011 4:28 a.m. PST

to a surfeit of eels. Other odd ways of dying include….

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28mmMan26 Jun 2011 6:35 a.m. PST

—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy…(click)

freewargamesrules26 Jun 2011 9:03 a.m. PST

remove the screwdriver from the wound and cover with a dressing (click)

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