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14Bore17 Oct 2011 4:04 p.m. PST

stand on end is the sight of Bigfoot staring at you , and not having a rifle in case it wants to (click)

28mmMan17 Oct 2011 4:16 p.m. PST

make eye contact with a bear – the magnetic moment where both bear and human register one another outside of their boundaries and roles as observer and observed.

There is so much behind their eyes that it is a special privilege when they see me as an individual, another animal, in their environment. I can see the gears turning in her huge head, and she lifts off her round rump and starts to move in our direction.

Both our pilot (whose guiding several tourists), John and I instantly know what she's doing – she has decided that the safest way to get away from this male is to sit right behind us! Our pilot stands up on his knees and firmly tells her – "that's close enough." She looks at him with an expression somewhat akin to disappointment. She raises her eyebrows and makes a tiny, half hearted movement to continue in our direction, as if well intentioned persistence to join our group might be turned into an invitation.

He tells her once again, "no, that's close enough" and she immediately adopts a submissive looking posture by ducking her head and turning her face and then her torso away from us. She takes two or three steps backwards, and then scurries off looking sheepish…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP17 Oct 2011 5:05 p.m. PST

not ash good ash cowsh, which ain't ash good ash pigsh, an'
neither ish ash good ash pie

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capncarp17 Oct 2011 7:12 p.m. PST

R squared," replied Miss Pritchett to her class.
"Naw, thet's jest silly." drawled Jerome-Bob McIlhenney, of the Vulture Mtn McIlhenneys. "Not squared. Everbody knows thet pie are _round_!"
Miss Prichett just sighed, picked up the tire iron she kept handy for dealing with first-cousin-(or worse)-marrying genetically ingrained ignorance and whomped Jerome-Bob a few good licks…
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Etranger18 Oct 2011 4:12 a.m. PST

…on Route 66

Well it winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2000 miles all the way
Get your kicks on Route 66

Well goes from St. Louie down to Missouri
Oklahoma City looks oh so pretty
You'll see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino

Would you get hip to this kindly tip
And go take that California……


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28mmMan18 Oct 2011 11:41 a.m. PST

has established an 89-square-mile agricultural quarantine area in Los Angeles County after invasive oriental fruit flies were found in Pasadena, they announced Tuesday.

The quarantine means backyard gardeners cannot move plants from their property and must eat their produce at home.

The area under quarantine is bordered by Figueroa Street on the west, Interstate 10 on the south, Big Santa Anita Wash to the east and the San Gabriel Mountain foothills on the north.

If restrictions by the state Department of Food and Agriculture are not followed, the infestation could spread to other areas of the county, damaging crops and requiring increased use of pesticides, officials said.

"This will protect their fellow gardeners and help ensure that the infestation will not spread to nearby areas where it could affect California's food supply," Agriculture Secretary A.G. Kawamura said in a statement.

The oriental fruit fly, classified as an exotic pest, was detected in traps in several locations in the Pasadena and San Marino area. The flies, which are widespread in southern Asia and Hawaii, typically arrive in the U.S. mainland by "hitchhiking" on fruit brought back by travelers.

If the flies became established in California, commercial and residential growers would face crop losses that could cost them hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Native plants could suffer as farmers would use more pesticides to curb the damage.

Agriculture officials last month placed a 79-square-mile area of Sacramento and Placer counties under quarantine.

In L.A. County, crews are trying to eradicate the flies by posting bait stations with pesticides on utility poles. Male flies are attracted to the mixture and die after…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP18 Oct 2011 12:50 p.m. PST

a few days in the hot sun. The odor can be somewhat
neutralized

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP19 Oct 2011 3:47 a.m. PST

finally, our coverage of the Mayor's visit to the zoo will
take precedence

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Etranger19 Oct 2011 6:32 p.m. PST

over other claims to the throne. The new Act will enable the oldest surviving child to ascend to the throne, regardless of ……

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28mmMan19 Oct 2011 8:34 p.m. PST

the choice of toppings be that tomatoes, onions, pickles, green peppers, jalpenos, lettuce, olives, spiach, mayo, mustard, southwest sauce, salt,pepper, ranch dressing, vinegar, other salad dressings, bacon, cheese (American, Swiss, pepper jack, provolone)…Subway offers many options to create the perfect…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP20 Oct 2011 4:30 a.m. PST

day, sunny, temperature in the very low 70's, a
cloudless

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28mmMan20 Oct 2011 4:28 p.m. PST

another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said "Well, a-bless my soul"

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP21 Oct 2011 11:43 a.m. PST

omelet, but ran out of good olives. So, I thought
about a frittata

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Etranger22 Oct 2011 5:07 a.m. PST

written by Arthur C Clarke, 2001, A Space Odyssey displayed the model making talents of …

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28mmMan22 Oct 2011 11:45 a.m. PST

Milady de Winter also known as the Baroness of Sheffield, Comtesse de La Fère, Lady Clarick, and Anne de Breuil. She was a capable and beautiful spy, Milady is remorseless and unrepentant for her countless "misdeeds".

Late in the novel, she is revealed to be the wife of Athos, one of the musketeers in the title of the novel. A teenager forced to enter the convent, she falls in love with a priest and escapes with stolen church property to fund their new life in another part of the country, for which both of them were branded by a legal official. She was with a man in Athos' village, and pretending to be his sister, when Athos, a nobleman (the Comte de La Fère), fell in love with her and, despite her obscure origins, married her. Out in the forest one day, he discovered the brand on her shoulder, identifying her as a convicted criminal. Thinking she had married him only for his money, and feeling dishonored, Athos hanged her from a tree on the spot, but she survived.

After being expelled by Athos, she winds up in the employ of Cardinal Richelieu, working as his spy, assassin, and messenger. She steals the jewels that Anne of Austria, wife of King Louis XIII, entrusted to her lover, the English minister Duke of Buckingham, but the intended scandal is averted.

D'Artagnan himself later meets Milady and falls under her spell, though he also pursues an affair with her maid, Kitty.

When the French troops lays siege to the Hugenot city of La Rochelle, the Duke of Buckingham leads an unsuccessful expedition to assist the besieged. In a house near La Rochelle, Athos and his friends Porthos and Aramis overhear a conversation between the Cardinal and Milady, plotting to kill Buckingham before he can make another attempt.

Even if he is the enemy of France, the musketeers regard Buckingham, the man, as a friend. They commit treason to the crown, and thus warn him of the threat and upon arriving in England, Milady is arrested and imprisoned in a house by her hostile brother-in-law, the new Lord de Winter. She seduces her jailer, John Felton, persuading him that she is a Puritan at heart and that Buckingham is persecuting her because she refused his advances. Felton has his own grievances against Buckingham, whom he blames for his lack of promotion in the army. He thus proceeds to murder the Duke (a historical event), but after carrying out the murder he is aghast to see Milady's ship sailing away without him. He is later hanged.

Returning to France, Milady murders d'Artagnan's lover, Constance Bonacieux, when the two happen upon one another in a convent…(click)

capncarp22 Oct 2011 7:53 p.m. PST

ional relationship, unlike the remainder of his sick twisted clan."
She shook her head in dismay, trying to remember just what she did see in…
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28mmMan22 Oct 2011 8:25 p.m. PST

the Mirror of Galadriel…a silver basin of water used by Galadriel in Lorien which could show the viewer possible events in the past, present or even the future.

Galadriel says that she can command her mirror to show different things, but that what it shows unbidden is often more profitable. She claims that the mirror can show the past, present, and future.

She offers both Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee the chance to look into the mirror, and they accept. Sam sees a vision of Frodo asleep under a cliff and of himself climbing an endless stair; he also sees Ted Sandyman cutting down trees and his "old gaffer" being expelled from his hobbit-hole.

Frodo sees a vision of either Saruman or Gandalf and a glimpse of the sea and a black ship with a white fortress with seven towers. The last thing he sees in the mirror is the Eye of Sauron and the heat of Sauron's gaze as he searches for Frodo causes the water…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP23 Oct 2011 3:35 a.m. PST

hazard on 15, Sam.'

'Yes, quite a shot – a straight 2-wood out of a lie
in the marginal rough, drawing slightly, then caroming
off a spectator to strike a tree branch and
ricocheting just over the hazard to drop on the
fringe

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Etranger23 Oct 2011 4:44 a.m. PST

….. of town
In the darkness on the edge of town

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28mmMan23 Oct 2011 12:06 p.m. PST

atop the tallest of earth's peaks dwell the gods of earth, and suffer not man to tell that he hath looked upon them. Lesser peaks they once inhabited; but ever the men from the plains would scale the slopes of rock and snow, driving the gods to higher and higher mountains till now only the last remains.

When they left their old peaks they took with them all signs of themselves, save once, it is said, when they left a carven image on the face of the mountain which they called Ngranek…They are grown stern, and where once they suffered men to displace them, they now forbid men to come; or coming, to depart. It is well for men that they know not of Kadath in the cold waste; else they would seek injudiciously to scale…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP24 Oct 2011 4:06 a.m. PST

a gar you need first a pair of stout gloves, since
the fish has teeth

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28mmMan24 Oct 2011 11:26 a.m. PST

? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.

I take thee at thy word.
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptiz'd;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

What man art thou, that, thus be-screen'd in night,
So stumblest on my counsel?

By a name
I know not how to tell thee who I am:
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to thee:
Had I it written, I would tear the word.

My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
Of that tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound:
Art thou not Romeo, and a…(click)

Etranger24 Oct 2011 9:36 p.m. PST

complete and utterly dedicated self abuser, you useless piece of foetid offal…..! Clearly the Sergeant-Major was not amused.

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP25 Oct 2011 8:19 a.m. PST

to hear that, at first and last, it all came down

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28mmMan25 Oct 2011 10:24 a.m. PST

to an issue of too much turmeric in the curry. Everyone knows that the balance of flavors must be maintained or the taste buds will…(click)

Personal logo Murphy Sponsoring Member of TMP25 Oct 2011 6:52 p.m. PST

Richard Milhous Nixon was his name, and during his presidency, he tried to do things in an unorthodox manner to maintain political…(click)

Etranger25 Oct 2011 9:33 p.m. PST

traction in under-developed African nations such as the currently wartorn state of ….

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28mmMan25 Oct 2011 10:36 p.m. PST

decay is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 22 November to 13 December 1980. The serial was the second of three loosely connected serials known as the E-Space trilogy. Adric becomes a companion to the Fourth Doctor in this story having stowed away in the TARDIS at the end of the previous serial, Full Circle.

After the events of Full Circle, the Doctor, Romana, K-9, and their newest companion/stowaway, Adric, arriving on a planet experiencing what appears to be a feudal period. The villagers live under the thrall of three lords—Zargo, Camilla, and Aukon—who dwell in a shadowy Tower, and experience a yearly ritual called "the Selection," in which a sample of young villagers are taken to the tower, never to be seen again. This selection process is enforced by a thuggish band of guards led by Habris.

The Doctor and Romana discover evidence of technology considerably more advanced than the medieval level of development of the planet, and wonder what happened to cause the planet to devolve to its current rustic condition—to be in a "state of decay.". Romana's only suggestion is that there is a powerful force holding the…(click)

Goose66626 Oct 2011 2:06 a.m. PST

tide of water from the mohne dam was said to have been twenty feet high has it… (click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP26 Oct 2011 2:19 a.m. PST

is imperative that the glockenspiel be played by an
individual with great dexterity

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP26 Oct 2011 4:17 p.m. PST

eight or maybe ought-nine, 'ain't sure.'

'Wal, whin y' git t'date daown, lemme

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Etranger26 Oct 2011 6:37 p.m. PST

….. Caution is the fictional detective character who was created by British crime fiction writer Reginald Evelyn Cheyney. Peter wrote popular novels, many of which were based on crime and corruption.

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28mmMan27 Oct 2011 11:36 a.m. PST

…corruption of the soul is a fate that befalls the weak.

Those whose souls are corrupted can never became one with themselves ever again.

The loss creating a void that is filled with misery, loathing, and woe…that and occasionally back filled with something otherworldly…something dark…something vile…(click)

Etranger27 Oct 2011 6:01 p.m. PST

….. something borrowed, something blue, as the old rhyme has it. Since time immemorial, brides have ….

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28mmMan27 Oct 2011 7:34 p.m. PST

been brought to life with Dr Frankenstein's machines. Her bandage-wrapped body is raised through the roof. Lightning strikes a kite, sending electricity through the Bride. Henry and Pretorius lower her and realize their success.

"She's alive! Alive!" Henry cries. They remove her bandages and help her to stand.

"The bride of Frankenstein!" Doctor Pretorius declares.

The excited Monster sees his mate and reaches out to her, asking, "Friend?" The Bride, screaming rejects him.

"She hate me! Like others" the Monster dejectedly says. As Elizabeth races to Henry's side, the Monster rampages through the laboratory.

The Monster tells Henry and Elizabeth "Yes! Go! You live!" To Pretorius and the Bride, he says "You stay. We belong dead."

While Henry and Elizabeth flee, the Monster sheds a tear and pulls a lever to trigger the destruction of the laboratory and tower…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP28 Oct 2011 3:18 a.m. PST

-ing, at 5'8", over his 4'3" bride. The parents of
the newlyweds were overjoyed

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28mmMan28 Oct 2011 2:52 p.m. PST

though concerned that the children were only in the 1st grade, but the officials said that the polio vaccine would cure…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP28 Oct 2011 4:29 p.m. PST

or kill, so no worries, eh ? '

'S' nice, Ah reckon, but if'n it kills, who gon'
bury 'em ?'

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28mmMan28 Oct 2011 10:53 p.m. PST

or not it just doesn't matter…when there is no more room in Hell the dead will walk the Earth…(click)

Etranger29 Oct 2011 2:51 a.m. PST

wires are important in ensuring the safety of electrical installation ….

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28mmMan29 Oct 2011 3:33 p.m. PST

is both training base and a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base. It is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States, 83 miles (133 km) north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas. Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield. The base's primary purpose is to support development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems.

The base lies within the United States Air Force's vast Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), formerly called the Nellis Air Force Range (NAFR). Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around 186 miles (300 km) southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center (Detachment 3).

Though the name Area 51 is used in official CIA documentation, other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport. The area is part of the Nellis Military Operations Area, and the restricted airspace around the field is referred to as (R-4808N), known by the military pilots in the area as "The Box" or "the Container".

The facility is not a conventional airbase, as front line operational units are not normally deployed there. It instead appears to be used for highly classified military/defense Special Access Programs (SAP), which are unacknowledged publicly by the government, military personnel, and defense contractors. Its mission may be to support the development, testing, and training phases for new aircraft weapons systems or research projects. Once these projects have been approved by the United States Air Force or other agencies such as the CIA, and are ready to be announced to the public, operations of the aircraft are then moved to a normal air force base. The intense secrecy surrounding the base, the very existence of which the U.S. government did not even acknowledge until July 14, 2003, has made it the frequent subject of conspiracy theories…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP30 Oct 2011 2:25 a.m. PST

abound as to why Comstock had procured weasels for
the project, although the reasons for the racoons,
porcupines, and Flagellant Brothers were very
obvious

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28mmMan30 Oct 2011 5:46 p.m. PST

poor excuses for superheroes…so Mr. Furious, The Shoveler, and the Blue Raja attempt to make a name for themselves as superheroes, but find themselves upstaged by the well-sponsored Captain Amazing.

However, Amazing is finding that his skill at capturing villains has left the city with virtually no crime, and his sponsors are threatening to end their deals. In order to create a need for a superhero, Amazing uses his alter ego, the billionaire lawyer Lance Hunt, to argue for the release of the insane supervillain Casanova Frankenstein.

The plan backfires; once reunited with Tony P and his Disco Boys, Frankenstein blows up the insane asylum, captures Amazing, and sets his sights on creating a doomsday device: the "Psycho-frakulator" which can bend reality.

Mr. Furious, while spying on Frankenstein's mansion, discovers Amazing's abduction, and tells the others. The three realize they need more allies, and through word-of-mouth and try-outs, they bring aboard The Spleen, Invisible Boy, and the Bowler.

The newly formed team, fumbling over each other, attempt to confront Frankenstein in his limo, but succeed only in annoying him and vandalizing his car. While doing so, they learn that Tony P murdered the Bowler's father. A later attempt to sneak into his mansion to rescue Captain Amazing ends when they inadvertently kill the hero…(click)

Etranger30 Oct 2011 6:18 p.m. PST

….es
We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
Just for one day
We can be Heroes
We're nothing
And nothing will help us
Maybe we're lying
Then you better not stay
But we could be safer
Just for one day …

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Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP31 Oct 2011 4:24 a.m. PST

after day after agonizing, stinking day ! I tell you,
Abercrombie, if Fitch doesn't

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28mmMan31 Oct 2011 7:38 p.m. PST

count suckers then I say, the future is ours…if you can count!

[a couple of soldiers cheer for Cyrus]

Cyrus: Now, look what we have here before us. We got the Saracens sitting next to the Jones Street Boys. We've got the Moonrunners right by the Van Cortlandt Rangers. Nobody is wasting nobody. That…is a miracle. And miracles is the way things ought to be.

[Few more soldiers cheering for Cyrus]

Cyrus: You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs. And there's over a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it?

Gang Members: Yeah.

Cyrus: Can you dig it?

Gang Members: Yeah!

Cyrus: Can you dig it…(click)

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP01 Nov 2011 4:01 a.m. PST

stands to reason that the money collected from people
who use the facility should go for maintenance or
other facility

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28mmMan02 Nov 2011 3:58 p.m. PST

functions like Workshops & Research Education, Interlibrary Loans, and Borrowing & Circulation.

Yale University Library is renown for having an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian…(click)

Etranger02 Nov 2011 9:00 p.m. PST

penis gourds, worn for ceremonial purposes. These can be very ornately decorated….

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28mmMan02 Nov 2011 9:36 p.m. PST

but first you'll want to pick the one without bruises, nicks, and cuts. Make sure your pumpkin is ripe as well.

Another thing to make sure of is that your pumpkin has a long stem. This will become the handle to your lid.

It is reccomended that you cut a hole in the bottom so you just have to place the pumpkin on the candle or other light source.

If you want to, you can also wash off the pumpkin so that it's clean and stays healthy longer.

Put down some newspaper or a brown sack from your grocery store on a flat surface so you don't get your workspace messy; doing this also makes for an easy clean-up. Measure 2-5 inches (5cm – 12.5cm) down from the stem. This will be where you will cut around, to make the lid. Do not make the cut completely vertical; instead, angle the point of the knife in towards the center of the circle.

This will make the lid come out easier, and then sit in the bowl shaped hole that it came out of without…(click)

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