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    Abandoned boats: a problem in your area?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/01boats.html?_r=3&hp I haven't seen to much of this around me. How about you guys? Jinx
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    Boats Too Costly to Keep Are Littering Coastlines

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/01boats.html?_r=3&hp I haven't seen to much of this around me. How about you guys? Jinx
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    highway of death

    Heavy trucks, bicycles, fog, rain, sheer drops. What could go wrong? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ3VfV6UVJs Jinx
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    Buy an aluminum boat.

    Save my Alcoa stock. $44.77 5/19/08 $6.58 now Jinx
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    Do any of you Australians remember the Lightburn Zeta?

    I ran across this in my web surfing and thought you might enjoy a look. There are not many car makes I've never heard of, but this was one. http://www.carlustblog.com/2008/08/lightburn-zeta.html Jinx
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    Piracy on the High Seas and the British Fleet

    from todays New York Times Op-ed. I can't imagine this goes over well with the sailors of the Royal Navy. "ON April 11, French commandos went in with guns blazing and captured a gang of pirates who days earlier had hijacked a luxury cruise ship, the Ponant, and held the crew for ransom. This...
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    Any ideas for what to see in Quebec?

    I made a deal with my youngest son--get a good grade in his French class and we visit Quebec for summer vacation, or do poorly and we spend our time in Youngstown, Ohio. (Kid's know I'm serious, so it has had the desired result.) Any suggestions on what to see there? thanks, Jinx
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    Flying to New Zealand? Bring your airsick bag for the landing.

    Here's a neat video that is a composite of landings at what is said to be Wellington, but some are apparently not there. Neat stuff, though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zzFkAF_EOw Enjoy. Jinx
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    question for tire men..it was a new one on me

    Today while I was at the tire shop I overheard the counterman turn away a customer in a minivan, saying they did not have the equipment to replace the tire and he would have to go to the dealer. Seems the tire and rim are a bonded unit. I didn't get the name of the set up but it sounded as if...
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    Ward Churchill fired...

    For those who care, Prof. Ward Churchill has been given his walking paper from the U of Colorado. About time. Now bring on the lawyers for the inevitable lawsuit. To refresh the memory, he stated after 9/11 the WTC was filled with "little Eichmanns." In addition, he is an academic fraud. Jinx
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    A question for a Canadian

    Do Canadians say "leftenant" for lieutenant or "lootenant"? Thanks, Jinx Inquiring minds just gotta know
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    I'll take the broken leg and count my blessings

    Yesterday I watched my son pitch over the side of a bridge on his bicycle and land ten feet below on the rocks. There were no sides and he turned his head to look behind him. I dreaded what I would see, but he was alert, with only a deep gash on his leg and chip out of his tibia. Naturally...
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    The Brits have just about had it with the PC stuff too

    Check out the letter to the editor of the London Times: "The pernicious new Puritanism (is) slowly squeezing the life and soul out of Britain. Ye gods, as my grandmother used to say, almost all the middle classes have left is their glass of wine in the evening. That bottle of organic Pech-Latt...
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    17,000 drowned and rarely are they offered help.

    This paragraph really stands out in this story.... On Friday, The Independent reported how a Maltese plane photographed a crazily overloaded boat in this area carrying 53 Eritreans, several of whom telephoned desperate pleas for help to relatives in London, Italy and Malta. The boat disappeared...
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    That big hog was bogus!

    Just heard on the radio that big 1000 pound hog shot by an 11-year old boy was named Fred and had been in the woods for 4 days. I don't know what kind of lessons his old man is trying to teach him about hunting, but I want no part of it. Jinx
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