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  1. jtexas

    Here's a nice photograph of the president...

    and Mrs. Bush, and my dad and myself... Veterans Day 2006 sorry about the poor quality cell-phone pic of a photo - no scanner
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    Use your brain

    Read this sentence: FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. Now count aloud the ' F' s in that sentence. Count them ONLY ONCE; do not go back and count them again. Then see below.. scroll down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANSWER...
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    Staff Members Under New Defense Secretary

    from cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/17/new_defense_sec
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    Parallel batteries

    12V trolling motor powered by a pair of batteries, parallel connection. I could better utilize on-board stowage space by moving the batteries to the stern, which would add about 12 feet of wiring; it's about six feet now. But for weight & balance it would be better to move just one. Anybody...
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    tornado warning sirens are howling

    circular motion (no funnel clouds sighted), scheduled to pass within a mile or so of my house in the next 2 - 3 minutes...
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    Worst president ever: Truman Capote

    I am not making this up...Baba Wawa just said it on The View.
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    Have some internet fun with friends & family

    www.peteranswers.com You can get the answer to literally any question here. What's my name, or who is standing next to me, or what color is my sweater... Funny thing, it refuses to answer if anybody but you types the question. Amaze your friends & family. My nephew & niece had the wife & I...
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    Is this a clever prank or just vandalism?

    For the last few years I have been developing an overwhelming urge to go into neighborhoods late at night, gather all the raindeer from all the yards on a street, and place them together in one magnificent raindeer herd on one lawn. I've pretty much decided against any reproductive poses...
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    Scientists expecting virgin birth this Christmas

    I swear I am not making this up... excerpt: Reuters news story
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    A Christmas Miracle for our Household

    ok, maybe not an actual miracle, but we're calling it that. We've been raising our niece for the past 8 years since she was eight, mom deceased, and dad is a real loser, but he wouldn't voluntarily relinguish his parental rights to clear the way for us to adopt. Earlier this year we filed a...
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    Bush Brainwashed Blair - really, no kidding...

    according to Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi. I just don't know who to believe anymore! excerpt from cnn.com
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    San Diego/Mexico border fence built by illegal aliens?

    that's what ya call ironic! excerpt: disclaimer: no evidence that illegal immigrant labor was used on the actual border fence. from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626823
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    Most Gitmo detainees freed after transfer

    MSNBC.COM the sub-headline reads: "Four-fifths of ‘vicious killers’ released after return to home countries" so............we gonna start seeing sarcasm in "serious" news sources? an exerpt: and this is an AP story. looks like the news media is going to co-opt sarcasm...I'll have to find...
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    stupidest trick ever! catastrophe narrowly avoided

    loading up this evening following an afternoon of fishing (solo)...trailer's in the water, I'm in the boat coming round and I notice...THE BACKUP LIGHTS ARE ON!! did I panic? not exactly but I did get kinda frantic. tomorrow I start working with the dog on a new command: "Dusty! Put it in...
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    A nouned verb

    I usually hate to see nouns get verbed, but today I heard for the first time, in a business meeting, the verb "learning" get nouned. Two or three times so it couldn't have been an accident. anybody else out there nouning verbs?
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    Amusing emails on the job

    Found this mIldly amusing. received this broadcast email yesterday, pretty basic company policy statement with an attached word doc: came this morning:
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    Does your attorney do this...

    No matter how long you wait (2 days, 5 days, 8 days) to call about the status of your documents, you get a call back the next day with the message that, coincidentally, it was completed this morning?
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    Question about members of congress (bipartisan. no, really)

    Anybody know why they don't don't use bookmarks in congress?
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    doing business with the machines

    The pay-at-the-pump thread kinda got me thinking about transacting business with humans vs machines. Our customer surveys here are overwhelming in favor of do-it-yourself electronic transactions from ticketing to check-in (airline). Some walmarts & grocery stores don't man any express...
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    New Kind of Terrorism in the Sky

    Yesterday, AA flight 1053 from DCA to DFW diverted to BNA due to a "sulfur smell in the cabin/passenger misconduct" - landed without incident, female passenger retained by authorities, psgrs deplaned/rescreened, acft searched/reboarded & flight completed. Turns out, a woman was lighting...
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