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« Reply #1515 on: November 15, 2009, 02:22:20 PM » |
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BTW...you know that that story is assuming that if the Navy HAD heard something, that they would have told the general public....
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« Reply #1516 on: November 15, 2009, 02:56:41 PM » |
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That's pretty cool I wonder what other similar operations went into effect prior to the founding of SETI.
Incidentally that has got to be one of the most frustrating places to work imaginable, day after day of listening and nothing for decades.
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« Reply #1517 on: November 15, 2009, 02:56:55 PM » |
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I would just tune into a good station to keep from going mad.
We are just lucky these orders were not given in 1938.
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« Reply #1518 on: November 15, 2009, 10:44:59 PM » |
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Two men dressed as Mario and Luigi are wanted for the robbery of a cab driver in Staten Island. No... really. |
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« Reply #1519 on: November 16, 2009, 02:25:37 AM » |
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Two men dressed as Mario and Luigi are wanted for the robbery of a cab driver in Staten Island. No... really. I suppose this is Mario's reaction to Princess Peach cheating on him with Bowser. Mario should have stayed with Pauline from Donkey Kong. |
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Greetings, earthlings. I'm here to probe Uranus.
GPS - Saving men's dignity by showing them the way without having to ask.
*Disclaimer* Do not take anything I say seriously unless otherwise stated.
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« Reply #1520 on: November 16, 2009, 07:18:26 AM » |
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Two men dressed as Mario and Luigi are wanted for the robbery of a cab driver in Staten Island. No... really. I suppose this is Mario's reaction to Princess Peach cheating on him with Bowser. Mario should have stayed with Pauline from Donkey Kong. Yeah, Mario's got problems: http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/vgcon/5904-ep1mario |
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Why would you do that? - Zim Because it's cool. - Martian "My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We only kill out of personal spite." - Brain Guy Chomp on, little dude!
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$37.95 for this crap?? Landfill, here I come!
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« Reply #1521 on: November 16, 2009, 09:48:51 AM » |
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i have an injury that needs to be tended to...
I was bit by a snake and th epoison needs to be sucked out... Don't laugh! When I was getting my EMD (Emergency Medical Dispatch) license we had to listen to a call where a lady was screeching at the 911 operator that her boyfriend had been bitten by a snake. The operator asked where he'd been bitten and she replied, They had been out in the woods to "fool around" when it happened is all we knew. But it's a call I'll never, ever forget!! |
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$37.95 for this crap?? Landfill, here I come!
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« Reply #1522 on: November 16, 2009, 09:52:08 AM » |
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When you want only the best.... WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.
Whyte & Mackay, the drinks group that now owns McKinlay and Co., has asked for a sample of the 100-year-old scotch for a series of tests that could decide whether to relaunch the now-defunct Scotch.
Workers from New Zealand's Antarctic Heritage Trust will use special drills to reach the crates, frozen in Antarctic ice under the Nimrod Expedition hut near Cape Royds.
Al Fastier, who will lead the expedition in January, said restoration workers found the crates of whiskey under the hut's floorboards in 2006. At the time, the crates and bottles were too deeply embedded in ice to be dislodged.
The New Zealanders have agreed to try to retrieve some bottles, although the rest must stay under conservation guidelines agreed by 12 Antarctic Treaty nations.
Fastier said he did not want to sample the contents.
"It's better to imagine it than to taste it," he said. "That way it keeps its mystery."
Richard Paterson, Whyte & Mackay's master blender, said the Shackleton expedition's whiskey could still be drinkable and taste exactly as it did 100 years ago.
If he can get a sample, he intends to replicate the old Scotch and put McKinlay whiskey back on sale.
"I really hope we can get some back here," he was quoted as telling London's Telegraph newspaper. "It's been laying there lonely and neglected. It should come back to Scotland where it was born.
"Even if most of the bottles have to remain in Antarctica for historic reasons, it would be good if we could get a couple," Paterson said. |
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« Reply #1523 on: November 16, 2009, 12:19:46 PM » |
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Workers from New Zealand's Antarctic Heritage Trust will use special drills to reach the crates, frozen in Antarctic ice under the Nimrod Expedition hut near Cape Royds.
And a long long straw. |
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I can make that throw.
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« Reply #1524 on: November 18, 2009, 10:04:56 AM » |
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God bless science!
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« Reply #1525 on: November 18, 2009, 10:23:47 AM » |
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Why would you do that? - Zim Because it's cool. - Martian "My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We only kill out of personal spite." - Brain Guy Chomp on, little dude!
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« Reply #1526 on: November 18, 2009, 01:15:01 PM » |
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« Reply #1527 on: November 18, 2009, 01:21:36 PM » |
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« Reply #1528 on: November 18, 2009, 05:34:55 PM » |
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$40,000 left at holy site — for safekeeping
Woman wanted Virgin Mary to watch over her rare coin collection
EMMITSBURG, Md. - Operators of a Catholic shrine in Maryland thought they had been blessed with a big donation this month when a worker found $40,000 worth of rare coins on the grounds.
But officials at Mount St. Mary's University said Wednesday that the bags of money had only been left at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes for safekeeping.
Shrine Director William Tronolone said the owner returned to retrieve them about a week later, on Nov. 16.
The unidentified owner told him she wanted the Blessed Virgin Mary to watch over her treasure while she was out of town.
Tronolone says the school's security chief persuaded the woman to put the coins in her bank safe deposit box.
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« Reply #1529 on: November 18, 2009, 05:46:05 PM » |
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$40,000 left at holy site — for safekeeping
Woman wanted Virgin Mary to watch over her rare coin collection
EMMITSBURG, Md. - Operators of a Catholic shrine in Maryland thought they had been blessed with a big donation this month when a worker found $40,000 worth of rare coins on the grounds.
But officials at Mount St. Mary's University said Wednesday that the bags of money had only been left at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes for safekeeping.
Shrine Director William Tronolone said the owner returned to retrieve them about a week later, on Nov. 16.
The unidentified owner told him she wanted the Blessed Virgin Mary to watch over her treasure while she was out of town.
Tronolone says the school's security chief persuaded the woman to put the coins in her bank safe deposit box.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34019895/ns/us_news-weird_news/?gt1=43001Well, it sort of worked, didn't it? I hope the lady never goes out of town and needs a baby sitter. |
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