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Message 34583 - Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 16:33:53 UTC

I got up late yesterday and had to hurry off to work. This left me with no time to brush my teeth. I decided to compensate by gargling a shot of rum as I walked out the door, thinking that it would kill whatever nasties were trying to lay claim to my mouth.

I've told this story twice now, expecting praise of my ingenuity, but have thus far received only laughter.
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Message 34587 - Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 17:38:10 UTC

Has anyone seen light at the end of the tunnel yet?
It should share the stage with space time contiuum
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Message 34600 - Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 21:56:30 UTC

I've told many new crunchers on various projects that the clients do not cause their computers to freeze or crash, but that the projects reveal computer problems. My seasoned cruncher locked up several times after returning to R@h and I thought at first that it was version 5.43's fault. After testing with Prime95, I found that the problem was the ATI Radeon 9550 video card. <technically off-topic...a specialty>
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Message 34602 - Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 22:12:26 UTC

Ice storm? WOW.. nice..

I love driving on ice..

Maybe I should stop by and get some jack and coke. Anytime I run out of ice, I can just open the car door and scoop some up. :-)

(I don't drink.. and especially drink and drive for anyone with no since of bad humor!)
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Message 34604 - Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 22:34:30 UTC

I am now a fully trained technical support agent - patting myself on the back now
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Message 34612 - Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 23:01:43 UTC - in response to Message 34604.  

Berserkers!

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Message 34616 - Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 0:18:33 UTC

lmao how about quidich(sp) and the beaters
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Message 34620 - Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 0:39:16 UTC - in response to Message 34616.  

Which way to the nearest suicide booth? I'm looking for a good Bender...
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Message 34622 - Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 1:09:18 UTC - in response to Message 34602.  

Ice storm? WOW.. nice..

I love driving on ice..

Maybe I should stop by and get some jack and coke. Anytime I run out of ice, I can just open the car door and scoop some up. :-)

(I don't drink.. and especially drink and drive for anyone with no since of bad humor!)



You should never drink and drive, you might spill some.
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Message 34629 - Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 9:47:29 UTC

it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine
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Message 34638 - Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 13:23:02 UTC - in response to Message 34629.  

Bonus features included !
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Message 34641 - Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 14:06:59 UTC

Todays feature: how a penguin waddles
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Message 34719 - Posted: 14 Jan 2007, 16:18:44 UTC - in response to Message 34641.  

Belgian beer comprises the most varied and numerous collection of beers in the world.
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Message 34722 - Posted: 14 Jan 2007, 16:37:00 UTC

America is known to have the most lawyers per person of any country in the world.
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Message 34781 - Posted: 15 Jan 2007, 2:44:51 UTC - in response to Message 34722.  

Went to the 'rentals for dinner tonight, Dad had some Hoegaarden witbier for us.
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Message 34832 - Posted: 15 Jan 2007, 14:58:53 UTC

From the "news of the weird" website.

Scamming the Horny Panda:
One trick that zookeepers have used to get male pandas interested in mating with dowdier females (according to a December dispatch from Sichuan, China, in Australia's The Age) is to let an attractive female roam around a pen, leaving her scent, and then, in darkness, with the male in the pen and frisky at the scent, to introduce the less attractive female into the pen, back-end first, so that the pre-excited male will quickly begin copulating. Said zookeeper Zhang Hemin, "When the males find out (that they've just mated with unintended partners), they get very angry and start fighting the female. We have had to use firecrackers and a water hose to separate them." [The Age (Melbourne), 12-17-06]
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Message 34845 - Posted: 15 Jan 2007, 18:38:36 UTC

Wikipedia creator is the "God-King," but you can call him Jimbo
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Message 34887 - Posted: 16 Jan 2007, 18:07:16 UTC - in response to Message 34832.  
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Chuang Chuang the Panda is just too heavy to have sex. Thai authorities have put him on a strict diet as part of a long-running campaign to get him to mate with female partner Lin Hui at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand.

"Chuang Chuang is gaining weight too fast and we found Lin Hui is no longer comfortable with having sex with him," said the zoo's chief veterinarian, Kanika Limtrakul, adding that Chuang Chuang weighed 331 pounds while Lin Hui is only 253 pounds.

As a result, zoo authorities are cutting out bamboo shoots in the daily meal for Chuang Chuang and giving the obese bear only bamboo leaves, Kanika said.

The diet plan is the latest in an unsuccessful and often strange campaign by zoo officials to get the two bears to mate.

They have held a mock wedding, announced plans to separate the two to spark a little romance and even talked of introducing panda porn — videos of other pandas mating — to get the pair in the mood.

Thailand rented Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui from China for $250,000 in October 2003 for 10 years. They are expected to generate millions of dollars in revenues from Thai and foreign tourists.

There are as few as 1,600 giant pandas in the mountain forests of central China, according to the zoo. An additional 120 are in Chinese breeding facilities and zoos, and about 20 live in zoos outside China.

Pandas are threatened by loss of habitat, poaching and a low reproduction rate. Females in the wild normally have a cub once every two to three years.
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Message 34894 - Posted: 16 Jan 2007, 18:56:42 UTC

"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself — not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch. As a matter of fact, the Colonel asked if I needed first aid when she first saw me. I was able to avoid any major surgical operations here, but thanks for your compassion, Colonel."—George W. Bush, after visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006
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Message 34969 - Posted: 17 Jan 2007, 20:36:48 UTC - in response to Message 34894.  
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I think Who? would likely beat some of those Crays!

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Message 34897 - Posted 16 Jan 2007 19:05:12 UTC
Anyone got a leftover Crey computer in their house to add to the project?

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