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Was reading a couple of articles on camping gear. - bowser - 9/9/2013 8:02:25 AM
- I have a modest collection of knives... - FrankC - 9/10/2013 12:42:09 AM
  - Bowser's comments puzzled me, too. - ER - 9/10/2013 1:15:53 AM
    - The KBAR is as good as it gets for survival - FrankC - 9/10/2013 4:57:20 AM
    - Think about it. That's the only reason for the post. - bowser - 9/10/2013 2:46:57 AM
      - I think I get your point. - ER - 9/10/2013 3:19:53 AM
        
        Killing and processing that bear. - bowser - 9/10/2013 4:16:20 AM
        
        I imagine I would try running like hell.. - FrankC - 9/10/2013 5:09:28 AM
        
        I've killed four bears. - TB - 9/10/2013 3:36:11 PM
        
        That's considered cruel, uncouth and cheap. - bowser - 9/11/2013 3:33:31 PM
        
        There's no good answer, but - - - - bowser - 9/10/2013 6:10:39 AM
- Sailors always carry a knife on their belt.. - ER - 9/9/2013 12:54:05 PM
  - I have one of those "universal tools," like a Leatherman. - TB - 9/9/2013 4:19:23 PM
    - I always carry the corkscrew model Swiss Army knife in my pocket. - ER - 9/9/2013 4:56:00 PM

For ER... - Jody - 9/10/2013 4:32:49 PM
- "Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't." -- Old Lodge Skins - ER - 9/10/2013 5:42:18 PM
  - Invisible! I've never been invisible before! - podrock - 9/11/2013 2:03:39 AM
  - Ah, Ginzberg's Theorem, nicely put together ER.. - FrankC - 9/10/2013 7:49:45 PM
    - Can't take credit for that. - ER - 9/10/2013 7:56:46 PM
  - Nice. Thanks! - TB - 9/10/2013 6:13:23 PM
    - Yes...actually quite beautiful...thank you ER. - Jody - 9/10/2013 7:08:00 PM
    - The Fourth Law: - ER - 9/10/2013 6:46:55 PM

A music video that demonstrates how English sounds to non-English speakers - FrankC - 9/9/2013 7:05:34 PM
- Here's an even more illustrative example, from the same page - ER - 9/9/2013 8:24:45 PM

Cecil Kelly Incident - RobVG - 9/7/2013 3:04:35 AM
- Grim. - bowser - 9/7/2013 9:31:40 PM
- I remember reading about several similar incidents when I was in Oak Ridge. - ER - 9/7/2013 3:40:14 AM

Shared by a friend - RobVG - 9/6/2013 1:07:47 AM

Live feed at a haunted hotel in PA. (originally from Mysteries of the Multiverse) - Jody - 9/3/2013 12:44:14 AM
- Shouldn't that be a "Dead Feed"? - ER - 9/4/2013 2:48:11 AM
  - :) - Jody - 9/4/2013 3:11:22 AM

Street Painter - SteveS - 9/3/2013 3:08:05 PM
- Fun to watch his creation unfold! Thank you Steve! - Jody - 9/3/2013 3:46:33 PM

The *deadly* leopard seal... - Jody - 9/2/2013 5:55:15 PM
- Large predators are never friendly but only dangerous - ER - 9/2/2013 9:35:00 PM
  - Heh....just like humans. - Jody - 9/2/2013 10:36:51 PM
- We need to turn them all into coats as soon as possible. - alcaray - 9/2/2013 6:37:38 PM
  - Probably already are :/ - Jody - 9/2/2013 8:41:16 PM

He died like the Godfather. - ER - 9/2/2013 2:38:08 PM
- :) - Jody - 9/2/2013 6:03:07 PM

...and now we have September... - Jody - 9/2/2013 5:29:42 PM

Another cute idea (originally from Mysteries of the Multiverse) - Jody - 9/1/2013 6:39:51 PM
- Actually, your idea is not that far off. - ER - 9/2/2013 1:47:35 AM
  - Cavendish Bananas are started from cuttings, they are all clones. - podrock - 9/2/2013 2:40:44 AM
- My favorite is about AIDS. - ER - 9/2/2013 1:36:17 AM

Perfect Polly - ER - 9/1/2013 3:08:13 PM
- Makes as much sense as those fake fireplaces. Or the screensavers that make your pc look like an aquarium. - alcaray - 9/2/2013 12:18:07 AM
- Birds are not the problem - Jody - 9/1/2013 3:39:15 PM
- Please tell me this is a joke... - Jody - 9/1/2013 3:36:33 PM
  - Nope. Its for real. Stepford birds. - ER - 9/1/2013 9:15:03 PM
- The bird is the word - ER - 9/1/2013 3:20:35 PM
  - Hell yes! LMAO! - Jody - 9/1/2013 3:37:17 PM

Troubling experience with a defective book - Robert - 8/28/2013 6:46:04 PM
- It popped into my mind... - FrankC - 8/30/2013 3:32:43 PM
- Cuneiform on clay tablets and papyrus scrolls lasted for thousands of years. - ER - 8/29/2013 6:19:51 PM
- Book...to haul ass. - Jody - 8/29/2013 12:52:06 AM
- I have accumulated several tablet readers.. - FrankC - 8/28/2013 11:23:38 PM
- What the publishers aren't telling you... - podrock - 8/28/2013 9:36:57 PM
  - "The Journal of Improbable Research" deserves a bit of attention. - bowser - 8/28/2013 10:27:21 PM
    - It's pier reviewed ! - podrock - 8/29/2013 5:58:45 AM
      - I'm going to dock you some points for that. - ER - 8/31/2013 7:07:43 PM
        
        I just had to slip it in. - podrock - 8/31/2013 7:46:53 PM
        
        You must be one of them berthers. - ER - 9/1/2013 12:57:20 AM
        
        Breach birth. Peer got sideways with the Doc. Almost had to jetty-son it. - bowser - 9/1/2013 3:35:08 AM
        
        Re: You must be one of them berthers. - podrock - 9/1/2013 2:53:36 AM
        
        AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH. - ER - 9/1/2013 4:34:19 AM
        
        AWWWWWWWWWW - podrock - 9/1/2013 5:10:04 AM
        
        Moor often than knot, I can spring to the occasion. - ER - 9/1/2013 2:42:24 PM
      - Doesn't get any better! - bowser - 8/30/2013 2:19:35 AM
    - I once wrote an article for the "Journal of Irreproducible Results". - ER - 8/29/2013 3:36:45 AM
      - Clever linguistics work. That's not an obvious conclusion. - bowser - 8/29/2013 4:17:36 AM
        
        Found it! - ER - 8/29/2013 4:33:45 AM
        
        Quite obvious when it's pointed out. - bowser - 8/30/2013 2:18:39 AM
        
        Ecce homo. - ER - 8/30/2013 12:50:50 PM
        
        Printed it ! - podrock - 8/29/2013 6:06:07 AM
        
        When Tampa was having one of its periodic debates... - ER - 8/29/2013 6:33:15 PM
- I had one last week. - alcaray - 8/28/2013 8:05:31 PM

Offensive wedding themes. - Jody - 8/31/2013 11:04:00 PM
- You have to admit, the SS had snappy uniforms. - ER - 9/1/2013 1:28:50 PM
- I sent that to my daughter who is getting married in Oct. - FrankC - 9/1/2013 2:11:51 AM
  - October is a bad month to get married. - bowser - 9/1/2013 3:42:51 AM

The next time you eat chicken - Jody - 9/1/2013 3:30:26 AM
- Oh my god! - FrankC - 9/1/2013 8:38:50 AM
- Funny. You see the chickens. - ER - 9/1/2013 4:36:33 AM

S....L....O....W....E....R - Jody - 8/30/2013 2:20:10 AM

The next war... - Jody - 8/29/2013 2:36:31 AM

Wow! forgetabout Rodeo - FrankC - 8/24/2013 7:42:15 PM
- Jeebus H. Keyrist. - Jody - 8/24/2013 10:26:16 PM
- Almost any animal that has a natural combat behavior pattern has been exploited for human entertainment. - TB - 8/24/2013 7:52:20 PM
  - Horses are prey, not predators. They're instinct is to run. - bowser - 8/26/2013 7:53:37 AM
    - True, but stallions fight all the time for mates and herd dominance. - ER - 8/26/2013 5:26:37 PM
  - Human baiting - man vs dog - FrankC - 8/25/2013 1:49:35 AM
    - Apparently people forgot what bulldogs were originally bred for. - TB - 8/25/2013 3:29:29 PM
    - Victorian Gentlemen? n/t - ER - 8/25/2013 9:18:49 AM

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us - ER - 8/26/2013 1:56:38 PM

...and for the brighter side of our animal companions... - Jody - 8/24/2013 10:33:48 PM
- I see your buffalo and raise you... - TB - 8/24/2013 10:41:53 PM
  - Yeehaw! Have you ever watched the trampoline event at the Olympics??? - Jody - 8/25/2013 12:02:18 AM
  - And now... - TB - 8/24/2013 10:49:14 PM
    - Awww. - Jody - 8/25/2013 12:04:05 AM

I asked a hacker once, "Why do you do it?" - Jody - 8/24/2013 4:07:10 PM
- I understand the answer, I think... - FrankC - 8/24/2013 7:21:40 PM
  - Ah yes...the white hats. - Jody - 8/24/2013 7:37:24 PM
- What did he hack? - TB - 8/24/2013 6:19:38 PM
  - One thing... - Jody - 8/24/2013 7:38:48 PM
    - Where I live, "hacker" is a very general term. - TB - 8/24/2013 7:47:24 PM
      - I liken it to when I was a kid - Jody - 8/24/2013 8:02:28 PM
- They are adolescents, mentally if not physically. - ER - 8/24/2013 5:05:37 PM
  - It doesn't matter what you think about them... - Jody - 8/24/2013 5:54:36 PM
    - I don't understand what you're trying to tell me. - ER - 8/24/2013 6:35:13 PM
      - No matter the energy we put forth in this, - Jody - 8/24/2013 7:39:49 PM

Is the internet creating an apocalypse... - FrankC - 8/21/2013 10:52:08 PM
- The Right is reaping the whirlwind. - ER - 8/23/2013 12:09:42 AM
  - You seem to miss the point that both sides are doing the same thing - FrankC - 8/23/2013 4:39:10 AM
    - Can't see the quote. - TB - 8/23/2013 5:25:23 PM
      - The quote is below in my reply to the OP, "An example of..." - FrankC - 8/23/2013 9:57:50 PM
        
        Thanks! - TB - 8/23/2013 10:13:07 PM
    - I joined this forum to talk science, philosophy, art, humour and...politics.. - ER - 8/23/2013 12:22:42 PM
      - Not what I hoped for... - FrankC - 8/23/2013 10:56:54 PM
        
        No, it is not all on the Right. - ER - 8/24/2013 12:42:20 AM
  - Your passion is duly noted. - Jody - 8/23/2013 2:09:15 AM
    - Passion? If I were really passionate, I never would have mentioned it. - ER - 8/23/2013 2:40:19 AM
      - Not true for me. - Jody - 8/23/2013 10:03:56 PM
- Over reacting? I don't think so. - Jody - 8/22/2013 11:12:28 PM
  - This has really hit a note for me Frank... - Jody - 8/24/2013 1:13:57 AM
- An example of what I am seeing over and over - FrankC - 8/22/2013 9:39:33 PM
  - Frank... - Jody - 8/22/2013 11:10:59 PM
    - And that air of anger is escalating - FrankC - 8/23/2013 10:38:19 PM
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. - ER - 8/22/2013 12:45:38 AM
- Newspapers, magazines, and the evening news have agendas, too. - TB - 8/21/2013 11:54:26 PM
  - I probably should have specified the old three network days - FrankC - 8/22/2013 4:03:42 AM
    - All we have to do is think about what we're hearing and seeing. - TB - 8/22/2013 3:56:19 PM
      - "Watch out for people who treat analysis and questions of their ideas as threats." - Jody - 8/22/2013 11:06:26 PM
        
        yea, TB would never evade a question or become emotional for being asked an uncomfortable one. - alcaray - 8/24/2013 1:05:59 AM
        
        cool, icy geometric logic... - ER - 8/24/2013 1:42:24 AM
        
        I don't see you adding anything here... - Jody - 8/24/2013 1:39:50 AM
        
        Isn't this what the saying: "Just sayin'" is for? - alcaray - 8/24/2013 5:01:53 AM
        
        ? Sorry Alcaray...I don't see "Just sayin" anywhere . - Jody - 8/24/2013 3:39:08 PM
  - I that where Fox gets it's ratings from? All those oppos watching? - alcaray - 8/22/2013 12:39:19 AM

Demographic map of the U.S. - TB - 8/23/2013 8:06:29 PM
- It looks like the white guys got all the good land. - ER - 8/23/2013 10:31:19 PM

Neat way to take advantage of off peak power. - RobVG - 8/19/2013 2:22:24 PM
- Check this out: - TB - 8/19/2013 4:11:03 PM
- But if everyone has electric cars, and if most people charged them at night, - ER - 8/19/2013 3:01:03 PM
  - The idea is designed to deal with "peak power" surges. - TB - 8/19/2013 4:17:26 PM

Hurricane strut - ER - 8/15/2013 11:54:18 PM
- Looks like you could do it with a 1/2" galvanized pipe and a flange on the bottom. - bowser - 8/19/2013 1:12:57 AM
  - You probably could. - ER - 8/19/2013 3:55:58 AM

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