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half snaffle / half human

study shows canadien's personality identical to u.s. i knew all those questions at the border was just some kind of union thing...

flipper she's a sex bomb my baby yeah sex bomb

ya know that frost poem "the mending wall"? the imagery of the stacked stone walls that seperated farms in new england figures prominently in it. anyway, when i was a kid i used to hike through the forests in the berkshire hills of massachusetts bird watching and stuff. that is all second growth forest because it used to be all cleared for farming 150 years ago. so you'd be bushwhacking along where nobody ever goes with big trees everywhere and then you'd run into a mostly toppled down wall of stacked stones in the middle of the forest and be like holy crap this used to be a farm here and people long gone stacked up those stones but now it's been reclaimed by nature. kind cool really. another thing when a tree falls in the forest and you're there to hear it it's really really loud. i thought it was dynamite going off at first but it was the sound of a snapping stick times a thousand and then a crashing noise as it brought smller trees down and then a thud. hey i didn't bring ABBA in to this thread.

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!-buh

this thread needs more ABBA

actually much of that money will be going to haliburton

don't kill me!

if i'm not mistaken i read a while back that kangaroos have elastic tendons in their legs that allow them to capture energy from the downstride and release it again when hopping. this would seem to be a similar principle, or like a hybrid car capturing energy from deceleration to charge it's batteries. [insert nerd smily here]

what about the sultan of solipsism? btw when that tsunami hit sri lanka, did random gunfire inhibit rescue efforts?

not sure if this has been posted here before so sorry if it has- Mountaineers laid low by lack of toilet training NewScientist.com news service Anna Gosline They may be strong, skilled and brave, but mountaineers scaling North America’s highest peak have yet to learn the basic rules for relieving themselves at alpine heights, a US study reveals. It warns that the lack of proper hygiene leads to severe cases of diarrhoea in almost a third of climbers - a dangerous affliction for high-altitude adventurers. In 2005, about 1500 people will attempt to climb the 6200-metre Mount McKinley, or Denali, in Alaska. Rules for climbers state that all excrement must either be disposed of down a crevasse, or carried off the mountain in personal poop pails. But after five people descended the mountain with gastroenteritis – an infection of the gut caused by ingesting faeces - in May 2002, Alaskan health officials began to question how well mountaineers were abiding by sanitation regulations. A team stationed in Anchorage, Alaska, and led by Joseph McLauglin from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, surveyed 132 climbers in June 2002. They found that 29% had diarrhoea at least once on their average 18-day trek on the mountain. And 39% reported seeing snow contaminated with faeces in or near their camps. But that did not stop nearly a quarter of climbers from collecting snow for drinking water directly from camps. Only 16% of climbers said they always boiled their drinking water. Furthermore, fewer than half said they always washed their hands after defecating, with 16% admitting using rocks and snow instead of toilet paper. A shameful 11% confessed to pooping directly into the snow. McLaughlin was surprised at the amount of human excrement on the mountain, but he says the mountaineers’ apparent laziness is understandable. Deadly errors “Being a mountaineer myself, I know how important it can be to minimise weight by conserving the amount of fuel one brings on a trip. It was not surprising to me to see such a low proportion of climbers that boiled their water,” he says. “Similarly, when it is freezing cold outside, washing hands with soap and water is not always a top priority.” But such carelessness could be deadly, warns McLaughlin. “When climbers are exhausted at high altitude, errors, some of which can be very costly, become more common. Compound that situation with gastrointestinal illness and it is not difficult to extrapolate.” Buddha Basnyat, medical director at the Nepal International Clinic in Kathmandu and an expert in alpine health, says that gastroenteritis is more common than altitude sickness for climbers in the Himalayas, mostly due to the prevalence of infections in the local population. “In the US, I think people aren’t used to boiling their water. But over here, if you don’t boil water there is almost a 100% risk of getting gastroenteritis,” he told New Scientist. Basnyat says that by using an alcohol-based disinfectant, boiling water and carrying antibiotics, climbers can safely avoid the dangers and discomfort of diarrhoea at the top of the world. Journal reference: Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (vol 16, p 92)

rides again! LOL MFer

wow, it's been a year already. coworker who always comes in late has flatscreen monitor. took picture of what's behind monitor, set as wallpaper to make it look like screen is transparent. 6 hours left in workday. what to do next???

oh yeah i forgot one: going for speed climbing records and having your internalized imaginary companions time you.

other sport equivalents: dr. rene richards getting a sex change operation and playing women's tennis. mike tyson biting someone's ear off. steroids. winning olympic snowboard medal and testing for pot (arguable). catamarans in the america's cup. ari parsigian.

i'm savoring the mental image of dru spending 2 minutes on a post. the chin scrathing, the consulting the annals of spray printed and bound behind his desk, the snapping his fingers on finding the perfect retort... try 15 seconds methinks.

place just ain't the same without ExtremoMtnDude. LOL.

canadian pays american not to rag on whimpy nation.

i thought this thread was going to be about some new cool ammunition for bb guns, like hollowpoint bb's or something.

my best effort:

ray got banned

that's a bunch of classic conspiracy theory chucK. think law of parsimony: the simplest explanation is usually the best one. those smiling kids from poor rural nowhere took those pictures as souvenirs and weren't worldly enough to realize how much trouble they could get in. i did a stint in the army a while back and i got some news for ya: THERE ARE A LOT OF STUPID, IGNORANT PEOPLE IN THERE! i mean, what do you expect, the pay is lousy and the living conditions are awfull. if you want some professionalism you might need to pay for it eh? i think bush missed an opportunity to make a connection with the iraqi people here. he could have said "hey americans aren't perfect either. every society has it's dregs; you have your muslim extremists and we have our sadistic dumbfucks." instead he said he something about "this isn't the america he knows, the prison guards aren't representative of the american people. we're really good. trust me." his classic american chauvanism is what will doom the occupation of iraq from start to finnish.

" In the column below, Media Matters for America will document and correct conservative misinformation in each news cycle. Media Matters for America will monitor cable and broadcast news channels, print media and talk radio, as well as marginal, right-wing websites that often serve as original sources of misinformation for well-known conservative and mainstream media outlets. " http://mediamatters.org/ i'm not sure i see the point in splitting hairs when people will listen to what they want to listen to, and believe what they want to believe, but i think accountability is an interesting concept.