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when i was in the army in korea they sold regular american budweiser in the PX, and one could also buy a korean liscensed budweiser in any store. the american bud was twist-off, the korean bud was not. some friends of mine used to like to ride the train to seoul and they'd make sure they'd sit across from some south korean soldiers. they'd try to engage them in a rudimentary conversation, including who was tougher, at which point they'd pull out some american bud and twist the tops off with their teeth. the koreans, who didn't know what a twist-off was, were typically quite impressed.

that's right iain, you are all over those page tops! i was going to try for this one but had to go do some work stuff iain really likes it when people appreciate his page top work. atta boy iain [pat on head] gooood booooy

quote: Originally posted by Dr Flash Amazing: POW! Edit: Damn, too old and slow to keep up with you spring chickens! DFA that has to be the lamest attempt at a ever. there were 4 posts proir to yours. i posted twice with flood control. you need to hit the keyboard gym dude.

quote: Originally posted by iain: sucka

quote: Originally posted by sayjay: quote:Originally posted by forrest_m: ok, maybe I’m just making this up, but I seem to remember reading once that “sandbagging” comes from the 18th & 19th century tradition of press-ganging, where ships in need of crew would basically run through towns kidnapping people who would then wake up on board, headed for india or somewhere. this practice was legal in england for 200 years! the favorite weapon of these folks was a sock or bag filled with sand because it didn’t do permanent damage and it didn’t *look* like a weapon. the press gangers would mingle with other sailors, get them drunk, and then *wham*, welcome to the navy. I think the term sandbagging comes from the apparently innocuous appearance of the weapon… this probably won’t convince anyone, but I wanted you to all know what a book-loving nerd I am. ah-HA! that would explain the other verb form of the word "sandbag" in my lil dictionary: "to hit with a sandbag" from oed: 1. a. trans. To furnish with sandbags. 1860 Cornh. Mag. Oct. 440 The Bank [was] sandbagged and barricaded. 1906 Daily Chron. 11 Dec. 10/5 He not only fastens all his windows, he sandbags them. b. intr. To attend to sandbags. 1928 Sat. Even. Post 4 Feb. 100/2 One of the chauffeurs had just finished fueling the plane. ?You fly her,? said Andy. ?I'll sandbag.? 2. To fell with a blow from a sandbag. Also fig., to bully or coerce; to criticize or lambaste. 1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 2 Feb. 6/2 The next day Claytor turned up at Central Station with a fairy story that he had been sand-bagged on his way home. 1889 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 16 Sept., John Lehner and Henry Koontz were sandbagged Saturday night. 1897 HOWELLS Landl. Lion's Head 421 He had not been sand~bagged, or buncoed. 1901 Congress. Rec. 23 Jan. 1345/1 [This district] is lying in wait, as it were, from one year's end to the other, awaiting an opportunity to sandbag the public. 1903 ?O. HENRY? in Ainslee's Mag. Feb. 59/2 About what figure had you and the kalsominer agreed to sandbag the state for? 1919 Daily News 12 Mar. 8/1 While the [German] revolution was being side-tracked in Parliament it was being sand-bagged in the proletariat. 1973 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 4 May 6/1 Each will attempt to sandbag the Liberals into adopting its policies. 1974 Listener 27 June 818/1 Mr Heath and Mr Wilson sandbagging each other at televised press conferences. 3. Poker. To refrain from raising at the first opportunity in the hope of raising by a greater amount later. 1940 O. JACOBY On Poker v. 36 The time to sandbag is when you have three of a kind or better. 1950 G. S. COFFIN Poker Game Compl. vi. 71 Jacks back sometimes offers a fine chance to sandbag. 1977 D. ANTHONY Stud Game i. 7 He fondled his stack of blue chips. He was sandbagging me. I gave him the same dose of silence. 1978 Sci. Amer. July 112/3 By under-representing a strong hand (sand-bagging) and thus keeping his opponents from folding a player may increase the pot he expects to win. perhaps the last, poker related defination relates to the climbing context "to under-represent".

quote: Originally posted by iain: hard to believe, but clearly some have even more free time and are even more idle than others at work. on an unrelated note, i believe veggiebelay deserves an award for most frequently changed avatar image. have a on me, vb.

i haven't looked at any of these. i feel fine. i'm enjoying my wholesome morning. god bless, g

consider a highly used vehicle. about three years ago i brought an '89 nissan pathfinder with 160k miles for $3k and spent another $1k on preventative maintenance. it has been extremely reliable. it will go just about anywhere, but only 2 or 3 times a year do i drive it someplace a sube wouldn't clear. it obviously has a lot of room - 4 people with tons of gear fits fine, and sleeping in the back is pretty nice. i often use the 4wd. i have used the chains a few times, mostly in canadaland. point is for $4k i covered my needs. it only gets 20 mpg (compared to a sube's ~30 mpg) but i secretly feel superior to enviro-yuppies because i feel like i'm driving a recycled vehicle.

"...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas."

matt's right, spray used to be funny - a mindless diversion while sitting at work. what happened?

what if we were to immortalize scott'teryx in daily language! we could say "yeah, i pulled a scot'teryx" to mean "i left my buddy on the trail where he probably got eaten by an older woman" or we could say "looks like this one's for summitpost" to mean, i dunno, something else.

yeah all this scott'tero bashing is lame. it's almost as bad as all that dan larson bashing. although dan... nevermind.

NRA rally story "This rally is about self-defense against violent predators such as the murderer who killed three innocent professors," Thomas said. hey, it's not people or guns, it's their teeth, what do you expect? "That tragedy would not have happened if more people had guns," he said. i'm not all hepped up on gun control, but i think it would be cool if people who were into guns didn't say lot's of dumb stuff all the time.

so, did anyone else's youthful indiscretion involve a police officer calling for backup? anyone?

washington dc has a similar layout, with streets radiating from central circles and squares. the city was rebuilt this way after a british cavalry attack burned the place down during the war of 1812. it was designed this way so the captial could be defended from future cavalry attacks; by placing a small number of canons in the central squares they would have a field of fire down the radiating streets covering the city. most of the rectangular grid streets were added later. what would you do without educated people in your midst?

using mom's hairspray as a blow torch. paperclip fights at my friend's house: two teams of 3 or 4 people each, rubber bands, several boxes of paperclips, football helmets but no eye protection. jumping up to catch a frisbee and landing on top of a cop car.

quote: Originally posted by allison: "it looks like you ordered the wrong accessory package for your camera" (pull gently) "blah blah blah $399 for accessory pack instead of the $179 one you ordered"......No, that puts me over budget, cancel the whole order (wriggling off the hook)......"wait let me get the manager and I'll se what I can do for you" (puts me in hold for 1 nanosecond)...."we can do the accessory pack for $229" this is standard camera dealer schlock. you will see it a lot. if you're shopping for a camera, there are a variety of price compare sites. most of them include customer feedback ratings, as well as an indication of weather the camera you want is currently in stock. i have usually gone one small notch over the cheapest price shown to avoid the above scenero. while you probably want to shop around for your particular model i've had good results from etronics.com and abesofmaine.com. anyway allison have fun with the camera. if you need some digital photo bbs checkout the dpreview.com canon forum it's actually quite sprayless

quote: Originally posted by chucK: quote:Originally posted by Peter Puget: Sex Bomb Baby, Yea! damn, i didn't know anyone else remembered flipper. sniffle

that's some pretty fancy qouting there dustin, i'm impressed. i know the 13-0 story and all. i seem to recall hearing it ABOUT A HUNDRED FREAKING TIMES i did do a ton of mtn biking when i was in austin, but cool weather and skiing is where it's at. so did you used to wear a cowboy hat and belt buckle?

you might check out the canon s-30 or s-40. it is basically a g2 in a compact case with a smaller lens. it is still not as small as a lot of compacts but you have all the manual controls you could possibly want. it is not set up for external flash or add on lenses, but you can buy third party adapters. whatever you get, the movie mode is basically a gimmick but turns out to be a lot of fun.

quote: Originally posted by RobBob: quote: what ever, at least the engineering students at the Oklahoma universities don't kill masses of their fellow students with their drunken revelries around burning stacks of hundreds of telephone poles haphazardly stacked 4 stories high (as has been done in recent times in Texas). Thinker, anyone who has ever lived in Austin would tell you that people who reside in College Station are not representatives of Texas. i lived in *** Austin *** for three years and never did see what the big freaking deal was. wahoo let's go to antone's. wahoo on earth as it is in austin. wahoo let's smoke some skanky mexican weed. wahoo there's this big cow or something and her name's "bevo" for some reason. texas sucks, whole damn state. it's too damn hot and there's no mountians. and the worst of it is all the these texans think it's some big deal or something. texas = florida.

i have an mp3 of "city sleeps" on my computer. if your email takes huge attachments i can send it to you. i was on a similar quest a while back but gave up. saw them live in austin many years ago, it was quite a spellbinding show.