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  • #1201
    Re: What the Fark???

    I saw a link to this on CNN. I gotta admit, I'm a sucker for these things. I could probably spend the next two days reading this and getting a chuckle, which unfortunately, is a little sad.

    http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/...1-078b69f1f800
    That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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    • #1202
      Re: What the Fark???

      Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
      I saw a link to this on CNN. I gotta admit, I'm a sucker for these things. I could probably spend the next two days reading this and getting a chuckle, which unfortunately, is a little sad.

      http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/...1-078b69f1f800
      Even worse, I saw a print version of the same kind of document focused solely on the CDC and some of the "studies" they are conducting.
      "Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."

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      • #1203
        Re: What the Fark???

        Read the transcript.

        @johnmyersteam: This is the best tweet you will see today. Someone, somewhere, will always make you smile. Courtroom transcript. http://twitter.com/johnmyersteam/sta...958273/photo/1
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        • #1204
          Re: What the Fark???

          Originally posted by joecct View Post
          Read the transcript.

          @johnmyersteam: This is the best tweet you will see today. Someone, somewhere, will always make you smile. Courtroom transcript. http://twitter.com/johnmyersteam/sta...958273/photo/1
          I've seen about a dozen of these. They always end in "... could be practicing law."

          Hate to be That Guy, but these are classic urban legends.
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          • #1205
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            Environmental story where the Big Chemical Plant is the... hero?
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            • #1206
              Re: What the Fark???

              I think I need to share 2 things I've overheard during my lunch at 2 different local restaurants the last 2 days:

              Yesterday, I went to a local Fridley (<-First problem) sports bar to get a burger. I was craving a burger, and this place delivered on a tasty burger. Anyway, I was sitting there, by myself, messing around on my phone, waiting for my burger, and I overhear a conversation:

              Old Guy: Does so and so have a baby yet?
              Younger Guy (appeared to be old guy's son): No....why would you think they'd have a baby?
              Old Guy: Well, they're not siblings, so I figure there's no reason to not make a baby.

              Well, with logic like that....


              Then, today, at a different restaurant I hear a guy say this to the people he was eating with:

              Weird guy with pony tail: I just want to forget about my dead wife. The last time I saw her was when I embalmed her. Yeah, I used to own my own mortuary service, so I figured I'd do it myself. I don't remember much of it, I was pretty drunk when I did it.
              Having a clear conscience just means you have a bad memory or you had a boring weekend.

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              • #1207
                Re: What the Fark???

                Those ought to be in Stan Mack.

                WTH is a "Fridley"?
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                • #1208
                  Re: What the Fark???

                  Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
                  I think I need to share 2 things I've overheard during my lunch at 2 different local restaurants the last 2 days:

                  Yesterday, I went to a local Fridley (<-First problem) sports bar to get a burger. I was craving a burger, and this place delivered on a tasty burger. Anyway, I was sitting there, by myself, messing around on my phone, waiting for my burger, and I overhear a conversation:

                  Old Guy: Does so and so have a baby yet?
                  Younger Guy (appeared to be old guy's son): No....why would you think they'd have a baby?
                  Old Guy: Well, they're not siblings, so I figure there's no reason to not make a baby.

                  Well, with logic like that....


                  Then, today, at a different restaurant I hear a guy say this to the people he was eating with:

                  Weird guy with pony tail: I just want to forget about my dead wife. The last time I saw her was when I embalmed her. Yeah, I used to own my own mortuary service, so I figured I'd do it myself. I don't remember much of it, I was pretty drunk when I did it.
                  I tried my best to come up with some sort of reply to either of those, but I got nothin'. Wow.

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                  • #1209
                    Re: What the Fark???

                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    Those ought to be in Stan Mack.

                    WTH is a "Fridley"?
                    Minneapolis suburb. A crappy one.

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                    • #1210
                      Re: What the Fark???

                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      Environmental story where the Big Chemical Plant is the... hero?
                      Not sure I can find the link; I read a story in print about how oil well derricks are providing better habitats for marine life than artificial reefs.

                      ah, here it is.

                      A new study led by researchers at Occidental College and the University of California at Santa Barbara has found that the oil platforms dotting the California coast are fantastic for sea life.

                      In a 15-year study, researchers found that the ecosystems that build up around artificial rigs host 1,000 percent more fish and other sea life than natural habitats such as reefs and estuaries.

                      The California rigs outstripped even famously rich ecosystems such as the coral reefs of French Polynesia.
                      though maybe this story properly belongs in a different thread....
                      "Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."

                      "Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin

                      "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats

                      "People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom

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                      • #1211
                        Re: What the Fark???

                        Originally posted by johnnypohlfan View Post
                        Minneapolis suburb. A crappy one.
                        Yeah, that is why I included the location, I figured it would help explain why I was hearing this, at least to the Twin City locals. Fridley is a hell hole.
                        Having a clear conscience just means you have a bad memory or you had a boring weekend.

                        RIP - Kirby

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                        • #1212
                          Re: What the Fark???

                          Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
                          Not sure I can find the link; I read a story in print about how oil well derricks are providing better habitats for marine life than artificial reefs.
                          I think I read somewhere about how they were using abandoned industrial equipment to shore up reefs -- maybe in the South China Sea? It was one of those stories where Bad Polluter Inc. dumps all their excess crap, then a decade later when people decide they ought to go clean it up it turns out the sea life has incorporated it into the ecosystem to such an extent that tearing it up would be a net loss.
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                          • #1213
                            Re: What the Fark???

                            Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
                            Yeah, that is why I included the location, I figured it would help explain why I was hearing this, at least to the Twin City locals. Fridley is a hell hole.
                            Ah. Thanks.

                            In related news (since to us MN, WI and ND are the same place), do not drive in ND.
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                            • #1214
                              Re: What the Fark???

                              Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
                              Yeah, that is why I included the location, I figured it would help explain why I was hearing this, at least to the Twin City locals. Fridley is a hell hole.
                              My first born arrived in a top-notch facility in Friendly Fridley and they have the only Zantigo in town dammit!

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                              • #1215
                                Re: What the Fark???

                                Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                                My first born arrived in a top-notch facility in Friendly Fridley and they have the only Zantigo in town dammit!
                                I do like me some Zantigo.
                                Having a clear conscience just means you have a bad memory or you had a boring weekend.

                                RIP - Kirby

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