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  Is You Know dead?

  by Joseph Joachim in

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  i'm reading in the newspaper that a certain american turist named robert king was bitten by a jellyfish in australia and died.

  could that be you know?

  is that the fate of apostates like him?

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  ChuckD

  I think he has been rather open about his name being known here, unless I am mistaken.
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  ApostoScubaFest Date Set

  by FreePeace in

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  we have a date of monday & tuesday, june 10 & 11, set for the apostoscubafest in crystal river, florida.. the attendees so far include:.

  jst2laws & joy2bfree & family;.

  safe4kids & and family;.

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  I actually have a Crystal River diving sticker on my car up here in Rhode Island. I went there while on a business trip in Tallahassee in 1999, but the boats were all out by the time I got to the dock and they were not allowing diving from the shore due to some kind of insect or parasite that was around at the time. I was down in Tallahassee again last week, but only for a few days. I will do my best to attend, but it depends on my job situation (as in; if I get another full-time position between now and then)

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  Those people with the cardboard signs.

  by Princess in

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  what do you do when you see people holding the cardboard signs?

  sunday afternoon i was driving to a day spa in seattle for a pedicure.

  i was sitting at a red light and there was an older man holding a cardboard sign.

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  I think you may want to crank your irony detector up a bit. This is taken from a satirical article in The Onion.
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  Is You Know dead?

  by Joseph Joachim in

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  i'm reading in the newspaper that a certain american turist named robert king was bitten by a jellyfish in australia and died.

  could that be you know?

  is that the fate of apostates like him?

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  I doubt it. Somehow, the idea of someone who spends their day writing long-winded diatribes proclaming the end of the world would not equate to someone who would enjoy life enough to go on a nice vacation to Australia. Perhaps a day trip to a gun show in Seattle, but Australia? Naaah.
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  Those people with the cardboard signs.

  by Princess in

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  what do you do when you see people holding the cardboard signs?

  sunday afternoon i was driving to a day spa in seattle for a pedicure.

  i was sitting at a red light and there was an older man holding a cardboard sign.

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  Saw this article online.

  DETROIT—According to survey results released Monday by the American Panhandlers Association, less than one percent of U.S. pedestrians gots 50 cent for the bus.
  
  "Despite the current economic boom, we found that the average man on the street don't got 50 cent to spare for the bus," said Nate Braxton, president of the Detroit-based APA, the nation's largest coalition of beggars, itinerants, and street loons. "Exactly why he don't got no change is puzzling. After all, given the robust state of the American economy, you'd think he got a little something extra to help a man get 'cross town."

  In the survey, APA members in 15 major U.S. cities expressed their bus-fare needs to more than 2,700 pedestrians on the sidewalks of busy downtown areas, on park benches, and in the glass-enclosed entryways of McDonald's restaurants. In 99.7 percent of the cases, the pedestrian replied that they sorry, but they ain't got even a quarter.

  "What up with that?" Braxton asked. "Wall Street havin' one of the biggest sustained bull markets in history, but ain't nobody got change so I can get to my job over on the West Side? Where all the money at?"

  Ray-Ray, an APA researcher who manned a downtown Atlanta street corner for 120 hours in January, found that not only does virtually no one got 50 cent for the D line, man, ain't hardly nobody who can even spare a little change toward gettin' something to eat.

  "I made it clear to the people I approached that I sure would appreciate whatever they got, even if it ain't much," Ray-Ray said. "I also made it clear that the money ain't for booze or no drugs. But still, no luck. Apparently, can't nobody help a fella out."

  "If a man can't even scrounge up a little change for the bus," Ray-Ray continued, "what the odds he got enough money to get me to Cleveland or help pay for my baby's operation?"

  According to experts, the dearth of spare change in Americans' pockets may be a troubling indicator of economic hardship to come.

  "Much like during the Roaring '20s, Americans are living in the now, spending money as quickly as they earn it," said economist Randall Farber of the Wharton School of Business. "They got they fancy leather shoes and leather briefcase, but they ain't even got a haf dollar in cash to they name. With so few people budgeting with an eye toward the future, a collapse seems all but inevitable."

  Despite the ominous economic forecast, Braxton said he is trying to focus on the positive.

  "True, it nearly impossible to find a dude with 50 cent to spare," Braxton said, "but statistical data reveal that nearly three percent of pedestrians got between five and ten cent to go towards a new pair of shoes if the APA member's old ones shot, and that the average amount donated doubled when the member explain that the shoes needed so he could do the work this guy Ed Wilson lined up for him."

  Pleased with the success of its research, if not the results, the APA will conduct another survey later this year concerning the alarmingly poor time-management skills of pedestrians.

  "While attempting to collect demographic information from pedestrians in our study, such as where they from or where they headed, we discovered that very few Americans got a minute to come over and talk," Braxton said. "In fact, some were so rushed and time-stressed, they couldn't even spare a moment to acknowledge that we aksed them a question."
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  Women keep looking at me.

  by joelbear in

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  it started about 2 years ago, but its picking up.

  i keep catching women looking at me with that look, that look i'm used to only getting from other guys.. this is making me tense, yet in some ways jolly.. i'm not sure what the proper facial expression is to give in return.. i cannot figure out why its happening to me now.

  is it the greying beard, the balding head, the bulging ---, oh, right, it can't be that.. please explain this extraordinary phenomenon.. joel

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  It's a slippery slope, Joel. Starts off with a friendly "hello" and next thing you know, BOOM, you are walking down the aisle.

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  Now there's trouble among the Lutherans

  by ChuckD in

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  lutheran minister arrested on charges of boring young children.

  peru, il st. luke's lutheran church was rocked by scandal tuesday, when rev.

  bob tillich, the church's pastor of 12 years, was arrested on suspicion of boring as many as 23 children within the congregation.

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  Lutheran Minister Arrested On Charges Of Boring Young Children

  PERU, IL— St. Luke's Lutheran Church was rocked by scandal Tuesday, when Rev. Bob Tillich, the church's pastor of 12 years, was arrested on suspicion of boring as many as 23 children within the congregation. "Reverend Bob always seemed like the sweetest man," parishioner Vera Crandall said following the arrest. "When my son said he made him watch three 1975 filmstrips about the suffering of Job, I was shocked." In the wake of the arrest, seven former Sunday-school students, dating as far back as 1989, have stepped forward with charges that Tillich subjected them to inappropriately tedious parables.
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  Implanted Computer ID Chip gets FDA Approval

  by VirgoDragon in

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  http://www.chron.com/cs/cda/story.hts/business/1344763 .

  washington-- a company plans to begin selling a computer id chip that can be embedded beneath people's skin, now that the food and drug administration has said it will not regulate the implant as long as it contains no medical data.

  applied digital solutions inc. designed the verichip -- about the size of a grain of rice -- to hold information that could be read with special electronic scanners.

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  From the Snopes web site;

  Contrary to popular myth, no bar code includes the number 666. This belief arose because the number six is represented by a pattern similar to that of the guard bars used to mark the beginning, middle, and end of every bar code. Since the guard bars always appear three times in a given bar code, people who mistakenly read them as sixes claimed that the pattern 6-6-6 was embedded in every bar code. However, if you look closely at the '6' in a bar code, you will see that there is a wide white bar either to the left or the right of its pattern (depending upon where within the bar code the number is positioned), which is not the case with the guard bars. The only numbers on the bar code which are scanned are those shown in the conventional numerals underneath it.
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  NYTimes/FEMA WTC Update

  by SYN in

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  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&u=/nyt/20020329/ts_nyt/towers_withstood_impact__but_fell_to_fire__report_says .

  oooh boy.

  they must think we're really stupid.

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  ChuckD

  I mean built like ROCKS. Rick may be well-built also, for all I know.

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  NYTimes/FEMA WTC Update

  by SYN in

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  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&u=/nyt/20020329/ts_nyt/towers_withstood_impact__but_fell_to_fire__report_says .

  oooh boy.

  they must think we're really stupid.

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  I can't understand why people are citing the high MELTING point of steel. No one contends that this fire MELTED the steel, just that it weakened it, causing it to fail.

  And as far as the Empire State Building is concerned, that structure was built with a completely different structure than the WTC. It was also built at a time when no one knew very much about how tall a building COULD be, so the techniques used in its construction were several times more durable than what was needed. The Empire State and the Flatiron buildings are both built like ricks.

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