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http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/downt...cid=spartandhp

OK. Um, sure that looks terrifying, but what bothers me most is that it seems that whoever built the runway was part of a culture that has yet to discover the concept of a string line.

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10-06-2016 , 02:53 AM

#8927

BrianTheMick2

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If it weren't for Jason Mraz, it would be acceptable to wear a fedora.

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10-06-2016 , 03:24 AM

#8928

lastcardcharlie

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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

Where was the last place you saw it?

The tooth or the movie?

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10-06-2016 , 11:01 AM

#8929

lastcardcharlie

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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

Maybe you've been too busy researching fires in popcorn factories.

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/qu...way-need-to-be

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10-06-2016 , 11:44 AM

#8930

FoldnDark

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"Good Beer, No Censorship"

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“Two inflammatory words … one wild drink. Nectar imprisoned in a bottle. Let it out. It is cruel to keep a wild animal locked up.”

When artist and illustrator Ralph Steadman wrote those words for the label of Flying Dog Brewery’s “Raging Bitch” Belgian-style IPA, he had no idea that cruel imprisonment would be precisely their fate.

In 2009, the Michigan Liquor Control Commission banned the sale of “Raging Bitch” from store shelves in the state because the commission claimed the beer’s name and its label, designed by Steadman, were “detrimental to the health, safety, and welfare of the general public.”

Any other company might have accepted the commission’s justification for censorship. But Flying Dog Brewery isn’t a company to just roll over.

Flying Dog was founded in 1990 by George Stranahan, a close friend of journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who pioneered a style of journalism known as “Gonzo”: first-person, satirical critiques on society and culture. The brewery has always maintained the critical, anti-authoritarian message embodied by Gonzo journalism.

So, when Michigan banned the sale of “Raging Bitch,” Flying Dog didn’t back down. That’s not its Gonzo style. Instead, it took the brew ha-ha to court and fought back with a First Amendment lawsuit.

We wanted to learn more about Flying Dog’s dog fight in defense of its art. Its lawsuit culminated earlier this year in a resounding legal victory, and the brewery created a First Amendment Society using damages awarded from the lawsuit, thus proving that every dog has its day.

So, we headed down to Frederick, Md., where the brewery is located. What’s the story? Nobody had bothered to say. So we would have to drum it up on our own. Free enterprise. The American dream. Horatio Alger gone mad on beer in Frederick.

Do it now: pure Gonzo.

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10-06-2016 , 01:28 PM

#8931

BrianTheMick2

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

The tooth or the movie?

The tooth.

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10-06-2016 , 03:08 PM

#8932

lastcardcharlie

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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

The tooth.

At the dentist. Head X-ray.

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10-06-2016 , 03:48 PM

#8933

FoldnDark

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Only four cavities, you sure you're british?

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10-06-2016 , 04:37 PM

#8934

lastcardcharlie

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Not mine, alas. I just put that up for demonstration purposes.

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10-06-2016 , 08:40 PM

#8935

LASJayhawk

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Figure Mr Wookie will perma ban me when he checks his PM.

Love you folks in SMP and I will miss you all.

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10-06-2016 , 08:42 PM

#8936

Howard Beale

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Backstory, plz. If it's compelling I'll start a 'Save LASJayhawk' thread in ATF if you get hit w/ the ban hammer.

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10-06-2016 , 09:26 PM

#8937

chezlaw

Limey Bastard

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You can always appeal to Mat as well. Kinda depends what you said I suppose.

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10-06-2016 , 11:49 PM

#8938

BrianTheMick2

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On a recommendation of a friend here, I finally watched the high comedy motion picture The Imitation Game.

Those Brits and their silly past. For one, I'm glad that my country has always taken the high ground on moral laws.

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10-06-2016 , 11:51 PM

#8939

BrianTheMick2

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

At the dentist.

Well, start there, and work forward in time. Don't neglect to check in various lost and found areas in places you've been since there.

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10-07-2016 , 04:24 AM

#8940

chezlaw

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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

The film captured the themes pretty well but read the book. It has the added bonusi of being largely true and joyfully full of tedious detail.

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10-07-2016 , 02:33 PM

#8941

lastcardcharlie

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Ah, Sauternes. Sweet, sweet wine. God bless France.

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10-07-2016 , 02:49 PM

#8942

Zeno

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,350

A former Bond actor sets India on fire:

It's all in the Juice: Facts mean nothing; India on verge self-immolation

Make sure to get the facts correct before distorting them.

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10-07-2016 , 03:17 PM

#8943

Zeno

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From: Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino

When you have forded the river, when you have crossed the mountain pass, you suddenly find before you the city of Moriana, its alabaster gates transparent in the sunlight, its coral columns supporting pediments encrusted with serpentine, its villas all of glass like aquariums where the shadows of dancing girls with silvery scales swim beneath the medusa-shaped chandeliers. If this is not your first journey, you already know that cities like this have an obverse: you have only to walk in a semicircle and you will come into view of Moriana’s hidden face, an expanse of rusting sheet metal, sackcloth, planks bristling with spikes, pipes black with soot, piles of tins, blind walls with fading signs, frames of staved-in straw chairs, ropes good only for hanging oneself from a rotten beam.
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10-07-2016 , 04:28 PM

#8944

spanktehbadwookie

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Bengaltiger Cookiebake was fantastic as Smaug.

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10-07-2016 , 08:47 PM

#8945

BrianTheMick2

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Originally Posted by Zeno

A former Bond actor sets India on fire:

It's all in the Juice: Facts mean nothing; India on verge self-immolation

Make sure to get the facts correct before distorting them.

His facial hair is epically good.

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10-08-2016 , 04:59 AM

#8946

plaaynde

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Read about Washington in a popular history magazine. Appears to have been quite badass.

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10-08-2016 , 01:15 PM

#8947

Howard Beale

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He died pretty horribly but took it well by this account:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/...ge-washington/

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10-08-2016 , 11:16 PM

#8948

plaaynde

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Looks Trump is stepping up his campaign.

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10-08-2016 , 11:50 PM

#8949

spanktehbadwookie

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Going from a series of dumpster fires to an entire landfill inferno.

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10-09-2016 , 12:52 AM

#8950

Howard Beale

Formerly red

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 22,190

Does it make me a bad person to think 'eff it all, this is just too entertaining, nm the future?'

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