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10-29-2020 , 08:35 PM

#5126

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 22,825

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Originally Posted by thethethe

Nothing specific, but lots of potential rabbit holes to go down:

List of general fraternities + secret societies

i may or may not be related to someone that is in a secret society centered in someplace like New Haven or someplace else.

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10-29-2020 , 09:01 PM

#5127

Villian1

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Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 8,174

Does the Fraternal Order of Eagles count as a secret society? I'd never heard of them until I joined.

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10-30-2020 , 03:59 PM

#5128

thethethe

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You've just outed them, so no longer a secret...

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10-30-2020 , 04:12 PM

#5129

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

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11-01-2020 , 12:29 AM

#5130

Villian1

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Have you heard about the porn star that was also a member of the Italian Parliament?

"She was elected to the Italian parliament in 1987, with approximately 20,000 votes. While in office, and before the outset of the Gulf War, she offered to have sex with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in return for peace in the region.[8] She was not re-elected at the end of her term in 1991.[9]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona_Staller

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11-01-2020 , 03:23 PM

#5131

that_pope

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It was worth a try.

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11-01-2020 , 04:07 PM

#5132

Villian1

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It was worth another shot too.

"She renewed her offer to have sex with Saddam Hussein in October 2002, when Iraq was resisting international pressure to allow inspections for weapons of mass destruction,[5] and in April 2006, she made the same offer to Osama bin Laden.[10]"

I feel like there needs to be a younger porn star in Parliament to take over her responsibilities.

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11-01-2020 , 05:54 PM

#5133

Nittery

grinder

Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 460

Yeah, she's actually pretty cute. Don't zoom in, though. Saddam maybe not the sharpest pencil.

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11-01-2020 , 09:10 PM

#5134

txdome

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Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 17,934

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Originally Posted by Nittery

Yeah, she's actually pretty cute. Don't zoom in, though. Saddam maybe not the sharpest pencil.

Saddam is smarter than you.

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11-02-2020 , 06:49 AM

#5135

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27,952

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Originally Posted by Villian1

I feel like there needs to be a younger porn star in Parliament to take over her responsibilities.

This would only motivate me to create WMD.

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11-03-2020 , 07:19 PM

#5136

Villian1

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This guy is 36. He is a former Navy Seal, a medical doctor from Harvard and is now an astronaut waiting for a trip to space.

Pretty solid overachiever considering his family owned a liquor store in south central LA and his Dad was shot by police in his house while responding to a domestic violence call.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim

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11-03-2020 , 07:49 PM

#5137

Palo

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Originally Posted by Villian1

Married with 3 kids, too so he's not missing out on any part of life. I wonder what the remainder of his bucket list looks like. First person on Mars, cures cancer, and reverses global warming is my guess.

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11-03-2020 , 07:53 PM

#5138

Villian1

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I sure hope vaccine is on that list

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11-04-2020 , 07:51 AM

#5139

thethethe

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All astronauts are crazy overachievers, which both makes me happy that they're the very best for the job, and bad about my own life achievements...

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11-04-2020 , 11:16 AM

#5140

Howard Treesong

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Originally Posted by Palo

He graduated from my high school!

Nice post, interesting guy.

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11-04-2020 , 03:16 PM

#5141

kokiri

ffermwr moch

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 52,228

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Originally Posted by thethethe

All astronauts are crazy overachievers, which both makes me happy that they're the very best for the job, and bad about my own life achievements...

Honestly think the world would be a better place if all those crazy overachievers were forced to live on some island separate from the rest of us.

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11-24-2020 , 09:44 AM

#5142

Villian1

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"A rancher or dairy farmer feeds a magnet to each calf at branding time; the magnet settles in the rumen or reticulum and remains there for the life of the animal."

Basically, cows are fed a magnet to collect all of the metal that the cow will inevitably eat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_disease

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11-24-2020 , 12:36 PM

#5143

nucleardonkey

old hand

Join Date: Jul 2020 Posts: 1,252

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

At 6'1, 250 lbs - I've never had to worry about anyone inviting me to explore tight caves.

Is it the height or the girth that turns them off?

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11-24-2020 , 04:48 PM

#5144

NajdorfDefense

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi

'God's banker' intimately involved in 1982 bank collapse in which the Vatican Bank is largest shareholder. Over a $billion is lost. Mafia money is lost.

Flees Rome, found hanging under London's Blackfriar's Bridge a week later, pockets stuffed with money. Suicide or murder?

The day before, his private sec'y commits suicide.

Questions about the death of Pope JP1.

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11-24-2020 , 06:11 PM

#5145

thethethe

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Some Dan Brown **** going down...

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Calvi was a member of Licio Gelli's illegal masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2), who referred to themselves as frati neri or "black friars". This led to a suggestion in some quarters that Calvi was murdered as a masonic warning because of the symbolism associated with the word "Blackfriars".[8]

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11-26-2020 , 11:56 AM

#5146

thethethe

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Pole of inaccessibility

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A pole of inaccessibility with respect to a geographical criterion of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach according to that criterion. Often it refers to the most distant point from the coastline, implying a maximum degree of continentality or oceanity. In these cases, pole of inaccessibility can be defined as the center of the largest circle that can be drawn within an area of interest without encountering a coast. Where a coast is imprecisely defined, the pole will be similarly imprecise.

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12-10-2020 , 10:44 PM

#5147

NajdorfDefense

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More greatest hits suspicious banker deaths:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Safra

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01-12-2021 , 03:09 AM

#5148

JayTeeMe

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Aeroflot Flight 6502 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight operated by a Tupolev Tu-134A from Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) to Grozny, which crashed on 20 October 1986. 70 of the 94 passengers and crew on board were killed. Investigators determined the cause of the accident to be pilot negligence.

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While approaching Kurumoch Airport, Kliuyev made a bet with Zhirnov that he, Kliuyev, could make an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows, thus having no visual contact with the ground, instead of a NDB approach, suggested by the air traffic control.[2] Kliuyev further ignored the ground proximity warning at an altitude of 62–65 metres (203–213 ft) and did not make the suggested go-around.[2] The aircraft touched down at a speed of 150 knots (280 km/h)[2] and came to rest upside down.

Pilot bets that he can land the commercial airliner with the cockpit curtains shut. Turns out he can't. 70 people died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_6502