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just saw this on americas most wanted

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_bandit

apparently someone has made funny tshirts with geezer bandit stuff on it

the guy was saying it is too serious to joke about, he's dangerous

my wife said it best -then why the **** did the FBI give him such a stupid name?

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02-06-2011 , 04:16 PM

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sokiraJ

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Vo Nguyen Giap, the commander in chief of the north vietnamese army during Vietnam War is still alive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Vo_Nguyen_Giap

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Vo Nguyen Giap (Vietnamese: Võ Nguyên Giáp) (born August 25, 1911[2]) is a retired Vietnamese officer in the Vietnam People's Army and a politician. He was a principal commander in two wars: First Indochina War (1946–1954) and Vietnam War (1960–1975). He participated in the following historically significant battles: Lang Son (1950); Hoa Binh (1951–1952); Dien Bien Phu (1954); the Tet Offensive (1968); the Nguyen Hue Offensive (known in the West as the Easter Offensive) (1972); and the final Ho Chi Minh Campaign (1975).

sick life

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02-07-2011 , 09:08 PM

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BitterChris

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Fecal transplants - and yes, it is just what it sounds like.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy

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02-07-2011 , 10:22 PM

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cpitt398

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

Century egg is a Chinese cuisine ingredient made by preserving duck, chicken or quail eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, lime, and rice hulls for several weeks to several months

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02-07-2011 , 10:26 PM

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Through the process, the yolk becomes a dark green and creamy with an odor of sulphur and ammonia, while the white becomes a dark brown, transparent jelly with little flavor.

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02-07-2011 , 10:28 PM

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garcia1000

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I love those eggs, maybe I am a weirdo

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02-07-2011 , 10:47 PM

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LeapFrog

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nothing weird there, sulfur and ammonia go together like peanut butter and jelly

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02-07-2011 , 11:06 PM

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cpitt398

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Originally Posted by garcia1000

I love those eggs, maybe I am a weirdo

I never even heard of them before today. I got there through trying to figure out why when I buy yellow dole bananas they seem to last forever before going bad compared to when I buy unripe green bananas at Costco that last less than a week

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02-07-2011 , 11:47 PM

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DaExMan

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Is that what they used to eat on Fear Factor?

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02-08-2011 , 07:22 AM

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Ponder

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see those eggs alot in malaysia I cant hang with them(dislike eggs anyway) my gf and bestfriend love them tho. They are really not that weird if your an egg guy you prolly will like them if you can get over their appearance

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02-08-2011 , 10:28 AM

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I'm watching a doc on this on HBO right now. Apparently with the rise of evangelism in Africa, comes accusations of witchcraft ala 17th-19th century America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_and_children

heres a propaganda film made by an evangelical african about witches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUeKBibBN0I

helen ukpabio is the powerful nut:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Ukpabio

Last edited by SnotBoogy; 02-08-2011 at 10:36 AM.

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02-08-2011 , 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by SnotBoogy

heres a propaganda film made by an evangelical african about witches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUeKBibBN0I

I keep going back and forth between being pissed and laughing hysterically.

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02-08-2011 , 12:53 PM

#988

NoahSD

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"I EVOKE IN YOU ThE SPIRIT OF LACK OF INTEREST IN SCHOOL"

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02-10-2011 , 03:14 PM

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Freakin

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Originally Posted by newk

This would fall under the pretty gay category. here is a incomplete list of the 2 million people that have earned eagle scout.

That's like 100 out of 2 million people. And I am shocked and outraged to not see myself on the list.

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02-10-2011 , 06:53 PM

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giraffeboy77

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SGR 1806-20, a magnetar 50,000 light years away from Earth which exploded in 2004, and despite being only 12 miles in diameter, released more energy in 1/10 of a second than our Sun has in 100,000 years.

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02-10-2011 , 07:51 PM

#991

crash

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly

The Pioneer Anomaly.

The Pioneer spacecraft is not moving as quickly as it should.

"When all known forces acting on the spacecraft are taken into consideration, a very small but unexplained force remains."

Known gravitational theories do not account for the craft's trajectory.

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02-10-2011 , 07:59 PM

#992

LeapFrog

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Originally Posted by crash

enjoying reading this one

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02-10-2011 , 10:29 PM

#993

crash

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yeah, I like how one explanation for it is "new physics"

I guess that sounds better than "how the **** should we know"

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02-10-2011 , 10:30 PM

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SnotBoogy

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my guess is dark matter

jk

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02-11-2011 , 01:26 AM

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Originally Posted by SnotBoogy

my guess is dark matter

jk

My guess is something "mundane". Only because it is very hard to come up with something else that isn't contradicted by other observations....

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02-11-2011 , 02:40 AM

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Dark matter pretty much competely doesn't work because the effect would show up on lots of other things. But, a mundane explanation (e.g. gas leak, assymetrical heat radiation) is pretty hard to believe considering that it's been observed definitively in two different objects and a few other objects have shown some signs of the same anomaly, though they're not statistically significant.

(Guess who has two thumbs and spelled anomaly right on the first try??!)

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02-11-2011 , 02:36 PM

#997

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum

can't really understand much, but it's a nice read nevertheless:

''The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has been considered. If a bubble of lower energy vacuum were nucleated, it would approach at nearly the speed of light and destroy the Earth instantaneously, without any forewarning. Thus, this vacuum metastability event is a theoretical doomsday event.''

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02-15-2011 , 01:39 PM

#998

Spottswoode

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind

Non-Canadians might not be familiar with the Chinook Winds. It's a phenomenon in Central Canada that changes a winter landscape into summer for a few hours to day.

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Chinook winds have been observed to raise winter temperature, often from below −20°C (−4°F) to as high as 10°C to 20°C (50°F to 68°F) for a few hours or days, then temperatures plummet to their base levels.

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02-19-2011 , 12:50 AM

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JaredL

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OOT life tricks thread reminded me of the Spanish flu pandemic. I learned about this fairly recently and it seems not to be widely known for some reason, perhaps because the two world wars and Bolshevik revolution from around that time dominate history classes and discussion.

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02-19-2011 , 01:28 AM

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niftymatt

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Originally Posted by Spottswoode

Never heard of this (live in the Midwest, so no major mountains here). Pretty interesting. Gotta say it must be nice to get a break and a good way to melt snow, but also must be a pain in the ass with such quick temperature fluctuations.

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