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04-02-2010 , 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by pvn
That's dangerous. It's better to just have the camera start taking pictures 1s earlier. All of the benefits, none of the downside.
My guess is if one person proves it was intentionally rigged this way (or even unintentionally), a class action lawsuit could be filed and be very costly and not worth it.
04-02-2010 , 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by manbearpig
More on the Riverman=USC question from March's thread.
I'm gonna blow your mind, but I've also concluded that Superman is Clark Kent and Batman is Bruce Wayne.

The identity of Iron Man is still in the works.
04-02-2010 , 10:42 AM
Manganese Man never really took off the way I thought he should have.
04-02-2010 , 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by TomCollins
I'm gonna blow your mind, but I've also concluded that Superman is Clark Kent and Batman is Bruce Wayne.

The identity of Iron Man is still in the works.
Well I don't know wtf is going on here. I thought it was obvious, Ike thinks its obvious, you think its obvious. But Taso and someone else either leveled the hell out of me or they don't think it's true.

Anyway, done with that whole angle.
04-02-2010 , 11:13 AM
I'm pretty sure he's pretty much admitted its him.
04-02-2010 , 11:41 AM
A bar a few blocks from my apartment was engulfed in flames with thick smoke bellowing from it as I left for work, multiple fire trucks already on the scene. Some woman apparently got her twin 2-years-olds out of the building (there were apartments on the second floor, if what I saw was any indication, the apartments are now gone) and then went back into the burning building to retrieve her car keys. Darwin Award eligibility notwithstanding, she got back out alive.
04-02-2010 , 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by ErikTheDread
A bar a few blocks from my apartment was engulfed in flames with thick smoke bellowing from it as I left for work, multiple fire trucks already on the scene. Some woman apparently got her twin 2-years-olds out of the building (there were apartments on the second floor, if what I saw was any indication, the apartments are now gone) and then went back into the burning building to retrieve her car keys. Darwin Award eligibility notwithstanding, she got back out alive.
That has to be the dumbest reason ever to run back into a building on fire.
04-02-2010 , 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by ErikTheDread
A bar a few blocks from my apartment was engulfed in flames with thick smoke bellowing from it as I left for work, multiple fire trucks already on the scene. Some woman apparently got her twin 2-years-olds out of the building (there were apartments on the second floor, if what I saw was any indication, the apartments are now gone) and then went back into the burning building to retrieve her car keys. Darwin Award eligibility notwithstanding, she got back out alive.
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Originally Posted by TomCollins
That has to be the dumbest reason ever to run back into a building on fire.
I know. You can always have more kids right?
04-02-2010 , 11:55 AM
You know what I think an awesome reality show would be? Max raker, phone booth and david sklansky locked in a big brother style house with one super hot but dumb model. I don't think I'd ever stop watching.
04-02-2010 , 12:02 PM
One dead, "five or six" unaccounted for.

The car keys part of the story:
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Tiffany Churchell, who lived in the unit next to the one where the fire apparently started, was sleeping at the time. A friend was sleeping on her couch and saw "an orange light, and looked out the window and saw flames."

Churchell grabbed her two children -- twin 2-year-old girls -- and ran out of the building. She went back in to get her car keys and said that her unit has filled up with smoke by then.

"The building just blew up," she said. "I saw charcoal and sparks come out of the window."
04-02-2010 , 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by tomdemaine
You know what I think an awesome reality show would be? Max raker, phone booth and david sklansky locked in a big brother style house with one super hot but dumb model. I don't think I'd ever stop watching.
It would be better with Nielsio.
04-02-2010 , 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by ErikTheDread
One dead, "five or six" unaccounted for.

The car keys part of the story:
Fire stories are always strange to me, my experience was really surreal. My front door was left unlocked when my house caught fire, so there was no drama over getting my dog out.
04-02-2010 , 12:14 PM
When I was in college, we were in my apartment and heard all kinds of sirens going off. They kept getting closer, and there were TONS of them. Thought there might be some kind of high speed chase going on or something, but they didn't go away. We go look outside to see what it is, and look across the street. My apartment was in a pretty big complex of 3 story buildings. Across the street was one, and we saw these HUUUUGE flames coming above that building. We all went outside to see what it was, the apartment building behind the one behind ours was completely engulfed in flames. Turns out it was some 90 year old former professor that was living there and left the stove on and it caught the place on fire. A bunch of people tried to bust down his door to get him out, but couldn't and had to get out. The guy ended up dying. It was pretty crazy how it went down. The fire department had it out pretty fast after we got there, but the place was totally a mess.
04-02-2010 , 12:36 PM
i was at the monte carlo when it caught fire, idk if you guys remember that from a couple years back:



climbing down 35 flights of stairs with my luggage, fun times.
04-02-2010 , 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by tubasteve
i was at the monte carlo when it caught fire, idk if you guys remember that from a couple years back:



climbing down 35 flights of stairs with my luggage, fun times.
LOL @ taking your luggage.
04-02-2010 , 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by TomCollins
LOL @ taking your luggage.
we were supposed to check out literally like 30 minutes later, it was all packed up and i wasn't gonna just leave it. im not some old lady that can't climb stairs lol. plus we had a flight to catch!
04-02-2010 , 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by tubasteve
we were supposed to check out literally like 30 minutes later, it was all packed up and i wasn't gonna just leave it. im not some old lady that can't climb stairs lol. plus we had a flight to catch!
Can't say I blame you, especially given those circumstances. How many other people were doing that? It's still pretty funny to imagine.

Were you able to check out? Or did you just take off?
04-02-2010 , 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by TomCollins
Can't say I blame you, especially given those circumstances. How many other people were doing that? It's still pretty funny to imagine.

Were you able to check out? Or did you just take off?

well we all were kinda standing in the parking lot waiting to find out the deal, and the hotel staff just said that if you were supposed to check out, you could leave and go about your day. they comped all the expenses for that trip other than wireless internet, plus gave me an additional free 3-night stay.

i definitely would say most people just booked, but then again most probably weren't sitting in bed waiting for checkout time.
04-02-2010 , 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by TomCollins
My guess is if one person proves it was intentionally rigged this way (or even unintentionally), a class action lawsuit could be filed and be very costly and not worth it.
Hmm, I dunno. They give you a chance to contest it, if you pass and just send them money then what's the problem? They're not even "real" tickets here (this varies by jurisdiction, though, in some places it's not a "real" ticket unless a live officer witnesses it and issues the citation).
04-02-2010 , 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by pvn
Hmm, I dunno. They give you a chance to contest it, if you pass and just send them money then what's the problem? They're not even "real" tickets here (this varies by jurisdiction, though, in some places it's not a "real" ticket unless a live officer witnesses it and issues the citation).
There have been cases where a DA or whatever has been caught making up evidence or otherwise cheating the system, and when this comes to light, anyone who has been involved in the case gets a retrial, or the convictions are thrown out. I'd imagine something similar would happen if they cheated it. Someone might eventually figure out what's going on, and it would bust them.
04-03-2010 , 01:00 AM
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Originally Posted by ElliotR
I never got to meet with Neblis because I was in Korea last week and by the time I could get free this week (1) there was bad weather so I couldn't fly up this morning; and (2) he had to go home early so I couldn't go after the weather cleared.
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Originally Posted by Borodog
We'll never know what romance might have blossomed.
I have been crying salty tears since I left LA.
04-03-2010 , 01:06 AM
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Originally Posted by NeBlis
I have been crying salty tears since I left LA.


But Elliot had the lotion all ready for you.
04-04-2010 , 11:29 AM
Yesterday I went to a wedding and being very bored in the church I started flicking through the bible. I have to ask a question. Is there any single person who believes that the bible is the unedited literal word of a supreme being and has read Leviticus? Some parts read like the deranged ramblings of a violent psychopath. It's like something Charles Manson might have written but with less style, rather than the ineffable word of an omnipotent god.
04-04-2010 , 01:24 PM
BASEBALL TODAY!

ROYALS IN FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!
04-04-2010 , 01:28 PM


happy easter?

      
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