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Started by Admiral Yi, July 22, 2009, 03:15:40 PM

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Admiral Yi

#1726
April 22, 2010, 09:19:45 PM
I gotta sack soon.

He was investigating American prisons.

Razgovory

#1727
April 22, 2010, 09:54:48 PM
Quote from: Viking on April 22, 2010, 08:28:35 PM
Escaping debt collectors?

Like my future brother in law!
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi

#1728
April 30, 2010, 12:27:09 PM
What is the derivation of the word strike, as in a labor stoppage?

PDH

#1729
April 30, 2010, 12:30:24 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 30, 2010, 12:27:09 PM
What is the derivation of the word strike, as in a labor stoppage?
I have heard two theories - 1) from lowering the sails of a ship, 2) tossing tools on the floor of the shop
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Admiral Yi

#1730
April 30, 2010, 12:46:50 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 30, 2010, 12:30:24 PM
I have heard two theories - 1) from lowering the sails of a ship, 2) tossing tools on the floor of the shop
I was looking for 1.

Ask one if you got one Humbert.

Berkut

#1731
April 30, 2010, 01:55:59 PM
What happened to IPv5?
"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

select * from users where clue > 0
0 rows returned

Eddie Teach

#1732
April 30, 2010, 02:29:27 PM
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

PDH

#1733
April 30, 2010, 07:52:52 PM
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

jimmy olsen

#1734
April 30, 2010, 09:40:03 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 22, 2010, 09:19:45 PM
I gotta sack soon.

He was investigating American prisons.
Which had a good reputation in Europe.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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PDH

#1735
May 01, 2010, 02:28:05 PM
I got nothing, floor is open.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Syt

#1736
May 02, 2010, 02:34:57 AM
Two teenagers, employed in 1970s by the Oakland A's in non-playing positions, went on to become millionaires in non-baseball jobs. Who are they?
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

sbr

#1737
May 02, 2010, 03:02:16 AM
I know one for sure and have a feeling I know the second but can't come up with it.

Syt

#1738
May 02, 2010, 05:42:12 AM
Well, one worked there from 1973 to 1980, the other from 1969 to 1971.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Caliga

#1739
May 02, 2010, 06:08:23 AM
One was MC Hammer, right?
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