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Apologies to the people who got PM spam

Last post by John Q. Public « Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:38 pm
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by John Q. Public » Thu Aug 08, 2019 9:45 pm » in Board Business

I got a PM tonight about somebody identifying himself only as a former member - and who apparently has a giant chip on his shoulder about something -...

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Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:38 pm
New word added to the word censor

Last post by Vilepagan « Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:37 pm
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by John Q. Public » Sun Jan 13, 2019 8:44 pm » in Board Business

It seems that Google Adsense, which is sort of critical to the site's staying alive, has decided that a commonly used slang term for transmission and...

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Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:37 pm
New <embed> Plug-in

Last post by John Q. Public « Tue Apr 10, 2018 6:41 am
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by John Q. Public » Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:12 am » in Welcome and Board Announcements

I went looking for a plug-in that would embed a :steam: tweet and boy, did I find one. It does that and a whole lot more. And even better, you don't...

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Did anybody here lose some pot?

Last post by John Q. Public « Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:37 pm
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by John Q. Public » Fri Sep 04, 2015 7:43 pm

COVINA >> A man rummaging for recyclables earlier this week discovered more than 200 pounds of marijuana discarded in a dumpster in Covina, officials...

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Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:37 pm
Sign up to get a birthday card from Hillary!

Last post by John Q. Public « Thu Sep 03, 2015 11:19 pm
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by John Q. Public » Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:02 pm

Who doesn't love birthdays?

Hillary always remembers a birthday. She'd like to send you a personal note on your specialday (sic).

Sign up to...

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Last post by John Q. Public
Thu Sep 03, 2015 11:19 pm
Guns don't kill, cameras do.

Last post by crayegg « Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:15 pm
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by John Q. Public » Wed Sep 02, 2015 11:23 am

Any more nominations for this year's Darwin Awards are but a formality.

Texas teen fatally shoots himself while taking selfie

AUSTIN, Texas

A...

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Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:15 pm
A better way of filling bureaucratic spots

Last post by Troglodyte « Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:32 am

by Troglodyte » Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:32 am

Japan railway appoints cat as stationmaster
BANGKOK POST

WAKAYAMA, JAPAN — A local Japanese railway, which mourned the death in June of a cat...

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Last post by Troglodyte
Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:32 am
Drug Dropping Drones. Isn't modern technology sumpthin'?

Last post by Troglodyte « Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:15 am
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by John Q. Public » Wed Aug 05, 2015 12:33 am

Drone's heroin delivery to Ohio prison yard prompts fight among inmates

A drone dropped a package of drugs into a prison yard while inmates were...

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Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:15 am
He seemed like a nice guy, kinda quiet, kept to himself...

Last post by John Q. Public « Fri Jul 24, 2015 7:02 am
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by John Q. Public » Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:08 pm

...had more than 1,200 guns, scopes, 6.5 tons of ammunition, bows and arrows, knives, machetes and $230,000 in cash lying around the house and 14...

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Fri Jul 24, 2015 7:02 am
We though it bad with the protests at military funerals

Last post by Parrotpaul « Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:31 am
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by Troglodyte » Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:58 am

:lol: China's tackles moral dilemma of strippers at funerals :thumbsup:
Published Bangkok Post: April 23,2015 LINK

BEIJING - Chinese authorities...

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Last post by Parrotpaul
Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:31 am
The thick with the brick

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by Hanna » Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:20 pm

Too funny

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Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:20 pm
Comcast apologizes for changing customer’s name

Last post by John Q. Public « Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:36 am
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by John Q. Public » Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:00 am

Comcast says sorry for changing customer’s name to ‘A—hole Brown’

Comcast, the mammoth U.S. cable company, was reportedly forced to issue an...

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Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:36 am
NORAD's Santa Tracker

Last post by Troglodyte « Thu Dec 25, 2014 1:12 am
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by John Q. Public » Wed Dec 24, 2014 11:29 am

Did you know that NORAD's Santa Tracker started as a typo in a Sears ad?

This Christmas Eve people all over the world will log on to the official...

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Last post by Troglodyte
Thu Dec 25, 2014 1:12 am
Unintended consequences...

Last post by Troglodyte « Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:05 am

by Troglodyte » Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:05 am

Or sticking it to the government Spanish style.... :thumbsup: :lol: =D>

Women's theatre sells porn to void tax
Published Bangkok Po0st: 5 Dec...

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Last post by Troglodyte
Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:05 am
Man clocked at 127 mph - makes news

Last post by Parrotpaul « Mon Dec 01, 2014 5:03 pm
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by John Q. Public » Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:10 pm

Ok, I read 3 versions of this story and my reaction is still And? Slow news day, I guess.

Man clocked at 127 mph on New Hampshire highway

New...

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Last post by Parrotpaul
Mon Dec 01, 2014 5:03 pm
You thought you heard everything....

Last post by Troglodyte « Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:06 pm

by Troglodyte » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:06 pm

Flying the friendly skies of Siberia... Or how government conducts investigations..

Aircraft passengers 'push-start' frozen plane
Published...

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Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:06 pm
Poop explosions...

Last post by Fordama « Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:26 pm
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by Troglodyte » Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:15 am

Exploding poop topples China building
Published Bangkok Post: 24 Nov 2014 at 21.07 LINK

BEIJING - A cesspool filled with excrement has exploded in...

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Last post by Fordama
Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:26 pm
Chuck M's In Love

Last post by Fordama « Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:38 am
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by John Q. Public » Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:49 pm

Notorious mass murderer Charles Manson is apparently getting hitched.

Manson and 26-year-old Afton Elaine (Star) Burton were issued a marriage...

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Last post by Fordama
Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:38 am
Butt plug art.

Last post by Parrotpaul « Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:50 am
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by Tommy Tar » Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:46 pm

A new art installation in Paris has sparked a furore due to its resemblance to a sex toy.
The giant inflatable structure on Place Vendôme has caused...

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Last post by Parrotpaul
Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:50 am
Well, that's one way to do it...

Last post by afan95 « Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:52 am
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by Vilepagan » Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:33 am

A New York man commits suicide by tearing his head off. :shock:

(Reuters) - A 51-year-old man decapitated himself in New York's Bronx borough by...

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Last post by afan95
Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:52 am
Mmmm! Sounds kinky!

Last post by Troglodyte « Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:41 pm
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by John Q. Public » Mon Sep 01, 2014 11:24 am

Sad News for Zero-G Sex Study: The Geckos Are Dead

Russia's troubled experiment to study how geckos, fruit flies and other organisms reproduce in...

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Last post by Troglodyte
Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:41 pm
Kids with Uzis?

Last post by Troglodyte « Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:22 am
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by Vilepagan » Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:33 pm
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What a country we live in...ya gotta love a country where you can take your nine-year-old child to an establishment called Bullets and Burgers and...
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Last post by Troglodyte
Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:22 am
Ice Bucket Challenge raises $90 million plus. Now what?

Last post by John Q. Public « Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:56 pm

by John Q. Public » Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:56 pm

The ALS Association's entire budget last year was $2.6 million. They have a 4-star rating with Charity Navigator and the BBB because they spent 72%...

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Last post by John Q. Public
Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:56 pm
CNN getting better.

Last post by John Q. Public « Thu Aug 21, 2014 8:34 pm
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by Tommy Tar » Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:50 am

I was on the treadmill yesterday afternoon at my club and was jumping back and forth from FOX to CNN. Erin Burnett is the host of (out front) :- on...

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Last post by John Q. Public
Thu Aug 21, 2014 8:34 pm
Court: No execution unless Arizona reveals drug source

Last post by Fordama « Thu Jul 24, 2014 10:18 am
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by John Q. Public » Sat Jul 19, 2014 10:05 pm
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Ok, never mind that the Court said the guy would suffer irreparable harm by not knowing the source of the drugs used TO KILL HIM! , my...
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Last post by Fordama
Thu Jul 24, 2014 10:18 am
This could only make sense to a bureaucrat

Last post by Troglodyte « Sat May 31, 2014 10:09 am
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by John Q. Public » Fri May 30, 2014 10:24 pm

I try to think that our government is trying to do the best that they can, considering, but then they go and do something like this.

I've been...

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Last post by Troglodyte
Sat May 31, 2014 10:09 am
I wonder if he'll plead guilty by reason of stupidity

Last post by Troglodyte « Thu May 22, 2014 12:52 pm
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by Troglodyte » Wed May 21, 2014 6:04 pm

Jewel thief leaves cellphone in shop after robbery LINK

LONDON (AP) -- British police say they have a pretty good idea who stole two diamond rings...

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Last post by Troglodyte
Thu May 22, 2014 12:52 pm
EU Court rules that people have a right to be forgotten

Last post by Troglodyte « Wed May 14, 2014 7:25 pm
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by John Q. Public » Tue May 13, 2014 9:07 pm

The European Court of Justice (it doesn't apply here) ruled that an individual’s “right to be forgotten” was so strong that Google and other Internet...

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Last post by Troglodyte
Wed May 14, 2014 7:25 pm
Eating with hands make children more aggressive.

Last post by Troglodyte « Thu May 01, 2014 7:48 pm
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by Tommy Tar » Thu May 01, 2014 7:47 am

STUDY FINDS EATING CHICKEN ON THE BONE MAKES CHILDREN MORE AGGRESSIVE.

ITHACA, N.Y., April 30 (UPI) --
Researchers at Cornell University conducted...

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Last post by Troglodyte
Thu May 01, 2014 7:48 pm
Ladies Love the Wage Gap—It Helps Them Find Husbands

Last post by John Q. Public « Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:27 am
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by John Q. Public » Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:19 am
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I been sayin' this all along.

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Republican activist Phyllis Schlafly penned an op-ed in the Christian Post this week to set the record...
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Last post by John Q. Public
Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:27 am
#myNYPD

Last post by Parrotpaul « Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:19 pm
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by John Q. Public » Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:26 pm

So the NYPD decides to have a Twitter photo contest and they invite people to post pictures of themselves posing with NYPD officers. It didn't go...

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Last post by Parrotpaul
Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:19 pm
Kraft recall - Wieners may have contained natural ingredient

Last post by Troglodyte « Tue Apr 22, 2014 5:50 pm
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by John Q. Public » Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:55 am

Sorry. Couldn't resist. The natural ingredient is milk. They accidentally put Cheese wieners in regular wiener packaging and the milk wasn't listed...

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Last post by Troglodyte
Tue Apr 22, 2014 5:50 pm
Bad hair day?

Last post by Luca « Wed Apr 16, 2014 7:28 pm
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by John Q. Public » Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:41 am

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Well, so this men's hair salon in London made this poster advertizing their 15% off deal. North Korea wasn't amused and some NK diplomats...

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Wed Apr 16, 2014 7:28 pm

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