Awesome, but where was Kick-ass when we needed him?

They should have let him keep it - it was Free Comic Day.

Cops shoot baby deer 7 times!
 

Somethings are beyond comprehension! :mad2:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...entry_id=62772

And they let politicians run free!

Tase me Bro! Tase me!

They should make those cops requalify, it shouldn't have taken more than two shots, max.

Dirty Politics in Philly
 

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Reminded me of this episode of Friends:

[Scene: Madison Square Garden, Duncan's dressing room. Phoebe is fixing her hair and Duncan enters.]

PHOEBE: So um, so what's up, you came to see me yesterday.

DUNCAN: Oh, yeah, um, alright, I kinda need a divorce.

PHOEBE: Ohh. . .K. How come?

DUNCAN: Umm, actually, I'm getting married again.

PHOEBE: What?

DUNCAN: Oh God, I don't know how to tell you this. I'm straight.

PHOEBE: Huuh.

DUNCAN: Yeah, I know, I.

PHOEBE: I, I don't, I don't understand, how can you be straight? I mean, you're, you're so smart and funny and you throw such great Academy Award parties.

DUNCAN: I know, that's what I kept telling myself but you just reach a point where you can't live a lie anymore.

PHOEBE: So how long have you known?

DUNCAN: Well I guess on some level I always knew I was straight. I though I was supposed to be something else, you know, I'm an ice dancer, all my friends are gay, I was just tryin' to fit in.

PHOEBE: And um, and there's actually a, a woman?

DUNCAN: Her name's Debra.

PHOEBE: Oh. Well is she, is she the first that you've been with?

DUNCAN: Well, I've never told you this but, there were one or two times, back in college, when I'd get really drunk, go to a straight bar and wake up with a woman next to me. But I, I, I told myself it was the liquor and e-everyone experiments in college.

PHOEBE: Sure.

DUNCAN: But now I know I don't have a choice about this, I was born this way.

PHOEBE: I, I don't know what to say. I mean, you know, you're married to someone for six years and you think you know him and then one day says, 'Oh, I'm not gay.'

DUNCAN: I'm, I'm still me.

PHOEBE: Why couldn't you have just figured this out six years ago?

From da Beeb:

LOL damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess? I find it very funny that they are more worried about aliens obtaining their secrets, than they actually are that their leader might be in need of some medication to help him from seeing little green men....

Anything in particular you could recommend?

LOL are you asking because you are also seeing little green men?

seeing or being - lately even I'm amazed at the things I'm seeing, and trust me I had a very "enhanced" youth.

Hello, dum-dum.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Gazoo.jpg

This youth you had, what was he enhanced with?

lol - and I really tried not to have that misinterpret-able.

It was, but not unpunable.

Why is Sheldon using Zen's name? :eek: :eyebrow:

Jupiter Lost A Stripe
 

Surely, surely the woman copped an attitude once the shirt was under discussion. Or refused to leave the courtroom. Or something that actually qualifies as contempt of court under any rational meaning of the words.

We could ask glatt but I am sure that contempt is anything the Judge wants it to be, do what they say or they can hold you for contempt. The punch line at the end was funny and thought provoking. :)

I agree, just entering the fiefdom courtroom, with inappropriate attire, can get you in a world of hurt.

Yeah, court is kind of like a "Church of 'The Rules.'"

Stand up, sit down, Stand up, sit down. swear on the bible. etc. etc.

And the power.

and the glory for ever and ever...

Amen.

Mass. man accused of trying to swap baby for beers

Was he drunk ?

However hard I'm trying, I cannot understand why people do that kind of things...

Does it REALLY matter?
me too

Because, in every level of society, in every country, in every age, there are genetic failures that need to be purged from the surface of the Earth.

Probably would have been the best thing possible for that baby, before CPS took the baby.

A YOUNG mum died after a series of blunders by doctors who failed to spot a six-inch long TOILET BRUSH HANDLE embedded in her buttock, an inquest was told today.

Cindy Corton, 35, was left with the bizarre injury after a drunken fall in a friend's bathroom in 2005 but "serious errors" by doctors then led to her death.

It was two years before Cindy, who was in constant pain, was able to convince doctors that the thin serrated plastic handle was stuck in the flesh of her bottom.

By then what should have been a routine procedure to remove it had become much more dangerous because the handle had become embedded in her pelvis.

Read more:

Lawsuit in 3... 2... 1...

Viagra associated with hearing loss?

WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY?

I'm sorry, for those of you who are affected: VIAGRA ASSOCIATED WITH HEARING LOSS.

So? Do men ever listen anyway, especially when the penis is involved? :p:

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2...g-loss/?hpt=C2

Yeh really CG - I'm not buying the excuse of how it got in there in the first place.
Drunken falling accident? :headshake

Alien wearing 'I'm hiding from the cops' T-shirt arrested

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I thought according to new Arizona law that they all were wearing the t-shirt. Oh wait.....this is not the politics thread. :p:

Get Dora back to her OWN damn country...um, er...wherever that is.

LEAVE DORA ALONE! :p:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052100863.html

Interesting choice of words from Delay on gun ban and now I am stuck with a horrible mental image:
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/daley.g...2.1707469.html

Then the odd explanation after the original choice of words:
"Asked what prompted him to pick up the rifle in the first place, Daley said, "It was a gun with a bayonet. … just think, a gun with a bayonet. What is a bayonet used for?"

Son, father and grandfather all born on same day
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Those odds seem way too low.

Still means there's around 23,817 of them, given a global population of 6.5B.

If it were perfectly random, those might be the odds (I'm not going to do any math here.) But since the people involved have a tremendous influence over the outcome you can get the odds to be close to 100%. I'd bet you could easily make the odds 50/50 without even trying that hard.

I know what you are saying, but none of them were born by C-section. They were all natural births. Still you can plan the beginning to get the end date sorta close, but as Pie said - that would mean there are 23+ thousand of them.
Either way its still kinda weird.

My dad, my son and I are all born on the 30th of different months. What are the odds of that?

You can also induce. And each generation has a dozen tries or so to get it right. If you make it a priority.

If it's random, then yeah, it's pretty unlikely. But if you were weird and made it a priority, you could pretty much nail it. Eventually.

The last child was not C-section, that much we know. The article doesn't say none of the rest of them were c-section, that I saw anyway.

So, Grandpa's son could've been c-section, then grandson was just close and they could have induced, or even drawn it out to make it fall on the right date.

I only say this because I was born on my dad's birthday. I was c-section.

The initial article and I were wrong....Updated info.

Well it's been a while since I took stats, but lets see if I can get it.

The odds of any one of you being born on a 30th is 12/365. Twelve 30ths in a year. 365 days in a year.

The odds of all of you being born on a 30th is the odds of each one multipled together so (12^3) / (365^3).

Pretty sure that's right.

Or perhaps you were being rhetorical.

There isn't a February 30th. :p:

Oops. Bound to get something wrong.


So that means singleton odds - 11/365.

All of them = (11^3) / (365^3).

For three generations on the same day, ignoring leap years, assuming random birth dates and one child per generation, I figure:

Grandpa born on any day = 1/1 chance, since it sets the day.

Father born on same day = 1/365.

Son also born on same day = another 1/365.

= (1/365)/365
= 1/133,225

If you require that all three are born on a specified date (eg May 8th) it is another 1/365 (for Grandpa to also be born on that date) which works out at 1 / 48,627,125.

I don't think the date can be set in advance, so I go for 1 / 133,225.

However, given that each generation has more than one child, and birth timings are not random, the real odds should be substantially lower. It's very hard to say, but allowing 3 children per generation and some tendency to deliberate seasonal breeding, I'd guess somewhere in the 1 / 30,000 to 50,000 range.

Really there must be scads of them.

In that case, I guess it isn't weird - I withdraw my post.

I was also trying to factor in the 50/50 split that each successive generation could have had a daughter and not a son -- and then the 2.2 children per 'average' family.

That got me closer to their number.

Okay, if you stipulate all three must be male, that narrows it down, but if you allow two children per generation that puts is back up. And in older generations the average number was higher.

My high school mate shares his birthday with his daughter.

I reckon Pie knows this already, but ... how many people do you think you would need in a group to give a 50% or more chance that two people share a birthday?

:3eye:
...waiting...

My birthday is the day after my mother's. The girl shares a birthday with her aunt. Jim shares a birthday with my sister's husband.

Don't look at me! I sux at maths. ;)