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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Hoping to enjoy and not endure. As long as tempers stay under control and there isn't an incident requiring 911 intervention, we'll be good ...
First time not cooking in, oh, forever ... that'll be sort of cool, anyway. I get to see the adult kids take over and stretch their culinary wings. They're making stuffing tonight. I can get used to this!
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Just in case anyone thinks I've gone all rogue nice, please to let me say "get your head out of your ass for pete's sake."
This has been a public service announcement. |
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#3258 |
in a mood, not cupcake
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Philadelphia
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Sitting here waiting for 4PM. That's what time I'm supposed to meet a friend of mine, to go to the place to eat Thanksgiving grub (ya know, the place).
Been waiting a couple of hours already. No booze in the house. So. Bored. |
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods
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PDX's latest contribution to holiday traffic tie ups...
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#3260 |
Larger than life and twice as ugly.
Join Date: Apr 2004
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The hell you say...
What is this 'alcohol' of which you speak? Going to investigate further...
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#3261 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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There was one on the news today where the guy had a count of 0.5... not 0.05, 0.5. The sumbitch should be dead.
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#3262 |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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That means fully half of his circulating blood was alcohol. You aren't born with that kind of skill, you have to train for it. Goddamn.
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#3263 |
Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Um, 0.5 is 0.5% by volume, not 50%. That said, a level of 0.5 (or 500 in old units) DOES take practice, if you're conscious and walking around. Some people actually cruise at that level and start withdrawal by the time they hit 200/0.2.
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You are totally right. I blame poor anti-drinking campaigns in my high school health class.
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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You were right about having to train, though - most people couldn't reach 0.5, they'd pass out well before even getting close. We definitely aren't born with the capability of driving around (for however short and disastrous a time) with a blood alcohol of .5.
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Washington Post
Reuters 11/26/12 WWII code found on long-dead pigeon in England may never be broken Quote:
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#3267 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Neat. Beats finding unexploded ordinance.
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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I love that Bletchley Park has a Pigeon Museum.
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Code breaking and Bletchley Park have been some of my favorite readings.
We owe an awful lot to the men and women who served there. And, I still can not rationalize that mathematicians can break a code without even knowing how to speak/read the language ! |
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#3270 |
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Who do these little girls think they're fooling?
I see your beady little over-made up eyes going up and down in your rearview mirror, or in my rearview mirror. I see you weaving back and forth to the edges of your lane, drifting aimlessly, at 75 mph. I see your smug little grin because Susie said Bobby will be at the Malt Shop after classes and you just KNOW he wants to marry you and have your babies. (Or rather: B sez u b 2 MS @ 4 him 2 k?) Put. Your. Freaking. Phone. Away. And. Drive. The life you save may be mine. |
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