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Old 05-26-2010, 10:08 PM   #1
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The computer won't let her understand it.
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Old 05-27-2010, 07:08 AM   #2
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The computer won't let her understand it.
Fine. I didn't even try to understand it. Busted.

Maybe I'll try to understand it later.
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Old 05-27-2010, 08:23 PM   #3
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[gazes dreamily at Pie]
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Old 05-28-2010, 01:35 PM   #4
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Hey hey! I knew that one! I just came late to the thread. Can I have some dreamy gazing too? I get more of the "blank stare" variety most of the time...
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Old 05-28-2010, 02:40 PM   #5
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Clod's brain can get a duplicate birthday match using only 11.5 people.

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Old 06-02-2010, 11:29 AM   #6
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Police say a porn actor killed one colleague and injured two others with a prop weapon during a late night showdown at the Los Angeles studio where they all worked.

Police Detective Joel Price says the alleged attacker had been living at the adult entertainment business for several months but his colleagues told him he had to make other arrangements by Wednesday.

Price says Steven Hill attacked a colleague in the back of the building after work Tuesday with a machete-like weapon. Price says two others who heard the man's screams ran to help him and were also attacked before Hill fled the scene.

One of two people who tried to help died in surgery at a local hospital. The others are expected to survive.
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Old 06-03-2010, 07:53 AM   #7
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If "prop weapon" had been a combat dildo, that would have been much better.
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Old 06-07-2010, 12:56 PM   #8
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A porn actor suspected of killing a colleague with a sword has died after jumping from a rocky hillside after a standoff with police.

Police Officer Bruce Borihanh says a "less than lethal munition" was used against Stephen Clancy Hill Saturday just before his jump.

SWAT officers spent part of the afternoon trying to talk Hill down from the hill as he clutched a sword. Borihanh says the 34-year-old actor fell some 40 feet.

Hill fled to the Chatsworth neighborhood hillside after leaving a house where he was barricaded for most of Saturday. He faced murder and attempted murder charges in Tuesday's attack at a DVD production center.
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Old 06-07-2010, 01:00 PM   #9
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Who wants to bet that the "less than lethal munition" was one of those bean-bag shotgun shells, shot from behind him, thus causing his fatal fall?

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Old 06-07-2010, 01:32 PM   #10
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lol - that or a tazer.
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Old 06-07-2010, 04:13 PM   #11
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lol - that or a tazer.
Nah. Canadian Police have cornered the market of taser misuse.
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Old 06-11-2010, 02:30 AM   #12
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Technically, the "less than lethal munition" didn't kill him.

The sudden stop at the bottom of the cliff did.
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I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them,
I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period.



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Old 06-14-2010, 10:05 AM   #13
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Not, I think, all that high a reading on the weirdmeter -- but curious enough: Vicar Calls Out Parish for Archery Practice.

Nock, draw, loose!
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Old 06-15-2010, 10:12 AM   #14
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'I'm here to behead Bin Laden'
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An American armed with a pistol, a dagger and a 40-inch sword claimed he was on a solo mission to kill Osama Bin Laden after being arrested in Pakistan.

Gary Faulkner, 52, told intelligence officers he intended to track down the fugitive Al Qaeda leader and decapitate him.

The Californian builder was picked up in a forest in the northern Chitral region late on Sunday.

A police source said he shouted 'Don't come closer to me or I'll open fire,' before finally surrendering his weapon.

When he was searched, police found he was also carrying night vision goggles, a book containing Christian verse and teachings and kidney medicine.

'We initially laughed when he told us that he wanted to kill Osama bin Laden,' Officer Mumtaz Ahmad Khan said.

But he added that, when officers seized the pistol, the 40in sword and night vision equipment, 'our suspicion grew'.

Mr Khan said police had asked Faulkner why he believed he had a chance of tracing Bin Laden.

'He said "God is with me, and I am confident I will be successful in killing him,"' he added.

'(Faulkner) says he is a kidney patient,' Mr Khan added. 'He was also carrying medicines for kidney and blood pressure treatment.

'He claimed he had suffered personal losses in the terror attacks of September 11.'

Self-styled Rambo Faulkner had entered Chitral as a tourist on June 3 and was assigned a police minder, a common practice for foreigners visiting remote parts of Pakistan.

But he gave him the slip and vanished into a densely wooded area. Police launched a hunt for him, finally locating him after a 10 hour search.
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Old 06-15-2010, 10:25 AM   #15
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Good for him. It's about time a christian extremist terrorist did to them what they've been doing to us. When is someone like Bill Gates going to finance the dirty bombing of Muhammed's tomb?
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