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Post by: Geezer on 06/04/2011 04:54:56: Pot-growing trailer stolen from Denver trade show

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110406/us_nm/us_marijuana_colorado

Can't quite put my finger on why, but there is something about this that strikes me as quite amusing.

Some wag asked in the comments, "Was it hitched up behind Willie Nelson's tour bus?"
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Post by: imatfaal on 06/04/2011 11:56:41: Quote
The trailer is valued at $50,000, and there was no marijuana inside the vehicle, he said.
...there will be soon.

I can just envisage a cheech & chong pair telling their friends "you won't believe what we liberated from a trade fair..."
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Post by: JimBob on 07/04/2011 01:53:44: An acquaintance of mine knows this guy that has a brother who has a unique goose-neck trailer for sale. Should I buy it?
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Post by: Geezer on 07/04/2011 02:12:05: Quote from: JimBob on 07/04/2011 01:53:44
An acquaintance of mine knows this guy that has a brother who has a unique goose-neck trailer for sale. Should I buy it?

Were you thinking of using it for Meals On Wheels? It would be a great asset to your community if you were.
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Post by: Mike Tyson on 07/04/2011 12:22:23: Quote from: Geezer on 06/04/2011 04:54:56
Pot-growing trailer stolen from Denver trade show

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110406/us_nm/us_marijuana_colorado

Can't quite put my finger on why, but there is something about this that strikes me as quite amusing.

Some wag asked in the comments, "Was it hitched up behind Willie Nelson's tour bus?"
Buddy the link is not working properly..I tried to open it and got an error message that "The page is expired"....So please repost the link which will work properly...

mode edit: Spammy link removed
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Post by: imatfaal on 07/04/2011 12:49:30: link works fine for me.
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Post by: Geezer on 07/04/2011 19:41:20: Quote from: imatfaal on 07/04/2011 12:49:30
link works fine for me.

Me too. Maybe Yahoo had it down for a bit?
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Post by: SeanB on 07/04/2011 22:15:07: Don't need it, just go out to the country and you can't miss it.......
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Post by: Geezer on 08/04/2011 21:38:58: Speaking of Cheech and Chong....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110408/ts_yblog_thelookout/accused-insider-traders-considered-washing-dirty-money-in-a-washing-machine;_ylt=AiEald26.NlrysL7.XsePicUewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTU5cjBtbnI4BGFzc2V0A3libG9nX3RoZWxvb2tvdXQvMjAxMTA0MDgvYWNjdXNlZC1pbnNpZGVyLXRyYWRlcnMtY29uc2lkZXJlZC13YXNoaW5nLWRpcnR5LW1vbmV5LWluLWEtd2FzaGluZy1tYWNoaW5lBGNjb2RlA3JhbmRvbQRjcG9zAzEEcG9zAzEEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNhY2N1c2VkaW5zaWQ-

(Sorry about the enormous URL!)
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Post by: SeanB on 10/04/2011 21:38:31: Difficult to get usable fingerprints off paper, especially after it has been circulated. Perhaps they wanted to get the Columbian marching powder residues off it instead.
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Post by: Geezer on 28/04/2011 18:43:29: Quote:

"He said law enforcement officers delivered a fake notification to Steele at his home just before arresting him, reporting his wife had been killed. Sotka said he had decided to do this to see how Steele would react.

Then, Sotka said they broke the news that they knew of the alleged murder-for-hire plot and investigators had spoken with Fairfax. At this point, Sotka and other law enforcement officials at Steele's house immediately could smell fecal matter in the air and Sotka said he believed Steele had "defecated" in his pants."

http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_5ea26c44-ac01-500e-851a-cf19701a4852.html
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Post by: Geezer on 14/05/2011 05:33:19: All about pigs. I'm sure there must be a moral or two in here.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/may/13/500-pound-pig-shot-death-spokane-valley/
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Post by: RD on 14/05/2011 06:35:35: Quote from: Geezer on 14/05/2011 05:33:19
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/may/13/500-pound-pig-shot-death-spokane-valley/

Pig on Pig violence ?

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F7%2F7a%2FChief_Wiggum.png&hash=afae7c9c67af7ebedcb9f54ddeb09710) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clancy_Wiggum)
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Post by: Geezer on 20/05/2011 21:53:20: A lot of people are outraged because they think this new statue of Pope John Paul II is really ugly. Some have even suggested it looks like Mussolini, although, in some of the shots it reminds me more of Winston Churchill. See what I mean?

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Vatican-slams-Pope-John-Paul-II-statue/ss/events/wl/052011johnpaulstatue#photoViewer=/110518/ids_photos_wl/r2141878165.jpg
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Post by: RD on 21/05/2011 00:11:48: The statue (http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20110518/i/r4096503156.jpg?x=400&y=254&q=85&sig=kBnm_COLqNpYqjZW1.sLeA--)looks like a novelty telephone booth, or urinal [:)]

[telephone booths also double as public urinals in the UK]
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Post by: Geezer on 21/05/2011 00:25:23: The same thought crossed my mind, but why would the sculptor stick Winston Churhill's head on top?
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Post by: RD on 21/05/2011 00:28:33: The giant scale combined with the "let me conceal you under my cloak (http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110520/capt.86e9406a830b42338e2c24ca131cdde7-aad249905d89449cb757d8e6cc728a15-0.jpg?x=400&y=341&q=85&sig=_4w1tSrq._OKUkpWjxPqcA--)" pose seems in poor taste given the recent bad publicity about RC priests and children.

Whilst on the topic of poor taste, they recently dug J-PII up, (he was barely cold) ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13243797
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Post by: Geezer on 21/05/2011 03:32:09: Quote from: RD on 21/05/2011 00:28:33

The giant scale combined with the let me conceal you under my cloak

Oh no! I wish you hadn't said that. I found myself wondering if it could be a raincoat rather than a cloak.

Something tells me they'll be melting it down and starting over quite soon.
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Post by: CliffordK on 21/05/2011 23:30:01: Quote from: RD on 21/05/2011 00:28:33
Whilst on the topic of poor taste, they recently dug J-PII up, (he was barely cold) ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13243797
Ahh... yes...
Perhaps I should write to the Vatican and ask if I can have a piece of the dead pope. What should I ask for? A finger or a toe? What would be most likely to bring me eternal salvation?
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Post by: RD on 23/05/2011 15:13:48: From these images (http://listverse.com/2009/12/09/15-quite-bizarre-factlets/#item-1) JPII may have gone to the burny place.

[On a similar theme see nun-bun (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=18086.msg203426#msg203426)]
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Post by: Geezer on 07/06/2011 19:43:44: YEAH!!

"Texas movie theater makes an example (and a PSA) of a texting audience member"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110607/us_yblog_thelookout/texas-movie-theater-makes-an-example-and-a-psa-of-a-texting-audience-member
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Post by: RD on 07/06/2011 23:40:23: Quote from: Geezer on 07/06/2011 19:43:44
YEAH!!

"Texas movie theater makes an example (and a PSA) of a texting audience member"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110607/us_yblog_thelookout/texas-movie-theater-makes-an-example-and-a-psa-of-a-texting-audience-member

I think this could be her making an order at a McDonald's drive-thru ...
[:)]
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Post by: Geezer on 08/06/2011 09:19:44: I'm pretty sure she is JimBob's next door neighbour.
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Post by: Geezer on 13/06/2011 01:54:36: AFP - "Pressure mounts on Weiner as new photos emerge"

Well, I imagine it would.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110612/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticsinternetsex_20110612205035

I don't know if anyone outside the US is following this story, but it's a dream come true for journalists and late night TV hosts.
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Post by: Geezer on 17/06/2011 20:09:37: Quote from: RD on 07/06/2011 23:40:23
Quote from: Geezer on 07/06/2011 19:43:44
YEAH!!

"Texas movie theater makes an example (and a PSA) of a texting audience member"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110607/us_yblog_thelookout/texas-movie-theater-makes-an-example-and-a-psa-of-a-texting-audience-member

I think this could be her making an order at a McDonald's drive-thru ...
[:)]

She's very well educated, and she gets around too. Here she is again - this time in New York.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110617/us_yblog_thelookout/woman-says-shes-too-educated-to-be-kicked-off-new-york-train
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Post by: JP on 22/06/2011 02:08:20: This is the real reason people major in "physics."

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/21/professor-accused-of-running-online-prostitution-ring/
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Post by: Geezer on 22/06/2011 03:09:55: It might have been his "ride" (for Don's benefit, "ride" = "jam") that gave the game away.

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You can't see it in the pic, but the license plate reads "PHYSPMP".
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Post by: Geezer on 24/06/2011 07:45:57: The plot thickens. It's not just the physicists.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_nm/us_newmexico_prostitution
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Post by: RD on 25/06/2011 07:54:04: Quote from: Geezer on 22/06/2011 03:09:55
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Apparently it has an inbuilt basketball hoop, but has it got doors like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAtkoje4-eM&NR=1) ?.
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Post by: Geezer on 30/06/2011 23:12:20: Chinese chemists invent levitation compound!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/fake-photo-fallout-chinese-officials-embrace-social-media-171223649.html
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Post by: Geezer on 01/07/2011 06:25:58: RD, they are bit late with that door idea. My old '76 Impala (sometimes Impaler) had one of these.
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Post by: Geezer on 13/07/2011 08:01:29: Police set up sting operation.

http://news.yahoo.com/truck-spills-14-million-bees-idaho-highway-142147287.html
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Post by: imatfaal on 14/07/2011 10:53:54: A nice photo story to counteract all the miserable ones

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/two-photos-thirty-years-apart-move-192313669.html
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Post by: Geezer on 16/07/2011 02:15:39: This is the funniest thing I've seen all week.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/man-builds-own-million-dollar-bugatti-supercar-hand-211223675.html

(Mind you, I'm not sure the volks at VW vill be terribly amused.)
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Post by: Geezer on 27/07/2011 06:41:47: That's it! If they try to get me on Desert Island Discs, I'm not falling for it. Nasty BBC Johnnies bombarding you with all sorts of sneaky trick questions and putting truth serum in your tea. No sirree!

http://news.yahoo.com/morgan-admits-dodgy-practices-034500578.html
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Post by: Geezer on 28/07/2011 19:58:21: Ouch! [;D]

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/million-dollar-fender-bender.html
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Post by: Geezer on 23/08/2011 17:25:11: I stumbled across this the other day. Some of you Latin scholars might find it useful. (I like the one about the toga.)

http://www.latinsayings.info/
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Post by: Geezer on 29/08/2011 22:47:57: Are you feeling nervous? Is so, you better not read this;

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/opinion/republicans-against-science.html?src=me&ref=general
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Post by: Geezer on 05/09/2011 07:32:10: "Nearly 40 percent of Europeans suffer mental illness"

http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-40-pct-europeans-suffer-mental-illness-230827577.html

"David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacology expert at Imperial College London who was not involved in this study, agreed." [;D]
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Post by: demografx on 06/09/2011 07:09:06: [;D] [;D] [;D]
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Post by: Geezer on 18/09/2011 06:23:15: "Russian media magnate Lebedev punches debate rival"

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-media-magnate-lebedev-punches-debate-rival-205946662.html

What was he thinking? Is he trying to give billionaires a bad name?
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Post by: Geezer on 18/09/2011 22:16:35: We are in the midst of an ongoing debate regarding grizzly bears here. Apparently, according to federal law, you have to get permission from a federal government representative to shoot a grizzly bear before it eats you.

Someone suggested in our local paper that we could solve two problems simultaneously by relocating the grizzlies to Washington DC.

(I suspect our lawmakers have been spending too much time watching Yogi and Boo-Boo.)
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Post by: SeanB on 19/09/2011 20:33:19: That could be classed as cruelty to bears, think of all the toxins in the fat that they would get, like dioxin.
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Post by: Geezer on 22/09/2011 08:17:47: It's always important to find someone to blame.

http://news.yahoo.com/trial-opens-against-scientists-italy-quake-081332052.html
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Post by: SeanB on 22/09/2011 10:26:14: I though we had stopped with the Spanish Inquisition? Instead of the seismologists go after the council who did nothing to ensure buildings in an earthquake prone area were capable of withstanding a big earthquake, or who were lax in providing both safe shelters and support.
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Post by: Geezer on 19/12/2011 22:04:42: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/shoplifters-robbed-while-stealing-grocery-store-192530012.html (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/shoplifters-robbed-while-stealing-grocery-store-192530012.html)

"stealing makeup, energy bars and batteries"

I think somebody needs to ease up on the energy bars.
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Post by: Don_1 on 22/12/2011 09:21:47: Anyone for Pizza? Listen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkAeNcNJVjA)
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Post by: Geezer on 23/12/2011 20:07:45: Quote from: Don_1 on 22/12/2011 09:21:47
Anyone for Pizza? Listen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkAeNcNJVjA)

He should stick with Welsh rarebit.
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Post by: Geezer on 01/01/2012 03:59:06: No, honest. It really is a $1,000,000 note.

http://news.yahoo.com/cops-man-tried-1m-bill-nc-walmart-165050318.html

Happy New Year!

(Still four hours to go here.)
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Post by: Geezer on 01/02/2012 18:12:46: Teen Capable Only of Texting to Be Euthanized

http://www.katu.com/news/va?vaid=18833256e4405fdff3f1f4a167c85ebc (http://www.katu.com/news/va?vaid=18833256e4405fdff3f1f4a167c85ebc)
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Post by: Geezer on 11/02/2012 19:38:16: Orthopedic surgeon invents device to boost income.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUXDjg6_bhM&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUXDjg6_bhM&feature=related)
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Post by: RD on 11/02/2012 23:22:02: The motorcycle version is much more impressive, (but less practical) ...
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Post by: Geezer on 12/02/2012 07:08:06: Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Warwick said they had devised a "Ponytail Shape Equation,"

http://news.yahoo.com/rapunzel-number-helps-scientists-quantify-ponytails-160651031.html

I'm glad to see U of C is on the leading edge of this important research.
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Post by: RD on 13/03/2012 04:54:43: Quote from: RD on 11/02/2012 23:22:02
The motorcycle version is much more impressive, (but less practical) ...

The motorcycle version is even difficult to drive in sci-fi ... http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/video/trailers-1730502/men-in-black-3-theatrical-trailer-28514133.html
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Post by: Geezer on 24/04/2012 08:59:10: DATELINE APRIL 1, 2012:

Scientists at the Inland Submarine Research Center in Pendorielle, Idaho, have released information that they have developed software that can identify the name, address, and location coordinates of anyone posting on the Internet. At the moment the location resolution is plus or minus 2.4 meters in any direction, but ISRC director, Ivor Biggin, said that he hopes to improve the resolution by at least a factor of two with the next software release.

Understandably, the exact algorithms that ISRC use are a closely guarded secret, but Mr Biggin did hint that they are based, among other things, on stochastic transcription defuglement.
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Post by: Don_1 on 24/04/2012 10:30:01: Why, that filthy swine. I've half a mind to torpedo his submarine.

Come to think of it, I've half a mind, period

Good grief, I just used an Americanism.
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Post by: yor_on on 24/04/2012 21:52:09: Defuglement sounds very scientific :)
Will remember that one.
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Post by: Hadrian on 26/04/2012 12:05:55: Quote from: Geezer on 06/04/2011 04:54:56
Pot-growing trailer stolen from Denver trade show

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110406/us_nm/us_marijuana_colorado

its all smoke and mirrors man... its feds they took my weed man....
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Post by: demografx on 29/04/2012 22:37:07: Quote from: Don_1 on 24/04/2012 10:30:01

Good grief, I just used an Americanism.

You make it sound as if it's a bad thing. : - )
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Post by: Geezer on 30/04/2012 09:30:02: and you thought I was only kidding aboot (it's near Canada, eh?) the submarines

http://www.ss563.org/idahoss.html (http://www.ss563.org/idahoss.html)
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Post by: imatfaal on 04/05/2012 20:38:14: Wow - that Helium is really dangerous when someone has a lit cigarette too close to it - it seems no one was critically injured but I guess it was hydrogen gas rather than helium. As a more sciencey question - what other gases are highly flamable and so much lighter than air that you could make a dangerous balloon filler from

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The article has managed to avoid the same blunder - but it is a poor show that the Beeb website doesn't have anyone science literate enough to spot the headline is a no-no.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17964976
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Post by: Geezer on 05/05/2012 06:37:32: Quote from: imatfaal on 04/05/2012 20:38:14
but it is a poor show that the Beeb website doesn't have anyone science literate enough to spot the headline is a no-no.

Particularly as the Hindenburg went down 75 years ago come Sunday.

Even hydrogen is not all that explosive. It just burns and and heads skywards. If those balloons actually exploded, there must have been some oxygen in them. Maybe it permeated through the envelopes?
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Post by: Geezer on 09/05/2012 07:51:08: No comment.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/jersey-tanning-mom-inspires-action-figure-182150456.html (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/jersey-tanning-mom-inspires-action-figure-182150456.html)
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Post by: RD on 09/05/2012 10:20:58: Quote from: Geezer on 09/05/2012 07:51:08
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/jersey-tanning-mom-inspires-action-figure-182150456.html (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/jersey-tanning-mom-inspires-action-figure-182150456.html)

[ I suppose if the doll actually looked like the person they could sue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#United_States) ]
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Post by: Don_1 on 09/05/2012 12:50:56: Why do these people want to look like a belisha beacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisha_beacon)?

Don't they realise the danger? Don't they realise how foolish they look?

Judith Chalmers (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a171275/ds-icon-judith-chalmers.html), Dale Winton & David Dickinson (http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i91688) are among the many 'celebrities' to be ridiculed for their ludicrous skin tone. Why emulate them???

Why would you want skin the colour of an Outspan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Outspan_Orange.jpg), not to mention the texture of an Outspan?

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedrum.co.uk%2Fuploads%2Fdrum_column_article%2F83958%2Fmain_images%2Fannoying-orange.jpeg&hash=c1774b73bd7ff8dec76bdb99a983e2b0)
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Post by: RD on 13/05/2012 08:33:24: Quote from: Don_1 on 09/05/2012 12:50:56
Why do these people want to look like a belisha beacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisha_beacon)?

the Tan-orexia thing is a version of body dysmorphic disorder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder)
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Post by: syhprum on 15/05/2012 22:24:10: There was once a miguided lad that filled a balloon with Acetelyne aput a light to it filling the room with black anow.
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Post by: Geezer on 16/05/2012 20:38:06: See, I told you quantum entanglement was possible.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5690871-High-school-prank-truck-welded-around-column (http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5690871-High-school-prank-truck-welded-around-column)

(This reminds me of the time when we manhandled our scoutmaster's Austin Cambridge in to a school playground shelter.)
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Post by: Geezer on 19/06/2012 14:58:25: You might think we would know everything we could possibly know about steam engines by now, but you'd be wrong!

http://news.yahoo.com/feds-design-flaw-led-calif-nuke-plant-woes-042337386--finance.html (http://news.yahoo.com/feds-design-flaw-led-calif-nuke-plant-woes-042337386--finance.html)
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Post by: RD on 19/06/2012 20:43:43: Quote from: Geezer on 19/06/2012 14:58:25
http://news.yahoo.com/feds-design-flaw-led-calif-nuke-plant-woes-042337386--finance.html (http://news.yahoo.com/feds-design-flaw-led-calif-nuke-plant-woes-042337386--finance.html)

Looks more like vibration-induced metal fatigue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_fatigue), than corrosion.