This is clearly a French Canadian move to dominate, nay, control the maple syrup supply. It's a kin to North Korea controlling plutonium. We're in wicked deep trouble people. Wicked deep.

I imagine the Mounties are searching the toque's of every trapper for evidence of the crime. Also, the article doesn't mention-but were any trees violated in the process? That could narrow down the suspects...

that looks like the thing Homer throws out of his car window on the way home (though his is glowing an eerie greenish color)

so, now we know Springfield is somewhere in Texas! it all makes sense now!

A Dorwin Award Winner

http://metronews.ca/news/canada/3476...wedding-dress/

Los Angeles is cutting down 400 mature trees so Space Shuttle Endeavour can be trucked from the airport to a museum. 400 trees! :sniff:

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Why would it need to do that? Don't want to burn a smoke detector?

Narrow down to what? Ents?

twas a joke, Spexx. a little tiny joke.

PS what's an Ent?

They're radioactive.

I know it was. I was joking back. :blush: An ent is a "tree-person" from The Lord Of The Rings
http://img-fan.theonering.net/~roloz.../treebeard.jpg

Americium, IIRC.

1) Volunteer to repaint a decaying picture in a church.
2) Botch the job tremendously.
3) ???
4) Profit.

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WTF?

A rapper that goes by his real name...?
A rapper that drives a Sentra...???

ASPIRING rapper.

He wasn't really thug yet. Only real thugs drive Escalades with $100,000 in add-ons.

Maybe this belongs in the "You know you are old" thread
... but I find this completely weird and insane.

Wall Street Journal
Amir Efrati
September 25, 2012, 11:00 PM

California Legalizes Self-Driving Cars
I was sensitized to something similar several weeks ago when I drove
into an industrialized area of PDX for the first time in a couple of years.
At a railroad crossing (with a stop sign) there is another sign that says something like:
"Beware - driverless trains on these tracks"

My thought was "Jeez, has the Afghanistan War brought us drone trains now" ?
But I can sort of understand driverless (commuter) trains,
but I'm way too old to accept driverless cars on the roads.

The DC Metro used to be driven by computer and the drivers were only there to make announcements and to open the doors.

Then there was the accident because of the faulty track sensors, so now the drivers drive the trains again. There have been two driver error accidents since that switch was made.

Out at Dulles airport, the trains to the far terminals have no drivers at all. Everything is automated, and they are much smoother riding than Metrorail ever was.

I think when the system works, computer controlled vehicles are better. But we've all seen how computers can fail.

All systems can fail, but when computers fail we freak out because they fail in a way that we can't envision ourselves doing.

Kinda gives new meaning to the phrase 'The Blue Screen of Death.'

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/N...d-08102012.htm

Man, take a look at the bush, it's a masterpiece of horticulture.

Landscaping plants do need periodic pruning.

You mean smoking, right?

'ere (passes pruners)

Snip snip GIVE, snip snip GIVE...you're fuckin' up the rotation!

An ex-colleague, years ago, used to walk her dog past a house with a cannabis plant in the garden. She figured that any leaves that made it through the fence were fair game.

We assumed that the owners did not know what they had either, as there was no sign of cultivation or the kind of protection people use when growing for profit or even own use. It wasn't all that potent, but did give a mellow high.

She moved house about 6 months after discovering it - it might be there still as it was on the outskirts of a small village.

Found it.

I am confuse.

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I think Sawyer's lawyers are gonna have an easy day in court.

Whoosh. Nothin' but net.

Yeah, but will he know how to run the dealership he's going to own? :haha:

Not really "weird news" as "are you #$%&ing kidding me?"

Full BS at the link, here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-1...y-milk/4311912

AVERT YOUR EYES, IMPRESSIONABLE YOUTH! PICTURE BELOW!!

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I have to admit, some of those cows do look more than a bit fabulous.

C'mon Zen, look at those swishing cows. They're all acting like they're females... like... cows... are... :bolt:

Dammit, I looked a that picture for too long.


Sheldon, you fancy a root?

:lol:

you slay me.

and those cows are, as bruce said, teh ghey things in the cartoon. Those are some gay-assed cows.

but what I think is really the silver lining on the cloud is that the Russians are beginning to act more and more like Americans. Isn't that heart-warming? Now that they don't have to worry about Communism they can be all homophobic and argue about stuff that keeps them off the REAL issues!

That's true, so busy they don't even notice Putin is pulling a Romney on them.

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think - Dorothy Parker

It is totally unfair how things just freaking grow like massive beasts in England. All they have to do is throw down some seed and voila- they have a beautiful garden. In fact, their yards are so pretty they actually call them 'gardens' - our yards are just that: yards. Of brown, crunchy, horrid used-to-be grass. You could cut yourself on it.

Here in Ohio things only grow in May and June when we get all excited that maybe, just maybe, they'll survive the holocaust that is Ohio July and August, only to have our hopes cruelly dashed by the relentless Sun God Apollo. Then in Sept. and Oct. plants have another slim chance before our first frost which is usually "earlier than expected" and there go your mums.

Ohio- it's cheap to live here and you'll know why once you visit!

What's the big deal ?
He jumped out of a balloon and went down... which way did he expect to go ?

Little kids have thrown their oatmeal on the floor for years to prove that gravity works.

I think that it was from a record breaking altitude and he fell very quickly.

He was sponsored by Red Bull.

GORGEOUS view from up there. Pity there's not much time to take it in on the return trip...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...r-jump-008.jpg

then again, I think it'd probably feel like pleeeeeeenty of time to look around on the way back down. yikes.

I think the issue was that it would've been easy for him to get into a fatal, uncontrolled horizontal spin - which he almost did, but recovered - so it wasn't just a matter of falling. He had to maintain control the whole time, manoeuvre into a position to maximize his velocity (since he was trying to break Mach 1), and survive.

They were also checking the viability of his space suit, to see if astronauts could survive jumps from those altitudes if necessary. So, something useful besides the basic publicity.

I think you're all responding to what was a joke, not a question.:haha:

IMHO, it was a small step for all mankind, but it was a giant leap for one man.

Awesome, in fact.

XOB FTW

She...

I'd hit it with my golden gun.

I'd shake AND stir her ... but maybe not in that order.

Doctor! No!

It's okay, I'm not a real doctor!

You're a chiropracter?????

... and must have shattered his brain real hard, if he had one in the first place:

:banghead:

Naturopath ?

you're one of those... argh... needle guys.. something-ist. You want to prick her, right?

no, no.. you're a guynicologist.

No, but I'll look into it for you.

Phlebotomist?

My mum was a bloodsucker :p

did your father smell of elderberries?

I like Archie Bunker's pronunciation of the crotchdoc: groinocologist

Funnily enough elderflower and elderberry wine were a big thing in dad's family ;p

I spent many a happy childhood hour out picking elderberries

What happened to the elderberries? I remember picking them too, but I haven't seen a plant in ages.

My neighbor makes Elderflower wine from our Elderflowers. I make Wine from the Berries. We've planted three different varieties. You can get them from Fedco, in the spring.

Cool! I wonder if they would grow in Virginia. I've seen the plants in PA.

Sure. You can grow cotton in VA

If you pick the flowers, how do you get berries?
I suppose you'll come back with a snappy retort like you only pick some of the flowers.:rolleyes: