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[xoxoxoBruce]

Garage space alone accounts for 4,000 square feet.

[HungLikeJesus]

There's a guy near me that built a 120-car garage (at his house). I don't know what that works out to in square feet.

Supposedly he has a Lamborghini from every year that they have been made, and two Bugatti Veyrons. I've seen one of them.

[xoxoxoBruce]

My "garbage man" has a 6 car, heated & airconditioned, garage for his personal cars.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

There's a guy near me that built a 120-car garage (at his house). I don't know what that works out to in square feet.

Supposedly he has a Lamborghini from every year that they have been made, and two Bugatti Veyrons. I've seen one of them.

what does he do for a living?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

My "garbage man" has a 6 car, heated & airconditioned, garage for his personal cars.

Mafia?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Hey hey, capitalism, free enterprise man, and anybody that says otherwise gets their legs busted.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

what does he do for a living?

I think he was born into the right family.

Edit: Richard Berry - grandson of Loren M. Berry, the pioneer of the Yellow Pages.

Edit^2: Here are some pictures: http://aussieexotics.com/forum/lambo...ion-440.0.html

[Lamplighter]

From Merc link above...

Joe Huff also verified that the structure is being built as a personal residence and identified himself as the “project manager.” However, available information online and in public records indicate Steven Huff is involved in technological engineering.

The property’s deed says the Steven T. Huff Family, LCC is located in Leesburg, Va. Available online records of political campaign contributions show a Steven T. Huff of Leesburg to be an engineer and chief technology officer of Overwatch Systems, Ltd. According to the Overwatch website, the company “delivers multi-source intelligence (multi-INT), geospatial analysis and custom intelligence solutions to the Department of Defense, national agencies and civilian organizations. ... More than 25,000 analysts in the U.S. Department of Defense and the larger intelligence community utilize Overwatch solutions.”

A sign at the entrance

Your
tax dollars
at work

We have one of these too...a plastic surgeon in/near a small town of (20K) in southern Oregon.
We think his Office Manager found the address for Medicare.

[wolf]

On the flagpole thing ... I thought Mythbusters did that and said it was busted. If so, the news story on the previous page calls all of their results into question.

Not that i didn't question their results prior to seeing this. I know they are wrong about the airplane on a treadmill. I just know it.

EDIT: Oops. Nevermind. Flagpole/tongue is confirmed. I stand by my statement on airplane on a treadmill.

[footfootfoot]

I've had wet hands stick to aluminum storm doors in the winter and before I had seen that movie, when I was very young, I burned my tongue on some hot soup or tea or cocoa or something and I grabbed an ice cube tray thinking the cold ice cube tray would relieve the pain... That was painful.

[Lamplighter]

NY Tiimes
Melting in Andes Reveals Remains and Wreckage
By SIMON ROMERO
Published: January 15, 2011

<snip>
The discovery of Mr. Pabón’s partially preserved remains was one of a growing number
of finds pulled from the world’s glaciers and snow fields in recent years
as warmer temperatures cause the ice and snow to melt, exposing their long-held secrets.

The bodies that have emerged were mummified naturally, with extreme cold and dry air
performing the work that resins and oils did for ancient Egyptians and other cultures.
Up and down the spine of the Andes, long plagued by airplane crashes and climbing mishaps,
the discoveries are helping to solve decades-old mysteries.

“It looks like the warming trend seen in many regions is continuing,” said Gerald Holdsworth,
a glaciologist at the Arctic Institute of North America in Calgary, Alberta.
“There are still some large snowbanks left in promising places, and many glaciers
of all different shapes, orientations and sizes, so the finds could go on for a long time yet.”

Some discoveries are personal, allowing families closure
after years of mourning loved ones who appeared to have vanished.
Others have added alluring clues into the history of human migration, diet, health and ethnic origins,
said María Victoria Monsalve, a pathologist at the University of British Columbia who studies ice mummies.

She said some of the most valuable discoveries in recent years include three Inca child mummies
found on the summit of Mount Llullaillaco in northern Argentina and a 550-year-old iceman
discovered by sheep hunters in northern British Columbia.

Younger mummies can also add to the historical record. In 2004, three well-preserved soldiers
were found in a scene of high-altitude fighting from World War I in the Italian Alps.

[TheMercenary]

Very cool.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I've had wet hands stick to aluminum storm doors in the winter and before I had seen that movie, when I was very young, I burned my tongue on some hot soup or tea or cocoa or something and I grabbed an ice cube tray thinking the cold ice cube tray would relieve the pain... That was painful.

I had a serious ice-crunching habit back in the day, to the point that I would just fill a cup with ice and eat it several times a day. When the glass was full, I would stick my tongue in and retrieve an ice cube by letting it stick, just like you can do with popcorn.

[TheMercenary]

Ice eating can be a sign of anemia....

[Clodfobble]

I've heard that--been routinely tested as an adult, but never as a kid. My mother used to put me to bed with a cup of ice, every night from the age of about 3. (This was my demand, not her idea of a comfort item.)