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Old 10-10-2012, 02:43 AM   #4681
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If life gives you melons, get checked for dyslexia.
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Old 10-12-2012, 12:02 AM   #4682
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I didn't like to point out Bullfart's typo, though...
I'm blaming auto correct
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Old 10-16-2012, 12:37 PM   #4683
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If life gives you melons,...
If life gives you melons...


...motorboat them puppies!!
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Old 10-24-2012, 06:04 AM   #4684
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And I grabbed this off of the internet a few moments ago....maybe this goes in the sometimes the stars align thread?
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Old 10-24-2012, 09:32 AM   #4685
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The story behind that headline is appalling.... a government official doing a CYOA.

Time World
Stephan Faris
Oct. 24, 2012

ITALY: The Aquila Earthquake Verdict: Where the Guilt May Really Lie

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When a judge in Italy ruled Monday that seven experts were guilty of manslaughter
for having failed to adequately warn citizens in the city of Aquila of a major earthquake,
the verdict was met in the courtroom by stunned silence.

Internationally, it was greeted with outrage.
Scientists claimed that science itself was on trial.
Columnists compared the conviction, in which each man was
sentenced to six years in prison, to the persecution of Galileo.

In Italy, on Tuesday, the head of the country’s disaster management agency resigned in protest.
But whatever one thinks of the judgment–and there are more reasons than not
to be concerned–the greatest danger may lie elsewhere: that anger over the verdict
will distract from the very real lessons the case has to offer.

At issue is a meeting of the seven defendants, then members of a board called the
National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks, in Aquila on March 31, 2009.
Small tremors had been rocking the area for months, light shocks
that rattled buildings and sent frightened citizens into the streets.
To make matters worse, a local resident who wasn’t a scientist was using
an unproved method of earthquake prediction, analyzing concentrations of radon gas
to forecast the time and place of tremors.
His findings–which proved unfounded–were being picked up by the local media, adding to the sense of panic.

It was into this environment that the Italian government called the seven defendants,
top men in their field, to a rare meeting outside of Rome.
It was to all appearances more of a publicity move than a real scientific evaluation.
Later, the Italian Daily La Repubblica would publish a wiretap transcript
in which top government official can be heard describing the meeting as a “media operation.”
We want “to calm down the public,” he says, speaking the day before the gathering.
“And instead of you and me…we’ll have the top scientists in the field of seismology talking.”

After the meeting, the government official on the commission gave a statement to the media.
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“The scientific community tells me there is no danger,
because there is an ongoing discharge of energy,” he said.

“The situation looks favorable.”
Six days later, the city was struck by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake.
The shaking was felt in Rome, a two-hour drive away.
Aquila’s historic city center–one of Italy’s largest–was devastated.
More than 300 people were killed. Another 1,600 were injured.
Thousands were left homeless.

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Old 10-24-2012, 03:28 PM   #4686
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Yea, but, you got the joke right?

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Old 10-24-2012, 04:45 PM   #4687
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Yea, but, you got the joke right?

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Ummm, I guess so; but knowing the background of the headline, I also got the irony.
Without the background, it was (for me) just another PR ad by another oil company.
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Old 11-17-2012, 08:24 PM   #4688
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My girlfriend asked me to treat her like a princess; so I locked her in a tower
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Old 11-20-2012, 03:58 AM   #4689
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...so I crashed her car in a tunnel.



What?
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Old 11-20-2012, 06:34 PM   #4690
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Did you hear Princess Diana was on the radio?

and on the dashboard and on the windshield, and ...
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Old 11-20-2012, 06:39 PM   #4691
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You guys are so bad.....funny, but bad. :p
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Old 11-21-2012, 07:46 AM   #4692
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Right about the time Rock Hudson died, Philadelphia Flyers ice hockey goalie Pelle Lindberg died in a car accident. My brother in law, a huge Flyers fan, told me the "Rock Hudson died of botulism - he got bad meat in his can" joke. I asked him if he knew how they determined it was Pelle in the smashed car. He didn't. I told him it because there was a face off in the front seat. He didn't like that. Didn't think it was funny.
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Old 11-21-2012, 07:55 AM   #4693
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When Sonny Bono and Michael Kennedy died in skiing accidents, within like 5 days of each other, there was something going around to the effect:

If you do not stop irresponsible logging we will continue to kill one celebrity a week.

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Old 11-21-2012, 08:34 AM   #4694
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When Sonny Bono and Michael Kennedy died in skiing accidents, within like 5 days of each other, there was something going around to the effect:

If you do not stop irresponsible logging we will continue to kill one celebrity a week.

Signed,

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that one is funneh.
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Old 11-21-2012, 03:59 PM   #4695
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The Lorax co-wrote it.
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