[y66]

Good read.

[y66]

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[gwnn]

Noooo Messi where did you get that suit???

[Aberlour10]

General suggestion for all who are busy and angry with the own taxes, take a
break and mix this:

Income Tax cocktail


1 1/4 ounce gin
3/4 ounce orange juice
1/4 ounce dry vermouth
1/4 ounce sweet vermouth
1 dash Angostura Bitters

Shake with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass

[gwnn]

hey I just realised that 2025 will be a perfect square! that's pretty cool, certainly much more interesting than all of this 12/12/12 12:12 crap. The previous one was in 1936 and the next one will be in 2116.

[y66]

Good story in today's paper about 2 guys battling for farthest ever flight by hang glider.

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THE CLOUDS stretched across the Texas sky like a highway. And soaring along those lanes, lofted nearly 8,000 feet by the hot air rising from the earth, two hang gliders raced in tight pursuit of the most prized feat in this high adrenaline niche sport: farthest ever flown.The men suspended underneath their aluminum and fabric wings, Jonny Durand and Dustin Martin, had already journeyed 438 miles in 10 hours, splitting up and converging repeatedly as each pursued his own path alongside the red-tailed hawks and turkey vultures. Against all odds, they were now flying nearly wingtip to wingtip.

Because of the consoles of gadgets mounted on their control bars, the two men knew that they had now flown farther than any person ever had using a hang glider. Farther than anyone had without the drone of an engine or the protective shell of a plane. They had flown, and were flying still, farther than anyone had in the manner dreamed of in centuries of tall tales, from Icarus to Superman — cheeks in the wind, like a bird.

Having launched near the southern tip of Texas in July, a few miles from Mexico, the two men had pushed north, propelled by the fierce flatland wind, and at times had reached more than 80 miles per hour.

They crossed low over desolate expanses of cactus and mesquite, which threatened shins full of thorns for any pilot forced into an early landing. They crossed over the concrete sprawl of small cities with houses that looked like pebbles, and over the tumbling, juniper-dusted canyons of hill country, and, finally, over the parched farmland that heralded the northern borders of the state.

There was Durand, dangling under his Red Bull-sponsored wing, who had prophesied that morning, “I’ve got a good feeling about today.” The archetype of the adventurous Australian, he was known to friends as someone who operated best with a few margaritas or at least a decent hangover. There are those who take to the sky and revel in the silence; he filled it with whoops of delight.

And there, soaring alongside, was Martin, the quiet, perpetually destitute product of the American West. His youthful dreams of flight had never given way to more practical considerations. Since he started working at an airport as a teenager, earning less than he handed back for his flying lessons, he had scraped together just enough on the ground to spend as much time as possible off it.

They called themselves friends. But, as those who had spent the previous few days with them would attest, rivals better fit the jaunty, “sure you’re up for this?”competitiveness of the daring prodigies. In the sky, where they snacked on protein bars and water and relieved themselves freely over the world below, they were as evenly matched as two hang glider pilots could be.

As they flew past the old world-record distance — close enough to hear each other yahooing in celebration — the question turned first to how much farther they could possibly go. But as the sun retreated and they began their inevitable, decisive descent, another, more pointed question began to nag at the two men: who would go the farthest?

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[Aberlour10]

I miss in the Posty Awards the category Hijacking of the Year

[Cyberyeti]

http://www.geek.com/...ocess-20130115/

It appears that nicking a car and taking it for a drive is so last year.

[dwar0123]

Cyberyeti, on 2013-January-15, 17:13, said:

http://www.geek.com/...ocess-20130115/

It appears that nicking a car and taking it for a drive is so last year.

I find it difficult to believe that you can just board a train and start it running. It seems more likely the engineer left the equivalent of the key in place and she might even have accidently started it and then had no idea how to stop.

[Thiros]

FRANK ZAMBONI GETS A GOOGLE DOODLE!

http://www.pcmag.com...,2414350,00.asp

[diana_eva]

http://www.theonion....l-object,31061/

[Winstonm]

Thiros, on 2013-January-16, 16:14, said:

FRANK ZAMBONI GETS A GOOGLE DOODLE!

http://www.pcmag.com...,2414350,00.asp

It's about time....well, no, it's really about ice....but you get the idea...

[kenberg]

diana_eva, on 2013-January-30, 05:27, said:

http://www.theonion....l-object,31061/

It's great!

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Edmund Powell, Parker’s history teacher, echoed the sentiment of many pupils, claiming that he was impressed by the junior’s transformation from an honor roll student and sentient human being into a lovely piece of meat.

This triggered a memory of one of my strager high school experiences. near the end of my freshman year in high school. a while I was14. I was talking about life with Mrs. K, my Spanish teacher. I was a pretty decent student at that time, before the adolescent hormone rush had fully set in. Mrs. K advised me that I should not study so hard, and that no girl wishes to be Mrs.Einstein. I can't imagine what inspired her to make this suggestion. I was probably the best student in her class, but that was a pretty low bar. Anyway, by the time I graduated three years later, no one had to worry that I was working too hard at my studies.

I have at times looked back at this incident and realized that it stands out because of its rarity as advice to boys, and that at least in the 1950s, this sort of thing was communicated, one way or another, to the girls much more commonly. I am happy to say that the girls I knew best had their own ideas on the subject.

Actually I liked Mrs. K. She was weird, but I liked her.

[Aberlour10]

y66, on 2013-January-07, 12:34, said:

Off topic post deleted by author.

hmmm,...off topic posts are simply impossible in this thread

[Winstonm]

Aberlour10, on 2013-January-31, 09:07, said:

hmmm,...off topic posts are simply impossible in this thread

Well, wouldn't an on-topic post be off-topic in this thread?

[dwar0123]

Winstonm, on 2013-January-31, 17:24, said:

Well, wouldn't an on-topic post be off-topic in this thread?

Being on-topic is still off-topic! Considering the topic!

[Winstonm]

dwar0123, on 2013-January-31, 17:42, said:

Being on-topic is still off-topic! Considering the topic!

And being off-topic then means being on-topic. It's a Catch-11...or perhaps 44.

[ggwhiz]

Does anybody have any inside info on whether Beyonce's hair will be straight or curly? Colour of the Gatorade? (six choices)

Anybody actually bet on the game?

[ggwhiz]

My link

Another GREAT Canadian invention. Oatmeal Bacon Stout. I guess I can put up with the Oatmeal seeing as how it's breakfast.

[Aberlour10]

ggwhiz, on 2013-February-08, 18:09, said:

My link

Another GREAT Canadian invention. Oatmeal Bacon Stout. I guess I can put up with the Oatmeal seeing as how it's breakfast.

I love the smell of bacon at the morning. It smells like victory.