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    Einsteins Theory of Relativity

    Time is relative, but to make this easy, let's say that time goes by at a fixed pace for you, and time goes by at a fixed pace for your locale. Ordinarily, as you move around your locale by walking or driving, these two time paces would appear to be identical; in other words, time would appear...
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    Television network admits it lied about unauthorized biography

    The other movie with Bruce Willis was Unbreakable, but it was Samuel L. Jackson's character that had the fragile bones. Actually, he said he had the condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta, which is a real, albeit very rare, condition, which was actually accurately portrayed in the movie...
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    Jerry Goldsmith, R.I.P.

    I found this article at imdb.com. Personally, I held Jerry Goldsmith right up there with John Williams. Other credits to Goldsmith: Themes and fanfares to several recent Academy Awards ceremonies; Hollow Man; The Haunting; The 13th Warrior; Mulan; U.S. Marshalls; Air Force One; Executive...
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    KFC's House of Horror

    Yeah, real chicken. There's a story I've heard and have heard others talk about that KFC calls itself KFC now because they use genetically-enhanced chickens that are designed to be featherless, but therefore the FDA will not allow to be called "chickens", therefore KFC can't call itself Kentucky...
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    KFC's House of Horror

    I don't know if I agree with you, Gonz. First, let's assume for the sake of argument that PETA's undercover worker didn't actually participate in these activities, but merely observed them ("allowed them to go on"). If I understand your positon--and please correct me if I'm wrong--you feel...
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    KFC's House of Horror

    The entire news article is here: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5721464 The video is currently available through PETA's homepage (http://www.petatv.com) or directly here: http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=pilgrims_web
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    Looking for a motorcycle...help

    Thanks for the advice so far. One of my cousins was killed while riding a motorcycle. This was about 20 years ago, and he was around 18, or maybe not quite 18 yet. There was no other vehicle involved; for whatever reason, he lost control, went down, and slid off the road and hit his head on a...
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    Looking for a motorcycle...help

    I need some tips/advice/suggestions on buying a used motorcycle. Up until recently, I've only been interested in certain sports bikes. Recently, I realized that when I thought about a "regular" type of motorcycle, which I guess are called cruisers(?), that I was no longer as turned-off as I used...
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    This bitch got off way too easy...

    Thus my title for this thread... :) That, plus my choice of adjective for the woman wasn't just a randomly-selected vulgarity, either. Regardless of how much blame can be attributed to the mother or to the father, all I can really say, for now, is that my full agreement goes to tonsky in the...
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    This bitch got off way too easy...

    http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20040706%2F1810893600.htm&sc=1110
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    Tanker truck plunges off overpass, I-95 closed, >4 dead

    Surprised nobody else has aparently posted about this... There was a major accident on I-95, the main East Coast highway, this afternoon in Maryland, around 3:00pm. I initially became aware of it about a half hour afterward, when I got on Rt. 100 from I-97 and noticed the sky to the NW...
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    Find-a-word Game #1

    dud
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    Find-a-word Game #1

    Surprised nobody took the easy one yet... cone :D
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    Find-a-word Game #1

    nude
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    Find-a-word Game #1

    And now I will post the first word: sand
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    Find-a-word Game #1

    I'd like to play a game, a find-a-word game, that's the kind of game where you start with a base phrase and see how many other words you can make out of the letters. To make it fair, we need some rules: 1. One word per post. 2. When you post a new word, you must wait until someone else posts...
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    Vacuum cleaners

    So what's a good vacuum cleaner? A friend of mine has told me that Dirt Devils aren't that great. I've been looking mainly at Hoover. I don't need a self-propelled model, I'm not that lazy (not yet, anyway). But I do need a lot of cleaning power. So, any thoughts, opinions, or comments would be...
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    Vacuum cleaners

    If I get one of those home steam cleaners, like what Bissell makes or similar, do I also still need a regular vacuum cleaner?
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    Biased logic???

    Logic doesn't say the world is flat until whatever. Until the other things happened, most people only assumed the world was flat, but logic had nothing to do with that. Accurate measurements and mathematics also were not required to logically deduce that the earth was not flat. If you see a ship...
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    Asphalt vs. Concrete

    I have heard of the porous asphalt, although I'm not aware of it being widely used around here. The only place I actually know where it's been used is on a Royal Farms parking lot (to those without Royal Farms, think 7-Eleven, Highs, Wawa, Circle-K, etc.). There's a sign on one of the light...
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