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They were basically like Frank Booth.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 23 February 2015 09:12 (nine years ago) link

In 1881, Tesla moved to Budapest to work under Ferenc Puskas at a telegraph company, the Budapest Telephone Exchange.

local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 23 February 2015 23:58 (nine years ago) link

Her image and styling play a prominent role in her presenting. She was formerly a punk but at present has adopted stylised 1960s look and persona.

daed bod (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:30 (nine years ago) link

Invented in Lyon in 1829 by the French printer Claude Genoux, a flong was a papier-mâché mould made with the aid of heat and pressure of a set forme of type. After placing it in a casting box, a thin replica of the original (metal) type (and illustrations) would be cast against it all in one piece. A limited number of duplicate casts could be made from one flong.[1] The back shaved stereo plate would be attached to a press cylinder or honeycomb base and allow the original undamaged type to be distributed or recycled. The stereotypes could be stored for repeat editions in much less space than standing forms.

daed bod (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:50 (nine years ago) link

xpost Toyah?

Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link

Pages in category "Mayors of places in Alaska"

The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).

B

Edgar Blatchford

C

Jack Coghill
Talis J. Colberg

G

George Barnes Grigsby

H

Jay Hammond

I

Doug Isaacson

J

Reggie Joule


K

Frank Kelty

L

Austin E. Lathrop
Gabrielle LeDoux

M

Byron Mallott
Peter Micciche

N

Benjamin Nageak

S

Woodie Salmon


S cont.

Stubbs (cat)

T

Dave Talerico

W

Norman R. Walker
Robert W. Ward

Y

Don Young

Z

A. H. Ziegler

dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link

Stubbs (cat)

bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link

how have I never heard of Stubbs? wiki says he has been mayor since 1997

Other perils from which the feline mayor has escaped include being shot by teenagers with BB guns, and falling into a restaurant's deep fryer (which was switched off and cool at the time). Recent exploits also included hitching a ride to the outskirts of Talkeetna on a garbage truck.[14]

Stupid BUT Tall Guy (soref), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link

Mario , a director of Boa Vista Serviços, a credit bureau information services company based in São Paulo, Brazil, is the first chief data officer of Latin America and was appointed for the position in 2011.

http://jay.mobile9.com/download/media/41/supermario_hlq6z1q4.gif

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link

From a table of English monarchs, in the "Death" column:

aged 49, probably from dysentery brought on by eating peaches and drinking wine. Buried at Worcester CathedralDeath

aged 42 when shot with an arrow, events still unclear.

aged 67 apparently from eating a surfeit of lampreys.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 February 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link

When Lyja delivered the "child" (an egg), the implant that gave her the "Lazerfist" powers was also removed, returning Lyja to an ordinary Skrull with no extra powers beyond her shapeshifting. The implant was subsequently absorbed by a normal human, apparently an electronics expert named Raphael Suarez, who gained the "Lazerfist" powers, and attempted to contact the Fantastic Four for their assistance. However, after the hectic events that followed the hatching of the "egg", Raphael wandered off, realizing the Fantastic Four were not going to be of any help in their current state, and has not been referenced since.[volume & issue needed]

Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 March 2015 07:04 (nine years ago) link

The general estimate of his capacity is given by his nickname, "Silly Billy"; he was also called "Slice of Gloucester" and "Cheese",[8] a reference to Gloucester cheese.

there can be only (onimo), Monday, 2 March 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link

the bathos of the last section...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Selwood

goole, Monday, 2 March 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link

As Gibson pictured, it was a time portrait signature of the times when women came face to face with a unique milestone in women's history and these were how some of them, mostly of the younger generation reacted trying to hold a balance between past and after of what femininity was for them and was evolving towards, and this is how they carried themselves about into the 20th century.

But a new image of it would be rehashed in each generation after, made of new or different component features of the ideal into an updated version which it would come to be called and identified as the girl next door, national standard of wholesome beauty, perhaps very unrecognizable from one generation to the next but almost always easy to identify by the same common standards of ideal femininity.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 March 2015 23:46 (nine years ago) link

E. Normus Johnson, of Big Johnson t-shirts fame: "He is known for his nerdiness and his unconfirmed claims of gargantuan physical endowment."

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link

After playing in 10 Minute Warning with Duff McKagan (The Fartz, Guns N' Roses), Steve Verwolf, Paul Dana, Bob Groves, and David Garrigues, Gilmore decided to join his friend Duff McKagan when he announced he was leaving Seattle for a new life in L.A, and accompanied him in his early auditions, as well as hanging with Guns N' Roses in the early days, and it is often wondered that after GN'R's first drummer left, why did Gilmore himself not offer to take the seat instead of Steven Adler

how's life, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link

Among his students at Cornell was future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who later identified Nabokov as a major influence on her development as a writer.

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link

woah

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link

In his spare time, Hoover wrote. His lectures at Columbia and Stanford universities were published in 1909 as Principles of Mining,[45] which became a standard textbook. Hoover and his wife also published their English translation of the 1556 mining classic De re metallica in 1912. This translation from the Latin of Renaissance author Georgius Agricola is still the most important scholarly version and provides its historical context. It is still in print.

President Herbert Hoover is an important figure in the history of alchemy literature, who knew?

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 5 March 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link

ha, wow! guy really wore a lot of hats. i wonder if anybody's ever read his last book, Fishing For Fun—And To Wash Your Soul.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 March 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link

Last room before the gift shop at his presidential library is an actual-size white statue of HH fly-fishing inside this little 6X10' rectangle.

pplains, Monday, 9 March 2015 13:35 (nine years ago) link

Ok, maybe the white statue part I'm remembering from the Mark Twain exhibit at Mud Island.

http://i.imgur.com/J56G8SA.jpg

pplains, Monday, 9 March 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link

Reports on the size of the fish have been greatly exaggerated.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 March 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link

In 1980, actress Lynda Carter covered the song ("I Was Made For Lovin' You") for her second television special Encore!, in which she dressed as a female Kiss member and had Kiss look-alike dancers dance around her. Real Kiss member Gene Simmons later wore Lynda's original Kiss costume for his 1986 film Never Too Young to Die.

Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link

god i love this thread

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 05:05 (nine years ago) link

This whole section is kind of surreal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_%28rapper%29#Tattoos

chilli, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:45 (nine years ago) link

##There are no plans to re-issue The Tourists' debut album, and a vinyl copy is extremely rare to find and is prized among collectors.

http://www.discogs.com/Tourists-The-Tourists/release/893992

Marketplace 18 For Sale from £2.11

Mark G, Friday, 13 March 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link

In 1917, he announced that he was retiring to become a Los Angeles-based playboy,[citation needed] and took a few years off from the money-making grind to enjoy spending his earnings on women.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 13 March 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link

In Holst's The Planets, ffff occurs twice in Mars and once in Uranus often punctuated by organ

example (crüt), Saturday, 14 March 2015 03:31 (nine years ago) link

braggin gustav

mookieproof, Saturday, 14 March 2015 03:33 (nine years ago) link

ffff

stately, plump buck angel (silby), Saturday, 14 March 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link

It is postulated that the symbol with two strokes was an adapted design of the patriot Oliver Pollock in 1778. Oliver Pollock was such a zealous patriot – known as the "Financier of the Revolution in the West" – that conjecture does not overstep its bounds in purporting this theory as viable.

mick signals, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link

Hahahaha

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 15 March 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link

much.

Mark G, Sunday, 15 March 2015 08:29 (nine years ago) link

2009 veröffentlichte Knausgård die ersten drei seines sechs Bände umfassenden, autobiographisch angelegten Romanprojekts Min Kamp (übersetzt: Mein Kampf)

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 16 March 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link

After an 11-year relationship, Vittorio Emanuele married Swiss biscuit heiress and world-ranked water skier Marina Ricolfi-Doria in Tehran on 7 October 1971,[2] at the occasion of the 2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy.

mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link

After she changes, she tosses her bra atop a prickly pear cactus and walks towards the ocean. Later she is seen lying atop a well-made bed

atop description

there can be only (onimo), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link

Dave Rivers, of the band Six to Midnight, regularly performs "The Jenkem Song", with lyrics written by The Cutt. One line is, "If you're feeling loopy, then you huffed some poopy."

mookieproof, Thursday, 19 March 2015 06:42 (nine years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutanese_passport The audio reading of the article sounds like William S. Burroughs on helium.

nauru, Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link

He last appeared onscreen in the 2002 Chinese movie Second Time Around alongside Ekin Cheng and Cecilia Cheung. 2005-2014 mutgash poison punk rock band. Currently studying to be a music teacher in Australia.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 March 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link

The first verses usually establish that the singer was initially a house slave. He is then charged with protecting the master out of doors—and his horse as well—from the "blue-tailed fly". This is possibly the blue-bottle fly (Calliphora vomitoria or Protophormia terraenovae), but probably the mourning horsefly (Tabanus atratus), a bloodsucking pest with a blue-black abdomen

mick signals, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link

awesome

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link

The croquet tournament was notable as it marked the first appearance of women at Olympic level. Madame Despres, Madame Filleaul Brohy and Mademoiselle Ohnier were eliminated in the first round of competition along with Marcel Haentjens of Belgium, the only entrant from outside France. A single paying spectator attended the tournament, an elderly English gentleman who travelled from Nice for the early stages. An unofficial two-ball handicap competition was also held.

kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshing#Physical_properties_of_emergent_behavior

― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Wednesday, March 25, 2015 3:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://mattbierbaum.github.io/moshpits.js/

kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Thursday, 26 March 2015 09:46 (nine years ago) link

In 2009, the city government of Seoul painted 4,929 parking spaces pink so that women do not have to walk as far to their destination and make the city more conducive to wearing high heels.[13]

kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Friday, 27 March 2015 09:52 (nine years ago) link

I dunno, a car park with 4,929 spaces in it's gonna be a long walk whatever!

Mark G, Friday, 27 March 2015 12:35 (nine years ago) link

In September 2006, he formed a new British political party known as the Blah! Party.[9]

"But we believe that voting is an important part of the democratic process, and we want the Blah! Party to be the party of protest; a channel through which the people of the U.K. can vent their dissatisfaction at nonsensical everyday things, and protest against the government and the current crop of political parties."[10]

The party entered into a sponsorship deal with Seabrook Crisps in September 2006.[11]

ledge, Saturday, 28 March 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link

See also
List of films featuring drones

there can be only (onimo), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link


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