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Old 11-29-2010, 11:04 PM   #13621
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waiting sucks!!!! Thats my short rant for tonight. I am waiting on the release date for my new book, still 2 weeks away and also waiting on some reviews...I hate waiting, and waiting, and waiting...it takes a lot out of you...OK, I feel better now, thanks for letting me complain a bit.
hang on now.... wait a minute!!!!
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Old 11-29-2010, 11:43 PM   #13622
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Why, when you are in a retail parking lot, and you stop for people crossing from the store to the aisle, do they walk DIAGONALLY in front of you instead of straight across??

"Feet, stay off the accelerator!"
If you move to Florida and you're real old, I think that you're allowed to run people over a certain number of people when they walk in front of you. Check before you move there though.


My car rant is with drivers that stop while in the middle of the road to let me walk across the street.

1) I ain't THAT old.
2) I've seen a cop step into the street and get hit because he assumed that everybody could see him (the cop didn't stop to look). Lucky for both the driver and him it was a light tap and only knocked him down.
3) Last winter a guy in a wheelchair rolled in front of me, knowing I had to stop for him . The problem was that I drive a full size van while working. The guy passing me on the left couldn't see the wheelchair guy until the wheelchair guy pulled past my front end. Luckily for the wheelchair guy, he wasn't hit. But I would have gladly taken time off from work to defend the guy that almost hit the idiot in the wheelchair. His criminal stupidity should be punished. (If you think that I'm a sick SOB for that attitude, imagine if the driver swerved and hit someone else.)
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Old 11-30-2010, 02:43 AM   #13623
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Or get a fuel-cell powered car....the output (other than transportation) is water.
Hey, I was being nice. I could have offered her a sheet of plastic, a tin cup, and a pebble, and suggested she distill her own!

With the two tanks, all she has to do is mix them a bit.

One cup of hydrogen and two cups Oxygen... stir well.


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Old 11-30-2010, 03:10 AM   #13624
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Old 11-30-2010, 03:39 AM   #13625
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Hey, I was being nice. I could have offered her a sheet of plastic, a tin cup, and a pebble, and suggested she distill her own!

With the two tanks, all she has to do is mix them a bit.

One cup of hydrogen and two cups Oxygen... stir well.


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Erm, actually, it's 2 cups of each; then, when it goes blooie in the reaction process it spills (gives off) one cup of the oxygen. Hence, H2O. Pretty "radical" if you ask me...
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Old 11-30-2010, 04:32 AM   #13626
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Erm, actually, it's 2 cups of each; then, when it goes blooie in the reaction process it spills (gives off) one cup of the oxygen. Hence, H2O. Pretty "radical" if you ask me...

Oh-oh... I sense a 'chemistry joke' in there....
Is 'blooie' a technical term?



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Old 11-30-2010, 04:51 AM   #13627
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errrrr.... uhhhhh.... what planet are you on?
Oops, what's in a name? .....tuesday.
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Old 11-30-2010, 09:23 AM   #13628
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Old 11-30-2010, 10:32 AM   #13629
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Old 11-30-2010, 10:35 AM   #13630
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In keeping with my policy of 'making it myself,' I present you with these to help you solve your water problems....





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Old 11-30-2010, 10:37 AM   #13631
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That's why we all need manual shift vehicles. We can rev the engine, pop the clutch, then hit the break and 'crow hop.' Scares the bejesus out of pedestrians right in front of you.

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If you move to Florida and you're real old, I think that you're allowed to run people over a certain number of people when they walk in front of you. Check before you move there though.

My car rant is with drivers that stop while in the middle of the road to let me walk across the street.

1) I ain't THAT old.
2) I've seen a cop step into the street and get hit because he assumed that everybody could see him (the cop didn't stop to look). Lucky for both the driver and him it was a light tap and only knocked him down.
3) Last winter a guy in a wheelchair rolled in front of me, knowing I had to stop for him . The problem was that I drive a full size van while working. The guy passing me on the left couldn't see the wheelchair guy until the wheelchair guy pulled past my front end. Luckily for the wheelchair guy, he wasn't hit. But I would have gladly taken time off from work to defend the guy that almost hit the idiot in the wheelchair. His criminal stupidity should be punished. (If you think that I'm a sick SOB for that attitude, imagine if the driver swerved and hit someone else.)
I've already told my daughter........"So help me if I get that rude, inconsiderate, cranky and STUPID please shoot me.".

No excuse.
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Old 11-30-2010, 11:46 AM   #13632
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Old 11-30-2010, 11:53 AM   #13633
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oooh! I wish I had thought of that in high school!
I had a math teacher for theorem proofs who would let us save time on tests by writing "AFCSI" - which stood for "Any Fool Can See It"... Of course, if we wrote to too soon - by his estimate, not ours - we lost lots of points!
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I had a math teacher for theorem proofs who would let us save time on tests by writing "AFCSI" - which stood for "Any Fool Can See It"... Of course, if we wrote to too soon - by his estimate, not ours - we lost lots of points!
My geometry teacher would accept AAFCPS (As Any Fool Can Plainly See) -- but only when it was truly totally obvious. Also by his estimate, not ours. Same loss of points when we estimated wrong too.

He also gave 2x your points back any time he marked something wrong when it was actually correct. This was a challenge to the students: we tried everything to come up with confusing-but-correct solutions to problems. Clever prof got us to do tons of extra work for remarkably few extra points.

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I had a math teacher for theorem proofs who would let us save time on tests by writing "AFCSI" - which stood for "Any Fool Can See It"... Of course, if we wrote to too soon - by his estimate, not ours - we lost lots of points!
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