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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 8 2009, 07:45 AM (201 Views) | |
| Piano*Dad | Apr 8 2009, 07:45 AM Post #1 |
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Bull-Carp
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From the WSJ:
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| Mark | Apr 8 2009, 08:12 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Arrrrrrrr! |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| Frank_W | Apr 8 2009, 08:14 AM Post #3 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Cripes.... They need to start sending strafing runs over the area. It's open season on any small Somalian craft. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Piano*Dad | Apr 8 2009, 10:54 AM Post #4 |
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Bull-Carp
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Well, the most recent news is that the crew has retaken the ship! Why am I not surprised. Not something that Saudi, Philippino, or Ukrainian crews have thought to do. Now only the captain is a hostage, but the crew apparently has a pirate hostage of its own. |
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| Red Rice | Apr 8 2009, 10:55 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Geez... this could make a good movie. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Frank_W | Apr 8 2009, 10:57 AM Post #6 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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The Somalians are so screwed... Hahahahahaha... |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Copper | Apr 8 2009, 11:23 AM Post #7 |
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Shortstop
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I guess we know how those sailors feel about a government bailout. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| ivorythumper | Apr 8 2009, 01:04 PM Post #8 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/04/08/2009-04-08_somali_pirates_seize_usflagged_cargo_ship_with_21_american_sailors_says_diplomat.html "Using the ship's radio, they negotiated a swap of hostages - but the pirates took their man, and refused to surrender Captain Richard Phillips." Wow. Why the heck aren't they packing heat? |
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| Frank_W | Apr 8 2009, 01:10 PM Post #9 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Idiots.... Oh, big fooking surprise: The pirates didn't keep their word.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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