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- robkelk - 04-23-2013
(These instructions also work for the other kind of Terminator.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Ankhani - 04-30-2013
"No ... This is kind of a disappointing answer."-or-"The Little Engine That Let Everyone Down."
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
- Jorlem - 04-30-2013
Quote:Ankhani wrote:I would have gone with:
"No ... This is kind of a disappointing answer."-or-"The Little Engine That Let Everyone Down."
Quote:...a number of countries have built jet-engine-powered trains. Sadly, they never took off. Fortunately, they never took off.-----
Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
- Bob Schroeck - 04-30-2013
"I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain a train."
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- paladindythe - 05-07-2013
"I will give these in units of giraffes"
- hazard - 05-07-2013
The video that was linked was awesome, although I'm somewhat baffled as to the actual use of this article.
Oh, wait, it's XKCD Tuesday, this is just for fun and SCIENCE. And it is fun. And scientific(ish).
- robkelk - 05-07-2013
paladindythe Wrote:"I will give these in units of giraffes""act now while supplies are still cooperative"
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bob Schroeck - 05-08-2013
Quote:robkelk wrote:"wrong kind of drumstick but hey, i like the sound."Quote:paladindythe wrote:"act now while supplies are still cooperative"
"I will give these in units of giraffes"
(Though I also like "Bradstock’s experience gives us a lot of useful data (and a lot of other data, too).")
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- robkelk - 05-14-2013
He has some free time, and it’s no skin off anyone’s back how he spends it (assuming his hobby isn’t drilling holes in walls).
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bob Schroeck - 05-14-2013
"Why do we even have that drill?"
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- robkelk - 05-22-2013
Image text: "This is no longer, by any stretch of the imagination, a regulation ball."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- hazard - 05-22-2013
So, what do we use for pins, and what do we use as a lane?
- robkelk - 05-28-2013
"Sir, the enemy has launched a missile."
"How do you know?"
"Twitter."
(Close second: "It’s essentially a flashlight which we shine on planets to see them better. (This is just as crazy as it sounds.)")
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Logan Darklighter - 05-28-2013
"AAAAAAAAAA!!"
*CRUNCH*
Static
- Bob Schroeck - 05-28-2013
Quote:robkelk wrote:
"Sir, the enemy has launched a missile."
"How do you know?"
"Twitter."
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- robkelk - 06-04-2013
"But they are independent states which happen to have the same queen; they are not part of any empire that they know of."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- hazard - 06-04-2013
"Inside each one is a cup of tea."
- Dartz - 06-04-2013
And yet they still haven't answered my one about chicken powered central heating.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
- Jorlem - 06-04-2013
Quote:Dartz wrote:They? I didn't know that Munroe was multiple people now...
And yet they still haven't answered my one about chicken powered central heating.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
- SkyeFire - 06-06-2013
He was using the royal "they."
- Ankhani - 06-11-2013
If the Sun went out, we would see a variety of benefits across many areas of our lives.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
- robkelk - 06-11-2013
"Source: I'm going to go out on a limb and say 'The US Naval Observatory' on the assumption that no one there will read this."
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- robkelk - 06-18-2013
And we reach 50 columns!
Image text: "The mercury one was going to be the least deadly, wasn't it."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bob Schroeck - 06-18-2013
Quote:robkelk wrote:When we get to 65, hit "return".
And we reach 50 columns!
ObsSecondQuote: "Worth it."
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- robkelk - 06-25-2013
"Yeah, because that sounds way more fun than staying here and eating cotton candy."
(It was that or "(So much for making things less gruesome.)"...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012