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Not cheap wine the bum in the park can afford. (night train, thunderbird, wild irish rose)-app103 (December 28, 2007, 06:24 AM)
Raisinets[/url] have been around forever. No candy coating though (M & Ms).-crabby3 (October 26, 2014, 07:20 AM)
The candy coating is important if you are away from refrigeration.-Arizona Hot (October 26, 2014, 10:28 AM)
Maybe we'll see Raisin-Ms some day.
In the US, they were a one-hit-wonder, with this song, introducing Americans to the phrase "pissing the night away", which we mistakenly thought meant something else.Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)-IainB (November 01, 2014, 01:14 AM)
Generally, Americans think that pissed = angry
My mate lived over there for a while in Berkeley, he got a bit drunk one night and when one of his American friends asked him how he was going he said, "I'm pissed."
His mate went all quiet and went over to my friends wife and asked what he was angry about
Unless, of course, they take it in the literal sense in which you'd need a very big water tank-4wd (November 01, 2014, 07:27 AM)
Anybody got any cool ideas for Software creations for NANY 2015? I am drawing a complete blank here
Obviously any ideas posted here would serve a huge purpose to anybody else wanting to make something for NANY and is staring at the same brick wall as me
Cheers!
~Stephen-Stephen66515 (October 07, 2014, 12:45 PM)
I think I want to try one of those. What type of onion do they use?-40hz (September 12, 2012, 02:30 PM)
Devious, demented, harmless idea.But don't you want to hear that awesome logoff sound?Is there a "smiley" for apoplexy?-mwb1100 (October 19, 2014, 04:33 PM)-rjbull (October 19, 2014, 04:38 PM)
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first (more)What I hate is before I can read the screen and decide what I want to do, it does what it wants anyway.-MilesAhead (October 19, 2014, 06:25 PM)
I had forgotten uniforms. Public school detention, suspension and expulsion are worse. Of course by 9th most have matured?-crabby3 (October 29, 2014, 06:41 AM)
In the old days, in the city, even the public schools had corporal punishment. I remember one day I was walking by the public elementary school, since School Street went right across the top of my street. I noticed something was up. The whole schoolyard was filled. But it wasn't recess. It looked more like a graduation ceremony. Each class was grouped as a rectangle. Turns out it was a punishment ceremony. The entire student body was turned out like on the deck of The Bounty to witness the wrong doer taking his lashes. In front of the whole school the kid had to hold out his hand as the principal swatted it with a wooden rod. Pretty medieval.
Afa maturity by 9th grade, the ones who didn't run for Congress, President etc..-MilesAhead (October 29, 2014, 09:51 AM)
Wondered where Wiki got this
(see attachment in previous post)-crabby3 (October 29, 2014, 08:32 AM)
Nope. Not me. Mine is far better~!-Renegade (October 29, 2014, 09:12 AM)
Random thought: I want a Faraday cage.-Renegade (October 28, 2014, 08:49 PM)
It needs to be grounded to be effective: http://en.wikipedia....romagnetic_radiation
(see attachment in previous post)-Edvard (October 28, 2014, 09:20 PM)
Hey! My hat happens to be professionally made from high-grade foil.
I'm considering upgrading to a copper-infused version with a Jolly Roger on the front.-Renegade (October 29, 2014, 08:10 AM)
Do or did nuns actually smack with rulers? That seems to be the Standard Catholic Nun behavior in tv comedies.
At my school they were sicker than that. They made you smack yourself across the knuckles with the ruler. As you are hitting yourself the nun tells you "Harder. Harder. More." etc..
I refused to do it. It was just too pervy. It was better to let them call my house and have my father kick my ass when he got home from work. At least I wasn't beating myself up. When I got to 8th grade the nun who was home room teacher just laughed when I clowned around. She was cool.-MilesAhead (October 29, 2014, 05:33 AM)
Yes...totoo pervyNuns all the way to 12th?
I don't think I've ever seen a live nun.-crabby3 (October 29, 2014, 05:57 AM)
Nope. In highschool they had Brothers to smack you around. I was informed by my older brother who attended a Catholic highschool that they were skilled at giving you a short punch in the ribs in the corridor while shielding it from view. I was signed up to attend the same school. Fortunately for me we moved to the burbs and I switched to regular public school. No uniforms. The desks weren't bolted down. No corporal punishment. Nirvana.-MilesAhead (October 29, 2014, 06:11 AM)
Do or did nuns actually smack with rulers? That seems to be the Standard Catholic Nun behavior in tv comedies.
At my school they were sicker than that. They made you smack yourself across the knuckles with the ruler. As you are hitting yourself the nun tells you "Harder. Harder. More." etc..
I refused to do it. It was just too pervy. It was better to let them call my house and have my father kick my ass when he got home from work. At least I wasn't beating myself up. When I got to 8th grade the nun who was home room teacher just laughed when I clowned around. She was cool.-MilesAhead (October 29, 2014, 05:33 AM)
Nuns all the way to 12th?
Do or did nuns actually smack with rulers? That seems to be the Standard Catholic Nun behavior in tv comedies.-crabby3 (October 28, 2014, 02:30 PM)
The Dominican nuns in the school I went to did.
They used to use those rubber tipped wooden pointers too.
(see attachment in previous post)
But the times were a changin', and pointers too easily bruised, so the yardstick became the tool of choice for school discipline.
(see attachment in previous post)These ladies in case you never saw one.
Sister Ann Christopher had a backhand a tennis pro would have envied.
(They'd also throw chalk sticks. One of those in the back of the head was a painful reminder not to pass notes in class.)-40hz (October 28, 2014, 02:45 PM)
@Miles - Those were the bad old days weren't they? Remember when the two civil defense radio frequencies were marked with a CD logo right on the AM dial of every radio sold in the USA?
I totally forgot about that until you mentioned it. I remember the siren tests though. In the Catholic elementary school I attended "duck and cover" was no easy task since the desks and chairs were bolted to the floor. Those nuns didn't take any chances on us getting out of line.-MilesAhead (October 28, 2014, 02:22 PM)
You can't have an EMS on something like the Internet as the Internet doesn't guarantee transmission.
Radio waves are more reliable. Blah. Stuff like that.-Renegade (October 28, 2014, 08:43 AM)
How would radio waves inform anyone if they are staring at a computer screen or cell phone?
The internet is already clogged with useless crap... why not a little more?-crabby3 (October 28, 2014, 08:56 AM)
I can see it now.. Alert! This is not a test! This is not a drill! Emergency information vital to your survival is available now. But first please update to the most recent version of your browser.-MilesAhead (October 28, 2014, 09:18 AM)
@crabby3 - Chances are the Vcard was just a freak coincidence, but you're on the right track otherwise.-Stoic Joker (October 24, 2014, 10:25 PM)
You can't have an EMS on something like the Internet as the Internet doesn't guarantee transmission.
Radio waves are more reliable. Blah. Stuff like that.-Renegade (October 28, 2014, 08:43 AM)
How would radio waves inform anyone if they are staring at a computer screen or cell phone?
The internet is already clogged with useless crap... why not a little more?-crabby3 (October 28, 2014, 08:56 AM)
I can see it now.. Alert! This is not a test! This is not a drill! Emergency information vital to your survival is available now. But first please update to the most recent version of your browser.-MilesAhead (October 28, 2014, 09:18 AM)
