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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 15, 2013, 11:37 AM »

One day, while going to the shop, I passed
by a retirement village. On the front lawn
were six old ladies, lying naked on the grass.
I thought this was a bit unusual, but continued
on my way.

On my return trip, I passed the same
retirement village with the same six old ladies
lying naked on the lawn.

This time my curiosity got the better of me and
I went inside to talk to the retirement village
Administrator, and asked her,
"Do you know there are six ladies lying naked on
your front lawn?""Yes," she said, "aren't they darlings? They're
retired prostitutes - they're having a yard
sale."

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 15, 2013, 11:36 AM »

So does this give new meaning to Barack Obama Jr.'s book "Dreams From My Father"?!

 

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 15, 2013, 06:46 AM »

The year was 1947. Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little more than 65 years ago, numerous witnesses claim that anUnidentified Flying Object, (UFO), with five aliens aboard, crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico . This is a well-known incident that many say has long been covered-up by the U.S. Air Force, as well as otherFederal Agencies and Organizations.

However, What you may NOT know is that in the month of April, year 1948, nine months after the historic day, the following people were born:

Barrack Obama Sr.
Albert A. Gore, Jr.
Hillary Rodham
William J. Clinton
John F. Kerry
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer
Joe Biden

This is the consequence of aliens breeding with sheep and jack-asses. I truly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you. It certainly did for me. And now you can stop wondering why they support the bill to help all Illegal Aliens.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 13, 2013, 07:19 AM »

Prior to acting, Jonathan Frakes worked as a mover and sustained a serious back injury moving furniture. This is reason behind his weird way of sitting and also his habit of leaning on things, and propping one leg up on stuff. If he only had to do it once per scene, it probably wouldn't have been as much of a problem for him and he likely would have done it normally.

But having to repeat it over and over for every take of every scene he was in, and having to stand for hours at a time, it caused him a great deal of pain. This was his work-around that enabled him to keep on working.

Revealed on Reddit, and Wil Wheaton confirmed it: http://www.reddit.co...leg_over_the/c9urrko

Didn't know that: thanks for sharing.

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Living Room / Re: 7 Online Multi-Engine Antivirus Scanners to Scan Suspicious Files

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 10, 2013, 08:00 AM »

Thanks! Bookmarked!

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 09, 2013, 05:51 PM »

I have to share something with you all that happened to me this
evening...guy to guy.

So I arrive home this evening. I park in the garage, get out of the car,
walk around the back of the car and notice that a squirrel is hanging upside
down from the bird feeder. This is not unusual, and like many other folks it
drives me crazy to see them hoarding the bird's food, so I give the squirrel
my usual "Hi-yah! Git outta there!".

To my surprise, the squirrel shows no reaction to my warning. So now I'm a
little annoyed that he should be so bold as to just ignore me, and I let out
what I would describe as my best rabid cougar imitation (I don't know how to
spell it but, if you ask, I'll let you hear it sometime). Again, the
squirrel shows no reaction - so I approach the courageous varmint with
purpose (but also with some caution).

He hangs there as I approach; he doesn't even MOVE!  Then I see that he is
clearly stuck or caught, and could not run away even if he wanted to.  It
was also clear, that he was dead.

Though the exact cause of death has not been formally determined, I am quite
sure that death came as a relief to this poor guy.

There is something about being male that I think bonds us all together. That
is, as males, regardless of species, I think when you see the attached (or
below) picture(s) you'll have the same reaction I did...

ouch.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 09, 2013, 05:46 PM »

Good one, Iain!

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 09, 2013, 05:40 PM »

@40hz: There's a new biography of C. S. Lewis out by Alister McGrath.



http://www.thethoughtfulchristian.com/Products/9781613753798/c-s-lewis--a-life-eccentric-genius-reluctant-prophet.aspx

http://www.amazon.com/C-S-Lewis-Eccentric-Reluctant/dp/1414339356/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368139172&sr=8-1&keywords=eccentric+genius+reluctant+prophet

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 08, 2013, 09:54 PM »

+1 re Lewis.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 08, 2013, 11:29 AM »

I'm on the last book of the aforementioned Abyssal Plague series. Discovered I'd reported the reading-order in error. Here is the corrected reading-order:

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Living Room / Re: Internet Sales Tax Passed

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 08, 2013, 06:52 AM »

^ 100% correct.

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Living Room / 4 Guys Buy Mountain for 40M, On Which to Host Startup Conferences

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 08, 2013, 06:49 AM »

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-summit-series-is-and-why-it-bought-40-million-powder-mountain-for-summit-eden-2013-5

That's Powder Mt in Utah,  the largest ski mountain in the U.S.

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Living Room / Re: Adobe drops the gauntlet - going forward it's cloud - or nothing.

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 08, 2013, 06:09 AM »

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/05/06/after-nearly-10-years-adobe-abandons-its-creative-suite-entirely-to-focus-on-creative-cloud/

I got a kick outa this:

Update: Fireworks has been killed off.

Adobe targets the same Pro and Pro-sumer community that Apple had the misfortune of knowing when it redesigned Final Cut Pro. Adobe’s decision to solely embrace a subscription offering could lead to mass protest if not handled correctly.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 09:24 PM »

I'm on book 8 of the 10-book Abyssal Plague series. Quite good, overall.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 04:05 PM »

Thanks for the link. Looks pretty cool.

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Living Room / Re: Comparison of eReader devices

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 11:24 AM »

^ I think your link is wrong.

Thanks. Fixed it.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 11:20 AM »

You mean that same Magic the Gathering that I paid for part of college off of my collection?

Investment = $450.  Return = $6000+, plus a pretty fun game.

I'm a MTG oldster as well. Still have some killer decks. But nobody around my rural community, that I know of, plays the game.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 07:22 AM »

A drunk staggers into a Catholic Church,
enters a confessional booth, sits down, but says nothing.
The Priest coughs a few times to get his
attention but the drunk continues to sit there.
Finally, the Priest pounds three times on the wall.
The drunk mumbles, "ain't no use knockin,
there's no paper on this side either!"

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 07:21 AM »

Mary Clancy goes up to Father O'Grady after
his Sunday morning service, and she's in tears.
He says, "So what's bothering you, Mary my dear?"
She says, "Oh, Father, I've got terrible news.
My husband passed away last night."
The priest says, "Oh, Mary, that's terrible.
Tell me, Mary, did he have any last requests?"
She says, "That he did, Father."
The priest says, "What did he ask, Mary? "
She says, He said,
'Please Mary, put down that damn gun...'

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 07:21 AM »

Brenda O'Malley is home making dinner, as usual,
when Tim Finnegan arrives at her door.
"Brenda, may I come in?" he asks.
"I've somethin' to tell ya".
"Of course you can come in, you're always welcome, Tim.
But where's my husband?"
"That's what I'm here to be telling ya, Brenda."
There was an accident down at the Guinness brewery..."
"Oh, God no!" cries Brenda. "Please don't tell me."
"I must, Brenda. Your husband Shamus
is dead and gone. I'm sorry.
Finally, she looked up at Tim.
"How did it happen, Tim?"

"It was terrible, Brenda. He fell into a vat
of Guinness Stout and drowned."

"Oh my dear Jesus! But you must tell me truth, Tim.
Did he at least go quickly?"

"Well, Brenda... no. In fact,
he got out three times to pee."

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 07:20 AM »

An Irishman who had a little too much to drink
is driving home from the city one night and,
of course, his car is weaving violently all over the road.

A cop pulls him over.
"So," says the cop to the driver,
where have ya been?"
" Why, I've been to the pub of course,"
slurs the drunk.
" Well," says the cop, "it looks like you've had quite
a few to drink this evening."
"I did all right," the drunk says with a smile.
"Did you know," says the cop, standing straight and
folding his arms across his chest,
"that a few intersections back, your wife fell out of your car?"
"Oh, thank heavens," sighs the drunk.
"For a minute there, I thought I'd gone deaf."

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 07:19 AM »

Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy,
looking like he'd just been run over by a train.
His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken,
his face is cut and bruised and he's walking with a limp
"What happened to you?" asks Sean, the bartender.
" Jamie O'Conner and me had a fight," says Paddy.
"That little guy, O'Conner," says Sean,
"He couldn't do that to you,
he must have had something in his hand."
"That he did," says Paddy, "a shovel is what he had,
and a terrible lickin' he gave me with it."
" Well," says Sean, "you should have defended yourself,
didn't you have something in your hand?"
That I did," said Paddy.
"Mrs. O'Conner's breast, and a thing of
beauty it was, but useless in a fight."

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Living Room / Re: Camera technology - Impressive resolution of photography of a crowd scene.

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 07:16 AM »

That is some impressive tech, no doubt.

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Living Room / Re: File Size vs. Size on Disk: Why such a difference?

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 07:13 AM »

On a related note, when various companies sell you storage media, they use this formula:

1 MB = 1000 KB

I read somewhere that the proper use today, to distinguish this mishmash of units, is to say:

1 MB = 1000 KB

versus

1 MiB = 1024 KiB

I wish everyone would stick to the base-2 way of expressing file sizes.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 06, 2013, 07:01 AM »

Fresh from my shower, I stand in front of the mirror complaining to my husband that my breasts are too small.

Instead of characteristically telling me it's not so, he uncharacteristically comes up with a suggestion.
If you want your breasts to grow, then every day take a piece of toilet paper and rub it between them for a few seconds'.

Willing to try anything, I fetch a piece of toilet paper and stand in front of the mirror, rubbing it between my breasts.

'How long will this take?' I asked.

They will grow larger over a period of years,' my husband replies.

I stopped. 'Do you really think rubbing a piece of toilet paper between my breasts every day will make my breasts larger over the years?'

Without missing a beat he says, 'Worked for your ass, didn't it?'

He's still alive, and with a great deal of therapy, He may even walk again, although he will probably continue to take his meals through a straw.

Stupid, stupid man.