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    Political Humour

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    Environmental measures in your home

    Since coming down with fibromyalgia, I've become very aware of the impact chemicals have on my system. The wrong smells, the wrong cleaners, can leave me curled up in bed with severe headaches and bother me for days. So, I've started cleaning much 'greener'. Ultimately, while it's nice to...
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    A basic human truth

    "Whatever you give a woman, she is going to multiply. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given...
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    Going Redneck

    Yes, over the long weekend, I got to get back to my redneck roots. I got to go 'home', back to the area I grew up in, in the Peace Country. I went to a little town half the province doesn't even know about, and two stepped in the same gym I've square danced and two stepped in on occasion since...
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    Woman Growing Steel Bristles

    http://www.pokerallied.com/cura/index.php/steel-bristle-grow-from-a-stomach.html Steel Bristle Grow From a Stomach For the past 17 years, a woman in Sengata, East Kutai, has claimed to periodically grow steely bristle of up to 20 centimeters...
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    Man Doused with Gasoline: Charges Laid

    Man doused with gas, charges laid Canwest News Service Published: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 CALGARY -- A man from Sunset House, Alta., is to appear in court Thursday after the driver of an off-highway vehicle says he was doused with gasoline and threatened with being lit on fire. RCMP say...
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    Tattoo Design

    Okay, so, my husband is wanting a tattoo. He wants his first to be a maple leaf, so, I spent a while online trying to find good images to use, and this particular image gave me a great jumping off point. I duplicated the right hand side of the image, with the little 'tail' near the base of...
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    A Customer Complaint Conundrum

    I went in to Rona with my husband, with some measurements and design ideas for our kitchen. We wanted to sit down and talk to someone about possibilities, but, the way they work it is that you drop off the measurements, pick some styles, and they come up with the ideas. So, we handed over our...
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    Famous Voyages

    http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/features/011/Wanderlust/ Interactive map detailing the travel routes for some of history's most famous voyages.
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    Druggie Conspiracy Theory

    http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=33020 You could watch the video link above, with a meth head climbing out of his(?) own skin, high on drugs, but, I will summarize the complaint, the conspiracy theory, he(?) voiced. As the Olympics get closer and closer, the drugs hitting the...
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    The rough side of parenting

    We have an awesome neighborhood. Wonderful really. Lots of kind, friendly neighbors, willing to lend a hand when we need it. One of whom is a 50+ year old single guy who lives across the back alley. Great guy, comes and helps with big things like moving the garden shed. But, the last...
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    Karrie's Garden Masterpieces

    I've managed to pull off a few real hits this year from the garden. Tossed salad with dill, chives, and thyme chopped fine and sprinkled over top have been one of the most common and we've hit the point where we're sick of them, even though they're delish. So, last night, I twisted my usual...
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    Trying my hand at pickling

    Yep... I'm about to start trying pickling. Any suggestions? Fave tricks? Fave recipes. I think I'm starting out simple enough... carrots, eggs, and garlic are the three things I'm doing up. I want to do some of the carrots with garlic and chili pepper, some with dill (I have a huge crop...
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    Lucky to be Alive

    Lucky to be alive. How many times have you heard people say this when they have a near miss incident? It was a news story about a car crash that recently made my mind start churning. The broadcaster said 'we'll be talking with the man who survived a horrible car crash on the weekend, and says...
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    Quoting full articles

    Seriously guys... I'm going to start a new thread here, because I don't want to single out any one poster... there are a few here who do it... but STOP quoting entire articles in your replies! Fer crying out loud... quoting a 10 paragraph article just to give a one line reply to it is...
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    Arkansas Town Imposes 24Hr Curfew.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080813/ap_on_re_us/arkansas_town_curfew HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. - Officers armed with military rifles have been stopping and questioning passers-by in a neighborhood plagued by violence that's been under a 24-hour curfew for a week. On...
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    American stabbed to death in Beijing

    BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A Chinese attacker stabbed to death the father-in-law of a U.S. Olympic coach and seriously wounded the American's wife and a Chinese tour guide before killing himself, the International Olympic Committee said Saturday...
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    Culture of Fear

    Okay, so, it's come up repeatedly. How many mass murder threads, torture thread, brutal slaying threads do we have on here right now. We've fought about our reactions to them (some react wrong, like the jokers, some react right, like me... ha!), and we've fought over the reasons behind them...
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    Karrie's Ramblings on her France Trip

    Okay, since so much of my Paris/Nice trip was focused around museums and old castles and historical architecture, even though I'm not ready to start writing it all out, I wanted to start a thread to show some of the stuff that I saw that I really enjoyed. Zan and I were discussing sculpture...
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    Video Calls

    I'm trying to have a video call with my husband (over MSN), and it all keeps freezing up... what sorts of issues should I troubleshoot? It keeps booting me clean out of MSN.