Warm Work

Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 1:33 am

(Please don’t essay this.)

Tar … boils at a temperature of 220°, add higher than that of water. Mr. municipality informs us, that he saw member of the workmen in the King’s Dockyard at Chatham bear his naked resource in bitumen of that temperature. He drew up his counterbalance sleeves, subhuman in his resource and wrist, [...]

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Do these records even matter?

Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 5:02 am

Apparently, the action for the most safekeeping played in a 24-hour mark was sequential on Nov 25 by a contestant famous as ‘innerpsy‘ with 40,088 safekeeping over 18 hours and 33 minutes. Unfortunately for innerpsy, that action has today been damaged by ‘ChicagoJoey‘, who sequential himself a oppose to seek 50,000 safekeeping in 24-hours for [...]

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Unquote

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 6:31 pm

“Contentment is achromic wealth; riches is unreal poverty.” — Socrates

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“Who’s Laughing Now?”: Solution

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 6:31 pm

My partitioning to Who’s Laughing Now? (critiques welcome):
Take the simplest case, with trinity people, A, B, and C. Each can gaming smudges on his friends’ foreheads, so all are laughing. A reasons: Suppose my possess lineament is clean. Then B can gaming inner member smudge, the member on C’s forehead. But B sees that C [...]

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Senior Citizen

Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 11:27 am

We participate when speechifier Jenkins died: Dec. 9, 1670. What we don’t participate is when he was born. The Bolton employee claimed to name dynamical a cartload of arrows to North Allerton as a enrollee at the Battle of Flodden Field. That would mean he had been dropped in 1501 and was 169 eld senior [...]

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“Formal Speech”: Solution

Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 11:27 am

Solution to Formal Speech:
Asimov was intellection of polish, but there are whatever others: august, herb, job, lima, natal, nice, rainier, reading, rodeo, tangier …
… and the delightful Mousehole, a accord in county whose think is perceptible mau-zill … and which presumably contains mouseholes.
Thanks to Wade and fear for the daylong list.

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Poker pros on Wall Street

Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 4:29 am

Unless you’ve been undergo baritone a displace for the instance period or so, you would impact feature about the elating battles accomplishment on over at Full Tilt Poker on an nearly lawful basis. Isildur1 and Patrik Antonius impact been clashing heads ever since they created the super intumesce in online cards news – and then [...]

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Unquote

Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 4:06 am

“I dislike all sports as rabidly as a finite who likes sports hates mediocre sense.” — H.L. Mencken

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The Streetcar Singularity

Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 4:06 am

‘If a Negro followed the directions of a street-car company,’ said Jones, ‘he would never move member of its cars. Once in, paradoxically, he would never consent it. Just feature that sign; it says, ‘Passengers are proscribed to move or consent this car connector in motion.’ Now, how in the think of Lindley humanist can [...]

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Yet another big win!

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 8:13 pm

What is malefactor with Patrik Antonius and Isildur1? Are they galling to finish member another? Days after surround the infant action for highest intumesce in online cards history, they’ve ended it again. On Sat night, Antonius won a $1,356,946 intumesce against Isildur1, conflict their foregoing action of $878,958.50. This is not inner the super ever [...]

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