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Old 02-March-2007, 02:37 AM
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"A gun without ammunition is just a piece of pipe."
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A Knife Makes a Better Weapon, Anyway ...

Besiides, Knives Don't Run Out of BULLETS!

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"A gun without ammunition is just a piece of pipe."
You might get some mileage out it, tho, if your opponent is unaware of that slight detail.
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Philip K. Dick, the science-fiction writer who wrote the stories that became the movies Minority Report, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Impostor, Paycheck, and probably others, was schizophrenic. He believed his story ideas were given to him by a demon named Candy, who lived in his typewriter and put ideas in his head through a Pez dispenser.
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I know where Candy lives now..........and thinks M42 is located in next doors garage
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In Poland it is illegal to drive without your headlights on, day or night, during winter months.
14 of the 25 European Union member states already require drivers to use daytime running lights all year long.
Some countries compromise by requiring lights to be used in daytime only during the winter months.
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there are 50 known savants in the world

i am not one of them
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Adolf Hitler died on Walpurgisnacht, the German eqivalent of Halloween.
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Old 03-March-2007, 01:45 PM
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there are 50 known savants in the world

i am not one of them
According to Wikipedia - There are only about 50 - 100 recognized prodigious savants in the world.
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Here's a better one: Today is the most likely day of the year for measurable snow to fall in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
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According to Wikipedia
Some autistic savants can:
- memorize facts, numbers, license plates, maps, and extensive lists of sports and weather statistics
- mentally note and then recall perfectly a very long sequence of music, numbers, or speech
- do exceptionally fast arithmetic, including prime factorization
- precisely estimating distances and angles by sight, calculating the day of the week for any given date over the span of tens of thousands of years, and being able to accurately gauge the passing of time without a clock
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Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
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Old 08-March-2007, 10:42 AM
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In the UK there is only ONE monopolies commission!!
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Old 08-March-2007, 12:20 PM
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There are more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.
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There is no rule for : lnx.lny

There is also no rule for: ln(x+y)
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Waste matter discharged from the intestines through the anus consists mainly ( about 60 % or more) of bacterial cells and products of their metabolism.
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The Sun shines in the east, and sets in the west.
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Old 08-March-2007, 02:15 PM
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Pure speculation.....
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The Sun shines in the east, and sets in the west.
It is easier to devote one's life to fanaticism. . . . The Flat Earth society is, after all, more committed to its flatness than I am to its roundness.
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Old 08-March-2007, 03:28 PM
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It is easier to devote one's life to fanaticism. . . . The Flat Earth society is, after all, more committed to its flatness than I am to its roundness.
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Thats like, heavy maaan!
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I wonder what would happen if a 'flat earther' met a 'hollow earther'?
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