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Old 22-January-2008, 02:31 PM
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The fastest 1/4 mile at Santa Pod this year was 318mph +
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Old 22-January-2008, 05:10 PM
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Old 22-January-2008, 09:05 PM
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In an ancient language, "witch" means "wise one".
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Old 22-January-2008, 09:09 PM
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I know two things about the horse
And one of them is rather coarse.

was said by Naomi Royde-Smith. (died 1964)
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Old 22-January-2008, 09:12 PM
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"I am the checker of the new things to be checked." Said by an evil alien in the Jimmy Neutron movie.
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Old 23-January-2008, 01:46 AM
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EPITAPH for a DENTIST

Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity!
John Brown is filling his last cavity.

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Whoa! is it January already.....
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Old 23-January-2008, 09:48 AM
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I ran in the low 10s last year in the RWUB.
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Old 23-January-2008, 06:44 PM
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I don't know what the RWUB is.
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Old 23-January-2008, 06:45 PM
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I don't either.
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The red flour beetle's (Tribolium castaneum) compound eye retina lacks the blue-opsin encoding photoreceptors.
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Old 23-January-2008, 07:47 PM
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Talking Rwub????????
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That's one heck of a lot of words that RWUB stands for!
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Old 23-January-2008, 08:22 PM
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The M61A1 Vulcan multibarrel cannon can fire up to 6000 shots per minute of 20 mm ammunition. The best description of the sound of one firing is that it sounds like a really BIG piece of canvas being ripped very quickly.
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Old 23-January-2008, 08:25 PM
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If you wanted to see 10,000 sunsets on Earth, and conditions were perfect, it would take 27.4 years.
On the other hand, if you stayed on ISS for about two years, you could see ten thousand sunsets much quicker.
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If you were to experience a sunrise on the moon, there would be no warning glare on the horizon before the sun rose!
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Old 23-January-2008, 10:33 PM
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I don't know what the RWUB is.

"Run what you brung" You can run your own wheels down the strip for a timed 1/Mile, fee includes your racing licence for that day.

http://www.santapod.co.uk/e_rwyb.php
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I ran in the low 10s last year in the RWUB.
Whoa---that's a lot of torque!---what was it you Brung?
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Mexico has the third, fifth, and seventh tallest mountains in North America.
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Old 24-January-2008, 02:45 PM
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Suzuki TL1000 (1000cc V twin) the hard part his trying not to wheelie and putting down smooth traction, it's a lots of fun but your rear tyre looks very sad afterwards
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Old 24-January-2008, 05:43 PM
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A top fuel dragster reaches 300 mph before you can finish reading this sentence.
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