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Old 05-August-2006, 07:52 PM
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The San Andreas is not my fault!
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Old 06-August-2006, 03:30 AM
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Old 07-August-2006, 04:41 PM
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Old 07-August-2006, 07:08 PM
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Evian (the bottled water) spelled backwards is "naive."
Anyone remember the old Gnip Gnop game for kids that used to be advertised on TV? It's "Ping Pong" spelled backwards.
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Old 07-August-2006, 07:15 PM
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'Naive' is not actually in the English dictionary.
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Old 07-August-2006, 07:49 PM
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"Naive" is in The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition.
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Old 07-August-2006, 07:56 PM
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"Naive" is in The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition.
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Old 07-August-2006, 08:10 PM
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Old 09-August-2006, 10:29 PM
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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Old 09-August-2006, 11:50 PM
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To what temperature?
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To what temperature?
And from what temperature?
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From room temperature to whatever temperature you drink it at (not a coffee drinker)

Apples are a member of the rose family.
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To what temperature?
I think it's all relative, quite possibly proportional to the amount of annoyance produced in however many people within hearing distance are "heated" to their boiling point.

(Yeehaa! My 100th post. Do I get a cookie to dunk in my hot coffee now?)
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in order to break 20 minutes in a 5k road race, you must average at least 6:26 per mile.
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Old 11-August-2006, 02:06 AM
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Tomatoes are a fruit, officially.
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I'm writing this from a not completely disclosed (on BAUT) location on the planet earth.

And I'm not in a bunker.
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A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
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The fact that started this thread is incorrect or misspelled. It should read keratin.
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Old 12-August-2006, 12:22 AM
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The baleen plates of filter-feeding whales are made of keratin(s).
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Old 12-August-2006, 01:23 PM
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A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
By George, that's right! (one ruined coat hanger later)
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