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DSafetyGuy wrote:The costume parade at my daughter's elementary school (K-4) included two kids dressed up as Deadpool and one as the "Suicide Squad" version of Harley Quinn. My wife and I found those parental decisions... interesting.

Ghost town in our neighborhood. I have been out of town for the last two Halloweens, but remembered the one from three years ago being a lot busier. Then again, I also found myself annoyed with kids I felt were too close to my height (6'0") to be asking for candy.
I've seen quite a few young Harley Quinns on FB. I didn't watch Suicide Squad, but I found those parental decisions interesting as well.
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DSafetyGuy wrote:The costume parade at my daughter's elementary school (K-4) included two kids dressed up as Deadpool and one as the "Suicide Squad" version of Harley Quinn. My wife and I found those parental decisions... interesting.

Ghost town in our neighborhood. I have been out of town for the last two Halloweens, but remembered the one from three years ago being a lot busier. Then again, I also found myself annoyed with kids I felt were too close to my height (6'0") to be asking for candy.
I've seen quite a few young Harley Quinns on FB. I didn't watch Suicide Squad, but I found those parental decisions interesting as well.
We didn't really care about the more traditional looking Harley Quinn, as there is a new "DC Super Hero Girls" cartoon that involves her in some capacity.
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I hand out candy every year while my wife takes the kiddos out. If I wouldn't sound like a complete creep and probably get my ass beat by some dad, I'd have a rule that if you have sprung breasteses, you cannot trick or treat.
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I pray that any adult male who wore the Leto Joker getup caught a social disease this weekend.
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A lot of HQ, including some friends of my kids. The ones who I asked hasn't actually seen the movie.
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P.D.X. wrote:"Twat" is playable in WwF.
Not if I'm playing my mom.
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Because you can't use proper nouns OHHH FUUUUUUUCCCKKK!!!!!!!
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Johnnie mentioned a bad fire in Dorchester (MA, I assume) and I tried to look it up but couldn't find it but did end up reading the wiki entry on the Station (Great White concert) night club fire which led to an entry on the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston in 1942. 492 people died, and the article includes wikipedia-isms like:
Bassist Jack Lesberg went on to play music with Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Leonard Bernstein, and many others until shortly before his death in 2005.[8] A passage in an unpublished section of the autobiography of fellow bassist Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog, stated that Lesberg "made a door" during his escape. That statement has been interpreted literally, with the additional color of Lesberg using his bass to create a new opening in a wall, and in the context of the vernacular use of the term "made," which can mean attained or achieved. No witness statements refer to the use of Lesberg's bass as a battering ram or its presence anywhere along the escape route.[9] The legend lives on in hip-hop performance inspired by Mingus' unpublished writing.
Coast Guardsman Clifford Johnson went back in no fewer than four times in search of his date who, unbeknownst to him, had safely escaped. Johnson suffered extensive third-degree burns over 55% of his body but survived the disaster, becoming the most severely burned person ever to survive his injuries at the time. After 21 months in a hospital and several hundred operations, he married his nurse and returned to his home state of Missouri. Fourteen years later he burned to death in a fiery automobile crash.
Apparently we have this incident to thank for brightly lit exit signs and many other taken for granted and relatively logical fire safety regulations.
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rass wrote: Apparently we have this incident to thank for brightly lit exit signs and many other taken for granted and relatively logical fire safety regulations.
Fucking government regulations.
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rass wrote:Johnnie mentioned a bad fire in Dorchester (MA, I assume) and I tried to look it up but couldn't find it but did end up reading the wiki entry on the Station (Great White concert) night club fire which led to an entry on the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston in 1942. 492 people died, and the article includes wikipedia-isms like.
Ah, I meant Worcester. My bad. One of the victims was Denis Leary's cousin:

https://www.learyfirefighters.org/progr ... t-program/
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There is a Potato Chip brand that is exclusively available in U.S. Jails and inmates like them so much that they have pushed to be able to get them after they are released.
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How am I watching the original clash of he titans and everything but cgi looks hd? Was the tech there but waiting to be unleashed on tv screens? Was that he limiting factor?
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How did medusa not give me bad dreams as a 10 year old?
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Holy shit the cgi is bad though. Or primitive.

I know this isn't the right thread.
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There has been eight lines of dialogue in the past 30 minutes.
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rass wrote:... third-degree burns over 55% of his body but survived the disaster, becoming the most severely burned person ever to survive his injuries at the time. After 21 months in a hospital and several hundred operations, he married his nurse and returned to his home state of Missouri. Fourteen years later he burned to death in a fiery automobile crash.
Apparently we have this incident to thank for brightly lit exit signs and many other taken for granted and relatively logical fire safety regulations.[/quote]

A friend runs a camp for low-income youth in rural North Carolina. One of the buildings she uses is a shelter, consisting of a roof held up by four poles. No walls, no doors. She's required to have illuminated exit signs. I had to look twice.
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The first recorded ice hockey game in America was between Yale and Johns Hopkins in 1893
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wlu_lax6 wrote:The first recorded ice hockey game in America was between Yale and Johns Hopkins in 1893
Widely considered to be the first football game ever - Harvard vs. McGill!
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A_B wrote:Holy shit the cgi is bad though. Or primitive.

I know this isn't the right thread.
Wasn't that all stop-motion?
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wlu_lax6 wrote:There is a Potato Chip brand that is exclusively available in U.S. Jails and inmates like them so much that they have pushed to be able to get them after they are released.
http://www.businessinsider.com/prisoner ... ied2016-12
In the same vein, we in the military got hooked on an energy drink called Rip Its when we're deployed. They sell them at commissaries these days because of the cult following:

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/heres-h ... ed-rip-it/
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I meant to ask this on your Facebook, but how is the Strip not part of Las Vegas? Is it technically unincorporated or what?
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Giff wrote:
I meant to ask this on your Facebook, but how is the Strip not part of Las Vegas? Is it technically unincorporated or what?
Yeah. The city of Las Vegas (generally) starts north of Sahara Avenue which is considered the north boundary of the Strip. The rest of the area in the Las Vegas Valley that is not in the city, is in unincorporated county land (or the cities of Henderson or North Las Vegas). So if you look at Las Vegas' population, it is about 450K, but there are about 1.6 million people living in the valley (the area most non-locals would perceive or consider to be "Las Vegas". (i.e. if you went up to the top of the Stratosphere Tower and just looked around in all four directions).
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There wasn't much snow overnight (maybe an inch, maybe), but my wife opted to shovel the driveway this morning while I was taking our son to day care. She chose to salt her side of the driveway, but not mine.

Thoughts? Retaliation suggestions? Other?
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DSafetyGuy wrote:There wasn't much snow overnight (maybe an inch, maybe), but my wife opted to shovel the driveway this morning while I was taking our son to day care. She chose to salt her side of the driveway, but not mine.

Thoughts? Retaliation suggestions? Other?
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If you have a push broom, just move all of her salt over to your side.
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Does that mean the entire city, or just the buildings and offices owned by the city. The article confused me a bit.

Either way, pretty impressive feat.
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Pruitt wrote:
Does that mean the entire city, or just the buildings and offices owned by the city. The article confused me a bit.

Either way, pretty impressive feat.
All power used by the city, but just the city. Though that includes more than you would think. City offices obviously, but also anything municipal including streetlights, etc.
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Birds don’t suck. They lack the necessary anatomical structures to do so.
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That's surprisingly accomplished for stoners.
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* Republican Rep Jason Chaffetz was a kicker at BYU during the Detmer years.
* Voted against a resolution honoring Joe Pa for 400 wins---Chaffetz kicked against Penn State twice (including his last game a loss in the Holiday Bowl)
* Was Jewish but converted to Mormonism during his last year at BYU
* He was a democrat
* HIs step mother for a period of time was the future Kitty Dukakis
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wlu_lax6 wrote:* Republican Rep Jason Chaffetz was a kicker at BYU during the Detmer years.
* Was Jewish but converted to Mormonism during his last year at BYU
Typical Jewish boy - willing to do anything to get laid.
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wlu_lax6 wrote:* Republican Rep Jason Chaffetz was a kicker at BYU during the Detmer years.
* Voted against a resolution honoring Joe Pa for 400 wins---Chaffetz kicked against Penn State twice (including his last game a loss in the Holiday Bowl)
* Was Jewish but converted to Mormonism during his last year at BYU
* He was a democrat
* HIs step mother for a period of time was the future Kitty Dukakis
* Is an insufferable douchbag/asshat
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DaveInSeattle wrote:
wlu_lax6 wrote:* Republican Rep Jason Chaffetz was a kicker at BYU during the Detmer years.
* Voted against a resolution honoring Joe Pa for 400 wins---Chaffetz kicked against Penn State twice (including his last game a loss in the Holiday Bowl)
* Was Jewish but converted to Mormonism during his last year at BYU
* He was a democrat
* HIs step mother for a period of time was the future Kitty Dukakis
* Is an insufferable douchbag/asshat
Do we need to start a "Everyday Thoughts Thought by Everybody" thread?
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Damn, potato chips got expensive this year.

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Bob Dylan owns a boxing gym.
http://www.needsomefun.net/bob-dylans-b ... diction-2/
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