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Ain't it great? Lulz.



Screw this, I'm going to Lassner's blog.



Did you catch the part where the trollz sent the author his SSN a month after he interviewed them? Lulz indeed. I thought the board hyjack of the Eplepsy fourm was epic, but in a really sick and evil and unhumorous way.
 
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Gallery <a href="http://gallery.mac.com/scopix#100055&view=mosaic&bgcolor=black&sel=65">here</a>.
 
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_re_us/marijuana_packages">Whoops.</a>



"Police raid Md. mayor's home and kill his dogs"



<blockquote>In addition to being the part-time mayor, Calvo works at a nonprofit foundation that runs boarding schools. His wife is a state finance officer.



"When all of this happened I was flabbergasted," said next-door neighbor Edward Alexander. "I was completely stunned because those dogs didn't hurt anybody. They barely bark."



The case is the latest embarrassment for Prince George's County officials. A former police officer was sentenced in May to 45 years in prison for shooting two furniture deliverymen at his home last year, one of them fatally. He claimed that they attacked him. In June, a suspect jailed in the death of a police officer was found strangled in his cell.



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Gee, I previously thought PG county was an ok place.



I'm an ex Baltimoron. My mom still lives there and it would

take a nuclear explosion to get her out.



Lotsa murders in Big B.
 
Ok, I vote this for the most disgusting fact in this thread, past, present

or future.



We are having out septic tank pumped out. The guy doing it is a a laid

off IT guy making much more money than he ever did in IT. So, he has

read all about the chemistry, and care and feeding of septic tanks.



He was telling all about it to the hub, who is interested in everything.



It seems the effluvia is disposed of in the following way.



Liquids to muni system.



Solids to fertilizer plants.



And---heeere's the truly disgusting part--fats and the like skimmed off

and sold to, ta-da, COSMETIC COMPANIES.
 
LL, that is indeed disgusting.



Here's one from Ventura....



<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hotground5-2008aug05,0,4689903.story">Ventura County hotspot puzzles experts</a>



<img src="http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-08/41428059.jpg" alt="" />
 
I *love* that story, Troop. A couple of years ago, there was a mystery forest fire in the same general area (but in the Dick Smith Wilderness), and they think it was caused by the same thing. Kind of cool, huh?
 
<a href="http://www.switched.com/2008/08/15/mans-blt-sandwich-sets-off-airport-bomb-detector/">Man's BLT sandwich sets off airport alarms</a>



<em>As it turns out, it was just a bacon sandwich, and bacon apparently has the same density as <strong>common explosives</strong></em>



<img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.switched.com/media/2008/08/blt-425.jpg" alt="" />
 
<em>LOS ANGELES (Aug. 18) ? Though it lasted longer than disco and leisure suits, the national 55-mph speed limit was another remnant of the 1970s that did not endure.

Yet with high fuel costs reviving memories of the energy crisis of that decade, proposals to bring back the "double nickel" or something like it are emerging, with backers saying federal speed limits could save fuel, money and perhaps lives.</em>



<a href="http://news.aol.com/article/drive-55-campaign-gains-speed/137604">Oh nooooooo. Drive 55 campaign gains speed</a>
 
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Life at sea: 9 year cruise ship resident looking for a new home</strong></span>



<img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.gadling.com/media/2008/08/800px-rms_queen_elizabeth_2_trondheim.jpg" alt="" />



<a href="http://www.gadling.com/2008/08/20/life-at-sea-9-year-cruise-ship-resident-looking-for-a-new-home/?icid=100214839x1207729089x1200444108">Year round vacation</a>
 
Alas, mine.



On Saturday I was in the Rio, and my girlfriend recounted "Cayci Antics at The Rio" stories to the other ladies who weren't there to witness the events live.



Sigh.
 
[quote author="caycifish" date=1219713451]Alas, mine.



On Saturday I was in the Rio, and my girlfriend recounted "Cayci Antics at The Rio" stories to the other ladies who weren't there to witness the events live.



Sigh.</blockquote>


Interestingly enough, I was also at the Rio on Saturday night. Outside of running a huge bluff on the bartender inside the Penn and Teller show when he told my buddy "Hey, I know you from somewhere" (my buddy denied it) and I told him my buddy had made the fifth round of "American Idol" a couple of years ago (a total lie, but a belivable one) my trip was pretty tame. Except for the bad beat stories and the hole in my wallet.
 
[quote author="no_vaseline" date=1219718210][quote author="caycifish" date=1219713451]Alas, mine.



On Saturday I was in the Rio, and my girlfriend recounted "Cayci Antics at The Rio" stories to the other ladies who weren't there to witness the events live.



Sigh.</blockquote>


Interestingly enough, I was also at the Rio on Saturday night. Outside of running a huge bluff on the bartender inside the Penn and Teller show when he told my buddy "Hey, I know you from somewhere" (my buddy denied it) and I told him my buddy had made the fifth round of "American Idol" a couple of years ago (a total lie, but a belivable one) my trip was pretty tame. Except for the bad beat stories and the hole in my wallet.</blockquote>


Are you sure you were at the Penn and Teller show? I could have sworn I saw you over at Chippendales. :-)



Sounds like you needed to hang with me. I rolled so well at craps on Friday that the guy next to me tipped me $300. He made plenty of money over all my rolls, but one roll in particular was nice for him. I didn't notice how many hundreds of dollars he had on the hard 6 (a 3 and 3 for those who don't know), but I rolled it. He said "I didn't realize you were taking requests!" When I finally crapped out he handed me 3 $100 chips and said "Thank you. I couldn't have done better myself" and walked away with his fat stacks of chips in all the pretty colors.
 
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