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    @Icelandbob --

    The juxtaposition of "Love Story" and "Castaway" was inspired.
    • CommentAuthorroadscum
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2010
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    Last i heard, Mr Ellis was based somewhere on the Thames Estuary, is he up to something?
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      CommentAuthorcelan
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2010
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    @icelandbob
    re:homeopathy


    [P.S. My day job is as a Chinese Herbalist and Acupuncturist.]
    • CommentAuthorRenThing
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2010
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    @roadscum

    He's stocking up for the next time we have a wave of trolls in Whitechapel.

    He likes to use a lot of eels you see...
    • CommentAuthorroadscum
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2010
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    Googles 'Troll'... Silence. Nervous silence...
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    The whole of 300 should've been in that Cheesiest Quotes reel.
    • CommentAuthorOwen
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2010 edited
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    My favourite story for some time, breaking the speed of sound with your body is a Guinness record to have, unless his chute doesn't open and it's a posthumous record ...

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8475288.stm
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    I've seen the footage from Joe Kittinger's original record-making jump. The guy had big balls.
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    I've got to agree with that. Those're probably what ruptured his suit.
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    Joe Kittinger is one of my heroes. I mean the dude jumped from 31km up and reached .9 Mach.
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    I'll have rake around for the article, but apparently the findings of Kittinger's jump now have an ancillary purpose - presenting an apparently viable method of reentry for astronauts aboard a damaged shuttle. If the angles were right, a suited crew member equipped with a parachute might survive the jump. If they slowed down to below 5 miles per second, of course.
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    • CommentAuthorRenThing
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2010
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    I can no longer think of him as the Macho Man.

    He is forever Bonesaw. "BONESAW IS REEEEEEEAAAAAAADDDDDDYYYYYYYY!!!!!"
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    @ William George.

    That was great, Morgan Fairchild didn't seem too impressed but Savage did a great job anyhow.
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      CommentAuthorbrittanica
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2010
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    Re: Macho Man
    He'll always be Leonard Ghostal to me.
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      CommentAuthorOsmosis
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2010
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    A moving obituary for the last nijyuu hibakusha: a survivor of two atomic bombs.



    Tsutomo Yamaguchi | The Economist
    WHEN he had stopped crying, Tsutomu Yamaguchi would tell you why he called his book of poems “The Human Raft”. It had to do with the day he forgot to take his personal name-stamp to work, and had to get off the bus. Much was on his mind that morning. He had to pack his bags to leave Hiroshima after a three-month assignment as an engineer in the Mitsubishi shipyard; there were goodbyes to say at the office, then a 200-mile train journey back to Nagasaki to his wife Hisako and Katsutoshi, his baby son. He was slightly stressed when he got to his stop, still with half-an-hour’s walk ahead of him on a track that led through featureless potato fields. But it was a beautiful August day; the sky was clear, his spirits high. And then—readers will feel a tremor, but he felt none—he noticed an aircraft circling, and two parachutes dropping down.
    Well worth your time to take a moment and read in full.
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    • CommentAuthoricelandbob
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2010
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    Trust the Japanese to have a game that simulates being angry at the dinner table!

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