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blimps are safe The Wingfoot Air Express, while transporting passengers from Chicago's Grant Park to the White City Amusement Park, caught fire then crashed through the skylight of the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank on 21 July 1919, killing one crewman, two passengers, and ten bank employees.[12] The Eagle, tail number N10A, suffered a deflationary incident in May 1995, when the blimp struck the ground near the Carson, California, mooring site while unmanned. This blimp was repaired and rechristened as the Eagle N2A. No injuries were reported. The Spirit of Akron, tail number N4A, crashed on 28 October 1999, in Suffield, Ohio, when it suddenly entered an uncontrolled left turn and began descending. The pilot and technician on board received only minor injuries when the blimp impacted with trees. The National Transportation Safety Board report identified that improperly hardened metal splines on the control actuators sheared, causing loss of control.[13] The Stars and Stripes, tail number N1A, crashed on 16 June 2005, in Coral Springs, Florida, when it was caught in a strong thunderstorm that eventually pushed the aircraft into trees and powerlines. There were no injuries in the crash, although the pilot and passenger were trapped for a number of hours until the powerlines could be de-energized.[14] The National Transportation Safety Board accident report claims the cause of the accident to be the pilot's "inadequate in-flight planning/decision which resulted in an in-flight encounter with weather (thunderstorm outflow), and downdrafts..."[15] The Spirit of Safety I, (built by American Blimp Corporation) registered as G-TLEL and owned and operated by Lightship Europe Limited, (but operating in Goodyear livery), caught fire while on landing approach to the Reichelsheim Airport (ICAO code EDFB) and crashed on 12 June 2011, near Reichelsheim, Hesse, Germany. The pilot, Michael Nerandzic, flew the airship low enough that passengers could jump to the ground, and three did indeed leap to safety. Nerandzic then, while still able to maintain some control on the burning blimp, climbed away so that fire or wreckage would not hit the escapees; soon after, Nerandzic died in the blimp's fiery wreck.[10][16]
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Resplendent Spiral posted:The Spirit of Safety I caught fire lol
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SHAM BAM BAMINA posted:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias if we were in england, it would be "wikipaediae" except with those combined ae letters
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anyone who edits more that one should be known as a wikipaediphile
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maniacdevnull posted:anyone who edits more that one should be known as a wikipaediphile
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would it be hard to make a chrome script that replaced intra-word consonant surrounded "e"s with "ae" across the entire page it would be annoying to read
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echinopsis posted:would it be hard to make a chrome script that replaced intra-word consonant surrounded "e"s with "ae" across the entire page mlyp 
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Sniep posted:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_women_with_pearl_necklaces or highly disappointing at the very least
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ugh you had to make it weird
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eh, that's a real thing, and when people started realizing what was going on it explained a lot about how people who identified as "completely straight, i'm not a damned queer" were somehow getting hiv back in the 80s. they're just men who have sex with men, it's not a gay thing also a thing in prisons, most of the incarcerated are msm
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Sagebrush posted:eh, that's a real thing, and when people started realizing what was going on it explained a lot about how people who identified as "completely straight, i'm not a damned queer" were somehow getting hiv back in the 80s. they're just men who have sex with men, it's not a gay thing Why is it Men who have Sex with Men and not Men who Sodomize Men. Isn't the latter the same thing, just shorter?--TheAmericanizator (talk) 16:47, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
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Sagebrush posted:eh, that's a real thing, and when people started realizing what was going on it explained a lot about how people who identified as "completely straight, i'm not a damned queer" were somehow getting hiv back in the 80s. they're just men who have sex with men, it's not a gay thing
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more like lame stream sex with men
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SHAM BAM BAMINA posted:p sure that's called the closet no, it's different. they don't necessarily hide that they have sex with men, and they aren't romantically attracted to men. they just are men who have sex with men.
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basically: gay dudes that think "being gay" means falsetto and lisps and drag shows at a bar so they're STRAIGHT, SEE HERE'S THE WIFE but mansex also!
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Sagebrush posted:no, it's different. they don't necessarily hide that they have sex with men, and they aren't romantically attracted to men. they just are men who have sex with men. aka any port in a storm
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yeah so p pmuch there's msm and theres gays and u can identify as either one but yuou must pick one. this is an either/or you cant go with neither. like imagine msm and gay were inputs on a NAND gate and u couldn't get past anything else unless your choices evaluated to 1
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I note all the foregoing discussion that this is pseudopsychology and unworthy of encyclopedic inclusion, but it did remind me of "Ladder Theory" http://www.laddertheory.com/ladderconstruction.htm which argues that men have just one friend zone, whereas women have two. LaFolleCycliste 22:09, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
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The lyric "shake it like a Polaroid picture", along with the song's commercial success, helped to revitalize the Polaroid Corporation. Because current Polaroid film is sealed behind a clear plastic window, casually waving the picture has no effect on the film's development. Vigorously shaking the film may actually distort the image by causing the film to separate prematurely and creating blobs in the final image.[30]
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not wikipedia, but exceptionally worthless http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/XKCD_Time_Wiki it's a wiki for an xkcd comic
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:not wikipedia, but exceptionally worthless post the most worthless thing you can find on the whole goddamn internet
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Hammerite posted:post the most worthless thing you can find on the whole goddamn internet it's u
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buttcoin smuggler posted:it's u 
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tbf it's for the least worthless xkcd after "someone is wrong on the internet" but on the other hand, everything.
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In a December 2009 Sporting News interview, Artest admitted that he had led a "wild" lifestyle as a young player, and that he drank Hennessy cognac in the locker room at halftime when he was playing for the Chicago Bulls at the beginning of his NBA career.[56] During his rookie season in Chicago, he was criticized for applying for a job at Circuit City in order to get an employee discount.[57][58] He once attended a practice with the Indiana Pacers in a bath robe.[59] Artest was suspended for three games in 2003 for destroying a TV camera at Madison Square Garden, and for four games the same year for a confrontation with Miami Heat coach Pat Riley.[58] He was also suspended for two games in the early 2004–05 season by Pacers coach Rick Carlisle after he allegedly asked for a month off because he was tired from promoting an R&B album for the group Allure on his production label.[58]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_for_the_biblical_namelessquote:Man who offered Jesus vinegar
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Author [edit] Hanif Kureishi's two novels The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album are about initiation, (black, Asian) British youth, pop culture, the condition of England, and London. Style [edit] Due to the orality in The Buddha, the historical events, and the many dialogues full of colloquialism, the reader gets the impression of realism. The novel is highly episodic; Kureishi uses juxtaposition and collage. analysis
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Lutha Mahtin posted:trap sprung idgi
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In Japan, the word "klaxon" (クラクション kurakushon?) refers to car horns in general, and in verb form (kurakushon suru (クラクションする?)) refers to honking one's horn.
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report in 1997 described use of sponges as a tool by bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay in Western Australia. A dolphin will attach a marine sponge to its rostrum, which is presumably then used to protect it when searching for food in the sandy sea bottom.[58] The behavior, known as sponging, has only been observed in this bay, and is almost exclusively shown by females. A study in 2005 concluded that mothers teach the behavior to their daughters, and that all the sponge-users are closely related, suggesting that it is a fairly recent innovation
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Flipper! he's a sponge-user, Jerry!
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axolotl farmer posted:In Japan, the word "klaxon" (クラクション kurakushon?) refers to car horns in general, and in verb form (kurakushon suru (クラクションする?)) refers to honking one's horn. yes we know there is lots of anime on wikipedo
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Resplendent Spiral posted:report in 1997 described use of sponges as a tool by bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay in Western Australia. A dolphin will attach a marine sponge to its rostrum, which is presumably then used to protect it when searching for food in the sandy sea bottom.[58] The behavior, known as sponging, has only been observed in this bay, and is almost exclusively shown by females. A study in 2005 concluded that mothers teach the behavior to their daughters, and that all the sponge-users are closely related, suggesting that it is a fairly recent innovation Testudo [edit] In 1932, Curley Byrd—who served as the university's football and baseball coach, athletic director, and president—proposed adopting the diamondback terrapin as a mascot. The first statue of Testudo cast in bronze was donated by the Class of 1933 and displayed on Baltimore Avenue in front of Ritchie Coliseum. However, the 300-pound sculpture was subjected to vandalism by visiting college athletic teams.[131] One such incident occurred in 1947 when students from Johns Hopkins University stole the bronze statue and moved it to their campus. Maryland students traveled to Baltimore to retrieve it, laying siege to the house where it was hidden. Over 200 city police responded to quell the riot.[132] In 1949, University President Byrd was awakened by a phone call from a University of Virginia fraternity requesting that Testudo be removed from their lawn. Testudo was later filled with 700 pounds of cement and fastened to his pedestal to prevent future removals, but students at rival schools continued to vandalize it. It was moved to Byrd Stadium in 1951. In the 1960s, Testudo was moved back to a spot in front of McKeldin Library. Some passersby consider it good luck to rub the statue, which has given its nose a shiny appearance. During finals week, students traditionally leave "offerings" to the statue for good luck.[133][134][135][136]
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