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Cow_tipping Prince
Joined: 19 May 2002 Posts: 2420 Location: On the run
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 6:47 am Post subject: |
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The Spirit wrote: | Fart in your gen direxion wrote: | I own a couple of cars, this car my daily commuter, it's a 2001 Hyundai, it's a POS (piece of sh*t ). It has sheet metal the thickness of aluminum foil. |
I see this as the stupid act in this story. Asian cars are POS, you shouldn't buy one.
(And how many will throw flames at me now...? ) |
Spirit How 'bout European cars? _________________ SAVE THE WHALES. Collect the whole set.
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Fart in your gen direxion I am the goatse.cx guy
Joined: 24 May 2002 Posts: 2022 Location: Regrettably for you, I'm Upwind in Upstate N.Y.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 9:03 am Post subject: |
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The Spirit wrote: | Fart in your gen direxion wrote: | I own a couple of cars, this car my daily commuter, it's a 2001 Hyundai, it's a POS (piece of sh*t ). It has sheet metal the thickness of aluminum foil. |
I see this as the stupid act in this story. Asian cars are POS, you shouldn't buy one.
(And how many will throw flames at me now...? ) |
Noooooo, Hondas and Toyotas are good cars .
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Mildew KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 2617 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Cow_tipping wrote: | The Spirit wrote: | Fart in your gen direxion wrote: | I own a couple of cars, this car my daily commuter, it's a 2001 Hyundai, it's a POS (piece of sh*t ). It has sheet metal the thickness of aluminum foil. |
I see this as the stupid act in this story. Asian cars are POS, you shouldn't buy one.
(And how many will throw flames at me now...? ) |
Spirit How 'bout European cars? |
Like Skoda?
Oh yes, great cars...
The very finest car in the world is made in Europe, but is owned by GM. I'm talking about SAAB of course. _________________
An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? |
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KWSN Sir CADCAM hoser
Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 7498 Location: South of Nunavuut
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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Surely, the most taked about European classic car must be the beloved Trabant - _________________ KWSN Sir CADCAM of the Wooden Rabbit
"Semper In Excrementa" "Hominem Iniocosum Non Diffidite"
"Cîam en des sterko" "Havi ne malesperi personoj kiu havi ne kompreno humuro"
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Fart in your gen direxion I am the goatse.cx guy
Joined: 24 May 2002 Posts: 2022 Location: Regrettably for you, I'm Upwind in Upstate N.Y.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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KWSN Sir CADCAM wrote: | Surely, the most taked about European classic car must be the beloved Trabant - |
That's one butt-ugly car . |
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Sir Furry Mark KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 3261 Location: To the West of Iceni
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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Fart in your gen direxion wrote: | That's one butt-ugly car |
You're right!
How can we improve it?
Got it, I know exactly what it needs! ...
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KWSN Sir CADCAM hoser
Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 7498 Location: South of Nunavuut
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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Another way to improve the Trabant.
_________________ KWSN Sir CADCAM of the Wooden Rabbit
"Semper In Excrementa" "Hominem Iniocosum Non Diffidite"
"Cîam en des sterko" "Havi ne malesperi personoj kiu havi ne kompreno humuro"
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Gunslinger Duke
Joined: 19 May 2002 Posts: 353 Location: Behind you
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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Right you lot - lets get this thread back on topic!!!
Not entirely sure if I should be admitting this, but a couple of years back I only just avoided a hospital visit after doing something silly with something I got out of an expensive Xmas cracker. It was a pair of big clip-on earrings with a ratchet clasp (squeeze to clip on, squeeze to remove again). I can only attribute what happened next to the volume of alcohol that had been consumed that evening (anything else would be too embarrassing )
Everyone laughed when they dropped out of my half of the cracker...
Everyone laughed when I tried them on my ears and said "Hey look - I'm a pirate"...
Everyone laughed when I clipped them into my eyebrow - "Yay! Now I'm a punk rocker!"...
Everyone laughed when I clipped one between my nostrils saying "Now I'm a bull!"...
Everyone laughed when I fell to the floor screaming and with tears rolling down my cheeks from the PAIN...
Everyone laughed when they cottoned on that the only way I was going to be able to remove it WAS TO SQUEEZE IT TIGHTER!
After ten minutes of total panic (not aided by a collection of drunk people offering to help while clutching various implements of destruction - tweezers, pencils, knives, pliers, tin-snips, etc., etc.) and the dawning realisation I was about to be bundled into a car and taken to spend hours waiting in the Emergency department, I finally got up enough courage to squeeze hard enough.
Grisly crunching noise, some blood and satisfying "Click" as it came undone...
Now I know why you can lead a bull by the nose.
Ni! _________________
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Cow_tipping Prince
Joined: 19 May 2002 Posts: 2420 Location: On the run
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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Right on that one.
Do you have a piccy for the not the imaginary talented people amongst us? (like mysself ) Maybe than I can laugh whilst understanding what it's about. _________________ SAVE THE WHALES. Collect the whole set.
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Fart in your gen direxion I am the goatse.cx guy
Joined: 24 May 2002 Posts: 2022 Location: Regrettably for you, I'm Upwind in Upstate N.Y.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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GS,
Seems like you'd need to repeat the act to be certain your results were not a fluke. We want sound and video. Thanks |
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Mr. Snrub Prince
Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 1916 Location: Someplace far away...yes, that'll do.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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The other day I was faced with the daunting task of watering a plant. A little water is good, I reasoned, so a lot of water must be just fantastic. So I filled the little green one right to the top...
...which was sitting on top of my television set. I didn't see the water leaking out of the plant and into the TV. When I came back into the room I was puzzled to see the TV busily reprogramming itself in Spanish...
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Sir Forth of Erebourne Knight
Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 60
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 4:48 am Post subject: |
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I was swinging on a rope swing out over water and pluinging in. Some others there were doing somersaults and flips in. I decided that, despite never diving off anything in life, I'd try a simple dive. I succeeded - a perfect, 10.0 BELLYFLOP from 30 feet. Fortunately, it was so perfect, I only went 6 inches underwater and just had to lift my head to recover the air lost. Boy was my face(gut) red.
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Sir Hamster of Elderberry KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 5117 Location: Beer City, Cheese Quadrant
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Indeed! Gravity IS a harsh mistress.
So is inertia.
I used to go mountain biking a lot when I was still in school. I even had real mountains to bike on. One place I used to go had a very long gentle downhill stretch where you could build up some serious speed. Somewhere in the middle of this was a moderate curve followed by a small ditch to prevent erosion. If you stayed on the gravel path, the "bump" going over the ditch was very small, but it was rather bigger if you weren't right in the middle of the trail. So of course one day I come flying down this hill, full of adrenaline and empty of sense, and hit this curve rather faster than I ever had before ...
... and had to fight to keep from sliding on the gravel ...
... and got a little bit off to the left side of the track ...
... and hit the big bump instead of the small ...
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Isn't it funny how time seems to slow down when something BAD is about to happen to you?
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Because I was trying so hard just to stay on the trail, I wasn't able to shift my weight off the seat in time to absorb the bump. The bump became a launch ramp, and sent me flying way up in the air. If this was the X-games nobody would have been impressed, but to me it seemed a LONG way down (maybe 6-8 feet, eyes to ground). Worse yet, I was completely off-balance, and coming down front wheel first, with my head directly over the front wheel, and most of my weight over my head.
I actually landed this jump ON my front wheel. At this point the laws of physics had an arguement over whether my body ought to continue over the handlebars or come back down on top of the bike. During this seemingly long time I was riding the front wheel in a "reverse wheelie" for at least 20-30 feet. Fate seemed to smile upon me, I got my weight under me, and came back down on top of the bicycle.
... and my foot missed the pedal.
(Fate had been mearly smirking, and burst out laughing at this point.)
My fall continued butt-first to the ground, bouncing off the bike seat along the way. This part wasn't so terrible, it was a hard fall but landing on one's keister is not so bad.
This is where "inertia" really got me.
The bad part was that I was still moving ...
... and moving fast ...
... tangled up with my bike ...
... sliding on my butt ...
... on gravel.
What fun it was to feel bits of muscle getting torn up as I slid over the rocks. (This hurt a bit. )
Lycra is a wonderful substance though; my bike shorts literally saved my skin. After I jumped up I was very surprised to find A) that I COULD jump up, and B) that I was not bleeding profusely (externally anyway. The bruise later was incredible).
After a great deal of hobbling about and cursing, I managed to stand on one pedal and coast the bike down to where my buddy was waiting for me. He drove me from there. The little sitting I did for the next three weeks was leaned over way to the left. No visible scars, but I have a nice pad on scar tissue under the skin to remind me about Newton's First Law of Motion.
ni! i!u
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Fart in your gen direxion I am the goatse.cx guy
Joined: 24 May 2002 Posts: 2022 Location: Regrettably for you, I'm Upwind in Upstate N.Y.
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 10:35 am Post subject: |
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Mildew wrote: | Fart in your gen direxion wrote: | Killerrabbit wrote: | Well I ran into a parked car in a bicycle of curse I was not looking where I was going at the time.
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You were cursing before or after you ran into the car ? |
Sir Fart!
You are misinterpreting the Wabbits post.
He was riding The Bicycle of Curse, which is much like The Bicycle of Doom but with smaller tires and without the cool Instant Car Destruction (tm) feature. |
Sir Rodentia,
Finish the story !
Eventually, you sold the cursed bike .
To a dsylexic bunny .
Our (are) bunny !
Da WABBIT !
And the Bicycle of Curse continues to wreak havoc to this day .
WABBIT, sell the bike back to Sir Hamster, or Mildew .
(This could be a Stephen King novel ) |
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Vesuvius Prince
Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 1264 Location: Rowlett Tejas
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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I nominate this thread for the archive. _________________ "There ain't no freekin' Indians around here..."
G.A. Custer 1876
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Grizzly Prince
Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 3136 Location: Creepy (Crawlley)
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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Vesuvius wrote: | I nominate this thread for the archive. |
I Wonder WHERE this is going ???
Ahh - So des shoe'e de NI !!
Regds Grizz _________________ Oh Bugger Forgot again - or is it Oh Father Reboot again ?
Ps Grizz in his second childhood - but not his last !
Edihtor of the KoKC (excused spel;l checher'er)
AND NI !!! Tophat 10e
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Sir Hamster of Elderberry KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 5117 Location: Beer City, Cheese Quadrant
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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DONE! |
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Fart in your gen direxion I am the goatse.cx guy
Joined: 24 May 2002 Posts: 2022 Location: Regrettably for you, I'm Upwind in Upstate N.Y.
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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I hope this thread was not vaulted too soon, although I suppose we can still add to it here . You see, this team is made up entirely of MORONS so I can't see where the "Tales of the Stupid" will ever end . Oh sure, we might go a few weeks without doing something stupid, but eventually one of us will come through . The problem is that we may be too stupid to know that we've just done something stupid . |
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Sir Hamster of Elderberry KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 5117 Location: Beer City, Cheese Quadrant
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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There's a simple solution to this problem: We just rename the whole bulletin board to "Tales of the Stupid", then all posts will be accurately placed!!! _________________ -- Have you seen my goat? |
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Fart in your gen direxion I am the goatse.cx guy
Joined: 24 May 2002 Posts: 2022 Location: Regrettably for you, I'm Upwind in Upstate N.Y.
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:25 am Post subject: |
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That is:
1. The stupidest thing I've ever heard
2. An excellent solution |
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