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steef
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 Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:27 amPosts: 6271Location: Carpetbagging between the North and the South.
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Do Charboys get it as bad as choirboys or altar boys?
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peedubya
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:31 pm |
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 Always getting swept up by the peletonJoined: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:22 pmPosts: 1805Location: Do not be panicky
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steef wrote: Do Charboys get it as bad as choirboys or altar boys?
Yes, with red-hot pokers.
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peedubya
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:50 pm |
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| Always getting swept up by the peletonJoined: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:22 pmPosts: 1805Location: Do not be panicky
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This is going back off-topic, but if anyone wants to
know more about being a collier... and i know you do
Learn about charcoal making in the 1800s.
See also Wiki, of course.
And, no, this isn't about to be a big bonfire, but the
slowest burn you can imagine (it gets covered with
earth to keep the flames down, but not so low that
the gases get trapped and explode)
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Summerinside
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:07 pm |
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on the charcoal tip, Kingsford charcoal was started by Henry Ford and his brother in law as a way to provide heating fuel from the wooden scraps of Model T cars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford
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peedubya
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:09 pm |
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| Always getting swept up by the peletonJoined: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:22 pmPosts: 1805Location: Do not be panicky
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i like hearing about burning cars...
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TheFly
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:43 am |
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His name is Buddy, which is strange because everytime a stranger comes up to him on the street to pet him, they say "How ya doin' Buddy?".
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sveden
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:45 am |
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 Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:39 pmPosts: 6666Location: Noko-mis
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I won't even ask how many tries it took to take the action shot of Buddy Unleashing the Kraken.
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steef
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:04 pm |
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| Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:27 amPosts: 6271Location: Carpetbagging between the North and the South.
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sveden wrote: I won't even ask how many tries it took to take the action shot of Buddy Unleashing the Kraken.
That is one sweet pic. 
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peedubya
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:59 pm |
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| Always getting swept up by the peletonJoined: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:22 pmPosts: 1805Location: Do not be panicky
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My kind of dog. And my kind of toad.
npr wrote: A dog may be man's best friend. But one dog,
Lady, decided she needed more friends -- and she found
plenty in the knot of toads living at the local pond. A suburban
family's secret struggle with an uncommon addiction comes to
light in this personal essay by NPR's Laura Mirsch.
Lady "was really perky, and happy, and generally excited to
see you when you came in the door every day," recalls Andrew
Mirsch.
But that was before the Mirsch family moved into a new house.
"We noticed Lady spending an awful lot of time down by the
pond in our backyard," Laura Mirsch recalls.
Lady would wander the area, disoriented and withdrawn,
soporific and glassy-eyed.
"Then, late one night after I'd put the dogs out, Lady wouldn't
come in," Laura Mirsch says. "She finally staggered over to me
from the cattails. She looked up at me, leaned her head over
and opened her mouth like she was going to throw up, and
out plopped this disgusting toad."
It turned out the toads were toxic -- and, if licked, the fluids
on their skin provided a hallucinogenic effect.
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"We couldn't keep our dog's addiction a secret any longer,"
Laura Mirsch says. "The neighbors all knew that Lady was a
drug addict, and soon the other dogs weren't allowed to play
with her."
In the end, Lady seems to have found a way to manage her problem.
"She seems to have outgrown the wild toad-obsessed years of
her youth," Mirsch says, "and now only sucks on weekends."
I guess weekend-only toad-sucking is acceptable...
Now just imagine if the toads were covered in Jameson...
npr.org
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sveden
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:06 pm |
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| Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:39 pmPosts: 6666Location: Noko-mis
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If you have a few minutes check out this video.
Kinda sappy but this dog is amazing. And its name is Skidboot.
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daniel highpants
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:52 pm |
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skidboot is amazing. my wife showed me this the other day. perhaps you read a blog named dooce? pics of our greyhound, greta, soon.
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pinkzilla
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:42 pm |
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The skidboot video has been making rounds online for a while now. I've seen it pop up several various spots, now MBL included.
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greasyspoon
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for pete's sake...i can't get the picture to show up! 
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sveden
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:51 am |
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| Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:39 pmPosts: 6666Location: Noko-mis
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Instead of this:
Code: [url]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/524091907_faa559ca6d.jpg?v=0[/url] It should be this: Code: [img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/524091907_faa559ca6d.jpg[/img]
Notice the "?v=0" after the URL? You need to remove that.
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Dirtyspeed
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:41 pm |
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