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I'm thinking breed lots of fireflies, or solar panels on our clothing, electric eels for pets, windmills in every backyard, bury lots of dogs and cats to make more fosils fuel, crankable generators, rub balloons in our hair, fly kites in electrical storms, etc.
Now here is Dave Barry's take on electricity: Dave Barry's Electricity Theory By Dave Barry (of course) Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster? Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings. Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and cried out in pain? This teaches us that electricity can be a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we need to learn an important electrical lesson. It also teaches us how an electrical circuit works. When you scuffed your feet, you picked up batches of "electrons," which are very small objects that carpet manufacturers weave into carpet so that they will attract dirt. The electrons travel through your bloodstream and collect in your finger, where they form a spark that leaps to your friend's filling, then travel down to his feet and back into the carpet, thus completing the circuit. AMAZING ELECTRONIC FACT: If you scuffed your feet long enough without touching anything, you would build up so many electrons that your finger would explode! But this is nothing to worry about unless you have carpeting. Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc. for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first Electrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite in a lightning storm and received a serious electrical shock. This proved that lightning was powered by the same force as carpets, but it also damaged Franklin's brain so severely that he started speaking only in incomprehensible maxims, such as, "A penny saved is a penny earned." Eventually he had to be given a job running the post office. After Franklin came a herd of Electrical Pioneers whose names have become part of our electrical terminology: Myron Volt, Mary Louise Amp, James Watt, Bob Transformer, etc. These pioneers conducted many important electrical experiments. Among them, Galvani discovered (this is the truth) that when he attached two different kinds of metal to the leg of a frog, an electrical current developed and the frog's leg kicked, even though it was no longer attached to the frog, which was dead anyway. Galvani's discovery led to enormous advances in the field of amphibian medicine. Today, skilled veterinary surgeons can take a frog that has been seriously injured or killed, implant pieces of metal in its muscles, and watch it hop back into the pond -- almost. But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877 was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented. But Edison's greatest achievement came in 1879 when he invented the electric company. Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again. This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the last year any new electricity was generated was 1937. Today, thanks to men like Edison and Franklin, and frogs like Galvani's, we receive almost unlimited benefits from electricity. For example, in the past decade scientists have developed the laser, an electronic appliance so powerful that it can vaporize a bulldozer 2000 yards away, yet so precise that doctors can use it to perform delicate operations to the human eyeball, provided they remember to change the power setting from "Bulldozer" to "Eyeball." |
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now THATS in the south..
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Nah, they have Photoshop in the North too. ;)
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"Why do I always shout first? Just gives them a chance to run away."
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MAN'S PERFECT DAY
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MAN'S PERFECT DAY....
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Blowjobs, Beer and Fishin'...
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....and their best buddy....that's a very important element! LOL More so than the ladies.
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Camel toe? Looks like the whole camel is in there.....
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hmmm I would think those last two would be NSFW, expecially that last one. :yelsick: bah but what do i care!
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Oh... for a BB gun!
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Not that there's anything wrong with that
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Here's a nice juxtaposition I noticed today on my on-screen TV guide:
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Ok, now this product placement has gone a little too far! Mind you, if they actually sold those helmets in Harley Davidson stores they probably would do a pretty good business.
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I dunno, the Marvin Martian thing went outta style a while ago..
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Never!
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Oh, that makes me very angry! Very angry indeed!
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Get the p32 modulator!
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That would be the Illudium Q36 Explosive Space Modulay-tore...
Sorry...I have a couple of hundred different Marvin the Martian collectibles and clothing articles. I'm a little bit ate up with him, I'm afraid. |
'splode you are Marvin! :D
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The worst part is that it's first of a trilogy.
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Someone kill me.
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I think I'm going to be ill. I may have to take off work.
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Subtitle - A Pedophile's Smut
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Not REEEEEALLY a wtf, but I decided to put it here anyway.
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/2494/kidjohn6bf.jpg http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/3922/kidkurt2jd.jpg http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/9...marylin9km.jpg http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/484/kidmick5yj.jpg http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9422/kidpaul0pv.jpg But the very best of all... http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7...ddiekid7vp.jpg |
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Those are sooome teeth on Merc.
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Remember the Chicago Black Sox... [/speculation] |
Dude missed a great chance to give the head butter a swift one in the 'nads as he was falling.
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ahh... the French. Gotta love 'em.
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Human's are gross inside.
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I dunno, I can think of a few i wouldnt mind being inside...
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Anyone notice anything missing in this pic? Once you figure out what it is, you will say "wtf?".
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h6...ngsmissing.gif |
I'm guessing a roof. Or a wall.
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It's an animated gif with a ghosty-like figure popping up at the 30th second.
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Interesting, but not enough. At least it's not the one with the car ad and the insertion of the large farting ass. Or the Civil War ghost with the loud screaming sounds.
Several of my coworkers are enamored with those two. So, unfortunately, are several of my friends who only recently started using the internet. |
I guess I didn't feel like the image was worth 30 seconds...
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saw this nut case on the learning channel
http://greggvalentino.net/images/pictures/posefront.jpg |
We've had several discussions about him. I saw the TLC show also. Reading his webpage really doesn't quite express how exactly out of control he was/is.
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If the combined width of your arms is wider than your torso...
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eww , how fitting is Big Vs signature line now!
The butterflies in my stomach have goose bumps!!!! |
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He spread out some news paper at least ;)
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"here, hold my beer" is one phrase sure to produce much fun.
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I'll bet half my ancestors died with the last words "Hol' mah beer an' watch dis!"
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The last one reminded me of a story about my husband's late grandmother. Apparently she had been using black spray paint, and being like most from the depression era, didn't want to waste any. So, she went into the house, and attempted to open the bottom of the can with a can opener :shock: .
Needless to say, the kitchen cupboards and ceiling had to be repainted, and the carpet replaced. (I'll never understand carpet in a kitchen) I can only imagine what she looked like. Lucky she didn't hurt herself... |
Man, I would think that would hurt pretty bad...
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