Alpo
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I'm pretty sure that I remember that she was only there for the first season. But I had no idea what happened to her.
Thank you.
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I recognize the meme they are making fun of. I've seen it several times.
I recognize the blonde girl from Star Trek, although since I was never a next generation fan I don't even remember her name. She was head of security before Worf took over the job, wasn't she?
But I don't get who the black guy with the white eyes is. Why he's turning around and staring at her. I'm assuming it was some episode that had him and her involved but I don't know.
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I just saw an ad for some online video game.
The narrator says, "Seriously, this is the most addictive stress relieving game I have played in over two decades".
Really? Addictive? That's a good thing? Because truthfully, if they said something was addictive I believe I would stay away from it.
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I used to work with this guy that was a competitive bodybuilder. And he was nicely muscled.
One day at work he was talking to me and he was leaning on something that pushed the bottom muscle of his forearm over to the side which made his forearms look about twice as large as I remembered them.
"Damn John, you been working out?"
He replied that he had not been training lately.
Now in my mind, working out is only used in reference to weights. Anything else would just be exercising, but pumping iron is working out. And he apparently understood exactly what I meant but he called it training.
Which sounded strange to my ear but after thinking about it for a little bit I understood what he was saying.
Just saw a commercial for something that was designed to keep your body from being torn down when you are "training", because "when you train, you train hard".
And that emphasis on the word "training" brought this memory of John and my conversation from 1997 up into my forebrain.
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29 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:
Camellia Oil
The red flowers with no smell? Or is that a brand name?
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Someone should tell Jerry that occasionally - especially children - will get a bloody nose or a bloody lip. Which generally means blood on the shirt.
I've noticed as I've gotten older that my skin seems to have gotten thinner. I cut and I bleed much easier. What would be a simple Branch rubbing on my arm when I was a kid well now leave blood running from my elbow to my fingertips.
Probably happened to some of y'all young punks one day too.-
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I know there are several people on here that write.
To my knowledge there are three basic ways to write a story.
You plot the entire thing out - outline. That's what they pushed in English class in high school. You got to outline your story.
You know where your story starts and you know where you want it to end, but the path from A to B can surprise you. (On NCIS this is, apparently, how McGee wrote his books, based on a discussion between Tim, Tony and Ziva about the second novel)
You know how you want it to start, and you just go from there, letting what happens happen.
How do you write your stories?
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In my experience, when you register a vehicle you have to pay sales tax.
But - where you live - do you have to pay sales tax on a gift?
Now, this is an online novel, but - Scott is 14. His plan is to work all summer, earn enough money to buy a small motorcycle. When he turns 15 in January he can get a license that will allow him to ride a bike under 250cc.
In the garage of the man he works for he finds a motorcycle in pieces. A Yamaha 200 two-cycle. The man had bought it for his son and then the boy had gotten himself killed. He ends up giving the bike to Scott. And Scott gets it put back together.
January has arrived and he now registers the bike, buys insurance - all the fun stuff you have to do with a vehicle.
And when he registered the bike there was a $30 fee for that plus $10 tax to the state of Texas.
Tax? On a gift?
Now it's quite possible the author didn't know any better. He has several mistakes that are gun-law related.
But where you live, did they charge tax on a gift?
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Will soaking in salt water take blood out of material?
I know if you have a piece of bloodshot meat, soaking it in salt water will draw the blood out. I've done that.
And I've heard on television and movies that soaking your bloodstain cloth in club soda will get the blood out. Never tried that but I've heard it.
But for some reason I just started wondering whether saltwater would work the same way as club soda. Or maybe even better.
Anyone know? Anyone tried?
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When I was just starting 7th grade I got a puppy. Every other black and white spotted dog anywhere around was named Snoopy. My dog was Red Baron.
The family had a dog. Little black dog with the tip of his tail was white. Tippy.
This is Tippy explaining to Red who is Boss Dog.
A year later. See how big Red got?
Tippy is still Boss Dog.
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Yeah, this just happened on a television show - made up fiction. But it made me think.
If you lost something valuable, and someone found it and got it back to you, would you give them a reward? How much? A percentage of the value of what was lost?
If they said they did not want anything, would you insist they take a reward?
If you were the one that found it, would you turn down a reward?
If you were the finder, and a reward was not offered, would you be upset?
In this particular television episode a guy's pocket was picked, he had $10,000 in his wallet, which the thief threw in the bushes as he was being chased. A homeless guy finds the wallet and turns it in. Says he does not want a reward. The wallet still has the victim's ID, his credit cards, and his $10,000.
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Don't have F5 on my phone either.
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Caption under the second picture. Bolded area is mine.
Suzanna Gratia Hupp, left, is seen comforting another woman at the scene of the mass shooting at the Luby’s Cafeteria on Oct. 16, 1991. As a member of the Texas Legislature, Gratia Hupp was a major proponent of concealed handgun license laws that were enacted after the shooting.
She was not in the legislature at the time, but was elected to it afterwards.
"I was angry — angry at myself, because I felt like I had made a horrible, horrible, horrible decision to obey the stupid-ass (gun) law that resulted in people dying. If I had my gun in my purse, I could have done something.”
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I don't know who that Kyle guy is - whether he's the actor or whether he's the character - but yeah, the title said it was Twin Peaks.
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16 minutes ago, PowderRiverCowboy said:
On me or with me ?
With you is not very helpful.
Remember that Texas lawmaker? Having dinner at a restaurant with her parents. Guy crashed his pickup truck through the window in the restaurant, then walked around the restaurant shooting people. Including her parents.
She had her gun with her. It was out in the parking lot in the glove compartment, because it was illegal to carry a concealed weapon in Texas.
Having it with her did not help a lot. She's one of the main reasons Texas has a concealed carry permit. She fought for it, for years. If she had had a permit, she would have had her gun on her, and she could have shot that guy before he shot her parents.
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I knew Hickok was old, but my God. He carried a Thompson during world War II??
Somehow I disbelieve that. He just don't look over 100.
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I never used to think about this. I suppose Mama took care of it when I was a kid. I suppose my wife cleaned it when I was married. But I've been dee-vorced - hell, it's 30 years this month.
Now I used to have an oak toilet seat. You know, sort of gold and brown. And I dropped something in the bathroom one day and I'm down on my knees to pick it up and I glance over the seat and it looks like there's a quarter inch of mud on it. And as I'm cleaning it off I pondered on it, and decided that it was a mixture of sweat and dead skin cells and - dirt.
I currently have a white seat, and I noticed about every week or so that it needs to be washed.
Since I am the only one using my toilet seat, and it needs to be washed every week or so, a public toilet with possibly hundreds of people using it daily - yeah I can see the use for a seat cover.
This just occurred to me - I wonder if public toilet seats are black so you don't see how dirty they are?
need a little help here
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She was a guest villain on Lois and Clark for about 3 weeks.
Lois was going to marry Lex Luthor. Then Lex fell - or was pushed, I don't remember - off the top of Luthor towers. He was kinda dead. End of that season.
Start of next season this blonde female doctor has brought him back to life. She thinks this will make him want to marry her but he still wants to marry Lois.