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Olympia Beer made a light beer called Olympia Gold. The slogan used in Olympia Gold commercials was "All our water is personally passed by our inspector.". That is wrong on so many levels.

I always imagined his collection was bigger.

I remember an old Arthur C. Clarke story where the communication infrastructure began to behave as an independent entity (after every working phone on the planet rang at the same time and gave a simple dial tone on the phones that were picked up). I thought about this and took that idea farther as a...

This could be serious. I'm calling my bosses in the future,

Verp Tlethl

Actually, they find it rather useful, but yes, there is a Kitsune in Star Fleet.

Verp Tlethl

Actually, the drinking gourd is Ursa Minor, Polaris being the star at the end of the handle that the stars Merak and Dubhe at the wide end of Ursa Major align with. Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but being in Star Fleet compels me to bring this up.

Coming in slightly ahead or slightly sharp is usually done very subtly. They are just a couple of the many tricks used by musicians, so I don’t suggest them as panaceas, just one more thing to have heard in other people’s music and to try if it seems like it would help in a particular situation. I m...

The title of this thread makes me think someone could write lyrics to go with the tune Yellow Rose of Texas about the subject of the title.

Leave it to Cranberry to show us a cute pair of tits.

There is the trick of coming in on the emphasized note a bit sharp and/or a bit ahead of the beat, but not to the point it sounds wrong, obviously. Many of us whites can have trouble with that, as we can be rather square. Fortunately it’s not genetic. It’s the byproduct of years of strong enculturat...

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Caroluna wrote:End of class. Quiz next week!

WHAAAAAT????!!!! A QUIZ???? No WAY!!!

What am I going to do? What was the name of that squash thing again? Laguardia? Lunagordia? Is spelling going to count? I'm so dead.

Take a deep breath and calm down. The test is clearly open forum.

I think you should write a gourd article for the Uncyclopedia http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

I’ve often wondered if some odd chunks of falling ice might be of non-terrestrial origin, some sort of small comet type body that might make it to the ground. It might be interesting to analyze such bodies structurally and chemically and look at the isotope ratios.

My sympathies to all.

The Weekenders wrote:That's why I thought this was like the Onion.

If the Earth is like the Onion, you might find the interior civilizations between the layers. (Yes, I'm making a joke.)