Feb 05 2007 12:01 PM
Football season is over. Now we countdown to the only sport that matters.
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| Willets Point Feb 05 2007 12:01 PM |
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Football season is over. Now we countdown to the only sport that matters.
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| metirish Feb 05 2007 12:09 PM |
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I can't wait for baseball....these past few months I have realized how much I love the game....
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| Edgy DC Feb 05 2007 12:10 PM |
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It was a 54, with a mashed up door. And a cheesy little amp.
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| seawolf17 Feb 05 2007 01:00 PM |
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| TheOldMole Feb 05 2007 01:10 PM |
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| metsguyinmichigan Feb 05 2007 05:09 PM Re: Fifty-four |
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No self-respecting sport would play it's championship game in a complete downpour.
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| abogdan Feb 05 2007 06:11 PM |
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| SteveJRogers Feb 05 2007 06:47 PM |
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| Edgy DC Feb 05 2007 07:21 PM |
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Not a lot of fine Mark Clark pictures out there.
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| SteveJRogers Feb 05 2007 08:05 PM |
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If we ever get to him in the inneresting pics thread (which reminds me, I have to scour my yearbooks/programs/card collection for more pics. I do have an interesting (well probably for me personally anyway) one for Yogi Berra) I'm sure I can come up with something. Hey I was just stopping by Mets By The Numbers and he's the only one there and JD had a pic allready for the swiping! =;)
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| SteveJRogers Feb 05 2007 08:08 PM |
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| Frayed Knot Feb 05 2007 11:01 PM |
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This is going to be one long-ass thread!
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| metirish Feb 05 2007 11:09 PM |
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lets see,53 days of posting numbers...should be long.
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| iramets Feb 05 2007 11:32 PM |
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...40 OR FIGHT!!
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| Willets Point Feb 05 2007 11:48 PM |
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How 'bout one photo per day? And Rogers only gets to post every other week.
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| Yancy Street Gang Feb 06 2007 06:49 AM |
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This is about the 90th countdown that has included photos of players wearing a particular uniform number.
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| Willets Point Feb 06 2007 02:08 PM |
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There we go. Everyone pm there favorite image of the number of the day to Yancy, and he can chose his favorite to be image of the day.
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| metsmarathon Feb 06 2007 03:38 PM |
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well, if we'd started 15 days earlier, we could've gone rather blue...
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| metsmarathon Feb 06 2007 03:44 PM |
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we could just do this... its not totally lame
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| metirish Feb 06 2007 03:49 PM |
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Dude,that is totally lame ,and I mean totally....
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| Johnny Dickshot Feb 06 2007 04:03 PM |
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I like it. I also like the way the elements are identified with simple one or two-letter symbols. It's artsy. I
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| metirish Feb 06 2007 04:08 PM |
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Ok,I'm totally lame cos I do not get this....clue me in please.
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| seawolf17 Feb 06 2007 04:22 PM |
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| metirish Feb 06 2007 04:25 PM |
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My apologies metsmarathon ,that's pretty fucking smart.
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| metsmarathon Feb 06 2007 04:34 PM |
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good luck when you get to technetium, har, har, har!
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| Willets Point Feb 06 2007 04:36 PM |
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Oh how I look forward to Hydrogen day!
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| metsmarathon Feb 06 2007 04:38 PM |
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"pretty fucking smart" and "totally lame" are not mutually exclusive. i wish i were clever enough to have posted a big giant letter "I" and then waited around for nobody to figure it out, and then posted "Te" tomorrow, and then maybe by the time i got around to... hey, why are there two "Y" elements in that periodic table? 23 should be a "V"... yttrium, somebody'd figure it out. but no, i'm only half-clever.
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| Willets Point Feb 06 2007 04:41 PM |
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If we started earlier we could have used a picture of Alexander Litvinenko for 84.
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| Rockin' Doc Feb 06 2007 08:21 PM |
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Willets - "Oh how I look forward to Hydrogen day!"
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| KC Feb 06 2007 09:41 PM |
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With a thin lithium battery buried in the back strap, Rockin' may have
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| Edgy DC Feb 06 2007 10:48 PM |
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That's not for the last day but for 14 days out.
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| Willets Point Feb 06 2007 10:58 PM |
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Things I Remember From High School Chemistry Class, part I:
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| metirish Feb 06 2007 10:59 PM |
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Is that the legacy Lima has left to baseball,her nockers?
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| Edgy DC Feb 06 2007 11:57 PM |
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Thanks for trying to correct my booby joke, but I really can't read while those things are bumping up and down.
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| ScarletKnight41 Feb 07 2007 08:38 AM |
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And his hair.
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| metsmarathon Feb 07 2007 08:51 AM |
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| Johnny Dickshot Feb 07 2007 09:09 AM |
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Te
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| Yancy Street Gang Feb 07 2007 09:25 AM |
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Okay, it's official: 6 honorary Schaefer points to metsmarathon for introducing the periodic table of the elements to this countdown!
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| Willets Point Feb 07 2007 09:34 AM |
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Unless someone has a picture of say David Wright holding some boron, Keith Hernandez in a chlorinated pool, or Wayne Garret with a shaker of salt.
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| Edgy DC Feb 07 2007 09:36 AM |
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Tellurium (IPA: /tiˈlʊəriəm, tɛ-/) is a chemical element that has the symbol Te and atomic number 52. A brittle silver-white metalloid which looks like tin, tellurium is chemically related to selenium and sulfur. Tellurium is primarily used in alloys and as a semiconductor. Tellurium is a relatively rare element, in the same chemical family as oxygen, sulfur, selenium, and polonium (the chalcogens). When crystalline, tellurium is silvery-white and when it is in its pure state it has a metallic luster. This is a brittle and easily pulverized metalloid. Amorphous tellurium is found by precipitating it from a solution of tellurous or telluric acid (Te(OH)6). However, there is some debate whether this form is really amorphous or made of minute crystals. Tellurium is a p-type semiconductor that shows a greater conductivity in certain directions which depends on atomic alignment. Chemically related to selenium and sulfur, the conductivity of this element increases slightly when exposed to light. It can be doped with copper, gold, silver, tin, or other metals. When in its molten state, tellurium is corrosive to copper, iron, and stainless steel. Tellurium gives a greenish-blue flame when burned in normal air and forms tellurium dioxide as a result. Applications Metal alloys
Other uses:
High-purity metalorganics of both selenium and tellurium are reported to be obtained by using innovative chemical purification strategy, also called adduct purification. These high purities are often required for semiconductor industry uses. Semiconductor industry uses:
History Tellurium (Latin tellus meaning "earth") was discovered in 1782 by the Hungarian Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (Müller Ferenc) in Nagyszeben (now, Sibiu) Transylvania. In 1789, another Hungarian scientist, Pál Kitaibel, also discovered the element independently, but later he gave the credit to Müller. In 1798, it was named by Martin Heinrich Klaproth who earlier isolated it. Tellurium was used as a chemical bonder in the making of the outer shell of the first atom bomb. The 1960s brought growth in thermoelectric applications for tellurium, as well as its use in free-machining steel, which became the dominant use. Occurrence Tellurium is sometimes found in its native (elemental) form, but is more often found as the tellurides of gold (calaverite, krennerite, petzite, sylvanite, and others). Tellurium compounds are the only chemical compounds of gold found in nature, but tellurium itself (unlike gold) is also found combined with other elements (in metallic salts). The principal source of tellurium is from anode sludges produced during the electrolytic refining of blister copper. It is a component of dusts from blast furnace refining of lead. Tellurium is produced mainly in the US, Canada, Peru, and Japan. Commercial-grade tellurium is usually marketed as minus 200-mesh powder but is also available as slabs, ingots, sticks, or lumps. The year-end price for tellurium in 2000 was US$ 14 per pound.
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| Yancy Street Gang Feb 07 2007 09:42 AM |
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Wow, for only $14, I'd consider buying a pound of tellurium. I just don't know if I'd prefer to get it in sticks or lumps. I've pretty much ruled out slabs and ingots. Who would want that?
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| Nymr83 Feb 07 2007 09:44 AM |
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whats with the bouncing boobs? i thought we tried to keep this place "work safe"?
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| seawolf17 Feb 07 2007 10:06 AM |
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But salt isn't an element, so that'd be a foul.
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| soupcan Feb 07 2007 10:33 AM |
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Buncha nerds.
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| seawolf17 Feb 07 2007 10:39 AM |
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| metsmarathon Feb 07 2007 11:29 AM |
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| Johnny Dickshot Feb 07 2007 11:33 AM |
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Sit on it, Potsie.
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| metsmarathon Feb 08 2007 08:52 AM |
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| Johnny Dickshot Feb 08 2007 09:18 AM |
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Sb
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| Edgy DC Feb 08 2007 09:53 AM |
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Antimony (IPA: /anˈtɪməni/) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Sb (Latin: stibium, meaning "mark") and atomic number 51. A metalloid, antimony has four allotropic forms. The stable form of antimony is a blue-white metalloid. Yellow and black antimony are unstable non-metals. Antimony is used in flame-proofing, paints, ceramics, enamels, a wide variety of alloys, electronics, and rubber. Antimony in its elemental form is a silvery white, brittle, fusible, crystalline solid that exhibits poor electrical and heat conductivity properties and vaporizes at low temperatures. A metalloid, antimony resembles a metal in its appearance and in many of its physical properties, but does not chemically react as a metal. It is also attacked by oxidizing acids and halogens. Antimony and some of its alloys are unusual in that they expand on cooling. Estimates of the abundance of antimony in the Earth's crust range from 0.2 to 0.5 ppm. Antimony is geochemically categorized as a chalcophile, occurring with sulfur and the heavy metals lead, copper, and silver. Applications Antimony is increasingly being used in the semiconductor industry in the production of diodes, infrared detectors, and Hall-effect devices. As an alloy, this metalloid greatly increases lead's hardness and mechanical strength. The most important use of antimony is as a hardener in lead for storage batteries. Uses include:
The natural sulfide of antimony, stibnite, was known and used in Biblical times as medicine and as a cosmetic. Stibnite is still used in some developing countries as medicine. Antimony has been used for the treatment of schistosomiasis. Antimony attaches itself to sulfur atoms in certain enzymes which are used by both the parasite and human host. Small doses can kill the parasite without causing damage to the patient. Antimony and its compounds are used in several veterinary preparations like Anthiomaline or Lithium antimony thiomalate, which is used as a skin conditioner in ruminants. Antimony has a nourishing or conditioning effect on keratinized tissues, at least in animals. Tartar emetic is another antimony preparation which is used as an anti-schistosomal drug. Treatments chiefly involving antimony have been called antimonials. A coin made of antimony was issued in the[Keichow Province of China in 1931. The coins were not popular, being too soft and they wore quickly when in circulation. After the first issue no others were produced. Etymology of the Name The etymology of the name antimony has not been determined, and it has been a matter of much speculation for centuries, with all claims lacking proof. Reportedly, its first use in a text (as antimonium) was in a text by Constantine the African, renowned for translating Arabic medical treatises into Latin. It should be understood that until at least the European Middle Ages, people knew of antimony's leading ore, stibnite (antimony III trisulfide, Sb2S3), but they were not aware that the free element, which was produced only rarely, was a substance distinct from other metals. The pure metalloid was usually confused with lead. The sulfide was called stibi (στιβι) or stimmi in Ancient Greek, stibium in Latin ("stibium" was used by Pliny in 50 AD). In Arabic, powdered stibnite is kuḥl (IPA [kuħl]), whence English kohl; but in time, ithmid (IPA [iθmid], where [θ] is pronounced as the 'th' in English "think") came to be used also. A widely repeated etymological claim is that "antimony" is a compound of Greek anti- and monos (literally "against single") and supposedly means "not found unalloyed"[4]. But this claimed etymology has apparently not been proven, and several other chemical elements known in antiquity also do not occur in the free (i.e., elemental) state. In 1919, the scholar von Lippmann published his proposal of a different Greek etymology: anthemonion, "bloom"[5]. An Arab-Spanish ophthalmologist, Muḥammad ibn Qassûm ibn Aslam Al-Ghâfiqî, writing some time between the 11th and 12th centuries, claimed that the names for antimony sulfide in Arabic, Latin, and Greek all derived from the Coptic word, mesdemet. He claimed as well that the term "antimony" was a fallacious rendering of the Arabic name, al-iθmid (where al- means "the". This is not to say that this Al-Ghâfiqî was the first or the only scholar to make the second claim. In any case, the claim is not substantiated and moreover it is highly dubious for two reasons. Firstly, it was, as noted above, used by Constantine the African, who was an Arabic speaker, a native of Carthage. Secondly, it would entail an extreme degree of phonetic corruption not manifested in dozens of other Arabic loanwords in Medieval Latin and Spanish. History The chemical pioneer Jöns Jakob Berzelius used an abbreviation of the name stibium to refer to antimony in his writings, and his usage became the standard chemical symbol for antimony. Antimony's sulfide compound, antimony III trisulfide, Sb2S3 was recognized in antiquity, at least as early as 3000 BC. Pastes of Sb2S3 powder in fat[7] or in other materials have been used since that date as eye cosmetics in the Middle East and farther afield; in this use, Sb2S3 is called "kohl". It was used to darken the brows and lashes, or to draw a line around the perimeter of the eye. A vase made of antimony dating to about 3000 BC was found at Tello, Chaldea, and a copper object plated with antimony dating between 2500 BC and 2200 BC has been found in Egypt. According to the history of metallurgy the first description of the procedure to isolate antimony is in the Italian book "De la pirotechnia" of 1540 of Vannoccio Biringuccio. This book precedes the more famous Latin book "De re metallica" of 1556 of Agricola, although the latter has been often incorrectly considered the discoverer of metallic antimony.
According to the traditional history of Middle Eastern alchemy, pure antimony was well known to Geber, sometimes called "the Father of Chemistry", in the 8th century. Here there is still an open controversy: Marcellin Berthelot, who translated a number of Geber's books, stated that antimony is never mentioned in them, but other authors claim that Berthelot translated only some of the less important books, while the more interesting ones (some of which might describe antimony) are not yet translated, and their content is completely unknown. Sources Native massive antimony with oxidation productsEven though this element is not abundant, it is found in over 100 mineral species. Antimony is sometimes found native, but more frequently it is found in the sulfide stibnite (Sb2S3) which is the predominant ore mineral. Commercial forms of antimony are generally ingots, broken pieces, granules, and cast cake. Other forms are powder, shot, and single crystals.
Chiffres de 2003, métal contenue dans les minerais et concentrés, source : L'état du monde 2005M The largest mine in China is Xikuangshan mine in Hunan Province. Precautions Antimony and many of its compounds are toxic. Clinically, antimony poisoning is very similar to arsenic poisoning. In small doses, antimony causes headache, dizziness, and depression. Larger doses cause violent and frequent vomiting, and will lead to death in a few days. Leaching from PET A study found that antimony is leaching from PET bottles (reported for some acidic fruit drinks), but at levels below drinking water guidelines. The guidelines are:
The acidic nature of the drink is sufficient to dissolve small amounts of antimony oxide contained in the packaging of the drink; modern manufacturing methods prevent this occurrence. However, researchers are concerned that antimony levels correspond to duration the bottle is left to stand - the longer the water has been bottled, the higher the antimony leached. Compounds
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| seawolf17 Feb 08 2007 10:50 AM |
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Does anyone actually plan on reading anything that long about antimony? Perhaps it's vastly more interesting to learn about Antimony Gerhardt:
A sad story... but if your name is Antimony, I guess your destiny would likely be in the sciences.
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| Edgy DC Feb 08 2007 10:55 AM |
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That's twice, seawolf. Watch out.
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| seawolf17 Feb 08 2007 11:35 AM |
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Sorry, Edge. (Although I think I missed the first one, whatever that was.)
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| metsmarathon Feb 08 2007 11:39 AM |
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i was gonna post her pic, but decided against it.
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| soupcan Feb 08 2007 11:39 AM |
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I'm thinking she slipped in the shower. I read somewhere that the highest percentage of injuries that occur in the home are of the shower slipping variety. Really. The best man at my parent's wedding died that way.
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| Edgy DC Feb 08 2007 11:54 AM |
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I never shower alone.
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| Johnny Dickshot Feb 08 2007 11:55 AM |
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I never even shower.
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| MFS62 Feb 08 2007 11:57 AM |
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If he died during the shower, how was he still alive for the wedding? Later
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| soupcan Feb 08 2007 01:23 PM |
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Here you go geeks...
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| Willets Point Feb 08 2007 01:41 PM |
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The cut & paste from Wikipedia is kind of tiring to me too. I hope Edgy just links in the future.
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| Edgy DC Feb 08 2007 01:48 PM |
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You're just antiantimony.
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| seawolf17 Feb 08 2007 02:13 PM |
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That would make us mony. In fact, we're so mony we don't even know it.
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| Willets Point Feb 08 2007 03:34 PM |
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When I come along people say "Mony Mony". Then they shoot 'em, turn around, come on Mony.
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| Johnny Dickshot Feb 09 2007 09:16 AM |
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Oz never did give nothin' to the Sn man, that he didn't, didn't already have.
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| Edgy DC Feb 09 2007 09:29 AM |
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| Yancy Street Gang Feb 09 2007 09:31 AM |
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| seawolf17 Feb 09 2007 09:34 AM |
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Edgy makes me laugh.
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| Willets Point Feb 09 2007 09:46 AM |
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That picture totally makes Fred Schneider look like the guy from What Not to Wear.
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| Johnny Dickshot Feb 10 2007 01:07 PM |
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In
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| metsmarathon Feb 10 2007 02:21 PM |
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| metsmarathon Feb 11 2007 04:51 PM |
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| Johnny Dickshot Feb 11 2007 08:46 PM |
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Cd
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| Rockin' Doc Feb 11 2007 09:21 PM |
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| Frayed Knot Feb 11 2007 09:46 PM |
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Cadmium is a soft, bluish-white metal and is easily cut with a knife. It is similar in many respects to zinc. Interestingly, a characteristic cadmium "scream" is heard on bending a cadmium bar.
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| Frayed Knot Feb 12 2007 09:47 AM |
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| Edgy DC Feb 12 2007 09:57 AM |
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Didn't MOFo poster Piazza4Prez drive an Agado?
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| Frayed Knot Feb 12 2007 10:14 AM |
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| Yancy Street Gang Feb 12 2007 10:40 AM |
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| Rockin' Doc Feb 12 2007 10:38 PM |
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| Frayed Knot Feb 14 2007 10:01 AM |
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We're falling behind here (one of the by-products of starting so early):
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| Yancy Street Gang Feb 16 2007 08:51 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 16 2007 09:43 AM |
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| Frayed Knot Feb 16 2007 09:16 AM |
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43 = TC
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| Edgy DC Feb 16 2007 09:38 AM |
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| Johnny Dickshot Feb 17 2007 12:30 PM |
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| metsmarathon Feb 17 2007 12:58 PM |
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i wonder how many other players that might work for...
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| Frayed Knot Feb 18 2007 03:27 PM |
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Nb
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| Frayed Knot Feb 20 2007 02:25 PM |
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ZR
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| Frayed Knot Feb 20 2007 02:28 PM |
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Y
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| Yancy Street Gang Feb 20 2007 03:30 PM |
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If Abbott and Costello were nerds, they could have done a comedy bit about yttrium.
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| abogdan Feb 20 2007 03:39 PM |
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TC Boyle also tarnishes slowly in moist air.
