ralphbrades
Village of Winster, Peak District, Derbyshire, UK
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Torby 1st Class Member North Chicago 'burbs.
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 | | 07/22/2008 7:03 AM |
| One I've heard, but never wished to put to the test  | |
One king held the frankincense, One king held the myrrh, One king held the purest gold, One King held the hope of the world. -- Point of Grace | |
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Richard Smith 1st Class Member Port Orford, Oregon
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 | | 07/22/2008 10:45 AM |
| It's amazing what can happen unexpectantly. Every once in awhile someone out here is severely burned by tossing kerosene on an already burning brush pile. If not done deftly the fire can leap the stream right up to the can and "poof"!!!
I think the electrocution from urinating on a third rail is worse though considering the part of the anatomy that becomes a lightning rod. hehe! | |
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Road Foreman 1st Class Member Ashland, Kansas
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| Cleansing the Gene Pool..
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Scottychaos 1st Class Member Rochester, NY
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paintjockey
Smalltown oHIo
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 | | 07/23/2008 9:29 AM |
| | The one thing mythbusters always leaves out of their equation is "dumb luck" or bad luck. Freak accidents and happenings are just that and cannot be reproduced via science or anything else. | | Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. -Ben Franklin There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking. -Ben Franklin I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're goining to feel all day. -Frank Sinatra | |
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Semper Vaporo 1st Class Member Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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 | | 07/23/2008 12:42 PM |
| Please explain, "Myth -Confirmed"...
Does it mean that something that was considered to be untrue (a myth) has been proven to have no basis in reality and is thus still a "Myth".
Or had it been changed from "Myth" to "Fact"?
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C. T. McCullough Cedar Rapids, Iowa Le 18:22
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Spule 4
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| Well, apply this to fences and you have the basis of a commercial for Nokian Tires:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbht8fCGpfQ
...and one of the funnier bits ever on Ren and Stimpy, but those get pulled off of YouTube.
| | Garrett “I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.” -John Waters | |
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Scottychaos 1st Class Member Rochester, NY
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 | | 07/24/2008 8:21 AM |
| Posted By Semper Vaporo on 07/23/2008 12:42 PM Please explain, "Myth -Confirmed"... Does it mean that something that was considered to be untrue (a myth) has been proven to have no basis in reality and is thus still a "Myth". Or had it been changed from "Myth" to "Fact"?
On the Mythbusters show, they have three catagories a myth can fall into when they are done testing it:
Confirmed - the myth is true, as the myth is stated. myth being tested: "A bullet can be shot into the empty chamber of another revolver." Myth confirmed = yes, its true.
Plausable - not enough data to be certain..its possible, or likely, but cant prove it.
Busted - myth is NOT true as stated. myth = "The vortex from a passing train can suck a person onto the tracks." myth busted = after testing, the myth is not true.
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Torby 1st Class Member North Chicago 'burbs.
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 | | 07/24/2008 8:39 AM |
| | Most myths are false, but truth or falsehood doesn't disqualify a story as a myth. | |
One king held the frankincense, One king held the myrrh, One king held the purest gold, One King held the hope of the world. -- Point of Grace | |
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SandyR
Near Lake Ontario in NY
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 | | 07/24/2008 9:01 PM |
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