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| Tribunus Laticlavius | There's probably a good reason for that.
__________________ C/Capt "Robot", CAP (ret) NBB '06 Alpha Flight NBB '07 Delta Flight |
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| Banned ![]() | in england, the speaker of the house is not allowed to speak |
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| Milforum Moderator ![]() | There is a glacier at the equator on Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador.
__________________ "I was a soldier, I am a soldier, I always will be a soldier." |
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| Nuclear Duck Hunter ![]() | For a short time today, members of Parliament in Australia were not permitted to use the term "mate" when addressing anyone. It was overturned within hours.
__________________ “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill |
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| Tribunus Laticlavius | 1/4 the people who graduate from college will never read another book again.
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | Blue tongue lizards mate for life.
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| Optio | In Denver it is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door neighbor. In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset. Barracudas eat shiny fish, so don't wear jewelry in the ocean. They mistake it for food, come at you at full force with their jaws wide open. Once they realize you are not food, they close their mouths, but can't change directions that fast, so they ram into you. Which is why barracudas rarely bite people. Sharks have a vast radius of territory. So if someone is attacked by a shark 60 miles down the coast, it's still not safe to go swimming for a while. The most likely place to be attacked by a shark? 10 feet from the shore in 3 feet deep water. Alligators dont like people either. At feeding time, they sit with their heads halfway underwater (you know what i'm talking about). They have glands in their bottom jaws that detects ripple movement, which is why they attack. They also roll you around for a while, and if they don't release you, they generally store you in their den. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded. In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. Around the time in Rome when the lions at the coliseum were eating christians some with a death sentence were killed at the theater. When the time came for the death scene the actor would be replaced by the accused and the execution would be performed. In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run. |
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__________________ If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power. Author: Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith Source: Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, Aug. 4, 1914 | |||
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