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Johnny Walker: Who knows where a stride will take you?
The irony being none of that would have happened if everyone had been drinking Johnnie Walker instead. Enough of it and they'd be having trouble walking at all.


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They Killed Fritz!
*beg


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One of our top 15 posters hits a half a K: Arvana's da man (Nature Talk Post)
Certainly well deserved, you've got some incredible sifts as oxdottir has so kindly pointed out.


written by Crosswords  | 2 days 5 hours 56 minutes ago | CH
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James Brown - Mother Popcorn (live in 1969)
*dead


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A New Diamond is Dawning... (Happy Talk Post)
And another hits a mile stone today. Congratulations!!

Must be something in the in water.


written by Crosswords  | 3 days 10 hours 36 minutes ago | CH
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mintbbb and Kuga Makes The 100!!!! Come and Join The Party (Femme Talk Post)
Woohoo! Thanks for the great siftin!


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July 1: Celebrate Canadian World Domination! (Canada Talk Post)
Oh what its not enough those puck hittin, syrup drinking bastards have their Thanksgiving first, now they gotta have their day of national celebration first too? What's next you delicious beer brewin, health care havin, same sex tolerating snow jockey's, Christmas in September?

I mean, um, Woo go Canada!!


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Your spore creature -self linking encouraged! (Videogames Talk Post)
They are a bit on the horny side aren't they. I think its more of a problem of having doodaditus, and most of the doodad's in the demo are sticky out thingies. But who am I to argue with Freud

I don't know how some people manipulate the base body as much as they do (such as the spaghetti monster). Guessing the full version allows a greater degree of manipulation (rather than just more doodads)? Or is there some control I'm missing they let you add on extra base pieces, or fatten or thin out certain body areas?

On a video technical note, anyone know of any good free software that'll convert the avi's into whatever format youtube uses (flv?) My upload rate isn't very good and it seems kind of stupid to upload something that's 86 megs and is only going to get converted to a lower resolution/smaller file.


written by Crosswords  | 3 days 14 hours 12 minutes ago | CH
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Your spore creature -self linking encouraged! (Videogames Talk Post)
>> ^MarineGunrock:
Sorry folks, having some troubles with Spore. It likes to crash whenever I try to upload.


You don't have to upload the vids through spore, it'll save them to a directory and you can upload them to youtube the old fashion way.

Oh, here are mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8YLfKCGbVs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDEpHhaZF8k


written by Crosswords  | 3 days 19 hours 16 minutes ago | CH
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Louisiana Passes Anti-Evolution Bill: Darwin Shakes Head (Science Talk Post)
http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2008/05/07/evolution-whats-the-real-controversy

I thought that one was really interesting. So they basically twisted legitimate criticisms of how evolution works to work in their creationism agenda. Scientists are unsure of the evolutionary or phylogenetic path of Eukaryotes, therefore the entire theory of evolution is wrong, and all species of mammals were spontaneously generated by an All Powerful creator.


written by Crosswords  | 3 days 19 hours 31 minutes ago | CH
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Environmentally Friendly Bulgarian Police Chase
Hah, WTF indeed. I'd love to see a news article associated with this.


written by Crosswords  | 4 days 8 hours 44 minutes ago | CH
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schmawy (Member Profile)
Cross as in angry, yep! Some of my first posts kinda of railed against majority opinion at the time, not that I actually see myself as an angry person, nor am actually angry at anyone on the sift.

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I sorta wondered as I was doing it. There's real art to a good crossword, and I does not has it. So, why the name? British "cross" for "angry"? Angry words?

In reply to this comment by Crosswords:
Despite my screen name I'm horrible at these. There were only 3 or 4 I had any clue on.



written by Crosswords  | 4 days 13 hours 7 minutes ago | CH
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Republican Hypocrisy Lives! Larry Craig still kicking (Politics Talk Post)
Call me a pessimist, but I think the bottom line is people suck, all the way across the board. Every method of government at some level seems to rely on people acting in a certain socially responsible way.

If the rich let all that money they'd save by not being taxed actually trickle down by investing in better pay for their employees or more community/social projects, the Republican's method would work great. There would be no need for social programs because individuals would take responsibility for everything in their community, and there would be little need for taxes because individuals have already used their money to support their community. But that doesn't happen, most people don't give a crap about anyone else, especially if they're living high on the hog. And the more money a person makes the more they feel they deserve it and the more they feel they have a right to suck up as much money as they can like some economic hoover.

The dems feel you need a social program for everything so everybody's well being can be seen to and opportunity is open to everyone. Taxes are levied at higher rates, specially among the rich with the idea the redistribution of wealth into certain areas will help create a society that benefits everyone. This of course doesn't work because many poor see the social programs as entitlements rather than a temporary option to support them during hard times and will cheat the system in order to draw benefits they really don't need/deserve.

And of course to top it all off the lawmakers themselves are greedy bastards, or at least enough of them, and manipulate the laws so their constituents (not necessarily the people who voted for them) reap the benefits rather than everyone as a law might have originally intended to do.

Plus the united state's population is so large and diverse it can be extremely hard to get all the groups to agree on what's important, or rather they're more involved in looking out for themselves than trying to find something that benefits everyone, even if it means they have to make a sacrifice.

Anyway you slice it someone is going to be pushing for a bigger chunk.


written by Crosswords  | 4 days 16 hours 35 minutes ago | CH
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Sift Sunday Crossword (Happy Talk Post)
Despite my screen name I'm horrible at these. There were only 3 or 4 I had any clue on.


written by Crosswords  | 4 days 17 hours 20 minutes ago | CH
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The 49 Best Sequel-Less Games (Videogames Talk Post)
Of those I've only played Sacrifice and Grim Fandango. Sacrifice was pretty good, certainly had its moments, but Grim Fandango is all kinds of awesome. Originality just oozed from it.


written by Crosswords  | 5 days 6 hours 56 minutes ago | CH
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