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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 12/07/2004 : 10:59:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Siberia
Or wasp stung 
Oh, I get a few of those almost every summer from trying to take close-up photos of the nests. One nest in particular got me several times. There was an orb weaver spider (species unknown) directly under it and the lady was snagging wasps and living high on the arthropod hog. I wanted to record how long she lasted amongst her prey, prey that was just as carnivorus as she. I got a few great, if amaturish, pics of her catching the wasps and spinning them in silk.
And then one day, she was gone...... And I got stung no more.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 12/07/2004 : 11:48:33 [Permalink]
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Well let's see. I have totaled a car, a snowmobile (at 70 MPH), a motorcycle and crashed a boat into another boat while pulling a skier! So what do I do now that I am a little older and wiser (not to mention the father of two young one's) I go out and buy another motorcycle. Oh, but it's ok I tell myself, this one has antilock brakes!!! I'm also very interested in getting a pilots license.
P.S. I have never broken a bone in my body (lost some teeth in the motorcycle incident however). |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 10:34:11 [Permalink]
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I have this habbit of staying up far to late into the morning (no, not night, but the next morning), often untill 3 or 4am. Usually it involves a good book or a computer game of some sort. For some unknown reason, I always manage to convince myself that I'll be able to get up in a couple hours and get to work/school/ect on time! It rarely happens.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 12:57:53 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
I have this habbit of staying up far to late into the morning (no, not night, but the next morning), often untill 3 or 4am. Usually it involves a good book or a computer game of some sort. For some unknown reason, I always manage to convince myself that I'll be able to get up in a couple hours and get to work/school/ect on time! It rarely happens.
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"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2004 : 15:38:51 [Permalink]
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Here is a pdf file showing some folks tempting natural selection. Its amazing the inginuity people can use to put themselves in harm's way.
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The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2004 : 15:58:01 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by R.Wreck
Here is a pdf file showing some folks tempting natural selection. Its amazing the inginuity people can use to put themselves in harm's way.
Damn Wreck! I think at this point, I'll link the Darwin Awards, 'cause sooner or later one of more of those brain-dead turkeys will earn one. The guy under the pickup -- shudder!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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