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ahayes
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07 Feb 2007, 5:39 pm

Nicotine addiction lasts less than a week.



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07 Feb 2007, 5:44 pm

on the other hand, RF addiction is for life :D



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07 Feb 2007, 5:46 pm

nutbag wrote:
on the other hand, RF addiction is for life :D


RF?



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07 Feb 2007, 6:20 pm

nutbag wrote:
on the other hand, RF addiction is for life :D


RF? Don't you mean WP?


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10 Feb 2007, 12:21 am

The word "typewriter" is typed entirely on the top row of a keyboard. Interesting, no?



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10 Feb 2007, 12:22 am

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The word "typewriter" is typed entirely on the top row of a keyboard. Interesting, no?


ha ha, wow, never noticed.


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10 Feb 2007, 12:57 am

RF: Radio Frequency - the wonderful modulated carrier! I love radio!



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10 Feb 2007, 7:15 am

The early blocks of the R-4360 had different length pushup covers on the exhaust and intake valvetrain, but they corrected that on the later blocks. However, the pushrods themselves were still different lengths.



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10 Feb 2007, 10:58 am

Roger Bannister, a physician, went on rounds in the hours preceding his historic race at Iffley Road, where he became the first to break the four minute mile. He also ate a large English lunch and spent time in the company of friends who had two young children. He said he wanted to have "a normal day," without changing his regular routine.



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10 Feb 2007, 12:13 pm

If you throw a cat out of a building from the seventh floor upwards, it's chances of injuries are greatly reduced. They have a non fatal terminal velocity of about 60 mph, therefore as long as their oxygen lasts it does not matter from what height the cat is thrown, as long as it is more than seven stories.



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10 Feb 2007, 12:34 pm

It is really mean to throw a cat out of a building anyway. :)



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10 Feb 2007, 10:53 pm

nicklegends wrote:
The word "typewriter" is typed entirely on the top row of a keyboard. Interesting, no?

The word "typewriter" can be typed in its entirety on a typewriter.


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11 Feb 2007, 12:24 am

And the word "typewriter" can be cast in slug on a Merganthaler Linotype.


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11 Feb 2007, 3:22 am

The word pie can be typed entirely on the top row of the qwerty keyboard layout.


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11 Feb 2007, 3:26 am

Pies are fattening.



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11 Feb 2007, 3:41 am

The world has trees.


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