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Antilogic · Post by **Antilogic** » Tue, 1. Mar 16, 19:47

Great, now I just need someone to marry.

RM?

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Tue, 1. Mar 16, 22:07

Cpt.Jericho wrote:Gosh didn't know he was still alive:
George Kennedy, actor in many many movies, is dead.

Dammit the year is only two month old and so many artists are dead.

I've always liked George Kennedy. I can't think of any role I can remember him in where he didn't do a stellar job. ("Cool Hand Luke" and "Flight of the Phoenix" are two favorites of mine.)

People can die. It doesn't mean they always will, though. One day, we may achieve the technology to extend our lives as long as we wish. What will we think about how people of this age morn dead celebrities and other notables, then?

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Tue, 1. Mar 16, 22:08

burger1 wrote:You can now get married at the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-01/w ... er/7208662

Oh, New Zealand. You so silly...

kondor_be · Post by **kondor_be** » Thu, 3. Mar 16, 19:24

Morkonan wrote:
burger1 wrote:You can now get married at the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-01/w ... er/7208662
Oh, New Zealand. You so silly...

Oh, New Zealand. You so awesome...

FTFY!

Mightysword · Post by **Mightysword** » Sat, 5. Mar 16, 19:54

Morkonan wrote:
greypanther wrote:How bloody stupid can a person be?...
You know the answer to that question gets its bar raised every day, right?

Considered it's raised

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/05/europe/no ... index.html

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Sat, 5. Mar 16, 21:25

Mightysword wrote:
Morkonan wrote:
greypanther wrote:How bloody stupid can a person be?...
You know the answer to that question gets its bar raised every day, right?
Considered it's raised

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/05/europe/no ... index.html

...

Yup, it just got raised.

It's gotta be alcohol. It's involved, somehow, it has to be. Either that or drugs. And, a 19yr old and a 66yr old? That doesn't make sense, either.

Was there a goat involved anywhere? Story needs a goat...

Mightysword · Post by **Mightysword** » Sat, 5. Mar 16, 22:00

Morkonan wrote:
It's gotta be alcohol. It's involved, somehow, it has to be. Either that or drugs. And, a 19yr old and a 66yr old? That doesn't make sense, either.

Not sure about that, if they just got on a car and hit the pedal than maybe it's alcohol. But they managed to broke into a fire station and steal a truck ... so they should be plenty sober. If you're drunk to the degree that the idea of stealing a firetruck for a joydrive somehow seems to be a good idea, I think you would be too drunk to open a normal door with the key in hand, much less to pick a secure lock.

felter · Post by **felter** » Sun, 6. Mar 16, 23:36

Ray Tomlinson aged 74 has died from a heart attack. he was credited with inventing Email.

R.I.P. ray

burger1 · Post by **burger1** » Mon, 7. Mar 16, 09:15

Video of fans remake of starwars knights of the old republic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s58TvG8V-0k

Antilogic · Post by **Antilogic** » Mon, 7. Mar 16, 14:20

burger1 wrote:Video of fans remake of starwars knights of the old republic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s58TvG8V-0k

Certainty don't see that lasting long.

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Mon, 7. Mar 16, 17:35

felter wrote:Ray Tomlinson aged 74 has died from a heart attack. he was credited with inventing Email.

R.I.P. ray

R.I.P ray_tomlinson@heaven.com

Stars_InTheirEyes · Post by **Stars_InTheirEyes** » Tue, 8. Mar 16, 18:32

Not 'news' or even 'new' but I just found out about this: Hot Crazy Matrix - A Man's Guide to Women

Brilliant

OmegaKnight · Post by **OmegaKnight** » Tue, 8. Mar 16, 21:17

Black just got blacker,
Vantablack, the company that made the blackest thing a couple of years ago.
has done it again with a new black so dark it can't easily be measured.

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Wed, 9. Mar 16, 09:36

OmegaKnight wrote:Black just got blacker,
Vantablack, the company that made the blackest thing a couple of years ago.
has done it again with a new black so dark it can't easily be measured.

That stuff is mind-boggling! Tks for the infos!

OmegaKnight · Post by **OmegaKnight** » Wed, 9. Mar 16, 21:22

Morkonan wrote:That stuff is mind-boggling!

Sure is, reminds me of Hotblack Desiato's limo in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
A ship so black light just seems to fall into it, a ship so black you couldn't even touch it.

they have a youtube channel btw, for vidoes of things you can't see

brucewarren · Post by **brucewarren** » Wed, 9. Mar 16, 21:28

If memory serves it wasn't a limo. It was his stunt ship - the one that flew into a star at a key point in the song.

At least I hope it wasn't his limo. Perhaps that explains why he's spending a year dead

One detail that made little sense was it's being frictionless. It's a space ship. Why on Golgafrincham would they need to worry about friction?

pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Wed, 9. Mar 16, 21:46

brucewarren wrote: One detail that made little sense was it's being frictionless. It's a space ship. Why on Golgafrincham would they need to worry about friction?

It might need to land on a planet? That ship had a number of other features that were entirely useless in a ship that was only ever going to make one trip, including the half-built teleporter Zaphod and the others used to escape...

Stars_InTheirEyes · Post by **Stars_InTheirEyes** » Thu, 10. Mar 16, 16:19

A pro-gun woman who had set up facebook pages promoting 'gun sense' has been shot by her 4 year old son through the seat of her car when her son found a .45 on the floor of the back seats. She's stable in hospital.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35767484?

Cruel irony. She really could have done with some gun sense herself.

Bishop149 · Post by **Bishop149** » Thu, 10. Mar 16, 18:21

This is freakin' awesome

I want it

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/03/t ... ion-print/

OmegaKnight · Post by **OmegaKnight** » Fri, 11. Mar 16, 02:20

Well shiver me timbers, mateys!

brucewarren wrote:If memory serves it wasn't a limo. It was his stunt ship - the one that flew into a star at a key point in the song.

Aye your right, the limo was parked next to the stunt ship

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