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« Reply #4675 on: November 27, 2010, 10:06:43 AM »
 No, try again Stoday
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« Reply #4676 on: November 27, 2010, 10:20:22 AM »
I was going to guess wallet but that is not a body part so I will guess eyes.  :rofl;
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« Reply #4677 on: November 27, 2010, 06:03:14 PM »

The eyes have it LOL - you're up YLGuy!
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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
Living Donors Rock! http://www.livingdonorsonline.org -
News video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7KvgQDWpU
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« Reply #4678 on: November 27, 2010, 07:16:31 PM »
Who said, ''The perversion over these last years of what the media has done to conservatives, I think it's appalling and it violates our freedom of the press.''?
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« Reply #4679 on: November 28, 2010, 02:50:52 PM »
Quote from: YLGuy on November 27, 2010, 07:16:31 PM
Who said, ''The perversion over these last years of what the media has done to conservatives, I think it's appalling and it violates our freedom of the press.''?

That HAS GOT to be the Momma Grizzly herself.
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« Reply #4680 on: November 28, 2010, 03:25:34 PM »
Yes, Sarah said it (cringe).  ::)
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« Reply #4681 on: November 28, 2010, 11:44:00 PM »
wow.. my guess was right... *L*  I just didn't bother giving it, cuz I suck at questions
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« Reply #4682 on: November 29, 2010, 05:07:00 AM »
One for the sparkies:

Lucas Industries, automotive supplier based in the UK, is frequently referred to by what (not exactly complimentary) nickname, and why?
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« Reply #4683 on: December 01, 2010, 07:25:54 AM »
In the 1960's I worked in Luton and as part of my job I used to visit lots of small manufacturers who made components for the car industry, including some badged "Lucas". There were lots of humerous sayings about Lucas, all derogatory. For example:

The Lucas motto: "Get home before dark"
Lucas — Inventor of the self-dimming headlamp
"I have had a Lucas pacemaker for years and never had any trou..."
Why do Brits drink warm beer? Because Lucas made their refrigerators.
Bell invented the telephone; Edison the light bulb; Lucas the short circuit.
God said "Let there be light" but the Prince of Darkness (in the form of Lucas) confounded Him.

So, Lucas was known as the Prince of Darkness
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« Reply #4684 on: December 01, 2010, 07:37:59 AM »
An extremely thorough and delightful explanation, Stoday! Gwyn especially enjoyed.

Prince of Darkness it is. Gwyn's first (and only) professional job in Wales was with Lucas. However, being a 'grease monkey' he only worked on brakes and cannot take credit for Lucas' infamous sudden unexpected darkness.

Your go, Stoday!
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« Reply #4685 on: December 01, 2010, 08:44:50 PM »
What should you never do if you want to become "Ruler of the Queen's Navee"?
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« Reply #4686 on: December 01, 2010, 09:11:44 PM »
Never go to sea.
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« Reply #4687 on: December 02, 2010, 06:39:52 PM »
Galvo got it right.

When the comic opera "HMS Pinnafore" was written, the real Ruler of Queen Victoria's Navy was a politician who had no naval experience whatsoever. The character in the opera lampooned the real Ruler.
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« Reply #4688 on: December 03, 2010, 10:38:19 PM »
What did Irma Grese and Elizabeth Volkenrath have in common?
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« Reply #4689 on: December 10, 2010, 07:23:57 PM »
C'mon folks! Think back a little. You were around at the time, Stoday.
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« Reply #4690 on: December 11, 2010, 03:06:39 PM »
This question is driving me bonkers because I swear I recognise that second name. Are they criminals of some sort?
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« Reply #4691 on: December 11, 2010, 03:37:23 PM »
Not any more.
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« Reply #4692 on: December 11, 2010, 04:05:48 PM »
I have two guesses, I'll start with the first:

Were both convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake in Salem, Mass?
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« Reply #4693 on: December 11, 2010, 04:35:40 PM »
Nope.  Come forward some 250 years.
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« Reply #4694 on: December 11, 2010, 10:39:48 PM »
Nazi war criminals
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« Reply #4695 on: December 11, 2010, 10:55:53 PM »
Correct, kitkatz.

Elisabeth Volkenrath was 26 years old. She was convicted of numerous murders and made selections for the gas chamber. She was described as the most hated woman in the Bergen-Belsen concentration campcamp.

Irma Grese was one the most notorious of the female Nazi war criminals. Many of the survivors of Belsen testified against Irma.They spoke of the beatings and the arbitrary shooting of prisoners, the savaging of prisoners by her trained and half starved dogs, of her selecting prisoners for the gas chambers and of her sexual pleasure at these acts of cruelty. She habitually wore heavy boots and carried a whip and a pistol. She was 21 years old at the time of her death.

They were both hanged in Hamelin jail in Westphalia on Friday, December, 1945. The executioner was Albert Pierrepoint, the famous British hangman.
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« Reply #4696 on: December 12, 2010, 08:51:38 AM »
Oh the history we have wraught!


So here goes: 
How many trees can an average beaver cut down in a year?
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« Reply #4697 on: December 12, 2010, 09:24:45 AM »
I am going to guess 1000
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« Reply #4698 on: December 12, 2010, 11:18:57 AM »
My guess is somewhere between 5-10k.. they''re very busy little critters
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« Reply #4699 on: December 12, 2010, 04:58:35 PM »
I can't see them doing a night shift, so they have at the most 5,000 working hours a year, allowing for them to work at daybreak to nightfall. That's an average of 13½ hrs a day. They have to eat and procreate; allow 3½ hrs a day for that, leaves them 10 hrs/day chewing time. Even working fast, I would have thought 1 tree per 8 hrs max, so 425 trees or so.

My guess then is 500 trees a year.
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