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[Peelz]

The camaro is not cool, unless they offer it with t-tops, and in primer gray. 

[Krandall]

http://www.raptorsource.com/forum/index.php?action=post;topic=2750.915;num_replies=915
Fish eats cell phone, still works after a week


I've lost cell phones before. Left on the plane. Foolishly put on top of the car while I was loading stuff in the trunk. But never have I had a phone swallowed by a fish.

The UK's Sun -- sure, not the most erudite paper, but reliable enough on matters of mobile phones swallowed by creatures of the sea -- reports that a local businessman lost his phone a week ago while lounging on the beach. He thought it gone for good, but some time later his girlfriend received a strange call from the phone... from a fisherman who said he'd found the handset in the belly of a 25 pound cod.

After cleaning up and drying out the handset -- a Nokia -- the man says it still works... though it obviously it's now on the smelly side. He is still using it today, although it eventually began acting up and he had to "get the circuit board changed in the end."

What's the takeaway from this fish tale? For starters, some cell phones are a lot tougher than you think. If the seal is good and a lot of moisture stays out of the inside of the case, there's a good chance that a phone will survive a drop in the ocean or a few days in the belly of a cod, at least for a while.

Of course, the second point almost goes without saying: Cod will eat anything.

[Peelz]

The UK's Sun -- sure, not the most erudite paper, but reliable enough on matters of mobile phones swallowed by creatures of the sea


best line of whole story.

[Krandall]

 

What are the chances.. Seriously..

[Peelz]

might wanna change the link in thread. opens to reply screen.

[Flynbyu]

The camaro is not cool, unless they offer it with t-tops, and in primer gray. 

Primer = Oklahoma chrome.



~Brian

[Peelz]

The camaro is not cool, unless they offer it with t-tops, and in primer gray. 

Primer = Oklahoma chrome.



~Brian

excellent.

[Flynbyu]

Hell yeah.

I think people actually work hard on restoring their cars and trucks. When they get to the primer stage, they just STOP here.

Probably because they sniffed all the paint.



~Brian

[FoundArealQuad]

 

[Krandall]

How an Emerald, 840 Pounds of It, Landed in Court

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/106670/How-an-Emerald-840-Pounds-of-It-Landed-in-Court

Just before Christmas, detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department pried open a crate outside a warehouse to find something they had been chasing for months: an 840-pound Brazilian emerald that had been reported stolen.
Unable to determine who the real owner is, Lt. Grubb decided to keep the emerald locked up while the investigation proceeds. Meanwhile, a Los Angeles civil court is scheduled to hear from different claimants in the case on Tuesday.

Lt. Grubb, who had spent the bulk of his 26-year career conducting narcotics investigations, first got onto the case last September. A distraught man named Larry Biegler had called the sheriff's office to say that his giant emerald had been stolen from a Los Angeles-area warehouse where he had been keeping it. It was worth nearly $400 million, he said

[BRAD]

wow why store something worth that much in a warehouse.  thats what Banks are for

[Krandall]

I don't think you could deposit a 800lb stone there 

[Peelz]

I stole it.

[BRAD]

I don't think you could deposit a 800lb stone there 

I meant the Vaults or something.  Hell my basement would be better than a warehouse

[Krandall]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/02/state/n161221S74.DTL

3/3/09: Math fans to celebrate Square Root Day

Dust off the slide rules and recharge the calculators. Square Root Day is upon us.


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YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The math-buffs' holiday, which only occurs nine times each century, falls on Tuesday — 3/3/09 (for the mathematically challenged, three is the square root of nine).

"These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day — and poof — they're gone," said Ron Gordon, a Redwood City teacher who started a contest meant to get people excited about the event.

The winner gets, of course, $339 for having the biggest Square Root Day event.

Gordon's daughter even set up a Facebook page — one of a half-dozen or so dedicated to the holiday — and hundreds of people had signed up with plans to celebrate in some way. Celebrations are as varied: Some cut root vegetables into squares, others make food in the shape of a square root symbol.

The last such day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which coincided with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016.