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Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Apr 01, 2010 12:53:57 pm PDT #20338 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Answer = yes.


brenda m - Apr 01, 2010 12:58:04 pm PDT #20339 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

You should be fine, Jesse. A splash of soy probably wouldn't hurt.


tommyrot - Apr 01, 2010 1:01:37 pm PDT #20340 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, this is a cool April Fools Day prank: Astronauts 'Spacewalk' Without Spacesuits In Cosmic Prank

The three astronauts living aboard the International Space Station beamed a snapshot of themselves floating in space without spacesuits Thursday in an out-of-this-world April Fool's Day prank on Mission Control.

In the fake spacewalk photo, the three astronauts are floating outside the space station's largest window, waving hello while wearing nothing but t-shirts, slacks and sunglasses.

"You have a real problem, but you know it's outside our capability to help you," astronaut Shannon Lucid radioed the station crew, laughing all the way.

The astronauts told Mission Control not to worry, though. They were indeed wearing sunscreen, eye protection (the sunglasses) and were securely tethered in the photo so they wouldn't drift away.

eta: Larger photo: [link]


Jesse - Apr 01, 2010 1:08:12 pm PDT #20341 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You should be fine, Jesse. A splash of soy probably wouldn't hurt.

Oh, good one -- salt was definitely what was missing.


Tom Scola - Apr 01, 2010 1:14:14 pm PDT #20342 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS

New punctuation marks.


Jesse - Apr 01, 2010 1:19:44 pm PDT #20343 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hearts.


tommyrot - Apr 01, 2010 1:24:12 pm PDT #20344 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future

A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.

The LHC successfully collided particles at record force earlier this week, a milestone Mr Cole was attempting to disrupt by stopping supplies of Mountain Dew to the experiment's vending machines. He also claimed responsibility for the infamous baguette sabotage in November last year.

Mr Cole was seized by Swiss police after CERN security guards spotted him rooting around in bins. He explained that he was looking for fuel for his 'time machine power unit', a device that resembled a kitchen blender.

Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. "Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."

eta: It's obvious this is fake, right?

Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered.


bon bon - Apr 01, 2010 1:24:32 pm PDT #20345 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

New punctuation marks.

Speaking of which -- why in 2010 can't all browsers render all punctuation marks at all times? Why is this still an issue? A dash should not break things!


Barb - Apr 01, 2010 1:26:12 pm PDT #20346 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”

Oh good heavens. Puberty hit my daughter today.

On April Fool's.

How utterly appropriate.


§ ita § - Apr 01, 2010 1:27:54 pm PDT #20347 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What browser and what mark, bon? That sounds like an app weakness.