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anamnua Donating Member (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:25 PM
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What are the two man-made objects that can be seen from outer space?
1.The Great Wall of China.
2.Barrack Obama's ego.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:27 PM
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1. 3. My ignore list
and damned if it didn't just get bigger.
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:32 PM
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10. *snickersnort*
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yourout Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:47 PM
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29. Mine too.....how did that happen?
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:27 PM
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2. a pile of papers, with tiny print, listing Hillary's lies.... P.S. an ego is not an object... moron
Edited on Fri Apr-18-08 09:28 PM by Johnny__Motown
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Arrowhead2k1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:28 PM
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3. Because Hillary doesn't have an inflated ego herself...
Riiiiiiiight.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:28 PM
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4. Actually, #2 is the Staten Island landfill.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:29 PM
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5. 1. Your lousy spelling. 2. Your obvious posts.
Both are big enough errors to be seen anywhere sentient beings gather.

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SoonerPride Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:30 PM
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6. A Blue Dress?
You are lame.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:30 PM
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7. 3. A giant bag of douche called Anamnua n/t
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Bensthename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:31 PM
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8. When you are as awesome as Obama you get a huge ego..
It can't be helped.. Yes, he is awesome..
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:31 PM
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9. Watching The Truman Show? nt
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:32 PM
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11. The 35,000 people at his rally tonight?
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kwenu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:32 PM
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12. Clearly you haven't seen the pile of shit from Hillary and her supporters.
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Bensthename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:35 PM
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13. LMAO.. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at that one.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:36 PM
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14. There is no need for threads like this.
Edited on Fri Apr-18-08 09:37 PM by bigwillq
You can dislike him, even hate him, but what gets achieved by name calling and insults? :shrug:
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Abacus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:38 PM
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15. LOL Before clicking on the thread, I said
The Great Wall of China and Hillary's Ego.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:38 PM
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16. Hillary is the one with the massive sense of entitlement.
And you're the one with the stupid posts.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:45 PM
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27. Why shouldn't she feel entitilted? She's worked for it. duh! (eom)
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:38 PM
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17. WRONG!
According to shuttle Astronaut Jay Apt, "We look for the Great Wall of China. Although we can see things as small as airport runways, the Great Wall seems to be made largely of materials that have the same color as the surrounding soil. Despite persistent stories that it can be seen from the moon, the Great Wall is almost invisible from only 180 miles up!"

From National Geographic as quoted by Snopes at http://www.snopes.com/science/greatwall.asp

The original urban legend had its origin when an adventurer/lecturer speculated in 1938 that the Great Wall might be visible from space.

Airport runways and many highways, however, are visible from space, being much wider than the Great Wall.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:39 PM
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18. Something Wicked stupid this way comes.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:41 PM
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20. LOLOL!
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lordsummerisle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:45 PM
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26. Great comment! n/t
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:40 PM
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19. How old are you? About twelve?
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:42 PM
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21. Hillary's Yellow Pantsuit
What do I win?

:evilgrin:
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:43 PM
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24. Willy ! LOL.. go to your room :-)
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:48 PM
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31. Aw Shucks...
:hi:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:47 PM
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30. omg.
you come over right now young man and clean off my keyboard.

:rofl:
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:57 PM
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36. I Owe Ya...
:hi:
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FlyingSquirrel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:43 PM
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22. The pile of locked threads in GDP?
Edited on Fri Apr-18-08 09:45 PM by FlyingSquirrel
(IBTL)
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Butch350 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:43 PM
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23. I wouldn't Know

Hillary and Bill's big ego's have blinded me.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:44 PM
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25. Your beer gut and the bald spot on top of your head.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:48 PM
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32. rofl.
you all are killing me tonight.
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Gore1FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:46 PM
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28. I thought #2
was the pledges delegate gap.
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IsItJustMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:48 PM
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33. That's not very nice.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:48 PM
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34. Hillary's tear-stained cheek?
:rofl:
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:52 PM
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35. kennecott copper mine in Utah has been traditionally mentioned--depends on definition: 'from space'
This site talks about how "The Truman Show" got the facts wrong.

http://www.nitpickers.com/movies/nitpick.cgi?np=29117

--snip
The 'in space' phrase is rather nebulous here. First off, as a quick internet search will show, the "Great Wall of China is the only man made object visible from space" is, by itself, false. In fact, from low earth orbit many man made objects are visible from space. Cities, major highways, agriculture, numerous strip mines, etc. Beyond a few thousand miles, however, nothing is visible from space. From the Moon (which is often the alternate urban legend), no man made object is visible. In fact, according to the astronauts who were there, even the continents are sometimes hard to see. Thus, the movie was wrong, first because it would not be only one of two objects visible from space, and chances are (I haven't done the math), it wouldn't be visible from the moon, either. Of course, if it were to be visible from the moon, that would make it the only man made object visible from that distance.

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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:58 PM
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37. 3. Hillary Clinton's hypocrisy and hubris.
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