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Meta on CoC: An Omission from the last update

Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 21 Comments • 10 years ago

Apparently, there was an omission from the current CoC when it was voted on and cleared. Here was the part that was missing: Section 3: The author can also request that members who are...

Profanity and the CoC

Via: petey-coober • Other • 88 Comments • 10 years ago

I am writing this meta article to attempt to clarify [to the best of my knowledge] recent changes in the way that the CoC is being interpreted . As most of you know , the formal statements in the...

A Get Well Card to Larry C

Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 9 Comments • 10 years ago

Larry went into the hospital yesterday. I spoke to him today, and his spirits are good but he will be in for a while as they decide how to best treat him. Let's all send him good wishes for a...

How did the Higgs Boson get it's name ?

Via: petey-coober • Other • 1 Comments • 10 years ago

I couldn't decide whether to put this under humor or sci/tech so I settled for other . Back when he was in college Peter Higgs had a part time job as a clown at birthday parties . One day he was...

Watch droves of zombies invade the streets of Prague

Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 10 Comments • 10 years ago

Just like we were warned.... Zombies... and it starts in Prague. Get Prepared NOW! http://now.msn.com/living/0506-zombie-walk-prague.aspx

70-year-old virgin says she’s finally ready for love

Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 13 Comments • 10 years ago

The 2005 film "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," grossed nearly $200 million worldwide based on the premise of a man who went without sex into midlife. But one real-life woman has managed to stay a virgin...

Think Like a Mountain

Via: malamuteman • Other • 8 Comments • 10 years ago

Credit to Aldo Leopold for the title and some of the content of this article... Yellowstone offers lots of opportunities to see wildlife. Driving through the park, it is quite common to come...

Adolf Hitler, 6, won't be returned to Nazi parents

Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 2 Comments • 10 years ago

A Superior Court judge has ruled that the four children (including firstborn Adolf Hitler) of the charming couple above will remain in child welfare custody. Heath and Deborah Campbell's...

Negative Chaos

Via: petey-coober • Other • 59 Comments • 10 years ago

OK ... so you've had some phrase , expression or saying rattlin' around in your head for a while . If you've got many of these they are like cobwebs in your mind . And now it's time to clean out...

Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison to buy most of Hawaiian island of Lanai

Via: the-irascible-harry-krishner • Other • 3 Comments • 10 years ago

Larry Ellison, inset, and the Sweetheart Rock as seen from Manele Bay Resort golf clubhouse on Lanai, Hawaii(CBS/AP/Wikimedia Commons) (CBS/AP) HONOLULU - Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison has...

The voting public has spoken . Obama , the clear winner ...

Via: petey-coober • Other • 2 Comments • 10 years ago

65 percent of Americans say Obama better suited to handle alien invasion than Romney By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News In the event that Bill Pullman isn't available, two-thirds of respondents to a...

Woman gets arrested for holding up a speed trap warning sign

Via: petey-coober • Other • 5 Comments • 10 years ago

Video : http://news.yahoo.com/video/speed-trap-warning-sign-gets-080000521.html

NewsTalkers Meet and Greet 2.0

Via: peter-loves-the-real-tea-party • Other • 200 Comments • 10 years ago

Buzz put a version of this article up when NewsTalkers first became an active site on a different server(?). Basically, it is a way to introduce yourselves and meet everybody. Since we are...

NewsTalkers: A Quarter of a Million Served and Still Counting!!!!!!

Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 24 Comments • 10 years ago

Yes! It Just Happened. NewsTalkers has had a quarter of a million visitors... that would be 250,000, since our move to Ning! Our visitors have come from all over the world. Here are just a short...

Just Wanted To Introduce Myself

Via: feddy • Other • 63 Comments • 10 years ago

Hi everybody! I just wanted to introduce myself, and try my hand at writing my first article here. You can call me whatever you want. I've been called it all. But mostly I get called Fed Up....

Meta: Everything you wanted to know about NT, but were afraid to ask.

Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 119 Comments • 10 years ago

Go ahead. Ask me any question and I will answer it. No question too silly. No question too personal.

Introducing New Group Woman's World

Via: feddy • Other • 1 Comments • 10 years ago

I just wanted to introduce my new group Woman's World. It is a private group for women only. Sorry guys. We still love you. Actually Woman's World has been around for a few days. We already have...

The Other Side: A First Peoples View

Via: msaubrey-aka-ahyoka • Other • 17 Comments • 10 years ago

[A film still from The Last of the Mohicans. I thought this was appropriate.] European "discovery"? More like invasion.... Things I've been reading about in the book I purchased, "Native...

How to defeat online ads

Via: petey-coober • Other • 12 Comments • 10 years ago

OK , so you're shopping online for some item . You click on some websites and find promising purchase candidates . But you are not quite ready to purchase yet . Guess what happens then ? Your...

Things I've Learned the 33 Years I've Been Around

Via: msaubrey-aka-ahyoka • Other • 16 Comments • 10 years ago

1. Men are simple creatures.2. Women tend to over-think and complicate everything.3. Stick up for yourself no matter what.4. Everything can kill you and usually the cause is some kind of cancer.5....

Things Women Should Know About Men... [another article of mine from over @ NV]

Via: msaubrey-aka-ahyoka • Other • 56 Comments • 10 years ago

*Things I've learned about men (working with them and being friends with them)*1. If you go into the relationship expecting to change him, the relationship will not work out or you will be...

Bathroom Reno Part Deux

Via: msaubrey-aka-ahyoka • Other • 5 Comments • 10 years ago

Tile work. My husband could have gotten a better angle of me... Thanks honey! My son loved helping. Whew... Don't ask me to do tile!!! Tile... Tile... and more tile!...

Trials and tribulations to going "old school" with a bathroom... A DIY story. [pre-completion from Dec 2011]

Via: msaubrey-aka-ahyoka • Other • 1 Comments • 10 years ago

I have a home that was built in 1906. We have no idea of the original layout of this house. We can speculate by what weve done in our home thus far, but Im sure there are changes that we arent...

The More Things Change ... The More Ye Should Gather Ye Rosebuds

Via: a-macarthur • Other • 4 Comments • 10 years ago

The more things change, the more they stay the same so ... Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May Whoever said "The more things change" etc. (there seems to be a difference of opinion...

Bullied teen in Michigan speaks up on "Today" - Detroit Free Press

Via: msaubrey-aka-ahyoka • Other • 8 Comments • 10 years ago

http://www.freep.com/article/20120925/NEWS06/120925039/1001/rss01 The tiny town of West Branch in northern lower Michigan and its high school have been in the national media spotlight over the...

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