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2006-08-22
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Posted by:Fred

#30  6 is wearing real shoes again, Frank. I suspect they are very quietly terrified. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-08-22 22:49  

#29  your students must waffle between fascinated and frightened 6
Posted by: Frank G   2006-08-22 20:02  

#28  With a 30 cent motor mount a shuttlecock can be used with a 1/4A rocket motor to demonstrate rocket flight in a classroom. Very exciting.
Posted by: 6   2006-08-22 19:20  

#27  OK! I'll give it a try. "A shuttlecock is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape, with a rounded head at the apex......"
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2006-08-22 18:18  

#26  Besoeker who's going to have the guts to explain the Shuttlecock? High drag, indeed!
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2006-08-22 18:15  

#25  (1)I think there was plenty of blame on israeli leadership if you read the entire article, (2)I do take debka with a grain of salt, however (3)after having read them for several years I find then right more often than not )4) after watching this whole thing play out, it is a definite possiblity
Posted by: Legolas   2006-08-22 13:31  

#24  TW, a huge grain of salt is in order when you read Debka explaining how all the problems are due to people outside of the sometimes corrupt Israeli leadership.
Posted by: lotp   2006-08-22 13:26  

#23  Thats correct Vera, maintaining an erect and ready racket is key. Now let me explain the "Flick."
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-08-22 13:14  

#22  per Legoal' link: US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was leery about any Israeli military offensive against Hizballah, fearing complications for the US army in Iraq at the peak of a surging sectarian civil war.

But Olmert talked Rice into asking President George W. Bush to back the air offensive. The US president acceded – only laying down two basic conditions: Israel must confine itself to an air campaign; before embarking on a ground offensive, a further American go-ahead would be required. The second was a promise to spare Lebanon’s civilian infrastructure and only go for Hizballah’s positions and installations.


This had better not be true.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-08-22 12:54  

#21  answers to lebanon war riddles
Posted by: Legolas   2006-08-22 12:45  

#20  AH, yes, the Rantburg skool of wit and wisdom.
No matter the subject someone knows the answer. Any other questions, class?
LOLClearly I am a child playing with pebbles on the shore...
Posted by: GK   2006-08-22 12:18  

#19  Only if they think with their bigger head and not their little head....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-08-22 10:15  

#18  I thought testosterone was produced outside the brain.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-08-22 09:55  

#17  "increased your insight into the male brain"

Um...speaking as a man, that wasn't a very long trip, was it?
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-22 09:21  

#16  tw, look on the bright side. It's not even mid-morning and you've already learned something new. And increased your insight into the male brain.
Posted by: Matt   2006-08-22 09:14  

#15  Summer badminton at Lake Toebegon
Posted by: Frank G   2006-08-22 08:47  

#14  GORT, you ARE going to hell.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-22 08:40  

#13  Clearly I am a child playing with pebbles on the shore of the oceans of my ignorance.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-08-22 08:34  

#12  TW - see here for an explaination. I am SO going to hell. . .

Posted by: GORT   2006-08-22 08:21  

#11  TW, you chaste and virtuous thing. You do not need to know what cameltoe is.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-22 08:14  

#10  What is a cameltoe?

What 49Pan said, Fred. And besides, we cleaned it all up and fixed the broken bits.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-08-22 08:12  

#9  Hope you had a great vacation Fred. We only had a couple parties at the club and we did'nt even break anything!
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-08-22 08:11  

#8  Scooter, thanks for keeping things up while Fred was fishing.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-08-22 08:11  

#7  In fact, if I understand the 50's correctly, many wimmen didn't even had genitalia, because they were too chaste and modest for that.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-08-22 07:41  

#6  They didn't have cameltoes back in the olden days, wimmen were very dignified during that era.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-08-22 07:40  

#5  cameltoes?
Posted by: Uleretle Elmuter9363   2006-08-22 07:35  

#4  Mr. Pruitt, are you home rearly because you had a run-in with the ATF regarding your dynamite fishing? Gee, if you had to pay a fine, I guess the readers here could tip the tip jar.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-08-22 07:27  

#3  Nice shuttlecock!
Posted by: Craing Glirong2028   2006-08-22 07:26  

#2  Hope you enjoyed your vacation, fred.
Posted by: Ptah   2006-08-22 07:19  

#1  The master returns!
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2006-08-22 03:58  

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