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2005-03-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Tehran: Missing Iranians could be in Israeli jail

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Posted by Fred 2005-03-05 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Uh huh. And in other news, Mousavi would like to sell each one of us the Brooklyn Bridge. Womenfolk are permitted to pay the same price to get the practice model the crosses the Ohio River at Cincinnati.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-05 12:46:06 AM|| 2005-03-05 12:46:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Did they check under the couch cushions? That's where some of the bestest really interesting missing stuff ends up. It's one of the Parallel Universe Porthole Thingys, like the dryer.

Posted by .com 2005-03-05 7:28:11 AM|| 2005-03-05 7:28:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 LOL! Transmit argyls via the dryer and receive quarters in payment from the sofa.

Now.... if you throw quarters into the dryer, will your missing socks turn up under the sofa cushons? This caller for an experiment.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-05 9:26:10 AM|| 2005-03-05 9:26:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Shipman, at least you are getting something in return. When my daughter was a little baby--before she even crawled, she managed to lose those baby milk bottles, you turned for a couple of seconds away from her and ... I mean poof ... gone. Sometimes, they turned up in a different part of the house, but most of them were never to be found again. I remember that after a while, a clerk in the store I were bying them from asked: "What, you have quintuplets?"

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-05 10:36:43 AM|| 2005-03-05 10:36:43 AM|| Front Page Top

I dunno who that guy is. He is raving like a maniac, but it isn't Hebrew or Arabic... Two guys brought him in and said to feed him... when he quits eating... Wall up the cell... I think those guys were Mosaad, but I am not supposed to say anything about that

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-05 1:27:59 PM|| 2005-03-05 1:27:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Everthing has to even out Sobiesky, do you recall finding extra kiddie blocks?

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-05 2:16:43 PM|| 2005-03-05 2:16:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Since we went off topic already ...

No, Shipman, but I agree, the extra kiddie blocks may have appeared at an entirely different location. When we moved out of the place, these episodes stopped. Perhaps my daughter got a better anchoring in reality she is in as she became a tad older.

I admit that this trait may be inherited. I tend to lose things, but ultimately, I find them in unusual places. As if someone borrowed them, but could not return them to their original location.

I also had a bizarre thing happenign to me when I was about 13, in the workshop class (that was a part of the elementary education curriculum; grades 1-9).
We were to make a bird house. Everyone got the same piece of plywood with a pre-drilled hole, a steel ruler, a saw, an angle, and a blueprint.
I measured one part, marked it and cut out the piece, then next, and so on. When assembling it together, the pieces did not match, it was all crooked, one side was about half an inch shorter than other, same with the narrow sides.
I asked the teacher for a new piece of supply material. He called me an idiot and retard, and said he will show me how to do it.
He took my ruler, a new piece of plywoood and marked a piece, cut out. Then next, then next.
With an arrogant smirk, he started to put the pieces together. It was all crooked. One side was about half an inch shorter than other, same with the narrow sides. He looked at the ruler, the smirk on his face gone. It was close to the bell ring, so he said: "Next time, pay more attention", and gave me a "C". Later on, I never saw that ruler in the worskhop again, it had a sort of etching-like dent in its short edge--I would recognize it.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-05 2:52:47 PM|| 2005-03-05 2:52:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 ...well did you look for the ruler under your couch cushions?

BTW wouldn't the ruler be off equally for every measurement? symmetrically off?

Posted by shopteacher 2005-03-05 6:48:52 PM|| 2005-03-05 6:48:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Whoa! A ruler left over from the War! A special measuring device, for use in occupied areas.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-05 6:49:24 PM|| 2005-03-05 6:49:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Shopteacher, you'd think so, I'd too. No. It was one weird steel ruler. To this day, I have no reasonable explanation. But heard of a similar case (did not involve steel ruler), so although this seem to be rather rare, my story is not unique.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-05 7:06:48 PM|| 2005-03-05 7:06:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Give me a Camel and I'll give you a hint.

Posted by Rod Serling 2005-03-05 7:13:12 PM|| 2005-03-05 7:13:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Will one Camel do, or do you want a pack?

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-05 7:21:36 PM|| 2005-03-05 7:21:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 A carton, then we'll discuss the odd case of the Busy MayTag Repairman.

Posted by Rod Serling 2005-03-05 7:25:33 PM|| 2005-03-05 7:25:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Well, how about you discussing the odd case of the Busy MayTag Repairman and I'll give you a Camel if it's any good.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-05 7:47:43 PM|| 2005-03-05 7:47:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 "two decades ago has said he believes they could still be alive and in an Israeli jail"

In a surprising turn of events, senior sources at the Pentagon tells me that Arabs hate Jews.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-03-05 10:34:22 PM|| 2005-03-05 10:34:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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