papasmerf
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oldguyzer said:You're still mad because he didn't invite you to his imaginary party? :biggrin2:
Just to fix him I imagined I went.
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oldguyzer said:You're still mad because he didn't invite you to his imaginary party? :biggrin2:
papasmerf said:Just to fix him I imagined I went.
oldguyzer said:Did you imagine the donkey too? :sorry2:
On many occasions in the past, I have balanced a stack of fifty pennies on my left elbow, and caught all of them in mid-air, with my left hand. I haven't tried to do this recently, but I think with an hour or so of practice, I could do it again, at least once per ten attempts, and I think I could catch forty-eight or more at least three times out of ten, (the ones on the bottom of the stack are the hardest to catch.
I don't have superhuman reflexes; I just have large hands, and the length of my forearm just happens to be conducive to this activity, taking into account the arc described by my hand coming forward, and the acceleration of the falling stack, in accordance with the Earth's standard acceleration due to gravity. In other words, my hand just happens to pass through the same point in space to which the coins have dropped, at the same point in time, and my hand is big enough to catch all of them.
bobistheowl said:Last Sunday, when I thought HUBGFE was down for maintenance, I tried to reproduce this stunt. I have a bag of pennies somewhere, but I couldn't find it, so I used toonies instead. Pennies are harder to catch, but toonies are considerably larger. I managed to catch a full stack of 30 toonies, on my second attempt. I could probably do 32, but I like to stick with multiples of five. My hand is not large enough to catch 35 in mid air.
I'm confident that, given ten attempts, I would be able to catch all 30 toonies at least four times. I'd bet on myself to be able to do it.
I think I'll get a friend with video capture on his/her cell phone, to film a successful attempt, and I'll upload to YouTube. I'd have the rights to that clip, so I could earn some money from the advertising.
I figure people today are willing to sit through a three minute advertisement, to see a video that lasts for about four seconds. Then they'll watch it again, and Tweet about it. All advertising is aimed at that demographic.
bobistheowl said:Also last Sunday, I won a game of MS Hearts, with four straight Control hands, (ie: I scored all of the Hearts, and the Queen of Spades, in four consecutive hands), so each of the computer opponents had a score of 104, and my score was 0, (the game ends when one player has a score of 100 or more, and the lowest score wins). I took a screen capture after three hands:
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and then I thought I was taking a screen capture with the four game total, but I forgot to click the 'New Snapshot' button, and I just captured a duplicate image of the score after three hands, and I didn't realize my mistake until I had started a new game, and the evidence had disappeared. Shit.
papasmerf said:Bob keeps hitting his imaginary ignore button.
oldguyzer said:Maybe BITI is imaginary? We're just all have the same painful nightmares...
escapefromstress said:Black lab in Seattle likes to hop on bus, take solo ride to her dog park stop
SEATTLE - A black Labrador named Eclipse just wants to get to the dog park. So if her owner takes too long finishing his cigarette, and their bus arrives, she climbs aboard solo and rides to her stop — to the delight of fellow Seattle bus passengers.
Bus riders report she hops onto seats next to strangers, and watches out the window for her stop. Says commuter Tiona Rainwater, "All the bus drivers know her ... she makes everybody happy."
escapefromstress said:Justin Bieber Tries to "Bro Down" With Keith Richards, Rolling Stones Rocker Calls Him a "Wannabe"
Over New Year's, Bieber, 20, hit up a tiny beach bar on the luxe Parrot Cay island in Turks and Caicos, where "there was an old guy throwing back drinks who said, 'Who the f--k are you?'" one source recalls. In response, the "All Around the World" pop star shot back, "I don't know, who the f--k are you?"
Apparently satisfied with that answer, the older gent smiled and said, "'You're a man. I respect that,' then walked away," the source tells Us. It wasn't until a few minutes later, when "another old guy and came over and told Justin, 'Keith Richards wants to have a drink with you,'" that the 71-year-old rock legend's identity was revealed.
Bieber, rightly awestruck, exclaimed, "Oh, s--t! That was Keith Richards?" and then joined the Brit at a table.
"Justin tried to bro down with him," a witness says, adding that a seemingly unimpressed Richards told the star, "Let's get one thing straight. You're a wannabe."
https://celebrity.yahoo.com/news/ju...ith-richards-rolling-195000579-us-weekly.html
blackram said:Sounds like a likely story, but it's still great.
blackram said:When self-absorbed, coddled celebrities think that you're a little much, then you're a little much.