the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Father Demon]

name all 50 states in less than 10 minutes

I actually got them all with 7:37 left without cheating, but...

A.  I'm a nerd.
B.  I learned the song "50 Nifty United States" in elementary school and somehow remember it.

I did it with 3:48 left, but I did it in order of date of statehood.  Wanted a challenge.

[Geowhizzer]

name all 50 states in less than 10 minutes

I actually got them all with 7:37 left without cheating, but...

A.  I'm a nerd.
B.  I learned the song "50 Nifty United States" in elementary school and somehow remember it.

I had 7:44 left, but I am a history teacher.

[ice grillin you]

so gay...you have to exactly spell a state to get it right...i literally spent three minutes trying to spell massachusettes and then gave up

[Rome]

Providing access to rudimentary health care for all citizens isn't a bad idea.

Agreed, but superceding better coverages by private providers to make way for socialized health care is not the answer.

No one is saying that private health insurance should be eliminated.  If you have the wherewithal to afford the best in health care, then have at it.  Spend all you like.

All I'm saying is that millions of citizens who pay their taxes, who work their asses off, and barely make ends meet, yet still can't afford health insurance should be able to have at least minimal health coverage guaranteed by the federal government.

[Eagaholic]

I got all 50 states with 8:50 left. But I did them in alphabetical order starting with the last letter of each state moving towards the first letter. It's actually not as easy as it sounds because so many states end with the letter a.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

massachusettes

wrong again

[ice grillin you]

yeah i know that was one of the many variations i used

[MDS]

nevada!

[SD_Eagle5]

THESSALONIKI, Greece - A 2,200-year-old statue of the goddess Hera has been found built into the walls of a city under Mount Olympus, home of Greece's ancient gods, archaeologists said on Thursday. The headless marble statue was discovered last year during excavations in the ruins of ancient Dion, some 53 miles southwest of Thessaloniki.

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Archaeologist Dimitris Pantermalis said the life-sized — by human dimensions — statue had been used by the early Christian inhabitants of Dion as filling for a defensive wall.

He said the 2nd century B.C. find appeared to have originally stood in a temple of Zeus, head of the ancient Greek gods — whose statue was found in the building's ruins in 2003 and after whom Dion was named.

"We have reached the conclusion that the statue of Hera stood next to that of Zeus in the temple," said Pantermalis, a Thessaloniki University professor who has headed excavations at Dion for more than three decades.

Hera was the long-suffering wife of Zeus, a notorious philanderer, according to ancient mythology.

"The statue represents a female form seated on a throne, and is made of thick-grained marble like the one of Zeus," Pantermalis said. "It shows exactly the same technique and size, which led us to link the two statues beyond doubt."

Pantermalis said that, if confirmed, it would be the first time two statues of different gods have been located from a single temple in Greece. He said it was also possible that a statue of Athena, goddess of wisdom, could have stood in the temple of Zeus, and expressed hopes it might be discovered during future excavations.

Dion was a major religious center of the ancient Macedonians. Alexander the Great offered sacrifices there before launching his victorious campaign against the Persian Empire in the 4th century B.C.

Excavations so far have revealed temples, theaters and a stadium, city walls, a hotel, baths and streets with an elaborate drainage system, as well as many statues.

The area was first inhabited during the Iron Age, and survived into early Christian times when it was the seat of a bishop.

Pantermalis will present the find on Friday, during a three-day archaeological conference that opened in Thessaloniki Thursday.

[Yeti]

I'd hit it.

[Father Demon]

We were supposed to adopt from a Russian city Yekaterinburg before we switched to Ukraine.

These are some pictures of the mafia members killed in action.  Well, their grave markers anyway.

Link

[Diomedes]

yeah, I saw that recently.  their affinity for bling and self worship reminds me of ghetto dwelling gang bangers.  homie g on the corner isn't all that different from comrade vadim

[Rome]

The man is keeping them down in both cases.

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[PoopyfaceMcGee]

35% of 13-year-old boys have watched too much pr0n to count

[Rome]

35% of 13-year-old boys have watched too much pr0n to count

Look at the advertisement they have on the very same page.  Gotta love it.