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HotelCo said:
Only those with good taste in sports. :P

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Riggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhtttttttttttttttttttttt. Maybe it's just where we send people with well emotional disorders.
 
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An Arlington Texas police officer was killed yesterday on a call while protecting an 11-year old girl from her moms ex-bf, who killed the mom, the police officer and himself.

The officer was just two weeks out of her FTO, and completed the academy just in February.



Sucks.
 
Linuss said:
An Arlington Texas police officer was killed yesterday on a call while protecting an 11-year old girl from her moms ex-bf, who killed the mom, the police officer and himself.

The officer was just two weeks out of her FTO, and completed the academy just in February.



Sucks.
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Do you have a link to the story?


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That is absolutely tragic. But the first article was paintful to read. The sentance structure was horrible.
 
Tired of being sick. One more day of work, then 3 days off.
 
anyone up for chat tonight?
 
Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.

Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people: Recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill out a form by filling it in the boxes and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

Why is is it we park on the driveway but drive on the parkway? If olive oil is made from olives, then where does baby oil come from? Why do we get on an airplane as we go inside of it? I don't want a seat out on the wing, I want to sit inside the aircraft! "Hysterectomy" should technically be "her-terectormy" and "hernia" could be "his-nia."

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS: Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
 
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lightsandsirens5 said:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.

Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people: Recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill out a form by filling it in the boxes and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

Why is is it we park on the driveway but drive on the parkway? If olive oil is made from olives, then where does baby oil come from? Why do we get on an airplane as we go inside of it? I don't want a seat out on the wing, I want to sit inside the aircraft! "Hysterectomy" should technically be "her-terectormy" and "hernia" could be "his-nia."

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS: Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
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this has hurt my brain and given me much food for thought.

i had tenses, plurals, verbs and nouns!! dam you english language(even though its my primary language)
 
Just got myself a Nook Color. Just finished rooting it and now I've got a nice android tablet :) Already installed my Kindle app onto it so I can read the books I've bought from Amazon, and I transfered my .pdf books to it already. I'm liking this new toy.
Oh, and tapatalk apparently works great from it too, since that's what I used to post this.

EDIT: And I'm one hell of a nerd apparently. One of the first books I found the .pdf for download that I haven't had before it the 2007 Prehospital Trauma care by the ITACCS... I wanted to toss it on my Kindle (found it free) but figured I'd wait till I got the NC since I could look at teh illustrations and be able to control text size
 
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jtpaintball70 said:
Just got myself a Nook Color. Just finished rooting it and now I've got a nice android tablet :) Already installed my Kindle app onto it so I can read the books I've bought from Amazon, and I transfered my .pdf books to it already. I'm liking this new toy.
Oh, and tapatalk apparently works great from it too, since that's what I used to post this.
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"Being a geek is awesome, baby." /****vitale
 
jtpaintball70 said:
Just got myself a Nook Color. Just finished rooting it and now I've got a nice android tablet :) Already installed my Kindle app onto it so I can read the books I've bought from Amazon, and I transfered my .pdf books to it already. I'm liking this new toy.
Oh, and tapatalk apparently works great from it too, since that's what I used to post this.

EDIT: And I'm one hell of a nerd apparently. One of the first books I found the .pdf for download that I haven't had before it the 2007 Prehospital Trauma care by the ITACCS... I wanted to toss it on my Kindle (found it free) but figured I'd wait till I got the NC since I could look at teh illustrations and be able to control text size
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link please
 
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