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Zap

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  1. That's because he's new and besides how would you know? He's under Alias remember?
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    Happy Bday Bugs

    Happy Birthday Bugs!!
  3. Okay, this is just completely wrong: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/music/yatta.html
  4. Welcome Uber!! One can only hope Hambone nights never become a regular event. That's all I have to say about it. I'm still feeling sick after last night
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    ...

    Take care Red. You better check the forums now and again because if we do another lan party you have to come out of retirement for a weekend. Keep in touch.
  6. I can tell you who it won't be --> The Indians
  7. While she's playing sports?
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    test

    left shoe on so he...
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    LMAO!!!

    That's just wrong.
  10. Don't you think most people that choose to enter the "sports" forum like sports? Of course I do.
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    any1 watch

    I try to always watch it when it's on. It's pretty funny and it's always cool to see improvisational comedy.
  12. A lot of the time we unban someone and it still doesn't work for them. If you are still having problems AIM one of us when we are online so that we can make sure you get unbanned properly.
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    New Games ??

    LOL Alias. I can't wait for the release of Doom. I'm getting tired of playing Karateka and a Bard's Tale.
  14. Congratulations!!! I didn't know you had television in Canada
  15. He looks so at home in the keep doesn't he?
  16. Hehe - I saw this one about 6 months ago.
  17. Ahh, the plot thickens. It's about time. The banned forum used to be much more entertaining.
  18. Cause every now and then when you snipe Dirk you still teach the server a lesson.
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    test

    Only to find that his...
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    Spec your tools on CS

    LOL Rev - that was awesome!!
  21. Well at least OSU didn't let me down. 45-21 spanking of Texas Tech.
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    test

    "You ever seen a flower with a root this big?"
  23. You may not be pleased to hear that all this is complete and utter hogwash, just like the rest of the article. It's an example of a fascinating process (that is, from a sociolinguistic perspective) in which people actively seek out stories to explain phrases, not really caring whether they are true, just that they are psychologically satisfying. As a result, they are powerful memes, strongly resisting refutation. But World Wide Words is renowned as the home of lost causes, so I'll give it a go. Saved by the bell is actually boxing slang, dating from the 1930s. A contestant being counted out might be saved by the ringing of the bell for the end of the round, giving him a minute to recover. Graveyard shift is an evocative term for the night shift between about midnight and eight in the morning, when - no matter how often you've worked it - your skin is clammy, there's sand behind your eyeballs, and the world is creepily silent, like the graveyard (sailors similarly know the graveyard watch, the midnight to four a.m. stint). The phrase dates only from the early years of the twentieth century. The third phrase - dead ringer - dates from roughly the same period or perhaps a decade or two earlier. In that form, the word is US slang, dating from the latter part of the last century, originally in connection with horse racing. A horse of better class than that allowed was entered fraudulently into a race, with bets being placed on it by those in the know. The word has spread its associations more widely since, and can now refer to anything which has been tampered with in order to deceive, such as a motor vehicle. In this sense it is now common in Britain as well as the US, which has nicely returned the word to its source, because the idea of a fraudulent substitution is originally from the British English verb to ring. It dates from the early nineteenth century and is an abbreviation of the older to ring the changes, originally from bell-ringing, but used to indicate that something inferior has been substituted. The Australian term ring-in, meaning much the same as ringer, comes from the same source. The Australian sense of ringer, for the top gun or best-performing shearer in a shed, comes originally from a much older English dialect word meaning something outstanding or superlative. And dead ringer, another common form meaning a perfect likeness, is just ringer with the intensifier dead added. So none of these expressions has anything to do with the burying of bodies. So there My source: http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-sav1.htm
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