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9/17/06 2:56:26 PM
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--(neighbor_annoyance()++)
This morning:
I was mowing my lawn this morning. The grass is way too high, I skipped a week and it rained a couple of times. Which means I didn't notice the brass drain cover.
CRUNCH!
Wobble wobble wobble.
Hmm - blade not bent.
I can finish the lawn - or so I thought.
15 seconds later it died.
And then I realize:
SHIT - SHAFT IS BENT - right up into the engine.
Probably going to throw this mower away. Awww - I like it.
So I attempt to finish the final 1/3 of the lawn using a weed wacker. Killed my arms, only got about 1/2 done before I gave up.
Oh well - it's about to get cold. Let the last patch die off.
This afternoon:
The tow company came to take away the dead van.
No title - no problem. We know people. Wink wink.
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--(neighbor_annoyance()++)
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broomberg)
- Sept. 17, 2006, 02:56:26 PM EDT
Remember, people in 1900 didn't know what an atom was. They didn't know its structure.
They also didn't know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet. interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS... None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. They wouldn't know what you are talking about.
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