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#76

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:41am

So, they suspect the father killed the 70-something old man? The way you wrote it gave me the impression that the father killed himself.

BTW: When you said "West" FW probably thought you meant the American West.

ETA: I'm a few posts late because I had to step out for a moment.

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Salve, Salve Regina
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Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

Updated On: 8/15/06 at 08:41 AM

#77

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:42am

The father did kill himself, and now someone else has killed the man, who was 83.

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browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
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like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

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#78

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:46am

But why did the father kill himself? He must've had personal issues before this incident.

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#79

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:48am

begone before i drop a house on both of you!

XING
PED

#80

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:48am

Don't know, maybe.

Anyway, time for a game!

#81

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:48am

We have suicide, homicide... now all we need is regicide.

#82

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:49am

But who's the King?

#83

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:51am

I don't like the new title.

#84

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:52am

get over it.

XING
PED

#85

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:52am

RobbO, you should be proud that we're keeping your thread alive! (Maybe if you had chosen a more interesting topic...}

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#86

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:52am

I'm over it. May we continue?

#87

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:57am

I couldn't find this thread. I thought it got deleted for a moment. I almost freaked!

Shall we continue?

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#88

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:57am

What other "cides" are there?

#89

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:57am

well, SM, todays fact of the day is: in 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in new york city were powered by electricity, so i don't think that is any better.

XING
PED

#90

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:59am

Matricide,
Patricide,
Homocide,
Gamicide (I'm not sure about that one)
Regicide,
Suicide,
Fratericide

#91

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:59am

FW, there's "fratricide," the killing of one's own brother.

RobbO, keep drinking those Snapples!

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

Updated On: 8/15/06 at 08:59 AM

#92

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:01am

I got it just before you, ha ha!

Yes, and Matricide is to kill your mother, and Patricide is to kill your father. Gamicide, I think, is to kill your spouse.

#93

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:03am

I found two more: sororicide, the killing of one's own sister, and filicide, the killing of one's own child.

*sticks out tongue at linnie*

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

Updated On: 8/15/06 at 09:03 AM

#94

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:08am

Well I listed 7, so, er, yeah! Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

#95

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:13am

Here's my fact of the day:

The throne of Ethiopia's Menelik II was actually an electric chair imported from the U.S.

(RobbO would be so proud of me!)

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

Updated On: 8/15/06 at 09:13 AM

#96

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:35am

Did you know:

President James Buchanan was farsighted in one eye and nearsighted in the other. His left eye also sat higher in its socket than his right. He tipped his head to the left and closed one eye when talking to people.

I bet you, he look Igore when he did that.

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#97

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:41am

Corporal punishment was abolished in Great Britain in 1986.

In the real world the only people who burst into song are the hopelessly deranged...

#98

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:46am

vm and stage....GET A ROOM! ;oP

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#99

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:59am

Here's another:

In 1926, Joseph Goebbels demanded that Hitler be expelled from the Nazi Party.

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#100

re: Snapple Fact of the Day

Posted: 8/15/06 at 2:03pm

Here's a pretty random snippet of a conversation from the 40s which will bring us to the brink of 100 posts on this thread:

A woman said to Winston Churchill; 'If you were my husband, I would put arsenic in your drink'

And Churchill replied; 'If you were my wife, ma'am, I would drink it'.

Nice little quote, or so I thought.

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