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Leave it to Dag to start a dobie from JH's vote thread. To tell the truth, I thought JH had gone into spamming, since the title sounded like a SPAM post. That's why I clicked on it, actually. I wonder what that says about spam... or me. Posts: 903 | Registered: May 2003
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No deep self-examination. This is a dobie. Puns, fart jokes, and backhanded references to the parent thread are all that are required. Posts: 26071 | Registered: Oct 2003
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quote:On a quiet day in March, 1966, seven eyewitnesses reported an unidentified flying object maneuvering over Livingston and Washtenaw counties. Ordinarily, these reports might have been dismissed by officials as the work of cranks. But this time, the seven witnesses WERE officials -- police officers and sheriff's deputies from the two counties.
And their stories were backed up by more than 100 witnesses, including William Van Horn, a civil defense director, and dozens of students who watched the football-shaped object for four hours as it maneuvered near the University of Michigan campus, a nearby airport and a local swamp.
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The Air Force sent in Blue Book astronomer and UFO expert Dr. J. Allen Hynek who, after a whirlwind probe that lasted two hours and 45 minutes, dismissed the sightings as "swamp gas."
Hynek quoted a description of marsh gases by Dutch astronomer Minnaert: "The lights resemble tiny flames, sometimes seen right on the ground, sometimes merely floating above it. The flames go out in one place and suddenly appear in another, giving the illusion of motion. The colors are sometimes yellow, sometimes red and bluegreen."
"Marsh gas," Hynek said, "usually has no smell, but sounds like the small popping explosions similar to a gas burner igniting. The gas forms from decomposition of vegetation. It seems likely that as the present spring thaws came, the gases methane, hydrogen sulfide and phosphine, resulting from decomposition of organic materials, were released."
*sndrake, if forced, will admit that he actually memorized every bit of Frank Edwards' "Stranger than Science" at the age of nine*
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You knuckleheads do not seem to understand the meaning of uniquiet opportunity. Let me try to explain...It is not a Jakarta quarter pounder with cheese guaranteed to give you noisy gas.
Nobody is more devastated and has more tension in the world then a Jakarta citizen.
Actually sndrake it is I and only I that has responsibility here, I have assumed it, I have deligated it. You are another, 'chooses not to vote,' fairly common in America today, however encouraging others to join you in sloth is bad form. Keep that low grade butt humor coming. It exposes who you are.
The Jakarta meteor is by far the most spectacular meteor I ever read about. So spectacular I shudder to think what it could do if it were not also the most remote. I have said it before and I will say it agian, it is a rock head. It will always be a very hot rock head, you cannot teach a snake to tapdance and I never expect to know anything about most everything. What I know, I know from painful experience.
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