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Saturday Morning News: Unicorn Lairs, Face Tattoos, Old Twinkies
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The Koreans found a place labeled as Unicorn Lair. They think the label is old.
Roughly the same story as when a team found Jesus's kin's tomb.
Roughly the same story as when a team found Jesus's kin's tomb.
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What?!
Nothing about the PAC12 Football Championshit game last night?
A snoozefest that only 30,000 turned out for
(even tho Stanford was playing at home!?)?
The Best of the West! and all.
Who would not jump at the chance to see #15 play #8?
You know, when the SEC plays their championship game today #2 will play #3.
Nothing about the PAC12 Football Championshit game last night?
A snoozefest that only 30,000 turned out for
(even tho Stanford was playing at home!?)?
The Best of the West! and all.
Who would not jump at the chance to see #15 play #8?
You know, when the SEC plays their championship game today #2 will play #3.
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Great quote there from the owner of the bikini coffee stand: ""I guess anybody with a knife can be pretty scary, you know, especially if they threaten you with a gun."
As Dave Barry used to say, "Armed knife-wielding women!" would be a great name for a punk band.
As Dave Barry used to say, "Armed knife-wielding women!" would be a great name for a punk band.
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That Wyoming killing spree is notable only because of its lack of details. No name, no race, no motive, not even an identification of the weapon used. (The rumor going around in law enforcement circles is that it was a crossbow, by the way.) Mighty peculiar.
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Standing 5'2" to 5'4" tall with blond hair, the woman is hardly the stereotypical idea of a robber.
Gee, so what is KOMO's stereotype of a robber?
Gee, so what is KOMO's stereotype of a robber?
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Ah, yes. Annie Hall. One of my all time favorite comedies. I always liked the cocaine scene as well, which, I heard, happened accidentally. Woody Allen gets roundly criticized - for marrying his step daughter, for being such a neurotic little weirdo - but no one can combine sharp comedy with philosophic rumination and human drama like he can. Maybe Pedro Almodovar, but Woody has his own inimitable style.
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Oh, and a Kansas City Chiefs player killed his girlfriend, and then drove to the team's practice facility and killed himself in front of his coaches as police closed in.
http://deadspin.com/5964841/reports-kans…]
http://deadspin.com/5964841/reports-kans…]
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Is a bikini coffee stand what I think it is? I mean, there's only one thing that could be, right?
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Please, it's KOMO. I mean they found America's whitest black guy to report the weather for crying out loud. I mean Steve Pool makes ME look black...and I have an English accent!!!
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Once again you've missed the really important news stories of the day:
ttp://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-11-30/kung-fu-expert-china-beats-mob-50-trying-evict-him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
(And one of Seattle's very own....)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
ttp://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-11-30/kung-fu-expert-china-beats-mob-50-trying-evict-him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
(And one of Seattle's very own....)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
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@9,
Horrible, horrible story. Interestingly, Bill Simmons' column this week was yet another one of his unique looks at professional football and all of it's inherent hypocrisy, mixed message and (wonderfully entertaining) bullshit. Prescient.
The guy was young too, 24, I believe. Wonder if he went Dave Duerson style in an effort to preserve his brain for analysis.
Horrible, horrible story. Interestingly, Bill Simmons' column this week was yet another one of his unique looks at professional football and all of it's inherent hypocrisy, mixed message and (wonderfully entertaining) bullshit. Prescient.
The guy was young too, 24, I believe. Wonder if he went Dave Duerson style in an effort to preserve his brain for analysis.
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@14 Sounds like the guy had anger management issues as far back as college. Put his hand through a window after a fight with a girlfriend. It might just have been his disposition that led to this, regardless of the football.
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Ah, yes. A 25-year-old black guy making more money than most of us will make in our entire lives. Obviously, this is a clear case of pent-up rage about being discriminated against. We should get Jen Graves in here to explain how to experience the appropriate degree of white guilt.
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@14 Sometimes I wonder if these kinds of horrendous acts are nature vs. nurture. I'd be interested to know what his father was like.
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20,
One of the best books I've ever read, Fox Butterfield's 'All God's Children, explores that issue in pretty gut-wrenching fashion. Highly recommended if you're not familiar with it. From the dopey Amazon.com review...
"Willie Bosket is a brilliant, violent man who began his criminal career at age five; his slaying of two subway riders at fifteen led to the passage of the first law in the nation allowing teenagers to be tried as adults. Butterfield traces the Bosket family back to their days as South Carolina slaves and documents how Willie is the culmination of generations of neglect, cruelty, discrimination and brutality directed at black Americans. From the terrifying scourge of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction to the brutal streets of 1970s New York, this is an unforgettable examination of the painful roots of violence and racism in America."
One of the best books I've ever read, Fox Butterfield's 'All God's Children, explores that issue in pretty gut-wrenching fashion. Highly recommended if you're not familiar with it. From the dopey Amazon.com review...
"Willie Bosket is a brilliant, violent man who began his criminal career at age five; his slaying of two subway riders at fifteen led to the passage of the first law in the nation allowing teenagers to be tried as adults. Butterfield traces the Bosket family back to their days as South Carolina slaves and documents how Willie is the culmination of generations of neglect, cruelty, discrimination and brutality directed at black Americans. From the terrifying scourge of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction to the brutal streets of 1970s New York, this is an unforgettable examination of the painful roots of violence and racism in America."
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The Romney/Ryan tattoo guy might need a good portion of his earned $15,000 to afford the multiple treatments needed for its removal. Even when it is gone there will be a residual skin color abnormality. I appreciate his bravery to go public with his unwise life choices.
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