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offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-07-09 23:35 [#00303628]
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A New York banker whose car was hit by a man jumping out of
the burning WTC North tower is SUING the dead mans estate
because he failed to curl up into a neat ball to minimise
the damage. Also, The City Of New York has published plans
to sue firms occupying the upper 38 storeys of both towers
because as they crashed earthwards, they added hugely to the
numbers of people on the lower floors, thus "momentarily
breaking fire regulations".

unbelievable.


 

offline mccabe from fuck knows .......I`m lost !!! on 2002-07-09 23:37 [#00303633]
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you`re joking,
well thats america for you


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-07-09 23:39 [#00303640]
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thats pathetic


 

offline core from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-09 23:40 [#00303646]
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mcdonalds.
disneyland.
jerry springer.
las vegas.
kinda cute.



 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-07-09 23:41 [#00303648]
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capitalist swine muck


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-07-09 23:44 [#00303652]
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burger.
dish.
soap.
period.
comma.
common.
people.
alter.
see.
bird.
top.
is.
a.
begin.
with.
tremble.
waffle.
all that belongs.
after you start.
begin to end.

.


 

offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-07-09 23:51 [#00303667]
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meanwhile Al Queda is reportedly openly operating a sales
outlet in Harpenden High Street (Bedfordshire), selling
paraphernalia including videos demonstrating how to make
soup out of women. Our home-secretary David Blunkett,
unbelievably, has said that "Our draconian anti-terrorism
legislation doesn't cover actual shops". How fucked up is
that ?


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-07-09 23:52 [#00303668]
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is that a poem?


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-07-09 23:58 [#00303676]
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sure ;)

its my poem for today. i like those kinds of poems. really
abstract


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-07-10 00:03 [#00303686]
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abstract? that's not the word i would use to describe it


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-07-10 00:06 [#00303687]
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broken fence.
glare from flash.
moment caught.

pond -
er.



 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-07-10 00:06 [#00303688]
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that sounds REALLY false and made up

where did u get this from?


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-07-10 00:07 [#00303691]
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whats the word then?

here's some more.

Tree travel
tree travel

pickets on along the road

circut cut . along with

joy

Joy. held hands

winter time along the poles on the road.

Christmas

Present.

Welcome home.



 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-07-10 00:08 [#00303693]
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I got it from..

MY BRAIN
:(

you made fun of it


 

offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-07-10 00:12 [#00303698]
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why are you fucking up serious threads with your poetry man
? Its not related to the war on tourism , so post it
elsewhere ( it is deeply moving , however :D)


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-07-10 00:13 [#00303699]
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i didn't mean to! im sorry to everyone


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-07-10 00:17 [#00303709]
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oh shit, you better not start apologising every post...


 

offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-07-10 00:19 [#00303714]
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Thats OK Ab man , I just needed to tell everyone that >

A MAN WAS TODAY ARRESTED IN OREGON BY FBI OFFICIALS WHO
DISCOVERED A NETWORK OF CAVES IN HIS SHOE. HE HAS BEEN FLOWN
TO THE NEVADA DESERT AND IS BEING TOLD TO STAND STILL WHILE
HIS SHOES ARE ATTACKED WITH THERMOBARIC BOMBS. (Reuters)


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-07-10 00:22 [#00303719]
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LMAO....


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-10 00:38 [#00303754]
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The "Stella" awards rank up there with the Darwin awards. In
1994, a New
Mexico jury awarded $ 2.9 million U.S. in damages to
81-year-old Stella
Liebeck who suffered third-degree burns to her legs, groin
and buttocks
after spilling a cup of McDonald's coffee on herself. This
case inspired
an annual award - The "Stella" Award--for the most
frivolous lawsuit in
the U.S. The ones listed below are clear candidates. All
these cases are
verging on the outright ridiculous and yet with the right
attorney you
could win anything!

1. January 2000: Kathleen Robertson of Austin Texas was
awarded $780,000
by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping
over a toddler who
was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the
store were
understandably surprised at the verdict considering the
misbehaving
littlebrat was Ms. Robertson's own son.

2. June 1998: 19 year old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won
$74,000 and
medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a
Honda Accord.
Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at
the wheel of the
car, when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

3. October 1998: A Terrence Dickson of Bristol,
Pennsylvania was leaving a
house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage.
He was not able
to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door
opener was
malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the
door connecting
the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The
family was on
vacation. Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage
for eight days. He
subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of
dry dog food. He
sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation
caused him undue
mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of half a
million dollars.

4. October 1999: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas
was awarded
$14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the
buttocks by his next
door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a ch


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-10 00:39 [#00303755]
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chain in its owner's fenced-in
yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt
the dog might
have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr.
Williams who was
shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

5. May 2000: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay
Amber Carson of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania $113,500 after she slipped on a
soft drink and
broke her coccyx. The beverage was on the floor because Ms.
Carson threw
it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

6. December 1997: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware
successfully sued the
owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell
from the
bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front
teeth. This
occurred while Ms Walton was trying to sneak through the
window in the
ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was
awarded
$12,000 and dental expenses.

And the winner is:

Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City. In November 2000 Mr.
Grazinski
purchased a brand new 32 foot Winnebago motor home. On his
first trip
home, having joined the freeway, he set the cruise control
at 70 mph and
calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back and make
himself a cup of
coffee. Not surprisingly the Winnie left the freeway,
crashed and
overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising
him in the
handbook that he couldn't actually do this. He was awarded
$1,750,000 plus
a new Winnie. (Winnebago actually changed their handbooks
due to this
court case, just in case there are any other complete morons
buying their
vehicles.)


 

offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-07-10 00:48 [#00303762]
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hilariously neurotic :0... and all in America . heh.


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-07-10 03:07 [#00303834]
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man that shit is fucked up, heres one i read in a tabloid:
(not exact words)

an australian man is suing his phone company over a $1500
long distance call his pet parrot (named crackers) had made.
Crackers apparently started pecking at the phone numbers,
and ended up dialing a buisness in Los Angeles, CA. It was
mid night their so Crackers was simply but on hold for
hours. When the owner came home from work he discovered
crackers talking into the phone reciever (which he had
knocked off) saying "pretty bird" and "hello" because those
are the only words he knows. The man thought nothing of it
until the phone bill arrived a month later, the terms of the
lawsuit are still unclear.


 


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