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On Cheesefire Street
Feb. 8th, 2011 08:56 pmIt entertains me to refer to Hosni Mubarak as 'HoseNose McBorax'. I'm easily amused.
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Whoa! So there really is, or at least was before the typhoon, a City of Townsville.
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Imagine my surprise on seeing a sports headline titled "McLaren dismissed by Wolfsburg", to find that it was about soccer. Apparently the Wolfsburg team fired their coach McLaren.
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Indonesian sulphur miners. When I worked at Western, we occasionally used Indonesian volcanic sulphur. I was aware that it was gotten by people carrying chunks up out of volcanic craters, but I wasn't really aware that the volcanoes in question were quite so active.
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I put new tires on the Cruftmobile. They were almost impossible to find in that size (145 80R12). I ended up paying $95 a tire. On the bright side, they're warranted for 50k miles, and there's roadside assistance if they ever go flat.
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Whoa! So there really is, or at least was before the typhoon, a City of Townsville.
*****
Imagine my surprise on seeing a sports headline titled "McLaren dismissed by Wolfsburg", to find that it was about soccer. Apparently the Wolfsburg team fired their coach McLaren.
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Indonesian sulphur miners. When I worked at Western, we occasionally used Indonesian volcanic sulphur. I was aware that it was gotten by people carrying chunks up out of volcanic craters, but I wasn't really aware that the volcanoes in question were quite so active.
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I put new tires on the Cruftmobile. They were almost impossible to find in that size (145 80R12). I ended up paying $95 a tire. On the bright side, they're warranted for 50k miles, and there's roadside assistance if they ever go flat.
