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  1. rush limbaugh said to jail drug users, and we all know dude went coocoo for the oxycontins.
  2. ive seen the show in the past and thought it was great. tv should have more of this type of thing, but the other shows make more scratch. i saw some commercials that it was returning, but didnt know who was going to be featured this eason. the chappelle/angelou episode sounds like a very good one.
  3. KOH, i can see crapping all over sublime, bc im not sure exactly what their influence on music was, but crapping all over john lennon and kurt cobain, those guys have had such a profound influence upon music and popular culture it is immeasurable. even if you are a fan of neither, it is nearly impossible to deny their influence. what kind of music do you listen to?
  4. that girl is from jersey. i remember seeing her around this fun, but seenster/scenester ass bar in jersey. its funny.
  5. this guy is tougher than your story
  6. i dunno about these genius.' theres going to be a story in the future of mass casualaties. this cant be safe. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orl-stadium3007nov30,0,4754238.story?coll=orl_tab01_layout Jumpy fans worry UCF, but officials call stadium safe Some frenzied football fans at the University of Central Florida are calling their new stadium "The Trampoline" -- and treating it like one. Fans have discovered they can make the upper deck bounce by jumping up and down at once. Their cue to go crazy: the techno-pop dance beat of Zombie Nation's Kernkraft 400. "It's fun!" sophomore Michelle Martin says of the bouncing sensation that resulted in the trampoline nickname. School officials say the stadium is structurally safe and ready for a capacity crowd Saturday when UCF takes on the University of Tulsa for the Conference USA championship. University officials noticed the movement during the stadium's inaugural game in September against the University of Texas, said William Merck, vice president of administration and finance, who oversees campus construction. He said the motion caught them off guard, but that visual and electronic monitoring since the first game has revealed no damage. Engineers say there's nothing unusual about stadiums and even skyscrapers having some wiggle room. They're designed for a certain amount of movement. Still, the motion has unnerved some fans, and it has UCF officials wondering whether all that bouncing will eventually damage the 45,000-seat, $54 million steel structure. "I've been to a lot of stadiums, and I've never seen one rock back and forth like that," said Tom Di Figlio of Delray Beach, a former UCF employee whose first visit to Bright House Networks Stadium was last week's game against the University of Texas at El Paso. "Maybe it's designed like that, but I think they ought to be careful." While university officials express full confidence in their stadium, they are concerned about whether the fans' bouncing will shorten its estimated 50-year-plus life span. The university has asked civil engineers to help UCF's building experts analyze the data they're collecting and decide by mid-January whether the stadium needs to be reinforced or left as is. Officials already have taken one step. They decided midway through the season to limit how often the Zombie Nation tune is played over the public-address system "to address the uneasiness some fans may have," said Joe Hornstein, UCF Athletics Association spokesman. The current limit is four times per game, but Merck said the university will consider banning it outright. What's happening at UCF is "not an extraordinary condition," said Prasad Samarajiva, a civil and structural engineer with Walter P. Moore. The Houston-based engineering firm was not involved with UCF's stadium but has a large portfolio of stadiums and other buildings. Nearly two decades ago, students at the University of South Carolina -- revved up by "Louie, Louie" -- found they could get a 15,000-seat deck of Williams-Brice Stadium to sway. The school determined the deck was safe but discussed banning the song to keep the swaying down. Instead, the school spent about $300,000 to install reinforcements to stop the motion, said Russ McKinney, university spokesman. Students at UCF said they want bouncing to become a tradition. "Everyone seems more than happy with the stadium with zero concerns of safety," said Adam Papageorgiu, a UCF sophomore whose phone-cam video of the stadium bouncing was posted on YouTube under the title "The Trampoline." Papageorgiu said fans have been bouncing to the Zombie Nation song since the stadium's debut game against Texas. "I was immediately concerned about how the stadium almost felt like it was giving out beneath my feet," he wrote in an e-mail. "My friends began to look worried. . . . I got quickly used to it though." UCF senior Steve Adams, who was buying his game ticket at the stadium this week, said steel structures such as Bright House Networks Stadium are "designed to take lots of stress." Added the mechanical-engineering student, "If I had no idea about this stuff, I would worry too." Paul Jehlen, another engineering student, joked that parents are more likely than students to worry. All major stadiums in the U.S. are designed using the same basic structural principles, said Bruce Merrick, chairman of Dant Clayton, the engineering firm for UCF's stadium. "There's noticeable movement," he said, but tests so far show the building is "performing in accordance with Florida building codes." The stadium's design firm, 360 Architecture, did not return phone calls. Noticeable shaking or swaying can happen in any stadium given the right circumstances, said Charlie Carter, chief structural engineer for the Chicago-based American Institute of Steel Construction. The nonprofit institute and trade association develops the standards used in building codes for steel structures such as UCF's stadium. Many people are unnerved when stadiums sway because the movement is unexpected and often unpredictable. Movement depends on a certain number of people moving in a certain way for a certain amount of time. Stadiums in general are "pretty strong" structures, Carter said, and metal fatigue is not a major concern for owners of newer stadiums because "it takes a long time to manifest." "It's not a problem that develops one day to the next," he said. Vibrations caused by groups of people making synchronized movements have been known to damage structures, Carter said. In London, for instance, a pedestrian bridge across the river Thames was closed not long after it opened in 2000 because the movement of so many people crossing it made the bridge sway. It was closed, modified and later reopened. But stadiums have more in common with buildings than bridges, he said, making the effect of vibrations on them more complicated. In the absence of safety concerns, many stadium-movement issues become "purely a human-comfort and perception-of-motion issue," he said.
  7. one time i saw this thing happen at this place, when this guy leaped over something. he took some kind of drugs. police came and did stuff. it was late at night. maybe it was early in the morning.
  8. A happening is a performance, event or situation meant to be considered as art. Happenings take place anywhere, are often multi-disciplinary, often lack a narrative and frequently seek to involve the audience in some way. Key elements of happenings are planned, but artists sometimes retain room for improvisation. In the later sixties, perhaps due to the depiction in films of hippie culture, the term was used much less specifically to mean any gathering of interest, from a pool hall meetup or a jamming of a few young people to a beer blast or fancy formal party. History Origins Allan Kaprow first coined the term happening in the Spring of 1957 at an art picnic at George Segal's farm to describe the art pieces that were going on. Happening first appeared in print in the Winter 1959 issue of the Rutgers University undergraduate literary magazine, Anthologist.[1] The form was imitated and the term was adopted by artists across the U.S., Germany, and Japan. Jack Kerouac referred to Kaprow as "the Happenings man," and an ad showing a woman floating in outer space declared, "I dreamt I was in a happening in my Maidenform brassiere." Kaprow’s piece 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (1959) is commonly cited as the first happening, although that distinction is sometimes given to a 1952 performance of Theater Piece No. 1 at Black Mountain College by John Cage, one of Kaprow's teachers in the mid-1950s. Cage stood reading from a ladder, Charles Olson read from another ladder, Robert Rauschenberg showed some of his paintings and played scratched phonograph records, David Tudor performed on a prepared piano and Merce Cunningham danced.[2] All these things took place at the same time, among the audience rather than on a stage. Happenings flourished in New York City in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Key contributors to the form included Carolee Schneemann, Red Grooms, Robert Whitman, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg and Robert Rauschenberg. Some of their work is documented in Michael Kirby's book Happenings (1966). [edit] Around the world Poet and painter Adrian Henri claimed to have organized the first happenings in England in Liverpool in 1962,[3] taking place during the Merseyside Arts Festival.[4] The most important event in London was the Albert Hall “Poetry Incarnation” on June 11, 1965, where an audience of 7,000 people witnessed and participated in performances by some of the leading avant-garde young British and American poets of the day (see British Poetry Revival and Poetry of the United States). One of the participants, Jeff Nuttall, went on to organise a number of further happenings, often working with his friend Bob Cobbing, sound poet and performance poet. In Belgium, the first happenings were organized around 1965–1968 in Antwerp, Brussels and Ostend by artists Hugo Heyrman and Panamarenko. In the Netherlands Provo organized happenings around the little statue "Het Lieverdje" on the Spui, a square in the centre of Amsterdam, from 1966 till 1968. Police often raided these events. In Australia, the Yellow House Artist Collective in Sydney housed 24-hour happenings throughout the early 1970s. Behind the Iron Curtain, in Poland, artist and theater director Tadeusz Kantor staged the first happenings starting in 1965. Also, in the second half of 1980s, a student-based happening movement Orange Alternative founded by Major Waldemar Fydrych became known for its much attended happenings (over 10 thousand participants at one time) aimed against the military regime led by General Jaruzelski and the fear blocking the Polish society ever since the Martial Law had been imposed in December 1981.
  9. ever look at the jersey thread? jeez. it always has the highs and lows, and mostly its lows - thats why it gets closed. for whatever reason, out of nowhere, itll be over run by these dudes who talk all that shit and basically behave like everyone else described the people who ruin whats good. the jersey thread still has awseome pics of dudes who kill it, its just that that thread needs much less talking and more pic posting. i stopped posting pics in that thread altogether. i used to post in there and hardly in channel zero. now i hardly even check the jersey brickslayers thread out. i think a lot of people have the done same sort of thing with their home state/city.
  10. ON TUESDAYS, THE OPIE AND ANTHONY SHOW ALWAYS PUTS OUT A FAKE NEWS STORY AS A PART OF THEIR "FAKE NEWS TUESDAYS." THEY SAID THE KANYE WEST THING ON THEIR SHOW THIS MORNING. ONE THEY DID A COUPLE WEEKS BACK WAS THAT TOM BRADY WS BUSTED FOR USING STEROIDS.
  11. its always weird when people who havent posted that much or people who hardly post at all want to get all personal with a bunch of strangers on a graff message board. its something that occurs a lot too.
  12. http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com/ this is an interesting site. i dont know how web sites work at all, or how legitimate this "calculator" really is.
  13. usually i dislike your threads weaponxxx, but this one is excellent. thank you for changing my mind.
  14. then you don't have the newer version yet, but since the newer version is slower, youre better off.
  15. maybe it hasnt gotten to your account yet. in the upper left corner of your gmail, does it say "older version" or "newer version" yet?
  16. that pop up hasnt popped up once on my screen. i use a mac at work and pc at home, and never got that message once. my main gmail account started the old/new thing a couple weeks ago and this week is my secondary account. my gf also just started getting the old/new thing this week too.
  17. what is this newer version and older version that gmail has going on? the newer one is mega slow. am i missing something about it? has anyone else experienced this?
  18. im not sticking up for cops by any means what so ever, but people are so funny who go "oh, look, a cop is on duty and getting a doughnut." those same people will gloat that they are on the clock at work and smoking weed, or somehow getting over on their employer. its good they caught that dude who shot the cop though. people in philly ahave been getting real wild this year.
  19. 90% of channel zero threads that people respond to
  20. what a misleading title of that article. the body of the article itself states, "The beads should contain a non-toxic glue but instead they contains a different chemical which the body metabolises into gamma-hydroxy butyrate (GH, also known as fantasy or Grievous Bodily Harm." technically, they arent "drug beads" inside. they do look pretty neat though. i wonder if anyone has been injured from playing with them. a lot of times yoo see how all these toys are so dangerous yet no one has been injured. in reality, they have the ability to injure, like any toy does to a small kid basically.
  21. you mean that even though someone acted like a complete asshole, but danced with kids, they should not be penalized for their negative actions? oh.
  22. id go to a foot locker or some mall type of sneaker shop and look around the section that says "running." then id try on a few different pairs and select the pair that is the most comfortable. but thats just me.
  23. i despise threads that end with "discuss" in them, therefore i hope you die of nuclear fallout. have fun with that.
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