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Years ago I had a friend who had a cabin in Muskoka (spelling?). One day during our in town trip he announces we’re going to the dump. To see the bears. Bunch of people there waiting.
Sure enough, they showed up. Cubs climbing the tree looked like a shampoo ad with really shiny black fur.
Yup..northern Muskoka..that's where we go.
 

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Years ago I had a friend who had a cabin in Muskoka (spelling?). One day during our in town trip he announces we’re going to the dump. To see the bears. Bunch of people there waiting.
Sure enough, they showed up. Cubs climbing the tree looked like a shampoo ad with really shiny black fur.


Add me to the list, Going to the dump to watch the bears was a highlight when I was a kid. All ended when an idiot put their kid ON a bear for the photo op, and the bear swatted the kid off!
 

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For context we just broke a rainfall record and the ground is frozen. One of our main highways is closed being underwater and all.. and here comes Charlie..

 

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Pornhub sued by deaf man over adult video site's alleged lack of subtitles: report



And, as a young man, I bought Playboy because the articles were so damn good. ogwink
 

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Man requests 'trial by combat' with Japanese swords to settle dispute with Iowa ex-wife


A Kansas man has asked an Iowa court to grant his motion for trial by combat so he can meet his ex-wife and her attorney "on the field of battle where (he) will rend their souls from their corporal bodies."

David Ostrom, 40, of Paola, Kansas, claims in court documents that his ex-wife, Bridgette Ostrom, 38, of Harlan, has "destroyed (him) legally."

He asked the Iowa District Court in Shelby County to give him 12 weeks "lead time" in order to source or forge katana and wakizashi swords, as first reported by the Carroll Times Herald.

"To this day, trial by combat has never been explicitly banned or restricted as a right in these United States," Ostrom argues in court records, adding that it was used "as recently as 1818 in British Court."

When reached by phone Monday, Ostrom told the Des Moines Register that he got the idea after learning about a 2016 case in which New York Supreme Court Justice Philip Minardo acknowledged that duels had not been abolished.

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Damn, if only I had known this for my first wife. :ogbiggrin:
 

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100 years ago yesterday Prohibition went into effect as the law of the land in the United States.

We never seem to run out of bad ideas.
 

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Hmmm... I must have misunderstood what condoms are used for....

Actually years ago someone at my office realized that condoms were the perfect size to protect a certain electronic sensor we were building. So they sent someone down to the corner drugstore to buy several cases. :roflmao:
 

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Hmmm... I must have misunderstood what condoms are used for....

Actually years ago someone at my office realized that condoms were the perfect size to protect a certain electronic sensor we were building. So they sent someone down to the corner drugstore to buy several cases. :roflmao:

When doing a triaxial soils test the soil sample needs a tubular membrane around it. Cut up a condom and it works great. The things engineers do to support the public. :roflmao:
 

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William Shatner awarded horse semen in his divorce settlement


 

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Hmmm... I must have misunderstood what condoms are used for....

Actually years ago someone at my office realized that condoms were the perfect size to protect a certain electronic sensor we were building. So they sent someone down to the corner drugstore to buy several cases. :roflmao:
fluid dynamics lab at my Govt office used very expensive thin rubber membranes that get are pierced to let dye flow. condoms worked well at a fraction of the price. After a lot of explaining to the head of our facility the govt supply department ordered the condoms !
 

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US man teaching dog how to drive arrested after high-speed chase

 

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