smotherman
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You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime!
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Gaia_Lorraine
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Sadly I have had a death in the family and will be pre-occupied for the next week. I will endeavour to pop by whenever I can but in the meantime please keep up the spirit of the room.
Lorraine
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Sadly I have had a death in the family and will be pre-occupied for the next week. I will endeavour to pop by whenever I can but in the meantime please keep up the spirit of the room.
Lorraine
*HUGS*
Sadly I have had a death in the family and will be pre-occupied for the next week. I will endeavour to pop by whenever I can but in the meantime please keep up the spirit of the room.
Lorraine
I'm sorry for you
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to keep you strong!Sadly I have had a death in the family and will be pre-occupied for the next week. I will endeavour to pop by whenever I can but in the meantime please keep up the spirit of the room.
Lorraine
Our thoughts are with you
fire_breeze
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Sadly I have had a death in the family and will be pre-occupied for the next week. I will endeavour to pop by whenever I can but in the meantime please keep up the spirit of the room.
Lorraine
My thoughts are with you....
OzoneRed
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that explains why i always bump noses
smotherman
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
smotherman
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Sadly I have had a death in the family and will be pre-occupied for the next week. I will endeavour to pop by whenever I can but in the meantime please keep up the spirit of the room.
Lorraine
I'm so sorry! My thoughts and prayers are with you!
I think I ate that many last week.
LOL! what kind of cookies did you have?
fire_breeze
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Some more facts about the
Thierry Lodé, a evolutionary biologist, wrote that the French kiss has a real, biological function: to explore the sexual partner's immune system via the saliva. Initiating the sexual desire, the French kiss allows the partners to avoid inbreeding.
An older name for 'French kissing' is cataglottis, from cata (down), glottis (throat).
Who knew? But I think I like the calorie burning fact better!
Thierry Lodé, a evolutionary biologist, wrote that the French kiss has a real, biological function: to explore the sexual partner's immune system via the saliva. Initiating the sexual desire, the French kiss allows the partners to avoid inbreeding.
An older name for 'French kissing' is cataglottis, from cata (down), glottis (throat).
Who knew? But I think I like the calorie burning fact better!
debrandy
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Sadly I have had a death in the family and will be pre-occupied for the next week. I will endeavour to pop by whenever I can but in the meantime please keep up the spirit of the room.
Lorraine
So sorry for your loss
smotherman
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A toothpick is the object most often choked on by people!
fire_breeze
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As if not having a life isn't a good enough reason to stay in. Here's another:
Jack the Ripper only killed on the weekend.
Jack the Ripper only killed on the weekend.
fire_breeze
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A fierce gust of wind blew 45 yr. old Vittorio Luise’s car into a river near Naples, Italy in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore... where a tree blew over and killed him.
Either he had a stroke of bad luck or he was Jack the Ripper in his previous life.
Either he had a stroke of bad luck or he was Jack the Ripper in his previous life.
mrtnmoon
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A fierce gust of wind blew 45 yr. old Vittorio Luise’s car into a river near Naples, Italy in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore... where a tree blew over and killed him.
Either he had a stroke of bad luck or he was Jack the Ripper in his previous life.
hahahahahaa.....
fire_breeze
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Sadly I have had a death in the family and will be pre-occupied for the next week. I will endeavour to pop by whenever I can but in the meantime please keep up the spirit of the room.
Lorraine
I, too, have a funeral of a family member (mother-in-law) to attend this weekend.
{{{Lorraine}}} I'm so sorry, honey.
Gaia_Lorraine
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Amazing coincidence, in my case it is my father-in-law. There is actually not much I can do except await the funeral. I am sure you will agree, it is not the dead that are the primary concern but those they left behind.I, too, have a funeral of a family member (mother-in-law) to attend this weekend.
{{{Lorraine}}} I'm so sorry, honey.
Gaia_Lorraine
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Here is a piece of trivia I found fascinating...
Do you ever get the feeling that nature seems to know that it is weekend and tries her best to ruin it by raining? Well, it IS true, it actually does rain more at weekends and there is a scientific explanation for it.
Particles of pollution act as nuclei around which water vapour condenses. Throughout the course of the working week these particles build up in the atmosphere increasing the likelyhood of rain. Statistically, on the eastern seaboard of the USA where there is both dense population and heavy industry, there is a 22% increase of rainfall at the weekend.
Do you ever get the feeling that nature seems to know that it is weekend and tries her best to ruin it by raining? Well, it IS true, it actually does rain more at weekends and there is a scientific explanation for it.
Particles of pollution act as nuclei around which water vapour condenses. Throughout the course of the working week these particles build up in the atmosphere increasing the likelyhood of rain. Statistically, on the eastern seaboard of the USA where there is both dense population and heavy industry, there is a 22% increase of rainfall at the weekend.
CCaprice
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Sadly I have had a death in the family and will be pre-occupied for the next week. I will endeavour to pop by whenever I can but in the meantime please keep up the spirit of the room.
Lorraine
So sorry for your loss. Hugs going out to you.
CC
Gaia_Lorraine
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So sorry for your loss. Hugs going out to you.
CC
Welcome back CCaprice, I have missed you
smotherman
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A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.
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Supervolcanoes
First shown: BBC2 9:30pm Thursday 3rd February 2000
Hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface lie one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolcanoes. Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts it will be unlike any volcano we have ever witnessed. The explosion will be heard around the world. The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
Normal volcanoes are formed by a column of magma - molten rock - rising from deep within the Earth, erupting on the surface, and hardening in layers down the sides. This forms the familiar cone shaped mountain we associate with volcanoes. Supervolcanoes, however, begin life when magma rises from the mantle to create a boiling reservoir in the Earth's crust. This chamber increases to an enormous size, building up colossal pressure until it finally erupts.
The last supervolcano to erupt was Toba 74,000 years ago in Sumatra. Ten thousand times bigger than Mt St Helens, it created a global catastrophe dramatically affecting life on Earth. Scientists know that another one is due - they just don't know when... or where.
It is little known that lying underneath one of America's areas of outstanding natural beauty - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest supervolcanoes in the world. Scientists have revealed that it has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago... so the next is overdue.
And the sleeping giant is breathing: volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that in parts of Yellowstone the ground has risen over seventy centimetres this century. Is this just the harmless movement of lava, flowing from one part of the reservoir to another? Or does it presage something much more sinister, a pressurised build-up of molten lava?
Scientists have very few answers, but they do know that the impact of a Yellowstone eruption is terrifying to comprehend. Huge areas of the USA would be destroyed, the US economy would probably collapse, and thousands might die.
And it would devastate the planet. Climatologists now know that Toba blasted so much ash and sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere that it blocked out the sun, causing the Earth's temperature to plummet. Some geneticists now believe that this had a catastrophic effect on human life, possibly reducing the population on Earth to just a few thousand people. Mankind was pushed to the edge of extinction... and it could happen again.
First shown: BBC2 9:30pm Thursday 3rd February 2000
Hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface lie one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolcanoes. Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts it will be unlike any volcano we have ever witnessed. The explosion will be heard around the world. The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
Normal volcanoes are formed by a column of magma - molten rock - rising from deep within the Earth, erupting on the surface, and hardening in layers down the sides. This forms the familiar cone shaped mountain we associate with volcanoes. Supervolcanoes, however, begin life when magma rises from the mantle to create a boiling reservoir in the Earth's crust. This chamber increases to an enormous size, building up colossal pressure until it finally erupts.
The last supervolcano to erupt was Toba 74,000 years ago in Sumatra. Ten thousand times bigger than Mt St Helens, it created a global catastrophe dramatically affecting life on Earth. Scientists know that another one is due - they just don't know when... or where.
It is little known that lying underneath one of America's areas of outstanding natural beauty - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest supervolcanoes in the world. Scientists have revealed that it has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago... so the next is overdue.
And the sleeping giant is breathing: volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that in parts of Yellowstone the ground has risen over seventy centimetres this century. Is this just the harmless movement of lava, flowing from one part of the reservoir to another? Or does it presage something much more sinister, a pressurised build-up of molten lava?
Scientists have very few answers, but they do know that the impact of a Yellowstone eruption is terrifying to comprehend. Huge areas of the USA would be destroyed, the US economy would probably collapse, and thousands might die.
And it would devastate the planet. Climatologists now know that Toba blasted so much ash and sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere that it blocked out the sun, causing the Earth's temperature to plummet. Some geneticists now believe that this had a catastrophic effect on human life, possibly reducing the population on Earth to just a few thousand people. Mankind was pushed to the edge of extinction... and it could happen again.
Gaia_Lorraine
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A balanced arguement....
The term "supervolcano" has no specifically defined scientific meaning. It was used by the producers of The BBC TV show Horizion in 2000 to refer to volcanoes that have generated Earth's largest volcanic eruptions (Source http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm )
However, the fact still remains that Yellowstone is one huge volcanic crater.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/calyellow.jpg
The term "supervolcano" has no specifically defined scientific meaning. It was used by the producers of The BBC TV show Horizion in 2000 to refer to volcanoes that have generated Earth's largest volcanic eruptions (Source http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm )
However, the fact still remains that Yellowstone is one huge volcanic crater.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/calyellow.jpg
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