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Davenhill - Nov 20, 2002 7:04 am
Edited by siobhan halo Jul 26, 2007 12:09 am
(2794 previous messages)
- Aug 12, 2010 12:20 am (#2795 of 2812)
groan
Sinbad44
- Aug 12, 2010 12:22 am (#2796 of 2812)
Or maybe she just felt that 'revenge is a dish best served cold'.
- Aug 12, 2010 1:02 am (#2797 of 2812)
Argggh!
- Aug 12, 2010 1:04 am (#2798 of 2812)
I guess he was iced.
- Aug 12, 2010 1:07 am (#2799 of 2812)
And here I thought the girlfriend was frigid.
Matthew Best
- Aug 14, 2010 10:31 am (#2800 of 2812)
Who'd have thawed it?
Matthew Best
- Aug 14, 2010 10:32 am (#2801 of 2812)
I imagine the girlfriend will get a frosty reception at the memorial service.
- Aug 14, 2010 1:31 pm (#2802 of 2812)
Ice say chill with the puns already, snow way to show your respect for the dead even if the guy did walk-into them.
Matthew Best
- Aug 14, 2010 2:17 pm (#2803 of 2812)
OK, no need to lose your cool.
- Aug 15, 2010 11:18 pm (#2804 of 2812)
Har.
Dorks.
- Aug 18, 2010 12:57 pm (#2805 of 2812)
I find that these days, the comments section on news stories can be quite illuminating.
I often find that relatives or people close to the crime post online and thye post some pretty interesting onformation.
When a local mayor killed her daughter and then herself, someone posted immediately that the daughter had not been accepted to UT as previously reported, and in fact had not been accepted anywhere. Evidently, her mom lied to her about it and it was one of the reasons she killed her. I read that bit two weeks before it was released.
- Aug 18, 2010 4:56 pm (#2806 of 2812)
Well, she may have killed her daughter over that but she more than likely killed herself over people discovering all the money she stole from the town while being such an exemplary mayor.
- Aug 18, 2010 5:04 pm (#2807 of 2812)
Yikes!
I often find that relatives or people close to the crime post online and thye post some pretty interesting onformation.
I've seen that with local stories, too.
TrilliumV.2
- Aug 18, 2010 5:13 pm (#2808 of 2812)
I've noticed that also -- the comments are often more interesting than the reports in the article.
Be wary though: I know of at least one case where a woman posted a criticism of someone, claiming to be the ex-wife of a well-known (and somewhat controversial) local man.
I am acquainted with the man and it didn't seem in character. Another person, smelling the same fishy story, went and personally checked with the actual ex-wife who then came onto the comments section and refuted the story -- and asked the newspaper to find out who had written the slander, because it wasn't her.
There's nothing quite like knowing people personally, then baseless rumors are much more difficult to plant.
This is probably one of the reasons why some people have proposed that there is a size limit to pleasant human communities (what is the number? before it's recommended that a social group should split off into colonies?)
It's also a reason why it's important to speak the same language. I'm sure there is a lot of activity going on within the Hispanic and Chinese immigrant communities (and other foreign language communities) that never makes it into the news because of the language barriers. Additionally, it would be difficult to check the facts because not enough people speak foreign languages. So, it becomes easier to spread rumors about "the other" because no one from outside can quite figure out what's going on, for real. It's too difficult to get personal testimonies.
- Aug 18, 2010 5:29 pm (#2809 of 2812)
This is probably one of the reasons why some people have proposed that there is a size limit to pleasant human communities (what is the number? before it's recommended that a social group should split off into colonies?)
Hutterites say about 150.
Woden
- Aug 18, 2010 5:34 pm (#2810 of 2812)
Dunbar's number.
- Aug 18, 2010 6:07 pm (#2811 of 2812)
That's a great book.
JayH - Sep 2, 2010 4:11 am (#2812 of 2812)
SYDNEY – A Tasmanian devil named Cedric, once thought to be immune to a contagious facial cancer threatening the iconic creatures with extinction, has been euthanized after succumbing to the disease, researchers said Wednesday.
The death of the devil — previously heralded as a possible key to saving the species — is another blow for scientists struggling to stop the rapid spread of the cancer, which is transmitted when the furry black marsupials bite each other.
"It was very disappointing indeed," said scientist Alex Kreiss of the Menzies Research Institute in Hobart, Tasmania, which has led the studies on Cedric. "It's just made us more determined to keep the research going." --[AP]
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