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Jastermereel Good Karma
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070513/faked-attack
Quote: | MURFREESBORO, Tenn. ? Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.
The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park, said Scales Elementary School Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip.
"We got together and discussed what we would have done in a real situation," he said.
But parents of the sixth-grade students were outraged.
"The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives, because they thought there was someone with a gun after them," said Brandy Cole, whose son went on the trip.
Some parents said they were upset by the staff's poor judgment in light of the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech that left 33 students and professors dead, including the gunman.
During the last night of the trip, staff members convinced the 69 students that there was a gunman on the loose. They were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay quiet. A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, even pulled on locked door.
After the lights went out, about 20 kids started to cry, 11-year-old Shay Naylor said.
"I was like, 'Oh My God,' " she said. "At first I thought I was going to die. We flipped out."
Principal Catherine Stephens declined to say whether the staff members involved would face disciplinary action, but said the situation "involved poor judgment." |
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fate Uber-Karma
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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hmm huffington post seems a tad behind on their news. I could swear this was linked on wtf_inc at least a couple weeks ago.
Either that or this is not an isolated incident. _________________ People's whole lives do pass before their eyes before they die. The process is called living.
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Jastermereel Good Karma
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm
Edit: and an update
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Mogri Uber-Karma
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fate Uber-Karma
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.winknews.com/features/cribb/7962072.html _________________ People's whole lives do pass before their eyes before they die. The process is called living.
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Jastermereel Good Karma
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/japanese-skirt-fear-of-crime/2007/10/20/1192301096588.html
Quote: | She said her idea of the vending machine disguise was inspired by a trick used by Japan's ancient ninja, who cloaked themselves under black blankets at night. |
_________________ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula
Quote: | Turritopsis nutricula is a hydrozoan (jellyfish) with a life cycle in which it reverts back to the polyp stage after becoming sexually mature. It is the first case in which a metazoan (animal) is capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary stage (Piraino, p. 302). It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation. This cycle then repeats, rendering it effectively immortal. |
_________________ People's whole lives do pass before their eyes before they die. The process is called living.
Most of the time its easier to get along with people before you get to know them. |
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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"Flavored" bottled oxygen...
http://www.thebigox.net/english/about/ _________________ People's whole lives do pass before their eyes before they die. The process is called living.
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Trool Good Karma
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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someone recreated part of world 1 of mario using only javascript.....
http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/04/super-mario-in-14kb-javascript.html _________________ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'
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fate Uber-Karma
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Transformer owl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es52WQKLumI _________________ People's whole lives do pass before their eyes before they die. The process is called living.
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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http://kotaku.com/383995/stalin-vs-martians _________________ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'
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Jastermereel Good Karma
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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A thread chock full of RPG related motivational poster parodies:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79061 _________________ The old Jastermereel account seems to have been killed in an unfortunate email changing accident. I am an illegal clone manufactured on a little known island state off the coast of...well...never you mind. Pretend nothing happened and you won't have to face the combined wrath of the Guild of Calamitous Intent and the League of Awesomeness. |
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Jastermereel Good Karma
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 9:25 am Post subject: |
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A hybrid of Star Wars and the 9/11 theories.
http://www.themovieblog.com/2008/03/death-star-destruction-conspiracy-theory _________________ The old Jastermereel account seems to have been killed in an unfortunate email changing accident. I am an illegal clone manufactured on a little known island state off the coast of...well...never you mind. Pretend nothing happened and you won't have to face the combined wrath of the Guild of Calamitous Intent and the League of Awesomeness. |
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.libertyeditions.com/LbertyEditionsSite/index.html
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
...also...Ron Paul. Click on any of the four "prints" for instant hilarity. _________________ People's whole lives do pass before their eyes before they die. The process is called living.
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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I've seen that back when Firefox was Mozilla. Do you know if that's different in Firefox 3? _________________ People's whole lives do pass before their eyes before they die. The process is called living.
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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Norway knights a penguin.....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26219632/ _________________ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'
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