Octopus Overlords

by **coopasonic** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:29 am

Brian wrote:

looks like an entry for parenting.awesomeblog.org to me. If only I could get my little one to go down the stairs that quickly. :twisted:

by **Carpet_pissr** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:49 pm

To be fair, everything that I have read by those who have actually used Metro (Win 8, on the right), is almost over the top with praise about how awesome it is.

I tend to like my OS stodgy and clean (Win XP, even Win 7), so I am wary, but I have an open mind.

by **EvilHomer3k** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:39 pm

coopasonic wrote:
Brian wrote:

looks like an entry for parenting.awesomeblog.org to me. If only I could get my little one to go down the stairs that quickly.

I wish I could freerun like that. Kid is a prodigy.

by **Enough** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:42 pm

EvilHomer3k wrote:
coopasonic wrote:
Brian wrote:

looks like an entry for parenting.awesomeblog.org to me. If only I could get my little one to go down the stairs that quickly.

I wish I could freerun like that. Kid is a prodigy.

My siblings and I often went down the stairs like that as tykes. It was fun!

by **Kasey Chang** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:48 pm

coopasonic wrote:
Brian wrote:

looks like an entry for parenting.awesomeblog.org to me. If only I could get my little one to go down the stairs that quickly.

I guess if you don't want your kid to reproduce in the future... :twisted:

by **Daehawk** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:59 pm

I think I did something like that one day on thr front steps after a rain. I broke my tailbone though.

by **Jiffy** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:34 am

As found in a cafe in New Zealand. It was good, but not mind-blowing.

by **Kasey Chang** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:34 am

Why, nobody told you guys about my neighborhood pizzaria?

by **Holman** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 7:00 am

Jiffy wrote:As found in a cafe in New Zealand. It was good, but not mind-blowing.

Did your date get some too?

by **KKBlue** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:59 am

Please don't forget about us. We like ice cream very much. In fact, you will have a better day if we get ice cream. Doesn't really matter if it's a cone or cup, just give us some. We deserve a treat

by **Blackhawk** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:36 am

Holman wrote:
Did your date get some too?

I hope so. A gentleman will give his date her's before partaking of his own.

by **pr0ner** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:25 pm

by **Brian** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 6:28 pm

Blackhawk wrote:
Holman wrote:
Did your date get some too?

I hope so. A gentleman will give his date her's before partaking of his own.

Man: You'd better hurry up and finish your ice cream

Woman: But I want us to finish our ice cream together

M: You've got five seconds

W: I'm not ready to finish my....

M: ICE CREEEAMMM!!!! Wooooo!

W: Ugh. Brain freeze.

by **Unagi** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 6:36 pm

Maybe the orgasm is had by the maker before hand, and it's not intended for the consumer.

by **GreenGoo** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 6:58 pm

Unagi wrote:Maybe the orgasm is had by the maker before hand, and it's not intended for the consumer.

Oh it's intended for the consumer alright.

by **Unagi** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:15 pm

GreenGoo wrote:
Unagi wrote:Maybe the orgasm is had by the maker before hand, and it's not intended for the consumer.

Oh it's intended for the consumer alright.

right, but just the consumption.

by **Exodor** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:51 pm

by **Sectoid** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:10 am

by **Holman** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:53 am

What, no Tim Hortons??

Speaking of which, here's what you get when you go to the Tim Hortons website:

You can't fool me with your subliminal advertising, Canada!

by **Toe** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:01 am

by **lildrgn** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:45 am

by **Cylus Maxii** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:13 pm

I imagine Flight of the Valkyries playing in that last pic.

by **silverjon** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:41 am

by **Bakhtosh** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:55 pm

by **Brian** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 1:58 pm

by **Paingod** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:00 pm

Brian wrote:

They must have deliberately made that room that number. That's too perfect.

by **LordMortis** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:00 pm

Nice. Is that real?

by **triggercut** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:58 pm

Not particularly silly or funny or NSFW...but if you're an acrophobic like me, this will get you dizzy:

(That's longtime Post-Dispatch photographer Reynold Ferguson snapping a picture from the apex of the then newly-completed Gateway Arch.)

by **Blackhawk** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:13 am

The idea of laying prone at that height wouldn't bother me, but having been up to the top of the arch, I don't want to think about the process behind getting up on the top like that.

by **triggercut** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:23 am

Blackhawk wrote:The idea of laying prone at that height wouldn't bother me, but having been up to the top of the arch, I don't want to think about the process behind getting up on the top like that.

When the Arch was built, for a few years it was a daredevil pilot's Everest--flying a small plane through the legs was a thing. The FAA put a quick stop to that with surveillance gear and (now modern radar) that makes attempting it a federal crime punishable by a lengthy jail sentence.

In the late 1970's or early 1980's, some poor yutz decided that he'd like to parachute through the legs. He'd skydive out of a plane well above the arch and then steer his chute so he went through the legs.

The guy rolled snake eyes. He actually landed on the very top of the arch itself. He began frantically attempting to get out of his harness when a gust of wind picked up and grabbed the chute...and he slid to his death down one of the legs.

by **triggercut** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:34 am

Oh, and apparently there's a trap door up on the very top of the Arch from which maintenance on the aircraft warning light at the top can be performed. Guessing that's how ol' Renyold got up there.

by **The Meal** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:45 am

triggercut wrote:Oh, and apparently there's a trap door up on the very top of the Arch from which maintenance on the aircraft warning light at the top can be performed. Guessing that's how ol' Renyold got up there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WESpZIOWxOQ

Also, does anyone know how to spell Snopes? (Oh, nevermind!)

by **triggercut** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:13 am

The Meal wrote:Also, does anyone know how to spell Snopes? (Oh, nevermind!)

You doubted me?

Dude. I was alive when this happened. I can vividly remember it on the front page of the Sunday Post-Dispatch. As grade school kids it was an immensely popular topic of discussion.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_bo ... hi2-13.htm

The other major way in which people tried to "conquer" the Gateway Arch was by scaling it and/or parachuting from it. The first instance of this behavior ended in tragedy. On Saturday, November 22, 1980, at approximately 8:55 a.m., Kenneth Swyers of Overland, Missouri, "was seen parachuting above the Gateway Arch. It appeared that Swyers landed on top of the Arch and that he was thrown off balance when the wind caught his parachute. Swyers' parachute deflated and [he] fell down the North Leg of the Arch. Approximately [half-way] down Swyers attempted to deploy his auxiliary parachute, however it failed to open and Swyers landed on his head on the concrete terrazzo. Swyers was pronounced dead at the St. Louis City Hospital at 0950 hours." [2]

The 33-year-old Swyers requested permission to make a parachute jump in the vicinity of the Arch on August 21, 1980, which was denied by Charles Ross, special assistant to the superintendent. Swyers watched a television program the night before his death which showed daredevil acts of parachute jumping. Swyers was himself a parachute enthusiast who had made more than 1,600 jumps, and on the morning of his death, he left a note for his wife to come to the Arch to photograph his jump. Few park employees or visitors were on the grounds before 9:00 a.m. in late November when Swyers made his jump. Park Technician Lisa Hanfgarn, hurrying to get to work on time, thought she saw an object fall down the North Leg of the Arch as she entered the doors to the complex. She reported this to Seasonal Park Technician Liz Schmidt (of the law enforcement division), who was monitoring the north entrance doors. Schmidt went outside to discover the body of Swyers lying in the midst of his parachutes, and immediately radioed to law enforcement rangers requesting assistance, an ambulance and the city police. Two St. Louis city policemen, who witnessed the jump from Wharf Street, arrived on the scene and documented the fatal injury to Swyers. An ambulance was on the scene by 8:59 a.m. Mr. Swyers' wife was on the grounds at the time of the accident and saw her husband fall to his death. She came forward at the accident scene, viewing her husband's body and eventually covering his face with his parachute. A large crowd gathered, composed of visitors, police and medical personnel. Park Technician Schmidt later testified that the weather was blustery, cold and windy, and that it was not a good day for a jump, near the Arch or elsewhere. The FAA was immediately notified, and an investigation eventually turned up the pilot who ferried Swyers over the Arch to make his fatal jump. As a result, Richard Skurat of Overland, Missouri had his pilot's license suspended for 90 days by the FAA in December 1980. [3]

by **The Meal** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:51 am

The gust of wind caused the skydiver to slide down one of the legs of the arch to his death was a bit too convenient for my tastes.

by **Sectoid** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:11 am

by **WYBaugh** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:42 pm

Bbq by wybaugh, on Flickr

by **Sectoid** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:31 am

by **LordMortis** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:41 am

That would be funnier if they made it The Catcher in R'Lyeh

Which would actually be a cool story... Holden is the only on who sees how things really are while is little sis tries to help him to normalcy.

Phonies! Their everywhere.

The damned ducks in the murky pool already!!!!! Where are they coming from??? Where do to they go to????

I may need to write a novel.

by **TheMix** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:23 pm

LordMortis wrote:I may need to write a novel.

God help us all! :wink:

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