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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2085 on: April 13, 2011, 11:28:51 AM »
You used to be able to buy copper sulfate for killing roots growing into your sewer pipes but it is illegal in Ct now
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2086 on: April 13, 2011, 11:29:46 AM »
Wtf? It's even legal in Sweden.  ???
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2087 on: April 13, 2011, 02:33:24 PM »
i have never ever seen,  or reported to have seen, the Loch Ness Monster!

uncanny?  i know :zoinks:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2088 on: April 13, 2011, 02:35:05 PM »
Nessie is  :viking:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2089 on: April 13, 2011, 02:47:17 PM »
Nessie is not brave enough to show me his tinky winky :zoinks:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2090 on: April 13, 2011, 02:52:25 PM »
Quote from: SlackBladder on April 13, 2011, 02:47:17 PM
Nessie is not brave enough to show me his tinky winky :zoinks:

I don't think Nessie is of any relation to scrap dear.  :orly:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2091 on: April 13, 2011, 02:58:20 PM »
Quote from: Ink Fish on April 13, 2011, 02:52:25 PM
Quote from: SlackBladder on April 13, 2011, 02:47:17 PM
Nessie is not brave enough to show me his tinky winky :zoinks:

I don't think Nessie is of any relation to scrap dear.  :orly:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2092 on: April 13, 2011, 04:21:39 PM »
Quote from: TheoK on April 13, 2011, 11:29:46 AM
Wtf? It's even legal in Sweden.  ???

Illegal to sell for that application I should say
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2093 on: April 13, 2011, 05:43:07 PM »
Quote from: SlackBladder on April 13, 2011, 02:33:24 PM
i have never ever seen,  or reported to have seen, the Loch Ness Monster!

uncanny?  i know :zoinks:

But you live in England, and the Loch Ness Monster lives in Scotland!  You're in the wrong naighborhood.  :P
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2094 on: April 13, 2011, 06:14:29 PM »
John W. Booth was  :viking:
« Last Edit: April 13, 2011, 08:30:31 PM by PPK »
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2095 on: April 13, 2011, 06:41:17 PM »
Quote from: PPK on April 13, 2011, 06:14:29 PM
John W. Boothe was  :viking:

The man who shot Abraham Lincoln?
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2096 on: April 13, 2011, 08:17:35 PM »
Quote from: PPK on April 13, 2011, 06:14:29 PM
John W. Boothe was  :viking:

I dunno about that.  He acted pretty cowardly once the deed was done.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2097 on: April 13, 2011, 08:34:25 PM »
Quote from: MLA on April 13, 2011, 08:17:35 PM
Quote from: PPK on April 13, 2011, 06:14:29 PM
John W. Boothe was  :viking:

I dunno about that.  He acted pretty cowardly once the deed was done.
I don't consider trying to get to the South and then refusing to surrender when the barn was surrounded cowardly. Is your assessment of his courage based on his motivations, or his actions?
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2098 on: April 13, 2011, 08:39:22 PM »
Quote from: PPK on April 13, 2011, 08:34:25 PM
Quote from: MLA on April 13, 2011, 08:17:35 PM
Quote from: PPK on April 13, 2011, 06:14:29 PM
John W. Boothe was  :viking:

I dunno about that.  He acted pretty cowardly once the deed was done.
I don't consider trying to get to the South and then refusing to surrender when the barn was surrounded cowardly. Is your assessment of his courage based on his motivations, or his actions?

Have you watched the recent "American Experience" on the Lincoln Assassination?  It was pretty good.

I think in general it was the running that I found to be cowardly.  The Civil War had just ended.  If you wanted to kill for your cause you should be willing to die for your cause, just like all the Confederates he claimed to represent.  Men who lined up across a field and took turns shooting at each other without retreating or seeking cover.  Sneaking around and shooting a man from behind and then running is less  :viking: than  :tinfoil:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2099 on: April 13, 2011, 08:47:57 PM »
Quote from: MLA on April 13, 2011, 08:39:22 PM
Quote from: PPK on April 13, 2011, 08:34:25 PM
Quote from: MLA on April 13, 2011, 08:17:35 PM
Quote from: PPK on April 13, 2011, 06:14:29 PM
John W. Boothe was  :viking:

I dunno about that.  He acted pretty cowardly once the deed was done.
I don't consider trying to get to the South and then refusing to surrender when the barn was surrounded cowardly. Is your assessment of his courage based on his motivations, or his actions?

Have you watched the recent "American Experience" on the Lincoln Assassination?  It was pretty good.

I think in general it was the running that I found to be cowardly.  The Civil War had just ended.  If you wanted to kill for your cause you should be willing to die for your cause, just like all the Confederates he claimed to represent.  Men who lined up across a field and took turns shooting at each other without retreating or seeking cover.  Sneaking around and shooting a man from behind and then running is less  :viking: than  :tinfoil:
OTOH successfully assassinating someone and getting away to be an ongoing thorn in their side is more likely to get others to try and emulate that action. When the SOE team that assassinated Heydrich sought to escape afterward rather than fall on their swords were they cowards? Or Claus von Stauffenberg for leaving the staff meeting?
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