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I really wish people would stop seeing Oregon as a mecca. At this rate, I'll never be able to move back. I learned that the hard way moving from Boston to Eugene. Eugene was somewhat better off than places like Bend when I left in March to go back East. Still, I have never seen such massive turnout...

I was watching the film Goodfellas with several of my roommates and found it odd that Ray Liotta's character gets an entire day off between his sentencing and the beginning of his prison term. A roommate recalled that this is the basis of an entire movie ( 25th Hour ). None of us have any practical ...

Yalta?

I would imagine it would be Operation Bagration in which the Soviets completely annihilated an entire German Army Group in June 1944, or the Battle of Kursk . Bagration involved (According to Keegan's Second World War ) 166 Soviet Divisions supported by 2700 tanks, 1300 assault guns, and 4500 aircra...

Uh, wat? The name does sound intriguing, but... A duck tour is just an amphibious tour of the city. Using these WWII era vehicles (DUKWs) to tour both the streets of Boston and some parts of the harbor. They don't show as much of the city as the trolley tours do, but you do get to go on the water a...

*What do you have against the restaurant in the Pru? I've dined there a couple of times and enjoyed it. Sure it's expensive, but. . . Haha, that was a kind of inside joke aimed at you actually about the prices. Anyone who has been there knows about the prices. Similar to eating at the CN Tower thou...

In Boston, to start, I would take the nearest subway or bus, called the T, to Park Street Station on the Common. From here you can go almost anywhere of interest. The Freedom Trail starts across the street from the station as you emerge, and the Common is behind you. To visit the waterfront, specifi...

Retired Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold, who was in charge of the USS Cole battleship when it was attacked by suicide bombers in 2000, said, "Although the United States and other nations are working in a loose coalition to prevent piracy, the dwindling number of ships in our Navy amplifies the impact ...

Turns out wannabe tough guys and ninja wankers are a dime a dozen? I knew at least three or four guys like dan-dan in high school; they really aren't that uncommon. Indeed, perhaps I have just had the good luck of avoiding anyone quite this far out, or who so closely resembled my mental picture. I ...

Is it possible I have encountered a family member of the (in)famous Dan Dan the Ninja Man? So I just moved back to Boston from some time in Oregon. I tagged along with an old friend to a little get-together to meet some new people. About an hour into this the image I had always had in my head of Dan...

Stewart really can nail people on his show. I'm not sure if it is because he doesn't really dance around questions the way some interviewers do, or he just has his guests at a massive disadvantage because they don't expect to get such questions on a comedy show. I remember him tearing apart Bernie G...

Maybe Russia will join NATO and fight the Chinese. I do recall many people in the 90's talking about Russia joining NATO, though I don't think the Chinese were considered the reason for it. I don't think there was ever really a reason behind it except trying to justify NATO's existence in the post-...

This has been coming for sometime since Sarkozy got elected, if not before then. Barring the split over Iraq I thought France was even moving towards this as far back as the 1980's. Is NATO as American-dominated as it was during the Cold War, or has the US divested forces and relinquished more to th...

Nice. One question if I may. While I am glad to see this oft overlooked carrier, why did you choose the Bearn over more well-known carriers like the Eagle, which was also a conversion, Hermes, or the Japanese carriers. Length?

Lonestar wrote: For some reason I had thought that the Victory was tied up at a pier somewhere. Pretty effing sweet, if you ask me.

There is one. Nelson's Victory is tied up to a pier in Portsmouth. The Victory that was found was a ship built nearly 30 years before Nelson's Victory.

You are giving him far too much credit. He doesn't 'self-educate' he just 'selfs'. Beck thinks not knowing a damn makes him better qualified because he can use the common sense those experts lack. Always going on with their calculations and statistics, don't they know the solution to not enough oil ...

Anyone else feel like they will end up on the Cylon homeworld? RDM stated it had to be friendly to human life and it would allow for an explanation of how the Colonies own creation predate them. It also fits in for a final showdown with Cavil.

Drats! My first nBSG on the West Coast, I have to wait another 3 hours. No offense to those in the UK.

My vote goes to Felix.

EDIT: Curse you, MarshalFoch! :) :wink: It does appear there was at some point someone in the government who noted that devaluing the currency was a useless step. When they first began tackling the issue in late 2005/2006 the deputy finance minister stressed they needed to achieve inflation within ...

It won't make any difference as long as the country's economy can't back up it's puchasing power. It doesn't matter, as long as all those goddamn zeroes and those ridiculous numbers are cut down. They did do this back in August if I am not mistaken. They revalued their dollar so that a 10 billion d...

Before I moved across country I held a job as a deli clerk at a local supermarket for several years. Despite being a customer service job, I didn't encounter many instances of outright stupidity on the customers part. Lots of anger and annoyances and my own stupidity but no one who downright left me...

Perfect timing on finding this thread as I just got done with a round of annoying matches in NBA 2K9 with my new roommate. I have four roommates and aside from the landlord we are all big into sports, and 2K9 generally dominates the common room nowadays since we are all pretty evenly matched at it. ...

Likewise, I was very surprised by how enjoyable I found the movie. I was drawn to it by the supporting cast, particularly Branagh and Izzard (Even though he has a small role, it was worth it). I went into it expecting to be put off by Cruise but I managed to enjoy the movie without ever really remem...

I decided to just take a look at the rest of his website before deciding what value. Before then, I asked myself what the odd are that he is an anti-Semite and would have on his website something about the holocaust not happening. I gave it ten to one.....And I was right. This is one of the quotes ...

There were many incidents along the Polish-German frontier in late September, Gleiwitz was just the most well-known. Since I don't believe the Allies gave much thought to Gleiwitz until Naujocks defected I don't think the Germans gave a scrutinizing look at it at all. The one German I have ever talk...