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Ive been looking at some crazy thing called Before Its News. Thats where the elephant dung story came from. It got some really strange stuff like Obama care plans to microchip every American next year, people living in micro-houses 100 ft. square, troops ordered to kill all Americans who dont give up their guns, all kinds of conspiricy stuff. Might be some truth to some of it, but the webpage is crammed with ads to sell survival supplies, generators, food, all kinds of stuff. That probably says something about those kind of websites right there. Anyway its fun to read.
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Gossip Girl (As always), final season.
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I was just watching something where Robert Ballard, the underwater guy who found the Titantic is starting a search for Noahs Ark. That would really be something if he found it, but I would think it would have rotted away after all this time.
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Bighuey wrote:I was just watching something where Robert Ballard, the underwater guy who found the Titantic is starting a search for Noahs Ark. That would really be something if he found it, but I would think it would have rotted away after all this time.
I love those kind of programmes .... just imagine if they found enough DNA to clone a unicorn. There were unicorns on the Ark right?
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Fran wrote:
Bighuey wrote:I was just watching something where Robert Ballard, the underwater guy who found the Titantic is starting a search for Noahs Ark. That would really be something if he found it, but I would think it would have rotted away after all this time.
I love those kind of programmes .... just imagine if they found enough DNA to clone a unicorn. There were unicorns on the Ark right?
That could be possible Fran. I saw on one of those oddball newsletters that in Korea I believe it was, they found unicorn remains. There was a book that came out some years ago In Search Of Noahs Ark. I dont remember the author but it was about people over the years looking for the ark, some claimed to have found it, there were photographs of what was claimed to be the ark on Mt. Aariat, pieces of wood that supposedly came from the ark, stuff like that. If you can find the book its an interesting read. There was a movie made from it in the 70's by a Utah movie co, Sun Classic Pictures.
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What I'm watching is not so intellectual...Tony Bennett recording duets with Natalie Cole, Andrea Bocelli etc. I don't know how old he is but he's older than I am and his voice is as good as ever. He's one of the greats in my book.
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Tony Bennett most be about 140 by now, but true, he still sounds good. Another one who is in his 80's and still has a great voice is Eddie Dean. Frank Sinatra made that album shortly before he died and one critic called it a nightmare. He was right, it was bad. He should have quit while he was still on top.
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@Bighuey. Yes, I was always embarrassed for Frank Sinatra when he sang in his later years. My mother used to be so upset with me when I was a girl and listened to Frankie because he'd divorced his wife. That would have been in the early 1950's. How times have changed.
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Times have changed, thats for sure Geneen. Singers nowdays are involved in scandals, drugs, but no one seems to give it a second thought. I remember when it came out that Johnny Ray was gay, that pretty much ruined his career. Never heard much about him after that.
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I always wondered what happened to him. I loved his songs.
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I did too. I liked The Little White Cloud That Cried. I saw him on that half hour show Sha Na Na had on back in the 70's or 80's.
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The new season of Family Guy is doing it for me at the moment, still a great show even now..
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Mayday is over on Nat Geo :( I don't know what to watch now.
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Some crazy thing about a 6 ft. praying mantis someone was supposed to have seen. What ever he was drinking I want some.
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StephenKingman wrote:The new season of Family Guy is doing it for me at the moment, still a great show even now..
I love Family Guy!
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