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Anon, the best part of that list is:

Orenthal Simpson

Miami, FL 33176

$1,435,484.17

Personal income tax

09/01/1999
 
One cubic meter of U-238 (a.k.a. depleted uranium) weighs 41,998 pounds and is 70% more dense than lead.

(Sorry, been on a chemistry kick of late).
 
I believe there was some thread where people despaired about kids only wanting to chase easy money because some teen said he wanted to be a mortgage broker when he grew up.

But there is hope - the most popular choice among kindergardeners for what they want to be when they grow up is a superhero. And many want to be police officers, even though they figure they make $29 a year.

When I Grow Up: Kids' Dream Job Salaries

http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/09/kids-dream-jobs-ent-dream1007-cx_de_1009salary.html?boxes=popstories
 
It has finally hit ICanHasCheezburger

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/10/12/oh-noez-mah-mortgage-dun-readjusted

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A rather unusual post fromhttp://lansner.freedomblogging.com/2007/10/19/tell-us-whats-next-for-oc-home-prices/

Carlos Says:

October 19th, 2007 at 10:00 pm

Buying a decent beautiful house is like a marriage made in heaven at first. Foreclosure is like a painful divorce at the end.

Make sure you do not catch a falling knives. I did.

Pebbles Says:

October 19th, 2007 at 10:16 pm

(I’m afraid to ask, because I don’t believe Carlos is into 2-way communication, but here goes.)

Carlos,

A real falling knife?

You said you never had credit - how did you pull off buying a house?

Carlos Says:

October 20th, 2007 at 2:28 am

We were asked to train and then transferred our know how to our teams in India and China for 6 months. Process went very well. Our management were so happy with the result.

Back home, I have had a weirdest dreams in my sleep. Our family were gone and our house emptied. We were desperate, believing that a foreclosure notice and pink slip could come any week. “I was asking God to show me the way.”

Suddently, President George Bush on gorgeous white unicorn, Treasury Henry Paulson on a huge decorated elephant, and ex Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan on a muscular donkey as a 3 white knights in a shining amours. They were rushing to rescue us all. We eagerly stood on the sidewalk and cheered loudly.

When I woke up, sweat was all over and I could not sleep for the next 3 days. Now I spending the next 2 weeks in hospital without health insurance, our jobs are in India and China, our retirment is gone and my house is foreclosed.

Too old to find a new job and too early to retire. Time of adversity catch up with us all.
 
Fixed the thread by editing my post above. Sorry, sometimes forget to copy & paste into Notepad f irst to remove all the weird HTML formatting that messes up the posts.
 
Yes, I was back home in New England. Perfect fall weather. I'll be in chat in a few....the boards are running really slow for me tonight.
 
Some 1/3 of Americans believe in ghosts.

"To put the roughly one-third who believe in ghosts and UFOs in perspective, it's about the same as, in recent AP-Ipsos polls, the 36 percent who said they are baseball fans; the 37 percent who said the U.S. made the right decision to invade Iraq; and the 31 percent who approve of the job President Bush is doing. A smaller but still substantial 23 percent say they have actually seen a ghost..."

poll results
 
OK, since we are in a bubble.

It seems that the tulips that the Dutch were most enamoured of, were rare for a reason. Even ordinary bulbs were desired, but the great rarities, all lacy and with several colors were rare for a reason.

They were infected with a virus which affected their color and petal shape. And apparently wasn't so hot for the plant, otherwise the interesting shapes and colors wouldn't have been so rare.

There was a Scientific American article on it some years ago.
 
An email I received....this development is about 45 minutes North of Tahoe.... desperate times call for desperate measures.....

. Live Mortgage/Loan Free For One Year at Sierra Park

__________________

Sierra Park in Quincy, California is offering a special incentive to

hew homeowners. For a limited time, Sierra Park will pay their buyers

mortgage/loan for a year on a new home (excluding the Helmsley

design). Buyers can pick their lot and home design and let Sierra

Park do the rest by crediting back one year's mortgage/loan. Or, if

buyers use cash, they'll credit the equivalent of up to $20,000 at

the close of escrow! That's a fantastic savings!

Call 530-283-9301 or visit Sierra Park on the web at

www.sierraparkatquincy.com for pricing and more information on this

amazing deal.

http://www.sierraparkatquincy.com
 
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