Posted by
michael
on from the head-in-the-stars dept.
TrinSF writes "SFGate.com, run by the San Francisco Chronicle, has a story on Comet Ikeya-Zhang. It's on a 350 year cycle, and should be visible to the naked eye in some places over the next few weeks. Here's a gallery of pictures, too."
-- The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Re: ScrewBall is a kind of ice cream
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User+956
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· Score: -1, Troll
Screwball was a type of ice cream when I was a kid. From the seventies and eighties. Imagine an upturned Dalek (on a much smaller scale, obviously) made of plastic and fill it full of ice-cream with a kind of strawberry sauce. It was eaten with a small wooden shovel. The name 'Screwball' came from the fact that right at the bottom, where the head of the Dalek would have been, was a chewing-gum ball, a hard candy-shelled thing. Is this what the majority of people felt they wanted to eat after noshing on an ice-cream? Or was it just a gimmick? - Call me a cynic, but...
After the success of the Screwball had waned, they came out with the 'Two-ball Screwball': you can probably guess what else they'd added to it to warrant the name. What on earth would an ice-cream consumer do with two pieces? They could eat one, sure. But where would they put the other, all covered with ice-cream as it was? The feminine rhyme of 'Two-ball Screwball' is all very well - but should it really dictate marketting policy? No doubt this shouldn't distress me as much as it does...
I have no idea why either variant was popular, mind you - in essence it's just a wafer cone with vanilla ice-cream and strawberry sauce (and the brilliance of the wafer cone, of course, is that you can eat all of the product - there's no plastic kicking about for the rest of the life of the planet (mind you - who cared about that in the 70s and 80s?)). And with a Screwball you can't eat the cone afterwards. Or push all the ice-cream to the bottom with your tongue until it squirts out of the end. Or snap off the end and use the resulting small cone to scoop up a little bit of the ice-cream and make mini ice-cream cones.
All the taste and fun of an ice-cream cone. Without the fun...
-- The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Misleading COMM: Ikeya-Zhang isn't a comet
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Netw0rkAssh0liates
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Dear users of Network Associates Inc.'s Slashdot.org service,
We would like to inform you that Slashdot.org is perpetuating a lie in the form of a story on slashdot.org. This lie began as a chain letter and the chain letter states that anyone who does not believe their is a UFO hidden behind the Ikeya-Zhang comet will experience 7 years of bad chinese food. Please be aware that this does not cover food spoilage... The Ikeya-Zhang comet does not exist and it is a ploy to join a cult. For updates on this chain letter scare, please visit Network Associates Inc.'s mirror on the geocities.com domain. We choose geocities so we do not have our main website slashdotted. The website can be reached here. Thankyou for your time and please do not trust something you haven't experienced(especially from what troll story-writers try to convince you of otherwise).
Re:"Clenched fist"
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User+956
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Sometimes, although typically the measurement is taken from the wrist. For a better idea of what I'm talking about, check out this page
-- The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
ode to ownage
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Anonymous Coward
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The ownage on this server is impressive. You people know how to get owned and get owned good. You guys get owned so well that it has inspired a poem in me. Here it is. I hope you enjoy it. It's called 'ode to ownage'.
So you were owned Well that's too bad Your ass was kicked And I am glad You were beaten It made you sad You went and cried To mom and dad
On behalf of Goetze Inc., I would like to make everyone aware that
Goetze Inc. has no affiliation with the www.goatse.cx domain and
Goetze Inc. is a manufacturer of consumer foods and other goods. The true
webpage of Goetze Inc. is www.goetzecandy.com
and please be considerate of Goetze Inc.'s webmasters by not harassing
them with images of the unrelated and distasteful www.goetse.cx webpage. Thankyou,
for understanding why I must resolve this issue.
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The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Screwball was a type of ice cream when I was a kid. From the seventies and eighties. Imagine an upturned Dalek (on a much smaller scale, obviously) made of plastic and fill it full of ice-cream with a kind of strawberry sauce. It was eaten with a small wooden shovel. The name 'Screwball' came from the fact that right at the bottom, where the head of the Dalek would have been, was a chewing-gum ball, a hard candy-shelled thing. Is this what the majority of people felt they wanted to eat after noshing on an ice-cream? Or was it just a gimmick? - Call me a cynic, but... After the success of the Screwball had waned, they came out with the 'Two-ball Screwball': you can probably guess what else they'd added to it to warrant the name. What on earth would an ice-cream consumer do with two pieces? They could eat one, sure. But where would they put the other, all covered with ice-cream as it was? The feminine rhyme of 'Two-ball Screwball' is all very well - but should it really dictate marketting policy? No doubt this shouldn't distress me as much as it does...
I have no idea why either variant was popular, mind you - in essence it's just a wafer cone with vanilla ice-cream and strawberry sauce (and the brilliance of the wafer cone, of course, is that you can eat all of the product - there's no plastic kicking about for the rest of the life of the planet (mind you - who cared about that in the 70s and 80s?)). And with a Screwball you can't eat the cone afterwards. Or push all the ice-cream to the bottom with your tongue until it squirts out of the end. Or snap off the end and use the resulting small cone to scoop up a little bit of the ice-cream and make mini ice-cream cones.
All the taste and fun of an ice-cream cone. Without the fun...
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
We would like to inform you that Slashdot.org is perpetuating a lie in the form of a story on slashdot.org. This lie began as a chain letter and the chain letter states that anyone who does not believe their is a UFO hidden behind the Ikeya-Zhang comet will experience 7 years of bad chinese food. Please be aware that this does not cover food spoilage... The Ikeya-Zhang comet does not exist and it is a ploy to join a cult. For updates on this chain letter scare, please visit Network Associates Inc.'s mirror on the geocities.com domain. We choose geocities so we do not have our main website slashdotted. The website can be reached here. Thankyou for your time and please do not trust something you haven't experienced(especially from what troll story-writers try to convince you of otherwise).
Sincerely,
Bob Grover (RBGCeqT, 1968)
buddy.geocities.com/nailabs
I guess he'll never really be gone. :-)
Sometimes, although typically the measurement is taken from the wrist. For a better idea of what I'm talking about, check out this page
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
The ownage on this server is impressive. You people know how to get owned and get owned good. You guys get owned so well that it has inspired a poem in me. Here it is. I hope you enjoy it. It's called 'ode to ownage'.
So you were owned
Well that's too bad
Your ass was kicked
And I am glad
You were beaten
It made you sad
You went and cried
To mom and dad
cry baby, cry
cry baby, cry
cry baby, cry
cry baby, cry
owned
This might be of some assistance. It should give you a better idea of how to properly adjust your equipment.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I mean, how long do you spend writing a game and forget about basic fucking options?
Yah, eventually I found the dot-file to configure it, but PLEASE, this is ridiculous.
Now my whole weekend is ruined cause I spent 3 hours looking for the tux racer config file. FUCK!!!
On behalf of Goetze Inc., I would like to make everyone aware that Goetze Inc. has no affiliation with the www.goatse.cx domain and Goetze Inc. is a manufacturer of consumer foods and other goods. The true webpage of Goetze Inc. is www.goetzecandy.com and please be considerate of Goetze Inc.'s webmasters by not harassing them with images of the unrelated and distasteful www.goetse.cx webpage. Thankyou, for understanding why I must resolve this issue.
Sincerely,
Bob Istand (RBGCeqT, 1971)