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Hundreds Spot Fireballs In Colorado, Nearby States
pingpong writes "Hundreds of people in Colorado and 7 surrounding states have reported seeing "fireballs" in the night sky. They are described as being 10 to 15 times larger than a normal shooting star and bluish in color. Two people even claimed to see one land, but it has yet to be found. The Daily Camera is reporting it online here."
Field reports invited.
Now that that got your attention, VOTE FOR BART!
[fp?]
I think this guy owes us an explanation. Does he know something we should know?
Have you been stalked by Seth today?
Blue Balls?!?
KARMA TAG! You're it.
HAND.
first liar post!
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And i was really really looking forward to being probed.
S1R_Spankal0t
Keep salt water handy...it's your only defense! It melts them.
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
All we need now are signs in random fields and we can start to panic.
Arm those water guns!
It's all the little bits of sodium re-entering the atmosphere from the other guy's sodium-in-the-lake experiment.
I knew /. shouldn't have posted that story about Sodium and water
ok ok...I was going to do a blue dart, and I'd forgotten that I had ate mexican the night before...
Nah, those aren't fireballs... they were just downed weather balloons...
Move along, nothing to see here.
Cue spooky war of the worlds music
Expected to see some photos from The Daily Camera!
Greatest spell ever!
Not to be another terse bantering fool, but it is probably just the government prepping us for Iraq with some new technologies, or perhaps the aliens checking in on us, or maybe the George Forman Grill isn't quite as safe as we suspected.
The day of wrath is upon us!
...firestorm!
...firestorm!
...Moonlight is the witness of the most tragic day for our lands...
Rhapsody - Rain Of A Thousand Flames
DIES IRAE
REGNA NELL' OSCURITA'
Guardians of the moonlight bring the spell alive
trought the sphere of sorrow lead my holy ride
Titans of the desert face the warlord's pride
fighters from the near lakes join the tragic night
War of the ghostland take your souls
but give us freedom once and for all
UNDER THE RAIN OF A THOUSAND FLAMES
WE FACE THE REAL PAIN FALLING IN VAIN
WHILE THE DARK ANGEL SCREAMS FOR VENGEANCE
IN THE DEAD SHADOW OF FALLING STARS
Silent cries of virgins touch the heart of night
raped by the demons under painful sights
Sperm and blood and terror chaos in my head
Is the law of evil triumph for the damned
War of the ghostland take your souls
but give us freedom once and for all
UNDER THE RAIN OF A THOUSAND FLAMES
WE FACE THE REAL PAIN FALLING IN VAIN
WHILE THE DARK ANGEL SCREAMS FOR VENGEANCE
IN THE DEAD SHADOW OF FALLING STARS
nothing seems possible to change the destiny of war...
Lament of heroes reach the deep skies
fill the wide cosmos and free my pain... my pain!
UNDER THE RAIN OF A THOUSAND FLAMES
WE FACE THE REAL PAIN FALLING IN VAIN
WHILE THE DARK ANGEL SCREAMS FOR VENGEANCE
IN THE DEAD SHADOW
OF FALLING STARS
DIES IRAE
REGNA NELL' OSCURITA'
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It's gotta be weather balloons. It's always weatherballoons. Big, fiery, exploding weatherballoons
Be wary of any facts that confirm your opinion.
Terrorists!
one of those ships from Quaoar ..
geek page at KY speaks
Could it have anything to do with the three and a half pounds of sodium in the other story I just saw?
Quick! A giant meteor is speeding towards the earth! Send Bruce Willis and a couple of Oil drillers to save the world!!
in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
...fragments from the damaged space shuttle cam?
Over at the Denver Post
What about this guy? My guess it's a bunch of slashdotters with sodium and higher-powered launchers :-)
Hey, I know that I was tempted to go out and launch some sodium with water right away - phorm
FUCK YOU STUPID lameness filter COCK SUCKING NIGGER LOVERS. FEAR MY MAD GRAMMAR SKILLS shazam lameness filter. FUCK ALL OF YOU. I win. h03s
lameness filter
And it's got MY COCK written all over it...
Can anyone say Sodium??
There was a time in my life when I would have been excited by this. ...but then I saw 'Signs'.
I'm going to go home and start filling up water glasses.
A speech...
I had the time to: understand (maybe) what it was, wake up my wife, stop the car, get out an look. Total time maybe 20 seconds. The 'object' was moving slowly, spewing green flames and eaving a long lasting orange trail behind. Trajectory was more or less horizontal. It disapeared in a flash. I tried to listen but there wasn't any noise besides the cooling car engine.
Non-Linux Penguins ?
My favourite quote: "in the Gunbarrel area...". Americans! You're so damn steeped in gun culture you name neighbourhoods after weapons' parts. It just makes a canajen boy shake his head and celebrate the difference.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
This is slightly interesting news. Meteor showers look like this. The only strange part about this occurrence is that it isn't occurring during a meteor shower. (This is pretty much the conclusion of the article.)
BTW if any of you have a change, go see a meteor shower when they come around. It's quite amazing.
On the "astronomical" chance of anything being discovered, Sgt. Byfield said, police would have contacted officials from the University of Colorado to determine what to do.
Dude, I'd be mad as hell if some whack journalist put my name in the same goddamn PARAGRAPH as that pun.
"Ask me about Loom"
Well it had to happen folks, THEY are landing! Let's hope they mean to share this planet with our race!
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
I saw the most beautiful "shooting star" in Virginia Beach, VA Saturday night. It was a very cloudy night, so we were JOKING about the possibility of seeing a shooting star...and this one was probably the brightest I've seen in my life.
I wonder what's going on...
I saw a bunch of these today.
Although I just smoked a huge joint of kindbud (most potent shit ive ever smelt)
I also saw the grimus, and he was doing flips and dancing and chasing me.
(if you recall the Heaven's Gate mass exodus to join the "companion" of Hale-Bopp, it was Art Bell's program that reported the possibility of the companion to the comet)
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
Imagine if it were another country attacking. Then suddenly, your family is wiped out, dead, your home town, demolished.
Oops! The other country just needed your leader removed.
What the fuck did you do?
How is the "war" with Iraq morally responsible?
So many civilians will die.
So many will die.
Almost forgot:
http://rainof1000flames.cjb.net
Lots of other fireball sightings are documented on here.
Other than:
- When they arrived
- Where they were seen
- Why they were in this vicinity
- Color
- Speed
- Size
- Origin
- Composition [Class III Fireball - Do not handle without proper training and protection. Consult your handbook.]
Reach for the sky, hombre!She is an ugly, fat *fucking* pig. Check out her disgusting fat face here.[http://www.eugenia.co.uk/images/eugenia.jpg]
Here is her lame shit bio:
Name: Eugenia Loli-Queru [AKA FAT PIG STUPID BITCH]
Title: Editor-in-Chief [Editor? HAHAHAHA. That's a laugh. Cant spell or speak and is not technical.]
Email: eugenia@osnews.com [fat.pig@goatse.cx]
Personal website: http://www.eugenia.co.uk/
Birthday: 24th May, 1973
Current residence: Foster City (San Francisco Bay Area), CA, USA
Short biography: I worked for 2 years at BeNews, serving the BeOS and its community, and before that I was contributing as a news editor for a well known Gaming news site for about 8 months and I also co- held a fan site (LandOfEden) in the early development days of Lionhead's Black'n'White. For more information about me, you can always check my homepage.
I am Greek and english is not my native language. We do OSNews for fun (however, OSNews takes most of my time every day), so if you have a problem with my spelling and grammar either a) do not come back (spare us and save your time too) b) send me a proofread version of the article in question.
Whining about something I can't radically improve overnight, is not an option.
I have to agree. And now for posterity's sake I will post a fine collection of Eugenia treatises.
Ok. I am really getting tired of Slashdot reposting the crap rag OSNEWS on here. Please, PLEASE stop "editors". I don't know which of you has a fetish for Eugenia Loli, but this is supposed to be a Nerds site, not a technically impaired idiot site. Please, I implore you, please, STOP RE-POSTING OSNews *Crap* here. Here stuff is devoid of technical cross examinations, rife with conjecture and poor spelling and grammar, and she does what has long been disallowed here, the censoring of Anonymous Cowards. It is bad enough Slashdot isn't critically edited or reviewed, but in the absence of recourse by a commenting public free from censorship and suppression, OSNews is a totalitarian one way street. Please consider that she is likely to be getting kickback to review and announce things, and with her one way system, she could very well be lying to suit the needs of her underwriters without having recourse.
Hi there fat fucking pig lard ;p How are you you sweaty ugly fat Greek pig?
Why does anyone listen to Eugenia fat pig. she is a fucking cunt. Did you ever read her shit in OSNews? she censors out fucking everyone. its worse than the cunt moderation here on Slashdot. dude, it is a sad day here on Slashdot when you listen to a stupid fat bitch who is clearly dumber than any Ziff (Sith Davis) Davis idiot, and dare i say it, even fucking lamer than Jon the Jerkoff Katz.
Eugenia Loli needs to exposed. I will post 3 articles that show how fascist the Greeks can be, and that people like Eugenia perpetrate. Then I will cover My Big Fat Greek Wedding, with Fat being the operative word. Then some random Eugenia quotes. I hate you Eugenia, for being a fascist at OSNEWS. You are a pathetic waif who can not accept dissent, and you dictate to your small and withering community. I hope you get ovarian cancer.
Fat Eugenia Loli's Friends Ban all electronic games by mistake. Its people like Eugenia Loli that show that the formerly great state of Greece has eroded into a festering inbred, stupid hairy totalitarian fucks like herself. Now is the fatty greases sweltering out of her cellulite that makes it seem like Grease would be a more apropro name than Greece.
The Night Defender Fat Eugenia Loli Fat
Sweating and farting nervously on the verge of mental meltdown, ELQ reloads each of her precious OSNews pages, making sure all is well. Fifty Internet Explorer windows are open in Windows XP, it's grinding the hard drive to death. ELQ's cable modem and NIC activity LEDs are nearly solid from the raw frenzy of almost constant browser reloading. Eugenia's eyes twitch rapidly from window to window with Mercurial speed to make sure that any rogue comments do not escape her attention, always hitting her refresh buttons with pinpoint accuracy. No logical order for checking, purely random and impulse driven by raw Mediterranean temper, stopping for the occasional savage bite from a pork loin still affixed to the bone, Eugenia's eyes never leave the monitor.
"N-n-n-n NO! No TIME for Dance Dance Revolution, oh but it's been so long! I cannot allow the BASTARD flooders' comments to be seen. MY DOMAIN IS SACRED!"
Hair is frizzled and days unwashed, ass-crack just barely half wiped in a frenzy to return to her monitor, having taken a large shit earlier. No time to flush! Her armpits are over-ridden with pubic hair, her fat flaps reek of B.O. and yeast from days of neglect and hour upon hour of sweating. Relentless sweating.
"Cannot to be keeps up this pace! I may be need to go to hospital for exhaustions" she pants in desperation, wiping the sweat from a matted hair lock with her week-old t-shirt offering.
The hour of judgment approaches! Comment number 45 in thread 374 is clearly of anti-Greek sentiment! It reads "Eugenia continues to post yet another story that's simply ripped off from other websites. How much longer can this continue? It's my opinion that she has poor editorial skills. I think they should be revoked."
"YOU BASTARD FUCK!", Eugenia erupts in raw hatred, simultaneously ripping a 120 decibel-at-1-meter fart into the back of her chair. "Nobody is to be attack my site!" Eugenia blasts away at 10 words per minute in a barely-coherent broken English. She's on a mission. After several hours, the words on the screen are completely shattered and in disarray, they make no sense. Eugenia is impressed with her English progress and submits her lousy retort. Relaxing only for several seconds to savor the rush, she continues her patrol, sleepless into the night.
Greeks ban electronic games by mistake
Beware Greeks writing laws
By Adamson Rust: Sunday 01 September 2002, 17:40
ONE OF THE SO-CALLED CRADLES of European civilization appears to have got its Aristotle's all in a twist over computer gaming. And mobile phones, for that matter.
The Greek government appears to have lost its marbles.
The government wanted to prevent its people from wasting their money by using electronic slot machines but the democratically appointed government has banned all computer games everywhere by mistake.
And now the cops are raiding Internet cafes to enforce the said SNAFU.
The law, according to our Greek correspondents, prohibits any kind of game that is played on any kind of electronic equipment.
And it appears to have been drafted so loosely that that includes mobile phones.
Theoretically, the cops could bust into people's homes but so far apparently they have arrested Internet cafe owners and customers who were fighting a few rounds of Q3 CTF.
Next thing, the cops will be creeping up on people using their mobile phones just to make sure they're not playing a quick game rather than using them for their real purpose.
Here are some details of the cock up in Greek.
And there's more details about this at the Greek Net Cafe organization.
Give us a glass of hemlock, Socrates!
FAT EUGENIA FAT FAT LARD FAT PORCINE CORPULENT CELLULITE RIDDEN FAT
Eugenia, is that you? I hate you because of the way you censor. I hate you, and if I had to live in your kingdom in real life I would suicide attack you. Your death would be worthy ends to my means.
This is just another example of spineless crap moderation by Eugenia. I hate her fucking fascist fat fronds of celluite dripping down her bones and puddling up near here wrists which hinge har fat sausage fingers.
Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, EUGENIA FAT PIG LOLI's editing/moderating [read: censoring] ALL AGREE on ONE THING:
So, you busy little plebian proletariat BITCH, get busy, you have some censoring to do! FUN!
Good job you little neo-commies BITCH, EUGENIA FAT. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of OSNEWS and its fucking lame conjecture.]
A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
Crack Pipe
Crack smoke wafts though air
Dumb shit LOLI QUERU
Try to suck less, please
Humorless
Crack smoke wafts through air
Humorless LOLI QUERU
Why do you hate me?
The Proletariat
OSnews Commie
LOLI QUERU fears new idea!
Censor him quickly!
Get busy moderating this down, you little minions of the FAT GREASE LORD obedient prefects of the corrupt CUNT, LOLI! You are the vanguards of chunky brown vaginal discharges, and dissent is not allowed!
'My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding' Rolls on
Wed Aug 14, 3:23 PM ET
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a summer of huge movies that last just a few weeks in theaters and are lucky to break even, one little film won't quit.
Photo
AP Photo
The celebration has lasted all summer for "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding," a micro-budgeted romantic comedy with great word-of-mouth that has steadily climbed from 20th place on the box-office chart to No. 8 last weekend.
The film, about a woman who defies the traditions of her loud Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek family by marrying a man who isn't Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek, cost only about $5 million to produce. It has collected nearly $45 million since it's April debut, and the end of the honeymoon is nowhere in sight.
"I feel like I connected with absolute strangers across America. That's what I love more than anything," said Nia Vardalos, the star and writer, who adapted the film from her one-woman stage show.
"The money is like, 'Yeah, yeah.'
Vardalos, 39, said she had thought the film would cover its cost and maybe turn a small profit. "I thought I could just die happy that I made a Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek-American movie and I actually got to star in it and that's it," she said.
While "Men in Black II" and "Minority Report" have earned three times as much as Vardalos' film, they also cost about 20 times more to produce. Once marketing costs are factored in, those movies will likely show a profit only on home video.
By comparison, "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding," playing in only 723 theaters, continues to add screens and draw packed houses. Brian Fuson, box-office analyst for The Hollywood Reporter, said it could hold a spot in the top 10 for several more weeks.
"It was a slow roll-out, a few more theaters each week, building its way up," said Fuson. "It's basically what every small independent film hopes will happen."
The project developed after actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, who is Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek-American, saw Vardalos' Los Angeles stage play in 1998. They liked it so much that Hanks purchased the rights through his production company, Playtone Co., and agreed to let Vardalos adapt the story and take the starring role.
Other producers had shown interest in the story, but most wanted to change the family's ethnicity to Hispanic or Italian, saying Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greeks wouldn't resonate with mainstream audiences, Vardalos said.
"They came to me and said, 'We saw your play,' and it's almost like the subtext was: 'And now we're gonna wreck it,'" Vardalos said. "They said, 'Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek, Italian it's the same, isn't it?'"
The difference may just be the details baklava vs. cannoli but Vardalos wanted to express pride in her heritage while poking fun at universal idiosyncrasies: prying parents, overprotective brothers, oddball aunts and uncles, and the ritualistic force-feeding found at big family gatherings.
Raised in Winnipeg, Canada, Vardalos started her career studying musical theater and worked in the box office of the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. When one of the actors missed a performance one night, she filled in because she knew all the lines.
The next day, the group hired her as a performer, and the rest played out like a Hollywood movie: Among the Second City performers was her future husband, Ian Gomez, who appears in the movie as her fiance's best friend.
Her own traditional Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek wedding full of boisterous relatives, oodles of food and the grudging fusion of cultures inspired her stage act.
She is considering a sequel set in Greece, perhaps something along the lines of "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Honeymoon," and has received numerous other acting offers.
Vardalos is reluctant to specify future plans or take a guess at her movie's final box-office take. She doesn't want to jinx anything.
"I'm a Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek tragedian, so we're scared of stuff like that," she said.
"LUNCH, NOT LAUNCH!" I yelled as he absent-mindedly pushed the button that freed the living quarters from the rest of the station.
Ok. I'm looking out the window. Hey! I see clouds! Cool. That looks like mountains over there... I wonder if 3pojjaet8rj['[545$YW#$#..
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Ok. I seem to have crashed. I can't move my legs. Could someone please get me an asprin? I'll try to walk. Oh God! The pain... it's excruciating! Ow. I think my leg just snapped. Ow. Ow. Ow.
A bunch of geeks saw the slashdot story, went out and got a bunch of metallic sodium, and the rest is in the story.
She is an ugly, fat *fucking* pig. Check out her disgusting fat face here.[http://www.eugenia.co.uk/images/eugenia.jpg]
Here is her lame shit bio:
Name: Eugenia Loli-Queru [AKA FAT PIG STUPID BITCH]
Title: Editor-in-Chief [Editor? HAHAHAHA. That's a laugh. Cant spell or speak and is not technical.]
Email: eugenia@osnews.com [fat.pig@goatse.cx]
Personal website: http://www.eugenia.co.uk/
Birthday: 24th May, 1973
Current residence: Foster City (San Francisco Bay Area), CA, USA
Short biography: I worked for 2 years at BeNews, serving the BeOS and its community, and before that I was contributing as a news editor for a well known Gaming news site for about 8 months and I also co- held a fan site (LandOfEden) in the early development days of Lionhead's Black'n'White. For more information about me, you can always check my homepage.
I am Greek and english is not my native language. We do OSNews for fun (however, OSNews takes most of my time every day), so if you have a problem with my spelling and grammar either a) do not come back (spare us and save your time too) b) send me a proofread version of the article in question.
Whining about something I can't radically improve overnight, is not an option.
I have to agree. And now for posterity's sake I will post a fine collection of Eugenia treatises.
Ok. I am really getting tired of Slashdot reposting the crap rag OSNEWS on here. Please, PLEASE stop "editors". I don't know which of you has a fetish for Eugenia Loli, but this is supposed to be a Nerds site, not a technically impaired idiot site. Please, I implore you, please, STOP RE-POSTING OSNews *Crap* here. Here stuff is devoid of technical cross examinations, rife with conjecture and poor spelling and grammar, and she does what has long been disallowed here, the censoring of Anonymous Cowards. It is bad enough Slashdot isn't critically edited or reviewed, but in the absence of recourse by a commenting public free from censorship and suppression, OSNews is a totalitarian one way street. Please consider that she is likely to be getting kickback to review and announce things, and with her one way system, she could very well be lying to suit the needs of her underwriters without having recourse.
Hi there fat fucking pig lard ;p How are you you sweaty ugly fat Greek pig?
Why does anyone listen to Eugenia fat pig. she is a fucking cunt. Did you ever read her shit in OSNews? she censors out fucking everyone. its worse than the cunt moderation here on Slashdot. dude, it is a sad day here on Slashdot when you listen to a stupid fat bitch who is clearly dumber than any Ziff (Sith Davis) Davis idiot, and dare i say it, even fucking lamer than Jon the Jerkoff Katz.
Eugenia Loli needs to exposed. I will post 3 articles that show how fascist the Greeks can be, and that people like Eugenia perpetrate. Then I will cover My Big Fat Greek Wedding, with Fat being the operative word. Then some random Eugenia quotes. I hate you Eugenia, for being a fascist at OSNEWS. You are a pathetic waif who can not accept dissent, and you dictate to your small and withering community. I hope you get ovarian cancer.
Fat Eugenia Loli's Friends Ban all electronic games by mistake. Its people like Eugenia Loli that show that the formerly great state of Greece has eroded into a festering inbred, stupid hairy totalitarian fucks like herself. Now is the fatty greases sweltering out of her cellulite that makes it seem like Grease would be a more apropro name than Greece.
The Night Defender Fat Eugenia Loli Fat
Sweating and farting nervously on the verge of mental meltdown, ELQ reloads each of her precious OSNews pages, making sure all is well. Fifty Internet Explorer windows are open in Windows XP, it's grinding the hard drive to death. ELQ's cable modem and NIC activity LEDs are nearly solid from the raw frenzy of almost constant browser reloading. Eugenia's eyes twitch rapidly from window to window with Mercurial speed to make sure that any rogue comments do not escape her attention, always hitting her refresh buttons with pinpoint accuracy. No logical order for checking, purely random and impulse driven by raw Mediterranean temper, stopping for the occasional savage bite from a pork loin still affixed to the bone, Eugenia's eyes never leave the monitor.
"N-n-n-n NO! No TIME for Dance Dance Revolution, oh but it's been so long! I cannot allow the BASTARD flooders' comments to be seen. MY DOMAIN IS SACRED!"
Hair is frizzled and days unwashed, ass-crack just barely half wiped in a frenzy to return to her monitor, having taken a large shit earlier. No time to flush! Her armpits are over-ridden with pubic hair, her fat flaps reek of B.O. and yeast from days of neglect and hour upon hour of sweating. Relentless sweating.
"Cannot to be keeps up this pace! I may be need to go to hospital for exhaustions" she pants in desperation, wiping the sweat from a matted hair lock with her week-old t-shirt offering.
The hour of judgment approaches! Comment number 45 in thread 374 is clearly of anti-Greek sentiment! It reads "Eugenia continues to post yet another story that's simply ripped off from other websites. How much longer can this continue? It's my opinion that she has poor editorial skills. I think they should be revoked."
"YOU BASTARD FUCK!", Eugenia erupts in raw hatred, simultaneously ripping a 120 decibel-at-1-meter fart into the back of her chair. "Nobody is to be attack my site!" Eugenia blasts away at 10 words per minute in a barely-coherent broken English. She's on a mission. After several hours, the words on the screen are completely shattered and in disarray, they make no sense. Eugenia is impressed with her English progress and submits her lousy retort. Relaxing only for several seconds to savor the rush, she continues her patrol, sleepless into the night.
Greeks ban electronic games by mistake
Beware Greeks writing laws
By Adamson Rust: Sunday 01 September 2002, 17:40
ONE OF THE SO-CALLED CRADLES of European civilization appears to have got its Aristotle's all in a twist over computer gaming. And mobile phones, for that matter.
The Greek government appears to have lost its marbles.
The government wanted to prevent its people from wasting their money by using electronic slot machines but the democratically appointed government has banned all computer games everywhere by mistake.
And now the cops are raiding Internet cafes to enforce the said SNAFU.
The law, according to our Greek correspondents, prohibits any kind of game that is played on any kind of electronic equipment.
And it appears to have been drafted so loosely that that includes mobile phones.
Theoretically, the cops could bust into people's homes but so far apparently they have arrested Internet cafe owners and customers who were fighting a few rounds of Q3 CTF.
Next thing, the cops will be creeping up on people using their mobile phones just to make sure they're not playing a quick game rather than using them for their real purpose.
Here are some details of the cock up in Greek.
And there's more details about this at the Greek Net Cafe organization.
Give us a glass of hemlock, Socrates!
FAT EUGENIA FAT FAT LARD FAT PORCINE CORPULENT CELLULITE RIDDEN FAT
Eugenia, is that you? I hate you because of the way you censor. I hate you, and if I had to live in your kingdom in real life I would suicide attack you. Your death would be worthy ends to my means.
This is just another example of spineless crap moderation by Eugenia. I hate her fucking fascist fat fronds of celluite dripping down her bones and puddling up near here wrists which hinge har fat sausage fingers.
Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, EUGENIA FAT PIG LOLI's editing/moderating [read: censoring] ALL AGREE on ONE THING:
So, you busy little plebian proletariat BITCH, get busy, you have some censoring to do! FUN!
Good job you little neo-commies BITCH, EUGENIA FAT. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of OSNEWS and its fucking lame conjecture.]
A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
Crack Pipe
Crack smoke wafts though air
Dumb shit LOLI QUERU
Try to suck less, please
Humorless
Crack smoke wafts through air
Humorless LOLI QUERU
Why do you hate me?
The Proletariat
OSnews Commie
LOLI QUERU fears new idea!
Censor him quickly!
Get busy moderating this down, you little minions of the FAT GREASE LORD obedient prefects of the corrupt CUNT, LOLI! You are the vanguards of chunky brown vaginal discharges, and dissent is not allowed!
'My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding' Rolls on
Wed Aug 14, 3:23 PM ET
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a summer of huge movies that last just a few weeks in theaters and are lucky to break even, one little film won't quit.
Photo
AP Photo
The celebration has lasted all summer for "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding," a micro-budgeted romantic comedy with great word-of-mouth that has steadily climbed from 20th place on the box-office chart to No. 8 last weekend.
The film, about a woman who defies the traditions of her loud Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek family by marrying a man who isn't Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek, cost only about $5 million to produce. It has collected nearly $45 million since it's April debut, and the end of the honeymoon is nowhere in sight.
"I feel like I connected with absolute strangers across America. That's what I love more than anything," said Nia Vardalos, the star and writer, who adapted the film from her one-woman stage show.
"The money is like, 'Yeah, yeah.'
Vardalos, 39, said she had thought the film would cover its cost and maybe turn a small profit. "I thought I could just die happy that I made a Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek-American movie and I actually got to star in it and that's it," she said.
While "Men in Black II" and "Minority Report" have earned three times as much as Vardalos' film, they also cost about 20 times more to produce. Once marketing costs are factored in, those movies will likely show a profit only on home video.
By comparison, "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding," playing in only 723 theaters, continues to add screens and draw packed houses. Brian Fuson, box-office analyst for The Hollywood Reporter, said it could hold a spot in the top 10 for several more weeks.
"It was a slow roll-out, a few more theaters each week, building its way up," said Fuson. "It's basically what every small independent film hopes will happen."
The project developed after actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, who is Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek-American, saw Vardalos' Los Angeles stage play in 1998. They liked it so much that Hanks purchased the rights through his production company, Playtone Co., and agreed to let Vardalos adapt the story and take the starring role.
Other producers had shown interest in the story, but most wanted to change the family's ethnicity to Hispanic or Italian, saying Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greeks wouldn't resonate with mainstream audiences, Vardalos said.
"They came to me and said, 'We saw your play,' and it's almost like the subtext was: 'And now we're gonna wreck it,'" Vardalos said. "They said, 'Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek, Italian it's the same, isn't it?'"
The difference may just be the details baklava vs. cannoli but Vardalos wanted to express pride in her heritage while poking fun at universal idiosyncrasies: prying parents, overprotective brothers, oddball aunts and uncles, and the ritualistic force-feeding found at big family gatherings.
Raised in Winnipeg, Canada, Vardalos started her career studying musical theater and worked in the box office of the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. When one of the actors missed a performance one night, she filled in because she knew all the lines.
The next day, the group hired her as a performer, and the rest played out like a Hollywood movie: Among the Second City performers was her future husband, Ian Gomez, who appears in the movie as her fiance's best friend.
Her own traditional Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek wedding full of boisterous relatives, oodles of food and the grudging fusion of cultures inspired her stage act.
She is considering a sequel set in Greece, perhaps something along the lines of "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Honeymoon," and has received numerous other acting offers.
Vardalos is reluctant to specify future plans or take a guess at her movie's final box-office take. She doesn't want to jinx anything.
"I'm a Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek tragedian, so we're scared of stuff like that," she said.
Many years ago, my family was driving from El Paso, TX to Albuquerque, NM, when we saw a number of fireballs. The first occurred just after sunset, was visually a large, bright green glowing object leaving a smoke trail. It traveled east to west and lasted about 10 seconds, then broke up into two pieces and disappeared. We were just north of El Paso, and were listening to KOMA in Oklahoma, City - there were many reports called in to them from many states.
As the drive continued, we saw about 6 more fireballs, all red, all running east to west, through the rest of the evening.
Quite a show. The clear and thin high altitude air of the rockies, along with the lack of city lights, makes these sitings a lot more common in those areas.
We didn't see any LGM, however.
The only good weather is bad weather.
Damn! I'm stuck at work right now... in Gun Barrel, CO (north east of Boulder)! Who knew that there were fireballs flying over my head? Maybe I'll walk out tonight after hacking too many lines of code and realize that I'm the only one left alive (ala Andromeda Strain)... thanks Mr point hair manager for forcing me to stay 6 hours more than you!
There are many people that believe in the year 2003, another planet is going to enter our solar system from either outside the solar system or another dimension. It's known either as Planet X, or a name that starts with N, which escapes me at the moment... I do find it an interesting coincidence that a story was just posted about the discovery of a new planet, and now to hear of these bizarre fireballs. I'm sure they're having a field day with this on the Art Bell show tonight. I'm a skeptic on all things "extraterrestrial" and paranormal, but it's still really interesting to listen to. :)
My Webcomic: Asylum on 5th Street
She is an ugly, fat *fucking* pig. Check out her disgusting fat face here.[http://www.eugenia.co.uk/images/eugenia.jpg]
Here is her lame shit bio:
Name: Eugenia Loli-Queru [AKA FAT PIG STUPID BITCH]
Title: Editor-in-Chief [Editor? HAHAHAHA. That's a laugh. Cant spell or speak and is not technical.]
Email: eugenia@osnews.com [fat.pig@goatse.cx]
Personal website: http://www.eugenia.co.uk/
Birthday: 24th May, 1973
Current residence: Foster City (San Francisco Bay Area), CA, USA
Short biography: I worked for 2 years at BeNews, serving the BeOS and its community, and before that I was contributing as a news editor for a well known Gaming news site for about 8 months and I also co- held a fan site (LandOfEden) in the early development days of Lionhead's Black'n'White. For more information about me, you can always check my homepage.
I am Greek and english is not my native language. We do OSNews for fun (however, OSNews takes most of my time every day), so if you have a problem with my spelling and grammar either a) do not come back (spare us and save your time too) b) send me a proofread version of the article in question.
Whining about something I can't radically improve overnight, is not an option.
I have to agree. And now for posterity's sake I will post a fine collection of Eugenia treatises.
Ok. I am really getting tired of Slashdot reposting the crap rag OSNEWS on here. Please, PLEASE stop "editors". I don't know which of you has a fetish for Eugenia Loli, but this is supposed to be a Nerds site, not a technically impaired idiot site. Please, I implore you, please, STOP RE-POSTING OSNews *Crap* here. Here stuff is devoid of technical cross examinations, rife with conjecture and poor spelling and grammar, and she does what has long been disallowed here, the censoring of Anonymous Cowards. It is bad enough Slashdot isn't critically edited or reviewed, but in the absence of recourse by a commenting public free from censorship and suppression, OSNews is a totalitarian one way street. Please consider that she is likely to be getting kickback to review and announce things, and with her one way system, she could very well be lying to suit the needs of her underwriters without having recourse.
Hi there fat fucking pig lard ;p How are you you sweaty ugly fat Greek pig?
Why does anyone listen to Eugenia fat pig. she is a fucking cunt. Did you ever read her shit in OSNews? she censors out fucking everyone. its worse than the cunt moderation here on Slashdot. dude, it is a sad day here on Slashdot when you listen to a stupid fat bitch who is clearly dumber than any Ziff (Sith Davis) Davis idiot, and dare i say it, even fucking lamer than Jon the Jerkoff Katz.
Eugenia Loli needs to exposed. I will post 3 articles that show how fascist the Greeks can be, and that people like Eugenia perpetrate. Then I will cover My Big Fat Greek Wedding, with Fat being the operative word. Then some random Eugenia quotes. I hate you Eugenia, for being a fascist at OSNEWS. You are a pathetic waif who can not accept dissent, and you dictate to your small and withering community. I hope you get ovarian cancer.
Fat Eugenia Loli's Friends Ban all electronic games by mistake. Its people like Eugenia Loli that show that the formerly great state of Greece has eroded into a festering inbred, stupid hairy totalitarian fucks like herself. Now is the fatty greases sweltering out of her cellulite that makes it seem like Grease would be a more apropro name than Greece.
The Night Defender Fat Eugenia Loli Fat
Sweating and farting nervously on the verge of mental meltdown, ELQ reloads each of her precious OSNews pages, making sure all is well. Fifty Internet Explorer windows are open in Windows XP, it's grinding the hard drive to death. ELQ's cable modem and NIC activity LEDs are nearly solid from the raw frenzy of almost constant browser reloading. Eugenia's eyes twitch rapidly from window to window with Mercurial speed to make sure that any rogue comments do not escape her attention, always hitting her refresh buttons with pinpoint accuracy. No logical order for checking, purely random and impulse driven by raw Mediterranean temper, stopping for the occasional savage bite from a pork loin still affixed to the bone, Eugenia's eyes never leave the monitor.
"N-n-n-n NO! No TIME for Dance Dance Revolution, oh but it's been so long! I cannot allow the BASTARD flooders' comments to be seen. MY DOMAIN IS SACRED!"
Hair is frizzled and days unwashed, ass-crack just barely half wiped in a frenzy to return to her monitor, having taken a large shit earlier. No time to flush! Her armpits are over-ridden with pubic hair, her fat flaps reek of B.O. and yeast from days of neglect and hour upon hour of sweating. Relentless sweating.
"Cannot to be keeps up this pace! I may be need to go to hospital for exhaustions" she pants in desperation, wiping the sweat from a matted hair lock with her week-old t-shirt offering.
The hour of judgment approaches! Comment number 45 in thread 374 is clearly of anti-Greek sentiment! It reads "Eugenia continues to post yet another story that's simply ripped off from other websites. How much longer can this continue? It's my opinion that she has poor editorial skills. I think they should be revoked."
"YOU BASTARD FUCK!", Eugenia erupts in raw hatred, simultaneously ripping a 120 decibel-at-1-meter fart into the back of her chair. "Nobody is to be attack my site!" Eugenia blasts away at 10 words per minute in a barely-coherent broken English. She's on a mission. After several hours, the words on the screen are completely shattered and in disarray, they make no sense. Eugenia is impressed with her English progress and submits her lousy retort. Relaxing only for several seconds to savor the rush, she continues her patrol, sleepless into the night.
Greeks ban electronic games by mistake
Beware Greeks writing laws
By Adamson Rust: Sunday 01 September 2002, 17:40
ONE OF THE SO-CALLED CRADLES of European civilization appears to have got its Aristotle's all in a twist over computer gaming. And mobile phones, for that matter.
The Greek government appears to have lost its marbles.
The government wanted to prevent its people from wasting their money by using electronic slot machines but the democratically appointed government has banned all computer games everywhere by mistake.
And now the cops are raiding Internet cafes to enforce the said SNAFU.
The law, according to our Greek correspondents, prohibits any kind of game that is played on any kind of electronic equipment.
And it appears to have been drafted so loosely that that includes mobile phones.
Theoretically, the cops could bust into people's homes but so far apparently they have arrested Internet cafe owners and customers who were fighting a few rounds of Q3 CTF.
Next thing, the cops will be creeping up on people using their mobile phones just to make sure they're not playing a quick game rather than using them for their real purpose.
Here are some details of the cock up in Greek.
And there's more details about this at the Greek Net Cafe organization.
Give us a glass of hemlock, Socrates!
FAT EUGENIA FAT FAT LARD FAT PORCINE CORPULENT CELLULITE RIDDEN FAT
Eugenia, is that you? I hate you because of the way you censor. I hate you, and if I had to live in your kingdom in real life I would suicide attack you. Your death would be worthy ends to my means.
This is just another example of spineless crap moderation by Eugenia. I hate her fucking fascist fat fronds of celluite dripping down her bones and puddling up near here wrists which hinge har fat sausage fingers.
Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, EUGENIA FAT PIG LOLI's editing/moderating [read: censoring] ALL AGREE on ONE THING:
So, you busy little plebian proletariat BITCH, get busy, you have some censoring to do! FUN!
Good job you little neo-commies BITCH, EUGENIA FAT. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of OSNEWS and its fucking lame conjecture.]
A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
Crack Pipe
Crack smoke wafts though air
Dumb shit LOLI QUERU
Try to suck less, please
Humorless
Crack smoke wafts through air
Humorless LOLI QUERU
Why do you hate me?
The Proletariat
OSnews Commie
LOLI QUERU fears new idea!
Censor him quickly!
Get busy moderating this down, you little minions of the FAT GREASE LORD obedient prefects of the corrupt CUNT, LOLI! You are the vanguards of chunky brown vaginal discharges, and dissent is not allowed!
'My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding' Rolls on
Wed Aug 14, 3:23 PM ET
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a summer of huge movies that last just a few weeks in theaters and are lucky to break even, one little film won't quit.
Photo
AP Photo
The celebration has lasted all summer for "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding," a micro-budgeted romantic comedy with great word-of-mouth that has steadily climbed from 20th place on the box-office chart to No. 8 last weekend.
The film, about a woman who defies the traditions of her loud Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek family by marrying a man who isn't Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek, cost only about $5 million to produce. It has collected nearly $45 million since it's April debut, and the end of the honeymoon is nowhere in sight.
"I feel like I connected with absolute strangers across America. That's what I love more than anything," said Nia Vardalos, the star and writer, who adapted the film from her one-woman stage show.
"The money is like, 'Yeah, yeah.'
Vardalos, 39, said she had thought the film would cover its cost and maybe turn a small profit. "I thought I could just die happy that I made a Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek-American movie and I actually got to star in it and that's it," she said.
While "Men in Black II" and "Minority Report" have earned three times as much as Vardalos' film, they also cost about 20 times more to produce. Once marketing costs are factored in, those movies will likely show a profit only on home video.
By comparison, "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding," playing in only 723 theaters, continues to add screens and draw packed houses. Brian Fuson, box-office analyst for The Hollywood Reporter, said it could hold a spot in the top 10 for several more weeks.
"It was a slow roll-out, a few more theaters each week, building its way up," said Fuson. "It's basically what every small independent film hopes will happen."
The project developed after actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, who is Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek-American, saw Vardalos' Los Angeles stage play in 1998. They liked it so much that Hanks purchased the rights through his production company, Playtone Co., and agreed to let Vardalos adapt the story and take the starring role.
Other producers had shown interest in the story, but most wanted to change the family's ethnicity to Hispanic or Italian, saying Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greeks wouldn't resonate with mainstream audiences, Vardalos said.
"They came to me and said, 'We saw your play,' and it's almost like the subtext was: 'And now we're gonna wreck it,'" Vardalos said. "They said, 'Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek, Italian it's the same, isn't it?'"
The difference may just be the details baklava vs. cannoli but Vardalos wanted to express pride in her heritage while poking fun at universal idiosyncrasies: prying parents, overprotective brothers, oddball aunts and uncles, and the ritualistic force-feeding found at big family gatherings.
Raised in Winnipeg, Canada, Vardalos started her career studying musical theater and worked in the box office of the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. When one of the actors missed a performance one night, she filled in because she knew all the lines.
The next day, the group hired her as a performer, and the rest played out like a Hollywood movie: Among the Second City performers was her future husband, Ian Gomez, who appears in the movie as her fiance's best friend.
Her own traditional Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek wedding full of boisterous relatives, oodles of food and the grudging fusion of cultures inspired her stage act.
She is considering a sequel set in Greece, perhaps something along the lines of "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Honeymoon," and has received numerous other acting offers.
Vardalos is reluctant to specify future plans or take a guess at her movie's final box-office take. She doesn't want to jinx anything.
"I'm a Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek tragedian, so we're scared of stuff like that," she said.
If it was any good at all, you'd have 0 memory of the event. Good pot went out with the Monkeys.
over Dallas in the southern sky. it was only visible for one or two seconds, but bright enough to see from the corner of my eye. very bright blue indeed, much more so than a typical shooting star.
She is an ugly, fat *fucking* pig. Check out her disgusting fat face here.[http://www.eugenia.co.uk/images/eugenia.jpg]
Here is her lame shit bio:
Name: Eugenia Loli-Queru [AKA FAT PIG STUPID BITCH]
Title: Editor-in-Chief [Editor? HAHAHAHA. That's a laugh. Cant spell or speak and is not technical.]
Email: eugenia@osnews.com [fat.pig@goatse.cx]
Personal website: http://www.eugenia.co.uk/
Birthday: 24th May, 1973
Current residence: Foster City (San Francisco Bay Area), CA, USA
Short biography: I worked for 2 years at BeNews, serving the BeOS and its community, and before that I was contributing as a news editor for a well known Gaming news site for about 8 months and I also co- held a fan site (LandOfEden) in the early development days of Lionhead's Black'n'White. For more information about me, you can always check my homepage.
I am Greek and english is not my native language. We do OSNews for fun (however, OSNews takes most of my time every day), so if you have a problem with my spelling and grammar either a) do not come back (spare us and save your time too) b) send me a proofread version of the article in question.
Whining about something I can't radically improve overnight, is not an option.
I have to agree. And now for posterity's sake I will post a fine collection of Eugenia treatises.
Ok. I am really getting tired of Slashdot reposting the crap rag OSNEWS on here. Please, PLEASE stop "editors". I don't know which of you has a fetish for Eugenia Loli, but this is supposed to be a Nerds site, not a technically impaired idiot site. Please, I implore you, please, STOP RE-POSTING OSNews *Crap* here. Here stuff is devoid of technical cross examinations, rife with conjecture and poor spelling and grammar, and she does what has long been disallowed here, the censoring of Anonymous Cowards. It is bad enough Slashdot isn't critically edited or reviewed, but in the absence of recourse by a commenting public free from censorship and suppression, OSNews is a totalitarian one way street. Please consider that she is likely to be getting kickback to review and announce things, and with her one way system, she could very well be lying to suit the needs of her underwriters without having recourse.
Hi there fat fucking pig lard ;p How are you you sweaty ugly fat Greek pig?
Why does anyone listen to Eugenia fat pig. she is a fucking cunt. Did you ever read her shit in OSNews? she censors out fucking everyone. its worse than the cunt moderation here on Slashdot. dude, it is a sad day here on Slashdot when you listen to a stupid fat bitch who is clearly dumber than any Ziff (Sith Davis) Davis idiot, and dare i say it, even fucking lamer than Jon the Jerkoff Katz.
Eugenia Loli needs to exposed. I will post 3 articles that show how fascist the Greeks can be, and that people like Eugenia perpetrate. Then I will cover My Big Fat Greek Wedding, with Fat being the operative word. Then some random Eugenia quotes. I hate you Eugenia, for being a fascist at OSNEWS. You are a pathetic waif who can not accept dissent, and you dictate to your small and withering community. I hope you get ovarian cancer.
Fat Eugenia Loli's Friends Ban all electronic games by mistake. Its people like Eugenia Loli that show that the formerly great state of Greece has eroded into a festering inbred, stupid hairy totalitarian fucks like herself. Now is the fatty greases sweltering out of her cellulite that makes it seem like Grease would be a more apropro name than Greece.
The Night Defender Fat Eugenia Loli Fat
Sweating and farting nervously on the verge of mental meltdown, ELQ reloads each of her precious OSNews pages, making sure all is well. Fifty Internet Explorer windows are open in Windows XP, it's grinding the hard drive to death. ELQ's cable modem and NIC activity LEDs are nearly solid from the raw frenzy of almost constant browser reloading. Eugenia's eyes twitch rapidly from window to window with Mercurial speed to make sure that any rogue comments do not escape her attention, always hitting her refresh buttons with pinpoint accuracy. No logical order for checking, purely random and impulse driven by raw Mediterranean temper, stopping for the occasional savage bite from a pork loin still affixed to the bone, Eugenia's eyes never leave the monitor.
"N-n-n-n NO! No TIME for Dance Dance Revolution, oh but it's been so long! I cannot allow the BASTARD flooders' comments to be seen. MY DOMAIN IS SACRED!"
Hair is frizzled and days unwashed, ass-crack just barely half wiped in a frenzy to return to her monitor, having taken a large shit earlier. No time to flush! Her armpits are over-ridden with pubic hair, her fat flaps reek of B.O. and yeast from days of neglect and hour upon hour of sweating. Relentless sweating.
"Cannot to be keeps up this pace! I may be need to go to hospital for exhaustions" she pants in desperation, wiping the sweat from a matted hair lock with her week-old t-shirt offering.
The hour of judgment approaches! Comment number 45 in thread 374 is clearly of anti-Greek sentiment! It reads "Eugenia continues to post yet another story that's simply ripped off from other websites. How much longer can this continue? It's my opinion that she has poor editorial skills. I think they should be revoked."
"YOU BASTARD FUCK!", Eugenia erupts in raw hatred, simultaneously ripping a 120 decibel-at-1-meter fart into the back of her chair. "Nobody is to be attack my site!" Eugenia blasts away at 10 words per minute in a barely-coherent broken English. She's on a mission. After several hours, the words on the screen are completely shattered and in disarray, they make no sense. Eugenia is impressed with her English progress and submits her lousy retort. Relaxing only for several seconds to savor the rush, she continues her patrol, sleepless into the night.
Greeks ban electronic games by mistake
Beware Greeks writing laws
By Adamson Rust: Sunday 01 September 2002, 17:40
ONE OF THE SO-CALLED CRADLES of European civilization appears to have got its Aristotle's all in a twist over computer gaming. And mobile phones, for that matter.
The Greek government appears to have lost its marbles.
The government wanted to prevent its people from wasting their money by using electronic slot machines but the democratically appointed government has banned all computer games everywhere by mistake.
And now the cops are raiding Internet cafes to enforce the said SNAFU.
The law, according to our Greek correspondents, prohibits any kind of game that is played on any kind of electronic equipment.
And it appears to have been drafted so loosely that that includes mobile phones.
Theoretically, the cops could bust into people's homes but so far apparently they have arrested Internet cafe owners and customers who were fighting a few rounds of Q3 CTF.
Next thing, the cops will be creeping up on people using their mobile phones just to make sure they're not playing a quick game rather than using them for their real purpose.
Here are some details of the cock up in Greek.
And there's more details about this at the Greek Net Cafe organization.
Give us a glass of hemlock, Socrates!
FAT EUGENIA FAT FAT LARD FAT PORCINE CORPULENT CELLULITE RIDDEN FAT
Eugenia, is that you? I hate you because of the way you censor. I hate you, and if I had to live in your kingdom in real life I would suicide attack you. Your death would be worthy ends to my means.
This is just another example of spineless crap moderation by Eugenia. I hate her fucking fascist fat fronds of celluite dripping down her bones and puddling up near here wrists which hinge har fat sausage fingers.
Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, EUGENIA FAT PIG LOLI's editing/moderating [read: censoring] ALL AGREE on ONE THING:
So, you busy little plebian proletariat BITCH, get busy, you have some censoring to do! FUN!
Good job you little neo-commies BITCH, EUGENIA FAT. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of OSNEWS and its fucking lame conjecture.]
A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
Crack Pipe
Crack smoke wafts though air
Dumb shit LOLI QUERU
Try to suck less, please
Humorless
Crack smoke wafts through air
Humorless LOLI QUERU
Why do you hate me?
The Proletariat
OSnews Commie
LOLI QUERU fears new idea!
Censor him quickly!
Get busy moderating this down, you little minions of the FAT GREASE LORD obedient prefects of the corrupt CUNT, LOLI! You are the vanguards of chunky brown vaginal discharges, and dissent is not allowed!
'My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding' Rolls on
Wed Aug 14, 3:23 PM ET
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a summer of huge movies that last just a few weeks in theaters and are lucky to break even, one little film won't quit.
Photo
AP Photo
The celebration has lasted all summer for "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding," a micro-budgeted romantic comedy with great word-of-mouth that has steadily climbed from 20th place on the box-office chart to No. 8 last weekend.
The film, about a woman who defies the traditions of her loud Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek family by marrying a man who isn't Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek, cost only about $5 million to produce. It has collected nearly $45 million since it's April debut, and the end of the honeymoon is nowhere in sight.
"I feel like I connected with absolute strangers across America. That's what I love more than anything," said Nia Vardalos, the star and writer, who adapted the film from her one-woman stage show.
"The money is like, 'Yeah, yeah.'
Vardalos, 39, said she had thought the film would cover its cost and maybe turn a small profit. "I thought I could just die happy that I made a Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek-American movie and I actually got to star in it and that's it," she said.
While "Men in Black II" and "Minority Report" have earned three times as much as Vardalos' film, they also cost about 20 times more to produce. Once marketing costs are factored in, those movies will likely show a profit only on home video.
By comparison, "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding," playing in only 723 theaters, continues to add screens and draw packed houses. Brian Fuson, box-office analyst for The Hollywood Reporter, said it could hold a spot in the top 10 for several more weeks.
"It was a slow roll-out, a few more theaters each week, building its way up," said Fuson. "It's basically what every small independent film hopes will happen."
The project developed after actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, who is Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek-American, saw Vardalos' Los Angeles stage play in 1998. They liked it so much that Hanks purchased the rights through his production company, Playtone Co., and agreed to let Vardalos adapt the story and take the starring role.
Other producers had shown interest in the story, but most wanted to change the family's ethnicity to Hispanic or Italian, saying Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greeks wouldn't resonate with mainstream audiences, Vardalos said.
"They came to me and said, 'We saw your play,' and it's almost like the subtext was: 'And now we're gonna wreck it,'" Vardalos said. "They said, 'Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek, Italian it's the same, isn't it?'"
The difference may just be the details baklava vs. cannoli but Vardalos wanted to express pride in her heritage while poking fun at universal idiosyncrasies: prying parents, overprotective brothers, oddball aunts and uncles, and the ritualistic force-feeding found at big family gatherings.
Raised in Winnipeg, Canada, Vardalos started her career studying musical theater and worked in the box office of the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. When one of the actors missed a performance one night, she filled in because she knew all the lines.
The next day, the group hired her as a performer, and the rest played out like a Hollywood movie: Among the Second City performers was her future husband, Ian Gomez, who appears in the movie as her fiance's best friend.
Her own traditional Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek wedding full of boisterous relatives, oodles of food and the grudging fusion of cultures inspired her stage act.
She is considering a sequel set in Greece, perhaps something along the lines of "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Honeymoon," and has received numerous other acting offers.
Vardalos is reluctant to specify future plans or take a guess at her movie's final box-office take. She doesn't want to jinx anything.
"I'm a Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek tragedian, so we're scared of stuff like that," she said.
The sodium-in-the-pool experiment must be a go-code for them. ("Go go go! Our undercovers have turned all the water into acid!")
This is the funniest signature I could ever think of.
This was very interesting, but, and I don't normally complain about this, there were a few punctuation errors here and there that really threw off the rhythm.
Oh, and before I forget, I don't think the haiku's are the more traditional 5-7-5, although, quite frankly, I don't know how many syllables are in LOLI QUERU.
Thanks for the tips, though, and I'll be sure not to peruse OSNews in the near future.
As my father lik@(munch munch)...
is the planet's name, for anyone who wants to do a Google search or look on Art's site about it. I should also mention that they expect highly evolved alien races to accompany this giant planet/spaceship. :)
My Webcomic: Asylum on 5th Street
Anybody know where it was supposed to re-enter?
"rash of fireballs" Reading that line made me snort milk.
From the Denver Post article:
"It's probably a 1 or 2 on a scale of 10"
I wonder: what is considered a "10"?
I know...RUN!
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These big, slow green fireballs happen from time to time. The only difference this time is that there were two different consecutive fireballs in two days. Its probably two chunks of the same rock...
Just like shoemaker-levy did when it smashed an earth sized crater in Jupiter. No worries.
1.) Spot fireballs
2.) ????
3.) Profit!!!!
You're OLD! ;)
Long term project to end monotheism and desensitize the populace to the shock of alien contact.
I note that the reports are of the fireballs landing near Boulder. Does this mean that Mork from Ork has arrived?
Nanoo Nanoo!
[For those young whippersnappers who don't watch TV land, the popular TV show Mork and Mindy, starring Robin Williams, was set in Boulder]
She is an ugly, fat *fucking* pig. Check out her disgusting fat face here.[http://www.eugenia.co.uk/images/eugenia.jpg]
Here is her lame shit bio:
Name: Eugenia Loli-Queru [AKA FAT PIG STUPID BITCH]
Title: Editor-in-Chief [Editor? HAHAHAHA. That's a laugh. Cant spell or speak and is not technical.]
Email: eugenia@osnews.com [fat.pig@goatse.cx]
Personal website: http://www.eugenia.co.uk/
Birthday: 24th May, 1973
Current residence: Foster City (San Francisco Bay Area), CA, USA
Short biography: I worked for 2 years at BeNews, serving the BeOS and its community, and before that I was contributing as a news editor for a well known Gaming news site for about 8 months and I also co- held a fan site (LandOfEden) in the early development days of Lionhead's Black'n'White. For more information about me, you can always check my homepage.
I am Greek and english is not my native language. We do OSNews for fun (however, OSNews takes most of my time every day), so if you have a problem with my spelling and grammar either a) do not come back (spare us and save your time too) b) send me a proofread version of the article in question.
Whining about something I can't radically improve overnight, is not an option.
I have to agree. And now for posterity's sake I will post a fine collection of Eugenia treatises.
Ok. I am really getting tired of Slashdot reposting the crap rag OSNEWS on here. Please, PLEASE stop "editors". I don't know which of you has a fetish for Eugenia Loli, but this is supposed to be a Nerds site, not a technically impaired idiot site. Please, I implore you, please, STOP RE-POSTING OSNews *Crap* here. Here stuff is devoid of technical cross examinations, rife with conjecture and poor spelling and grammar, and she does what has long been disallowed here, the censoring of Anonymous Cowards. It is bad enough Slashdot isn't critically edited or reviewed, but in the absence of recourse by a commenting public free from censorship and suppression, OSNews is a totalitarian one way street. Please consider that she is likely to be getting kickback to review and announce things, and with her one way system, she could very well be lying to suit the needs of her underwriters without having recourse.
Hi there fat fucking pig lard ;p How are you you sweaty ugly fat Greek pig?
Why does anyone listen to Eugenia fat pig. she is a fucking cunt. Did you ever read her shit in OSNews? she censors out fucking everyone. its worse than the cunt moderation here on Slashdot. dude, it is a sad day here on Slashdot when you listen to a stupid fat bitch who is clearly dumber than any Ziff (Sith Davis) Davis idiot, and dare i say it, even fucking lamer than Jon the Jerkoff Katz.
Eugenia Loli needs to exposed. I will post 3 articles that show how fascist the Greeks can be, and that people like Eugenia perpetrate. Then I will cover My Big Fat Greek Wedding, with Fat being the operative word. Then some random Eugenia quotes. I hate you Eugenia, for being a fascist at OSNEWS. You are a pathetic waif who can not accept dissent, and you dictate to your small and withering community. I hope you get ovarian cancer.
Fat Eugenia Loli's Friends Ban all electronic games by mistake. Its people like Eugenia Loli that show that the formerly great state of Greece has eroded into a festering inbred, stupid hairy totalitarian fucks like herself. Now is the fatty greases sweltering out of her cellulite that makes it seem like Grease would be a more apropro name than Greece.
The Night Defender Fat Eugenia Loli Fat
Sweating and farting nervously on the verge of mental meltdown, ELQ reloads each of her precious OSNews pages, making sure all is well. Fifty Internet Explorer windows are open in Windows XP, it's grinding the hard drive to death. ELQ's cable modem and NIC activity LEDs are nearly solid from the raw frenzy of almost constant browser reloading. Eugenia's eyes twitch rapidly from window to window with Mercurial speed to make sure that any rogue comments do not escape her attention, always hitting her refresh buttons with pinpoint accuracy. No logical order for checking, purely random and impulse driven by raw Mediterranean temper, stopping for the occasional savage bite from a pork loin still affixed to the bone, Eugenia's eyes never leave the monitor.
"N-n-n-n NO! No TIME for Dance Dance Revolution, oh but it's been so long! I cannot allow the BASTARD flooders' comments to be seen. MY DOMAIN IS SACRED!"
Hair is frizzled and days unwashed, ass-crack just barely half wiped in a frenzy to return to her monitor, having taken a large shit earlier. No time to flush! Her armpits are over-ridden with pubic hair, her fat flaps reek of B.O. and yeast from days of neglect and hour upon hour of sweating. Relentless sweating.
"Cannot to be keeps up this pace! I may be need to go to hospital for exhaustions" she pants in desperation, wiping the sweat from a matted hair lock with her week-old t-shirt offering.
The hour of judgment approaches! Comment number 45 in thread 374 is clearly of anti-Greek sentiment! It reads "Eugenia continues to post yet another story that's simply ripped off from other websites. How much longer can this continue? It's my opinion that she has poor editorial skills. I think they should be revoked."
"YOU BASTARD FUCK!", Eugenia erupts in raw hatred, simultaneously ripping a 120 decibel-at-1-meter fart into the back of her chair. "Nobody is to be attack my site!" Eugenia blasts away at 10 words per minute in a barely-coherent broken English. She's on a mission. After several hours, the words on the screen are completely shattered and in disarray, they make no sense. Eugenia is impressed with her English progress and submits her lousy retort. Relaxing only for several seconds to savor the rush, she continues her patrol, sleepless into the night.
Greeks ban electronic games by mistake
Beware Greeks writing laws
By Adamson Rust: Sunday 01 September 2002, 17:40
ONE OF THE SO-CALLED CRADLES of European civilization appears to have got its Aristotle's all in a twist over computer gaming. And mobile phones, for that matter.
The Greek government appears to have lost its marbles.
The government wanted to prevent its people from wasting their money by using electronic slot machines but the democratically appointed government has banned all computer games everywhere by mistake.
And now the cops are raiding Internet cafes to enforce the said SNAFU.
The law, according to our Greek correspondents, prohibits any kind of game that is played on any kind of electronic equipment.
And it appears to have been drafted so loosely that that includes mobile phones.
Theoretically, the cops could bust into people's homes but so far apparently they have arrested Internet cafe owners and customers who were fighting a few rounds of Q3 CTF.
Next thing, the cops will be creeping up on people using their mobile phones just to make sure they're not playing a quick game rather than using them for their real purpose.
Here are some details of the cock up in Greek.
And there's more details about this at the Greek Net Cafe organization.
Give us a glass of hemlock, Socrates!
FAT EUGENIA FAT FAT LARD FAT PORCINE CORPULENT CELLULITE RIDDEN FAT
Eugenia, is that you? I hate you because of the way you censor. I hate you, and if I had to live in your kingdom in real life I would suicide attack you. Your death would be worthy ends to my means.
This is just another example of spineless crap moderation by Eugenia. I hate her fucking fascist fat fronds of celluite dripping down her bones and puddling up near here wrists which hinge har fat sausage fingers.
Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, EUGENIA FAT PIG LOLI's editing/moderating [read: censoring] ALL AGREE on ONE THING:
So, you busy little plebian proletariat BITCH, get busy, you have some censoring to do! FUN!
Good job you little neo-commies BITCH, EUGENIA FAT. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of OSNEWS and its fucking lame conjecture.]
A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
Crack Pipe
Crack smoke wafts though air
Dumb shit LOLI QUERU
Try to suck less, please
Humorless
Crack smoke wafts through air
Humorless LOLI QUERU
Why do you hate me?
The Proletariat
OSnews Commie
LOLI QUERU fears new idea!
Censor him quickly!
Get busy moderating this down, you little minions of the FAT GREASE LORD obedient prefects of the corrupt CUNT, LOLI! You are the vanguards of chunky brown vaginal discharges, and dissent is not allowed!
'My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding' Rolls on
Wed Aug 14, 3:23 PM ET
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a summer of huge movies that last just a few weeks in theaters and are lucky to break even, one little film won't quit.
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The celebration has lasted all summer for "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding," a micro-budgeted romantic comedy with great word-of-mouth that has steadily climbed from 20th place on the box-office chart to No. 8 last weekend.
The film, about a woman who defies the traditions of her loud Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek family by marrying a man who isn't Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek, cost only about $5 million to produce. It has collected nearly $45 million since it's April debut, and the end of the honeymoon is nowhere in sight.
"I feel like I connected with absolute strangers across America. That's what I love more than anything," said Nia Vardalos, the star and writer, who adapted the film from her one-woman stage show.
"The money is like, 'Yeah, yeah.'
Vardalos, 39, said she had thought the film would cover its cost and maybe turn a small profit. "I thought I could just die happy that I made a Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek-American movie and I actually got to star in it and that's it," she said.
While "Men in Black II" and "Minority Report" have earned three times as much as Vardalos' film, they also cost about 20 times more to produce. Once marketing costs are factored in, those movies will likely show a profit only on home video.
By comparison, "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Wedding," playing in only 723 theaters, continues to add screens and draw packed houses. Brian Fuson, box-office analyst for The Hollywood Reporter, said it could hold a spot in the top 10 for several more weeks.
"It was a slow roll-out, a few more theaters each week, building its way up," said Fuson. "It's basically what every small independent film hopes will happen."
The project developed after actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, who is Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek-American, saw Vardalos' Los Angeles stage play in 1998. They liked it so much that Hanks purchased the rights through his production company, Playtone Co., and agreed to let Vardalos adapt the story and take the starring role.
Other producers had shown interest in the story, but most wanted to change the family's ethnicity to Hispanic or Italian, saying Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greeks wouldn't resonate with mainstream audiences, Vardalos said.
"They came to me and said, 'We saw your play,' and it's almost like the subtext was: 'And now we're gonna wreck it,'" Vardalos said. "They said, 'Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek, Italian it's the same, isn't it?'"
The difference may just be the details baklava vs. cannoli but Vardalos wanted to express pride in her heritage while poking fun at universal idiosyncrasies: prying parents, overprotective brothers, oddball aunts and uncles, and the ritualistic force-feeding found at big family gatherings.
Raised in Winnipeg, Canada, Vardalos started her career studying musical theater and worked in the box office of the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. When one of the actors missed a performance one night, she filled in because she knew all the lines.
The next day, the group hired her as a performer, and the rest played out like a Hollywood movie: Among the Second City performers was her future husband, Ian Gomez, who appears in the movie as her fiance's best friend.
Her own traditional Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek wedding full of boisterous relatives, oodles of food and the grudging fusion of cultures inspired her stage act.
She is considering a sequel set in Greece, perhaps something along the lines of "My Big Fat Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek Honeymoon," and has received numerous other acting offers.
Vardalos is reluctant to specify future plans or take a guess at her movie's final box-office take. She doesn't want to jinx anything.
"I'm a Fat.Eugenia.Lard.Greek tragedian, so we're scared of stuff like that," she said.
Several /. readers e-mailed their concerns over a sharp increase in one-liners today, fueling speculation that these one-liners are not just a random occurance, but perhaps the first ungodly signs of the oncoming apocolypse.
..." Taco then gurgled and sputtered and dropped to a heap on the patio.
"usually we'll see a few, maybe even a bunch, of one-liners for certain stories we've posted," said CmdrTaco, languishing in a drunken hallucinagenic stupor on the steps of his villa in the south of france. "but christ, its like henny youngman possessed the populace on a scale rivaling that of
"certainly one-liners are a common, almost obligatory, form of logical reponse," said one reader, "but this many makes me want to get in a white van and shoot people at random. do these people think they're funny? its really just in bad taste."
one-liner watchers are unconcerned however. "we've seen this before - like the article about the giant Bart Simpson doll copulating with a penguin - and no substantial harm was done on the long term." some, however, are still reliving the nightmare.
with no end in sight to this barrage, Micro$oft engineers have released a worm to tack on at least 3 sentences promoting WindowsS.Ux, Ballmer Edition to each post to space out the green bars just a little further.
I don't know if this is related or simply a coincidence. I was driving north on I-55 very early on Monday morning. I was somewhere around Springfield, IL, when a flash in front of me and slightly to my left and slightly above, maybe at 30 degrees, caught my attention. I didn't see the original event very well, since it was just in my peripheral vision, but I saw a very bright green tail that stayed lit for about two seconds. Unfortunately, since I was driving all night I don't remember now exactly where I was or what time it was, but it should have been around 2:00 am +/- 1 hour.
It was much more spectacular than anything I'd seen before. And this includes last year's Leonid meteor shower, which I watched in New Mexico, at 7,000 feet of elevation, and far away from city lights (and not behind a dirty windshield!). So this one was really something. It broke a very boring drive and helped keep me awake, thinking about it.
Titled: Up yours.
Actual article from the LA Times:
"In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only
trying to retrieve the gerbil," Eric Tomaszewski told bemused doctors in the
Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital. Tomaszewski and his
homosexual partner Andrew "Kiki" Farnum, had been admitted for emergency
treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. "I pushed a
cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in," he
explained. "As usual, Kiki shouted out "Armageddon", my cue that he'd had
enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn't come out again, so I
peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract
him." At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what
happened next. "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame
shot out the tube, igniting Mr. Tomaszewski's hair and severely burning
his face. It also set fire to the gerbil's fur and whiskers which in turn
ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the
rodent out like a cannonball." Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns
and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered
first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract.
O.K., here's the top ten things that scared me the most in reading this
story:
10. "I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum..." Ouch!!!
9. "So I peered into the tube..." Aaaaaahhhhhhh! I'm sorry, but that's
like looking through a telescope into hell. I'd rather use binoculars to
stare at the sum.
8. That poor gerbil (who obviously suffers from low self-esteem) being
shot out of the guy's anus like Rocky the Flying Squirrel on Rocky and
Bullwinkle.
7. Suffering a broken nose from a gerbil being launched out of someone's
anus. I'm just guessing, but I seriously doubt said gerbil was springtime
fresh after his little journey into Kiki's 'tunnel of love'.
6. People walking around with these volcanic-like pockets of gas in their
rectums.
5. People who do this kind of thing and then admit what they were doing
when taken to the emergency room. Sorry, but I think I would have made up a
story about a gang of roving, pyromaniac, anal sex fiends breaking into my
house and sodomizing me with a charcoal lighter before I admitted the truth.
Call me old fashioned, but I just can't imagine looking at a doctor and
saying, "Well Doc, it's like this. See, we have this gerbil named Raggot
and we took this cardboard tube..."
4. "First and second degree burns to the anus". Wouldn't this make the
burning itch and discomfort of hemorrhoids a welcome relief? How does one
ever take a healthy poop after something like that? And the
smell of burning anus must be in the top five most horrible scents on the
face of God's green earth.
3. People named "Kiki" which is obviously a Polynesian word for 'idiotic
white men who insert rodents up their butts."
2. What kind of a hospital would hold a press conference on this?
1. This happened in Salt Lake City. What kind of people are those
Mormons? (I'm starting to get a whole new image of the Osmond family...)
I wonder if one of these meteors landed in hot substance like lava?
We never paid any attention....
Like fools we clung to the old hatred, fighting as we had for generations...
Until the sky rained fire....
We stand now at the brink of annihilation,
For the Reign of Chaos has come at last.
Warcraft III Addict
fireballs are lighting the night skies.
How would Jesus protect the children?
Or have the terrorists already won?
In other news, scores of slashdot readers have disappeared in the same area, reportedly after attempts to procure significant quantities of metallic Sodium...
ZERG RUSH!!!!!!!!!
GOGOGOOGOGOGO!!!!
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Dragonball Z characters have heard about Quaoar and are fighting over who gets to blow it up first. The fireballs are just strays from the combat. Nothing to be concerned about I'm sure.
Introducing the new Occam Fusion! Now with sqrt(-1) fewer blades!
The fireballs are supposed to appear shortly before the final battle between good and evil. The supernatural army of the good and the mortal human army of evil under the command of the anti-christ will meet on plains of Armageddon, in present day Iraq. We all know the outcome, don't we? I'm talking to you, VOTERS OF USIA.
the movie Signs [imdb.com]
I mean really similar to the plot lines.
Maybe it was a warning... or maybe they really ARE coming back to take over since they've already turned our president into town fool (I mean national).
WOuld it be Orson Welles, by anyc hance?
Jay (=
The first conlusion we should all jump to is that this is unequivocable evidence of an extra-terrestrial encounter.
All those who say otherwise are cynical naysayers.
By the time they are convinced it could well be too late. The time for action is now.
I for one support the military action that George W. Bush is planning for these alien enemies of state. So grab a gun and head for Colorado! Time is a-wasting.
Moderators, mod this guy down, he's against going to War with Iraq!
Colorado? Not near Boulder, by any chance? Oh my God!
Considering 'Ball' Colorado sounded gay, and 'Fireboulder' seems a bit too Hasbro.
I saw one the other night in southern Arizona.
It was bright white/blue and left a greeenish trail. It left an vapor trail that lasted approx 3 minutes. It appeared directly above me and heading southwest.
cmon, over a hundred dollars of sodium??
is there any reason this should be surprising??
54 comments, and only one triffid reference??? and that one made reference to the _stupid_ movie where salt water killed them.
what's wrong with you people!
maybe there's just nothing funny about plants that eat people...
Saddam Hussein today announced a sucessful test of his anti spy satellite defence system. "We look forward to deploying this on behalf of the Islamic world to prevent further incursion on our sovergnity by the peeping Tom's in America" he was quoted as saying.
If you're like me, you *want* to see some pictures.
http://www.cloudbait.com/science/fireballs.html
Quite a bit of extra information is on this site as well.
To make a pun demonstrates the highest understanding of a language
might i remind you the probability of successfully navigating an asteroid field is 3720 to 1?
"It's a subtlee vidence that Iraq is attempting to launch nuclear missiles on us but missed. We must gather our firearms kicking their butts before they'd develop anything that hit."
... great balls of fire!
What a concept! It simply shakes my nerves and it rattles my brains.
I read a few days ago that near Irkutsk, Russia a big meteorite seem to have fallen in a remote location. The thing seemed to be huge and it seems to have landed as there was a small quake after getting out of view.
Besides, if I don't miss things it looks like that there is one more account about a similar phenomena out of the USA. Unfortunately I don't remember the place.
So, it seems that we are inside some fresh new cloud of cosmical debris. The events we see are probably the result of Earth crossing the trajectory of Kuiper belt newcomer. Usually, when this happens, we get some spectacular phenomena on the skies, usually presented as meteorite showers. However this fireball show is surely less usual to see. The fact that this lasts for a few days is probably the result that the newcomer crumbled to pieces while approaching the Sun.
About that same time, I saw one from Fukuoka, Japan. The tail looked just a bit green with some orange. But other than being a big, pretty shooting star with a green tinge, it looked pretty much exactly like every other shooting star I've ever seen. I forgot to even mention it to my wife when I got home.
I mean, it's not like it slowed down or reversed direction.
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
I find it amazing that my paper, the Daily Camera could actually merit a post on slashdot.. wow..
Jesus saves souls and redeems them for valuable cash prizes
If y'all just wanna look up at some balls, I got a great set for ya!!!
BBC News story (scroll down a little)
yeah right.
It's very odd that the CNN article said the second fireball was going the other way from the first one. If they were both from a debris cloud and occurred at the same time in the same place they should have been going in exaclty the same direction since they would be travelling in more or less the same direction and the orientation of the Earth in relation to their path would be more or less the same...
If the article is correct, one or both of the fireballs must have been something else, such as a sattelite reentering the atmosphere, despite all the quotes from experts saying that they were meteorites...
http://www.artbell.com/
No doubt this is the beginning of the end for Colorado as the ALiens are probably kidnaping thousands of people and implanting them with mind control computers that will turn them into mindless Microsoft users. Who Cares.
Someone fucking said it! =)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/cixel
It wasn't one of the most recent fireballs, but the one on September 6th.
It was probably around 8 at night and I was walking back to my dorm room (Univ of Colorado at Colorado Springs) from work. I was almost back to the campus when I saw a bright but small fireball in the northeast sky. Mostly white with a bluish tinge it moved pretty slowly (for a metor/shooting star) across the sky, parallel to the ground, and leaving behind little particles that glowed briefly before fading away. After about 30 seconds, the fireball itself faded away.
Since there was a plane in the sky near where I saw it first, I thought it was a firework or something shot from the plane. Maybe the military testing something (who doesn't like a good mystery?). For some reason, a metor never occured to me.
I've always wanted to see one of these, cool.
The test firing/flight of a new, top-secret weapon/aircraft was explained as an incredibly co-incidental pair of meteor entries occuring at roughly the same time and in roughly the same area of the sky.
Coincidence. Yeah. Right.
Vaya con huevos, my darling.
You keep acting this way and they're going to put you back in.
Take your meds and go to sleep.
Canadian Fireballs ... and other Astronomy information can be had from this website. It is part of my Astronomy professor's site, and he specializes in fireballs.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
I wonder if govt experts know more about this crossing. Maybe this is coincidence, but I remember recently there were some reports with the concern for unsophisticated countries not being able distinguish meteor impacts from a nuclear attack. Also, what is the Kuiper belt?
A: IBM's Stock Price.
Psst....Big Blue.. Here's a hint. In order to run a company, you need to hire people at some point. Employees make stuff the company can sell for money. That makes the stock price go back up. Say it with me, now... Employees, good. Layoffs, bad!
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
just wait till they find the landed cylinders and the fighting machines climbout and start laying waste. Then I guess we'll have to run to Saddam to get some of his biological weapons to fight them. ;-)
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done on the people who are still alive.
Sept 20th at 0415 in the morning I was locking up the office to go home and as I turned away from the door I saw one go tearing across the sky from high in the southern sky to low in the north. It was amazing... almost the size of a dime in my field of view, bright white/blue with chunks breaking off that flamed orange and maybe a flash of other colors but it was over pretty quickly. :)
I thought the Northern Lights were spectacular but this thing blew my mind
I just never want to see one coming right for me.
Was I the only one that was expecting some photos at the daily *camera*?
Anyway, for those of you jealous of Colorado residents, take out your geeked out keychain and stare into the bright blue light. Now step outside and look at the sky. Yeah... it was a lot like that...
And don't worry, they should go away in a few hours.
aTek
Its called Ball lightning, you can often see it in places with dry weather conditions due to static building up in the atmosphere. http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html
My mom never taught me to sign.
I live about two miles from the Gunbarrel area, and I this story is the first I've heard about it. The area here consists of a lot of bored hicks, and we all know the sorts of things bored hicks try to generate a ruckus about. Take two Coors Lights and call me in the morning.
Last night the SciFi channel reran the season four episode of Lexx where Lika's asteroid/invasion mothership crashes into the Pacific and I'm supposed to believe this is just a coincidence?? Yeah right.
Hey, is that a carrot?
Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:
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Clearly the work of Aum Shinryiko and the Scalar Interferometry Machines leased from the KGB. See here
Choice of masters is not freedom.
Listen you American infidels, you have just seen a demonstration of my latest weapon of mass destruction -- the Jerry Lee Lewis Gun!
Using this fabulous weapon, designed by my second cousin twice removed (and once tortured) Ahmed, I can take out any city on the continental USA!
With the flick of my finger (oh, not that finger -- yuck, where's my handkerchief) I can cause great balls of fire to rain down on your puny country.
The stupid UN weapons inspectors will never find this new weapon because it is carefully hidden in the grand pianos littered about my presidential palaces -- Ahh! Mohamed, where is the backspace key? ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H. Are you sure that won't show up when I press Submut? Okay.
Where was I? Oh yes...
Here is my demand. I will destroy the USA in exactly 24 hours unless you pay me.... one MILLION dollars!
What's that Osama? A million isn't enough?
Okay... unless you pay me TWO million dollars!
Ha ha ha... who's laughing now eh Bush?
The clock is counting down. Ahmed, why isn't that clock counting down... it's just ticking and counting forwards like a regular clock?
Don't be smart Ahmed or I'll slap the brown right off you! Guards... see to it that Ahmed's mother catches anthrax will you...
Stop your snivelling or I'll feed you to the camels. What.. is this microphone still on?
[click]
That is because *they* don't want you to...
I kinda remember it being called an area lager than 42 or something...
Free ?! Does that mean I can't get a Discount ?!
This message was
The news claimed that it was an optical illustion of the sun playing with the upper atmosphere. Ya, right, like I didn't hear that in MIB.
;)
You know it was the replicator controled Tok'ra ship falling to earth.
If you read the article you'll notice an utter and complete lack of any facts.
This reminds me of Orson Well's war of the worlds, but boys, isn't this about 3 weeks early to start this kind of story?
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
"My history comes from 6 prior generations of Canadians "
Canada isn't that old.
Up until about 1890 the country was overrun by fur traders and indians, many of them french.
it is an historical fact that Canada was made of crown loyalist who objected to US's war of independence with England.
No matter how you slice it, its not terribly flattering to the people of Canada and explains your genetic predisposition towards listening to authority like sheep.
Hey, I'm not the only one to have seen this!!
I live in France, in Choisy-le-Roi, at 12 km of Paris.
At about 20:00 UTC (22:00 localtime) with (+-10 minutes of error), I've seen one fireball falling. I don't know the size and the distance at which it falled. But the direction was 170 degrees from my position. It didn't falled directly from up to down but with a small deviation from east to west.
I've called the local autorithy (Gendarmerie Nationale) at about 23:40 (localtime) but they said they had no other report.
Am I the only one to have seen this in France ?
... the first Martians arriving to Earth. I guess after their failure in London, they are now trying their luck in the US...
remember the guy with the sodium, yeah I think that's him...
"I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense" J Watson, Sci Am 288:(4)51
Hundreds of people in Colorado and 7 surrounding states have reported seeing "fireballs" in the night sky. They are described as being 10 to 15 times larger than a normal shooting star and bluish in color. Two people even claimed to see one land, but it has yet to be found.
Jim, have you been near the Kool-Aid again?
Another witness reported seeing a bluish object about 10 to 15 times the size of a typical shooting star streak across the southwestern sky Monday night south of Boulder.
Wasn't that the guy who asked Kevin Kostner to call him "Mr. X" in the JFK movie?
From what I understand this is the same guy that also saw that indestructable "tin-foil" laying around in Maricopa by Roswell after that big bang one night. And he once had a Job on Area 51 and had this bumb-in with a small greyish green bug-eyed humanoid in a silver spandex jumpsuit.
I know that guy. He's absolutely trustworthy.
Really.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Tuesday night around 9:00PM EST I saw a fairly large "shooting star", it took a few seconds to cross the sky. I saw it through quite a bit of light pollution too, but I've actually seen a fireball while I was in Badlands National Park a few years back. This was no fireball, but definetly not the norm.
You have witnessed a bit of the terrible secret of space. Let me push you, to prevent any more from being revealed to you....
Apparently another one landed in Russia - there is a fresh impact crater reported at wired.com
Seems to be an invasion according my data! Fire at will!
Okay, here's my wild speculation to add to the bunch: These fireballs remarkably coincide with a space shuttle launch. I think they were caused by either debris or other "stuff" originating from the craft.
When I was a teenager we were on vacation in the Wisconsin Dells around my birthday in early August, which just happens to coincide with one of the biggest and best annual meteor showers. I saw quite a few 'normal' shooting stars that night, but I also saw one weird, slow, silent, huge orange fireball. Though I've looked for years, I've never found an explanation of just what I saw.
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I was driving my friend home in eastern minnesoata after a concert and saw it streaking down the sky. I have been wondering what it could have been to set off that blue color. Well at least now I know I am not crazy and did see it.
Is this the wepons of mass distruction that Mr bush was taking about? Ahh to be sure we better bomb Iraq and any other country which has oil.
While driving home from work monday night, I saw something that looked like a usual falling star. But then again, it was rather big and it's tail sparkled with white and yellow sparkles. And I am sure that it wasn't someone wasting fireworks.
This happened in Malmoe Sweden.
Carmack and his merry band got more than the advertised 6 secs of flight. Where exactly is Armadillo Aerospace located?
Relax, nothing to worry about. They are only beginning to immanentize the eschaton!
(With apologies to Robert Anton Wilson)
"Keep an eye out for THEM!"
Definately the mushrooms.
They are not your friend.
Thank you and good day.
Sincerely,
Your alien masters.
And shook me like a dog.
I am a Karma Library.
Yes, I caught one. It's 34lbs and it looks like my grandfather had it for years in his closet. I was thinking of posting an "Ask Slashdot" to find out what I can get for it.
The Quaoarian people know that we have spotted their planet, and now they are attacking us with their fireball launchers before we realize their hostile intentions!
Too bad X-Files has been cancelled, now we're all screwed!
Burning down Hemos' house wasn't enough. Now he's trying to burn down Colorado.
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Quite often, coincidence is the only explanation you need. We just tend to notice coincidences and dismiss the randomness - our brains are well adapted to do that. Spotting correlations is critical to survival. Coincident data points are necessary, but not sufficient for corelation.
Helium balloons want to be free.
Maybe soon they'll invent a tree that can remove carbon dioxide from the air and embed it in it's trunk or something, which can then be buried into ground, and thus slow down global warming...
Hmm... Wait a minute...
I can't be the only one who noticed the "Liquor Mart" banner ad across the top of this article and down the right side. Why there's even a $5 off coupon. Perhaps that could have something to do with the "sightings." Man, I'm cynical today.
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Last year, while sitting on a dock in Northern Ontario (nice beer drinkin' summer night), my friends and I saw a blue meteor streak across the sky. Now, we weren't sure if it was the pot or the beer...but out of nowhere, we saw this meteor streak from East to West, clear across the horizon. Beautiful, really. The front was blue, and the tail was a light orange color. The really cool thing about it was that you could actually *hear* it.
We weren't sure if we were actually seeing what we were seeing (remember - pot and beer) until we heard a kid from about 10 cottages down yell: "MOM!!! LOOK!!!" Lasted about 10 seconds. (or six minutes, depending on your state of mind)
Needless to say, our wives didn't believe us. (one look at the bong, and all we got was "uh huh. Sure you did...".)
I was driving east on I-70 just east of DeBeque on Sunday evening. I saw a HUGE flash, and leaned forward to be able to see up out of the windshield. I saw the most incredible fireball heading from my right to my left and back a little. Generally north, but the highway twists around so much in that stretch I couldn't tell for sure. Man, was that cool. I honestly thought some kid had shot a roman candle at us. It was huge, intense, and leaving an orange and green tail. As it went, little sparks fell off of it. I only saw it for an instant, as it was really moving. Just awesome.
These are the same people who reported that it would be a crime if the penises that were hanging in the boulder public or should it be pubic library were removed and replaced with am american flag after 9/11.
I'm here at the crash scene... there is a glow and a deep hum and a glow coming from the crater... a door is opening... oh my god... they're coming towards me... this is the most incredible thing i've ever trererewwerw
They're not actually fireballs. They're the emergency escape shuttles for the RIAA members. They know that Peer-to-Peer sharing is here to stay, and that customers are getting pissed, so they're hightailing it off the planet and going home to Alpha Copyrightiapissathelistenersoffa 5.
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I live in northcentral Wisconsin, and I happened to have been driving last night at about 2am (*ahem* ....) when I saw something extremely similar to these fireballs. The one I saw was relatively slow-moving (about a 2-second display,) and appeared in the eastern sky. Extremely large (approx 10x usual meteorite size) and blueish in color, it traveled in a nearly vertical line from about 70 degrees to below the tree line. (15 degrees?) I never saw it burn out. It left no vapor trail, and I immediately slowed my vehicle & rolled down my window, but heard no sound.
Perhaps these things are happening over a larger range than previously thought?
that kills tens of thousands of his own people.
The Kurds, who were gassed, are not "his people." They are an independant group in north Iraq. There is now a no fly zone, and the North is, for the most part, absent of any official Iraqi presence.
Iraq lost a war that he initiated by invading a neighboring country.
Hussain invaded Kuwait because George Bush gave it the go ahead first. Also, his chemical weapons came from the United States, during the Iran-Iraq conflict.
USA will prevail against the horrible monsters there.
Oh, you mean Enron?
Anybody who pays attention to such things knows that Mars is coming into its nearest approach to Earth in a long time.
They've been waiting a long time for this!
And when they find that the "fireball" is really a cylinder with a screw off top...hoo boy.
It's tripod time.
AMD crashed and burned.
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I followed the link from the Daily Camera to a site that was collecting info. Since most sightings indicated the meteor to the west, and I saw it to the east, maybe they can triangulate. I saw it near the horizon, so it may have been large enough to hit the ground.
There are two kinds of societies: sustainable and doomed.
No shit, I saw one the other morning here in Medford, OR! It was cool as hell.
"The Daily Camera is reporting it online"
Or should that be Daily Chimera...
if your legs hurt that bad, you might as well get rid of them. people do fine without them.
Other than when I was a child, I never really gave much thought to UFOs. However, I did have an experience with *unidentified flying objects*(for you have literates, this means I saw objects that I could not identify flying, not that I saw alien spacecraft, UFO != alien spacecraft).
I was at Clearlake with some friends about 4 years back, it was a new moon and you could see satelites with the naked eye. My friend had tried to tell me about "ufos" he saw, but I laughed at him as he was a Sightings fan and well, believed the things that Sightings fans believed...
Eventually, we all began to see what looked like satellites, except they moved all throughout the night sky. They were tiny points of light, so they could have been just about anything, but they moved across the sky at very fast speeds, to get to one end of the sky from the other took them about 15 to 20 seconds. If that's all they did, I'd say "satellite" but then the little buggers would do right angle turns and contine towards a different section of the sky altogether, sometimes pausing, other times simply turning to a different direction. They would occasionally go to the same section of the sky, seem to meet up, pause for a moment or two, and then continue to move around the sky. It went on for hours, and was still occuring when we finally packed it in and went to sleep. We saw them on every subsequent night after that.
Personally, I believe that they are experimental aircraft of some type, probably unmanned, but that's pure speculation on my part. I only know I saw these wierd points of light doing things that I had previously thought was impossible. I didn't get abducted or probed or anything like that, but I did see those lights, and all my friends saw them. I personally believe that anyone will see them if they go to a remote location(away from light pollution) on a new moon and just watch the sky. If you can see satellites with the naked eye, I believe you will see those lights, as a few of my friends have seen them on subsequent trips.
Show me an effect without cause and then I'll believe in chaos.
United States, Britain, New Zealand, all seeing similar fireballs within a week of each other? A report of one coming down in Siberia? Is this some elaborate worldwide hoax? Sounds much too suspiciously like "War of the Worlds"! Even the time of year is right! This is definitely weird!
If it is a relatively new debris stream from a comet or something, I hope nothing really big is coming!
VASIMR to Mars!
Ooh, those fireballs, they're beautiful! I've not seen colours like that before. ... Ia! Ia! Cthulhu
fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh fhtagn!
Did the goatse.cx guy start trying to ignite his farts again!?!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
I once saw what I thought was a satellite or a high-flying aircraft passing through the night sky roughly from south to north -- until it made a 90-degree turn almost directly overhead and accelerated so fast it was out of sight in about 1/2 second. (If you know how slow high-flying aircraft and satellites appear from the ground, you'll know that to cover 50% of the sky in almost no time at all is fast.) I didn't hear anything either.
When I mentioned it to my dad, who's a pilot and can identify almost every man-made flying thing in existence from minimal cues, he said he had no idea what it was either. My guess is an experimental unmanned aircraft, but it seems unusual that someone would be testing such a thing over London, Ontario.
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
I was driving from Montgomery, AL to Birmingham, AL on I-65 late Friday Night (10-4-02). My wife an I both observed a blue "fireball" streaking from the sky toward the horizon. This was much larger than the traditional shooting star or meteor.
Composition [Class III Fireball - Do not handle without proper training and protection. Consult your handbook.]
Oh no! Fireballs have HMIS information?! I already have to find the rest of those 10 000 Material Safety Data Sheets for work; where oh where am I going to find contact information for "Fireball Manufacturers"?
As if my job weren't tough enough...
Interrobang, Conscript MSDS Updater
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
in feb this year, i was in maui and saw one of these large blue fireballs shoot accross the sky, i swear it lit up the whole island for about 1 second. i never heard anything about it, nor have I seen anything like it again.
At first I was totally believing this story, but then when I reread it and saw this:
Then I knew you were lying.
I saw one last January. It did indeed look like a very large and green shooting star. This sighting was in northern Ontario Canada at about 8:30pm.
True genius is grasping a situation like a peice of fruit, and peircing it just right so that it drains dry.
There's something you need to learn about.
There were a number of rumors of certain advanced aircraft being developed during the Reagan and elder Bush administrations. These dried up during the Clinton years (well, the DNC -did- sell our nuclear secrets to the People's Liberation Army in exchange for campaign contributions)
Now Bush jr. is in office for perhaps long enough for these to have been removed from mothballs and are again being tested, perhaps on an accelerated schedule.
These may include the diamond shaped craft and the boomerang shaped craft seen in Canada last week.
Pulse jets with orbital capability, plasma emissions to lower air resistance and increase lift, etc, could plausibly all be in testing at present.
Recall the UFO sightings prior to the unveiling of the late 70s technology B-2 bombers?
If they all had the same radiant, with random arrival times and locations, I'd be inclined to think a cometary debris field (though I'd expect lots of non-fireballs as well). But this is not the case.
One such object apparently crashed in northern Russia last week.
It was 54 years ago in central Italy, driving at night on a desert mountain road. I saw a fiery fireball in the sky, moving slowly from left to right.
I had the time to: understand (maybe) what it was, wake up my wife, stop the car, get out an look. Total time maybe 20 seconds. The 'object' was moving slowly, spewing green flames and eaving a long lasting orange trail behind. Trajectory was more or less horizontal. It disapeared in a flash.
I (and a bunch of other people) saw something similar at Lake Tahoe a few years back. Distinctly purple, slow moving, leaving trail, no sound, no flash.
Turned out to be a space shuttle re-entering on its way to Cape Canaveral. The purple is due to the composition of the tiles. The final orbit and upper-atmosphere reentry is visible over Tahoe due to the inclination. (I think that's a side-effect of chosing an inclination that lets them switch to Vandenberg [on the next pass?] if the weather at Canaveral is too crummy.)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Hats off to you, sir. You have a good mind.
BTW, people who are actively reaching for their higher selves do tend to be more aware of the fucked up stuff going on in the skies these days. Most of the brain damaged posters who responded to your story would most likely not even be able to recall witnessing such an event at all.
--And not just because the bulk of zombie nation are ill-inclined to do any sort of hiking in the wilderness, (hiking and star gazing on top of old caves is a true sign of coolness!), but because they have that amazing ability to re-boot their brains at the first sign of trouble. Perhaps you know what I'm talking about. --I've witnessed numerous times where people have been shown 'impossible' things point-blank, which they actually cannot remember as little as half a day later, or which they radically warp and re-write in their own memories so that it may be quickly dismissed.
Both small and great minds think alike, but the small ones only do so because they all watched the last episode of 'Friends'.
BTW, have you been watching? Didja catch the last 5 big-assed meteors over the last month and half? I tend to think it's just the beginning. Should be interesting, regardless!
Take care!
-Fantastic Lad
Last week i was riding my bike to work around 4:30-5:00 AM PST (I live in BC, Canada) And i saw this white-blueish fireball.. it had sparks and the like flying off of it, sorta like how it's desribed in the article. It was really cold and really clear out, when those are the conditions you can see lots of things you usually can't see here, like the Northern Lights that i think i saw too :)
I wouldn't give you $0.50!
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
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But don't let this affect your consumerist activities, citizen. The government is already throwing up some "don't panic" propaganda.
Oh really? 30 times a year? This is the first I've ever heard about it.
Meanwhile, the powerbrokers in the know are quietly preparing to withdraw, (after killing all the jews and arabs), into their Shadow Government strongholds beneath whatever mountain range they think will save their asses from the end of the world. Silly rabbits!
Okay, that's my two cents. You may now return to Quake or whatever. Cheers!
-Fantastic Lad
I bet that somewhere there's a list that looks like this:
... and so on.
Poodle: Cooked meat.
Goldfish: Popped.
Cat: Incomplete, hard to catch.
Pickle: Glows. (?!)
Beer: No way.
Cousin Ellie: Incomplete, won't talk to me now.
Bug: Zap.
The new secret airforces bases where they do their top secret research similar to the work done on the stealh technology in the 80s is now done in the mountains of Colorado.
New Mexicans and citizens of Nevada used to report all kinds of anomolies when the work was done near them.
Coincidence?
gazunheit!
Theonlyuse of monkeys is to testthings onthem.Some peoplemay say"Hey That'scruel!"and myresponse is"I don't like monkeys
I seem to recall there was an alternate theory for the apparent patterns in mass extinctions, having to do IIRC with the solar system's periodic crossing of the galactic plane (and the associated greater number of chunks of things big enough to cause climate-altering impacts, etc.).
"Biped! Good cranial development. Evidently considerable human ancestry."
Problem is, this is probably going to wipe out most of the Earth's population before the end of the decade. We're supposed to see a small surge of debris hitting the planet, (this current one), a subsiding, and then the sky will literally fall, (and THAT is what will finally break the U.S.'s back.) I'm afraid I don't actually know how long we have, but it's probable that Bush will have enough time to kill all the Jews and kill all the Arabs. (Both parties making up the Semites.)
See my comment on this story for links to the last 5 big meteor events since October. If you're interested, that is.
-Fantastic Lad
To the depths of stupidity and paranoid delision rampant on this site. Thanks for your "input". I'll file it appropriately.
here's a story from last year about the ark twin star, (a big ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite, but which is more than large enough to send some planet killing debris from the Kuiper belt, thank you very much!)
So there ain't no aliens living in Planet X coming to resuce everybody who's been good and loving. That and all the other CIA induced New-Age crapola regarding "Nibiru" is, IMHO, pure & stinking bunk.
However, I tend to be of the thinking that the dark-star came and went about a year and a half ago; there were several half-assed "Do Not Panic, Citizen", plant stories circulating regarding this phenomenon around that time, (put there in the event that anybody on this globe might wake up and realized what was happening. That obviously didn't happen. --Or at least not with anybody who had access to a decent telescope at the time. .
In any case, the Dark Star has most likely done its work. There have been 5 other big-assed meteor strikes over the last month and a half alone. .
Check my post on this story for links to stories of those events.
-Fantastic Lad
The US Airforce Space Warfare center is in Colorado:
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I have also read that Area 51, the 'secret' research base was moved to a remote location in CO. I can't find a link about htis right now.
Blizzard tried to warn us, but nooooooooooooooo. We were busy crushing newbies online. Now the Burning Legion is upon us, and I don't think our hero, George W., has leveled up yet.
We at least need more time to creep.
"Follow your Bliss." -- Joseph Campbell
Millions of slashdot'ers have electrocuted themselves today...
Here's an interesting thing to try-- Stick a couple of old forks in a pickle with the handles pointing away from each other. Split a power cord down the middle and attach some alligator clips to the cut off part. Attach the clips to the forks and put the plug in the wall. After a few seconds, you'll see the pickel glow yellow between where the forks are stuck in the pickle. It's pretty neat to watch.
There's no place like ~/
I'll say there is no way to determine the odds of him cheating; there is no relevant statistical information provided.
"We come in peace! (shoot to kill, shoot to kill.)"
Even if I say something insightfull or inteligent, it doens't matter cause I'm an ass.
It just goes to show you how unused to astronomical events people are. As an amateur astronomer, I can tell you it is rare NOT to see at least one fireball every few nights out under the stars.
Say you've driven up into the hills to find the meteorite, thinking you could maybe sell it to some them scientist fellers upta college. If it has broken open and is pulsing greenly, DO NOT poke it with a stick.
It means a geek finally got a date (with an actual woman)
Table-ized A.I.
You should get a nice Powerbook, so you can upload a virus to the main computer of the mothership.
But let them blow up the White House first, okay? (I'm just KIDDING, Echelon analysts!!!)
Actually the self organizing stars probably means that you were watching one of the Grateful Dead movies. I forget which movie it is but one of them begins with a formless Fantasia like light show as the band is making "warm up" sounds. Then the light show morphs into the band itself onstage and Jerry G. says "Are we rolling?" {Then me and six other housemates busted out in laughter and frisbee playing that lasted for the next seven hours...}
The socks turning into meat probably means you were hungry. Be careful out there though --> only let your {ostensibly sober} trip master operate the fiery grill device; fire hot, fire very hot!!
--Richard
Since the last ridicule post you threw at me 40 lines down in this story. Did I hit a sore spot, hmmm? (Unless you're a brand new AC. -I swear, you kids are like fruit flies!)
-Fantastic Lad
the people responsible for modding you up need a lobotomy
The fireballs were reported to have been traveling different directions at the same time of day, so it would stand to reason that they didn't come from the same rock.
Still, many people are misinterpretting the CU Professor's words. He said simply that the occurance of a fireball is rare when we are not in a meteor storm. We happen to be in the middle of two, the Leonids and the G-something (I forget the name; it's a wierd one). Therefore the probability is much greater that there will be fireballs.
What I find strange is that they were so proximal nearly 24 hours apart and from different sources without tons of other sitings elsewhere at night. I'd say it was chance, though. After all, there was a siting in the Netherlands.
I thought it was fairly common knowledge that the super secret pet flight project of the government is the "Aurora". They use external combustion, essentially igniting the fuel on the wings of the plane to provide thrust. I'm not an aeronautics engineer, so I have no idea how or why that's any better than current technology, but they've been testing them for years, causing many a "UFO" sighting.
Considering that there's a couple of Air Force bases around here (Colorado), not to mention being within flight distance to Nevada, Utah, and other desolate places used for testing, it doesn't surprise me that they were seen.
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This one has a photo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2303349.stm
Found it on diepunyhumans.com
Out for a walk late last week in Southern California with some friends, a big blue streak shot across the sky...FAST, before disappearing just two seconds later. This one seemed very low and VERY bright; I'd guess maybe 10x brighter than a star. I don't go watching meteor showers or anything, so I don't have anything to gauge it against, but I have seen the Space Shuttle/ISS with the naked eye. This definitely looked much brighter, lower, and faster.
Sorry, at least I didn't cause another forest fire from lighting my farts like I did last year in SW New Mexico
Poor aliens... it is obviously our fault. We have been enjoying ourselves far too long on this planet and it infuriates the peaceful inhabitants of distant planets. They are the victims here.
I saw it from the colorado springs area
I saw both from the colorado springs area, both were more green than blue, fairly big tail, the 1st night it was almost directly west, the next night it was more south west direction from teh Springs. Both seemed to last about a full second from when I noticed them.
I would've suggested this company as a manufacturer of Highly Rated Fireballs, but they've switched business models. Will Atomic Fireballs do?
Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said.
"The changes of anything coming from Mars are a million to one" -- but still, they come!
Did it bug the hell out of anyone else that if you can take out an alien with a baseball bat, where the heck were all the rednecks with shotguns? Pretty obviously, the collector biots are not too well armored, and pretty obviously, there's no controlling class of alien waiting up in orbit with Plan B.
it's pieces of that "second moon" that was recently discovered and hypothesized to be a chunk of Atlas booster. Perhaps we've just recently wandered into its debris trail.
Last night 2 gentlemen smelling of marajuana said they witnessed a shower of great balls of fire in the sky. They also mentioned that the sky was raining hot dogs and the ground was made of cantolopes.
It's been obvious for some time that Appletalk is actually an alien protocol...
It made a sound that I would not like to hear twice in my life..
Oct. 9, 1992......hmmm
today = oct.9 2002
just an observation.
About two years ago, a friend of mine was on Wreck beach late one night when there was an absolutely spectacular northern lights display that almost covered the sky. As she was watching it, she said aloud "Oh, man, I can just imagine watching this on LSD".
3 guys (strangers) who were just behind her chimed up in unison.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
"a helix of pure energy which spirals and radiates in ways no one understands." -- the fourth Doctor.
Yep. Gotta love that Mandragora Helix. ;-P
Furry cows moo and decompress.
...so my guess is dat dey was throwing them off de spaceship... aiii... and by sum accent some of dem pickles gots electricueted by the air on entry and went green like me brother was sayin before...
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it will be on de 20th or 21st of July 2003. If you dont believe me wait n see ... aii
Be good or be good @ it...