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by Johnboy
April 29th, 2010, 2:42 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: Help Me Settle a Shallow Argument - Flight
Replies: 30
Views: 994

Re: Help Me Settle a Shallow Argument - Flight

Next thing you know, colchar's going to tell us the automobile wasn't invented in America, either. ;)
by Johnboy
April 28th, 2010, 12:10 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: Help Me Settle a Shallow Argument - Flight
Replies: 30
Views: 994

Re: Help Me Settle a Shallow Argument - Flight

. . . then again, North Carolina seems to pick controversial license plate slogans anyway. "First In Flight" replaced " First in Freedom " (celebrating the Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775, but slaveowners aren't eligible for claiming to be such). Perhaps the slogan should be "First in English Americ...
by Johnboy
April 28th, 2010, 11:52 am
Forum: Our House
Topic: Help Me Settle a Shallow Argument - Flight
Replies: 30
Views: 994

Re: Help Me Settle a Shallow Argument - Flight

You know, this argument might make sense if the Wright brothers actually had been the first to accomplish heavier-than-air powered flight but they weren't !!! <snip> I could go on but this should be enough to demonstrate that the Wright Brothers were not the first to fly. Hell, they weren't even th...
by Johnboy
April 28th, 2010, 11:45 am
Forum: Our House
Topic: My Obsessive-Compulsive Admission
Replies: 8
Views: 183

Re: My Obsessive-Compulsive Admission

Y'all need to read Motherless Brooklyn (novel). The descriptions of OCD and Tourette syndrome are great. Plus, it's hilarious.

Soon to be a major motion picture.
by Johnboy
April 23rd, 2010, 10:47 am
Forum: Our House
Topic: You can't spell...
Replies: 37
Views: 870

Re: You can't spell...

Word hippo is fun.

You can't spell "drunkenness" without Duke (or "bloodsucker").
by Johnboy
April 23rd, 2010, 10:40 am
Forum: Our House
Topic: You can't spell...
Replies: 37
Views: 870

Re: You can't spell...

Kentucky

Oh, and if you go on wordhippo, you can find oodles of words with UNC.

Like "excommunication" and "unexceptional"
by Johnboy
April 21st, 2010, 11:16 am
Forum: Our House
Topic: Old School Basketball Slang
Replies: 17
Views: 320

Re: Old School Basketball Slang

Old School: "a little help?" - a request for assistance because the ball has rolled or bounced off the court and near another person (usually on an adjacent court) who is in a position to throw it back to the person requesting it. Used humorously in one of the first scenes of the movie Stripes . "ro...
by Johnboy
March 12th, 2010, 9:41 am
Forum: Our House
Topic: I won the Talbots essay contest!
Replies: 159
Views: 2039

Re: I won the Talbots essay contest!

Awesome! Congratulations and have a great trip! I thought the essay was hilarious!
by Johnboy
February 25th, 2010, 12:02 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: Legal Question
Replies: 39
Views: 679

Re: Legal Question

CathyCA - Congratulations! I can start referring Pitt county cases to you now, right? colchar - some of them are, perhaps most, but most of the cops (like most of the people) I've gotten to know on a personal basis have been good people. Granted, it is, no doubt, a profession that attracts a lot of ...
by Johnboy
February 24th, 2010, 5:40 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: Legal Question
Replies: 39
Views: 679

Re: Legal Question

I was at work..haven't listened yet. Cool. I guess I shoulda given a :) It's possible my tone sounded, um, brusque. It should not have been. Incidentally, that album ( Kristofferson ) contains several great songs. I list it among the most under-appreciated albums of all time. The first six tracks (...
by Johnboy
February 24th, 2010, 4:05 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: Legal Question
Replies: 39
Views: 679

Re: Legal Question

not just for hippies, but for "decent folks like you and me". Excuse me...I proudly claim both titles. Did you listen to the song (or look up the lyrics)? "Decent folks like you and me" is stated ironically. In the song, the Law, in the name of the "People" (meaning, of course, only the "decent fol...
by Johnboy
February 24th, 2010, 3:58 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: Legal Question
Replies: 39
Views: 679

Re: Legal Question

BTW, if I was driving someone else's car, with permission of course, no way would I let them search it - no telling what contraband they may have had in it, and you'd be in a bad fix explaining your way out of it if they had found some contraband. Damn, that reminds me. I still have my mother's reg...
by Johnboy
February 24th, 2010, 3:55 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: The Historiest and Most Influential Region in the U.S.
Replies: 43
Views: 580

Re: The Historiest and Most Influential Region in the U.S.

There's one Pres in the Virginia list whom I just throw my hands up over... WOODROW WILSON. What's the considered historical opinion on him? Mixed? Looks a bit more favorable than mixed according to Wikipedia . I'd have rated him a bit lower, personally, even though I'm a Virginian and he may be th...
by Johnboy
February 24th, 2010, 3:14 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: Legal Question
Replies: 39
Views: 679

Re: Legal Question

I'm a lawyer, but not a criminal defense lawyer, so this could all be wrong, but here's what I recall from classes/bar review on the topic: A cop is permitted to run a license check on you any time with or without probable cause to do so. This is because (i) driving is a privilege, not a right, and ...
by Johnboy
February 24th, 2010, 9:48 am
Forum: Our House
Topic: The Historiest and Most Influential Region in the U.S.
Replies: 43
Views: 580

Re: The Historiest and Most Influential Region in the U.S.

I lost a huge post I tried to put up yesterday. Essentially I agree with wilson, except I don't think it's that close between New England and the South Atlantic, only because NY, NJ and PA have their own region - the Middle Atlantic. The oldest original European settlements (St. Petersburg and James...
by Johnboy
January 29th, 2010, 11:07 am
Forum: Our House
Topic: Fran Tarkenton
Replies: 14
Views: 307

Re: Fran Tarkenton

I first learned about Fran Tarkenton in Sunday School back in the 1960s. We read a story about bullying. The kids were teasing young Fran Tarkenton for having a girl's name. His father, a Methodist minister, told Fran that he was named after Francis Asbury, a circuit riding preacher who came to thi...
by Johnboy
January 26th, 2010, 1:33 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: I'd like some pickles.
Replies: 150
Views: 2394

Re: I'd like some pickles.

Lavabe wrote:I have some killer pickled lemon peppers. :ymblushing: :D ;) :flame:
The first time I read this, i thought it said: "I have some killer pickled lemur peppers." :-o :))
by Johnboy
December 11th, 2009, 12:40 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: Tiger
Replies: 100
Views: 2467

Re: Tiger

I feel like I'm being bombarded with Tiger's personal life. There was a woman who went on the Today Show this morning and told waaaaaaaaaay TMI. If she were pretty or had an engaging personality, I might have a better understanding into why he cheated. Maybe she is especially talented at sucking go...
by Johnboy
December 8th, 2009, 10:34 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: Where are we?
Replies: 78
Views: 2328

Re: Where are we?

Nancy - you made a little boo-boo when you placed Ozzie's pin on that map . Smithfield is on I-95, north of Benson and South of Wilson - but Ozzie's "pin" is just outside of Shalotte (near Wilmington).
by Johnboy
December 8th, 2009, 5:27 pm
Forum: Our House
Topic: Myths About Canada?
Replies: 51
Views: 830

Re: Myths About Canada?

Is it true that there is a town in north Ontario with dream comfort memory to spare? If so, what does that mean? Also, if you're talking to someone from North Carolina andyou say "it's not that cold - it's just like Maine, or Detriot" you're not making your point very well, IMO. Today, here in NC, i...