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Sue71
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by Sue71 » June 20th, 2009, 1:15 am
wilson wrote:I have mentioned this in passing a time or two, but I leave in the morning for South Dakota, on a mission trip with my brother and his church yoots.
We arrive in Denver early tomorrow afternoon and then drive across southeastern Wyoming to Martin, SD, on the western edge of the Pine Ridge reservation (right near Wounded Knee, for those of you who know Native American history). Our trip will include Mt. Rushmore, Wall Drug, the Badlands, and Custer State Park (the biggest state park in the U.S., with bison, prairie dogs, elk, etc.) on the back end. I'll be sure and bring back good pics, and I'm strongly considering purchasing a mounted jackalope at Wall Drug.
Have a great time! How exactly do you plan to get the jackalope home with you?
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by wilson » June 20th, 2009, 7:09 am
Sue71 wrote:wilson wrote:I have mentioned this in passing a time or two, but I leave in the morning for South Dakota, on a mission trip with my brother and his church yoots.
We arrive in Denver early tomorrow afternoon and then drive across southeastern Wyoming to Martin, SD, on the western edge of the Pine Ridge reservation (right near Wounded Knee, for those of you who know Native American history). Our trip will include Mt. Rushmore, Wall Drug, the Badlands, and Custer State Park (the biggest state park in the U.S., with bison, prairie dogs, elk, etc.) on the back end. I'll be sure and bring back good pics, and I'm strongly considering purchasing a mounted jackalope at Wall Drug.
Have a great time! How exactly do you plan to get the jackalope home with you?
If I actually get a jackalope, I'll ship it. I looked online yesterday though, and they're pretty expensive. I dunno.
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by cl15876 » June 20th, 2009, 8:47 am
wilson wrote:I have mentioned this in passing a time or two, but I leave in the morning for South Dakota, on a mission trip with my brother and his church yoots.
We arrive in Denver early tomorrow afternoon and then drive across southeastern Wyoming to Martin, SD, on the western edge of the Pine Ridge reservation (right near Wounded Knee, for those of you who know Native American history). Our trip will include Mt. Rushmore, Wall Drug, the Badlands, and Custer State Park (the biggest state park in the U.S., with bison, prairie dogs, elk, etc.) on the back end. I'll be sure and bring back good pics, and I'm strongly considering purchasing a mounted jackalope at Wall Drug.
Wilson - safe travels and look forward to hearing about your experiences touching others and those that you've touched! Also, I can't wait to see pics of the scenery and all those folks you'll be cooking for and the expressions on their faces! God speed!
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by ArkieDukie » June 20th, 2009, 8:54 am
windsor wrote:Turk wrote:It appears I've slipped through a crack in the time-space continuum and wound up in some sort of parallel DBR universe, with a whole army of smilies at my disposal! I see some of you people can use them all at once... I will have to start slow and work my way up....
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Emoticons are
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ArkieDukie
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by ArkieDukie » June 20th, 2009, 8:55 am
That's what I get for posting from my iPhone (see above).
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by Bostondevil » June 20th, 2009, 9:08 am
wilson wrote:Pounding the red sox is fun.
Just sayin'.
Yeah, they'll toss you one. Hmmm, Derek Lowe tonight, that's hard. Too bad the Sox aren't throwing Smoltz at you tomorrow.
The time is out of joint, O cursed spite!
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by DukieInKansas » June 20th, 2009, 9:30 am
Have a great trip, Wilson! Youth Mission trips are a great experience.
Life is good!
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by YmoBeThere » June 20th, 2009, 10:23 am
Posting while using a bus' Wi-fi. Now I will need to post while on an airplane.
Why a bus? Because it was cheaper than driving myself, didn't want to park the new car in Manhattan, and think of the lower emissions per mile from me riding on a full bus than driving myself in the aforementioned car.
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by ArkieDukie » June 20th, 2009, 10:56 am
YmoBeThere wrote:Posting while using a bus' Wi-fi. Now I will need to post while on an airplane.
Why a bus? Because it was cheaper than driving myself, didn't want to park the new car in Manhattan, and think of the lower emissions per mile from me riding on a full bus than driving myself in the aforementioned car.
Good job, Ymo! Way to take advantage of public transportation. Also glad you're not posting while driving.
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by devildeac » June 20th, 2009, 1:04 pm
YmoBeThere wrote:Posting while using a bus' Wi-fi. Now I will need to post while on an airplane.
Why a bus? Because it was cheaper than driving myself, didn't want to park the new car in Manhattan, and think of the lower emissions per mile from me riding on a full bus than driving myself in the aforementioned car.
Cool idea. My son has made several bus trips from DC to NYC for about $40-50 round trip, depending on how far in advance he books the trip. That's just about the cost of a day's parking in NYC, then there's gas, tolls and NJ drivers... :roll:
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by YmoBeThere » June 21st, 2009, 11:56 am
Not much PW'ing going on here...
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by devildeac » June 21st, 2009, 1:55 pm
YmoBeThere wrote:Not much PW'ing going on here...
And it's all your fault... :roll: ;)
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by YmoBeThere » June 21st, 2009, 9:08 pm
devildeac wrote:YmoBeThere wrote:Not much PW'ing going on here...
And it's all your fault... :roll: ;)
Isn't it always?
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by devildeac » June 21st, 2009, 9:23 pm
YmoBeThere wrote:devildeac wrote:YmoBeThere wrote:Not much PW'ing going on here...
And it's all your fault... :roll: ;)
Isn't it always?
Not always. Sometimes I blame Ozzie... :roll: :oops: ;)
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by ArkieDukie » June 21st, 2009, 11:17 pm
devildeac wrote:Not always. Sometimes I blame Ozzie... :roll: :oops: ;)
Isn't that a good policy to have in general? ;) :lol:
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by TillyGalore » June 22nd, 2009, 6:54 am
ArkieDukie wrote:devildeac wrote:Not always. Sometimes I blame Ozzie... :roll: :oops: ;)
Isn't that a good policy to have in general? ;) :lol:
Poor Ozzie.
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by Bostondevil » June 22nd, 2009, 9:30 am
Nah, he loves the attention.
The time is out of joint, O cursed spite!
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by OZZIE4DUKE » June 22nd, 2009, 5:34 pm
TillyGalore wrote:ArkieDukie wrote:devildeac wrote:Not always. Sometimes I blame Ozzie... :roll: :oops: ;)
Isn't that a good policy to have in general? ;) :lol:
Poor Ozzie.
My, my, my. What have I done to deserve all this abuse? :roll: :roll:
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by Johnboy » June 22nd, 2009, 5:40 pm
wilson wrote:
I'm calling bullshit. I have been to the actual equator, that's standing directly on it, in Kenya. A guy there showed us a simple experiment with funnels. I saw with my own two eyes that even just a little bit of water (like half a pitcher's worth) swirls clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise 25 feet in the other direction. When we poured the water into the funnel on the equator, it just went straight down.
Here it is in
Uganda.
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