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Message 1582668 - Posted: 6 Oct 2014, 18:37:41 UTC

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Message 1582749 - Posted: 6 Oct 2014, 22:09:10 UTC

"The ship who sang" is a brainship, and of course, all brainships have a brawn aboard...


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Message 1582751 - Posted: 6 Oct 2014, 22:10:19 UTC - in response to Message 1582749.  

I knew that......


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Message 1582756 - Posted: 6 Oct 2014, 22:28:24 UTC - in response to Message 1582749.  

"The ship who sang" is a brainship, and of course, all brainships have a brawn aboard...

When I saw "brawn" and "sang" I just thought "Helva". Now there is a book I haven't read in a while.
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Message 1582759 - Posted: 6 Oct 2014, 22:37:28 UTC - in response to Message 1582756.  

"The ship who sang" is a brainship, and of course, all brainships have a brawn aboard...

When I saw "brawn" and "sang" I just thought "Helva". Now there is a book I haven't read in a while.

I figured that some of the denizens of the cafe would get the reference and others wouldn't...


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Message 1583175 - Posted: 7 Oct 2014, 22:07:59 UTC

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Message 1583245 - Posted: 8 Oct 2014, 1:07:00 UTC

"The shape of you, the shape of me"

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Message 1583438 - Posted: 8 Oct 2014, 12:42:09 UTC

Cool > Runnings

Cool Runnings (1993)

Based on the true story of the first Jamaican bobsled team trying to make it to the winter Olympics.
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Message 1583444 - Posted: 8 Oct 2014, 13:20:20 UTC - in response to Message 1583438.  
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Cool > Runnings

Cool Runnings (1993)

Based on the true story of the first Jamaican bobsled team trying to make it to the winter Olympics.



Love that movie!! I think I saw it like 20 times when I was a kid:)) (as a youngster actually, I was 16 at that time)
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Message 1584651 - Posted: 10 Oct 2014, 14:29:02 UTC

'binds' > 'binding' - almost the same, TL.
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Message 1584675 - Posted: 10 Oct 2014, 14:47:11 UTC - in response to Message 1584651.  
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'binds' > 'binding' - almost the same, TL.


"He binds them."

"The book's binding is broken."

Two different words... ;-)
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Message 1584987 - Posted: 10 Oct 2014, 22:26:24 UTC

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Message 1585056 - Posted: 11 Oct 2014, 0:15:37 UTC

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Message 1585383 - Posted: 11 Oct 2014, 18:47:17 UTC - in response to Message 1584987.  

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Message 1585471 - Posted: 11 Oct 2014, 21:46:08 UTC

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Message 1585539 - Posted: 11 Oct 2014, 23:46:46 UTC

Something I learned visiting an Air Force museum is that the B-1 is called the bone (B-One) by it's pilots and crews...


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Message 1585548 - Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 0:03:23 UTC

Military intelligence -- classic oxymoron.


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Message 1585578 - Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 1:32:04 UTC - in response to Message 1585548.  

My butylhydroxytoluene was supposed to link with preservative, but it is also unpronounceable.
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Message 1585581 - Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 1:36:22 UTC - in response to Message 1585539.  

Something I learned visiting an Air Force museum is that the B-1 is called the bone (B-One) by it's pilots and crews...

Oh, like the Xbox One is called Xbone!
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