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• Man convicted...

  
  heaven is...a beer volcano and a stripper factory — Authority: 135
  ...for hunting teenagers out of season . *** No...it wasnt my house. Geez. :) *** 1. Some urban legends should remain untested. 2. They were damned lucky that all he hit with those bullets was the truck. *** Have fun in jail dude. Hope the kids were ticketed for disturbing the peace.
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• You know...

  
  heaven is...a beer volcano and a stripper factory — Authority: 135
  ... The funny parts of Roseanne that make the show tolerable are greatly outweighed by the whining of the shows cast of children and the shrillness of Roseanne on the show... ...especially when it is turned up too damned loud on someones television @ 5 in the morning on a day when I dont have to get up early. Im ...
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• Curmudgeons Unite!

  
  E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez — Authority: 402
  As I have mentioned in a previous blog post , while I have been on holidays over the last couple weeks, totally disconnected from everything online, unwinding and re-charging batteries, I have also had plenty of time to rethink how I am effectively making use of various different social software tools, both ...
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• Happy Thanksgiving from the Wine Curmudgeon

  
  The Wine Curmudgeon — Authority: 127
  The blog is off today, but will be be back tomorrow with the monthly mini-reviews. Until then, enjoy the holiday and this video, courtesy of Bolitochrome at You Tube -- another argument for screw caps:
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• The Tattlesnake – Some Things Not to Be Thankful For Edition

  
  BartBlog — Authority: 476
  Or, What a Curmudgeon Does on ThanksgivingMajor minor aggravations that ‘wear on the mind and make you old before your time.’– These people who leave comments on various websites claiming they’ve been to teabag rallies and never once saw anyone who was a racist. Really? Not even a single racist? This is just ...
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• Gated Communities & Defensible Space

  
  World-Wide-Matel — Authority: 129
  We stopped at the remains of a small artillery fort on the Petersburg battlefield.    These days it is located in the middle of a neat planned community.   As you see in the nearby picture, they don’t have much imagination when it comes to naming streets.   We lived in a nice community in Londonderry, NH.   ...
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• Don’t be Guilting Me With Your Stupid Tip Jar

  
  What Would Dad Say — Authority: 419
  by Cal, Curmudgeon-at-Large, exclusively for WWDS Used to be, the only ones who got tips from me were waitresses who wore too-tight skirts. Yeah-yeah, 15% for good service, even though most of the time, they threw the shit food at me, nearly. Then, “good” got dumbed down, to mostly OK service; you’ve ...
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• Two years of the Wine Curmudgeon

  
  The Wine Curmudgeon — Authority: 127
  The phone call two years ago caught me completely by surprise. The Star-Telegram newspaper in Fort Worth, where I had written a weekly wine column called The Wine Curmudgeon, was cutting back. My four articles a month would become one or two, and there was no guarantee of even that. In other words, I had become a ...
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• Wine a bottle of wine

  
  The Wine Curmudgeon — Authority: 127
  As part of the Wine Curmudgeons birthday celebration , you can win a bottle of Tormaresca Neprica, the blogs most popular wine. Just leave a comment on the original post detailing why you like the Neprica, and the best answer, as determined by the Wine Curmudgeon, gets a bottle and a cork screw to open it with.
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• Happy birthday, Wine Curmudgeon

  
  The Wine Curmudgeon — Authority: 127
  Today, the numbers -- how many of you visit, what your favorite posts are, and the like. Tomorrow, why were here and how well it has turned out, despite the misgivings of a fellow who started in this business when we used typewriters and carbon paper . In the past 12 months, the number of visitors who stop by each ...
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• Room on the Short School Bus

  
  Hope Radio — Authority: 417
  Its War on Terror Day so Ill keep it short. Gotta go lurk websites and post counterinsurgency, global war on terror, troop goodness. Between that and trading site building for training sessions, kiddos, job hunting and waiting for a couple of email, my day is shot and its only 9:30. Cool eh?Heres a couple of posts ...
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• Wine of the week: Tormaresca Neprica 2008

  
  The Wine Curmudgeon — Authority: 127
  No wine better illustrates what American wine drinkers want than the Neprica. And no wine better illustrates how little the wine business understands about what American wine drinkers want. In the two years Ive written this blog, the two Neprica reviews are not only the most popular reviews, but theyre the second ...
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• Wine Curmudgeon birthday celebration starts Wednesday

  
  The Wine Curmudgeon — Authority: 127
  This week marks the blogs second anniversary, which has grown so quickly over the past couple of years that the Wine Curmudgeon sometimes wonders how it has happened. But I appreciate the growth, nevertheless. Which means that my posts on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be birthday-related, which means prizes and ...
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• Untangling Quantum Mechanics

  
  The Center for Science Writings — Authority: 402
  “Any who says he understands quantum mechanics,” Niels Bohr once said, “doesn’t know the first thing about it.” Bohr, a Danish physicist who helped invent (discover?) quantum theory a century ago, presumably excluded himself from this dictum.Quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of electrons, ...
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• Film vs. Digital

  
  Cap'n Bob & the Damsel — Authority: 129
  Can you guess which panel below was imaged by a $500+ Canon Digital Rebel Xsi and which was imaged with a $2.99 Kodak disposable camera? Near the end of September, the company I worked for threw a retirement luncheon for me. The lady who organized the event brought a bunch of throw-away cameras to be handed ...
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• Some advice for wine PR people

  
  The Wine Curmudgeon — Authority: 127
  There are two jobs in the wine business that the Wine Curmudgeon does not want to do. One is making wine, which is way too complicated. The other is doing wine public relations, since it means that I would have to deal with people like myself. I mention this because the recession has not been kind to wine PR people, ...
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• Movies Not to See

  
  World-Wide-Matel — Authority: 129
  George Clooney is charming; Kevin Spacey is villainous and Jeff Bridges is funny. But dont go to "Men Who Stare at Goats".  You saw all the funny parts already if you saw more than one commercial for the film, so let me spoil the ending.  The "good guys" put LSD into the water and chow of American troops in Iraq and ...
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• To Hell and Beck

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 142
  Who other than His Nuttiness would praise nurses for their knowledge, care, and understanding when they tended to him after he was hospitalised following botched hemorrhoid surgery only to turn on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• 10 tips for talking to GOM: Tip Three

  
  Lee's new-look Better Communication Results blog — Authority: 126
  Watch out! Theres a Grumpy Old Man about! I blogged about this earlier , but at the request of a couple of emailers, here’s the third of 10 ‘clues’ you need to ‘get’ if you want to engage meaningfully with curmudgeons like me. [ clue one is here , [ clue two is here ] Firstly, some background… ...
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• 10 tips for talking to GOM: Tip Two

  
  Lee's new-look Better Communication Results blog — Authority: 126
  Watch out! Theres a Grumpy Old Man about! I blogged about this earlier , but at the request of a couple of emailers, here’s the second of 10 ‘clues’ you need to ‘get’ if you want to engage meaningfully with curmudgeons like me. [ clue one is here ] Firstly, some background… If you have been raised ...
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