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Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 31907 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 22639 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0
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Religion
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 22639 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0
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Mort As a teenager, Mort has a personality and temperament that makes him unsuited to the family farming business. Mort's father Lezek takes him to a local hiring fair in the hope that Mort will land an apprenticeship; not only would this provide a job for his son, but it would also make his son's propensity for thinking into someone else's problem. At the job fair, Mort at first has no luck attracting the interest of an employer, but just before the stroke of midnight, a man wearing a black cloak arrives on a white horse, saying that he is looking for a young man to assist him in his work and selects Mort for the job. The man turns out to be Death, and Mort is given an apprenticeship in ushering souls into the next world (though his father thinks he's been apprenticed to an undertaker).
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 22639 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0
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Jane Wilde Hawking (born Jane Beryl Wilde; 29 March 1944) is an English author and educator. She is the ex-wife of Stephen Hawking.
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 22639 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0
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12 Girl Band
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0
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Gordo = overweight
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Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1
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YIKKES Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34070 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34070 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 31907 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157
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Mangrove swamp jetski This one begs and explanation. I was anchored in a small bay off the coast of Mexico when another yacht came and anchored nearby. It was someone I had met earlier in the voyage at one of the yacht clubs. This Microsoft founder had jetskis on his boat and we spent some time zipping in and out of the mangrove roots. He hit a root and launched one into a tree. We spent a couple of hours trying to get it out, but finally he said to forget it. He would just buy a new one in San Diego. So whenever I think of Mangrove swamps I think jetski
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 22639 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0
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Sandman and Logan's Run In the year 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed domed city, a utopia run by a computer that takes care of all aspects of their life, including reproduction. The citizens live a hedonistic life but, to maintain the city, everyone must undergo the ritual of "Carrousel" when they reach the age of 30. There, they are vaporized and ostensibly "renewed". To track this, they are implanted at birth with a "life-clock" crystal in the palm of their hand that changes color as they approach their "Last Day." Most residents accept this promise of rebirth, but those who do not are known as "Runners" and "Sandmen" are assigned to pursue and terminate them.
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34070 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34070 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 22639 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0
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In Dune, there is only one source of melange: the sands of the planet Arrakis, colloquially known as Dune and millennia later called simply Rakkis.
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 22639 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0
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Shai-Hulud (شيء خلود) is the Fremen term for the sandworm of Arrakis.
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0
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sand = Dune
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