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bluehinter
11/07/08

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Oh, and forgot to add... One of those kids who used to blow the crap out of stuff with us is now over in France working at the Large Hadron Collider. If anybody's going to blow a hole in our universe, it'll be Dave.

Science, bitches! Learn it!
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bluehinter
11/07/08

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All I can say is, thank goodness I was raised before 9/11 and Columbine.

You can bet I spent my teenage years blowing up 2-liter soda bottles with baking soda and vinegar, dissecting fireworks and then reassembled them into bigger ones, using squirt bottles full of kerosene to create disgusting deformed mannequin heads, and trying to construct a double-barreled flamethrower out of two cans of WD40, some fencing material, and a pocket torch (You can blame that near-death experiment on Phantasm II, thank you very much!).

Hell, I admit it. I downloaded a copy of 'The Anarchist's Cookbook' off the local BBS and printed it out on the school's dot-matrix printer, just like every single other geek in computer class.

Did we want to kill all our classmates and blow up the school? Hell no! Did we enjoy speculating what sort of crater a V8 can full of powdered magnesium would leave in my best friend's driveway. You bet!

Children today will never again be able to experience the simple (and highly flammable) innocence of backyard science.
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bookwench
11/06/08

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Why are there never any mad scientist parties in *my* neighborhood? I wanna play too!
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Meirelle
11/06/08

@bookwench: The Feds got to 'em already.
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bakana
11/06/08

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Good grief! They ARE lucky there wasn't any actual science going on. As the sad story of Steve Kurtz teaches us, even OWNING a petri dish, and having a cop see it, is enough of a red flag for the FBI to completely ruin your life.
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RAHfanboy
11/06/08

@bakana: Yeah, you beat me to that one.
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don_mynack
11/06/08

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A "mad scientist party"? Talk about a sausage-fest.
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Elizabeth Weinbloom
11/06/08

@don_mynack: Dude, I so would have gone, and I would probably have pretended to be susceptible to their Love Potions and whatnot. The one in the glasses might be cute...

Anyone having a mad scientist party in New York, gimme a call.
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aixelsyd
11/06/08

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just another reason to realize the police ARE THE TERRORISTS and the war is against them and their illegal actions.
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Meirelle
11/06/08

@aixelsyd: Hey. It's not the cops' fault. They're just following orders. Blame the guys who make the rules. Down with the government!
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Meirelle
11/06/08

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Whoa. and I thought the US was bad.
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Gann
11/06/08

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Next halloween we should all go as terrorists. They wouldn't know who to arrest first.
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RAHfanboy
11/06/08

@Gann: I am Osama Bin Laden! No, I am Osama Bin Laden!
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lightninglouie
11/06/08

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I just hope Frank and Doctor Forrester are okay.
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gorehound
11/06/08

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This is BS !!! I hate my goverment and can see how they use the 9/11 laws to go after people who are not terrorists but this is totally lame and i would get a lawyer and sue the UK Officials if this was me who was hassled in this way.

We sure live in a lame world now don't we.
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RAHfanboy
11/06/08

@gorehound: Don't you have homework to do young man?
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Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
11/06/08

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That is a seriously awesome photo.
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RAHfanboy
11/06/08

@Belabras: It somehow makes me think of MST3K.
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TomSkylark
11/06/08

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Man. The Post-9/11 world is all about giving state agencies the power to be even more douche nozzle-y than they were before 9/11. Meanwhile, when it comes to fighting actual crime (such as charging my friend's homophobic neighbors who have slashed his tires and chased him a car yelling 'faggot'), the best we can hope for is, "Well, sir, I might file a report, but we can't actually do anything."

Le sigh.
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Meirelle
11/06/08

@TomSkylark: Whoa. Seriously? That's complete bullshit. "We can't actually do anything about this hate crime." Only in America.
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Ghede
11/06/08

@TomSkylark: Especially since Bush and his cronies are scrambling to get a last bit of legislation in before they get kicked out in January.

[www.nytimes.com]

Most terrifying:

"Last month, Attorney General Michael Mukasey rushed out new guidelines for the F.B.I. that permit agents to use chillingly intrusive techniques to collect information on Americans even where there is no evidence of wrongdoing.

Agents will be allowed to use informants to infiltrate lawful groups, engage in prolonged physical surveillance and lie about their identity while questioning a subject's neighbors, relatives, co-workers and friends. The changes also give the F.B.I. - which has a long history of spying on civil rights groups and others - expanded latitude to use these techniques on people identified by racial, ethnic and religious background."

USAKGB.
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Ghede
11/06/08

@Ghede: Guh. I'm a freaking moron. Was just talking about that with someone else and it stuck in my brain. Lodged in there hard enough to make me not able to read words like "London"

Remove foot from mouth, or from keyboard.
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Meirelle
11/06/08

@Ghede: I gotta get my shotgun and defend my turf, man.
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Dormouse: Corporate Tool
11/06/08

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Jesus. Fuck the "War on Terror" and the "War on Drugs."

Sometimes I am reminded of the villagers in Hot Fuzz. You know, the ones who killed all the weirdos and gypsies and stuff.
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Alexis
11/06/08

@TheDormouse:

Yeah, this is ridiculous.
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FredicvsMaximvs
11/06/08

@TheDormouse: We need to get all meta and have a War On "The War On _".
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Meirelle
11/06/08

@FredicvsMaximvs: "Footsoldier in the War On War On"? BRILLIANT!
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RAHfanboy
11/06/08

@Dormouse: Footsoldier in the War On The War On: They haven't done nearly the damage of the "War on Poverty."
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