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Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 7:33 am
by Shirley

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2019 3:27 pm
by Shirley

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 1:38 pm
by ousdahl
Can this just go here??

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/05/us/michi ... index.html

A 5-year-old boy's entire kindergarten class showed up for his adoption hearing

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 2:17 pm
by jhawks99
I saw that on the news. Supercool.

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:02 pm
by ousdahl
^^^^

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Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 6:54 pm
by jhawks99
That's gonna age well.

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 9:47 am
by Shirley
jhawks99 wrote: Fri Dec 06, 2019 6:54 pm That's gonna age well.
^^^

In my line of work you see a lot of tattoos people have had for a long time, and many are embarrassed by them and wish they'd never got them in the first place.

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2019 5:01 pm
by seahawk

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:54 am
by ousdahl
Arizona Man Caught Driving In The HOV Lane With Fake Skeleton Riding Shotgun

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/26/79968608 ... ng-shotgun

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Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:53 am
by zsn
There is an urban legend in the SF Bay Area that there is some Marin County lawyer who is riding around in the HOV lane with corporate incorporation papers riding shotgun. The thinking apparently is that he will use it to challenge Citizen's United because his corporation is a person and therefore he is not violating the "two persons" rule for using the HOV lane.

I have frequently seen a skeleton riding on the back of a motorcycle on a highway I use everyday - I think it's just a decoration because motorcycles are allowed to use the HOV lane with just one person.

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:59 pm
by ousdahl
Ha! Constitutional law POTD

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 6:23 pm
by Shirley

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 6:27 pm
by CrimsonNBlue
That really hurts the "good guy with a crossbow" argument.

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 8:13 pm
by Deleted User 295
Wow. Hits the dog, goes thru the door, kills the guy.

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:55 am
by Shirley

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:10 pm
by Shirley
Oops:

(But, considering how chill pre-med students are, mistakenly admitting 8 times the actual class size is likely, no big deal.)

Mayo Clinic Medical School Mistakenly Accepts 364 Applicants

On February 13, the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine erroneously emailed 364 letters of acceptance to students seeking admission to the medical school.

Soon after the emails were sent, the school said a technical error was discovered and the letters of acceptance were withdrawn by email. All affected applicants have been contacted by phone.

"We deeply regret having caused disappointment and stress to these applicants and we are continuing to investigate the issue," the Mayo Clinic said in an apology statement posted on its website.

The school mistakenly sent out acceptance letters to everyone who was interviewed, according to a report by CNN.

Admissions Dean J. Michael Bostwick, MD, told CNN that the school typically makes offers to just 46 students and initial offers are always made by phone.

"It's awful. We're still not clear how this happened and we're so upset for these folks," Bostwick told CNN.

[...]

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:26 am
by Shirley
Neurosurgeons often keep people awake during brain surgery, (known as an awake craniotomy), in part to be able to assess their response to the surgery as it progresses. Even though the patient is conscious during surgery, they don't feel any pain. The brain doesn't have any pain receptors and a local anesthetic is used to numb the scalp.

This is pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQvE4Ih2AeI

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 2:47 pm
by ousdahl
The dude who built a homemade rocket to prove his flat earth theory just killed himself when...wait for it...waaaaait for it...when his rocket crashed.


Who saw THAT one coming?

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:30 pm
by jhawks99
Johnny Dare had that crazy dude on a few times. I kinda like him.

Re: This Happened To Me Once:

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:30 am
by Shirley