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The Game Room / Re: I Spy

« on: March 09, 2008, 03:33:36 PM »

I spy a lovely song playing

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Your Local Weather / Re: Toronto weather

« on: March 09, 2008, 01:57:05 PM »

Quote from: NYCTWCjunkie on March 09, 2008, 01:55:10 PM

Kyle, thanks for the video clip! I have subscribed to your YouTube channel, so I'll definitely be checking out more
of your great stuff you have. No doubt about it. Once I get a new PC complete with a TV tuner, hopefully I can
transfer some of the weather-related video I have into video files and in turn post on my YouTube channel.
This is so I don't just have emulator videos.

Meantime, as soon as we can, I'd like to go over with you my Ottawa area reporting sites on my map and possibly
for the non-map graphic screens (if there are enough to fill at least two, meaning at least eight).

You're getting a tuner soon? That's cool!

I heard Toronto recieved 12-16 inches of snow in some areas

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General Discussion / Re: Random Sunday Poll 3/9/08

« on: March 09, 2008, 01:45:18 PM »

I think the Wizards will. They're a good team but I honestly am not sure

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General Discussion / Re: Gosh darn! Cussing now banned in CA town

« on: March 09, 2008, 01:40:21 PM »

I swear a LOT! I only post in public if i'm p***ed off

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General Discussion / Gosh darn! Cussing now banned in CA town

« on: March 09, 2008, 01:34:55 PM »

Take a gander at this story:

From CNN/AP:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/06/cuss.free.zone.ap/index.html

Gosh darn! Cussing banned in California town
South Pasadena declares first week of March as No Cussing Week

SOUTH PASADENA, California (AP) -- What the $%*&*? This community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cuss-free zone.

McKay Hatch, right, the founder of the No Cussing Club, jokes with his father, Brent Hatch, on Wednesday.

So if you're headed to South Pasadena this week, be sure to turn down the volume on that Snoop Dogg CD, and, if the little old lady from Pasadena cuts you off in traffic, don't even think about flipping her the bird.

Not that police will slap cuffs on you and haul your sorry, er, butt off to jail in light of the proclamation passed Wednesday by the City Council. But you could be shamed into better behavior by the unsettling glares of residents who take their reputation for civility seriously.

"That's one of the purposes of this," Mayor Michael Cacciotti said of his city's proclamation designating the first week of March as No Cussing Week. "It provides us a reminder to be more civil, to elevate the level of discourse."

The proclamation will be in effect until Friday, and then the first week of every March hereafter.

South Pasadena, a tranquil city of tree-shaded cottages at the base of a mountain range eight miles north of downtown Los Angeles, isn't the first to try to rein in potty mouths. Earlier this year, the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, Missouri, proposed banning swearing in bars. Last year, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons called for an industrywide ban on racially and sexually charged epithets.

But what's different about the latest push to stop public cussing is that it was proposed by a 14-year-old boy.

"My mom and dad always taught me good morals, good values, and not cussing was one of them," said McKay Hatch, the founder of South Pasadena High School's No Cussing Club, during a recent break between study hall and tennis practice.

"I've cussed before, I'm not gonna lie to you," Hatch quickly added. "But I try not to cuss any more."

He was in junior high school when he became fed up with all the blue language around him.

He understood why his friends use foul language: "They just want to fit in like everybody else and they don't know how. They figure if they cuss maybe it's an easy way to do that."

But it wasn't for him.

"I finally told my friends, `I don't cuss.' And I said, `If you want to hang out with me, you don't cuss."'

It took a couple of years, but enough friends finally came around that Hatch formed a 50-member club, handed out fliers and called the group's first meeting, held June 1.

Nine months later, the No Cussing Club has a Web site, claims a membership of 10,000 and boasts chapters in several states and countries. Hatch considers his greatest achievement, though, to be getting his hometown of 25,000 to become a cuss-free zone.

Cacciotti, the mayor, isn't surprised that South Pasadena started the movement. He noted that the city broke off from its much bigger neighbor 120 years ago when residents unhappy with the saloon trade in downtown Pasadena voted 85-25 to go their own way.

By midweek, however, it was unclear just how many people in South Pasadena knew about the no-cussing edict.

A clerk behind the counter at Buster's Ice Cream & Coffee Shop just laughed and said, "That sounds pretty funny."

David Salcedo, who manages High Life Burgers, a popular hangout near the high school, hadn't heard of it either.

But, come to think of it, he said, the language among the after-school crowd has been pretty clean lately. The biggest problem these days, Salcedo said, is kids talking too loudly.

"But they're good kids," he added. "They just eat their chili fries and go home."

For his part, Hatch hopes his No Cussing Club will lead to cuss-free zones in other cities. He believes it could be a quality-of-life issue, and that there may be less violence if people behave better.

"You have to start with the little things," he said

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General Discussion / Re: Tell Us About Your Favorite Websites

« on: March 09, 2008, 01:20:39 PM »

Quote from: Gil on March 09, 2008, 01:18:04 PM

I LOVE Wikipedia. Like a lot. I could spend hours on there. Even though the info isn't credible, it's still an interesting site.

I still dont like Wikipedia because some of the info is inaccurate but there are so many articles to choose from, the benefits outweigh the risks

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The Game Room / Re: Say Something Random

« on: March 09, 2008, 01:18:55 PM »

Alright, I'm going to test something out.

This is the last post i will make in the GR. I want to see how long i can go for the entire day starting now, without posting in GR.

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General Discussion / Re: Tell Us About Your Favorite Websites

« on: March 09, 2008, 01:09:14 PM »

Quote from: 4 News Weather Now on March 09, 2008, 01:01:08 PM

Vic,Can You Show Us All Of Your Favorite Websites?

Myspace
Facebook
Airliners.net forums
Wikipedia
Emporis.com
Gmail.com
TWCClassics
Taiganet
TWC Today
Youtube
NBC40.net
Press of Atlantic City
nycsubway.org
Apple.com
weather.com
NASA.gov

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