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Dave W.
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 01/18/2008 : 08:21:58 [Permalink]
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Enjoy dave, make sure you critique Penn and Teller, those guys are way too lax on their own Skeptical principles.
Paycheck is the greatest PKD collection, so many wonderful stories. Variable Man and The Great C are my favorites. PKD is the man, I read one the other day which was about abiogenisis and panspermia, though it was written in the 50's.
Nightmare alley is a great novel and a wonderful intro to Skepticism for the masses.
Lies is off the charts as I mentioned in my book review, another excellent primer for the uninitiated... |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Dave W.
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26022 Posts |
 Posted - 04/25/2008 : 22:23:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Question 4,
List at least 5 famous people who will die in 2007, bonuses for people who are not already on their deathbed (Such as the leader of Hezbollah, Sheik Nazrallah) Murdering of your listees will result in removal from the contest.
Halfmooner- Lady Bird Johnson, Kirk Douglas, Billy Graham , Charlton Heston, Tony Curtis, Tom Cruise |
I hadn't even heard until tonight that Heston died on April 5. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 04/26/2008 : 03:48:00 [Permalink]
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I am pleased to note that my score was Doodly-Squat. This is a good thing because if I'd lucked into a couple of correct answers, some of the woo-woo might have thought that I could actually do predictions & such, and, due to my perfectly natural desire to raise the level of public morals & mores, I'd have gone for it. After all, "It is immoral for a sucker to keep his money." ~~ "Canada Bill" Jones.
At the moment, I really don't have the time for it......
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/26/2008 : 10:50:19 [Permalink]
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| Damnit Filthy, by wanting to fail, you're ruining the "integrity" of this competition. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/26/2008 : 13:26:06 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Damnit Filthy, by wanting to fail, you're ruining the "integrity" of this competition.
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My work here is done.....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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2007 Psychic Contest Results!
