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Steel Shank

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  1. Reeled In by a Spoof, Chinese Daily Shrugs Off Its Capitol Error By HENRY CHU June 7, 2002 12 AM PT TIMES STAFF WRITER BEIJING — A gaffe by China’s usually staid state-run media has left a popular newspaper here with onion on its face. Readers of the Beijing Evening News, one of the capital’s largest-circulation newspapers, learned this week that the U.S. Congress had threatened to move out of Washington unless a fancy new Capitol was built. “Don’t get us wrong. We actually love the dilapidated [old] building,” House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) was quoted as saying. “But the cruel reality is, it’s no longer suitable for use by a world-class legislature. Its contours are ugly, there’s no room to maneuver, there aren’t enough bathrooms, and let’s not even talk about the parking.” If a new building wasn’t erected, the article said, lawmakers were prepared to pack up and move to Memphis, Tenn., or Charlotte, N.C. The story seems newsworthy enough. Trouble is, it was lifted straight from the Onion, a satirical “news” publication based in New York that has caused countless American readers to double over with laughter at its weekly spoofs on current events. Its story on the Capitol appeared in its May 29 edition, alongside such headlines as “Sexual Tension Between Arafat, Sharon Reaches Breaking Point” and “Man Blames Hangover on Everything But How Much He Drank.”
  2. Funny - my wife just made me throw out my "drippings can" because it started to spoil. It was meat drippings that I kept in the pantry. Start a new one in the morning!
  3. Texas in the SEC is like Steel Shank on Surly.
  4. Pour some chile con queso over these bad boys and I'll consider it. 😉
  5. Suck it, Ted Cruz!!!
  6. I bet mine was more deliciouser.
  7. Usually at this time on Fridays I'm laying pipe, but today I'm eating carne guisada and cheese and crackers and enjoying some facetiousness.
  8. This is great. When I initially saw the video, I became suddenly interested in finding out more about her and her relationship with her cat.
  9. OK, but what else?😉
  10. I didn’t think it was legit until I read the “with that being said”.
  11. Seems we have a list started. Go on.....
  12. I enjoyed the hell out of the Gallsnt Knight the few times I was fortunate to attend. A fucking +
  13. I usually don’t capitalize “have”, but sometimes I do just for the hell of it. Shake things up a bit.
  14. Maybe they're thinking "Earley just needs to bring 'his' guys in that play the way he demands"?
  15. I don't usually think of funerals as exciting, but this one has changed my thinking.
  16. Requisite "Nice lookin' sausage, Dutch."
  17. It may be the damnedest thing I've ever seen.
  18. 'fjord' has always been one of my favorite words.
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