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PatrickMcHorn

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  1. 1975- Sara Jane Moore attempts to assassinate Pres. Ford.:
    Moore's assassination attempt took place in San Francisco on September 22, 1975, just 17 days after Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme's attempted assassination of Ford. She was standing in the crowd across the street from the St. Francis Hotel, and was about 40 feet (12 m) away from Ford when she fired a single shot at him with a .38 caliber revolver. She was using a gun she bought in haste that same morning and did not know the sights were six inches off the point-of-impact at that distance, and she narrowly missed.
    1888- first issue of National Geographic magazine was published.
    1823- Con-Artist Joseph Smith, Jr says that God directed him thru the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden Plates were buried
    480 BCE- Battle of Salamis. The Greek fleet let by Themistocles defeats the Persian Fleet under Xerxes I.
    NPR did a story on the guy who grabbed the gun away as she started to fire it. A really well told story, just very sad. He was a Vietnam era marine and gay. He wasn't out to his parents, so basically disowned him


  2. I’ve been ducking around playing a free account to regaining a feel for the game.
     
    I think I’ve got it - ran a level 6 up to 1500 trophies with the newb deck (giant musky etc). Started to run into too many wizards.
     
    I’m so f-ed when I flip accounts however - there are a ton of new characters
     
    Some ghost dude
    A guy that shoots lasers
    A slew of pink shmoos with crowns
    A line of dudes that seem to serve no purpose whatsoever
    A guy that jumps around and dry humps the tower.
     
    Lulz. Wtf. I was playing some 2v2 game and the ghost guy and laser guy killed me.
     
     


    Took me a minute to figure out who you were talking about on some of those, lol. Still not entirely sure I know who the dry humper is. It doesn't feel like you've been gone that long.

    You were right on the money with this one: "A line of dudes that seem to serve no purpose whatsoever"
  3. I worked in restaurants throughout HS and college.  A few of my stories:

    • I worked at a place on Lake Travis and would pick up shifts at others.  It was a revolving door of employees moving from Iguana Grill to Oasis to Carlos and Charlies, to...servers in particular would go on a bender, get fired from one, then hired at another, and by the time they made it through the cycle the place they started at wouldn't remember them.  When new busboys would start we'd send them over to one of the other restaurants at the beginning of the shift to get something that the other restaurant had supposedly borrowed.  Typically like a chicken stretcher, glass magnet, left handed spatula.  Things that, you know, didn't exist.  They'd get to the restaurant that had borrowed it, and they'd inevitably tell the poor kid that a third place now had it.  The new busboy would spend half an hour driving around the lake only to figure out that what they were supposed to go get didn't exist.  It took some longer than others.
    • Similarly, we'd tell them that at dusk they're responsible for taking the US flag down.  A few different people would mention it, then they'd be walking around the parking lot aimlessly looking for it (there isn't a U.S. flag) after sunset.  When we could get managers involved, yelling and screaming about why a flag hadn't been taken down yet, it was a bonus.  
    • Customers... Lots of just drunk assholes that have been mentioned by others.  I've also been the recipient of the "Jesus loves you" tips more than a few times.  There's something about the places on the lake, and how they serve margaritas in plastic tumblers that makes people think it's ok to just walk out with a 3/4 full margarita.  It's a phenomenon I've never seen that much elsewhere, but more times than I could count I'd have to chase someone down in the parking lot and make them chug 6 ounces of margaritas before they took a cup with our phone number half full for a spin around lakeway.  The look on their face was always this one of shock as though because they're within 400 yard of a body of water they should be allowed to just take alcohol past the signs that say "No alcohol beyond this point" and get in and take a drive.  
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  4. For dragging I'd do closer to 10 feet. On the cheap, just run the rope through a six inch length of pvc.

    At the devil's, it's dragging, but it's also letting the boat go ahead of you and holding it back.

    On the cooler... I wouldn't take one. As light as possible...

  5. I was wondering what they are alleging in reporting that the Hermans are footing some of the legal fees for Mrs Smith More likely it's just a loan but what ever.
    I guess they are impugning his MO but suggesting he is paying for dirt?
    Regardless of motive, which I would think is to help a friend, I can't see how anyone sees it as a negative that's not a buckeye fan.
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