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This simple dinner will help you get through the busy holidays. Spaghetti Bolognese with a side dish of herbed zucchini is a simple, satisfying Italian meal. The gastronomic city of Bologna claims the origin of this dish, although it seems that every Italian cook has a favorite recipe.

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The 6 Biggest Badasses Who Lived As The Opposite Sex
Throughout history, men and women have disguised themselves as the opposite sex, some of them really really well, in a way that confuses and possibly arouses us. But among them are the truly amazing stories where their masquerade wasn't discovered with the dramatic removal of a hat with some slow motion hair tossing, but after some surprise genitals turn up in a post-mortem examination.
They lived their whole lives, often convincing even their spouses that they were a different gender. How?
Sometimes they were very clever, sometimes they were very hardcore and sometimes the people around them were very stupid.
#6. Billy Tipton
Billy Tipton was a jazz musician from the 30s through the 60s, and like most jazz musicians of that era, a partier and a womanizer. Unlike most jazz musicians of that era, he was also biologically a woman.
Born as Dorothy Tipton, she got into jazz in high school but was forbidden from joining the school band because girls weren't allowed. Because of this continuing pattern of prejudice against women in jazz, and because she liked getting it on with women, she began to dress like a man. At first it was just to fool people for jazz gigs, but she dug it so much that she completely became "Billy Tipton" and declared herself a member of the penis club. Sex change surgery being several decades in the future, Billy tied down his boobs and stuffed his pants.
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Incredibly, "he" got away with this through a long-term relationship with a girl. And then another one. And another. Tipton had five long term relationships in his life, and got by each time by claiming that a car accident had coincidentally mutilated both his man parts and his chest, which explained his chest bandages and why they always had to try unconventional sex methods.
A few close cousins may have known about his/her double life, and possibly some of his lovers, but you know who didn't?
Tipton's children.
OK, they were adopted. But still, they didn't have a clue until the 74-year-old Tipton was wheeled into the hospital, dying of an untreated ulcer. In the course of attempted lifesaving treatment, something either popped out, or failed to pop out, or both, and Tipton's son William got the surprise of his life.
After Billy Tipton died, the story went public, and since this was 1989, people were generally more impressed than scandalized. That is how you keep a fucking secret.
#5. Shi Pei Pu
French diplomat Bernard Bouriscot went to China in the 1960s hoping for his first sexual encounter with a woman, and got halfway there with Shi Pei Pu, a male Chinese opera singer who pretended to be female.
Obviously the question on your mind is how you can make it all the way through sex convinced that your cross-dressing lover actually has a vagina. You might even speculate that Bouriscot was just closeted and liked having the "I swore he was a girl" thing as cover. You'll be even more confused when you find out that right before Bouriscot was about to leave the country and stay gone for a few years, his cross-dressing lover Shi insisted "she" was pregnant.
Bouriscot, apparently happy to learn that everything he heard in biology class was wrong, left for his trip and stayed gone for four years. When he came back, Shi had a four-year-old kid.
This raises another obvious question: What the fuck was Shi possibly up to with this impossibly complicated charade, and the answer is that he was a spy. A really fucking good one, apparently.
Even when Bouriscot lost sexual interest in Shi, he still kept the two in his life because he wanted to be responsible to his "son" and the "mother" of his "son." While Shi obviously had to make a lot of excuses as to why he had no boobs and why Bouriscot couldn't put anything in his vagina, it is also pretty obvious that these excuses probably didn't have to be very good. In any case, Shi and the Chinese government basically got all the secret documents they could hope for from the diplomat.
Twenty-some years into the relationship, Bouriscot made the mistake of bringing his "family" back to Paris, and thus bringing his cross-dressing lover into contact with less stupid French people. They got suspicious, investigated the relationship, and had a look at Shi's private parts. Both men were convicted of espionage.
The French may not know war, comedy, proper hygiene or diplomacy,
but they know when a woman ain't a woman.
Bouriscot tried to kill himself to escape the humiliation but instead ended up being played by Jeremy Irons in a David Cronenberg movie based on a Broadway play about his life. The guy never could get a break.
#4. Marina the Monk
The story of Marina the Monk is an old legend, so it's hard to be sure which part is fact or fiction. She was eventually made a Saint by the Cahtholic church, who generally don't go out of their way to associate themselves with cross-dressing, so we'll go ahead and take their word for it on this one. The story goes that when Marina's father decided to go be a monk, she shaved off her hair and joined him. Monks were obviously male-only, but they wear baggy robes and aren't in the habit of poking about at each other's genitals (at least in the more respectable orders) so she got away with it pretty easily for a while.
Also they carry sweet daggers.
However, one day she went on a monk business trip and had to stay at an inn. She had the bad luck to be there when the innkeeper's daughter was getting it on with a visiting soldier, and neither of them used protection because it hadn't been invented yet. When the innkeeper's daughter found out she was pregnant, the soldier was long gone, so she blamed it on the cute young smooth-faced monk that had also been staying there.
Marina was in a bit of a bind, but was so set on staying with her dad that she decided to just man up and take responsibility for the baby. The monastery expelled her for getting another woman pregnant with her penis, and she lived outside the gates as a beggar taking care of the kid.
She was so nice about it, though (she was a saint, after all) that the monks let her back in after a few years, but only allowed her to perform the lowliest menial tasks. She raised her illegitimate child (though actually we have no idea what the proper term for their relationship would be) to adulthood, and he became a monk as well.
Then when she died, they had to dress her for burial and found out she was a woman. Then they all felt like dicks.


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Do you prefer a booth or table when you are dining out?
This is really a two part question. Part one is how often do you dine out and part two is when dining out do you prefer a booth or table?
I used to be pretty heavy and found sitting in booths would be uncomfortable. I have lost some weight and now booths are not an issue, but I don't see what the big deal is. My wife and I went out to eat this weekend and we were seated at a table. After the first round of drinks my wife suggested we asked to be moved to a booth. I don't see a difference either way so we stayed where we were. Then we had a lengthy (pointless) conversation about how most people would prefer a booth and if there is one available that is the first place they should seat you. After talking to a few friends they shared the same opinion. I never thought a booth was such a high commodity! We usually go out to eat once or twice a week and again, I can care less where we sit.
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Well it depends on what I'm doing, and the restaurant. If I'm just on a solo date with my wife a booth makes sense. I feel booths are cozier (especially in winter), and let you stretch out a bit if you're seated one to each side. But once you start adding people to the booth it becomes inconvenient; if someone has to leave, someone else is probably going to have to move. If I'm out a bar & grill with a few friends we get a table, they're just easier!
Dinner for 2: Booth
Dinner for 2+: Table
Booths are more private but tables are less claustrophobic. For me, claustrophobia wins and I prefer a table. Plus I am pretty restless and I can shift around and sit different ways on a chair but a booth is pretty restrictive. As for how often I eat out, I eat at a sit-down restaurant about 3-4 times per week on average, more around the holidays. I pick up take-out, either from fast food places or regular restaurants, probably another 3-4 times per week, also more around the holidays. Most of my at-home meals are re-visioned restaurant leftovers. I live alone and I just don't make the time like I should for shopping, cooking and cleaning up. It's so much faster and cheaper to grab a Cabana bowl from Taco Cabana and make three meals out of it at home.
Booth. Ever tried to canoodle in a chair? Downright dangerous.
I eat out at least twice a week. I live in a huge city, so I'm wonderfully spoiled for variety and choice. I don't often frequent restaurants that have booths, but when I do, I definitely want the booth. Especially if it's a diner-type breakfast place or an old-fashioned steak house/jazz lounge, the two types of restos here that most often have booths.
There's something so solid and safe and comfortable about a booth. It feels so much more private, like I and the person/people with me are completely insulated from the rest of the restaurant. At breakfast, I can spread myself out like a beached jellyfish and lumpishly gorge on my breakfast in private peace. In the evening, I can rakishly recline with my arms elegantly draped across the top of the booth and guzzle my cocktails like some flash molly in a speakeasy.
Booths are awesome.
Mostly booths. Love the padded seating.
If it's wood booths I go table. Those flat seats on wood booths get annoying over time.
Wow, I think @goldenthorn summed it up perfectly!
I too prefer a booth, though we don't eat out that much anymore -- maybe a couple of times a month.
I eat out rarely, but I always request a table: I'm a fairly small person and sitting at a booth leaves me a choice between being unable to reach my food or perching at the very edge of the bench which causes back pain. Neither of those options is pleasant, and when I eat out, I'm hoping for a pleasant experience!
I'm very overweight and prefer booths by a mile, although I understand being hesitant-- I have had a booth or two that the table was too big/wide for the seats and it was uncomfortable.
It's harder to grope my husband in public at a table.
We eat out several times a week~hubby likes booths, and I don"t care.
Wow, this just happened to my girlfriend and I this past weekend. She prefers booths and had us change seats after we were seated at a table. I'm pretty tall so as long as my chair isn't sticking out into the middle of the aisle or hitting someone behind me and I can stretch my legs a bit I don't care either way.
We eat out about 3x per month.
I go out at least once a week and prefer a booth due to the extra level of quiet it affords when out with friends. Since I'm out for social interaction I prefer to hear the conversation.
When out with the "drinking buddies" it may as well be a table, since I really don't care what they have to say.
I'm a booth man through and through. I like sitting on the outside of the table.. it makes me feel powerful.
@thumperchick: It's easier to use my big toe at a booth. ;)
I like a booth mainly because its easier for my wife and I to keep our daughter safer and easier for her to sit at as well.
I'm a table fan in the majority of cases, but a lot of it comes down to what kind of booth the restaurant has.
My family runs on the bulky side so tables are often more comfortable for some of us if the booths are small and have fixed tables.
Privacy also varies from booth to booth... some where you're back to back to the next table makes it feel a lot less private than if you were at a table (where room to move your chair back to get out separates the table more). On the other hand, if the booth has a good divider and you're not super close to the next table it does make it feel a lot more private and I prefer the booth then.
As for how often... I try to keep it to once a week (outside of summer vacation). I used to eat out a lot when I was at college (3 or more times a week even) and the cost really does add up, not to mention the calories.
I have always felt sorry for all the little Naugas that gave their hide to upholster all the booths in the world.
The use of Naugahyde should be banned before they are extinct. Pleather would be a more suitable covering.
Booth. We go out for lunch a couple of times a week and if a booth is an option (most places here that aren't 5 Guys), I prefer not to be in the bustle that can happen when you're out at a table.
Mostly a booth. I generally eat alone (fiancee still hasn't moved here), and eating at a booth makes it easier for me to ease my pistol out of my holster and shoot first, should I be accosted by a bounty hunter during my meal. Always want to be ready.
Booth. Tables are usually in high traffic, high visibility areas and/or really close to other tables. I don't really like people that much, so booths give me a buffer zone and a sense of privacy. Fewer people around me to annoy me means a better eating experience. The wife and I will sit on the same side of the booth so we can talk without yelling over the background noise. I do have large family members, so I understand how booths can be confining and uncomfortable. I NEVER eat at places that offer "family style" meals where you sit at the same table as strangers. The closest thing to that I've done is the Asian joints that prepare the food in front of you and you all sit around the grill. Even that feels odd to be "sharing" an experiences with randos.


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Well that was a lot of fun, loved all the chaos and confusion. So everything we say is considered serious and not seen as a joke? Cause I was joking with the truth when I told I was a monster.
Anyway, go team Jacob!
Welp, now I'm dead in both games.
E'rybody dead now.
It's one damn quiet village now
This sucks.
You shouldn't have acted so suspiciously, Hatman!
Not acting suspiciously is for the bad guys to do.
Alright cunt slices, stop complaining about being dead and come join the new game in the Variant thread.
I'm running it so it'll be full of fun and potentially game ruining mistakes!
I'm going to be sticking to the main thread only because I'm not crazy.
Okey dokey I'll try the variant.
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but to me this sounds a little strange: formal English would have "positively"; "positive" seems a strange choice of words for saying this colloquially, but it wouldn't surprise me too much if someone used this in analogy to the phrase "think positive" which is well-known, or having heard the phrase "positive play". (It's also possible it sounds more natural in the US or in a particular dialect, but someone else will have to comment on that :-)
Here the words, 'better play positive' mean that you better start thinking positively or negativity will not help you solve your problems.
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ANDERSON, S.C. – With the pitching staff surrendering just one earned run and the offense blasting four home runs on the afternoon, the Anderson University softball team swept a nonconference doubleheader past Chowan, 8-0 and 9-1, Sunday afternoon at Smethers Field.
Anderson (6-0) extended its season-opening win streak to six games, marking the Trojans' best start for a season since the 2010 squad won its first seven contests. Chowan suffered its sixth consecutive setback to start the season.
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Anderson 8, Chowan 0 (5 innings)
Senior shortstop Abby Child was a perfect 3-for-3 in the opener, including the first of two home runs on the afternoon. She also added a run-scoring double in the fifth inning, scored twice and drove in five runs. Sophomore center fielder Molly Child added a double and an RBI-single, while scoring twice. Senior first-baseman Danielle Swygert was 2-for-3 after recording a single and a double. Junior Jessica Neidigh was 1-for-2 with a double and a sacrifice fly in three trips to the plate.
Junior right-hander Katelynn Howser (2-0) collected her second win of the season after scattering three hits in four full innings of work. She walked five and struck out six Hawks. Freshman hurler Augie Pena worked a perfect inning of relief, striking out the side in the fifth inning.
Chowan threatened in the top of the first inning, as the Hawks capitalized on a pair of two-out walks to load the bases but Howser worked out of the jam by recording her second strikeout of the frame. The Trojans countered with a run, as Neidigh opened the bottom of the inning with an opposite-field double down the left-field line. Two batters later, Neidigh crossed the plate on Abby Child's single.
The Trojans batted around in the second inning and added five runs, with Abby Child's homer providing three of the scores.
After a scoreless third inning, AU increased the lead to 8-0 in the bottom of the fourth by taking advantage of back-to-back doubles and Swygert's RBI-single to right.
Pena entered in the top of the fifth and retired the Hawks on three consecutive strikeouts to help preserve the win. The Geneva, Ala. native now has 10 strikeouts in eight innings of work on the season.
Game #2
Anderson 9, Chowan 1 (6 innings)
Molly Child was 3-for-4 in the nightcap, including a two-run homer in the second inning and added a double and an RBI-single in the sixth frame. Abby Child ran her hitting streak to four games by going 3-for-4 with a two-run home run in the first inning and tacked on a pair of singles. Swygert also extended her hitting streak to four games with two singles in three trips to the plate. Senior Charlotte Sieber ripped a pair of singles, with Neidigh posting two singles in four at-bats. The Lawrenceville, Ga. native has hit safely in each of the Trojans' first six games. Freshman Lauren Rudesheim drilled her first home run with the Black and Gold – a two-run shot in the second inning.
Rudesheim (3-0), the reigning South Atlantic Conference Pitcher of the Week, earned her third win of the season by scattering four hits over six innings, while allowing one earned run. The right-handed hurler struck out six and did not walk a batter.
Abby Child staked Rudesheim to an early 2-0 advantage with her second round-tripper in as many games, plating Molly Child who had reached on a one-out double to center.
The Trojans added five runs an inning later, while sending 10 batters to the plate. Molly Child and Rudesheim each ripped two-run home runs during the breakout inning, as Anderson pushed out to a 7-0 lead.
Chowan notched back-to-back one-out singles in the third inning to score its lone run of the afternoon, with the Trojans recording three consecutive singles and plating two runs in the sixth frame to set the final score.
Anderson will get back in action on Tuesday with a visit to Johnson C. Smith in Charlotte, N.C. First-pitch for the doubleheader versus the Golden Bulls is slated for 2 p.m.


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5 Insane Strategies That Won Elections (and Changed History)
The coliseum of politics sees all sorts of gladiators. Some of them battle their enemies with the bow and arrow of argument. Some employ the trident of backstabbing and bribery. Some even choose the blunt, broken sword of Doing the Right Thing. But sometimes, just sometimes, a politician gleefully ignores all the conventional weaponry and wins the battle by slapping the enemy down with the rubber chicken of batshit insanity.
#5. Ronald Reagan Steals Debate Notes from Jimmy Carter
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On paper, the U.S. presidential election of 1980 seemed like an absurdly unfair fight: Incumbent Jimmy Carter was facing some semi-retired B-movie actor called Ronald Reagan. Yet the campaigning proved fierce, thanks to Carter's less than successful first term and Reagan pulling a stunt that you'd expect to see in an election for middle school class president.
Late in the race, Carter and Reagan were virtually tied. But there was one major event left: The one and only debate between the major candidates. The event was hyped up like a Muhammad Ali match. Carter prepared his notes accordingly: He had his people painstakingly create a book of briefing papers that included his entire debate strategy, complete with zingers he was to memorize.
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Mostly "yo mama" jokes.
However, in the days before the debate, team Carter found that a copy of the papers was missing. This was bad. The beating that Reagan gave Carter in the actual debate was even worse. The Republican methodically decimated Carter on all fronts, leaving him and his campaign little more than a greasy puddle on the studio floor. It was almost as if (foreshadowing!) Reagan knew exactly what Carter was going to say, word for word. Which, of course, was the case.
One of Reagan's staffers had "found" the missing strategy book and brought it to his boss. Offered this window into Carter's head, Reagan instantly adapted a new strategy: cheating like a boss. Reagan studied the material and rehearsed with a Carter stand-in until he knew precisely what Carter would say and how he should respond.
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It made for a much more elegant debate than the cock-punch Reagan had planned to open with.
And it worked -- the Gipper tore through his opponent with a torrent of well-timed quips and counters. A week later, Reagan won the election. Although the truth of "Debategate" eventually came out, it never caused lasting harm to Reagan. Meanwhile, Jimmy Carter still maintains the claim that this one lost book totally cost him the election, and presumably keeps his library in a locked vault.
#4. Francois Hollande Wins the Presidency With an Insanely Offensive Rap Song
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In politics, there are some phrases that you never, ever say out loud. You know the ones: "My opponent is a fucktard." "Sure, campaign donations are sort of bribery." "I'm actually doing what I promised to do." But seeing as the majority of politicians are pasty white guys, the biggest no-no would be the N-word. If you don't see the problem, think of what would happen if literally any white politician uttered it in public: The media would tear him or her apart, instantly sending them careening toward career death. You just don't do that shit.
That is, unless you're in France.
Francois Hollande was running against Nicolas Sarkozy in France's 2012 presidential election. Hollande's campaign machine was modeled after the strategies used by Obama in 2008, with an emphasis on voter registration, knocking on doors, and appealing to minority voters. Only at some point of the process they remembered that the guy they were passing off as the cool, minority-friendly candidate was the most "I'm a white, balding bureaucrat" looking man in existence.
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This man bleeds red tape.
They realized they had to go street, man. So they put out a campaign ad featuring the uncensored version of the Jay-Z/Kanye West song "Niggas in Paris."
Hollande knew that Sarkozy had in the past stated that the suburbs need washing with a high-powered hose. As the suburbs were largely comprised of ethnic minorities, Hollande decided to take those voters under his wing by adapting the exact opposite attitude. Appropriately, his soundtrack of choice was dirty -- you may recognize "Niggas in Paris" as a song that consists mostly of swearing, boasting, and slurs that would be career-ending if they weren't coming from a rap song.
The ad starts with Hollande thrusting a ballot at the camera, followed by three straight minutes of him immersing himself in the lives of ethnic minorities, shaking hands and doing his level best to woo anyone on the tan side of an eggshell. All along, Jay and Kanye do their level best to hammer home Hollande's message of niggas, motherfuckers, and what they enjoy doing in Paris. (It's ballin' hard.)
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Ballin' like only a middle-aged dude with a potato-shaped head can ball.
So I ball so hard mothafuckas wanna fine me, first niggas gotta find me
What's 50 grand to a mothafucka like me, can you please remind me
Ball so hard, I'm shocked too, I'm supposed to be locked up too
If you escaped what I've escaped, you'd be in Paris getting fucked up too
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American political ads so rarely espouse the benefits of gettin' fucked up.
She said, "'Ye, can we get married at the mall?"
I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball
Come and meet me in the bathroom stall
And show me why you deserve to have it all."
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You can tell these guys really get the song.
What's Gucci, my nigga? What's Louis, my killa?
What's drugs, my dealer? What's that jacket, Margiela?
Doctors say I'm the illest, cause I'm suffering from realness
Got my niggas in Paris and they going gorillas
Wow! Hollande can certainly keep it real. Or, as the song puts it:
These other niggas is lyin', actin' like the summer ain't mine
I got that hot bitch in my home
You know how many hot bitches I own?
Wait, no, that actually says the very opposite of "trustworthy politician keeping things real." That sounds like Kanye West spouting gibberish, because that's what it is.
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But Hollande's stage is lit up like a rock concert, so it has to mean something.
Still, Hollande knew what he was doing. In a country previously dominated by a conservative president with a reputation as a racist, Hollande's ad was seen as an edgy breath of fresh air. As he took the election, he was met with overwhelming glee and a ready-made reputation as Mr. Modern France. The moral of the story: No matter the odds, you can't lose with Jay-Z in your corner.
#3. Jon Gnarr Gets Elected With a Stephen Colbert-Style Campaign
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Every year, thousands of voters write in candidates that they know can't actually win. The protest votes are usually flippant jokes like "Mickey Mouse" or "Ron Paul" and only exist as a big fat "fuck you" to the system -- a mockery of the actual candidates that political parties scrounge up for the elections. But what if one of those protest votes was an actual, living person? A person that is so utterly ridiculous that he couldn't possibly win? And what if that person somehow won?
In 2010, comedian Jon Gnarr was the official "that guy" of Reykjavik's (the capital of Iceland, before you Wikipedia it) city council elections. He had taken it upon himself to mock politics with a torrent of Stephen Colbert-type antics, dealing gigantic middle fingers to everyone else running ... and, for that matter, voting.
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This guy.
He ran under the flag of his own party called (no shit) "Best Party." He laid out a campaign platform that consisted of key issues like building a Disneyland at the city's airport, getting free towels at all spas, and a refreshingly honest promise to break all of his promises. Best Party's campaign slogan was "We promise to stop corruption. We'll accomplish this by participating in it openly."
You get the idea -- Gnarr was in the race as a comedian, not a politician. Consequently, he was treated as such. People pointed, laughed, and made derisive comments. Some of them jokingly voted for him, either in protest or to ensure that the little guy would get at least one or two votes. Which made it all the more awesome when Gnarr's party won the whole goddamn thing. Not only was Gnarr himself elected, but Best Party ended up getting a majority of the council seats. This meant that they also got to pick the next mayor of Reykjavik. Two guesses as to whom they chose.
Gnarr is not a bad mayor. He's actually pretty awesome: He appears in holiday greetings dressed up as Darth Vader and heads parades dressed up in full drag.
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Nope, not a metaphor.
His actual political maneuvers are even better. For instance, when he needs to form coalitions to get the majority of the council's votes, he disregards all petty bickering between parties and actively encourages alliances between all political factions ... but only accepts people who agree that The Wire is the greatest show in the history of television. And really, can you come up with a better way to judge someone's character?


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Desperate Sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War (Hardcover)
A groundbreaking narrativea historical political thrillerthat explores the role of the Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution.
More than two hundred years ago, a group of British colonists in America decided that the conditions under which they were governed had become intolerable. Angry and frustrated that King George III and the British Parliament had ignored their lawful complaints and petitions, they decided to take action.
Knowing that their deedsoften directed at individuals and propertywere illegal, and punishable by imprisonment and even death, these agitators plotted and conducted their missions in secret to protect their identities as well as the identities of those who supported them. Calling themselves the Sons of Liberty, they gathered together in a radical society committed to imposing forcible change. Those determined menincluding second cousins Samuel and John Adams, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, and John Hancocksaw themselves as patriots. Yet to the Crown, and to many of the Sons' fellow colonists, the revolutionaries were terrorists who deserved death for their treason.
In this gripping narrative, Les Standiford reveals how this group of intelligent, committed men, motivated by economics and political belief, began a careful campaign of interlocking events that would channel feelings of vague injustice into an armed rebellion of common cause, which would defeat an empire and give birth to a radical political experimenta new nation known as the United States.
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Les Standiford is the bestselling author of twenty books and novels, including the John Deal mystery series, and the works of narrative history The Man Who Invented Christmas (a New York Times Editors Choice) and Last Train to Paradise. He is the director of the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami, where he lives with his wife, Kimberly, a psychotherapist and artist. Visit his website at www.les-standiford.com.
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8 Apps Designed Specifically for Modern Douchebags
#4. The Breakup Notifier
We are all familiar with the following scenario: Boy meets girl. Girl is with someone else. Boy vows to claim girl. Boy uses technology to monitor her love life, waiting to leap the minute he finds out she's single.
OK, maybe that last part is a new twist on this classic story, but it's absolutely possible thanks to the Breakup Notifier app. This little bundle of privacy invasion is the dream of every lame guy who thrives on converting women looking for a shoulder to cry on into one-night stands. The app will check a person's Facebook relationship status every 10 minutes to see if it has changed. You know, because doing that yourself would just be undignified.
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"Dignified" is texting them pictures of your junk with nothing but "wut up?" as the accompanying text.
But the biggest "selling point" of the Breakup Notifier is how it's just so darn easy to use. You pretty much just login with Facebook, select the lady you like (or as is probably more often the case, every woman who has made the mistake of friending you) and let the app do the rest. You can monitor multiple "opportunities" (we know that's what you call them) at once and swing into action when the moment arises.
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4) Enjoy your new, completely free restraining order!
#3. The Girlfriend Keeper
The Girlfriend Keeper app is designed to handle the day-to-day romantic communications that are often necessary for a serious relationship to thrive, or at the very least for some serious boning to continue. The beauty of this app is that it allows one to automate text messages and emails to a girlfriend at programmed intervals with an adjustable "relationship intensity" setting.
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No. No, this is a Saturday Night Live sketch, right?
Sure, remembering to tell your sweetie all of those little messages that we sometimes fail to pass along to each other is not a bad thing. But that doesn't mean having an app handle it so you don't have to be bothered to remember is necessarily a good thing, either. Even if it was, take a look at some of the sample texts that are posted on the app's site ...
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Just give it the basic information, and then ...
"Diana, your birthday is in 136 days, maybe I will get you something green like your eyes. -- Evan"
"Diana, you are so beautiful. Just wanted to let you know I am thinking about you. -- Evan"
"Diana, you have the prettiest green eyes I could ever imagine, I can't believe we have been dating for 1 year and 53 days. -- Evan"
"Did you know we started dating 37 days and 8 hours ago?"
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"Awww ... that's so sweet that you text me at exactly 9:10 every day.
Seriously, is this the kind of interaction you want ghostwritten under your name all day long in the background? Nobody really enjoys knowing that their significant other is that attentive to detail. At least pass this app up until you find a machine that knows better than to set the bar this high. The only thing this will keep is your girlfriend thinking she should be nailing a far less womanly dude.
#2. TigerText
Text messages have this nasty habit of hanging around in your cellphone. This could be disastrous for the tramp on the go with four or five different "significant others" to keep a handle on. But worry no more, you whores, because now there's TigerText.
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"Honey, why does iPadJoeT keep sending you blank texts?"
This floozy-friendly app will turn every text message sent from a cellphone into a Mission Impossible-style missive that will self-destruct after a predetermined length of time. It erases the message not only on the sender's phone, but also on the cellphone provider's server and the receiver's phone. In fact, the only way to keep a record of TigerTexts is to physically take a picture of the text message.
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We're kind of glad they didn't finish that first text.
Sounds like a pretty sweet setup for the tech-savvy slut, but how does it work? Basically, TigerTexts are sent through the data connection on your cellphone, so they don't leave the same trace evidence that a text message leaves. The founder of TigerText claims that the app is simply for mobile security, but come on, we know what Tiger this thing's named after. Don't we?
Here's a hint!
#1. Period Tracker
Every douchebag knows that a woman who isn't capable of partaking in 45 seconds of unbridled passion at the drop of a dime is of no use to anyone. And nothing kills the sex quite like the untimely arrival of a woman's period.
As a man with a minimum of three girlfriends in constant rotation at all times, it's essential that you not be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Namely, you don't want to be caught anywhere with any woman who isn't willing to bone but is more than willing to tell you about her wacky cats for six hours on a Saturday night. Knowing who among your harem is currently menstruating is invaluable information in a situation like this.
With that in mind, we'd like to introduce any practicing manwhores in the audience to the period tracker.
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We are so very, very sorry for showing you this.
Great news, there's two of these creepy things! If the above screen shot of the iAmAMan period tracker seems a little bit less than classy, wait until you read what the developers have to say about the Harem Periods Tracker (broken English left in for comedy purposes) ...
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Just pretend this is a Photoshop. You'll be happier that way.
"Do not waste your time. You will always know if your girlfriend bleeding today. Are you popular with the girls? Are you familiar with the situation when you invite a girl for a date and at the end of the evening you hear: 'Sorry, but I have "special days"?' Then this application is for you. It will help you to be aware of 'special days' of your girlfriends and you will never make a mistake by inviting 'wrong' girl to the date. Just add all your girlfriends and do not forget to mark sometimes when they had 'critical days.' The application will automatically calculate the period and will let you know when your girlfriends will have the next critical days as well as will recommend you, whom you should visit."
Via Market.android.com
"Hey, just calling to let you know I'll be out of town for about a week. Yeah, again."
It should go without saying that if you're a particularly irresponsible douchebag, this app is even more essential for you. The only words that kill a boner faster than "menstrual cycle" are "I'm pregnant." If you can't be bothered to use caution, at least download this app and check it religiously. The last thing the world needs is another you, douchebag.
Benjamin Buso lives in Texas and is plugging his friends' awesome website.
For more relationship items that make us weep, check out Stupidity Digest: 1516 Ways to Kill The Romance and 4 Romantic Books to Disgust and Annoy Your Lover.


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My bank provides me with a device similar to this:
The device is essentially a PRNG, presumably based on the date/time of it's internal clock, synchronized with the bank servers.
To generate a pin the user must insert their bank card into the slot and enter their 4-digit bank card pin number using the keypad on the device. This is the same pin used to withdraw cash at an ATM.
My question is this: Without a network connection, and without the device having been configured to work with a particular bank card (I can use any other persons device with my card), how does the device verify the pin number?
The pin number must be stored in some way on the chip of the bank card itself. Even with an iterative hash function to delay brute force by 4 seconds for each attempt, the pin number is still only 4 digits long. 4 seconds * 10^4 possible pins = 11 hours to brute force the entire key space.
The card itself does have a lockout facility that will reject further access attempts after 3 incorrect tries (must be a boolean flag written into the memory of the bank card chip). Is the entire security of this authentication system resting on the assumption that somebody cannot simply reset this flag and continue their bruteforce of the tiny key space?


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Apricot Tree
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Large, deep yellow Moorpark apricots (Prunus armeniaca) are wonderful for canning, drying or making jam. Or try baking them in tarts and crisps. Prized for their sweetness, full flavor and large size, the fruit is loaded with vitamin A and C and healthy antioxidants. The fast-growing tree is nicely sized for containers and garden beds.
- Zones 4–9.
- Suitable for container or ground planting.
- Grows 8'–10' high, 8'–10' wide.
- Requires full sun.
- Pink-tinged white blossoms.
- Fruits from July to late August.
- Yields approx. 3 bushels at maturity (3 to 4 years).
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- Approx. 1 1/2 years old, 3' high at shipping.
- Arrives in a 1.65-gallon pot.
- Self-pollinator; does not require another apricot tree nearby to bear fruit, but planting more than two trees will increase each tree's yield.
- Use & Care
- Planting: Plant in full sun at same depth as container (approx. 6"–8" for 2gal. container). Space 15' apart.
- Watering: Water the tree well as soon as you plant it, and then at least once a week for the first year after planting. A slow, root-saturating, one-hour trickle once a week is recommended for a new tree. The watering schedule should be adjusted accordingly if it rains or is very dry. Water twice weekly during dry spells.
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- We're going to have to deal with that at some point. Hopefully we'll have the DSL before we hit that limit. If not, we may need to upgrade to a different level of service. ioerror 18:53, 1 October 2008 (PDT)
As far as i can tell this cap is only on residential internet; no cap on comcast business class, and the prices are only about $20 more than residential. I have the extreme 50 plan, which gives bursts of 69 MB down / 14 MB up, with sustained 50/10 and NO data caps... It's under $150 for business class. (BTW, I HATE Comcast, just love their internet ;-) --Dr1ce 08:22, 14 June 2010 (UTC)


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5 Widely Believed Dating Myths (Science Says Aren't True)
There are some universally acknowledged truths when it comes to dating. These themes are repeated on sitcoms, in romantic comedies and in your buddy Paul's hookup stories that he totally swears are true, bro.
And, according to science, most of it is wrong. That's right; somehow, you know even less about romance than you thought you did.
#5. Gamers Are Lonely Virgins
What We Thought:
We have previously pointed out how the "nerdy gamer who has never touched a boob" stereotype persists in movies and TV right up to this very minute. When most people think of gamers, they're likely to picture a very thin or very fat loner whose romantic resume consists of a few steamy Xbox Live chats (and that one time he got flashed on ChatRoulette).
But Science Says...
Sorry, non-gamers, but those WoW nerds probably have a more active love life than you do. The 2008 study we linked there found that gamers were twice as likely as their non-gaming counterparts to go out on dates in a given month.
Admittedly, this is considered less about video gamers suddenly becoming suave ladies' men and more about the way the growing gaming market is swallowing up people of all types. That includes millions of attractive ladies, guys.
Also, don't forget the rise in multiplayer games. You've got party games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band that are great ice-breakers (have you ever tried coming up behind her and offering to help her play the song, then letting your hand "accidentally" fall onto her boob? Don't do that.). Then of course you have all the people who have actually met in online games like World of Warcraft, some of whom have gotten married.
Add it all up, and you arrive at the indisputable scientific conclusion that video games are an ass magnet.
#4. Online Dating is a Last Resort for Losers
What We Thought:
You can't blame us here at Cracked for having a negative view of online dating, considering how many sites apparently have to rely on spamming our comment section to get the word out.
Sure, dating sites no longer carry quite as much stigma as they once did; plenty of couples now freely admit that they met online (and not just those annoying couples in the eHarmony commercials). Yet, you still see them mocked across pop culture as the last chance for the desperate, smelly and altogether irksome who can't survive real-life encounters.
The stereotypical online date is usually a wacky horror story--the guy who was seven inches shorter and 60 pounds heavier than he claimed to be, the woman who looked nothing like her picture and confessed that she was married and also a dude. And of course the serial killers are also a problem.
"Your picture made you look way taller."
But Science Says...
Studies show that one in five dating site users goes on to marry someone they meet online, and 94 percent of couples who develop a relationship online will make it to at least the second date. Those numbers blow away what you get meeting people the old fashioned way.
"Favorite hobbies include: adjusting the speed on this treadmill with the boner you just gave me."
Why? One reason is people seem to be more open and honest online. It's counter-intuitive, since the stereotype is that every hot girl is really a 40-year-old man, and the Internet in general seems to be made up of people playing characters behind anime avatars. How could that possibly compete with the honest, soul baring that takes place on any given night at a singles bar?
"I love Bon Jovi too! And so does this boner you just gave me."
But what they're finding is that in the world of online dating, that layer of anonymity makes people more willing to confide in each other without feeling like fools. Think about it. You'd probably never confide in some random chick at a bar that your tough exterior is just an act and that you've been emotionally wounded ever since you watched your pet Turtle, Fluffy, get hit by a car when you were eight. Yet, people don't hesitate to say that stuff in their blogs. Especially for guys, the physical separation seems to just make it easier to open up.
Online dating is also a self-sustaining thing; more people than ever are using these sites, so the pool of online daters has expanded from hardcore computer nerds, escorts and the truly undatable to a wide range of people. It's gotten to the point that at least some of them are certain to share your weird-ass set of interests.
#3. Women Get All Emotional About Relationships, Men Stay Cool and Logical
What We Thought:
How many movies have you seen where the hysterical woman is bursting into tears over something her man has said, while the calm, collected guy is patiently trying to get her to calm down? While astride a chopper?
Even in "chick flicks," it's the same deal. You could call this the Sex and the City syndrome. Carrie Bradshaw and crew spend every waking moment dissecting their relationships. Whether they're at a fashion show, brunch, or riding camels in the desert, they let us know through dialogue or emotional voiced over monologues that they have men on their minds.
Meanwhile, the happily oblivious men of the show stomp on the ladies' hearts and then suavely return to pick up the pieces and wipe away their tears.
But Science Says...
A study of data collected from over a thousand unmarried young adults showed that men are actually more emotionally affected by relationship drama than women. They just don't show it. They're more likely to put on a brave face than post passive-aggressive Facebook statuses or complain about their significant other to their buddies. Meanwhile, they probably cry into their pillows at night after an argument with their girlfriend.
Researchers think it might be because girls generally have more close bonds with friends and family than men, so going through a rough spot with the boyfriend doesn't cut off their only outlet for emotional support. Guys, on the other hand, tend to confide only in their significant other. Emotionally, that means they have more at stake if things turn cold in the relationship.
So it is actually the ability to gossip with a tight-knit group of girlfriends that lets girls keep things on an even keel. So maybe we owe Sex and the City an apology.
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I have created a university based group on Facebook which enables me and my colleagues to help each other in university.
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Call us stubborn, call us childish, tell us we're stuck in a beauty rut —but don't criticize our long hair. Unlike so many of our previous stylists, Abergel was a kindred spirit, understanding our attachment, but determined to rehabilitate our lank, stiff hair. He dispatched an inch off the bottom and sheared long layers all around that swung with the slightest head turn. Now the only thing to call us is "the girl with the great hair."
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Cut and color just like you see in magazines (Villanueva did the hairstyles for the women of "Reality TV," page 94). Hey, wait: Three to four weeks for an appointment. Nitty gritty: Assessing our current color as "too all-over blond" for our skin tone, Villanueva painted in low-lights to add depth, then judiciously wove in narrow golden streaks. He used razor-shears to produce face-framing "pieces," giving us a great cut. What you see: Dark sage walls, rattan armchairs, and a splashing fountain. What you smell: Passion-fruit candles. In-timacy issues: Villanueva has his own corner, pro-viding the privacy all serious haircut decisions demand. The sell: Villanueva likes MOP products but didn't push any of them on us.
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"Brows R Us." Eyebrow shaping, tinting, and lightening. Hey, wait: One to two months for Weston; no wait for staff. Nitty gritty: After brushing our long eyebrows up and snipping the ends so they'd appear fuller, Weston tweezed strays and applied taupe powder. She taught us how to get the red out of our eyelids, chin, and nose with her yellow-toned Candlelight Spot Stick. When she was finished, she took a Polaroid (for us to use as a cheat sheet later). What you see: The lobby of a 1920's vaudeville theater. What you hear: Boy George and Verdi. Pampering quotient: High, comfy leather chairs, and a well-stocked bathroom. Intimacy issues: The four makeup stations are staggered so that it's just you and your teacher in the mirror-no looky-looks. Famous faces: Bette Midler, Elizabeth Berkley, and Lisa Marie Presley.
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As Lazo sized up our shoulder-length hair, we had flashbacks of our ex's lackluster lovemaking. "It's not sexy. It just lies there," he argued. Starting with a center part, Lazo put our blunt ends on a diet, so to speak, cutting "only where I see some weight that shouldn't be there." The prospect of layers forced us to shut our eyes in horror, but when we opened them, our formerly limp locks were redeemed. Too bad we can't say the same for our ex.
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Luna works in a crisp white shirt, which led us to ask: "Is it practical to play with hair color while wearing that?" Luna assured us that he was "very precise." And after a few hours spent processing our hair in his garden, we had to agree. He replaced our plum-red shade with a summery strawberry, marked with golden glints that Luna painted a few painstaking strands at a time. Before we left, he examined us outside at different angles to make sure the color was perfect. And as we shamelessly checked ourselves out in every storefront window for the rest of the day, we marveled that such a methodical process could leave us with a color so beautifully natural.
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Sunshine's name makes a cynic like us grouchy. But even after struggling through gridlock, we couldn't help but smile when she greeted us with a cup of tea. At her home salon, she combines cuts with massage and acupressure. Sunshine kneaded our neck and shoulders and stimulated acupressure points on our face, before cutting an inch from the ends and adding layers for a sexy shag. We felt so blissful we barely noticed the parking lot on the 405.
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Ishkhans works on trendy Melrose Avenue, but he's not interested in fads. Pulling our hair into a high bun, he explained, "This lets me see the shape of your face so I can build a cut that's right for you." Ishkhans trimmed two inches off our shoulder-length style and snipped long layers "since short ones make fine hair flat." We walked out wanting to start a trend of our own—having Ishkhans cut our hair exclusively.
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Vo's old-Hollywood cabana-style salon is as laid-back as it gets. But don't be fooled—Vo takes hair very seriously. After making nicey-nice chitchat, he sat us beneath a tell-all skylight to survey the damage. One look at our dark roots and brassy ends, and Vo suggested we trade in our beachy balayage look for more sophisticated highlights using a similar free-form technique he has dubbed "American tailoring." Painting right next to the scalp "to avoid that quarter-inch gap you get with foils," Vo made the strands thinner "so they're more subtle than balayage." After explaining that hair naturally has four colors running through it, he applied warm brown streaks alongside an amber and two different shades of golden blonde. When Vo laid his brush to rest, our honeyed tresses took our breath away—seriously.


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5 Attempts at Espionage That Seem Too Dumb to Be Real
Hollywood tells us that espionage is a dangerous game, played only by the cunning and fearsome, frequently resulting in car chases and the seduction of exotic women. But few spies live up to the lofty expectations of James Bond. All too often, they are subject to the same human failings as the rest of us, except in their case, the blunders result in international incidents more embarrassing than your high school yearbook.
#5. CIA Spies Cannot Think Up a Good Code Word
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The Lebanese political party/wannabe terrorist group Hezbollah knew that spies working for the CIA were all over Lebanon, but they didn't know their identities. Poor Hezbollah had nobody they could trust -- ain't it sad what the world's come to?
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Millions into secret handshake research, down the drain.
Finally, in 2011, Hezbollah caught a break. Through a few informants, Hezbollah found that the group of spies they were looking for met with their CIA contacts at a place referred to by a single code word. That word was "pizza."
Well, that's helpful.
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"We have our new intelligence supercomputer, 'Wikipedia,' working around the clock."
A code word, by its very nature, could mean anything to anyone unfamiliar with the code (that's what "code" means, after all). Pretty much the only thing they could do was hope that the code word itself had something to do with the spies' meeting place, but that was a long shot. That's like hoping the computer you're hacking is using the word "password" as an actual password. Still, if they were going to find the rats, it was up to Hezbollah to investigate every single pizza place in the country. All of them.
Yes, the code word for the meeting place was "pizza" and the meeting place was ... a Pizza Hut in Lebanon. The logic is sound: Who could possibly suspect that the word "pizza" referred to a pizza place?
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"Hmm ... pizza ... Pizza Hut ... hut ... Jabba the Hutt ... they're on Tatooine!"
We had a tighter security protocol for our grade school tree house. At least you had to climb a friggin' tree to find it.
Sure enough, when staking out the Pizza Hut, Hezbollah quickly busted a meeting of double agents squealing to members of the CIA. The bust reportedly led to the capture of dozens of U.S. spies in Lebanon and the loss of its entire espionage foothold in the country. In his own words, one intelligence official admitted that they had to "fly blind" for several months on Hezbollah's activities due to either the CIA's laziness or their unflagging, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle levels of enthusiasm for pizza.
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Not to mention having to completely scrap "Operation Starbucks on Fifth and Cherry, Across from the McDonald's."
#4. A Whole Warship for One "Endangered" German
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In 1911, the German government decided to send a warship to the port of Agadir, hoping to either seize that part of Morocco for themselves or pressure the French into compensating them with land in the Congo.
However, they couldn't just come out and say such a thing -- a little light warfare is no excuse to be impolite. Instead, they decided to imply that the ship had been sent to protect German citizens. There was just one problem: There were no German citizens in Agadir.
And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for their extraordinary incompetence and that lousy dog.
Luckily, German intelligence came up with a plan: They had located a single German man called Wilburg in another part of Morocco. Success! They couldn't just abandon Wilburg -- everybody loves Wilburg. Clearly, if Wilburg were to suddenly find himself in Agadir, a warship would be necessary to protect him, at the least. So they sent Wilburg a coded telegram ordering him to head for Agadir and wait around until he had the adequate amount of warships to feel safe strolling about town.
Unfortunately, details of the secret plan had to be sent in code, and Wilburg was not a secret agent, so it took three telegrams before he figured out what the hell they wanted him to do. After he finally departed, the journey took longer than expected, and by the time he arrived in Agadir, the ship that had (apparently) been sent to protect him had been sitting in the harbor for three days, its crew presumably taking turns protecting each other from the Moroccan menace.
"An old woman off the starboard beam! Full broadside!"
To add a final touch of slapstick, after he arrived, Wilburg realized he had no way of contacting the ship in the harbor. Using all his ingenuity and cunning, he began running up and down the beach, waving his arms and shouting -- presumably "I'm Wilburg! Protect me!" As far as the watching sailors knew, he was just some Moroccan with something to sell -- rugs or peanuts, likely -- so they ignored him.
Eventually, Wilburg's resolve ran out, and he just stood glaring at the ship with his hands on his hips, at which point the crew immediately recognized his identity, because anybody can run around waving their arms like one of those inflatable fan guys outside of the mattress store, but no one gives bitchface like a middle-aged German.
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Imperial Germany's national sport was scowling.
This was all observed by reporters, who had, like the warship, also made it to Agadir faster than Wilburg. The hilarious story of him running around the beach, as well as the weak-sauce German attempt at deception, made headlines around the world. He became famous as "The Endangered German." The British foreign secretary referred to the deception when he explained why Britain ultimately decided to support the French claims. But eventually tensions eased, the crisis was averted, and France, Britain, and Germany were never at odds again, except for all those world wars.
#3. North Korean Spy Ring Caught by Fishermen
In the 1990s, South Korea was having a bit of trouble figuring out how North Korean spies were getting into South Korea undetected. Despite more and more guards at the border, spies were constantly slipping through. Could the propaganda be true? Could North Korean soldiers really turn invisible by holding their breath and fly like eagles buoyed only by the Great Leader's love?
The Great Leader's love.
Then, in 1998, a South Korean fishing crew found out the truth. They were out at sea when their nets suddenly caught something that brought their boat screeching (or whatever the boat equivalent of screeching is -- slopping?) to a halt. It was a struggle, but eventually they managed to bring their nets back to the boat and discovered their catch -- it was a midget submarine, complete with a couple of angry North Korean crewmen struggling desperately to cut themselves free, presumably alternating between holding their breath and flapping their arms.
This random fishing crew just minding their own business accidentally thwarted North Korea's new top secret spy program, which involved sneaking adorable li'l submarines into South Korean territory to rob them of their secrets ... and probably thimbles and buttons and such. Despite the Northern government's insistence that the sub had merely drifted off course, the vessel contained South Korean items that they couldn't have brought from Pyongyang. It was unmistakably a spy ring, and it was unmistakably brought down by a fishing net.
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Until it was discovered that North Koreans were out of season and had to be thrown back.
The incident led to a beefing up of South Korean naval security and alerted the South to the fact that negotiations between the two countries weren't going as well as they had assumed. The North, on the other hand, presumably refocused their efforts on the "catapult ourselves over the border like Wile E. Coyote" stratagem.


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Inventing the California Boy
Bob Mizer, Bruce Bellas, Mel Roberts, and Harry Bush all contribued to the mythology of a youtful, free lifestyle in Southern California with their idealized photos and illustrations depicting golden, muscular young men. Their models ranged from rough and real (Bob Mizer) to Olympian perfection (Bruce Bellas) to freewheeling sexual revolutionaries (Mel Roberts) to innocent and outrageous (Harry Bush.)
They all contributed to a culture of youthful body awareness and sun-filled sexual possibility. Not only were the men they portrayed imitated by other young men in the know, but their estabished studios drew hundreds of young men from across the nation to come to the Golden State and be reborn as California boys.
On the following pages, a selection of images and biography of each artist.
Bob Mizer: The King of California
For more information, visit BobMizerFoundation.com. Also check out this great Taschen book by Dian Hanson, Bob's World: The Life and Boys of A.M.G.'s Bob Mizer.
See more of Bob Mizer's photos on the following pages >>>
Bruce of Los Angeles: Classical California
Click through for a Bruce of Los Angeles portfolio >>>
Mel Roberts: Wizard of the Sexual Revolution
Not as prolific as Bob Mizer (but who was?), Mel Roberts is the most essential of this collection. His vision of young Californian men is more casual and natural, and his work has a more of a narrative quality.
You can see his influential style in the work of Larry Clark and Terry Richardson. Roberts made regular guys look like models and models look like accessible, regular guys.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1923, he started shooting 16mm movies of his friends when he was still a teenager. Following an honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force in 1945, Roberts moved to California to study film. He became involved in the newly formed Mattachine Society, one of the earliest political organizations of the gay movement, and lived as an openly gay man.
Roberts embarked on his professional career as a photographer with his first model shoot in Southern California's Pacific Palisades. In 1962 Roberts published his first images in Young Physique magazine, and his popularity grew quickly. Roberts self-published his first book, Mel Roberts Boys, in 1967.
See some of Mel's boys on the following pages >>>
Cliff and Robert, 1979
Rich, Indio, 1963
Harry Bush and the Male Pinup
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I downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 beta1 ISO and have been trying to boot from it using a USB stick. But every time I try to boot it freezes and all I can see is the Ubuntu logo, which gives no idea about the cause of the freeze.
I want to know if there is way such that instead of showing the Ubuntu logo, the installer would show me console output, so I could know what the actual problem is.
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I guess Microsoft accepts no less than perfect.
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In what home appliances I can find a 40V (or so) DC motor?
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probably none. most products that require motors will use AC motors controlled by mechanical timers (which usually use the frequency of the AC line to "tick") or small DC circuits with relays or TRIACs to switch the AC current.
as the size of the motor increases, AC motors are better than DC motors in terms of ease of construction, ease of control and power efficiency. plus, using a DC motor requires converting the AC to DC, and doing so at the higher currents a motor requires significantly increases the cost of the power supply.
so besides small motors for fans, you're likely to never see a DC motor.
Treadmills and stairlifts use good-sized DC motors.


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I just downloaded the trial version of CS5, haven't modified any settings at all so it's vanilla. After starting it up I hit CTRL+N for a new image, select the defaults, but all I see is the gray background of CS5 itself. If I move the canvas window onto my desktop I see through it and see whatever is behind the window. However, while moving the canvas window I can properly see what's on the layer, which, is just a blank white canvas as I have not done anything to it yet. I can make brush strokes, which still don't show up but again if I move the canvas window around I can see it on the white canvas as it should look.
So, how do I disable this mysterious canvas 'transparency'?