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Vegetarian Vegetable soup with basil added, and fried pieces of bread with balsamic vinaigrette soaked into it.
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You're banned for changing your screen name again.
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You're banned for being gone for a long time, then coming back. Welcome back
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You're banned for not knowing that Chicago isn't exactly one of the cleanest places in the US
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Woo-hoo! Vintage erotica!Ooo, is that an ankle?
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You're banned for being depressed on your birthday, possibly from no one starting a birthday thread for you.
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I have to agree that "Endgame" was the absolute worst series ender in all the Trek series.Even worse than "These are the Voyages"?
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Picard, here's what you do. List your symptoms, go to the store and buy something that takes care of them, take the medicine. Problem solved...
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Since it's actually deodorant, the only thing I smell here is a lawsuit.
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Monday Night Football
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You're banned for being relatively new and not knowing that Vulcans have emotions, but they are repressed.
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As I've said before, the Galaxy class is a much more well rounded ship in terms of science and exploration. The Galaxy had a huge stellar cartography lab, dedicated science stations on the bridge, and many more other labs, like cybernetics and critical care, that were shown. I can imagine that the Sovereign and Galaxy work together. The Sovereign class scouts ahead, and if a hostile alien race shows up, can deal with it. The Galaxy can sweep in behind and use its more developed sensor system and research the finds that the Sovereign comes across.
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Genesee Cream Ale after having watermelon vodka and ginger ale.
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Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem.The diary belonged to Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut and one of seven crew members killed when Columbia disintegrated upon re-entering the atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003. Part of the restored diary will be displayed at the Israel Museum beginning Sunday.
A little over two months after the shuttle explosion, NASA searchers found 37 pages from Ramon's diary, wet and crumpled, in a field just outside the U.S. town of Palestine, Texas. The diary survived extreme heat in the explosion, extreme atmospheric cold, and then "was attacked by microorganisms and insects" in the field where it fell, said museum curator Yigal Zalmona.
"It's almost a miracle that it survived — it's incredible," Zalmona said. There is "no rational explanation" for how it was recovered when most of the shuttle was not, he said.
NASA officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The U.S. space agency returned the diary to Ramon's wife, Rona, who brought it to forensics experts at the Israel Museum and from the Israeli police. The diary took about a year to restore, Zalmona said, and it took police scientists about four more years to decipher the pages. About 80 percent of the text has been deciphered, and the rest remains unreadable, he said.
Two pages will be displayed. One contains notes written by Ramon, and the other is a copy of the Kiddush prayer, a blessing over wine that Jews recite on the Sabbath. Zalmona said Ramon copied the prayer into his diary so he could recite it on the space shuttle and have the blessing broadcast to Earth.
Most of the pages contain personal information which Ramon's wife did not wish to make public, he said.
"We agreed to do the restoration completely respecting the family's privacy and the sensitivity about how intimate the document is," museum director James Snyder said.
The diary provides no indication Ramon knew anything about potential problems on the shuttle. Columbia's wing was gashed by a chunk of fuel tank foam insulation at liftoff and broke up in flames just 16 minutes before it was scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
The diary is being displayed as part of a larger exhibit of famous documents from Israel's history, held to mark the country's 60th anniversary this year. Also on display will be Israel's 1948 declaration of independence, the 1994 peace treaty with Jordan and a bloodstained sheet of paper with lyrics to a peace anthem that was carried by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the time of his assassination in 1995.
This is just absolutely amazing, for something as fragile as that to survive an explosion and fall that high up.
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You're banned for not seeing he was a Lt. Cmdr.
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Gatorade Rain Berry flavour.
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You're banned for calling yourself the sites "number one fan" :unsure:
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You're banned for having an avatar of a picture I don't know what it is.
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You're banned for having over 4465 posts.
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You're banned for using the word "dude"
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Excelsior Class- USS Pittsburgh
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You're banned for being gone for so long. Welcome back!
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Enterprise, Mirror Universe version. Epic for a tv show theme, and great that they did that for only two episodes.
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Hot dogs
What's the funniest thing you saw today?
in The Cotton Candy Factory
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Cassie howling at an eagle on tv. She came running in from the other room, growling. When she got to the tv, she stared at it and howled while mid air after jumping at the eagle on the screen.