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England won the final Ashes Test in Sydney by an innings and 83 runs to wrap up the series 3-1 and secure their first win down under in 24 years. The Aussies began the last day in a hopeless position at 213-7, 151 runs behind, but Peter Siddle and Steve Smith kept England's champagne on...

Connecticut Yankee A Connecticut Folktale retold by S.E. Schlosser Now, here in the South, we all do not approve of your so-called Connecticut Yankee peddlers. So when one appeared in the yard of my tavern, I was not of a mind to give him room for the night. He was a scrawny...

OMAHA (Reuters) – Classes were canceled on Thursday at Millard South High where a suspended student shot and mortally wounded assistant principal Vicki Kaspar before fleeing and killing himself Wednesday. Robert Butler Jr., a 17-year-old senior who transferred to the Omaha school this fall...

Re: Jan Location Unloaded, waiting at the Walmart in Bluffton IN :p

NEW YORK (AFP) – A US federal judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging the wildly successful Harry Potter books were plagiarized from a story from a little-known British author. The suit filed in New York against the publisher of the J.K. Rowling books had argued the stories were inspired by Adrian...

BBC News Jan 6 Drunk US house breaker calls the police for help A man who broke into a house, got drunk and could not get out again called police for help, officers say. Police in Delaware state then arrested the man, who had drunk five bottles of spirits while staying in the...

Re: Jan Location Well I can tell you that it is quite unpleasant conditions near Seville OH area :( Snowing heavy now - can hardly see anything right now - so I guess we hit the middle of the storm now (well I hope its the middle)

A big thank you to your son, his unit and to all the many nations military personnel serving in Afganistan :)

its true - I put a thread on, not long back, on this very subject :D

What would you have called yourself? :D:p

A new Warning Sign (to me at least) Around Brockport PA - just saw a yellow warning sign stating... "Warning Convicted child molester ahead on left" Never seen that before

Interesting article from TIME (well I found it interesting :)) What It Will Take to Finish the Job in Afghanistan - Yahoo! News

BERLIN (Reuters) – A resourceful baby penguin took advantage of Germany's wintry weather to give her minders the slip and embark on a tour of the zoo before waddling into the lions' den. A visitor spotted the African penguin, born in September, taking a stroll in the lion enclosure but the...

BBC news Jan 6 The amount of junk e-mail being sent across the globe has seen a dramatic fall in recent months. The volume of spam has dropped steadily since August, but the Christmas period saw a precipitous decline. One security firm detected around 200 billion spam messages being...

BBC News Jan 6 President Obama is to name bank executive and former commerce secretary William Daley as the next White House chief of staff, an official has said. More BBC News - William Daley to be next White House chief of staff

BBC News Jan 6 The US is to send an additional 1,400 marines to southern Afghanistan in an effort to counter a Taliban offensive, a Pentagon official has said. The marines are now being notified of the deployment and are scheduled to leave within several weeks, the defence department said...

Re: Jan Location Hope you start feeling better soon Blizzard. Change of plans - we just got a load, pick up in Ridgway PA going to Bluffton IN.

Re: Jan Location Ok we are OUTTA HERE ! :eek: Going West, see how far we can get. Teach me for not looking at the doppler first thing this morning huh :o Thanks Greg :)

Oooops ROFL :D:D

LOL - seems like some men can't say NO :D:D