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Reply #240 - May 20th, 2006 at 5:34pm
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Although it's $700,000 in returns in MI and $350,000 else where.  Right?

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Reply #241 - May 20th, 2006 at 6:38pm
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It'd be $7,000 in returns (70,000 x $0.10).  That particular state doesn't have a can deposit, so they were just recycled for material value (i.e. scrap aluminum).

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Reply #242 - May 20th, 2006 at 7:46pm
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Wow I so can't do math any more.  I must have been all geeked out from meeting this guy:
  
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Reply #243 - May 20th, 2006 at 7:58pm
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He's an imposter.

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Reply #244 - May 20th, 2006 at 8:05pm
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So, good guy eh?
  
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Reply #245 - May 20th, 2006 at 8:08pm
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Oh he was awesome.  Was cool...funny, engaging, willing to talk and listen.  Good guy all around.

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Reply #246 - May 21st, 2006 at 12:51am
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Spill the details, Stewie.  Where did you meet him?  What'd he talk about?

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Reply #247 - May 21st, 2006 at 12:55am
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www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0519foodfight0519-ON.html

Student nabbed in alleged food-fight plot

Brent Whiting
The Arizona Republic
May. 19, 2006 02:20 PM

A student at Mountain Ridge High School was arrested Friday by Glendale police for allegedly plotting to stage a food fight in the school cafeteria.

The boy, a 17-year-old junior, was taken into custody at the Glendale school then placed in a juvenile detention center on a charge of disrupting an educational facility, police said.

Jeff Payne, the student's father, said the food fight never happened, so he can't understand why his son was arrested.

"Shame on him for planning a food fight," Payne said. "But there was no food fight and he's in jail right now."

School officials have taken further action by slapping the student with a suspension, said Sandi Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Deer Valley Unified School District.

The food fight, which had been planned on an Internet Web site, was supposed to occur Thursday, but school officials got wind of the plot, Hicks said.

Extra teachers and security were posted in the school cafeteria and nothing happened, Hicks said. Officials were back on guard Friday and again foiled a possible outbreak of tossed food, she said.

Officer Mike Peña, a Glendale police spokesman, said the student was confronted with Web postings in which investigators believe he planned the food fight.

School administrators were specifically singled out as food-fight targets, Peña said. The boy was taken into custody after he became very uncooperative, he said.



Don't you all feel so much safer now that this nefarious criminal has been removed from our society?

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Reply #248 - May 21st, 2006 at 1:35am
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You got to meet Brent Spiner? I fucking hate you.  Did you at least let him know I'd bear his children for him?
  
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Reply #249 - May 21st, 2006 at 1:53am
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And how much exactly does that say Wes?
  
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Reply #250 - May 21st, 2006 at 6:51pm
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heavens no! anything but a food fight!


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Reply #251 - May 22nd, 2006 at 10:22am
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Spill the details, Stewie.  Where did you meet him?  What'd he talk about?


I went to a comic book convention in Novi, MI.  It was awesome, thousands of geeks all in one place.  It reminded me of Celebration II a bit.  The following is basically our convo:

X: Hello, Mr. Spiner, a pleasure to meet you (shakes hands).
Spiner:  Hey thanks for coming out.  What's your name?
X: Patrick.
S: *weird voice* Patrick.
X: Ya know I love Data but my favorite character of yours was Dr. Okum (from Independence Day).
S: Oh really? Ha ha.  I liked him too.
X:  It's someone I could relate too.  Ha Ha.
S: Ha. Ha.  Yeah I still have faith that he could come back.
X:  Yeah he was great.  He kinda did in the second book.
S: Yeah but it was a prequil.
X:  Right Right but still awesome.
S:  Well I liked him and wouldn't mind playing him again.  Here ya go *hands me a signed picture*
X:  Do you think I could impose to get a picture.
S:  *Cheerfully* Oh sure sure!
*Take picture...see above*
S:  A pleasure to meet you Patrick.
X: No no Mr. Spiner the pleasure was all mine.
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Reply #252 - May 22nd, 2006 at 1:39pm
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Boondock Saints, one of the best movies of all time, is going to be back in theatres tonight only as a marketing pitch for the new "special edition" DVD.

http://www.boondocksaints.com/

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Reply #253 - May 22nd, 2006 at 1:41pm
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...i still havent watched that whole movie. i only caught like, the first bit of it and then had to go do something.



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Reply #254 - May 22nd, 2006 at 2:34pm
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You must watch it, it's one of the best movies to ever be graced by my attendance.  It quite possibly has the best ending of any movie ever.

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