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Old 2010-03-13, 00:48   #155
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Do we have a new smiley for an "att-n-t--n w-ore"?
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Old 2010-03-14, 17:37   #156
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You wanna buy a baby, mister?
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Old 2010-03-30, 17:09   #157
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Proof that God has a goofy sense of humor.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8594101.stm

Notice the large crater that doubles as an eye.

Now we just need to find Pinky, Blinky, Sue, and whatever the other guys name is
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Old 2010-03-30, 17:52   #158
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Proof that God has a goofy sense of humor.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8594101.stm

Notice the large crater that doubles as an eye.

Now we just need to find Pinky, Blinky, Sue, and whatever the other guys name is
I believe the other is named Inky.
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Old 2010-05-01, 13:07   #159
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http://nz.lifestyle.yahoo.com/new-id...having-a-baby/
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Old 2010-05-01, 17:12   #160
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This is a month late for April Fool's Day. Unfortunately there are no dates associated with the article.
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Old 2010-05-01, 22:07   #161
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This is a month late for April Fool's Day. Unfortunately there are no dates associated with the article.
Using View->Page Source, I see "<!-- pres9.mos.aue.yahoo.com compressed Sun May 2 08:01:42 EST 2010 -->" at the bottom. But maybe that's not when the article was created.

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Old 2010-05-02, 06:47   #162
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Using View->Page Source, I see "<!-- pres9.mos.aue.yahoo.com compressed Sun May 2 08:01:42 EST 2010 -->" at the bottom. But maybe that's not when the article was created.
Obviously not - it's in the future!
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Old 2010-05-02, 13:00   #163
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Obviously not - it's in the future!
Yes, it was in the future when retina posted #165. If "EST" in the timestamp means my local time, Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10) that time was a few minutes before cheesehead posted, in which case it's likely when the page was generated for him.

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Old 2010-05-02, 14:31   #164
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Yes, it was in the future when retina posted #165. If "EST" in the timestamp means my local time, Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10) that time was a few minutes before cheesehead posted, in which case it's likely when the page was generated for him.
Just now I find

"<!-- pres13.mos.aue.yahoo.com compressed Mon May 3 00:27:43 EST 2010 -->"

so by plotting 2 points versus time-of-post, ...
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Old 2010-05-09, 15:02   #165
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