Someone who grew up in the same neighborhood I did(we didn't know each other) came into McDonald's today. We started talking while his food was getting ready, and the subject came to 'the fire'. Everyone who lived in Southern Chicago in 199..2?(I think) knows 'the fire'.

The town I lived in, Riverdale, was called that because it was built on the banks of the Old Calumet River. At about the middle of this river was an old, old, old, old old old factory that had been pumping chemicals into the water for decades. One night the river caught fire a little ways up from the factory. It was the damndest thing I've ever seen. The river was just.. flaming.

I think it's funny looking how it rains down one half of a street, but not the other half.

Warps your brain.

Anyways, I'd just gotten to the parking lot, and there was this little Mazda just flipping the fuck out and just driving around completely out of control. It was jumping up on curves, doing donuts, all sorts of shit. It finally hit a tree and tipped over onto it's side.

I never did see who was driving that car.

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We were all impressed when Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael wrote:
Cows mating. We had cows for a long time. If you ever see cows mating you'll never think of football players waiting to hike the ball in the same way again. Two gigantic mammals, one behind the other sort of looming, waiting.

Warps your brain.

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I would think so. Usually a cow and a bull mate.

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There was much rejoicing when Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael said this:
Cows mating. We had cows for a long time. If you ever see cows mating you'll never think of football players waiting to hike the ball in the same way again. Two gigantic mammals, one behind the other sort of looming, waiting.

Warps your brain.

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Blue 42! Blue 42! Hut! Hut!

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ACES! Another post by Comrade_Snoota:
I mean real things. Not 'ghosts' or 'visions'. Real, solid things that were just.. odd.

Someone who grew up in the same neighborhood I did(we didn't know each other) came into McDonald's today. We started talking while his food was getting ready, and the subject came to 'the fire'. Everyone who lived in Southern Chicago in 199..2?(I think) knows 'the fire'.

The town I lived in, Riverdale, was called that because it was built on the banks of the Old Calumet River. At about the middle of this river was an old, old, old, old old old factory that had been pumping chemicals into the water for decades. One night the river caught fire a little ways up from the factory. It was the damndest thing I've ever seen. The river was just.. flaming.

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did the river get its I.P. banned for all that flaming ?

Yes.

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Anklebitur D'gnome attempted to be funny by writing:
did the river get its I.P. banned for all that flaming ?

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Wow, you beat Mightion to it! Not bad.

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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about Robocop:
If you ever see cows mating you'll never think of football players waiting to hike the ball in the same way again.

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I finish the article I'm reading and decide to head back to my dorm room. I lower the paper to get up to leave.

There, right in front of me, is about a hundred 10 year olds standing in front of my table, STARING AT ME. WATCHING ME READ THE PAPER. I looked a lot like this --->

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From the book of Anklebitur D'gnome, chapter 3, verse 16:
did the river get its I.P. banned for all that flaming ?

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No, it was banned 3 weeks later for flooding.

It is air conditioned.

We were probably the strangest thing that they had ever seen.

That in itself is not the strange part. The strange part is at midnight, at work, 20 or so miles away, I look over one of the buildings in the direction of the fire (not knowing what it was) and saw that the sky pulsating orange and the air is just.. hissing.

Nobody at work knew what it was. bout 50 guys on a loading dock with a collective WTFY look on their faces.

There's this beach in like, some northeastern part of the US that when you walk on the sand, or shuffle your feet, it whistles. Not like a person whistling, just like.. Er.. Well, hard to explain. Also, there's booming sand.
Yes. Booming sand. Generally happens on uberhuge dunes when there's a mini-sandslide.. the sand forms into sheets and makes vibrations.. Kinda like a mix of a Bullroara, and a Digerydoo (I spelled those horribly, but Pved would prolly know what I'm talking about). Very very strange to see a guy slide down a sand dune making this low grumbling noise...

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NecroPriest had this to say about Tron:
Probably this

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OMG U LINKED TO A FILE U SHOULD BE FLAMED!?%&

And its Geoshitties, too. Icky!

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NecroPriest had this to say about John Romero:
Probably this

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DO NOT POST THAT AGAIN

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Delphi Aegis probably says this to all the girls:
OMG U LINKED TO A FILE U SHOULD BE FLAMED!?%&

And its Geoshitties, too. Icky!

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I didn't flame anyone for linking to a file--I simply asked, politely, for a description.

Whereupon I was beset by clueless flamers.

So neener.

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NecroPriest stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Probably this

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And you should probably post a "not work safe" disclaimer, Necro.

As for the strangest thing I ever saw...well...I once saw a two-headed snake. It was freaky.

I was listening to my 5th grade teacher, and fiddling with my pen. Once he finished talking, I looked down at my textbook.

Unconsciously, I drew a stickman karnajing on an aligator wearing an apron and weilding dual AK47s.

It was a very dead, very bloated whale corpse. And the truck was simply driving down the road with a ton or so of dead whale strapped down in back.

Still recovering...

sadly enough i learned about that in anatomy

mosquito carried parasites that migrate to lymph nodes and block lymph flow

usually only happens to people that sleep outside in those countries

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Bloodsage was naked while typing this:
I didn't flame anyone for linking to a file--I simply asked, politely, for a description.

Whereupon I was beset by clueless flamers.

So neener.

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Go to hell.