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  1. Telemakhos

    Disputing the hydration powers of... water

    Here in the USA, pizza became a vegetable... In the EU, it is now illegal to claim that water prevents dehydration. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html Common sense has had its driver's license revoked.
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    Another Way to Get Your Bacon Fix

    AKA: KY jelly and some liquid smoke. Ridiculous product, really, when actual bacon grease is bacon-flavored lubricant. You can simply make bacon, eat the bacon, and then get your lubed-up freak on.
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    GREAT show for us rich guys: "Flying High-" & "Wealth in the Air" on WealthTV

    Someone should do a parody with some yokel flying a beat-to-hell Tri-Pacer. "Well, yuh see, this here was the luxury cloth upgrade, an' y'all can see that the headliner is in original and unrestored condition, which means it's a right pricey thang."
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    Portrayal of General Aviation

    Yeah, and the same group of journalists would be there to oppose both.
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    Portrayal of General Aviation

    Of course it has. Better than you would ever imagine. Check out this list (http://adage.com/century/campaigns.html), scroll through, and note how many of them were intended to sell and activity or concept, not a particular branded product.
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    Portrayal of General Aviation

    I think you hit the nail on the head. If GAMA had some sense, or a marketing dude worth his salt, it would divert some of the funds it uses for lobby efforts and run a TV campaign aimed at 16-30 year old people who are prime candidates for flight instruction. Re-runs of Iron Eagle just...
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    Deal on good sized power generator coming at Costco.com

    That doesn't matter at all if the generator is hooked up to a massive amplifier and speaker system on a party barge. Take that, Honda muffler engineers.
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    Renegade LSA

    Cute? According to its own website, it's "sexy." Apparently the folks at Renegade think that a tiny two-seater with a very limited payload somehow connotes sex appeal. I disagree. Owning a T-33 or flying your own King Air to the Bahamas is sexy. LSAs aren't so much sexy as "that fresh...
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    Deal on good sized power generator coming at Costco.com

    This just fuels my already ridiculous idea of purchasing a barge and turning it into a floating party palace on Lake Winnebago.
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    Happy Birthday Star Trek

    Fine, and all, but I'm pretty sure the Borg don't screw... so assimilation is, in fact, a terrible fate.
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    When the Terrain climbs faster than the plane

    I think you're right, but would add that there are plenty of pilots have attempted a climbing steep turn for whatever reason and crashed. When trees aren't a factor, those pilots often have a nasty stall/spin accident; when trees are a factor, as they were in this case, the plane can't...
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    When the Terrain climbs faster than the plane

    He sounded lucid when describing the pretty lake, which would suggest that he was merely distracted with the scenery. Of course, that means nothing.
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    Happy Birthday Star Trek

    Easy, easy. First, the extra credit: Mercury poisoning from treating the felt used in hats cause hatters to suffer neurological damage. Next: Guano was a widely mined and utilized fertilizer. As far as the term, most people think it refers to the erratic flight patterns of bats... they fly...
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    Happy Birthday Star Trek

    The more I write about Star Trek, the dorkier I feel. But anyway: She was an ex-Borg lady who joined Starfleet. She was in Star Trek: Voyager. Played by Jeri Ryan.
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    I've got a couple extra letters...

    Wild envy over here. Congratulations!
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    When the Terrain climbs faster than the plane

    That would explain the stall warning horn. I just can't believe he kept going into that turn. Perhaps he forgot, because the trees were getting ominously bigger, that lift slides off the side of wings in a steep bank.
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    When the Terrain climbs faster than the plane

    Well that was haunting. Was the pilot just not looking out to the right as he was executing the turn? Moreover, why wouldn't he just have leveled the wings, built speed, and climbed out straight? Maybe it just is one of those things that can't be armchair quarterbacked... but it does seem...
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    Happy Birthday Star Trek

    I'll check that out. I love documentaries. Speaking of documentaries about the Trek: Have you seen Trekkies? Those people are absolutely bat guano crazy. It's very amusing.
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    Happy Birthday Star Trek

    Did you mean T'Pau? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrYMWoqg5w&ob=av2e Seriously, though: Seven of Nine was hotter.
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