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On my travels today, I averaged 42 miles per hour.

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On my travels today, I averaged 42 miles per hour.


Stuck in reverse again?

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On my travels today, I averaged 42 miles per hour.


Stuck in reverse again?

Maybe he had problems with his stick.

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Nah...just an hour's queue on the m4. :roll:

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Just got my 42nd friend on Facebook.

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Last night my flight from London to JFK left from gate 42!

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I have a family friend who sends me all those awful round-robin email jokes beloved of bored office workers everywhere. I usually bin them after a yawn or, at most, a mild chuckle, but this one seemed vaguely relevant here....


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(Best to read out loud with Jamaican accent)

This man from the Jamaican country had lost his house and all his crops after a hurricane. He had nothing left but his donkey.

After days of being miserable, and not being able to find a job, he took his donkey into the city and put up a sign that read 'Betting $10.00 that this donkey could answer any question yuh ask.'

One man come up saying: 'No way that ass could tell me how much numbers in a phone number?' The owner said 'Tell him ass?' The donkey stomp on the ground seven times, the man paid and walked away shocked.

Ah next man come up and say 'Tell me how much players make up a football side?' The donkey stomp the ground eleven times.' The man paid up.

By now, news spread like wild fire and nuff people gather around to see this smart ass.

This woman come out of the crowd, walk up to the owner and said 'You is ah fraud and ah bet $100.00 he cyan tell me meh age.'

The donkey step back, leh go a loud fart and stomp he foot two times. The woman faint.

After some smelling salts and water, she revive and point at de donkey and say, 'He know ah was farty-two'..
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Following a shuffle round of the office desks and telephones, I now have the extension number I have been after all along.

:cool:

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42 speakers at the Media Festival in Manchester in November, including Stephen Fry!
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Following a shuffle round of the office desks and telephones, I now have the extension number I have been after all along.

:cool:


You have had a 42" extension?

Tell me, do you use your dictaphone?

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This has probably been here before, but since I picked up my new passport this morning...

Tämä passi sisältää 42 sivua. Detta pass innehåller 42 sidor. Este pasaporte contiene 42 paginas. Dieser Pass enthält 42 Seiten. This passport contains 42 pages... and so on...
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Facebook members for Hitchcon 09 reached 42 today...

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[quote]Forty-two percent of the passwords used lowercase letters from “a to zâ€

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I was checking out Fort Huachuca on the National Register of Historic Places (I was stationed there early '98 to late '00) and their collection of historic photos page (http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/ ... 000443.pdf) has 42 pages.

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I received my 42nd bit of feedback on eBay yesterday.

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I know this is weird, but totally true...

The last 8 times I went downtown in Ned for errands, the bank's digital thermometer said 42 degrees... I don't know if it's stuck on that or if that really is the temperature. Next time I go into town I'm going to take my camera and prove it.

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typed up all the reservation confirmations for next year (that holiday place i rent out for my parents) - 42 letters! no cheating!

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Janette wrote:
I know this is weird, but totally true...

The last 8 times I went downtown in Ned for errands, the bank's digital thermometer said 42 degrees... I don't know if it's stuck on that or if that really is the temperature. Next time I go into town I'm going to take my camera and prove it.

Ha! I remember that it read 42 degrees when Gusty and I were there with you.

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Louis CK (see elsewhere in this forum) is currently 42.
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Hi,
maybe you talk about this everyday but if not...did you ever try to search for "Betelgeuse" on google maps?
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maybe you talk about this everyday but if not...did you ever try to search for "Betelgeuse" on google maps?

I just did but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to find?

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Did you mean Betelgeuse near Ireland?

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Scratch wrote:
amubello wrote:
Hi,
maybe you talk about this everyday but if not...did you ever try to search for "Betelgeuse" on google maps?

I just did but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to find?



Well, this is what I get, at least from Google.it

Betelgeuse
Guildford Rd, Normandy, Guildford, Surrey GU3 2DA, Regno Unito

Do I need to add more?
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amubello wrote:
Scratch wrote:
amubello wrote:
Hi,
maybe you talk about this everyday but if not...did you ever try to search for "Betelgeuse" on google maps?

I just did but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to find?



Well, this is what I get, at least from Google.it

Betelgeuse
Guildford Rd, Normandy, Guildford, Surrey GU3 2DA, Regno Unito

Do I need to add more?

No, I got it!

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...which is 11.73 miles from my office.

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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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...which is 11.73 miles from my office.


You might think that's a long way but that's just peanuts to space. Listen...

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Clause 42

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From somebody that used to work for two different photographic agencies, erk.

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Tower 42 (formerly known as the NatWest tower)

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Yielding 6.6%, and with rents 30% below their peak, I'd say it was a bloody bargain at £300m! I may have to check down the back of the couch for loose change.

Apparently, this place comes as part of the deal

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Lady Mike (also known as Ci Ci) and I attended the Cave Spring Art Festival this past Saturday. Total distance from my driveway to our parking spot in Cave Spring: 42 miles.

And now my dear has to travel off to work on her grandmother's ranch for, you guessed it, the next 42 days (a 42 that I am not thrilled about at all).

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Seeing how the performing arts center is under renovation, the university I go to found a place in the nearby city to use until it's done. The street address? 42.

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I just bought a new camera body on 42nd Street Photo.

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LAX Terminal 4 (American Airlines). Gate 42 both times!

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My order at a natural products online store totalled $42.42.
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Watching Chris Packham's Decade of Discovery I learned that the number of new lemur species discovered in Madagascar since 2000 is indeed... 42. :cool:

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Man jumps from 42nd floor in Denver
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One person is dead after apparently jumping from the 42nd floor of the Spire tower near 14th Street and Champa, a Denver Police spokesman said.

Police received a call at about 5 p.m., but do not know whether the person had previously threatened to jump, the spokesman said. The person's identity, including age and sex, are not known.

Police are investigating the incident, but said it "appears" to have been a case of suicide.

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One of my vids on my youtubechannel!
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