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Name: Flip
User type: Adminestrone
User ID: 6
User since: January 06, 2004
User last visit: 03:15PM on January 08
Homepage: http://alkalineearth.com/
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mrflip has posted 990 links and 2108 comments on Alkaline Earth since January 06, 2004.

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2009 Dec 18 12:28 (#4198.12715):
Maybe you like lowest-common-denominator blooper reels. Maybe you should go to this youtube clip:

2009 Dec 13 10:17 (#4191.12712):
Javelina?

2009 Dec 08 04:25 (#4196.12709):
I was thinking about this the other day -- Perry does deserve some cred for the fact that Texas is coming through the recession far better than almost all states.

If you click to select the top several economies by GDP (CA, TX, FL, NY, IL) in this chart of unemployment over time, you'll see that Texas has well outperformed the other top economic states, staying in the 6-8% range. It's also kept pace against baselines for its region.

Here's a chart of Gross State Product over Perry's duration for the top 8 economies; Texas does the best by far, and with much lower state spending. (yes, this invites the question of what more spending would do -- or spending reallocated from abstinence education -- but still.)

So he may be a social policy douchenozzle, as amply documented in the article -- but to whatever extent the governor acts as steward of the economy, he's done a decent job.

public $ gross st prod population All states combined $2,645.2 $13,715.7 300.8 California $385.3 $1,801.8 36.8 Texas $170.3 $1,148.5 23.5 New York $247.9 $1,105.0 19.3 Florida $147.3 $741.9 18.2 Illinois $107.8 $617.4 12.8 Pennsylvania $108.3 $533.2 12.5 Ohio $99.8 $462.5 11.5 New Jersey $86.4 $461.3 8.9

2009 Nov 28 01:29 (#4191.12702):
*hug*

2009 Nov 21 01:29 (#4191.12700):
Oughtn't it be the putative but singular "Largest Graffito in the World"?

2009 Nov 21 01:28 (#4192.12699):
More neat-o art

translations:

1) Christ: idea; Romans: focus
group.
2) James Dean: idea; Car: deadline for the work's publishing.
3) Little Red Hood: idea; Bad Wolf: new marketing director.
4) Whale: idea; Harpoon men: accounts for idea's presenting.
5) Amy Winehouse: idea; Drugs: brand's international guidelines.
6) Seal: idea; Hunters: changings on the briefing.
7) The Beatles: idea; Yoko Ono: equal idea on archive.
8) Couple: idea; Jason: a client who thinks he's creative.
9) Indian: idea; Colonizers: scouter's association.
10) Iulius Caesar: idea; Brutus and the traitors: inputs from the creative criativo.
11) Titanic: idea; iceberg: client's juridical department
12) Mary Antoinette: idea; Guillotine: budget.

The message below the "Showoff" logo means: "because there are already many ways to kill your idea".

2009 Nov 16 02:01 (#4191.12695):

Our old friend LUECKE is about 2.4 miles long

Nazca Lines -- more here. "The largest are over 200 metres (660 ft) across."

More Giant Figures visible from Google Earth

...plus a Pink Bunny

...and many more in these old AE threads on Google Sightseeing and Google TomPeeping

2009 Nov 16 01:51 (#4189.12693):
Only two thumbs up for stripical? weaksauce.

I've submitted definitions for bargle:

To use a smartphone to resolve the factual matter of a subject under debate while out at a bar with friends. From "bar" and "google" via "bargain".

If bargling shows you are wrong, you have been iPwned.

Barney: "England's greatest Prime Minister was Lord Palmerston!"
Wade: "Pitt the Elder!"
Lenny: "Hold on, let me bargle for which had the more salutary effect on British foreign policy and domestic weal."

and iPwned:

To be proven wrong in a dispute according to factual information retrieved on an iPhone or other internet-connected device.
If one of your friends bargles something you said and disproves your claim, you have been iPwned.

Chico from the Magnificent Seven was played by Horst Buchholz, not James Dean. iPwned! Bam!

but they'll take a day or so to come through. Warning: you won't like the existing alternative definitions.

2009 Nov 16 12:50 (#4190.12690):
More shockers: Obama doesn't personally operate his Twitter account, and Malcom Gladwell isn't an instant expert on everything from the IQ to the "igon value".

2009 Oct 30 01:29 (#4089.12681):
A nice Ricardo Montalban anecdote.

Is there a website where folks like MrBun can record "This star is actually a [really cool person|flaming dickhole waste of skin]"?

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