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Old 30-04-09, 10:10 PM   #1281
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Sorry, Have I just ruined everyones evening cuppa?
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Old 30-04-09, 10:13 PM   #1282
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A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the empire state building in 1945.
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Old 30-04-09, 10:56 PM   #1283
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Sorry, Have I just ruined everyones evening cuppa?
Ah, everything's carcinogenic these days.
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Old 30-04-09, 10:58 PM   #1284
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Nope tea all the way for me!
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Good girl, same 'ere

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That is the best justification for drinking yet!

There are over 1000 chemicals in a cup of coffe, and only 22 have been tested.
Seventeen of those 22 chemicals contain cancer causing compounds.
If a chemical contains a compound then surely it itself is a compound. What's next, "sugar contains cyanide!!!!1!!!eleven!!!"?
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Old 01-05-09, 11:57 AM   #1286
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George W Bush and Hugh Hefner are cousins.
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Old 01-05-09, 03:11 PM   #1287
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A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the empire state building in 1945.
Yeh and it didn't fall down either...nor did the buildings beside it that had suffered minor damage.

56yrs later with all the advances in building design and tech the 2nd of the 2 bulidings to get hit by a plane on the day fell into its own footstep 1st?

interesting? or badly planned, lol.
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Yeh and it didn't fall down either...nor did the buildings beside it that had suffered minor damage.

56yrs later with all the advances in building design and tech the 2nd of the 2 bulidings to get hit by a plane on the day fell into its own footstep 1st?

interesting? or badly planned, lol.
*cough*"Loose Change"*cough*

On a side note Steel loses half it`s strength at 600 Degrees Centigrade , the WTC was a Steel Skeleton that had a raging fire inside it for quite a while .

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George W Bush is also related to the Spencer Family of Princess Diana and is a 17th Cousin to Prince William.
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