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Eyjafjallajokull - 2012 (pg. 9)
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| Chimney |
| At least Prydz doesn't feel self-conscious anymore about flying. |
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| Theresa |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonSun
Yeah my cousin is stuck in Chicago's Ohare airport right now for 3 days & he is trying to get back home to the UK. British airways announced if the eruption persists they are going to send everyone home by train. |
Magical floaty trains that go over the Ocean? |
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| jonSun |
| quote: | Originally posted by Theresa
Magical floaty trains that go over the Ocean? |
trans atlantic railroad |
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| Lews |
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/17/limbaugh-volcano/
| quote: | | You know, a couple of days after the health care bill had been signed into law Obama ran around all over the country saying, “Hey, you know, I’m looking around. The earth hadn’t opened up. There’s no Armageddon out there. The birds are still chirping.” I think the earth has opened up. God may have replied. This volcano in Iceland has grounded more airplanes — airspace has more affected — than even after 9/11 because of this plume, because of this ash cloud over Northern and Western Europe. At the Paris airport they’re telling people to head to the train station to catch trains out of France, and when people get to the train station they’re telling people, “There aren’t any seats until at least April 22nd,” basically a week from now. It’s got everybody in a shutdown. Earth has opened up. I don’t know whether it’s a rebirth or Armageddon. Hopefully it’s a rebirth, God speaking. |
Isn't he supposed to be in Costa Rica or something? |
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| tubularbills |
| Crazy that this thing keeps going. |
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| Jake Benson |
"which has so many letteres in it, i'm not going to even try to pronounce it"
HAHAHAH AMEN!
How do they come up with these names in Iceland? My theory is they put their cats on top of the keyboard while Microsoft Word is running, let it lick itself for a couple of seconds, see what string of letters it incidentally ends up typing, and then uses that as a new word.
gjoittwnnrtwonwr .. is that an Icelandic word now? |
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| FuzzQi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
"which has so many letteres in it, i'm not going to even try to pronounce it"
HAHAHAH AMEN!
How do they come up with these names in Iceland? My theory is they put their cats on top of the keyboard while Microsoft Word is running, let it lick itself for a couple of seconds, see what string of letters it incidentally ends up typing, and then uses that as a new word.
gjoittwnnrtwonwr .. is that an Icelandic word now? |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
How do they come up with these names in Iceland? |
“Ey(ja)” is the Icelandic word for island. “Fjall(a)” means mountain. “Jökull” is glacier.
So this volcano is called "Island Mountain Glacier" ;) |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
“Ey(ja)” is the Icelandic word for island. “Fjall(a)” means mountain. “Jökull” is glacier.
So this volcano is called "Island Mountain Glacier" ;) |
Ohhhh, you just know all this stuff, Lira :mad:
So why is a 'dollar' called a dollar? WHY? |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Yeah, and ing magnets - how do they work? |
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| Lira |
^^^^ :stongue:
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Ohhhh, you just know all this stuff, Lira :mad:
So why is a 'dollar' called a dollar? WHY? |
Well, it comes from the Low Germanic word "daler", from German "taler" (1540, later thaler), abbreviation of Joachimstaler, literally "(gulden) of Joachimstal," coin minted 1519 from silver from mine opened 1516 near Joachimstal, town in Erzgebirge Mountains in northwest Bohemia. The German word "Tal" is cognate with Eng. "Dale" (which comes from the O.E. dæl, from P.Gmc. *dalan "valley"). The Continental Congress July 6, 1785, adopted dollar when it set up U.S. currency, on suggestion of Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Jefferson, because the term was widely known but not British.
That's why a "dollar" is called a dollar, I'm not making it up :p |
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