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**** OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD **** Aug. 9, 2007
Posted on 08/09/2007 5:05:59 AM PDT by StarCMC
Welcome to the O.F.S.T. (Official Friday Silliness Thread)

Good morning and welcome to the Silliness! Lucky9Teen had to be away today and so I'm posting the OFST for her today. She will be back next week! Today is the anniversary of the death of Robert Goddard, father of American rocketry, who died in 1945. Time Magazine proclaimed him a fool for believing that travel in outer space was possible. I guess some things never change huh? Goddard proved them wrong on March 16, 1926, when he finished building a spindly, 10-ft. rocket he dubbed Nell, loaded it into an open car and trundled it out to his aunt Effie's nearby farm. It flew a mere 41 ft. high and the flight lasted only about 2.5 seconds, but with it came the reality of modern space flight. So Goddard had the last word. 
We've all probably known someone who was really smart - I mean book smart. There was this guy in my Physics class in my senior year. His name was Sam. He had perfect grades - 5.0 in all his honors science and math classes. He was a REAL brainiac. But one day during Physics class we were all listening to Mrs. Michaels talk about some experiment we were getting ready to do, and Sam went flying off his stool. It seems that he decided to stick a wire in an electrical outlet and the resulting shock knocked him backwards a few feet and arc welded the circuit. So here's the question of the day... what's the dumbest thing you've ever seen a really smart person do? 
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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: 01heymrengineer; 02itsthursday; ofst
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To: Baynative
Isn’t that one of the lab coated guys from Hal-Life?
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:22:44 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Woodchuck: a Dire Lemming rampager +9!)
To: JRios1968
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:23:02 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(This country is not free by the pen but by the back,brains and bullets of a soldier. ~advertsng guy)
Comment #443 Removed by Moderator
To: cookie
444
posted on
08/10/2007 7:24:04 AM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: Darksheare
Yeouch — do you know the story? Did it hit anything or did they blow it up?
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:25:23 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(This country is not free by the pen but by the back,brains and bullets of a soldier. ~advertsng guy)
To: SevenofNine
Cold blooded....bang, bang! hahaha
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:28:39 AM PDT
by
007girl
To: 007girl
447
posted on
08/10/2007 7:35:53 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(This country is not free by the pen but by the back,brains and bullets of a soldier. ~advertsng guy)
To: acad1228
/obscure?It's better in French
448
posted on
08/10/2007 7:36:44 AM PDT
by
r-q-tek86
(Jack Bauer would just whack him!)
To: StarCMC
To: tomkow6; StarCMC; ErnBatavia
450
posted on
08/10/2007 7:41:54 AM PDT
by
honolulugal
(TGIF . . . again)
To: honolulugal
451
posted on
08/10/2007 7:44:40 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
To: honolulugal; tomkow6
Ha ha ha!! Just gets better and better! LOL!!
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:45:03 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(This country is not free by the pen but by the back,brains and bullets of a soldier. ~advertsng guy)
To: girlscout
453
posted on
08/10/2007 7:46:28 AM PDT
by
r-q-tek86
(Jack Bauer would just whack him!)
To: honolulugal
454
posted on
08/10/2007 7:46:39 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(This country is not free by the pen but by the back,brains and bullets of a soldier. ~advertsng guy)
To: r-q-tek86
455
posted on
08/10/2007 7:47:04 AM PDT
by
r-q-tek86
(Jack Bauer would just whack him!)
To: r-q-tek86
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:47:47 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(This country is not free by the pen but by the back,brains and bullets of a soldier. ~advertsng guy)
To: StarCMC
457
posted on
08/10/2007 7:48:14 AM PDT
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007girl
To: StarCMC
You can never have too many Fridays :)
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:48:54 AM PDT
by
honolulugal
(TGIF . . . again)
To: honolulugal
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:52:16 AM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)
To: r-q-tek86
You own what? Certainly not this page. hahahahaha
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