1,400 is mines

hell yeah, its a sign!!!!!!!!!!!!

i dare to care life isn't fair

:love-smil :love-smil :love-smil

lolie skates

i swear lalalalalalala

mgreg want to get married?

:hi :firehair :firehair :firehair

timing is the key daniel son

in this thread?

random thoughts random posts

i will accept for a players ball pass :love-smil

sure why not mgreg

posting, posting, posting

thats my honey moon gift to myself

cool :small-smi :small-smi

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school is very cool i must say

oh pookster? come out now, the time is near!

oh yes it is it is it is

says pookster is offline

One summer, me (aged 11), my brother (aged 9) and a friend (aged 10) were playing "war" in a field when we happened to come across a box of discarded matches. Three excitable kids and a box of matches get along like... well, a field on fire.

We only meant to light a few "for a laugh". I mean, it was not every day we had pyrotechnic powers at our fingertips. We thought we were playing it safe by setting light to a bunch of dead grass away from the rest of the field, but we didn't anticipate a gust of wind having other ideas.

After about 30 seconds of frantic stomping, it became clear that things were getting out of control. We ran to the nearest row of houses that backed onto the field, some 30-40 metres away, and started hammering on random doors to attract anyone's attention. I guess most people were out that day, because we didn't manage to get hold of someone until we'd knocked on about a dozen doors. The fire brigade were duly summoned, so we returned to the field (with a bunch of curious neighbours) to survey our handiwork.

The fire had spread across a good portion of the field now and a thick column of smoke was rising high into the sky. The fire engine turned up in less than five minutes and about half-a-dozen firemen got to work beating the fire out. Looking back on it now it was probably a lot smaller than it looked and a piece of piss for the firemen to put out, but for us it was a towering inferno of flaming death that we thought was going to raze the entire neighbourhood.

Naturally, the police turned up too. In a desperate attempt to deflect the blame from ourselves, we brazenly told the cops that we'd seen "a bunch of skinheads" running away from the field when we noticed the smoke. It seemed fairly plausible -- at this time (early 1980s), gangs of skinheads would often roam the neighbourhood causing trouble. As luck would have it, within our circle of destruction lay about a dozen beer cans, which seemed to add some credulity to our tale. I don't know if the cops actually believed us, but they eventually left without giving us any hassle.

Later at dinner that night, my mum says something like, "Ooh, did you hear about that field catching fire today?" My brother and I just looked at each other, paralysed with fear, before finally managing to mumble something like, "Er, no!"

Some 20 years later, the only people who know the truth of what happened are myself, my brother and friend.

pooky poook where areeeeeeeeeeeee you come out and post

yep, maybe he passed out at his keyboard

LOLLERSKATES :conehead

-- A celebrity interior decorator vacationing in Sri Lanka said Monday that all he could see was "utter devastation" in the wake of a deadly tsunami that slammed the island.

"We were completely devastated yesterday morning," Nate Berkus told CNN. "There was absolutely no warning."

Berkus, a regular contributor to "The Oprah Winfrey Show," said he and a friend were sleeping in a beachfront cottage at Arugam Bay on Sri Lanka's eastern coast when he heard a loud noise and the roof was ripped off.

Berkus, 33, said they were swept into the sea along with debris, animals and other people.

The two grabbed a telephone pole, he said, but lost their grips when a second large wave hit. Berkus told CNN that he climbed onto the roof of a home; his friend was missing.

Berkus said he and about 50 other survivors -- tourists and locals -- spent the rest of the night in a field, but were without water and food. Many of the group were injured, including a pregnant woman who had broken ribs, he said.

Members of the Sri Lankan army had taken a few of the injured away in helicopters, he said, and told the rest of the group that other helicopters would arrive at sunrise.

"It's just been utter devastation. Bodies everywhere," Berkus said. "I'm very scraped up, but luckily I'm OK ... against that kind of force of nature, there was nothing any of us could do."

Berkus said that lost everything he had with him.

"I'm sitting here with nothing -- no passport, no money, no anything, in shorts that somebody gave me ... the bottom line is, we desperately need help here."

Berkus is the founder of Nate Berkus Associates in Chicago, Illinois. He has made at least 20 appearances on "Oprah."

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bring it back to the bottom of the map

copy pasting from the news? hahaha :evil-laug

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looks like its just us now :banana

rollie lolies

we need more ppl pusing this thread

me and you bud just me and you

keep on rocking :hi

they are lurking :D

keep at it bud brb

i bet pook come sout of hiding at the last min

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timing is the key

An ice cream van used to stop outside our school around 3.30pm-4pm. All the kids would queue up and buy something after school. The guy who owned the van had done this for at least the 3-4 years I'd been at the school and, as far as I know, hadn't been told to fuck off by any teachers.

So me and a friend grab ourselves a Coke after school from the ice cream van and walk home. We only lived about 10-15 minutes walk away. We're about halfway home when this car pulls alongside us and someone winds down the window to talk to us. It's a couple of teachers from our school! I didn't think much of it -- I knew they lived in the area and were probably just being sociable. But no!

We basically got a bollocking for drinking Coke while wearing a school uniform (this is the UK by the way). WTF?! We pointed out that no one had ever told us that drinking Coke while wearing school uniform was a criminal offence, that 99% of kids leaving the school would stop at the ice cream van (or some other store) on the way home to buy drinks and sweets, and besides it was the middle of the fucking summer, we'd just played football that afternoon, and we were pretty thirsty. The teachers didn't quite know how to respond to that, so they just told us to never do it again (yeah, right) and hurry on home.

most likely mgreg

HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cuba's tourism minister said Sunday that 2 million people visited the Caribbean island so far this year, achieving a long-sought-after goal despite U.S. efforts to undermine the country's main foreign exchange earner.

"This year the U.S. government increased the unjust blockade imposed on our country and pledged to affect the unstoppable development of our industry," Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero said.

"These 2 million visitors represent an 8 percent increase over last year and are one more demonstration that Cuba is not alone," he added at a ceremony in eastern Holguin province, where one of the island's tourist resorts is located.

Most U.S. citizens are banned by their government from traveling to Cuba, and visits by Cuban-Americans are also restricted. Nevertheless, 200,000 people came from the United States last year, 130,000 of whom were of Cuban origin.

The number of U.S. citizens traveling to Cuba has been reduced by more than 50 percent since June, when President Bush eliminated most loopholes allowing them to visit and restricted Cuban-Americans to one visit every three years, U.S. travel agencies reported this month.

As part of its stepped-up effort to undermine President Fidel Castro's government, the United States is also funding information drives in Europe dissuading travel to Cuba on human rights grounds.

Tourism and related activities earned revenues of $2.1 billion in 2003, and those earnings increased 15 percent this year, Economy and Planning Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez said last week.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and a slowing world economy put a dampener on the country's hope to reach 2 million arrivals in 2002.

Cuba turned to tourism after the collapse of European Communism plunged its socialist economy into crisis.

"The tourism industry accounted for 4 percent of foreign exchange earnings in 1990 and 41 percent this year," Marrero said.

"The number of hotel rooms was 13,000, and today there are 41,000, 40 percent four and five-star," he said.

Foreign hotel chains, such as France's Accor and Spain's Sol Melia, manage the majority of five-star and four-star hotels in Cuba.

Getting there ... getting there

read it and weep it

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too lazy :Kissmy

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