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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Baloo</b> <br /><small>Member # 5</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,6,21,1,37,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">July 21, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">01:37 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> ...is generally <I>not</I> fostered by textbooks.<P>I offer the following links to prove (or at least lend credence to) my theory that history would be a laugh riot if the right people were allowed to wright the textbooks:<P><BR><blockquote>The first great antismoking campaign:<BR> <A HREF="http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970623/wayback1.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970623/wayback1.html</A> <P>The great Molasses flood of 1919:<BR> <A HREF="http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970519/wayback1.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970519/wayback1.html</A> <P>The Scientific Rainmaker:<BR> <A HREF="http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970915/wayback.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970915/wayback.html</A> <BR></blockquote><P>If there was more of this and less of the generally dessicated stuff they insist HISTORY consists of. Almost <I>nobody</I> remembers who Louis Cugnot was, but nearly everyone remembers the guy who invented peanut butter.<P>--Baloo<P>------------------<BR>"Someday your ship will come in...and you'll be at the airport "<BR><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/" TARGET=_blank>www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/</A> <P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Jay the Obscure</b> <br /><small>Member # 19</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,6,21,2,15,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">July 21, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:15 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Hmmm....<P>------------------<BR>Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.<BR> ~Groucho Marx, "Animal Crackers"<BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Jubilee</b> <br /><small>Member # 99</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,6,21,13,9,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">July 21, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">01:09 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I think it would be cool if Baloo re-wrote history books. *LOL* <P>------------------<BR>"Angels, answer me,<BR> are you near if rain should fall?<BR> Am I to believe <BR> you will rise to calm the storm?<BR> For so great a treasure words will never do.<BR> Surely, if this is, promises are mine to give you.<BR> mine to give........ "<BR>~ Enya<BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Saiyanman Benjita</b> <br /><small>Member # 122</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,6,21,15,37,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">July 21, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:37 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Well that's interesting.<P>------------------<BR>Nurse: Can I help you?<BR>Stan: We're here to commit our friend, Kyle.<BR>Nurse: Reason?<BR>Kyle: I'm a clinically depressed fecalpheliac on Prozac.<BR>Nurse: <B>JACKET!!</B><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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