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  1. Traffic, with Free as the opening band. Way back in 1972 or so. Free Traffic
  2. The tickets for Def Leppard/ Poison came in the mail the other day!! Just been sitting here listening to both bands!!
  3. The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore, the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horse's asses.) Now, the twist to the story: When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's. The SRB's are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRB's would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRB's had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything... and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling everything else.
  4. It must of. I really tried very hard to avoid conversation with the moron!!
  5. I used to work with a guy who wouldn't listen to music from any gay artist. Although he didn't word it as nicely!!
  6. I grew up few miles from there. Lived in B.F. for a few years too!!
  7. Just ordered these!! Def Leppard with Poison and Cheap Trick 07/10/09 7:00 PM Post-Gazette Pavilion BURGETTSTOWN Number of Tickets: 2 Adult Reserved Price Level 4 Section 7, Row JJ, Seat # 36 Section 7, Row JJ, Seat # 37
  8. Not much. It was kind of a hectic week, so some R&R is in order. Maybe a trip to the park if the weather cooperates!!
  9. I agree with Kiwi!! Without Freddie and John, it just isn't Queen!!
  10. But guitarist denies rumors that ‘Idol’ finalist is band's new frontman NEW YORK - Adam Lambert may not have won the “American Idol” title, but he made some fans among the music elite — the members of Queen — who are looking to speak to him about possibly doing something in the future. “Amongst all that furor, there wasn’t really a quiet moment to talk,” Brian May, who performed with the singer on the “Idol” finale, told Rolling Stone in an e-mail. “But [drummer Roger Taylor] and I are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with him at some point.” While the guitarist shot down rumors that Lambert had been offered the role of Queen frontman, May confirmed he would like to work with Lambert again.
  11. Father avoids jail as British judge cites his excellent character A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son's virginity as a present was spared jail by a British court on Friday. The Polish national took the boy out in his car and allowed him to pick out the prostitute, who was standing at the side of the road in the red-light district of Nottingham, central England. But the 42-year-old father was arrested because the teenager had chosen an undercover police officer, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
  12. I would imagine he would be somewhat upset by this!!
  13. But at least they're nice album covers!!
  14. He says he first spotted something gray mixed in with his vegetables CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. - A diner at a T.G.I. Friday's in upstate New York says he got a little something extra with his broccoli — a severed snake head. Jack Pendleton says he was at the restaurant in Clifton Park on Sunday when he spotted something gray mixed in with his vegetables. He realized it was a snake head the size of his thumb, with part of the spine still attached. Pendleton says he snapped a photo with his cell phone camera and called the waiter over. He says he has no plans to sue.
  15. ‘i-house’ is giant leap from trailer park A moderately priced ‘plug and play’ home for the environmentally conscious KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - From its bamboo floors to its rooftop deck, Clayton Homes' new industrial-chic "i-house" is about as far removed from a mobile home as an iPod from a record player. Architects at the country's largest manufactured home company embraced the basic rectangular form of what began as housing on wheels and gave it a postmodern turn with a distinctive v-shaped roofline, energy efficiency and luxury appointments. Stylistically, the "i-house" might be more at home in the pages of a cutting-edge architectural magazine like Dwell — an inspirational source — than among the Cape Cods and ranchers in the suburbs.
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