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GOPBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 12:30 PM
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Headline: "Everything That Can Go Wrong Listed."
For those of you unfamiliar with the onion, it's a satirical newspaper. It's hilarious. This article killed me. :rofl:

http://theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4124&n=3



Everything That Can Go Wrong Listed

FULLERTON, CA—A worldwide consortium of scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers is nearing the completion of the ambitious, decade-long project of cataloging everything that can go wrong, project leader Dr. Thomas R. Kress announced at a press conference Tuesday.

"We are mere weeks from finishing one of the most thorough and provocative scientific surveys of our time," Kress said. "The catalog of every possible unfortunate scenario will complete the work of the ancient Phoenicians and the early Christian theologians. Soon, every hazardous possibility will be known to man."

"And listed," Kress added.

Kress, a professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics at California State University and the author of several works on probability, would not say how many scenarios of error, peril, and misfortune exist. However, the list is widely believed to include hundreds of trillions of potential scenarios, from "cement truck with soft brakes cutting swath of destruction across quiet
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:02 PM
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1. ROFLMAO!!!!!
Oh MAN!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

That's straight out of the good old days of the Journal of Irreproducible Result! :D
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GOPBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:26 PM
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3. Yeah, I found that really funny, too! :-) n/t
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:13 PM
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2. This is just to funny.
I had one of those morning last week. I will have to send in my list. Funny people:applause:
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GOPBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:27 PM
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4. hehe :-) n/t
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