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http://www.suntimes.com/news/902398,quake041808.article
I don't even live in Illinois and it woke me up at 5:30 this morning because my bed was shaking. Did anyone else feel this? Are you Illinoisers okay?
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My fiancee called me this morning to ask if I felt it. It didn't wake me up, but I do have a vague recollection of dreaming that my bed was moving.
First the cougar, (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-cougar-shot-webapr16,0,1215541.story) now this... we think some sort of apocalypse is coming.
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Or the Cubs are going to win the Series.
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...Now that is a terrifying thought.
This is my favorite quote from that article:
''Oh, yeah, I felt it. It was interesting,'' Griswold said. ''A lot of shaking.''
...I don't think I've ever heard an earthquake described simply as "interesting".
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Or the Cubs are going to win the Series.
I am trying to stifle my laughter. It's not working.
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I don't think I've ever heard an earthquake described simply as "interesting".
I wouldn't have called it interesting. I woke up thinking someone had crawled under my bed and was wriggling around under there. It creeped me out and then when it stopped I was confused about whether if it had really happened or not. When I told my mom about it, she said she'd figured I'd woken up and was bumping into things or that the roof was shaking for some reason.
When reading those now, I don't think either of us have any sense that early in the morning.
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Or the Cubs are going to win the Series.
That would definitely be a sign of the apocalypse coming.
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We felt it in Louisville. It was my first earthquake and I was still half asleep, so I thought I had imagined it at first. Then my house-mate asked loudly "was that an earthquake?"
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I experienced an earthquake once before back in Egypt. Now that was quite a disaster.
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Nope. Didn't feel it, but I'm also a bit far south. We occasionally have tiny little earthquakes, but to me, it feels like someone is doing maintenance down the cul-de-sac, with like, a road driller.
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I have never felt an earthquake. Hooray for the east coast and its stable plate location!
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Just felt a little aftershock.
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I got to experience a 6 pointer while I was living in Japan. It was several miles out to sea, but damn it was about the scariest thing I've ever experienced. Tornadoes, I can handle anyday, but when the earth starts moving, that's when I'm done. I'm glad to see so far that everyone appears to be OK.
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My fiancee called me this morning to ask if I felt it. It didn't wake me up, but I do have a vague recollection of dreaming that my bed was moving.
First the cougar, (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-cougar-shot-webapr16,0,1215541.story) now this... we think some sort of apocalypse is coming.
Hey, the cougar passed through Wisconsin, and, more specifically, the outskirts of my town (Janesville) too.
Unless there's two random cougars wandering the WI-IL state line.
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Earthquakes are awesome and you people are a bunch of wusses.
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Or the Cubs are going to win the Series.
That would definitely be a sign of the apocalypse coming.
If only the LHC would have been built around Fermilab.
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I was in Peru for the 7.9 quake (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6948888.stm) they had last summer, that was pretty intense. We'd driven through Pisco that day, but luckily arrived in Lima when it actually hit, so we didn't feel the worst. It was still pretty crazy though, more for the reactions of the people around us than anything.
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I didn't even wake up, although the quake was 200+ miles away.
My co-workers felt it, so now I feel left out. DAMN EARTHQUAKE MAKIN' ME FEEL INADEQUATE!!!
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The first two I didn't feel because I was asleep. I felt one of the small aftershocks at work around 10:15am, though.
It knocked some things off the shelves, and a cord out of the wall, but really not much happened. It was interesting.
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earthquakes freak me the fuck out.
I was once in a bath while one happened. I was about four but I still remember. It was the scariest thing ever.
I hope everyone is okay.
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grreddit
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I was at Candlestick Park in San Fransisco when the World Series Earthquake (http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es1003/es1003page01.cfm) hit. Now that was some scary shit, especially for a 10 year old.
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I was also like a year old when that happened. Apparently my dad just turned around and said 'isn't this fun?' to me and I then concluded that it was some sort of game.
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I don't think I have ever felt an earthquake before
That reminds me, I heard some story about a building that will be the newest tallest building trying to get built in San Fransisco.
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That's actually a lot smaller than you might think. The skyline in San Francisco is not very large, pretty much precisely for that reason. Also, there's very strict building codes that new construction has to meet. People in other parts of the country freak out a lot about earthquakes, I find, but really when you're prepared for it like we are there's only one every decade or so that does significant damage.
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We have an earthquake here about once a year. Never really that interesting.
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I was actually working when it hit. It was so minor that I wasn't sure if it was an earthquake, or my imagination. The entire house wobbled, like being up on a swaying branch.
My first earthquake in the Bay Area was more definitive. Everything rattled and slid across the floor a little ways.
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New Mexico. Never really that interesting.
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I wouldn't have called it interesting. I woke up thinking someone had crawled under my bed and was wriggling around under there.
Sorry about that. Won't happen again.
So, they say because the mid-west is so flat, earthquakes travel better and can be felt further away. Here we have lots of mountains so we don't feel it unless it's our area. I wonder how true that is...
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Just felt a little aftershock.
This made me laugh because when I took geography, our teacher told us that earthquakes were just like sex. It's the only thing I can remember him teaching us, which presumably is why I failed geography.
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So apparently this was felt as far away as Kitchener-Waterloo in Ontario. Where I live. And where I may have been illicitly underground in a tunnel system a day after the quake.
Man if there was an earthquake while I was in the service tunnels I would have freaked the sweet fucking fuck out.
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I woke up and thought it was because my nose was stuffed, so I just went back to sleep.
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I wouldn't have called it interesting. I woke up thinking someone had crawled under my bed and was wriggling around under there.
Sorry about that. Won't happen again.
So, they say because the mid-west is so flat, earthquakes travel better and can be felt further away. Here we have lots of mountains so we don't feel it unless it's our area. I wonder how true that is...
I think there's something to it. I'm no scientist, but I seem to remember being told in Peru that Cusco, a city in the mountains, never got hit by earthquakes because of where it was located. Sounds like there's something about the make up of mountains that acts as a kind of earthquake dampener.
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ah! i thought the midwest was immune to this! i thought our unique scourge was tornados, apparantly i was wrong. luckily i live by train tracks so house shaking is not unfamiliar territory.
my mom's commentary on this event:
mom: you know how everyone says california is going to break off from the continent one day because of its earthquakes? my theory is, what will actually happen is the midwest will break down the middle, and chicago will become the new east coast!
me: mom, we don't have nearly as many earthquakes as california.
mom: there was that one back in 1998!
me: do we have them MONTHLY?
mom: oh.
but i do really like the idea of chicago becoming like, a second new york. oh wait it already is. BUT BETTER.
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Basically you want Chicago to be as awesome as Boston.
I'll propose a trade. You send us the Lawrence Arms, and we'll give you 50% of our awesomeness.
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*slam*
NO DEAL
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Somewhere, Howie Mandel just got a boner and he doesn't know why.
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I'm too southern for this conversation :-(
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Remember, kids: The left coast is the best coast!
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Somewhere, Howie Mandel just got a boner and he doesn't know why.
Then he stuck it in boiling water and carefully wrapped it in ethyl alcohol soaked latex.
He cried for three hours, three minutes, and three seconds exactly, wiping each tear away with an individual sanitized tissue and placing each one into a Ziploc bag before placing them securely in a hazardous waste disposal container. It is collected every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday at five o'clock. He has learned to give the collectors fifteen minutes of leeway in either direction from that time, but it stresses him so. Sometimes he gets tummyaches when they're more than ten minutes late.
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Well played...
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The only time I've ever really felt an earthquake was here in Albania. At first I was like "Hm, the cat is scratching itself on my bed."
I woke up in the morning and remembered that I haven't lived with a cat in like 4 years.
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Ozyman I love you.
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Remember, kids: The left coast is the best coast!
YES
...unless you're south of Oregon. in which case, it's all nine circles of hell combined into one. they call it "Super-Hell"
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There is a Hellmouth down there, afterall.
:-D
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The Crossroads of Abadon is south of Oregon?! Creepy...
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California is awesome. It's when you get south of Lone Pine that shit starts to suck.
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Basically everything in California that isn't Los Angeles is awesome and all of you guys are jealous.
Also, fuck the Dodgers.
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I'm not going to be jealous when you guys sink into the ocean. To hell with California. You and your freaking good weather and lack of snow.
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I feel so left out
I think I'm the only non-American one here ¬¬
We don't get Earthquakes
Except for one a couple months ago, where a plane broke the sound barrier over the Irish sea
(I live in Wales btw)
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You are so far from the only non-American it's absurd.
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I'm convinced I feel the earth shake here in the UK from time to time as well. It worries me that I live next to an old extinguished volcano. But then again, I might be paranoid.
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You are so far from the only non-American it's absurd.
76% of the population of Australia are on these forums.
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We need to do another one of them map things with the digital pushpins. Someone start one of them again so we Australians can show QC how hard we are owning it.
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I know we did it with google maps and some other site that made my computer want to die every time I tried to go there, so...anyone know how to start one of those google map things?
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We could do a Frappr map, I think they're fine.
http://www.frappr.com/?a=constellation_map&mapid=137440510876
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Added myself to the map.
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I am in there!
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Hey, maybe you do!
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You hit the "move this pin" button and type in the city, town, or wherever you live. It pinned me surprisingly close to where I live. It was weird.
I actually was thinking the other day "wouldn't it be nice if qc had a map thing so I could see where everyone lived? (because I am a creep)" Weird.
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That site hates me. It froze when I tried to tell it I don't live in Kansas and now it won't let me reload it. *Stabs Frappr*
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I added myself although, admittedly it wasn't easy.
Argh, I don't live in rural NSW nor do I live in Vaucluse, Sacramento
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There. I'm on your silly map.
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Added myself there, for some reason.
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Does it just suggest a random place that it'd like you to live in? Or does it look to see where your internet juice is flowing from? Because I've never been to Stoke on Trent in my life but I'm aware that it exists in fairly close proximity to where I really live.
Also: I live near Wales (you can see from the map!) and we had an earthquake quite recently. Just a little one, a few roof tiles fell off and so forth. The weird thing was that I was in the old part of the house, my mum was in the new extension, and I was the only one who noticed it. Apparently the new bit has better foundations.
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Bam, done.
I would assume it looks at your IP address.
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Unlikely, considering I do not live or work in Dallas, Texas.
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And considering that it originally placed me to live somewhere in America...
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Mine worked fine?
EDIT: for being the challengers Australia is definitly losing.
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Man, Sean, had no idea you lived in Maryland. We are a heavily represented state.
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Alright, got it to work.
And no one else is in Ohio. (Yet. I know Cernn is from NE Ohio.) Because no one likes Ohio.
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Unlikely, considering I do not live or work in Dallas, Texas.
It got me just fine :\
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It placed me in the middle of America somewhere
I'm there now =D
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Man, Sean, had no idea you lived in Maryland. We are a heavily represented state.
Dude we are ridiculously close to each other. You are maybe like, a half hour away.
Who else is MD though besides Manda?
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I'm sort of new here and haven't posted much, but I decided to throw myself on the map anyways. I am moving to maryland in a couple of months so I put my tag there instead of in St. Louis where I live now.
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check out Chuck and me standing strong in the northwest all by our lonesome.
where's kai? we need more northwest representation.
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...Now that is a terrifying thought.
This is my favorite quote from that article:
''Oh, yeah, I felt it. It was interesting,'' Griswold said. ''A lot of shaking.''
...I don't think I've ever heard an earthquake described simply as "interesting".
Dude almost survived a demonic invasion. Nothing's going to upset Griswold.
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check out Chuck and me standing strong in the northwest all by our lonesome.
Holy shit that's far up, though. I mean, fuck. I don't even go to Marysville because I'm lazy.
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Who else is MD though besides Manda?
Yay MD! Isn't that chunky blonde girl that Katie is into from here too? I forget her username.
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God damn I love you...
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I thought we had one of these before, or something like it
Added myself, so far the only one in Michigan
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This website does not seem to be fully sure of where Montréal is..
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I'm on there. I'm the only Tennessean, odd.
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Yay MD! Isn't that chunky blonde girl that Katie is into from here too? I forget her username.
Isn't that I is grammer? I don't think she posts that much though.
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God damn I love you...
<3!
I is grammar sounds right.
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I'm in. WOOOO SPRING BREAK
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Man... when I saw this thread I was hoping it had something to do with Mischief Makers for the N64. Possibly the greatest game involving female robots shaking things ever.
Earthquakes are cool too though.
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Dude we are ridiculously close to each other. You are maybe like, a half hour away.
Dude. It's Maryland. EVERYTHING is a half hour away.
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Is there a way to edit your pin once you've added it but then closed the window? Clearly the picture didn't upload, and I'd quite like to have a parrot on my pin.
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Yeah, so there's four of us, five if you count Manda's boy like I do for some reason, even though I've never met him. And four for a state so small as Maryland I'd say is heavily represented.
And Patrick, its just all of the stuff on the mainland are within a half-hour. Gettin up into northwestern Maryland or over to the Eastern shore is almost painfully long for the distance in miles you're actually traveling.
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Added myself--
Man, Wisconsin's actually pretty well represented. Although I live so far south that the state line with Illinois practically bisects my yellow marker thing.
Also, jhocking, you live relatively close to me. 'Bout an hour and a half.
I was hoping we'd having people from someplace exotic, like Djbouti. (Albania does not count, screw you Patrick.)
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Yeah, I'm rather surprised that Wisconsin is represented the same amount as like California
And yeah, I'm rather close to jhocking too (about two hours)
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screw you Patrick.
I could use a good shag. This pesky v-card is giving me papercuts.
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Added myself. I guess I'm a few miles from being one of the Marylanders
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I was thinking about you earlier Patrick (I'm sorry, this does not increase your chances of getting laid, but I could hire you a prostitute if you wanted) and I realised I don't even know where Albania is.
Why are you in Albania?
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He lost a bet.
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He was exiled.
(He's really there because of his mom, but it's more fun to imagine other reasons.)
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I shot a man in cold blood.
The blood had clotted around him and he was stuck and had no chance to get out, he shouldn't have been in that blood in the first place.
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Man... when I saw this thread I was hoping it had something to do with Mischief Makers for the N64. Possibly the greatest game involving female robots shaking things ever.
Earthquakes are cool too though.
I actually thought the same, but that's only because whenever the word "shake" is used more than once in succession my girlfriend makes a reference to Mischief Makers. The one time I played that game I had absolutely no idea what I was doing and gave up after 5 minutes.
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The Human Blood freezes at -.520C or of approx. 31.10F
Where the hell was he, Antarctica? Actually even that wouldn't be cold enough. You're a tough guy, Patrick.
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Definately put myself on that map. Alaska looks so lonely... oh well.
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Where the hell was he, Antarctica? Actually even that wouldn't be cold enough. You're a tough guy, Patrick.
Clotting =/= freezing
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inuits bleed to death more easily
Good to know, I will have to remember this for the future.
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And here we have Anyways and Patrick, proving why I didn't take Biology or Physics. Or indeed Geography. I'm actually pretty stupid, aren't I?
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Man... when I saw this thread I was hoping it had something to do with Mischief Makers for the N64. Possibly the greatest game involving female robots shaking things ever.
Earthquakes are cool too though.
I actually thought the same, but that's only because whenever the word "shake" is used more than once in succession my girlfriend makes a reference to Mischief Makers. The one time I played that game I had absolutely no idea what I was doing and gave up after 5 minutes.
Sorry to disappoint, but it was more along the lines of Harry Belafonte. With dead football players and stuff.
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omg best movie evar
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What happens when you get a bunch of powerful, wealthy Muslim men and stick them in a tiny African nation?
...
SHEIK SHEIK SHEIK
SHEIK SHEIK SHEIK
SHEIK DJIBOUTI
SHEIK DJIBOUTI
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You guys are good for my general knowledge. When you say something I don't understand I go off and learn about it and then I look smart at school.
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Well what do you know. There's someone really close to me in Arkansas, of all places.