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[Quirk]

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I assume Man Kind means Chewbacca.

[Quirk]

[Quirk]

[Army of GOD]

Army of GOD totally looks like Luke + Han

[Victor Sullivan]

Army of GOD totally looks like Luke + Han

Um, what? No... Perhaps a young Richard Simmons. You do share the same name, after all...

-Sully

[AndyDufresne]

BPotW



I assume Man Kind means Chewbacca.

The Chosen One is obviously His Divine Holiness, Chewbacca.

**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

[Quirk]

[Victor Sullivan]

I saw Quirk in the Facebook widget on the homepage

-Sully

[Army of GOD]

Army of GOD totally looks like Luke + Han

Um, what? No... Perhaps a young Richard Simmons. You do share the same name, after all...

-Sully

reported for posting personal information

[Quirk]

I saw Quirk in the Facebook widget on the homepage

-Sully

I'm not on Facebook much. I check in about once a week. I sent you a friend request.

[AndyDufresne]

I saw this story a while ago, and I almost forgot to post it here!

Slippery Banana Peels Could Be A Savior For Polluted Water

Banana peels don't get a lot of respect. Though we here at Shots have never actually heard of anyone slipping on one, it seems they're stuck in the cultural lore as a nuisance, or even a hazard.

But a Brazilian researcher, who also happens to be a banana lover, has taken an interest in the lowly banana peel and is helping to remake its image. The banana peel, it turns out, can take water dirtied by heavy metals from mining operations or other activities and turn it to clean drinking water.


Magic? No, actually, it's chemistry. Gustavo Castro is an environmental chemist at São Paulo State University who says he'd heard for a long time that the peel of the banana was the best part of the fruit, where most of the nutrients and proteins reside. So he decided to investigate its chemical composition to see if these banana peel boosters were right, he told the American Chemical Society in a podcast.

What he found was that banana peels contain nitrogen, sulfur and organic compounds such as carboxylic acids. Castro was especially pleased to find these acids because they can bind with positively charged metals that leach into rivers from industrial operations.

To test the peels, Castro and his colleagues chopped up and dried a bunch of them and mixed them with water from Brazil's Paraná River, which was polluted with copper and lead. The peels performed as well or better than many typical filtering materials, like silica or carbon. What's more, the peels are a cheap waste material. Castro found they could be used up to 11 times before they stopped working as purifiers.

The findings were published earlier this year in the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, a publication of the American Chemical Society.

Of course, with any brave new idea there's always a word of caution. The banana peel can't get rid of bacteria in water, so don't strap one around your faucet just yet.

**Leaves behind a bowl of banana-peels**


--Andy

[Victor Sullivan]

Oh snap! That's crazy.

-Sully

[Dukasaur]

I want to post something, but I'm way too tired to have any coherent thoughts.

Should I post anyway?

[strike wolf]

I want to post something, but I'm way too tired to have any coherent thoughts.

Should I post anyway?

Go ahead I'll translate for you.

In this post he is saying that all his thoughts are incoherent and he's wondering if he should post in this magnificent thread.

See I speak fluent incoherency.

[Dukasaur]

I want to post something, but I'm way too tired to have any coherent thoughts.

Should I post anyway?

Go ahead I'll translate for you.

In this post he is saying that all his thoughts are incoherent and he's wondering if he should post in this magnificent thread.

See I speak fluent incoherency.

I have many shorts, shirts, and socks, but my wife says I have no clothes.

[AndyDufresne]

I want to post something, but I'm way too tired to have any coherent thoughts.

Should I post anyway?

Go ahead I'll translate for you.

In this post he is saying that all his thoughts are incoherent and he's wondering if he should post in this magnificent thread.

See I speak fluent incoherency.

I have many shorts, shirts, and socks, but my wife says I have no clothes.

This sounds like something part of Jonesthecurl's stand-up routine.

**Leaves behind a banana and comic suspenders**


--Andy

[strike wolf]

Maybe she says you have no clothes because you refuse to wear underwear?

In other news, I just recently saw the music video for the following song and now can't get out of my head. It makes me think about things I'd sometimes rather be able to ignore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtvqT_wMeY

[Quirk]

I like you Quirk...

That post is from page 2001 of this thread about a month after I joined CC. My 3 year anniversary is this Friday. I finally paid for premium and started playing some more games. I got my fog of war medal today

[Victor Sullivan]

I like you Quirk...

That post is from page 2001 of this thread about a month after I joined CC. My 3 year anniversary is this Friday. I finally paid for premium and started playing some more games. I got my fog of war medal today

Yay Quirk!

-Sully

[Quirks Wife]

[AndyDufresne]

I like you Quirk...

That post is from page 2001 of this thread about a month after I joined CC. My 3 year anniversary is this Friday. I finally paid for premium and started playing some more games. I got my fog of war medal today

Yowza! What's next? Posting in forums outside of the Off Topics?!

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Quirk's post also brings up a good idea---going back to noteworthy-ish pages, and grabbing some posts others have mentioned about you. (Remember, you can go to any page by clicking on the 'Page 1 of 3988' link )

From Page 50:

the thread has definatly lost its feel....

Anyone wanna talk about the Iran situation? or have a lively discussion about...i dunno....movies or something?

I guess it was only a matter of time before we'd start talking about "the good old days" of the thread, back when we were young and easy, when candy tasted sweeter, and we hadn't become mature and jaded. Like remember page 17? Oh, those were good times...boy, some of the crazy things we did back then...if only we could recapture that time... **adjusts position in chair, becomes keenly aware of arthritis and gout in doing so [homage to Andy]**

I haven't seen many movies about Iran. Was Not Without My Daughter set there?

It's no Tombstone, but we could bounce some Big Lebowski quotes around...

**Leaves behind a bowl of old bananas**


--Andy

[Quirk]

Yowza! What's next? Posting in forums outside of the Off Topics?!

I do like the haiku thread, but I'd probably just post it in here if I wrote one. I'm a lounge kind of guy.

[Quirk]

One of my old roommates loves madlibs.
Here's Eleanor Rigby as a madlib:

Ah, look at all the depleted youth crimes!
Ah, look at all the depleted youth crimes!

Delta Dawn picks up a broken promise in the Tuvan yurt where a circle jerk has been
Jews in a Christian
Waits at the window, skullfucking the minor deity that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the long lost plague rats
Where do they all come from ?
All the long lost plague rats
Where do they all belong ?

Kermit, illegally inhaling the words of a satirical poem that no one will hear
No one comes near.
Look at him misunderstanding. Inappropriately groping his drooling fools in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?

All the professionally enhanced narcotics
Where do they all come from?
All the professionally enhanced narcotics
Where do they all belong?

Delta Dawn pope raped in the green house and was buried along with her little raisin girl
Nobody came
Kermit bloody smurfing the dirt from his naughty bits as he walks from the grave
No one was chicken hawked

[Quirk]

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[AndyDufresne]

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Endorsed. **Munches on a banana**


--Andy