Monaka comments

Glad to hear this! Does anyone know the status of the Sakari / Kesennuma section?

Years ago, had a great time with my girlfriend at the Kitakami Cherry Blossom Festival in Iwate. Then we drove to the Osawa Onsen Konsei Matsuri in Hanamaki. (Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge. Know what I mean? Say no more!)

I think Sacha Baron Cohen shaved his arms.

That's quite the turn!

See: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JAL2/history/20140308/1505Z/RJTT/KSFO

According to the Aviation Safety Network this same plane, with registration # 9M-MRO, was involved in an accident at Shanghai-Pudong Intl. airport on Aug. 9, 2012. During taxiing it hit the tail of an A340 with the tip of one of its wings, which was broken off and "hung on the tail of the China Easter Airbus, 340-600, according to pictures posted by passengers on the Internet." The airplane damage (to 9M-MRO) is listed as "substantial."

Source: http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=147571

rcary01 wrote:

I loved their burgers when I was in Tokyo.

I agree. Loved the MOS Chicken too, and I don't care how unhealthy it may have been... I can still remember tearing the perforations on that paper pouch that held the still-too-hot-to-eat chicken.

Thanks for making me hungry, JT!

It's kind of funny...

From some people's lists you can kind of tell how old they are and where they are from.

Columbo

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Hawaii Five-O

Hogan's Heroes

Kung Fu

Minisuka Police

The Prisoner

SCTV

Star Trek

The White Shadow

According to the article "How long do dead bodies remain intact in the ocean? " on the Scientific American website (http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post/how-long-do-dead-bodies-remain-inta-2009-06-10/?id=how-long-do-dead-bodies-remain-inta-2009-06-10):

"A 2002 study in the journal Legal Medicine examined nine bodies that had drifted hundreds of kilometers in cold waters off the coast of Portugal and Spain. Bodies recovered in the first week were in good condition, but the beginning signs of decomposition were present on a body recovered after eight days. The two bodies recovered after 20 days were highly decomposed and could only be identified through DNA analysis or dental records. As for warmer water, a 2008 study on two human bodies recovered following aircraft accidents found one body off of Sicily to be partially skeletonized after 34 days and a second body off of Namibia to be completely skeletonized after three months."

According to her agency: T 165, B 81, W 60, H 83, S 24.5

And if she' s guilty, I'll add another: IQ 0

(All top row) (#1) Eric Nelson - Canada / ( #4) John Fairbairn - Canada / (#5) Sarah Reid - Canada

Not sure about skeleton, but in "regular" luge helmet manufacturer Uvex supplies all the helmets for countries in the International Luge Federation. To paint a luge helmet with your own design you have to buy the rights from Uvex, but this can be expensive. That's why you may only see unique designs on well-known, successful lugers' helmets---they can afford it.

I'll write it again: Professional baseball, football, and hockey players are all over-paid entertainers.

Funniest part of the article:

"braving temperatures of minus 10 Celsius."

Baseball players, football players, hockey players... all overpaid entertainers.

Well, handing out cash by hand to low-income residents (who most likely don't follow the news in any form) in a Toronto housing-complex probably helped him in the next election.

In the picture it looks like he's hosting the TV show Jeopardy.

I'll take "World Economic Forum" for $200, Shinzo!

This will all make a great movie one day.

Yeah, like Groundhog Day... 'cause the same stuff keeps happening over and over and over again...

Whoa, images of Depeche Mode's "A Broken Frame" album cover in my mind now...

There has been too much tragedy in her family over the past 70 years. This week will be especially poignant for her.

However, her father would have been proud of her and I wish her well!

You've got to hand it to Japanese criminals: Their confessions are straightforward!

Didn't read the article, only the headline and comments.

GaGalactic!

More like GaGa-garbage; there's enough space-junk orbiting our planet as it is.

Will this hold my .44 Magnum? Well, will it punk?

That much gypsum board (a.k.a. drywall) would weigh between ~85 and ~120kg, depending on the thickness (and not including the metal frame).

I don't want to imagine the edge of it hitting her in the sternum...

Japan, on behalf of Canada, we will trade you a Justin Beiber for your Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

He is almost potty-trained and doesn't eat much.

Maybe he was sitting on one-too-many phonebooks and couldn't reach the brake pedal.

I drink Coke, sometimes, in moderation. I have a cousin who drank too much of it and got a perforated ulcer because of it!

Regarding the sugar, the good stuff uses cane-sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup.

Maybe KTVU used "The Daily Show" as one of its sources.

C'mon you Yamanashi wimps! It was 54 C in Furnace Creek, Calif., last week! You got 14.9 C to go! Suck it up!

The flight track log for the flight is here:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAR214/history/20130706/0730Z/RKSI/KSFO/tracklog

The target approach speed is 137 knots---but geez, look at the airspeed in the table just prior to the crash. At 400 feet and 134 knots, they are already under the target speed and still decelerating: 134 knots... 123... 109... 85... (I have no idea how accurate the numbers in the table are.)

NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said at a briefing Sunday, "The speed was significantly below 137 knots, and we're not talking a few knots." No kidding.