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Comments about floatThere are 57 comments about "float"
Allan: Concord Hotel building has been raized and a multi-billion $ hotel/casino is being built on that site. Property all around is/has been bought up, probably for associated functions or businesses.
Did you ever swim at...... jack: i was just swimming in that creek last week and i caught some fish that were dead and floating bloatedly on top of the water (easy catch) i fried them in oil and sauteed them...... Peter: i think methrsk was trying to say that the "we apologize" was likely photoshopped in; we can only wish a state would be so bold as to post a sign like that for real ;)...... EvilGentleman: Who knows what sort of information is floating around behind those closed doors...... cyril bagshaw:
Hi Norma,
Tradition has it that the city of Adelaide has this Annual Christmas Pageant with these magnificent floats and bands heading the spectacular entrance of Father Christmas and his team of reindeer.
Sorry, but no...... Joanne Amorello-minor: Didnt one of the shops collect used stamps for charity or something?I seem to remember having a stamp collection as a kid(I know!!)and getting fed up with it and giving them my stamps there were...... Dino: I worked in Tarrytown for 15 yrs.Started in Hard Trim,then Soft trim after the 1982 layoff. I use to be a floater when I first started and I really enjoyed it a lot.I worked in...... Rob Tynan: Here are some grainy old pics Ive found.
St marys church Cadishead soon after being built
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St Johns Church around 1900
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Higher Irlam Co-op at the top of Silver Street
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One of the many old photos of Irlam Hall...... Peter: i love the random, colorful shapes floating around in the mortar/pestle on the sign... i like to imagine drugs actually looking like that.... Paul R Taylor : In its heyday Liverpool was the richest city in the world and was the gateway to Europe, Asia, Australia, south America, north America and the world. The River Mersey, the Irish Sea...... Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi John, what great pics. I remember a couple of incidents with that bridge in cadishead. Once during heavy rain, it became flooded, and much to the delight of all us kids, there was a...... gus hassler : i think these are what remains of the float bridges that were used to unload the barges known as car floats. the carfloats were used by different railroads to move their trains across the north...... Bass Girl: I love those old photos above! It's good to see Hutch had a good start. I wonder what happened?
I had an interesting visit with a neighbor who has been trying to...... EvilGentleman: Oh, and "go to top" sounds good to me as well.
But the floating boxes would need frames, I think. And frames = trouble, in my book.
I like joey's "today in history" idea, but as a...... joey: once hot topics is gone (the majority say this is wasted space) you can expand the left side of the screen with more listings for browse by city, popular articles, recent articles, and browse by...... WhereAmI?: In the picture W7, you're looking north over the Cambie Street Bridge at the Downtown core. The big white bubble on the far right is BC Place Stadium, where the BC Lions football team plays....... Mike: i now live in boston i used to work here back in the 80's when i lived in yonkers. i worked on the assembly line in the body shop where the car is first assembled...... Andrew Panikos: Ya, he stopped for the light, it had nothing to do with the 5 feet of water that awaited him on the next street. Seriously, look at the car on the right, it's floating...
ps: they...... jethro: crazy, man. want to see a bridge float?
checkout this web site; [[http://www.lakeeriegraphics.com/Pages/Welcome.html]]... dfwtiger: It's a really nice place. It looks like it floats on water....calm and relaxing.... Susannah: Whatever floats your boat dude!... EvilGentleman: Rest in pieces, you worthless shit. The girl, Anastasia DeSousa, was only 18 years old, and now she's gone forever, a permanent hole in the hearts and souls of the DeSousa family. Who the fuck...... joey: ggp. this is the place on the water and you walk down a flight of stairs to get to it? and there are geese floating by on the water. you won't believe this story. i...... Norman Hudson: A 'Blast from the Past!'
1964 Barnoldswick Gala Day, the Barnoldswick Youth Club Float.
PHOTO SHOW
Brenda Robinson(Hudson), Norman Hudson, Eileen Waterworth, ?, Dennis Bamber,David Metcalfe(back)Jimmy Stocks(front)Chris stuttard,John Stuttard, ?, George Kirrage(back),Susan Duxbury,
Front kneeling Margret Perry, Susan Palmer.
The...... sine: then the columbia crew team can haul the floater back to the docks.... EvilGentleman: Well, what are they gonna do, call 911? It's not like they can bring the guy back to life. The transit cops will find him sooner or later. Picture the cops interviewing the commuter (let's...... mark: check out the nw industrial area. there's several dead railroad lines to walk around, some interesting factories/warehouses (one that stores old floats from parades), and a couple abandoned, burned out passenger train cars. if i...... Andrew Smith: Quote "Please could someone explain these comments... Night soil? (It was used to soak up Victorian Manchester's 'night soil'.) as in from sewage?(fertilised by 200 year old human waste)"
Hi,
Yes, I did mean human waste. I...... joey: the floating effect because of the window treatment?... joey: it certainly looks 'old world' there in montreal; european.
the picture of the nun with the payless shoe bag is my favorite. but why does she needs shoes? it looks like she is floating across that...... EvilGentleman: As far as I know, the block you are referring to (the north side of Sainte-Catherine between Lambert-Closse and de Chomedy) has closed down simply due to the fact that the Forum closed in 1996,...... Chris Erb: The handlebars appear to be floating.... yippie skippie: NYC is a cesspool, maybe you live in a less stinky area with better ventilation, and don't venture into the nastier parts like South Bronx, Harlem, Washington Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Brooklyn.... but the nastier...... yippie skippie: Living in an environment where people are stacked on top of other people, it is no wonder you are exposed to such horrible beings, it's the law of averages.....the roaches go where the food is....... Get out of your car, buddy: Gotta love "The Beach". I take my kids to this parade every year, and it is amazing how much candy they get!! Looks like most of these pictures are taken in the staging...... S: I don't think it has anything to do with the bridge. It could have something to do with the ferry service. I only hope they can keep that ferry service afloat. ...... hool: EvilGentleman - relax, it's not a big deal. i understand peter's rebuttal. your posts like this one have been good in encouraging response. i felt this one's particular topic was starting to...... elaine: i know, jamie, you can't fool me. pooible was a typo, as well you can see. possible possible possible it was. pooible it also might be, if there were only a meaning floating out there...
jack,...... Peter: anything with {trolleys} always floats my boat.... Laura : I absolutely love dog runs- what a fabulous invention. You bring your own dog (ours is "Bryan," a Jackie), who has a great time, and then you get to play with all the other dogs!...... Jono Cono: Hey, those are great pictures, they turned out fine. I really like the one of "John Finley Walk", the "Dog Run" and the Bridge. Those are well captured photos. The bridge picture...... frisco kid: Bravo to you Joe. Such a sensible, level-headed statement floating in a sea of confusion and hatred.... Kindofkensington: Jaysus, I can barely believe some of the stuff I've read here. Got the link from BoingBoing, used to live just up the road on Augusta, saw some idiotic carry on in my time at...... kc: I'll vote with GGP on the red-tailed, though I am no hawk expert. Still, size looks right and I think that stripe-y necklace around the neck may be somewhat diagnostic. Plus it looks just like...... NET ONE 156 KRT: Words of the Prophets Take to the Rooftops
by Cathy Hong
SUBJECT — The Extreme Graffiti Hall of Murals
LOCATION — Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens
Les had no equipment but a backpack full of spray cans. (He...... chris from ardoyne: the much bullshit floating ardound in here makes me laugh. it also makes my crapy day happy. Ireland is beautiful. i love my country... Anonymous (cpe-68-173-202-245.nyc.res.rr.com): didnt know they had carfloats on the west side.....what cross street??... vz: spartan accomodations: "home is wherever you lay down your head to rest" (even if it is for just two hours)
you gotta know when the off-peak buses are--
sprawled across the back row, with nobody trying...... Paige: I just got a book on those tracks. They were part of the New York Dock railway and were in operation until the 1980s when waterfront railroads were on their last legs. The company merged...... GGP: "look at that leg": an invocation. the cones look like koi goldfish getting a jump on their next incarnation as plastic junk (aren't we all headed this way these days?). anyway, for some reason (the...... elaine: here's a milk float in hoxton square for ya
[[img:2635]]... Peter: ...oh, and regarding haunted... i dunno about the intrepid (but its possible, as it returned to its current anchor point a victim of two wars and the associated death/gore), but many would say that "The...... elaine: well, doubtless you are drinking other men's piss if you ever drink tapwater in anywhere like london where the water is endlessly recycled, lots of men's women's and fishes pisses. lucky i have a strong...... elaine: you can make a pinhole camera with any room - camera means room, as it happens. What you need, though, is there to be only one source of light. if you want to try it...... Jamie: I was thinking trout; but yeah, go with that if thats what floats your boat milfy... kimberly: my gran told me all that land used to be owned by british railways. what would they want with a spread like romney marsh? the place is a floating sinkhole only kept afloat by old...... Peter: hi jo! thanks for posting these. wow, that train station looks like something out of the future... as you know, we dont have anything nearly that cool here in nyc. nz must have hired some......
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