Our group actually had a lot of talent.  nofunk here on urbanohio was a member of the group and did many of the buildings as well.

 

 

Here's a sample of one of our buildings

http://www.umich.edu/~ifmuth/local/820TREMAINEST.skp

Woahh... That model is awesome!! I love that building on the corner in the second photo.   Thanks for the tips, I'll have to try them.

I like the housing too.

 

 

And yeah I'm probably going out tonight. I'm not sure where I want to go yet but Williamsport has a LOT of nice bars so I'll be good haha.

 

EDIT: Hayward, I just downloaded that model and it is gorgeous.  I love it!!!

BTW, go ahead and use the textures on the model if you'd like.  The copyright stuff was put on all of our models to prevent it from being used for commercial purposes or having the house uploaded to the 3d warehouse.

I just watched a screener for this all while discussing fashion.

 

http://www.wetv.com/sex-change-hospital

 

Reality TV at is most interesting!  :|

 

BTW, go ahead and use the textures on the model if you'd like. The copyright stuff was put on all of our models to prevent it from being used for commercial purposes or having the house uploaded to the 3d warehouse.

 

Thanks!!! I LOVE those buildings. I like the brick on that house so thanks.

Damnit!  My walls are flooding.  My apartment building is ancient.  I was fast asleep and woke up around 2:00 am to the pipes making a pounding sound in the wall.  They do that once and awhile because superheated water is pumped through them for the radiators and they expand and contract causing some friction..  Except now I woke up to the sound of a steady stream of water falling somewhere in the room.  I walked over to the area and could hear it in the wall, then discovered all the plaster is beginning to blister from the floor on up to about 4 feet high.  The wall also feels extremely hot and there's an electrical panel that I cannot open on the offending wall.  So far nothing feels wet, not even the carpet along the baseboard, but the blistering plaster does feel slightly damp.  Do you think I should break a hole in the plaster to release the water?  I have huge industrial sized bucket to at least manage it for the time being. 

 

Now I have to take care of this tomorrow errrr today and I'm busy.  And my landlord and his crew are somewhere I don't know  :mrgreen:

I wouldn't recommend trying any remedies like busting out plaster. The damage will be bad enough already, and if the landlord decides to be a prick, he may claim you contributed to the damage and try to stick you with part of the repair cost..

 

Instead, gather the stuff you value most in case you have to evacuate if things go completely out of control.

This is what my daughter wants to be for next Halloween.

LMAO  Thanks Rob, I'll take those into consideration.  It's a beach town with a boardwalk and a strip so maybe that would be a great place for those items you mentioned lol.

 

If it is a beachtown, you need to have a 60 year old skinny guy with long gray hair and wrap around shades, roller blading everyday up and down the boardwalk in a bodypaint and a color coordinated speedo, like there used to be at PB (Pacific Beach) in San Diego when I went out there fairly regular about 10 years ago. I was out there at New Years and he had a football field painted on his front and back with a green speedo for the Bowl games.

This is what my daughter wants to be for next Halloween.

 

OMG, that photot is funny as hell!!! lol

If it is a beachtown, you need to have a 60 year old skinny guy with long gray hair and wrap around shades, roller blading everyday up and down the boardwalk in a bodypaint and a color coordinated speedo, like there used to be at PB (Pacific Beach) in San Diego when I went out there fairly regular about 10 years ago. I was out there at New Years and he had a football field painted on his front and back with a green speedo for the Bowl games.

 

That immediately conjured up such a vivid mental picture that I about cracked up reading it!

 

If there's a bridge downtown, camped under it should be an emaciated guy wearing camo fatigues and aviator sunglasses and sporting an overgrown gray beard. He should have a medium-sized, short-haired mutt dog that's as skinny as he is. Oh. And there should be lots of obscene graffiti on the bridge piers.

Damnit!  My walls are flooding.  My apartment building is ancient.  I was fast asleep and woke up around 2:00 am to the pipes making a pounding sound in the wall.  They do that once and awhile because superheated water is pumped through them for the radiators and they expand and contract causing some friction..  Except now I woke up to the sound of a steady stream of water falling somewhere in the room.  I walked over to the area and could hear it in the wall, then discovered all the plaster is beginning to blister from the floor on up to about 4 feet high.  The wall also feels extremely hot and there's an electrical panel that I cannot open on the offending wall.  So far nothing feels wet, not even the carpet along the baseboard, but the blistering plaster does feel slightly damp.  Do you think I should break a hole in the plaster to release the water?  I have huge industrial sized bucket to at least manage it for the time being. 

 

Now I have to take care of this tomorrow errrr today and I'm busy.  And my landlord and his crew are somewhere I don't know  :mrgreen:

 

Damnit it's always something with your apartment!

 

Maybe Chris' Saturn of Doom cursed your apartment.

Thank god... it's official.

 

 

 

 

 

 

World Exclusive

Hitler HAD only got one ball

 

By ALEX PEAKE

 

Published: Today

 

AN extraordinary account from a German army medic has finally confirmed what the world long suspected: Hitler only had one ball.

 

War veteran Johan Jambor made the revelation to a priest in the 1960s, who wrote it down.

 

The priest’s document has now come to light – 23 years after Johan’s death.

 

The war tyrant’s medical condition has been mocked for years in a British song.

 

The lyrics are: “Hitler has only got one ball, the other is in the Albert Hall. His mother, the dirty b****r, cut it off when he was small.’

 

Until now there has never been complete proof Hitler was monorchic – the medical term for having one testicle.

 

But the document tells how Johan saw the proof with his own eyes. In the account, he relives the horror of serving as an army medic in World War I.

 

He died aged 94 in 1985, but had told his secret to priest Franciszek Pawlar, who kept a note of their conversation.

 

Johan’s friend Blassius Hanczuch confirmed the priest’s account of how the medic saved Hitler’s life. He said: “In 1916 they had their hardest fight in the Battle of the Somme.

 

“For several hours, Johan and his friends picked up injured soldiers. He remembers Hitler.

 

“They called him the ‘Screamer’. He was very noisy. Hitler was screaming ‘help, help’.

 

“His abdomen and legs were all in blood. Hitler was injured in the abdomen and lost one testicle. His first question to the doctor was: ‘Will I be able to have children?’.”

 

Blassius said that when the Nazis swept to power Johan began to suffer nightmares and blame himself for saving Hitler.

 

Hitler’s genitals have long caused controversy. Some historians dismissed the “one ball” song as propaganda. But an alleged Soviet autopsy on Hitler backed it up.

 

Records show Hitler did suffer a groin injury in the Somme.

 

It is the first time an interview with anyone who treated Hitler during WWI has come to light.

 

Dr Martin Farr, senior lecturer at Newcastle University School of Historical Studies, said last night: “This genuinely new twist is fascinating.”

 

[email protected]

 

 

Ditty to lift our morale

 

By CHARLOTTE SPRATT

 

THERE are several versions of “Hitler has only got one ball” — sung to the tune of The Colonel Bogey March.

 

It is thought that it was first written in August 1939 as propaganda against the Nazis.

 

Writer Donough O’Brien claimed in his autobiography that his father Toby O’Brien had invented the ditty while working as a publicist for the British Council. He said he was trying to improve British morale with a song against the German leader.

 

That version began: “Göring has only got one ball, Hitler’s are so very small, Himmler’s so very similar, and Goebbels has no balls at all.”

 

But no one has managed to discover who switched the lines to correctly say that it was Hitler who was missing a testicle.

 

Most versions now begin with the line: “Hitler has only got one ball.”

 

Some go on to make the odd — but amusing — claim that “the other is on the kitchen wall”.

 

Others claim his mother hid the missing testicle in the Albert Hall.

 

Comedian Ricky Gervais claimed in a gag during his Fame stand-up tour that he has checked the building out and never found it.

 

Almost all the versions refer to Hitler’s mother, “the dirty b****r”, being the one who lopped it off.

 

The second verse is: “She threw it over Germany, it landed in the deep blue sea, the fishes got out their dishes, and had scallops and b******s for tea.”

 

© 2008 News Group Newspapers Ltd.

 

I would feel off balance if I had one testicle.

 

I wonder what percentage of ppl are born like that.

Lance Armstrong has only one testicle, for different reasons.

 

2 days until I return to Cleveland.. can't wait to get some Wendy's with transfats!

I would feel off balance if I had one testicle.

 

I wonder what percentage of ppl are born like that.

 

If a person is born that way, they wouldn't know a difference.

That's probably why he went ape-sh!t and tried to take over the world. He felt emasculated. D#mnit, if only we had medical breakthroughs back then .He could have just gotten cosmetic surgery. The world would have been a more stable place.

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/img/prosthetic-testes.jpg

 

That's probably why he went ape-sh!t and tried to take over the world. He felt emasculated. D#mnit, if only we had medical breakthroughs back then .He could have just gotten cosmetic surgery. The world would have been a more stable place.

 

 

He tried to take over the world because of the STD that made him a little loopy.

So actually, the Holocaust can be blamed on a prostitute.

Local article... here is a comment on Fark about it:

 

"That was one of the most intriguing stories I've read. Everyone was pure gold from the 35 year old grandma to More Dick in 2006. Paying $5000 for a "home" for 12 people to live in, hire Pancake for $200 to move the whole thing - belongings and all, tires fall off the trailer, blocking traffic for 9 hours. Finally knocking it over so traffic can pass. Pure gold."

 

From the article --

"Barton, and the extended web of friends and family who lived with her, claim authorities didn't give them time to clear out a house full of furniture, much less clothing and the things that can't be replaced such as pictures, favorite toys and baseball card collections."

 

The damn trailer blocked the highway for over NINE hours. You can move your belongings out and haul them elsewhere.

 

The trailer was 25-years-old and wood framed. The family hired someone named Pancake and paid him $200 dollars to relocate their trailer (double wide?) with a FARM TRACTOR. The wheels dislodged due to obvious mismanagement of the whole situation.

 

They had no permits, no license. They were towing this residence -- furnishings and everything inside, on a federal highway that has no shoulders and only 11' lanes. It's already a dangerous highway without the trailer.

 

The only reason she had the $5,000 trailer was because of a lawsuit she filed over an automobile accident.

 

--

 

Sheriff's order destroys home

SAYS HE HAD NO OTHER CHOICE TO CLEAR NICHOLAS COUNTY HIGHWAY BLOCKED FOR NINE HOURS

By Mary Meehan, Herald-Leader, November 19, 2008

 

CARLISLE — There's little undisputed in this story, the tale of the tipped trailer.

 

Frances Barton's single-wide, the one she had fully paid $5,000 for and was hoping to move to a little piece of land she was buying on a $250-a-month land contract, is now literally in pieces on Jim Gaunce's front lawn.

 

And, everyone agrees, that leaves some 12 people — four adults and eight children ranging from 3 months to 12 years — facing Thanksgiving with no place to live.

 

 

Damn a 35 year old grand mother!  I guess at 42 I'd be a great grand daddy!

;D

^HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I'm not going to call that number.

This is why I wash my hands and use antibacterial towels all over my office.

 

I cringe whenever someone uses the bathroom and does not wash their hands!

---

It's Not a Tumor - Doctors Find Worm In Woman's Brain Instead

 

Thursday , November 20, 2008

 

Doctors in Arizona thought a Phoenix-area woman had a possible brain tumor, but it turned out there was something else penetrating her brain – a worm.

 

Rosemary Alvarez started experiencing numbness in her arm and blurred vision. She went to the emergency room twice and had a cat scan, but everything came up clear, MyFOXPhoenix.com reported.

 

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455067,00.html  [click the link for the video]

Fema Having Difficulty Setting Up Short-Term Mobile Homes For Hurricane Homeless Due To Barriers In Land Use Law.

 

GALVESTON, Texas—Finding housing for the thousands of Texans displaced by Hurricane Ike remains the government’s top priority, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday.

 

“Our top three priorities are housing, housing and housing. We are going to stick with it until we are done,” FEMA Administrator David Paulison told reporters after a closed door meeting with southeast Texas officials.

 

FEMA has been heavily criticized by local, state and county officials as being too slow in its efforts to provide housing — particularly mobile homes — for southeast Texas residents whose homes and apartments were either destroyed or severely damaged after Ike roared ashore near Galveston on Sept. 13.

 

 

 

http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/WireHeadlines/2008/11/08/fema-head-says-housing-is-top-issue-afte-33.php

 

_______________________________________

 

Seriously. After Katrina, you'd think in a time of emergency, intricate land use controls would give way, especially to something that is only temporary. 7 weeks is ridiculous and unacceptable.

Daily Mail:

 

 

 

Man 'carefully planned' his chainsaw death after losing eviction battle with developers

 

By Daily Mail Reporter

 

The last resident in a block of flats due to be demolished cut his own head off with a chainsaw to highlight the 'injustice' of being asked to move out, an inquest heard today.

 

Desperate David Phyall, 50, plugged the electric chainsaw into the mains and attached a timer to the socket.

 

He then wrapped sellotape around the machine's trigger to secure it in the 'on' position and tied the handle of the saw to a table leg to hold it steady.

 

Mr Phyall rested the saw on his neck and waited for the timer to go off.

 

IntelliTracker

 

Strike another for Darwin!

Huh?  This was a suicide.

I think his intention was to die and haunt the new development.

So today, I went to various malls to do some Christmas shopping. I really hate the way people walk down mall concourses, particularly when I was at the Westfield in Toledo.  I usually go there because it's bigger than Briarwood in Ann Arbor, but it's also more crowded.  Parents should never let their children push strollers.  One kid was all over the place, and he created a huge backup of people because this family wouldn't get out of the way.  Then you have the people that just stand there in huge group, so that you are forced to walk towards the retail carts in the center where you immediately become heckled by some salesperson.  I really like being in places with a lot of people, but I don't like them when they are dysfunctional and you a forced to change movement way to many times.  But maybe if people realized, there others around them, crowd movement would be a lot more efficient.  I deal with a lot of people on a daily basis on sidewalks, but more some reason it's the most annoying at shopping malls. 

But maybe if people realized, there others around them, crowd movement would be a lot more efficient. I deal with a lot of people on a daily basis on sidewalks, but more some reason it's the most annoying at shopping malls.

 

They are in a trance.

Speaking of being in a trance...  I'm currently listening to Adam K's remix of 4AM by Kaskade.  Very good smooth house.  Good for late nights.  Warms the soul.  You should check it out.  I bet a few people on this board know who Kaskade is.

Was anyone else sick yesterday? It seems like the flu is really going around. Everyone in my family was sick. We were going to have a mini UO meet but a few of us were sick.

 

I had to crawl up to the pharmacy counter in Walgreens to ask the pharmacist what she recommends. She  kept handing me Walgreens brand stuff and I kept putting it back and grabbing the name brand. I don't play when it comes to feeling this d@mn bad. The nausea pills she gave me were bunk - I found the stuff I had that's basically cherry flavored glucose/fructose helps nausea more than anything and makes it go away immediately. Don't trust a pharmacist!

"But maybe if people realized, there others around them, crowd movement would be a lot more efficient."

 

Am I the only person who (in situations similar to what Hayward described) has ever said something along the lines of: "Hi Oblivia - I'm just another person in the world but you might like to know you're holding up about ten others from getting on with their lives or home to their loved ones. Thankssomuch.". Now normally those might be fighting words but when Oblivia looks behind me and sees the other people (:x :-P :x :x :x :-P :x :x :whip: :x :x) - she's always hurried up and got the hell out of the way.  :angel:

"But maybe if people realized, there others around them, crowd movement would be a lot more efficient."

 

Am I the only person who (in situations similar to what Hayward described) has ever said something along the lines of: "Hi Oblivia - I'm just another person in the world but you might like to know you're holding up about ten others from getting on with their lives or home to their loved ones. Thankssomuch.". Now normally those might be fighting words but when Oblivia looks behind me and sees the other people ( :x :P :x :x :x :P :x :x :whip: :x :x ) - she's always hurried up and got the hell out of the way.  :angel:

 

You're both to kind.  I just elbow them in the back, peer over my sunglasses and in a Miranda Priestly voice say, "oh...I didn't see you standing there in the middle of (  x location  ).  You're not in Kansas any longer, no move bitch!

 

The worst when I'm on the way to work and a gawker stop in the middle of the sidewalk to take a picture of the building.  I just give them a good stiff arm or elbow and just as they are about to say something I just throw my hand up in disgust and keep walking.

Huh?  This was a suicide.

 

Memo to anybody considering suicide by decapitation:

 

 

Does the head remain briefly conscious after decapitation (revisited)?

 

June 12, 1998

 

Dear Cecil:

 

In the answer about the guillotine in your online archive, you say that "the fatal blow induces immediate unconsciousness." In actuality, the human head does remain conscious fifteen to twenty seconds after decapitation. This was proven when a scientist condemned to the guillotine in the 1700s told his assistant to watch and that he would blink as many times as he could. The assistant counted fifteen to twenty blinks after the head was severed, the blinks coming at intervals of about one second. So the head does remain briefly alive.

 

— Joel Brusk, via AOL

 

Dear Joel:

 

Let's see. Over the years we've covered crucifixion, kidney theft, and now a second helping of decapitation. What next, you ask — how to perform your own spinal tap? But bear with me. New facts have come to light.

 

...continued...

 

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1172/does-the-head-remain-briefly-conscious-after-decapitation

 

I cringe whenever someone uses the bathroom and does not wash their hands!

 

I do too. Think of how many restaurant workers probably don't either.

MTS, I need a deal with my cable/internet ... what can you do for me to stay with TW versus going to Dish Network?

MTS, I need a deal with my cable/internet ... what can you do for me to stay with TW versus going to Dish Network?

 

I'll be right over to install it!

MTS, I need a deal with my cable/internet ... what can you do for me to stay with TW versus going to Dish Network?

 

In Columbus, WoW is taking TWC market share.  :clap:

 

 

MTS, I need a deal with my cable/internet ... what can you do for me to stay with TW versus going to Dish Network?

 

In Columbus, WoW is taking TWC market share.  :clap:

Are you 100% sure about that??

They have door to door salesmen. They know how to hustle. I admire WoW. They're like the Kirby people who can push their 1700 dollar 1950s vacuum cleaners lol

 

I don't know the stats..but I know that when I moved to Cincinnati WoW was non-existent, when I came back, I noticed a lot of people had it and they claim its more reliable and faster.

They have door to door salesmen. They know how to hustle. I admire WoW. They're like the Kirby people who can push their 1700 dollar 1950s vacuum cleaners lol

 

I don't know the stats..but I know that when I moved to Cincinnati WoW was non-existent, when I came back, I noticed a lot of people had it and they claim its more reliable and faster.

 

Thank you.

Well why don't you provide them? Don't you have the charts? I'm curious to see them even if I'm wrong. I'd like to see the last 5 years for this marketing area.