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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:22 PM
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Poll question: What Caused the Blackout?
Edited on Thu Aug-14-03 09:24 PM by Crisco
Well?
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preocupied Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:24 PM
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1. Where is Clinton's penis? he he ;-)
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:25 PM
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2. Fixed
:)
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morstyranni Donating Member (194 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:27 PM
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6. I heard he has a detachable penis.
Remember that song?
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:48 PM
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9. yes
"because i am a sensitive artist"
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:26 PM
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3. lol....the pepsi syndrome!
but not getting my vote. :+
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Darranar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:26 PM
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4. None of the above...
Isn't it obvious? Overuse.
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MoonAndSun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:26 PM
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5. I voted for the VRWC,
Edited on Thu Aug-14-03 09:27 PM by MoonAndSun
they will do anything to keep Hilary "in the dark" :evilgrin:
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:31 PM
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7. Will Jon Stewart still be on with her tonight? When was taping?
anyone know. I loook forward to Jon and he is not there tomorrow
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VoteClark Donating Member (775 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:40 PM
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8. I think it is taped early in the day
I can't imagine him filming at 4 PM. If so, it will be a rerun. What about the other late night shows?

:kick:
J4Clark
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Peace_2_Everyone Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 10:01 PM
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10. I vote Clinton
and his mighty penis were captured by a UFO! I cant wait to here the UFO and/or solar flares reasoning for this event.
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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 10:03 PM
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11. I think it
was a dry run
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 10:05 PM
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12. Someone dropped an Elsinore beer bottle top into the turbine
Anyone seen Bob or Doug?
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MrPrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 10:12 PM
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13. It Be Squirrels!!
and here is one of the culprits



He looks guilty
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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 12:30 AM
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17. You Made My Night!
Too Funny! I needed a good laugh!
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 10:41 PM
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14. LOL, the PEPSI SYNDROME
I'm sure that will go over the heads of a lot of DUers. :D
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 07:05 AM
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20. If We See a 100 foot Jimmy Carter
We'll know, won't we?
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 10:04 AM
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33. Too smart for us Mr. President....
Yes,we spilled a Pepsi on the control panel....
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redeye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 10:47 PM
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15. I hear...
...it was a power overload, but then again there's no conspiracy there so it must be false.
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paulsbc Donating Member (314 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 10:56 PM
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16. my guess
is someone hacked the matrix... err grid... yeah, that's it... grid..

:)
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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 12:34 AM
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18. After MrPrax posting my vote went the squirrels!
Could be too much usage, could be dipshit spilled coffee, could be terrorist!
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Lori Price CLG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 12:40 AM
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19. Cheney, to get the power grid rebuilt.
Notice how the NYSE was closed as the blackout began -- don't want to disrupt the stock market.
-Lori
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Speed8098 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 07:22 AM
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21. And I find it just a bit suspicious
The power was restored here on Long Island at exactly midnight.
We thought we had turned everything off before going to bed, but it turned out that we left the bedroom dimmer switch in the on position.

I was awoken to a blinding light shining down and proceeded to get up and make sure everything was off. Lo and behold when I looked at the clock on my cable box, bingo, midnight on the dot.

Am I wearing my tinfoil? Maybe.......Maybe not.

Was it terrorists? I really don't think so. Maybe it was a test. Who really knows? It just seems suspicious to me.

:kick:
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 08:18 AM
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23. Not everywhere on LI
My parent's place was still out as of 7:30am.

but :evilgrin: for your "exactly midnight" observation.
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 08:25 AM
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24. Yeah, but
...When the power came back on, and you looked at the clock and it said midnight, was it, er, blinking 12:00 AM? :)

I kid, of course.
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 08:53 AM
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25. where on L.I are you?
Mine came back on at 12:50 a.m. and I'm right by Garden City.
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zizzer Donating Member (575 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 09:24 AM
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28. umm....
did the clock reset to 12:00...I know that's the time on my VCR. Always was...allways will be.

Zizzer
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greekspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 08:14 AM
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22. Clinton's cock also got Shrub drunk for his "conference"
But only after a busy afternoon in central New York, busting up the mainframe. Says fair-and balanced electrical engineer Sid Rightwing, "The cock...it just kept...busting up the grid. Its a mightly little dynamo empowered by anti-Clinton truths, on an evil quest of sabotage and tomfoolery."
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 08:54 AM
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26. Clenis is the only Fair & Balanced answer to this poll
Please try to keep all polls on DU Fair And Blalanced.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 09:02 AM
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27. CNN Agrees It's CLINTON's Fault
Anything that they can manufacture the slightest connection to CLINTON is automatically a huge issue. Why has Bill RICHARDSON been on all the airways about this? It was strange yesterday, when the news was breaking in other parts of the country, for the governor of New Mexico to be all over the airways.

And today came the clincher. The CNN dweeb in the morning was rehearsing RICHARDSON about what was wrong with the grids and the infrastructure, then sprung the trap: "Well, Governor, why didn't this get taken care of while YOU were there?" "You" = "you CLINTON guys".

The true answer SHOULD be: Because the radical wingnuts gridlocked all issues for the sake of overthrowing the elected government. But, no, us polite Dems can't say THAT, that would be FINGER-POINTING, now wouldn't it.

P.S., Fare Unbalanced.
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graham67 Donating Member (732 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 09:43 AM
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29. Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!

It's seems that everything's gone wrong
since Canada came along...

:evilgrin:
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Palacsinta Donating Member (929 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 09:55 AM
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30. Canadian Vampires
as usual.
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 09:57 AM
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31. I love that hours later
nobody yet knows the cause...but the blowhards all agree, "It's not terrorism."
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 10:02 AM
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32. ABC-ALWAYS blame Clinton.....n/t
...
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SaintLouisBlues Donating Member (755 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 10:09 AM
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34. Bill Gates would get my vote.
As long as we're speculating, I'm betting on crappy software.
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