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person I know has attended 20 local AAA games, watching a home team who usually wins 60% of their home games. They have won 19 of those 20 games.

How unlikely is that?

on a hillside so the basement opens to the back yard? 4 stories, actually, altogether. Would it be conceivable to build a tube slide on the back of the house that would double as a fire escape?

I remember these grafted trees and seeing them at a horse show venue in Monmouth Co. 35 years ago. I thought dogwoods, but I'm pretty sure there were 4 different colors and dogwoods really only have three? I really would love to find pictures.

They are pretty new and have been specializing in female written erotica. Lately they seem more than willing to take on different genre', to the extent they sent me three contracts for three books and partial books I had posted on Worthy of Publishing. I was interested, but leary, since I couldn't find any positive recommendations online about them, such as an author who says "I was happy with our arrangement, with their professionalism, with the editor to whom I was assigned, and, importantly, when they sold my books, they sent me a royalty check with a full detail of the people to whom they sold (so I could audit them if necessary)"

So, in the absence of same, I asked them to explain a few terms in the contracts, including one which said they expected authors to participate in the publicity effort for the books. When I asked, more or less, how much they were going to charge me for that participation, they suddenly said I was 'too negative' and had a bad attitude, so they were withdrawing their contract offer.

Now a couple of months have gone by and perhaps there are other authors out there who have been accepted by xoxo publishing, authors who can relate their own experience with them. The attempts for a dialogue by interested folks on Absolute Write and Authonomy haven't gotten a response from xoxo.

A friend recently wiped out his bank account because after putting several credit card payment envelopes in the mail, he realized he had forgotten to put stamps on them. So, figuring the envelopes would be returned to him, he wrote new checks and sent them in with stamped envelopes. Of course, the credit card companies accepted the postage due on the first batch and took in both sets of payments.

His bank account was wiped out, extra charges, etc.

So, do you really have to put stamps on payments sent to credit card companies?

I'd like to know what is the record for maximum distance covered by a person who (1) throws a football and then catches it before it strikes the ground; (2) punts a football and catches it before it strikes the ground. This might seem really crazy at first, but I think it is an interesting challenge. Comments, please?

Is there already a reference that details all the spots where three states come together, pictures of the spots, any monuments erected there, etc.?

Of course, many such boundaries will be in water, and those, I wouldn't expect monuments.

If no book, has anyone started a collection of detail about these places?

I'm writing about an attempt to take over a particularly nice farm in order to strip mine it for coal. I've read the Illinois statutes, but I don't really understand them.

Can the law help a mining company acquire mining rights to property that is owned 'fee simple', all rights retained?

We call to one another across the abyss of time,

Our fading voices becoming distant screams and desperate prayers.

Please don't be offended, for some senses of different ways to spell this are slang for private parts.

When a tailor says "I can take it in a 'skootch'", how is the word 'skootch' properly spelled. Is it Yiddish or not? Has anyone else ever heard this term?

senior (over 55) female?

We have had several examples of times when our standard Macintosh mail program would not send mail (but could receive) on WiFi networks, including our home network. WiFi email for dummies anyone?

(on ethernet wired computers on the same network, or when those affected computers were hooked in by ethernet, no problems.

I read, about a month ago, an article 'somewhere' that said 75% of Americans cannot accurately point to where their lungs are located. Did anyone else see that, or did I dream it?

my 'expert' says, no, it has stuff in it that causes turbulence. I say, in a pinch, just use twice as much bleach, since it is just half strength pool 'chlorine' Why is he right?