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Alleged Armed Officers Shut Down Mass. Ice Cream Stand Indefinitely

May 17, 2012 at 4:08pm

Some stupid f-wad down there seems to think people are making things up about this. Here is a part of the story from the local paper, the Lowell Sun, with a link.

Mark Duffy, who has operated the dairy farm at the state-owned park for 26 years and has a lease with the state to run the stand, said armed Environmental Police officers showed up at stand on Friday evening and stood guard throughout the weekend, turning away customers

Read more: http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_20635020/ice-cream-spot-hits-rocky-road#ixzz1v9x7NIAj
Alleged Armed Officers Shut Down Mass. Ice Cream Stand Indefinitely

May 17, 2012 at 4:01pm

In reply to Lover of America.

ROWGUE Nowhere in any story about this is it stated that environmental police were involved. There is a reference to an environmental police truck being near the entrance to the farm, that’s it.
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Mark Duffy, who has operated the dairy farm at the state-owned park for 26 years and has a lease with the state to run the stand, said armed Environmental Police officers showed up at stand on Friday evening and stood guard throughout the weekend,

Read more: http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_20635020/ice-cream-spot-hits-rocky-road#ixzz1v9v6zQFx\

Wrong, dumbffkk.
Biden promises you that Obama ‘has a big stick’

April 26, 2012 at 8:53pm

So Sock Puppet is gonna get up to the podium next time and say ” ‘Scuse me while I whip this out!”?
Goodbye to ‘the Negotiator’: Priceline Killing Off William Shatner

January 21, 2012 at 4:28pm

In reply to Cyndee - Tx.

Maybe you should try decaf, honey….
Goodbye to ‘the Negotiator’: Priceline Killing Off William Shatner

January 21, 2012 at 4:27pm

In reply to vonMises.

INDEPENDENT TESS

That’s right. But please don’t call me Shirley.
Calif. Commission Approves Regulations on…Battery Chargers

January 16, 2012 at 4:40pm

I mean, its a a sweet thought and everything, but some on – save $1.19 over the lifetime of an electric toothbrush??? How long does one last, 2 or 3 years? I haven’t a clue. Or 20 bucks for a laptop charger? Lifetime of 4 to 5 years for a first owner, another 3 or 4 after that second-hand . . . so maybe 5 bucks a year on a device that cost 500 to a thousand? Busy-work for legislators.
Black Pastor Sues Former Church Over Claim He Was Replaced Because of His Race

January 7, 2012 at 2:51pm

And his boss was named Cosby?
Who Is Mimicking Who? Fish Copies Octopus Known for Copying Other Fish

January 7, 2012 at 2:48pm

In reply to Starkadder.

||plural fish or fish·es||

Definition of FISH

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b : any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony ||fishes|| and usually the cartilaginous and jawless ||fishes|| and that….
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“…their prey: small fishes,like damselfish.”

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fish
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Correct plural for the context.

StarkFAIL
Who Is Mimicking Who? Fish Copies Octopus Known for Copying Other Fish

January 7, 2012 at 2:37pm

In reply to Starkadder.

Octopus:
There are three plural forms of octopus: octopuses [ˈɒktəpəsɪz], octopi [ˈɒktəpaɪ], and octopodes [ˌɒkˈtəʊpədiːz]. Currently, octopuses is the most common form in the UK as well as the US; octopodes is rare, and octopi is often objectionable.[7]

The Oxford English Dictionary[8] lists octopuses, octopi and octopodes (in that order); it labels octopodes “rare”, and notes that octopi derives from the mistaken assumption that octōpūs is a second declension Latin noun, which it is not. Rather, it is (Latinized) Ancient Greek, from oktṓpous (ὀκτώπους), gender masculine, whose plural is oktṓpodes (ὀκτώποδες). If the word were native to Latin, it would be octōpēs (‘eight-foot’) and the plural octōpedes, analogous to centipedes and mīllipedes, as the plural form of pēs (‘foot’) is pedes. …

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Fowler’s Modern English Usage states that “the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses,” and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us#Octopus
Anonymous Exposes German ‘Neo-Nazis’ in New Attack

January 4, 2012 at 9:37pm

In reply to This_Individual.

‘Zackly what I thought. Expose the Reds too. Oh wait, we don’t have, they’re all over TV, in Germany and everywhere!