View Poll Results: Do you prefer us lobbing Potatoes or Grenades to take care of spammers?
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2/26/10, 04:49 PM
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That doesn't even make sense. It moves the seat BACKWARDS, not forward. 
2/26/10, 05:04 PM
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2/26/10, 05:30 PM
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Something very, very sad and tragic happened today at my daughters' elementary school.
A fourth grade boy died today. He was not in any of my kids classes or in their grade level.
The school was having a kind of party day to get the kids loose and give them a treat before the upcoming TAKS (standardized tests) next week. So they were serving smores. Only these smores were not with melted mashmellows and chocolate, they just took those large marshmellows and put them on a graham cracker with some chocolate bar pieces and gave them to the kids. Well this boy might have tried to swallow one whole or who knows what but he got one of those giant marshmellows caught in his throat and couldn't breath. He freaked out and ran out of the room and actually passed out in the ahllway fell to the ground, broke his teeth when he fell and started convulsing on the floor of the hallway. My daughter actually saw this part happen. Her teacher heard the comotion and went out her door and she was first on the scene and began performing CPR not even knowing the windpipe was clogged. The kid was bleeding from the mouth and my daughter saw this part until the other teachers showed up and put all the kids back in their rooms. Zoe didn't know anything at all at that point other than what she saw. I picked them up at 3:30 to go to her kickball game and saw ambulances and fire trucks. I figured it was normal, because they often have fire trucks and stuff there for the kids to teach them and stuff. So Zoe told me what she saw. Then later when I see my wife she tells me the full story. The little boy had gone to her school last year. He just panicked, left the room, passed out, hit his mouth when he fell, started bleeding, but no one ever got the marshmellow out of his throat. The ambulance actually took him to the hospital but he was pronounced dead finally at the hospital.
It is so very sad. I don't know the family but I can't imagine what they mist be going through. You drop your little boy off at school that morning and he never makes it home because he dies at the school. How can that happen? It's so very, very sad.
Sorry to share such a sad thing with y'all but it really got to me. So many thoughts going through my mind about the fears I have when I let my children out of my sight.
A fourth grade boy died today. He was not in any of my kids classes or in their grade level.
The school was having a kind of party day to get the kids loose and give them a treat before the upcoming TAKS (standardized tests) next week. So they were serving smores. Only these smores were not with melted mashmellows and chocolate, they just took those large marshmellows and put them on a graham cracker with some chocolate bar pieces and gave them to the kids. Well this boy might have tried to swallow one whole or who knows what but he got one of those giant marshmellows caught in his throat and couldn't breath. He freaked out and ran out of the room and actually passed out in the ahllway fell to the ground, broke his teeth when he fell and started convulsing on the floor of the hallway. My daughter actually saw this part happen. Her teacher heard the comotion and went out her door and she was first on the scene and began performing CPR not even knowing the windpipe was clogged. The kid was bleeding from the mouth and my daughter saw this part until the other teachers showed up and put all the kids back in their rooms. Zoe didn't know anything at all at that point other than what she saw. I picked them up at 3:30 to go to her kickball game and saw ambulances and fire trucks. I figured it was normal, because they often have fire trucks and stuff there for the kids to teach them and stuff. So Zoe told me what she saw. Then later when I see my wife she tells me the full story. The little boy had gone to her school last year. He just panicked, left the room, passed out, hit his mouth when he fell, started bleeding, but no one ever got the marshmellow out of his throat. The ambulance actually took him to the hospital but he was pronounced dead finally at the hospital.
It is so very sad. I don't know the family but I can't imagine what they mist be going through. You drop your little boy off at school that morning and he never makes it home because he dies at the school. How can that happen? It's so very, very sad.
Sorry to share such a sad thing with y'all but it really got to me. So many thoughts going through my mind about the fears I have when I let my children out of my sight.
2/26/10, 05:47 PM
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That's really, really sad Gary. 
I can't imagine how horrible that must be.
I can't imagine how horrible that must be.
2/26/10, 06:46 PM
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Dennis, do you have a motorola droid? 
2/26/10, 07:07 PM
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A what?? I dont know what that is. I will download the oics o fmy camera that I took if that is what you are talking about.
2/26/10, 07:12 PM
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Other Dennis. I'm talking about cell phones. Doesn't look like verizon will ever get the iphone so I might get a droid instead. 
2/26/10, 07:36 PM
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of course you could always buy an unlocked iPhone and get verizon to activate it
2/26/10, 07:53 PM
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My wife did a search and apparently marshmellows are like the most deadly thing to choke on. When they get lodged they will warm up and expand and are next to impossible to get out. Especially by the everyday ordinary teacher.
2/26/10, 07:57 PM
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2/26/10, 08:00 PM
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I've never even liked marshmellows that weren't roasted. To this day I still have to cut all hot dogs in half for our three youngest kids.
2/26/10, 08:11 PM
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Man this is an awesome deal on 10th Anniversary wheels. I paid almost this much for freakin' used wheels.
http://www.buyfordracing.com/shop/pr...roducts_id=701
http://www.buyfordracing.com/shop/pr...roducts_id=701
2/26/10, 08:20 PM
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Original used wheels are usually more desired than aftermarket/reproductions. 