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Take, get, board, alight (transport) Please correct me if I am wrong. ============================= Usage relating to going into/out of a transport: If going into a public transport Take a bus/taxi Get on [NOT into] a bus/lift; Get into a taxi Board a bus/taxi If going out of a transport Take off a bus/taxi Get off [NOT out of] a bus/lift. Get out of a taxi Alight a bus/taxi ============================= If all are correct, please send a message to confirm. If any mistake, it would be very grateful if you can point it out.

Ten reasons that Hurricane Season is like Christmas: 10. Decorating the house (boarding up windows) 9. Dragging out boxes that haven't been used since last season (camping gear, flashlights) 8. Last minute shopping in crowded stores 7. Regular TV shows are pre-empted for "specials" 6. Family coming to stay with you 5. Family and friends from out-of-state calling 4. Buying food you don't normally buy ... and in large quantities 3. Days off from work 2. Candles And the number one reason Hurricane Season is like Christmas ... 1. At some point you know you're going to have a tree in your house!

I watched a documentary on this Jason fella on the Discovery channel this morning. He was in crypto zoology and was chasing a cabriosaurus I think it was called. I was just wondering if anybody else happened to see this same documentary and if anybody else is interested in crypto zoology?

If you have a good horror story, post it. I'll start: Bush is president.

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Hello, I have a question: What is gmail? Encrypted

you said : Encrypted __________________ 32.22.7.11.2.9.42.31.22< and challenge us to decode it ) how about if you read it bacwards and use simple letter numbering reversal too, like Z-1 Y=2 etc... 22= E 22 occurs twice as does the letter E in your nick, but in reverse order, the letter Y is second from the end of the alphabet (hence 2). am I getting close? LOL ) oh yeah, and the letter count adds up too

What are some cool career options in biology? how do i get into them? Evolutionary study of some type is something i'd be specifically interested in, but whatever suggestions you got, i wanna hear

Does anyone have an extra gmail invite they would like to give me please?

What is your favorite source for research? Not just science information, but anything.

Hi, I just would like to know if anyone here has Halo PC. If you do what are you called on multiplayer. I am called abc, thunk! and [M] [)eadly. Pomlom

I started this thread because I have been doing some research on a lot of different PDAs and different handheld computers. I really like the Mac iPods even though it is not technically a nahdheld computer. I have found that Mac only ships to U.S. and that really pisses me off. But anyways I was wondering what type of PDA or handheld some people would reccomend with these features: Task List, Pocket Word, Internet Browser, E-mail, mp3 capability, good amount of max memory, color screen,pocket excel,calender,world clock or just normal clock and alarm,no less then 8 hours of average battery life,contact list and decent processor. Thats about it for now until I think of s…

this is a tangent from this thread: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?p=85223#post85223 if you move to a country, should you learn the language?

Hello all! I don't know if this is the right place for this tread...(if not the moderator can always move it to the right one!) I created it as a place where we can suggest books of all sciences. For example as I study European and International relations, I'm not familiar with any science but I really feel that I would like to get to know the basics of some (eg. Neuroscience, Phychiatry, Chemistry). Therefore I need some help in order to get to know them! So where do I begin? Is there any book that you would suggest to someone who is just starting her journey in sciences? My suggestion would be the book "The selfish gene" by Richard Dawkins Any o…

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to pronounce "ampliative." Some dictionaries to which i have access either don't have the word, have no pronunciation, or the pronunciation Am"pli*a*tive which i don't know how to interpret. Pronunciations of this form are adequate: AM plee uh tive am PLEE uh tive am plee AY tive Thanks!

This is a Help Me thread. I started because I am interested in making some of my own videos like the Red vs. Blue Halo ones escept with a different game. I was just wondering how I should go about doing this? What are some good screen capture utilities that I could use? Also I was wondering about sound and how to put in custom voices, almost like a movie script.

it seems that europe is faring somewhat better than the star studded american team

i always see this thing..... add 'x' to your buddy list, what is the buddy list system, how does it work and what is the point in it?

Anyone experimented with harder core Jhonen, besides Zim? JTHM, Squee? i'm surprised i haven't even seen these mentioned with so many Zim fans. Maybe you dont get that hardcore Vasquez over in UK, how tragic! Still i think you can at least get it off Amazon.

Firstly, I put this thread here since I could find no other appropriate subforum. If there happens to be one that I missed, the moderators should feel free to move this thread. Secondly, I think one should answer the poll before reading the article below, since it will most likely bias people towards a specific answer. (Note: This thread was split off from this thread http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=658 in the Education subforum.) Now, onto the article. The article of interest is "Can a [African-Amreican]-Sounding Name Hurt Your Career Prospects?", and is located at http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/...s_040820-1.html, and the study it…

Should we add "history and philosophy of science"?

It's proposed that SFN have an honorary system of units besides the standard SI metric ones. In the proposed system major physical constants will have values which are powers of ten. A growing number of people these days are using 8pi times G, possible nickname "Gbar", instead of G and Planck units seem on the way to being redefined so as to make |Gbar| = |c| = |hbar| = |k| = 1 so it was decided to make Gbar, instead of plain G, be a power of ten. Anyway, you set these things to be reasonable powers of ten and that determines what the everyday-scale units have to be mass unit----pound-size---call it pound length unit----handwidth size----call it hand time …

Can you tell, what alternation was made by me. to produce this picture from the original theer are some tell tell signs that i should have corrented but left out

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Anybody else a Survivor fan?