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watch the mario3.wmv

look it all makes perfect sense
yes.. every year your birthtime SHOULD shift 6 hours forward due to the .25 days unaccounted for until the next lead year...

and it doesnt read jibberish
a lead year is every fourth year unless the year is divisible by one hundred (ie: 1200, 1900, 2100) but it remains a leap year if it is divisible by one hundred and ALSO divisible by four hundred (ie: 1200, 1600, 2000)

yes it is
you should know by now that i can dish itout but i cant take it!

it makes sense (sorta)
but whats the point in even thinking about all that?
and also your calculations are wrong ..
leap years occur every 4 years except when divisible by 100 except when divisible by 400

that too

hahahhhahahahahahahahaha????

seriously

thats disgusting
i didnt need a visual

ok.. i know you hate ginos and all.. who doesnt... but ill have you know.. fewer ginos do the things you mention so often than everyone else does...
they started it.. they dont do it anymore
theyve moved on
you should too

nOICE

Ian finds it gross when I saw: PENIS LUMPS!

IM IN PRE-SCHOOL!!
got a problem with that? Im just a little slow ok??
geeez

im not white...
just for the record

lies

[ www.640480.com ]

YOUR dick in my ass??

ha!

i was waiting for Gordo to post

Just checking to see how many people are so white it hurts

youre right
*lowers head in shame*

*confuseded*

...


How is that a triangle?
Ian has no chance! ;)

HI

*agrees*

no.. hes just the regular kind

cool... i nver would have figured that out

im not a dj, i dont go to raves, i hardly even like electronic music...
what does this get me?

i care

i cant wait for 2005

being?

I KNOW!!

Pink Floyd - Echoes

Canada's king could be an Aussie
Scholar bases claim on document from French library

Randy Boswell

[ www.canada.com ]


British-born Michael Abney-Hastings has been identified by a leading historian as the rightful King of England.

If a leading medieval historian has his facts straight, the rightful heir to the British throne -- and thus the true King of Canada -- is a beer-swilling, 62-year-old Australian rice scientist named Michael Abney-Hastings.

The claim being made by respected scholar Michael K. Jones is based on his discovery of a document in a French library apparently confirming that the 15th-century English monarch Edward IV -- an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II and all of her royal forebears -- was an illegitimate child.

Jones says the implications of his findings are "staggering" and Britain's Channel 4 aired a documentary on Saturday detailing the case of Britain's Real Monarch.

In truth, Elizabeth's crown is quite safe. But folks with a fascination for what-if stories have a doozy on their hands, one that not only involves a would-be Aussie king with republican leanings but also the rethinking of key episodes from British history -- not to mention Shakespeare's plays.

At the heart of the story is Richard III's struggle to take control of the monarchy in the 1480s. When his brother, Edward IV, died in April 1483, Richard quickly deposed his nephew, Edward V, and took the throne for himself.

Richard asserted his legitimacy partly on the claim that his oldest brother, Edward IV, was born a bastard and that his second oldest brother, George, had been convicted of treason and was thus disqualified from occupying the throne.

Richard's case was, in fact, bolstered at the time by his own mother, Cecily Neville, who once admitted that Edward IV was an illegitimate child. But most historians have dismissed her apparent confession as the product of the internecine struggles of the day and Richard's ruthless coercion of the family matriarch.

"But for the mother herself to make the acknowledgment was unprecedented," counters Jones, who is one of just a few historians who give credence to another view.

They argue that in the summer of 1441, while her husband the Duke of York was at war elsewhere in France, Neville had an affair with an English archer named Blaybourne at the Rouen garrison in Normandy. These historians say the result of that affair was the future Edward IV, who was born on April 28, 1442, at Rouen.

Now Jones has added what he calls a "crucial" piece of documentary evidence to back up this minority view. According to archbishopric records held at the cathedral library in Rouen, the Duke of York was fighting in Pontoise, 160 kilometres from his wife, at the time when Edward IV would have been conceived.

Citing Jones's research, the documentary notes that "counting back 40 weeks to what would have been his conception brings us to the middle of what appears to be [from archbishopric records at Rouen] a five-week absence" of the Duke of York.

The possibility that Edward IV might have been born prematurely is dismissed as unlikely.

"At a time when infant mortality was very high, sick or premature babies with a claim to the throne were always recorded by the chroniclers. There is no mention of prematurity with reference to Edward's birth," the documentary-makers state. "In addition, the Rouen Cathedral records tell us that Edward's christening was a hushed-up affair in a side chapel. In contrast, when his younger brother Edmund [killed at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460] was christened, the whole of Rouen Cathedral was opened up in celebration."

The road from Rouen to Jerilderie, Australia -- home of the would-be King Michael I -- is relatively straightforward. If Edward IV was, in fact, illegitimate, then the next legitimate claimant to the throne would have been his next eldest brother George, the Duke of Clarence, whose supposed crime of treason -- a misdemeanor compared to Richard III's own crimes -- "could have easily been dispensed with by Parliament," notes Channel 4.

Tracing the Duke of Clarence's line leads to Abney-Hastings, who was born in Britain in 1942 and later inherited the title Earl of Loudon.

But Abney-Hasting's blue-blood connections have never played a major role in his life.

"I believe that Australia should be a republic," he told Channel 4. "I'm not a mad monarchist."

© Copyright 2004 Vancouver Sun

Johnny Depp is going to be Willy Wonka in a 2005 release of a remake of the first Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!

Also to be released in 2005, Pirates of the Caribbean 2! Starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow!!

nice

what happened

very perceptive

ha! and neoform is quite the nerd

teach us oh wise one

pishposh
im not lame