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Old 11-11-10 | 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by rekmeyata
I'm glad I didn't attend Princeton with girls looking like that there!!!
If you're smart enough to go to Princeton, go to Stanford.

One of my daughters is a graduate of Princeton....... School of Bartending.
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Old 11-11-10 | 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Hermes
Check out the shoes. Princeton...really?
They're all in the same biometrics lab class studying the effect of progressive, elevated foot binding. (Look closely, from left to right.)
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Old 11-11-10 | 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
I'm thinking urban legend bull****. For starters, Power Meters were first commercially available in the late 80's. So I'm doubting there was a power meter being demonstrated to the public 15 years earlier in 1975.
My bad, I way over estimated the years in quick thinking and writing. The exact year was between 1986 and 88 in Solvang California. I can't remember the exact year but do remember where I was, but it was on a stationary bicycle not a regular bicycle.
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Old 11-11-10 | 09:06 PM
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Six rotating blades of death dependant on a radio freq connection 10 feet over my head? No thanks.
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Old 11-12-10 | 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Terex
If you're smart enough to go to Princeton, go to Stanford.

One of my daughters is a graduate of Princeton....... School of Bartending.
We have a saying out here: 9 out of 10 California girls are pretty. The tenth goes to Stanford.
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