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sequined
09/10/09

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This is why I do all my ghost hunting on the ground. More ghosts, less danger of me becoming one.
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GuntherGebee
09/10/09

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They did see tents and knew he was weird. That area of Antioch is very poor and everyone keeps to themselves. The neighbors were interviewed on the news and they said there was never any sign of children living there. Then one day they heard kids voices, so they called the police. This was in...1996, I think. The officer interviewed Dugard in his driveway, never going inside or checking out the backyard. Pitiful!!!! That cop should be fired!
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Zombies make the heart grow fonder
09/10/09

@GuntherGebee: The cop should not be fired. An officer can't enter a residence or or the fenced in backyard without permission, a warrant, or knowledge of a felony occurring. If the officer showed up and spoke to him and didn't hear children's voices or anything else to create suspicion amounting to probably cause there would be nothing else to do but leave. Yeah, it sucks they didn't find this sooner but it isn't that officer's fault.
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VirtuousVixen
09/10/09

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Re: Caster Semenya, if she has no uterus or ovaries wouldn't that mean that she has never menstruated? I know she's young, but wouldn't someone (ie Caster, her mother) think something was wrong given the lack of bleeding?
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LaFemme
09/10/09

@VirtuousVixen: They could have just thought that it was because she was exercising so much; her body fat was too low to menstruate. I agree that it would be kind of suspect for her to NEVER have had a period though.
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SgtMelbaToast
09/10/09

@VirtuousVixen: Given that these tips from "a source close to the individual" are often quite bogus it is quite likely not even true, but as to your point it is actually fairly common for hardcore athletes to skip periods, stop menstruating, or never even start if they are fairly young because their body doesn't want to be fertile when it is working that hard.
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formergr
09/10/09

@VirtuousVixen: It does mean she has never menstruated, but given how thin she is from all the training she likely does to be such a good runner, it wouldn't be at all unusual for her not to have reached menarche yet.

Similar to many elite female gymnasts, many of them don't menstruate until late teens or even early twenties when they stop training. Below a certain % of body fat, and women don't menstruate.
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VirtuousVixen
09/10/09

@formergr: Yea, I know how it works with athletes, though I've really only ever heard of it with gymnasts and dancers. Makes sense with Caster's case though too. Although I'm wondering if that's a situation that Caster and her family would have known about - I'm really not trying to sound condescending or "oh people from the village are dumb" or anything, far from it, but I just don't know if, given how rare an athlete of that caliber and training level is, her mother and family would know that delaying menarche results from the training.
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GreyCat
09/10/09

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When I read the news about Melanie Oudin's parents I felt so sorry for her. If she hadn't have done so remarkably well and become news herself, her parent's twisted and embarrassing divorce would probably not have become so public. That is just so backwards. I hope she can get through it and focus on tennis. We need inspirational women athletes (or just women in general) in the news.
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Mary McCarthyite
09/10/09

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OK, one thing that baffles me about the Dugard case is the neighbors who lived next door to the house where she was kept. I haven't read anything about them. Didn't they SEE the tents in the backyard? Wasn't anyone SUSPICIOUS? Have you all heard anything or seen any interviews with them?
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
05/12/09

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The last time a man chucked a wobbly at me, I chucked my fist at him. I mean really, in this day and age men ought to know how to handle their wobblies better.
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
05/12/09

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anyone else feel like pinchign Christian slater's cheeks for that comment?
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merv
05/12/09

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And by "curves" she's clearly referring to a little bit of t & a, not love handles.
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Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
05/12/09

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Ruddy also got in trouble recently for yelling at a flight steward on his plane who diddn't bring him the right meal. He looks like a accountant, yells like Gordon Ramsay.
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
05/12/09

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Gordon Brown wears four different kinds of foundation and bronzer, according to a step-by-step makeup guide left in the back of a taxi by an aide.

This is probably the best thing I will read all day.
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