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  1. Bengal B

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    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    We are all going straight to hell. I'm now with @LaSalleAve embrace the flames, there is no bringing us back.
     
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    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Nope, we're doomed. Hopefully we can witness another LSU championship before its all done...
     
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    In 1939 President Franklin D Roosevelt served a meal of hot dogs to the king and queen of England
     
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    Gabe Kaplan of Welcome Back Kotter fame attended the same high school as Moe and Curley Howard.
     
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    Wait until the PC police hear about this. Oklahoma will have to change their name

    The state's name is from the Choctaw words "okla" and "humma,"meaning "red people." The Choctaw Nation website says following the trail of tears, it was a Choctaw Chief who suggested the Oklahoma name during treaty negotiations - and he was referring to the people's skin color.
     
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    The globetrotters?
     
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    The Stooges. There was a Globetrotter name Curley Neal but I don't know if they ever had a Moe.
     
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    Thought those stooges were British or Irish or something
     
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    Legendary drug lord Pablo Escobar lost $2.1 billion in cash each year — and it didn't matter


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    At the peak of his power, infamous Medellín cartel boss Pablo Escobar brought in an estimated $420 million a week in revenue, easily making him one of the wealthiest drug lords in history.

    Escobar, known as the "king of cocaine," saw his wealth grow so immense that he stashed piles of cash in Colombian farming fields, dilapidated warehouses, and in the walls of cartel members' homes,according to Roberto Escobar, the cartel's chief accountant and the kingpin's brother, in his book, "The Accountant's Story: Inside the violent world of the Medellín cartel."

    "Pablo was earning so much that each year we would write off 10% of the money because the rats would eat it in storage or it would be damaged by water or lost," Escobar wrote.

    That would be about $2.1 billion, given how much money he was reportedly making.

    Escobar simply had more money than he knew to do with, and therefore haphazardly losing money to rodents and mold wasn't an issue.

    In a 2009 interview with Don Juan magazine, Escobar's only son, Juan Pablo Escobar — who has since changed his name to Sebastian Marroquin — claimed that his father once torched $2 million in crisp banknotes in order to keep his family warm while they were on the run, The Telegraph reports.

    While hiding or destroying the exorbitant amount of money was one issue, the brothers faced another much more elementary problem — neatly organizing the banknotes.

    According to Roberto Escobar, the cartel spent an estimated $2,500 a month on rubber bands needed to hold stacks of bills together.

    At the height of his power, Pablo Escobar's cartel supplied 80% of the world's cocaine and smuggled 15 tons of cocaine into the US per day.
     

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