Many years ago I had a noise problem where the adjacent unit would blast their stereo as loud as it would go. Loud enough that I could not carry on a conversation in my apartment! I am a professional DJ, so after a lot of this abuse, I went into my bathroom and set up my equipment. I turned it on. They turned theirs up. OK, you want a war? I turned MINE up. (I had to leave the premesis to a
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Friend of mine in Falls Church (off 7 immediately before the Culmore strip) has been losing power several times a day, every day, since the big storm. Pretty upsetting.
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strat Wrote: > As an aside relating to development. I just wish > that Loehmann's and Skyline were still airports. > I hate driving to Leesburg to fly. I am moving into Skyline in a couple of weeks and so was thinking about the airport there, too. I remember it being an active airport when I was a little kid in the early 60s, but I didn't become a pilot until the late 80s and had almos
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My recollection puts Tops and Three Chefs in the same frame, early/mid 60s, but Shakeys came in much later (a few years before the short-lived Jack-In-The-Box which was probably 1978). One of the first times I personally encountered mega food conglomerates was noticing the familiar logo on my take-out bag from Jack-In-The-Box. Tiny little logo you would never notice if you were not studying the
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Foodie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Showing my age here a little, I never went there > after it became a Taco Bell, because I was p!ssed > that Taco Bell took over that location from what > was once one of only two or three Jack-in-the-Box > joints in all of Northern Virginia (another was > down on Rt. 1 somewhere near Hybla Valley). > Jac
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I was on the phone with a friend of mine who lives in Baileys Crossroads when it happened. A friend of hers from Lake Barcroft also called. They thought it was either a gas line explosion somewhere or the sonic boom of a military overflight. (They didn't know it was an earthquake until I forwarded the Washington Post article to themm...) So, yeah, you could DEFINITELY hear/feel it a few miles
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Stu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > all presidents have the legal right to draft > anybody he likes... it may not be a popular thing to do, but this presidential authority is absolute, even the supreme court would agree. The President doesn't have the power to institute a draft at all; that's a power that the Congress has. And it certainly is subject to th
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Chris Core was the guy who was saying that people who had concealed-carry permits should have that fact, along with their names and addresses, published in the newspaper and otherwise made available (eg. on the Internet). He seemed to be some kind of anti-gun moron, hypocritical, and above the "little people" who he broadcast his opinions to on the radio. Hardly what I would describe as a "con
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coffin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ain't no radio in NOVA anymore. There used to be > though...WEEL (1310 on the AM dial!) in Fairfax > City...top 10. I used to be on the air there some decades ago...radio just isn't the same as the good old days.
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Vince Wrote: - > It is clear to me that the only reason people have > the right to bear arms is to ensure there is a > well regulated (please take note of that word > "regulated") militia.. You are confused about the meaning of the word "regulated" in this context. It does not mean "restricted", but you naturally think it does because that's how the word is mostly used in contempor
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