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| ID | Thread | Description | Posted By | Posted On | |
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| 4479 | Halloween Nostalgia & More! | <blockquote rel="thecrow174"><b>thecrow174 wrote :</b><br><i> I remember them do something for Thanksgiving. Pumpkin Pie Pancakes or something.<br> </i><br>Yeah. I've had pumpkin pancakes, though they were my wife's cooking. Good stuff.<br></blockquote> | Vaporman87 | Oct 22, 2013 |  |
| 4478 | Halloween Nostalgia & More! | I remember them do something for Thanksgiving. Pumpkin Pie Pancakes or something.<br> | Mr Magic | Oct 22, 2013 | |
| 4477 | Halloween Nostalgia & More! | <blockquote rel="thecrow174"><b>thecrow174 wrote :</b><br> Speaking of pancakes, didn't IHOP do something for Halloween once?<br><br><br>Not sure. But it would make good sense if they did.<br> </blockquote> | Vaporman87 | Oct 22, 2013 | |
| 4476 | Movie pics | <div align="center"><img src="/images/postImages/Two Dollars.png"><br><br><font size="3"><b>"Didn't ask for a dime. Two dollars... caaash."</b></font><br></div> | Vaporman87 | Oct 22, 2013 | |
| 4475 | Halloween Nostalgia & More! | Speaking of pancakes, didn't IHOP do something for Halloween once?<br> | Mr Magic | Oct 22, 2013 | |
| 4474 | Halloween Nostalgia & More! | Because nothing screams <font color="#993300"><b>"HALLOWEEN"</b></font> like breakfast. :P<br><a href="http://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/halloween-pancakes/#more-15215"><br><img src="/images/postImages/Hungry Jack Halloween Pancakes.png"></a> | Vaporman87 | Oct 22, 2013 | |
| 4472 | Halloween Article Contest 2013 | <b>3 DAYS LEFT!!!</b><br><br>That's all the time there is left for you guys to get off the couch, stop watching It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for the 54th time, and write a freakin' article!!!<br><br><img src="/images/postImages/Halloween Ninja Close Up Forum Article Contest.png"><br> | Vaporman87 | Oct 22, 2013 | |
| 4471 | SpongeBob: The rise and fall of the last Nicktoon | There, that's better. :)<br> | Vaporman87 | Oct 22, 2013 | |
| 4470 | SpongeBob: The rise and fall of the last Nicktoon | You posted the same thing twice. <img src="http://www.retro-daze.org/images/smilies/MavLaughOutLoud.gif"> | Mr Magic | Oct 22, 2013 | |
| 4469 | SpongeBob: The rise and fall of the last Nicktoon | Speaking of SpongeBob:<br><br><h1 id="article-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 36px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 38px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Cemetery removes Iraq War vet's SpongeBob SquarePants headstone</h1><div class="article-info" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><time itemprop="datePublished" pubdate="" datetime="2013-10-22T00:00-04:00" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top; background-color: transparent; display: inline-block; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Published October 22, 2013</time><div itemprop="sourceOrganization" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top; background-color: transparent; display: inline-block; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Associated Press</div></div><div id="introduction" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: block; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><div class="slideshow-block" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; width: 660px; height: 371px; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><div class="slideshow" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/MediaObject" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; width: 660px; height: 371px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><ul class="encapsulate" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; width: 99999px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><li class="dv-item article-ct dv-item-first dv-item-last" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/bg-pattern.jpg); zoom: 1; position: relative; display: block; float: left; width: 660px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><div class="m" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; overflow: hidden; zoom: 1; position: relative; width: 660px; height: 371px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><img src="http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/sponge-bob.jpg" alt="sponge-bob.jpg" itemprop="image" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: transparent; display: block; width: 660px; height: 371px; opacity: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"></div><div class="summary caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 16px 12px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; position: absolute; width: 636px; bottom: -50px; display: block; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><p itemprop="sourceOrganization" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: arial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Oct. 10, 2013: This photo provided by the family of Kimberly Walker, shows Walker's gravestone in the likeness of popular cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.<span class="source" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); text-transform: uppercase; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(AP)</span></p></div></li></ul></div></div><div class="article-text" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; width: 480px; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">An Iraq War veteran's towering SpongeBob SquarePants headstone has been removed from her final resting place because officials at the historic Cincinnati cemetery deemed it inappropriate for their traditional grounds.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The headstone of Kimberly Walker, 28, was made in the likeness of her favorite cartoon character and erected at Spring Grove Cemetery on Oct. 10, almost eight months after she was found slain in a Colorado hotel room.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Despite getting the cemetery's prior approval of the headstone's design — a smiling SpongeBob in an Army uniform, with Walker's name and rank — her family said Monday that cemetery staff called them the day after it was installed to say it would have to come down.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The 7-foot headstone, along with a near-exact duplicate erected for Walker's living twin sister, have been removed and will not be allowed back up, cemetery President Gary Freytag said Monday.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"We've decided that they aren't appropriate for our historic cemetery and they can't be displayed here," Freytag said, adding that the employee who approved the headstones made an inexplicable error in judgment, given the cemetery's traditional, stately appearance.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">He acknowledged that the cemetery is at fault and that staff members would be meeting with Walker's family on Tuesday to try to find a solution, which could include a more traditional gravestone bearing small likeness of the character.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Freytag also said Spring Grove is prepared to reimburse the family for each headstone, which cost a combined $26,000, and pay for new ones.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"I feel terrible that it got to this point but I'm hoping we can come out at the other end of the tunnel with a solution," he said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walker was an Army corporal assigned to the 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion and served two yearlong tours Iraq in 2006 and 2010 as a petroleum supply specialist, her family said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walker was found dead in a hotel room in Colorado Springs on Valentine's Day this year, strangled and beaten to death. Her boyfriend, an Army sergeant stationed nearby, was arrested and charged with her killing.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walker's twin sister, Kara Walker, said the family is beyond distraught. A lot of thought went into the gravestones, which she said were chosen because her sister loved SpongeBob, even outfitting her entire bedroom with the cartoon character's decorations.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"It is frustrating that you entrust a cemetery to have your best interest at heart and accommodate you and your family at a hard time ... and because they don't like it they're going to take it down," said Kara Walker, 29, an information technician for the U.S. Navy stationed in Naples, Italy.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"My sister served our country and most people try to accommodate veterans and try to take care of them," she said. "For them not to accommodate and respect what my sister sacrificed, not only for my family, but for everyone else in this country, really bothers me."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">She said the only way the cemetery can make it up to the family, which she said pre-paid for six plots for $29,000, is to put the headstones back.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 27px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"They already brought enough grief and pain to the family," she said. "We want what we paid for and what I know my sister would have wanted."</p><br> | Vaporman87 | Oct 22, 2013 | |
