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BoomerD

BoomerD

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Heard it on the car radio last night when I was taking movies back to the Redbox. I hadn't had any network TV on is several hours, so I hadn't heard about it until then. (this was about the time Obama started his press conference)
 
Hayabusa Rider

Hayabusa Rider

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I learned of it this morning. I have Google as my homepage, and it is my habit to click on the news tab and read while I have my coffee. There it was.
 
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nanette1985

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Atomic Playboy said:
I got a text message from my buddy asking if I heard about Osama. I was playing pool at a bar at the time. Looked up at the TV that was tuned to the Phillies game and there was a ticker at the bottom with the breaking news.
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I was watching the Mets-Phillies game on TV and saw the ticker. Bipped on over here to see what you guys had to say.

I notice the PC mag poll results have changed considerably. More TV, less twitter.
 
SKORPI0

SKORPI0

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Preempted TV show (CSI-Miami) which I was recording in HD. Almost the same time lurking in this forum.
 
crab

crab

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Got home, opened Drudge for some reason and bricks were shat.
 
Imp

Imp

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Saw post on ATOT... was watching 'The Killing' on AMC, and wasn't really flipping channels since I was playing Youtube during commercial breaks.
 
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Exterous

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It was on this morning when I turned on the TV during breakfast

Maybe add a poal?
 
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duragezic

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I was playing L4D2 with three friends. In between a game, I ran to the store. When I got back, I seen my roommate who was playing with had said in the chat that was killed so I ran over to his room and was like "WHAT????!!!!!!!!!!!!".
 
Obsy

Obsy

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clicking "New Posts" and seeing both Osama threads at the top
 
IronWing

IronWing

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A coworker said "Bin Laden is dead. He slipped and fell off a cliff while watching a passing convoy." Fifteen minutes later another coworker told me "We got Bin Laden. We dropped a big ass bomb on his hideout." Then I got home and saw that the Seals had shot him dead. This is exactly how conspiracy nuts get to start thinking too hard. Did the bomb knock him off the cliff and the Seals shot him when he landed? Did the Seals get him after he got dropped in the ocean?
 
erikistired

erikistired

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IronWing said:
A coworker said "Bin Laden is dead. He slipped and fell off a cliff while watching a passing convoy." Fifteen minutes later another coworker told me "We got Bin Laden. We dropped a big ass bomb on his hideout." Then I got home and saw that the Seals had shot him dead. This is exactly how conspiracy nuts get to start thinking too hard. Did the bomb knock him off the cliff and the Seals shot him when he landed? Did the Seals get him after he got dropped in the ocean?
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nobody knows that seals are the wolves of the ocean. he probably got mauled by a wild pack of seals after falling off the cliff into the ocean.
 
coloumb

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Today during lunch with the wife as I don't usually watch tv or surf "news" sites [I was busy playing Portal 2 last night and this morning]

She said "They finally got Obama".
I said "What? They got Obama??" [I was thinking someone shot Obama...]
She said "Where have you been? They shot Bin Laden"
I said "Oh."
 
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