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  1. tekkhead tekkhead is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 7:15pm)

    i don't know how people can miss the lifeline where u get to call someone and have 30 seconds....

    i was watching tonight and this guy got to the 16K mark, called his brother to ask him where the Tongass National Forest is and the guy had no idea

    he then almost left bec he didnt want to gamble the 16K, which is really weak when u can make 1.7 million w/nothing invested, anyway he uses both of his other lifelines and then finally guesses and is right.

    why doesnt the person, who can be called sit next to a computer and use google??

    i've scene a lot of ppl miss the call a friend lifeline but have also heard ppl typing as soon as they are asked lol
  2. SluggerWV SluggerWV is offline A picture is worth a thousand words.

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 7:17pm) in reply to tekkhead

    so where is the tongass national forest?

    wikipedia to the rescue

    <H1 class=firstHeading>Tongass National Forest</H1> <H3 id=siteSub>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</H3>
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    <TABLE class=infobox><TBODY><TR><TH colSpan=2>Tongass National Forest</TH></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>IUCN Category VI (Managed Resource Protected Area)</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>


    </TD></TR><TR><TD>Location:</TD><TD>Alaska, USA</TD></TR><TR><TD>Nearest city:</TD><TD>Ketchikan, AK</TD></TR><TR><TD>Coordinates:</TD><TD><SPAN class=plainlinksneverexpand><SPAN>5935'0?N,</SPAN> <SPAN>13856'0?W</SPAN></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>Area:</TD><TD>17 million acres (69,000 km)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Established:</TD><TD>September 10, 1907</TD></TR><TR><TD>Governing body:</TD><TD>U.S. Forest Service</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
    At 17 million acres (69,000 km), the Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska is the largest national forest in the United States. It is a northern temperate rain forest, remote enough to be the home of many species of flora and fauna considered endangered or rare elsewhere. Created in 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt, it encompasses islands of the Alexander Archipelago, fjords, glaciers, and peaks of the Coastal Range mountains.

    <H2><SPAN class=editsection>[edit]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>History</SPAN></H2>
    The Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve was established by Theodore Roosevelt in a presidential proclamation of August 20, 1902.[1] Another presidential proclamation made by Roosevelt, on September 10, 1907, created the Tongass National Forest. On July 1, 1908, the two forests were joined, with the combined forest area encompassing most of southeast Alaska.

    Tongass National Forest

    Further presidential proclamations of February 16, 1909 (in the last months of the Roosevelt administration) and June 10, 1925 (by Calvin Coolidge) expanded the Tongass National Forest.[2]

    An early supervisor of the forest was William Alexander Langille.[3]

    <H2><SPAN class=editsection>[edit]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Description</SPAN></H2>
    The Tongass National Forest is home to about 75,000 people who are dependent on the national forest for their livelihoods. Several Alaska Native tribes live throughout Southeast Alaska, such as the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian. 31 communities are located within the forest; the largest is Juneau, the state capital, with a population of 31,000. The forest is named for the Tongass group of the Tlingit people, who inhabited the southernmost areas of the Alaska panhandle near what is now Ketchikan.

    US FS Map of Tongass National Forest

    Across the thousands of islands within the forest, are unique and protected features seldom found anywhere else in North America. Bald eagles, five species of salmon and brown and black bears abound throughout the forest. The health of the forest is evident in that there are no threatened or endangered species to be found in the forest or the streams.

    The Tongass National Forest was included in the Roadless Initiative passed on January 5, 2001, during the last days of the Bill Clinton administration, which prevents the construction of new roads in currently unroaded areas of United States national forests. However, several governors of western states soon joined with industry to overturn the roadless policy. The administration of George W. Bush has declined to defend the policy in the courts and the U.S. Forest Service has largely exempted the Tongass from the roadless protections.[4]
  3. badmagik badmagik is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 7:17pm) in reply to tekkhead

    still 30 seconds is not that much so if they aren't already AT the computer they would not have time to google it
  4. Rocket Surgeon Rocket Surgeon is offline & brain scientist

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 7:17pm) in reply to tekkhead

    I would have 2 people on the other end, one with google ready, and one with wikipedia.
  5. Rocket Surgeon Rocket Surgeon is offline & brain scientist

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 7:18pm) in reply to SluggerWV

    Alaska

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongass_National_Forest
  6. DuDuDier DuDuDier is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 7:19pm) in reply to Rocket Surgeon

    ive seen that done... the guy had it on speakerphone and when they called you could hear hella people typing.
  7. ShooterJ ShooterJ is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 7:22pm) in reply to DuDuDier

    seems like everyone would do that
  8. BOW2YURSENSEI BOW2YURSENSEI is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 7:23pm) in reply to DuDuDier

    ya i was watching too...

    i wanted that guy to do well...he said he works the graveyard shift at an econolodge
  9. IMAFISH4U IMAFISH4U is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 7:28pm) in reply to BOW2YURSENSEI

    Yeah the brother is my friend and he was sitting at the computer waiting for the call. Unfortunatly at the same time he had JJ in the sb facing a standard raise from a tight player in the cut off and was 6 away from the bubble.
  10. tekkhead tekkhead is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 7:35pm) in reply to IMAFISH4U

    lol
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  11. hostile hostile is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 7:49pm) in reply to IMAFISH4U

    LMAO
  12. mkvandy03 mkvandy03 is offline Moderator

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    Jan 30th, 2007 (1/30/2007 8:04pm) in reply to Rocket Surgeon

    When I was on (unfortunately didn't make the hot seat...), I had a whole crowd waiting at Dan's computer. Anyone who doesn't do this is indeed stupid, but there are some questions where googling won't work, like "which of the following is NOT...something"
     
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