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monster 04-29-2020 12:19 AM

About Pando

Griff 04-29-2020 05:18 PM

About Coffee Naps, bring together two of my favorite things. I'm 100% in.

fargon 04-29-2020 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 1051797)
About Coffee Naps, bring together two of my favorite things. I'm 100% in.

Me too.

BigV 04-30-2020 02:16 PM

Two great tastes that taste great together!

xoxoxoBruce 04-30-2020 04:06 PM

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Detente, dayshmont, can't let the Ruskies win...

monster 04-30-2020 09:36 PM

An Ailurophile is a cat-lover and a Cynophile is a dog-lover

Griff 05-01-2020 07:14 AM

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Gravdigr 05-01-2020 01:34 PM

A guy I know broke his jaw in a car wreck several yrs ago. It was wired shut for a long time. He went to a cookout at his brother's house, and the cooking steaks got to him so bad he went in the house and put a steak through a blender and drank it.

xoxoxoBruce 05-05-2020 12:02 AM

Pennsylvania was started by William Penn Jr but it was named for his father Admiral William Penn Sr.
Thanks Carruthers.:notworthy

xoxoxoBruce 05-06-2020 03:19 PM

Don't tell anybody but I discovered Covid-19 came from a soviet backed secret lab in Turkey, via China, financed by automobile manufacturers for the purpose of scaring people away from public transport. Shhhh. :unsure:

sexobon 05-07-2020 05:18 PM

Trump's tremendous intellect can span time and space to perceive bits and pieces of the future. What he gleans is usually jumbled leaving him only vague premonitions. It can happen at anytime, even while tweeting. Scientists have decided that when a vaccine for Covid-19 is produced, it will be named for Trump's Covid-19 premonition and be called the Covfefe-19 vaccine.

Urbane Guerrilla 05-10-2020 10:10 PM

It will be taken orally because it's really quite nice on a sugar cube.

The Disney Mary Poppins approves.

BigV 05-10-2020 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla (Post 1052424)
It will be taken orally because it's really quite nice on a sugar cube.

The Disney Mary Poppins approves.

No she doesn't.


Flint 05-23-2020 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1051465)
In theory, but sometimes we say hold my beer and alter ourselves. Hurts like a mutha too.

I don't know how you would separate your tricep from your scapula and *I don't wanna know* --ƒuckin ouch bro

Gravdigr 05-23-2020 02:19 PM

Don't sound like fun.

Griff 06-22-2020 07:05 AM

Because of the curvature of the earth the supports for the Verrazano Bridge are two inches further apart at the top. Also Verrazzano was spelled wrong on the original contract.

monster 07-06-2020 09:54 AM

TIL about ablaut reduplication

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08fv...-knew-you-knew

Griff 07-07-2020 06:31 AM

Weird. I wonder if the next simulation will be different.

xoxoxoBruce 07-07-2020 11:29 PM

God, I hope it's not worse. :facepalm:
Although a do-over would be cool because I've thought of a bunch of new ways to fuck up my life.

Gravdigr 07-08-2020 09:45 PM

If this is a simulation, I got a goddamned serious bone to pick with somebody.:mad2:

monster 07-24-2020 09:19 PM

TIL I'm the average weight for an American woman. which is SCARY AS FUCK, because I'm very obviously overweight. And I'm built like a Brick shithouse, so even if I wasn't a tad chubby, I should be tipping the scales on the above average side seeing as muscle is more dense than fat and I'm also average height, maybe even a hair over.

Griff 07-25-2020 07:13 AM


Diaphone Jim 08-13-2020 06:20 PM

Today I learned while working on the irrigation system in my pasture, clearing some small culverts with my weed eater (whacker, trimmer) that a careful eye needs to be kept for fresh, liquid cow pies hiding in the lush turf.
I didn't notice until I had a fragrant fountain and brown every where.

xoxoxoBruce 08-13-2020 11:22 PM

Yes indeed, they are wonderful at spreading the news. :yesnod:

Griff 08-14-2020 06:43 AM

Lovely.

Griff 08-15-2020 06:50 AM

TIL:
Of the 50 fastest 100 meter times ever done only 15 have been run by an athlete not banned for drugs or subject to allegations of missed or failed dug tests.







Oh, all 15 were run by Usain Bolt.

monster 08-15-2020 07:47 AM

wow

Clodfobble 08-15-2020 11:07 AM

Eh. There's always time for him to get caught doping. Everybody said the same thing about how naturally great Lance Armstrong was, right up until...

Clodfobble 08-15-2020 11:12 AM

To clarify, I don't personally have a problem with doping. Because the thing is, anyone truly phenomenal at a sport has a fundamentally superior chemistry anyway, it's just a chemistry that they happen to have been born with. More efficient mitochondria, larger lungs, better oxygen utilization, above-average height--it's a myth that great athletes got where they are entirely through hard work, just like it's a myth that doping athletes no longer have to do any work. They still work their butts off, and they still provide the entertainment we're paying for. There's an argument to be made for banning fundamentally unsafe chemicals, but it should have nothing to do with "fairness," IMHO. Use the science and take the chemicals, I don't give a shit.

monster 08-15-2020 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 1056583)
Eh. There's always time for him to get caught doping. Everybody said the same thing about how naturally great Lance Armstrong was, right up until...


admittedly my first thought....

Griff 08-15-2020 03:05 PM

So of 50 he's the smart one?

Gravdigr 08-23-2020 09:20 PM

I see it more like this:

Of the 50, he's the genuine badass.

monster 08-28-2020 10:24 PM

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TIL burrowing tarantulas keep tiny frogs as working pets.

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more info from the omniscient Wiki P

Griff 08-29-2020 08:24 AM

We'll make great pets.

BigV 09-08-2020 08:42 PM

TIL

more about wasps than I knew before, particularly that I like how they taste, kinda.


monster 09-10-2020 07:19 PM

TIL Hamsters don't blink. Well not with both eyes at the same time -they only wink.

So no, it doesn't fancy you, it just has dry eyes, put the poor thing down and back away.

Gravdigr 09-10-2020 11:12 PM

...and don't forget to take the string off its hind foot.[/RichardGere]

monster 09-11-2020 07:27 PM

TIL Aussies call bed linen "Manchester"


....because Manchester was a big cotton mill town so boxes containing such items were all marked "Manchester" -not just slang, it's an official name in department stores.

Belle 09-15-2020 04:32 AM

Today i learned how too bake cake...

BigV 09-15-2020 09:22 AM

Congratulations Belle!

Gravdigr 09-15-2020 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Belle (Post 1058067)
Today i learned how too bake cake...

Now decorate it and take and post pics!

BigV 09-24-2020 08:18 PM

this guy is so damn smart.

Today I learned about the difference cycloversion and cyclovergence.



worth the 12 mins.

fargon 09-24-2020 08:31 PM

The pencil gave me a headache.

BigV 09-24-2020 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by fargon (Post 1058499)
The pencil gave me a headache.

Are you not a fan of Magic Eye?

fargon 09-24-2020 09:19 PM

All I saw was double and it gave me a headache. I knew about the muscles controlling the eye but never gave a thought to what they actually did. What I saw was very interesting.

Griff 09-25-2020 07:05 AM

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/...imarily-human/


Crows know what they know and can ponder the contents of their own minds...

sexobon 09-26-2020 11:39 PM

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xoxoxoBruce 09-26-2020 11:45 PM

Monogamy was created to benefit men.

limey 09-27-2020 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1058584)
Monogamy was created to benefit men.


SURPRISE (not).


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lumberjim 09-28-2020 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 1058534)
https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/...imarily-human/





Crows know what they know and can ponder the contents of their own minds...

We think we're so smart. Must be because we have language and can tell each other how dumb other animals are. We may be 'smarter', but why do we assume that all other animals are just rolling along on instinct? Like NPC characters in that video game you play....

Griff 09-28-2020 06:11 AM

I'm less convinced of human smarts every day. I do, however, enjoy watching crows. There is always a bit of horseplay. They tease each other constantly and there is more than little swagger in them.

BigV 09-28-2020 09:21 AM

I'm less convinced of human smarts every day. I do, however, enjoy watching crowds. There is always a bit of horseplay. They tease each other constantly and there is more than little swagger in them.

Griff 09-28-2020 11:25 AM

Ha! Maybe I need to learn to enjoy humanity as a minor creature

Gravdigr 09-28-2020 07:59 PM

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Truthiness of the above is unverified.

monster 09-29-2020 10:34 PM

TIL imPOTUS' dad's middle name was Christ. True. srsly.

Gravdigr 09-30-2020 12:18 AM

She ain't lyin'.

Griff 09-30-2020 06:28 AM

Wha?

I'm seeing Christ 2020 signs here. Context is everything.

monster 09-30-2020 03:28 PM

makes him the son of Christ.... :eek:

Gravdigr 10-18-2020 06:06 PM

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footfootfoot 10-18-2020 08:01 PM

pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth


And so on? Which sin was Maryanne? Thurston Howell=Greed, I guess. Gilligan=Sloth Gluttony? Mrs. Howell?

Need the deets!
ETA: found 'em
The Professor – Pride
Thurston Howell III - Greed
Ginger - Lust
Mary Ann - Envy (of Ginger's looks)
Mrs. Lovey Howell - Gluttony
The Skipper - Anger or wrath
Gilligan – Sloth


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