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Palama Offline
#1051 Posted: Thu, Dec 28 2023, 3:27 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
spectacular pink clouds are caused by air pollution


A bit paradoxical. Gonz
tonygraz Offline
#1052 Posted: Fri, Dec 29 2023, 2:32 PM EST
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It's called the Barbie Effect.
Gene363 Offline
#1053 Posted: Sat, Dec 30 2023, 10:13 PM EST
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When baking for the holidays DO NOT Google: cream pies

Google: cream pie recipes
Ram27 Offline
#1054 Posted: Thu, Jan 11 2024, 1:51 PM EST
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The 1996 calendar is the exact day's of the month as the 2024 calendar. Think
tonygraz Offline
#1055 Posted: Fri, Jan 12 2024, 6:21 PM EST
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You may have too many calendars. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
8trackdisco Offline
#1056 Posted: Thu, Jan 25 2024, 9:59 AM EST
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Frederick Chopin’s Minute Waltz is actually a minute and 49 seconds. Think
deadeyedick Offline
#1057 Posted: Fri, Jan 26 2024, 7:41 AM EST
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The oceans are 71% of the earths surface but we know more about the surface of Mars than we do of the oceans floors which contain more varied topography than the land.
frankj1 Offline
#1058 Posted: Fri, Jan 26 2024, 5:31 PM EST
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"Bearded Vultures are among the world's most unusual birds: an adult's diet consists mostly of bones, which they often drop from on high to break up into smaller pieces before consuming.
For centuries these birds were greatly misunderstood. Europeans falsely believed them to be predators that terrorized livestock and people, leading to their widespread persecution.

"In the Alps, the last of these scavengers was killed in 1913. Now, thanks to a reintroduction effort, the alpine's species' majestic silhouette is again soaring over the region's snowy granite peaks."

Audubon
Winter 2023 issue
Stogie1020 Offline
#1059 Posted: Fri, Jan 26 2024, 6:54 PM EST
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There is such a a thing as "too much silicone spray" on the bottom of a flat plastic snow sled.
MidnightToker( • )( • ) Offline
#1060 Posted: Fri, Feb 2 2024, 11:37 PM EST
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The oldest living American (a female of course) turns 116 on Feb. 5th.
The oldest living human is already 116, a woman in Spain
deadeyedick Offline
#1061 Posted: Sun, Feb 4 2024, 8:24 AM EST
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In 1950 the average broiler chicken weighed about 2 lbs and now weighs about 5 lbs and has 80% larger breast due to selective breeding.

Which reminds me:

https://www.cigarbid.com...HE-SUPERBOWL#post4747997
dkeage Offline
#1062 Posted: Sun, Feb 4 2024, 10:12 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
In 1950 the average broiler chicken weighed about 2 lbs and now weighs about 5 lbs and has 80% larger breast due to selective breeding.

Which reminds me:

https://www.cigarbid.com...HE-SUPERBOWL#post4747997



Yeah, right…. Brick wall
8trackdisco Offline
#1063 Posted: Sun, Feb 4 2024, 2:52 PM EST
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Professional wrestler, Terry Funk died in 2023 at the age of 79.

Don’t know of any wrestler that went trough that much punishment for such a long time and still live to almost 80.
deadeyedick Offline
#1064 Posted: Sun, Feb 4 2024, 5:06 PM EST
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dkeage wrote:
Yeah, right…. Brick wall


Would ya believe elective surgery?
deadeyedick Offline
#1065 Posted: Sun, Feb 4 2024, 5:18 PM EST
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The little recipe I get when I check out a book at the local library says:

Mustang Library

Friday, January 19, 2024 12:50:34 PM

Item # xxxxxxxxx

Due: 2/2/2024

You just saved: $19.66
You have saved: $1,188.88 this past year.
You have saved $18,8344.57 since you began using the library.

The inside of the jacket says the book retails for $29.99 in the USA so I assume the difference is the retail price vs the library price but since my local taxes are used to support the library I have not saved that much.
dkeage Offline
#1066 Posted: Sun, Feb 4 2024, 5:22 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Would ya believe elective surgery?

Sure thing A-Rod…..
8trackdisco Offline
#1067 Posted: Thu, Feb 15 2024, 8:44 PM EST
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The hyoid bone is the only bone in the human body that is not directly connected to any other bone. It is located in the neck, between the lower jaw and the larynx (voice box), and serves as an attachment point for muscles involved in swallowing and speech.
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#1068 Posted: Thu, Feb 15 2024, 10:45 PM EST
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Charmin Ultra Soft Smooth Tear is the greatest invention since...Charmin Ultra Soft

them wavy perforations tear like ya read about.
HockeyDad Offline
#1069 Posted: Thu, Feb 15 2024, 10:49 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
Charmin Ultra Soft Smooth Tear is the greatest invention since...Charmin Ultra Soft

them wavy perforations tear like ya read about.


I agree.
MidnightToker( • )( • ) Offline
#1070 Posted: Fri, Feb 16 2024, 4:35 PM EST
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As long as it doesn't tear on the chocolate starfish.
Gene363 Offline
#1071 Posted: Fri, Feb 16 2024, 6:05 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
Charmin Ultra Soft Smooth Tear is the greatest invention since...Charmin Ultra Soft

them wavy perforations tear like ya read about.


Not after you get a heated bidet, just saying.
delta1 Offline
#1072 Posted: Sat, Feb 17 2024, 7:45 PM EST
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thanks for the "cream pies" tip, Gene...
delta1 Offline
#1073 Posted: Sat, Feb 17 2024, 7:47 PM EST
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doncha just hate toilet paper that tears in the middle of the sheet, but not along the perforation???
corey sellers Offline
#1074 Posted: Sat, Feb 17 2024, 7:47 PM EST
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I hate when I get **** one my fingers . Just sayin
deadeyedick Offline
#1075 Posted: Mon, Feb 26 2024, 11:44 AM EST
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We have a leap year every four years to keep the calendar year 365 days, in line with the solar year, which is 365 1/4 days long. It's actually 365 1/4 days minus 11 minutes.

To make up for that, we skip leap year three times every 400 years. We skip in years that are evenly divisable by 400. Blink
danmdevries Offline
#1076 Posted: Mon, Feb 26 2024, 11:47 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
We have a leap year every four years to keep the calendar year 365 days, in line with the solar year, which is 365 1/4 days long. It's actually 365 1/4 days minus 11 minutes.

To make up for that, we skip leap year three times every 400 years. We skip in years that are evenly divisable by 400. Blink


So where were you and what were you doing the last time we skipped a leap year? fog
JGRAZ Offline
#1077 Posted: Mon, Feb 26 2024, 12:10 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
We have a leap year every four years to keep the calendar year 365 days, in line with the solar year, which is 365 1/4 days long. It's actually 365 1/4 days minus 11 minutes.

To make up for that, we skip leap year three times every 400 years. We skip in years that are evenly divisable by 400. Blink


You must have read the same article I did this morning.
deadeyedick Offline
#1078 Posted: Tue, Feb 27 2024, 8:23 AM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
So where were you and what were you doing the last time we skipped a leap year? fog


"Perhaps I'll be a single drop of rain, but I will still remain, and I'll be back again."
tonygraz Offline
#1079 Posted: Tue, Feb 27 2024, 1:22 PM EST
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If we skip 3 times every 400 years, then how could they be divisible evenly by 400 ?
MidnightToker( • )( • ) Offline
#1080 Posted: Tue, Feb 27 2024, 11:52 PM EST
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Think
dkeage Offline
#1081 Posted: Wed, Feb 28 2024, 8:27 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
"Perhaps I'll be a single drop of rain, but I will still remain, and I'll be back again."

Huh…..Rick is a Highwayman…Think
JGRAZ Offline
#1082 Posted: Wed, Feb 28 2024, 9:22 AM EST
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tonygraz wrote:
If we skip 3 times every 400 years, then how could they be divisible evenly by 400 ?



Its not, thats where the 11 min comes into play......I guess
delta1 Offline
#1083 Posted: Wed, Feb 28 2024, 7:58 PM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
So where were you and what were you doing the last time we skipped a leap year? fog



that was Y2K ...I was huddled in a very deep dark cave...
danmdevries Offline
#1084 Posted: Wed, Feb 28 2024, 7:59 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
that was Y2K ...I was huddled in a very deep dark cave...


I realized after I posted that jab at ded that 2000 would've been one of those years. I didn't math it out.
tonygraz Offline
#1085 Posted: Thu, Feb 29 2024, 5:27 PM EST
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I was up to ring in the new year and see if the internet had blown up.
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#1086 Posted: Wed, Mar 13 2024, 8:48 PM EST
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Bruce Springsteen only wrote one, #1 song. And even that song was edited/changed from "the boss's" original penning. The Man (err Mann) that made some adjustments to it was Blinded By the Light. It reached #1 for Manfred Mann'a Earth Band.
deadeyedick Offline
#1087 Posted: Thu, Mar 14 2024, 8:04 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Bruce Springsteen only wrote one, #1 song. And even that song was edited/changed from "the boss's" original penning. The Man (err Mann) that made some adjustments to it was Blinded By the Light. It reached #1 for Manfred Mann'a Earth Band.


Never understood what those lyrics were supposed to be about. Teenage exuberance ?

Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
8trackdisco Offline
#1088 Posted: Thu, Mar 14 2024, 8:15 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Never understood what those lyrics were supposed to be about. Teenage exuberance ?

Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night


Yes.
About the journey of a kid through teenage coming of age, opportunity, hope, fear. Running into the uncertainty of the night and future.

Lots to decode on that one for sure.

Found it on a podcast called Behind the Songs. Most stories are done under 15 minutes.

My wife accuses me of not knowing half the words to the songs. She’s wrong. I know far less than half the words. That doesn’t stop me from singing!
Gene363 Offline
#1089 Posted: Thu, Mar 21 2024, 1:39 PM EST
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Japanese Nisei - 442nd Most Decorated Unit WW2 - Forgotten History

Quote:
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit, is remembered for its brave actions in World War II. Despite the odds, the 442nd’s actions distinguished them as the most decorated unit in the history of the US military. Hosted by Colin D. Heaton. The Forgotten History Channel is a 10th Legion Pictures Production.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tj5jA9jKU0
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#1090 Posted: Thu, Mar 21 2024, 3:10 PM EST
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Michel Lotito is in the Guinness book of world records for successfully eating an entire Cessna 150 airplane by cutting it into small pieces and eating it over a large span of time.
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#1091 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2024, 9:55 AM EST
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March 26, 1953:Dr. Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a polio vaccine.

Salk, a research director at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, said the vaccine had given 90 people protective antibodies against the three types of polio without making them sick. The next year saw close to 2 million children participating in clinical trials of Salk’s vaccine, and in 1955 it was declared safe and effective. After a national inoculation campaign, the number of polio cases fell from 35,000 in 1953 to 161 by 1961, according to the National Library of Medicine. Salk declined to patent the vaccine, and when asked who owned it, he famously answered, “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
Gene363 Offline
#1092 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2024, 11:28 AM EST
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rfenst wrote:
March 26, 1953:Dr. Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a polio vaccine.

Salk, a research director at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, said the vaccine had given 90 people protective antibodies against the three types of polio without making them sick. The next year saw close to 2 million children participating in clinical trials of Salk’s vaccine, and in 1955 it was declared safe and effective. After a national inoculation campaign, the number of polio cases fell from 35,000 in 1953 to 161 by 1961, according to the National Library of Medicine. Salk declined to patent the vaccine, and when asked who owned it, he famously answered, “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”


He saved a massive amount of human suffering, pre-COVID anti-vaccination people be dammed.
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#1093 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2024, 7:13 PM EST
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The government is managing your speed- unless you own a sports car.

Learned from a mechanic today this has been the standard “for a while”. Most vehicles are governed in the lower 100 mphs.
But if you have a higher end car, you shall not be slowed.

You can go to a dealership and request the restriction be removed/recoded. The cost varies. In general, $600 to $1,100. Some refuse to do it.
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#1094 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2024, 12:04 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
The government is managing your speed- unless you own a sports car.

Learned from a mechanic today this has been the standard “for a while”. Most vehicles are governed in the lower 100 mphs.
But if you have a higher end car, you shall not be slowed.

You can go to a dealership and request the restriction be removed/recoded. The cost varies. In general, $600 to $1,100. Some refuse to do it.

It's not the government requiring restrictions. The automakers govern certain cars to protect them against lawsuits like the one against Chevy from a Corvette tire blowing out.

It has to do with the tires. Tires are rated for a max speed. So whatever max speed the factory tires are rated for the car is governed to so they can't be sued. Sports cars are sold with sports tires rated at higher speeds so they're either not governed or possibly governed high. I've heard older Corvettes were governed to 188 mph.
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#1095 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2024, 6:16 AM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
He saved a massive amount of human suffering, pre-COVID anti-vaccination people be dammed.


And guess what?? If you got that vaccine (and it was a vaccine) you did NOT get Polio. Imagine that!!

No boosters, no bullsheit.
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#1096 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2024, 8:52 AM EST
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MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:
It's not the government requiring restrictions. The automakers govern certain cars to protect them against lawsuits like the one against Chevy from a Corvette tire blowing out.

It has to do with the tires. Tires are rated for a max speed. So whatever max speed the factory tires are rated for the car is governed to so they can't be sued. Sports cars are sold with sports tires rated at higher speeds so they're either not governed or possibly governed high. I've heard older Corvettes were governed to 188 mph.


Thanks for the finer point. Where did you gain your knowledge from? When did this governing bs start?

It’s a right of passage to drive cars way too fast. This is unamerican!
Gene363 Offline
#1097 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2024, 9:16 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
And guess what?? If you got that vaccine (and it was a vaccine) you did NOT get Polio. Imagine that!!

No boosters, no bullsheit.


Yup, and smallpox too, considered to have been eliminated from the human race, though smallpox samples do still existing bolas around the world. The elimination of smallpox is one of the very free examples of world wide human cooperation that worked.
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#1098 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2024, 10:35 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Thanks for the finer point. Where did you gain your knowledge from? When did this governing bs start?

It’s a right of passage to drive cars way too fast. This is unamerican!


YEAH! Why the hell would they govern my truck at 104!? And why the hell would I be driving a truck that fast!!

Might be American to do so, but it ain't wicked smaahht.
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#1099 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2024, 10:57 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Thanks for the finer point. Where did you gain your knowledge from? When did this governing bs start?

It’s a right of passage to drive cars way too fast. This is unamerican!



Years ago I had a 95 Chevy Caprice Classic with an LT1 and some special lights and equipment and it was governed at 132. Apparently.
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#1100 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2024, 1:41 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
YEAH! Why the hell would they govern my truck at 104!? And why the hell would I be driving a truck that fast!!

Might be American to do so, but it ain't wicked smaahht.


I know a teenager that drove a Ford six cylinder PU truck with two ply retreaded tires over 100 mph transferring a Zenith 25 inch color TV to another store. "They said hurry up and get it there before closing." so I did. Whistle
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