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The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
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The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
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George Harrison, unknown, unrecognized, visiting his sister in the USA, Sept., 1963, Empire State Building. His sister, Louise lived at 113 McCann Street, Benton, Ill. Just 4 months later, same guy, same haircut, returning in triumph to New York, mobbed like the second coming. -
Bloody hell. Stay safe, you hear?
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The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
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Can you hear me? Eh? -
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Inspired by the above: How do you find how heavy a Cetacean is? Use a whale weigh station. -
The two Chechen wars (the second one under Putin) accounted for 25,000 civilian deaths and 5,000 missing. Scorched earth, Grosny levelled, mass graves. Sound familiar, twenty years on?
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Woohoo - that must be a weight off! Great news Ric. Been there recently so I know exactly the nervousness waiting for the result. Mine took a bit longer to heal than expected because the bone headed nurse that took the stitches out, left a fragment in and that got infected, which was not fun.
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A belated one! Hope it was a great day Tyler.
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The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
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Or - how big is your organ? Very big - in Atlantic City The list of stops is bewildering in its own right http://www.organrecitals.com/acch.php It is apparently the largest pipe organ in the world, physically the largest single instrument, and the loudest musical instrument ever constructed. -
The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
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The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
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Reminds of the scene in Naked Gun: -
Hope it was a great day! Happy birthday Doug!!
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No - it looks real https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60927032 which includes the answer to some of those questions. This is son-of-Dyson, Jake, who runs his own company bankrolled by his father. He was the guy who introduced an LED adjustable and counterbalanced light that cost £ or $600.
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Er - where are the batteries to (a) operate the pumps (b) operate the noise cancelling and (c) amplify the audio; which comes from precisely where? And since a person while walking might breathe in 20-30 liters per minute (100 when exercising), the pumps would have to deliver at least 0.5 liters per second even for someone walking around. And how often do you have to replace the filters? Unless it really is a sophisticated just pre April 1st hoax.
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The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
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At least he lasted longer than Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Amy Winehouse, who all exited at 27.
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The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
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Ha ha ha! Brilliant. -
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Bloody hell. Smith went from having a laugh to full on aggression in a second. He needs therapy, real bad. -
Apparently he had a cocktail of ten substances in his body. Sad though his death is at the too young age of 50, and a superb drummer, it is little wonder he failed to wake up.
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He has two.
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I've posted this before, but Carl Sagan's commentary is worth repeating here. The image is called Pale Blue Dot, and was taken by Voyager 1 from about the same distance Neptune (6 billion km). Although the Earth is clearly blue, it is actually only 0.12 of a pixel in Voyager's camera. "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
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The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
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The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
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At least they got one vowel correct. The only vowel, grantd. -
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My mother's maiden name is Styants, which is pretty unusual (like Samost). Because it is so strange it is easy to trace back. I've got as far as the late 1600's, but its root is the Anglo-Saxon Stigand. In fact the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1066 when William of Normandy invaded was called Stigand. But clergy back then would commonly take a wife or two, and/or other women, so who knows - I might date back to a very naughty Archbishop 960 years ago.