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  1. 28 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

     

     Tim ?  🙃

     

    Tim ~ Tim Allen, "Tim the Tool Man Taylor"  :rolleyes:

     

    Undoubtedly he'd use a turbocharged Q-Tip.  ^_^

     

    If it was Mike Baxter he wouldn't be painting his house ~ he'd go fishing.  :)

     

     

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  2. 14 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

    Remember when pistachios were red and your fingers would get red eating pistachios?  No more, right?

     

    back in the RED days: Iran produced the world’s pistachios and carefully supervised the harvest. In those days the nuts were collected from the ground after they ripened and fell. In that state some had reddened and some had not. To make the nuts more appealing a red dye was used to make them uniformly red.

     

    Enter an enterprising American nut smuggler…. He smuggled a few nuts out of Iran and began a pistachio orchard in California. Californians invented tree shakers which would make the trees drop their ripe nuts into collection baskets. Voilá, no more ripe nuts on the ground turning red, more need to die all the nuts.

     

    Izzat why they're now green?  :)

     

    And kudos to that "enterprising nut smuggler!!"  ^_^

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  3. As a side note:  the first three are "permanent trophies."  As such, new ones are made each year and awarded the championship team to be kept permanently.

     

    The fourth, hockey's Stanley Cup, is a "travelling trophy."  In that, it is passed on to the new season's championship team with the team's name engraved on the lower band.  (It's also the oldest North American sports trophy, having been first awarded in 1893).

     

    The bowl atop is the actual original trophy.  The lower portion is comprised of a barrel with five removable bands. When the cup runs out of room for new names, the top band is removed and the others move up one spot. Every 13 years, a band is retired and placed in the Hockey Hall of Fame.  

     

     

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  4. 8 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

     

     

      ........ so the one that's taller is not like the rest ....... what are they ???  🙃

     

    National championships ~ Vince Lombardi Trophy (football), Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy (basketball), Commissioner's Trophy (baseball),

    Stanley Cup (hockey).  :)

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