Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984
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23 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Somebody needs to inform Google translate.
As my teacher told us, don’t use google translate. That’s why I have a huge effing dictionary.
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I hope that for starships quantum computing will be obsolete tech.
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On 4/12/2024 at 11:15 AM, Alpo said:
It says Fri - Mon in Ukrainian.
Only thing I can come up with is wipe your butt on Putin on the weekend.
Now this would kind of make sense
пн - нд
That says Mon - Sun (while our week goes Sunday through Saturday, eastern European week goes Monday through Sunday), so wipe your butt on Putin all week long. But just on the weekend?
I don't get it.
Much of the world is Monday to Sunday. Think about it, “On the seventh day, the Lord rested.”
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On 4/12/2024 at 9:05 AM, Alpo said:
I translated the caption - Friday Monday - but I'm missing the joke.
It translates to a familiar four letter Anglo-Saxon verb.
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46 minutes ago, Three Foot Johnson said:
A DC3? I've always read it was a Douglas dive bomber.
Wikipedia says
QuoteWhile returning from a prearranged tryst[30] in Seattle, he was a passenger on a Douglas AD bomber that ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean near Point Reyes.[31][32] Using a life raft, he and the pilot swam 2 miles (3.2 km) to safety.[33] Eastwood was discharged in February 1953.[34]
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1 hour ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:
The Snitches objected to the term, deemed it derogatory and formed a union.
Once unionized, they decided "Snitch" was indeed an objectionable word and hired consultants to research the matter and come up with a non-offensive descriptive word to describe themselves and their members.
After a number of years, several progress reports and a few million dollars, funded from dues, it was decided by the union executive to put the matter to a vote, that thereafter, they would be referred to as a "SOURCE" "UNNAMED SOURCE" or "A SOURCE CLOSE TO ......)
The voting was administered and the votes tabulated by an independent accounting firm and the results presented to the Executive.
And now you know.
I’m surprised they didn’t get a gov’t grant to fund the research.
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I remember an infestation. It was really loud for a couple weeks and then softer and softer until the fall when the remaining bachelors just died.
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When I was in Germany and the carnivals came around, a dog tag doubled for the one mark coin that operated the dodgem. Use the tag with the small chain so you could pull it back out and re-use it.
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3 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
And he likes to play with dolls…go figure.
Male dolls!
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There's a story about an athletic young guy who was born in the great depression in 1930, didn't finish high school, who worked in several manual jobs, got married young, then drafted into the army where he worked as a life guard and was onboard a DC3 that crashed into the sea and had to swim two miles to the land, before going off to Hollywood at the age of 23 to try his luck. He found some small uncredited roles in mid 1950s B movies, but was ultimately sacked by Universal studios after being told he was in the wrong career, that his style was too wooden, his delivery of dialogue was too unusual as he didnt’t open his mouth very much, at 6ft 4 he was too tall and his pronounced Adams apple made him unlikely to ever have a career in Hollywood.
He struggled to get by for about three years but got the odd one off acting job in TV working alongside people like James Garner. When in 1958, another new Western set TV series called ‘Rawhide' was being cast someone remembered him and suggested the producers audition him.
I’ve often wondered what happened to the young man after that. I heard he did quite well.
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What sounds extremely wrong, but is actually correct? Wheel was patented in 2001.
Calling it a “circular transportation facilitation device”, a man named John Keogh was issued an innovation patent by the Australia Patent Office. Here was the design he included in the application:
The claims of the invention are as follows:
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A transportation facilitation device including:-
- a circular rim;
- a bearing in which a hollow cylindrical member is rotatable about a rod situated within the hollow cylindrical member; and
- a series of connecting members connecting the circular rim and the hollow cylindrical member in substantially fixed relation; wherein the rod is positioned on axis perpendicular to the plane of the circular rim, and substantially central of the circular rim.
- A transportation facilitation device in accordance with claim 1, wherein a rubber layer is provided on an outer surface of the circular rim.
- A transportation facilitation device in accordance with claim 2, wherein the rubber layer includes an inflatable tube.
However, unlike many aspiring “inventors” out there, Keogh’s intention was simply to demonstrate the weakness of the new patent system introduced earlier that year, which was designed to provide small businesses an easier way to apply for new patents.
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Keogh, himself a freelance patent lawyer, felt that the system was too loose and prone to be misused by patent trolls.
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This “achievement” didn’t go unnoticed. In that very same year, the Ig Nobel prize in Technology was jointly awarded to John Keogh for patenting the wheel, and the Australian Patent Office for granting him Innovation Patent #2001100012 (Ig Nobel prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize, awarding trivial or unusual achievement by humanity).
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Although the patent was quietly revoked several years after, Keogh remains as an example of somebody who succeeded in reinventing the wheel. Literally.
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A transportation facilitation device including:-
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There are a lot of upstairs windows that could be a problem for the square in the base note.
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Did new cars always come out in the fall of the previous year?
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36 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
So, if this star is 3000 light-years away didn’t this event occur 3000 years ago?
Yes and this will be the 38th time it has happened in that interval, unless the dynamics of the two stars have changed.
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I think the ones I used for competition were 11, 13, & 17.
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1 minute ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
But if I start with my LARGEST soup pot I'll STILL need a larger one, but I won't have it!
I have a 17 qt.)))
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“Heat large soup pot”
Come on now you know you will need the bigger one.
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Not available to pards in Oz.
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A wedding photo went around the world after it went viral on the internet. In it we see a groom and a bride sitting next to each other, holding hands.
Do not look at each other, the young woman cries while the man looks down. What can that mean? Did he offend her just before the ceremony?
Did he change his mind? Did he tell her it was announced at the last minute that she had to go to the front?
Did he confess to her about the wrong things he had done in the past? Not at all!
Corporal Caleb Earwood wished to have a moment of prayer with his future wife before he married. The prayer was dedicated to their future marriage.
And as there is a tradition that says that the groom should not see the bride before the wedding, the two did not look at each other, just held hands. And they prayed together.
The photographer who took the photo confessed that this was one of the most emotional moments he captured in his entire career at a wedding.
The groom and the bride had, immediately after this unique and special moment, an intimate ceremony near a lake.
We hope that the prayer regarding their marriage has been heard!
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From wikipedia
QuoteAsbestos contamination[edit]
Although not all vermiculite contains asbestos, some products were made with vermiculite that contained asbestos until the early 1990s.[9] Vermiculite mines throughout the world are now regularly tested for it and are supposed to sell products that contain no asbestos. The former vermiculite mine in Libby, Montana, did have tremolite asbestos as well as winchite and richterite (both fibrous amphiboles)—in fact, it was formed underground through essentially the same geologic processes as the contaminants.
Pure vermiculite does not contain asbestos and is non-toxic. Impure vermiculite may contain, apart from asbestos, also minor diopside or remnants of the precursor minerals biotite or phlogopite.
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Can we bribe you to kidnap someone?
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About 1900?
Hidden Ball Trick Wins the Game
in SASS Wire Saloon
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Hard to see on a small screen but I eventually figured it out.