Useless fun fact-ish type stuff

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

 

 

 ...... heart beat and brain function ......  🙃

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

18 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

That has suited me well over the years, but now I'm old enough I can't think of any mistakes I haven't made already. 

[Blackwater 53393]

My uncle John said that he had NEVER made a mistake!

 

”I’ve screwed up more times than I can count, but it was never by mistake!”

 

😜

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

20 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

That has suited me well over the years, but now I'm old enough I can't think of any mistakes I haven't made already. 

Forty, I have full confidence that you'll find plenty more. Just give it time. Give it time.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

6 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

 

Forty, I have full confidence that you'll find plenty more. Just give it time. Give it time.

Sarge, I'm 83 years old.  I don't know that I have much time left.  At my age I could go any minute.  I might not even live to finish this senten

[Eyesa Horg]

10 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 

 ...... heart beat and brain function ......  🙃

An early Harley and a lever action!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

The modern doorknob was patented in 1878.

[Sedalia Dave]

48 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

The modern doorknob was patented in 1878.

 

What do they consider a "modern" door knob? I have picture of round door knobs with surface mount latch / lock assemblies from 1856.  The same style of door latches were on the interior doors in the first house I remember growing up in. The house was build by under the WPA program during the depression.

 

My current house is 100 years old and it has morticed door latches on the original outside door.

 

These pics are from the Steamboat Arabia Museum in Kansas City. 
 

 

 

 

 

[Alpo]

2 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

What do they consider a "modern" door knob

Maybe a modern door knob would be spring latch. Before the modern door, you would not only have to turn the knob to open the door but you would have to turn the knob to shut the door.

 

Just a thought. I have no idea if that is correct.

[Sedalia Dave]

Closeup of the surface mount Door latches.

 

 

 

 

I believe the correct term for that style of lock was "Rim Lock"

Picture of one mounted to a door.

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Why were barns traditionally painted red? Early farmers painted their barns with a protective coating of linseed oil to keep the wood from weathering. They often mixed the oil with animal blood or ferrous oxide, which prevented the growth of mold and fungi and also gave the paint a distinctive red-orange color.

[John Kloehr]

12 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Why were barns traditionally painted red? Early farmers painted their barns with a protective coating of linseed oil to keep the wood from weathering. They often mixed the oil with animal blood or ferrous oxide, which prevented the growth of mold and fungi and also gave the paint a distinctive red-orange color.

Often also with milk and lime as these added some durability and thickness to the coating. The ferrous oxide (rust) reduced fungus and mold. At some point, red lead was also added (and white lead for trim) as these also increased durability.

 

Bedrooms were painted green (with copper carbonate) as this coating controlled bed bugs.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.

 

such a little tittle.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[Eyesa Horg]

If I owe $100, pay back $2, I still owe a total of $98. I pay Mom and Dad back another $49 each and the $100 debt is repaid. Somehow I made a buck from the original change! 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

The only primates with blue eyes are black lemurs and some spider monkeys

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

[John Kloehr]

20 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

If I owe $100, pay back $2, I still owe a total of $98. I pay Mom and Dad back another $49 each and the $100 debt is repaid. Somehow I made a buck from the original change! 

 

 

 

 

[Sedalia Dave]

21 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

If I owe $100, pay back $2, I still owe a total of $98. I pay Mom and Dad back another $49 each and the $100 debt is repaid. Somehow I made a buck from the original change! 

New math

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

During the gold rush in Montana, prospectors discarded the blue rocks that were clogging their sluices.  They were sapphires.

[Alpo]

I recall reading of Spanish miners in the Americas who washed up "green gold" in their sluices, and threw it back into the river to finish ripening.

 

It was Platinum.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

In the summer of 1813, Mary Pickersgill (1776–1857) was contracted to sew two flags for Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. The one that became the Star-Spangled Banner was a 30 x 42–foot garrison flag; the other was a 17 x 25–foot storm flag for use in inclement weather.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 1/20/2025 at 11:46 PM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Sloths move so slowly that moss and algae grow on their fur. I’ve known some guys like that.

[Blackwater 53393]

The dead DO come back to life!!

 

Don’t believe it??

 

Just stand beside the time clock at quitting time!!

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

 

 

   ............ but DON'T stand in front of it .............  

 

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