In 1984, Stephen King sold the film rights to ‘Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption’ to his friend Frank Darabont for $5000, but never cashed the cheque. When the film adaptation was released ten years later, King had the cheque framed and mailed it to Darabont with the note, ‘I’m returning this in case you ever need bail money.’

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Wow, the effort some guys would make to see the lady parts is astounding

(August 9, 2021 at 1:06 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Wow, the effort some guys would make to see the lady parts is astounding

A friend of mine was with Police Explorers as a teen in high school, and they ran into the same thing. That joker reached up and grabbed the gal, though. I guess just looking wasn't enough. smh

Woodchucks will eat milkweed, a toxic plant. 

Not very toxic to woodchucks, sounds like.

In 1979, homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they "felt gay."

Parrots eat cornbread, I had no clue. Must be a southern thing.

Quote:Some 40 Hungarian husbands, with their wives on their backs, clambered over rough terrain on Saturday in the nation's second wife-carrying contest.

A previous race in October attracted only a dozen couples.

"We have just emerged from a difficult period due to the coronavirus and we need to go and have fun in the open air," Gergely Guraly, who organised the race, told Reuters.

Guraly began preparations in January for the contest, which is said to have origins dating back to the Viking age.

In modern times, the tradition is particularly established in Finland, where it has taken place since the 1990s.

Estonian races have lent their name to the Estonian style of wife-carrying, with the wife upside down and her feet over her husband's shoulders, rather than a classic piggyback.

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(August 10, 2021 at 1:57 pm)brewer Wrote: Parrots eat cornbread, I had no clue. Must be a southern thing.

LOL

In order to sneak some vitamins and minerals into my parrots' diets I had to get creative. I make a small box of cornbread with an extra egg and the shells crushed into it and add about a 1/3 cup of vitamin/mineral pellets and then some frozen mixed veggies. I bake it longer than the mix calls for to bake out some of the added moisture then cut into one inch squares. Each parrot gets a square daily along with their fresh seeds and water. I don't remember where I first heard of doing something similar but they love it. Whoever inherits them will be needing the recipe.

(August 10, 2021 at 2:11 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(August 10, 2021 at 1:57 pm)brewer Wrote: Parrots eat cornbread, I had no clue. Must be a southern thing.

LOL

In order to sneak some vitamins and minerals into my parrots' diets I had to get creative.  I make a small box of cornbread with an extra egg and the shells crushed into it and add about a 1/3 cup of vitamin/mineral pellets and then some frozen mixed veggies.  I bake it longer than the mix calls for to bake out some of the added moisture then cut into one inch squares.  Each parrot gets a square daily along with their fresh seeds and water.  I don't remember where I first heard of doing something similar but they love it.  Whoever inherits them will be needing the recipe.

Fortified hardtack, kinda, got it. 

Do you give them rib bones instead of cuttlebones?