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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 30, 2021 at 1:40 am
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(October 28, 2021 at 5:06 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (October 28, 2021 at 4:36 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That I'm a little bit jealous of The Wife. She does what I wish I could do, the way I wish I would do it, and other people see her as I wish to be seen.
Good on her, don't get me wrong...but fucking how? How did she do it?
Wow, now I’M a little bit jealous of your wife.
Boru
Right...I mean? If I say that the question is a bit hyperbolic, and that the answer is hard soul crushing unnoticed work over decades...then it might lose a little bit of allure, but not fuckin much. We all did that, most of us didn't come out the other end with hamingja. They're gonna put a bust of her up at town hall someday out here in nowheresville. Nine out of ten people in this county got their jobs from her directly over the past decade. As in she knows their names and their kids names and how much left they have on their mortgage and how many payments they've missed, and can miss, without losing their houses. Most of the time, I get confused with one of her employees, lol. They're not entirely wrong. The girl would have been some kind of impossibly benevolent warlord in a previous life.
I think she should run for office...but she wont.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 30, 2021 at 3:50 am
During the filming of 'The Wizard of Oz', Frank Morgan, the actor who played the Wizard, said he wanted a coat that looked both elegant and a bit shabby at the same time. The wardrobe department purchased an entire rack of second-hand coats for Morgan to choose from.
During a rehearsal, Morgan turned out one of the coat's pockets and found a label saying that the garment had been made for L. Frank Baum, author of the 'Oz' books. MGM contacted Baum's widow, who confirmed that the coat was her husband's. After filming the garment was returned to her.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 30, 2021 at 4:53 am
Navy tradition allows for sailors to have their babies baptized in their ship's bell. The name of the baby is then engraved inside the bell as a permanent record.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 30, 2021 at 5:14 am
(October 30, 2021 at 1:40 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (October 28, 2021 at 5:06 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Wow, now I’M a little bit jealous of your wife.
Boru
Right...I mean? If I say that the question is a bit hyperbolic, and that the answer is hard soul crushing unnoticed work over decades...then it might lose a little bit of allure, but not fuckin much. We all did that, most of us didn't come out the other end with hamingja. They're gonna put a bust of her up at town hall someday out here in nowheresville. Nine out of ten people in this county got their jobs from her directly over the past decade. As in she knows their names and their kids names and how much left they have on their mortgage and how many payments they've missed, and can miss, without losing their houses. Most of the time, I get confused with one of her employees, lol. They're not entirely wrong. The girl would have been some kind of impossibly benevolent warlord in a previous life.
I think she should run for office...but she wont.
My own missus has been asked more than once (both here and in NI) to stand for office, her usual response is that she’s not politic enough for politics.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 1, 2021 at 5:51 am
There’s a retired American baseball player named Rusty Kuntz, and I could not be happier about it.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 1, 2021 at 2:59 pm
Facebook is really, truly greedy. (Okay, duh, but my wife has filled me in on their sophisticated, hypocritical, algorithms.)
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 1, 2021 at 4:42 pm
(November 1, 2021 at 5:51 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There’s a retired American baseball player named Rusty Kuntz, and I could not be happier about it.
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An original game designers of D&D is named Rob Kuntz.
He should have been a highwayman.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 1, 2021 at 5:12 pm
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(November 1, 2021 at 4:42 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (November 1, 2021 at 5:51 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There’s a retired American baseball player named Rusty Kuntz, and I could not be happier about it.
Boru
An original game designers of D&D is named Rob Kuntz.
He should have been a highwayman.
Here in Oz the name Wayne King is not as uncommon as one might think. The saving grace is that in Oz 'Wayne' is usually pronounced 'Whine'.
I once had to interview a man whose family name was Kuhnt. I just softened it as much as I could.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 1, 2021 at 5:14 pm
(November 1, 2021 at 5:12 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: (November 1, 2021 at 4:42 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: An original game designers of D&D is named Rob Kuntz.
He should have been a highwayman.
Here in Oz the name Wayne King is not as uncommon as one might think. The saving grace is that in Oz 'Wayne' is usually pronounced 'Whine'.
I once had to interview a man whose family name was Kuhnt. No one knew, so I went with the soft 'K'. 
Greetings from a Sydney native exiled in Kiwiland.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 1, 2021 at 5:35 pm
(November 1, 2021 at 5:14 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (November 1, 2021 at 5:12 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: Here in Oz the name Wayne King is not as uncommon as one might think. The saving grace is that in Oz 'Wayne' is usually pronounced 'Whine'.
I once had to interview a man whose family name was Kuhnt. No one knew, so I went with the soft 'K'.
Greetings from a Sydney native exiled in Kiwiland.
I can think of a lot of worse places to be exiled.
I love Sydney, but wouldn't live there on a bet. If I couldn't live here in Adelaide, I'd probably live in Canada (mum was Canadian and I've been there a couple of times) Or England ; spent a bit of time there and loved it before that bleached blond bloke with the cultivated scruffy look was put in charge. London is my favourite city, but I'd probably live somewhere like Cambridgeshire.
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