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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 2, 2021 at 3:28 pm
The company I work for is looking to change to a new software package with conversion at the beginning of the new year. Could be some busy days in the near future.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 2, 2021 at 3:32 pm
(December 2, 2021 at 3:09 pm)Angrboda Wrote: (December 2, 2021 at 2:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Apparently not.
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Boys, boys -- can't we settle this like men, with pistols at ten paces, or perhaps grenades.
This should be in the quote section, but:
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December 2, 2021 at 4:12 pm
The record for the longest pregnancy is held by Beulah Hunter who in 1945 was pregnant for a year and 10 days.
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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December 2, 2021 at 11:02 pm
The tale of Jack And The Beanstalk is over 5,000 years old and was originally known as The Boy Who Stole Ogre's Treasure. Meaning also that it is older than the Bible.
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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December 3, 2021 at 11:38 am
Kyrsten Sinema’s ringtone was revealed by CNN: It’s “the refrain from a song in the musical ‘Hamilton’ that includes the lyrics ‘you don’t have the votes.’”
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December 3, 2021 at 12:35 pm
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To my surprise, there is an actual animal called ‘the tasselled wobbegong shark’. To no one’s surprise, it’s Australian.
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December 3, 2021 at 12:38 pm
(December 3, 2021 at 12:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: To my surprise, there is an actual animal called ‘the tasselled wobbegong shark’. To no one’s surprise, it’s Australian.
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Obviously designed by Jim Henson.
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December 3, 2021 at 12:58 pm
A few hours before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. started a pillow fight in the hotel room with other civil rights leaders and won.
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?
December 3, 2021 at 4:56 pm
(December 3, 2021 at 12:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: To my surprise, there is an actual animal called ‘the tasselled wobbegong shark’. To no one’s surprise, it’s Australian.
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Well I'm surprised and I live there. Fascinating
I'm more familiar with the sharks which will eat you, or at least bite you in half and then decide they don't like the taste.
I am in actually very little danger of being bitten by a shark; last time I swam in the ocean was 1971. ,
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December 3, 2021 at 5:17 pm
(December 3, 2021 at 4:56 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: (December 3, 2021 at 12:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: To my surprise, there is an actual animal called ‘the tasselled wobbegong shark’. To no one’s surprise, it’s Australian.
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Well I'm surprised and I live there. Fascinating
I'm more familiar with the sharks which will eat you, or at least bite you in half and then decide they don't like the taste.
I am in actually very little danger of being bitten by a shark; last time I swam in the ocean was 1971. ,
You could swim in the ocean every single day and still be in very little danger of a shark bite.
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