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[Anomalocaris]

The man who was Kurt Russell’s stunt double for 25 years has the manliest name ever: Dick Warlock.

Boru

his other name is less virile.  Dick Lemming

[Rev. Rye]

Apparently, The Unbearable Lightness of Being is one of the most popular novels in Iran. Evidently, it’s gone through 30 printings since its initial Farsi publication in 1986 (at least as of 2012).

[Anomalocaris]

Apparently, The Unbearable Lightness of Being is one of the most popular novels in Iran. Evidently, it’s gone through 30 printings since its initial Farsi publication in 1986 (at least as of 2012).

That seems to be quite expected.    When you look at the opportunities available to at least the educated parts of the society, both Iran now and communist society as it existed in Czechoslovakia of 1968 bear more than passing resemblance.      Neither are not exactly the dystopian hellhole we like to cynically characterize them.    But in both societies there is keen appreciation that there still exist artificially imposed gaps in opportunities when compared to the west, and the gaps are imposed to maintain the power of the ruling class. 

In both societies,  there are enough freedoms for people to explore what kind of freedoms are denied them.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The man who was Kurt Russell’s stunt double for 25 years has the manliest name ever: Dick Warlock.

Boru

his other name is less virile.  Dick Lemming

*Leming.

Boru

[LinuxGal]

[Bucky Ball]

It appears to be a fraud. 
All the recent dead popes laid in state for a rather lengthy time, for all to see, and as far as I can tell none of them 
were "mutilated" at any point in their post-mortem period. They may have been "tapped" ceremonially but I can see no evidence for this as an actual proof of death. 
The silver hammer was used to smash the papal ring.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hammer-time/

They did check that new popes had testicles for a while, after Pope Joan manages to get through election.
LOL

[LinuxGal]

The oldest printed book in the Huntington Library isn’t its Gutenberg Bible, but a Chinese Buddhist text nearly four centuries older. 

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It appears to be a fraud. 
All the recent dead popes laid in state for a rather lengthy time, for all to see, and as far as I can tell none of them 
were "mutilated" at any point in their post-mortem period. They may have been "tapped" ceremonially but I can see no evidence for this as an actual proof of death. 
The silver hammer was used to smash the papal ring.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hammer-time/

They did check that new popes had testicles for a while, after Pope Joan manages to get through election.
LOL

It think it would better a better idea to hit a newly elected Pope in the head with a very large hammer three times. If he lives through it, he gets to be Pope.

Boru

[LinuxGal]

It appears to be a fraud. 
All the recent dead popes laid in state for a rather lengthy time, for all to see, and as far as I can tell none of them 
were "mutilated" at any point in their post-mortem period. They may have been "tapped" ceremonially but I can see no evidence for this as an actual proof of death. 
The silver hammer was used to smash the papal ring.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hammer-time/

They did check that new popes had testicles for a while, after Pope Joan manages to get through election.
LOL

It think it would better a better idea to hit a newly elected Pope in the head with a very large hammer three times. If he lives through it, he gets to be Pope.

First blow.

Candidate: "The communion wafer is people!"

Second blow.

Candidate: "Original sin passes down from Adam through semen."

Third blow:

Candidate: "Eating a hot dog on a Friday of Lent is an unforgivable mortal sin."

College of Cardinals: "Perfection."

[Rev. Rye]

In the category of “probably should have figured this was the case”: apparently, Apple’s emoji keyboard has signs for thumbs up 👍 and Thumbs down 👎, but none for thumbs in the middle. The closest thing I can find is a fist 🤜.

Granted, I know the thing I was trying to emulate in emoji form is almost certainly a myth that didn’t actually exist that way in Ancient Rome, but still.