Today I found out that Buck Brown was a cartoonist who maybe at some point drew saggy boobed grannies?
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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
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 RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
October 1, 2019 at 9:51 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2019 at 9:53 pm by Rev. Rye.)
Apparently, kids in the SEVENTH GRADE are no longer taught the multiplication tables. I work at a candy store and this kid asked me how much a hundred Jolly Ranchers would cost. Jolly Ranchers cost 10 cents apiece at the store, so I asked her to do the math. Anyone who knows anything about multiplication knows that the ten times table is easy as shit; just add another zero to the end and you got the answer. She could not do it. She said her teacher hadn't gotten to that yet. And then she said she was in the seventh grade. Yup, our schools really are failing our kids if they can't do the most basic math even at this age.
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![[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/yxR97P23/harmlesskitchen.png) I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad. 
I discovered that I have enough oak in the rafters to make a complete tool chest that I want to build. I've been squirreling away wood for years when I was working and had the cash flow to buy it. I wasn't trying to depend on having the cash flow after I retired, but I do, it turns out. Now that the wood is stupidly more expensive, I'm happy with that squirreling.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
I'm now watching S10-E01 of "Time Team". Not even halfway through. Lots of archeology over the past few days. I would have loved to have been in among them.
 RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
October 2, 2019 at 6:13 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2019 at 6:50 am by Little lunch.)
(October 1, 2019 at 9:51 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, kids in the SEVENTH GRADE are no longer taught the multiplication tables. I work at a candy store and this kid asked me how much a hundred Jolly Ranchers would cost. Jolly Ranchers cost 10 cents apiece at the store, so I asked her to do the math. Anyone who knows anything about multiplication knows that the ten times table is easy as shit; just add another zero to the end and you got the answer. She could not do it. She said her teacher hadn't gotten to that yet. And then she said she was in the seventh grade. Yup, our schools really are failing our kids if they can't do the most basic math even at this age. My daughter is in grade three and just got her Naplan results, which is a test given to all students nationwide. She's up near the top in the 'well above the average' bracket. I'm so proud, except for that tiny part of me that wonders if she really is my daughter. :-) And also, I learnt today that the Tasmanian Magpie does not swoop on people like the magpie does over here on the mainland. Some old feller got killed a couple of weeks ago, ran into a wall on his pushbike whilst being attacked by a magpie. 
Chariots of the Gods (1970) was nominated for an Oscar in the best documentary category.
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"
RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
October 6, 2019 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2019 at 12:57 pm by Gawdzilla Sama.)
(October 6, 2019 at 9:32 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Chariots of the Gods (1970) was nominated for an Oscar in the best documentary category. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo 
Buying and assembling a new two stage snow thrower SUCKS!
Not waiting till the last minute, not so much.
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Unfortunately... The lotto numbers.
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