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Post by onlyMark on Aug 22, 2021 13:18:54 GMT
Th am es? As in THat, i AM and EScape?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2021 13:34:00 GMT
Rhymes with frames.
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Post by mossie on Aug 22, 2021 14:16:15 GMT
No, it rhymes with Ems
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2021 15:34:49 GMT
In London it does. Be we need to be careful if we go to Connecticut.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2021 16:38:03 GMT
In the same vein, the Arkansas (Are-can-saw) River is pronounced as the Arkánsuhs River in Kansas (Kansuhs).
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2021 17:01:55 GMT
That's because they don't live in Kan-saw.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 9, 2021 17:02:55 GMT
Among millions of dollars worth of various artworks, the World Trade Center in New York contained the largest private collection of Rodin sculptures in the world.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 12, 2021 17:43:58 GMT
The president of the Royal Horticultural Society is called Keith Weed.
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Post by patricklondon on Sept 12, 2021 17:46:57 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 12, 2021 20:49:14 GMT
Poor Keith. Is he someone "whose virtues have not yet been discovered”?
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Post by questa on Sept 12, 2021 22:09:53 GMT
After the Agent Orange destruction of large areas of arable land in Vietnam, the people saw that the first plants to start creeping back were the weeds. The weeds, usually a cursed nuisance, were greeted happily as they showed that the useful plants were coming back and planting crops among the weeds could begin soon. They then called the weeds "pioneer plants".
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 15, 2021 4:54:59 GMT
Sale of chewing gum has dropped 50% in the last year due to covid. People are less worried about their breath behind a mask.
Another reason is because most chewing gum sales took place as impulse buying while queuing at supermarket checkout stands. Now that everyone is transfixed by the screen of their smartphone, they don't even notice the impulse items displayed.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 22, 2021 18:55:31 GMT
I was not surprised to read that Barbados has dropped QE2 as head of state to become a republic, but I was surprised that it was the first Commonwealth country to do so since Mauritius in 1992.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 25, 2021 8:28:23 GMT
QR codes can contain 200 times more information than bar codes.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 25, 2021 10:06:06 GMT
I learned that Romanian troops killed about 35 000 jews in a few days following the capture of Odessa. And rounded up another 50 000 that would die in the coming weeks. Out of an estmated 90 000 present at that time. As efficient as the Nazis.
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Post by bjd on Nov 11, 2021 19:02:39 GMT
The British House of Lords currently has 800 members for a population of about 68 million.
The EU Parliament has 751 members, for a population of about 450 million.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 13, 2021 7:04:02 GMT
The average age in France for having one's first mobile phone is 9 years and 9 months.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 13, 2021 10:37:36 GMT
I think our latest got her cell phone at about 10, closer to 11.
Quite useful for us.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 13, 2021 10:52:34 GMT
And the recommended age is still 12.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 13, 2021 12:29:57 GMT
Recommended age for beer is 16 in Belgium, 21 in US, kids get a bit of alcohol much younger. Yesterday half a glass of Cava for Marie.
Since our children are so mature, so exceptional, they can syart eatlier 😜😜😜
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Post by questa on Dec 13, 2021 22:12:50 GMT
Since our children are so mature, so exceptional, they can syart eatlie We know where they get their spelling skills from and it is not Daddy
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 13, 2021 22:37:42 GMT
Whatagain rites gud butt his stooopid fone dussent copa co-opa work good with his thumms.
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Post by questa on Dec 14, 2021 23:24:44 GMT
And here is me thinking that Geoffrey Chaucer walked amongst us all this time
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Post by whatagain on Dec 20, 2021 10:54:30 GMT
I learned today that if i leave my bike outside for several days the seat gets totally soaked. And now i am like a baby without pampers.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 20, 2021 11:24:25 GMT
At least you live in a place where the bike is still there after several days.
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Post by htmb on Dec 23, 2021 21:50:59 GMT
Today I learned my mother’s first cousin, who would be close to 96, may still be alive. I don’t believe I’ve seen or talked with her, or her children, since the late sixties, but our families lived a block apart until I was ten years old. My aunt’s first husband taught me how to ride a two-wheeler, and I have fond memories of him and his patient demeanor. Unfortunately, he died young of a massive heart attack. Not long after, we moved out of town. My "aunt" later went on to remarry and I suspect there was an issue because my mother started distancing herself from her cousin. I was just now able to get an email address from another relative and have written to the middle child who is only a month or so older than me. I have some questions about those years we were neighbors and I’m hoping my aunt still has a good memory.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 23, 2021 23:43:33 GMT
So important !
I love my uncle, he is now not so far and i learn another angle of some stories i have heard many times. It is so important to distance ourselves from family feuds and to be able to form our own opinions Even if they are
disturbing ...
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Post by htmb on Dec 24, 2021 0:42:02 GMT
I agree about distancing ourselves from family feuds, and have done that in another situation. However, this wasn’t a feud. I think my mother’s cousin married a man who was an abusive alcoholic. Eventually, the second husband left, died, or something, leaving the cousins free to be friendly again. By that time, I’d married and moved away.
It seems the cousin has dementia, but I’m hoping she remembers some of the details about my family and can confirm a suspicion I have about why my family moved out of the city.
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 24, 2021 8:14:56 GMT
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Post by mossie on Dec 24, 2021 8:22:51 GMT
We did our initial training at Jurby on the NW coast of the IoM. We had to take a ferry from Liverpool to Douglas, then get on that little railway to chug round to Ramsey where a truck would collect us.
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