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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 26, 2018 21:43:37 GMT
There was no distinction in the 18th century.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 26, 2018 21:57:27 GMT
True. That is why our (mine, not yours) founding fathers had to write in 1776, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that a verbal distinction is needed between the seed and leaf forms of the herb known as coriander."
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Post by questa on Jul 26, 2018 23:29:25 GMT
True. That is why our (mine, not yours) founding fathers had to write in 1776, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that a verbal distinction is needed between the seed and leaf forms of the herb known as coriander." Then, having dealt with the greatest issue of the new Country, The Founding Fathers went on to consider other things, namely Equality, Rights and the Pursuit of Happiness.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 27, 2018 7:43:34 GMT
Did George bush then said there is no french word for coriander leaves ?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2018 18:33:49 GMT
France has the second largest maritime domain in the world but it imports 85% of its fish.
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Post by questa on Jul 31, 2018 23:06:46 GMT
Are the French fish the ones John West rejects?
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 1, 2018 14:18:00 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 1, 2018 14:24:37 GMT
The people operating the rescue ship Aquarius in the Mediterranean told the world that 731 migrants have died in the last month while the ship was immobilised.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2018 16:56:24 GMT
ommuters in Japan are being paid to carry advertising stickers on their armpits as they cling to overhead straps on public transport also All I'm envisioning is this poor guy I saw on an overcrowded tram in Istanbul during a heatwave. The whole car reeked, but he was short and forced to have his arm entirely extended upward in order to hold on. He held the hand on the other arm over the wet and presumably offensive pit, but the expression on his face was heart-breaking in its attempt to be nonchalant while obviously deeply humiliated. The people operating the rescue ship Aquarius in the Mediterranean told the world that 731 migrants have died in the last month while the ship was immobilised. Tragic and disgusting that lives were lost while bickering went on in ivory towers.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 7, 2018 8:59:47 GMT
94% of the adult population in France has a mobile phone. (98% for the age group 25-39)
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 9, 2018 8:50:07 GMT
The American composer and pianist George Antheil so liked being called "the bad boy of music" that he not only used that as the title of his autobiography, but occasionally put a gun on the piano at recitals. (He also had scientific interests and worked with Hedy Lamarr on the idea of frequency-hopping for wartime purposes, but which is now used by mobile phones) My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by lagatta on Aug 9, 2018 11:19:34 GMT
Didn't France and several other countries deliberately eliminate payphones? I'll probably have to buy a cheap portable next time I'm in Europe. I have no interest in owning one; I can't work on such a small screen.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 9, 2018 12:16:37 GMT
The only "deliberate" thing about removing them in France was that on average they were being used less than one time a day -- absolutely not worth the maintenance costs. Some small villages in France have maintained one phone booth at their own expense. There used to be two triple phone booths at my intersection but the only use they got was for homeless people to sleep in them on winter nights.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 16, 2018 6:04:22 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 16, 2018 6:33:12 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Aug 16, 2018 13:48:44 GMT
Obviously fake news don't date from yesterday.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 16, 2018 15:23:54 GMT
Obviously fake news don't date from yesterday. From yesteryear, more like. And it ain’t fake.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 16, 2018 15:44:40 GMT
That's not what your president says.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 16, 2018 16:43:56 GMT
Not MY president!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 21, 2018 3:04:42 GMT
I did not know that in WWI, Belgium was not officially one of the Allies. source
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Post by Kimby on Aug 26, 2018 13:30:51 GMT
A bar trick for removing a cork from the BOTTOM of an EMPTY bottle inspired a car mechanic to invent a safer way to deliver babies: “It's just a few steps: Insert the closed end of a plastic bag into a bottle, tilt the bottle until the cork is touching the bag and blow into the open end of the bag. The bag will inflate like a balloon and envelop the cork. Then give the plastic bag a hard tug. The bag and the cork should come out together. And this random idea popped into Odon's head: He wondered, could you use a similar method to help women having complications in labor? A bag could wrap around the baby's head, and voila, out comes the kid.” www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/26/637472896/whatever-happened-to-the-car-mechanic-who-invented-a-device-to-pop-out-a-baby
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 26, 2018 14:36:02 GMT
I absolutely do not understand that explanation, but that's normal because I am stupid. Even worse, NPR (along with the Los Angeles Times and certain other major websites) is among the ones that have not conformed to the new EU privacy laws. Even though it just means clicking the box that says "yes, go ahead and flood me with cookies, I don't care" they have not yet conformed and Europeans do not have access to those sites.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 26, 2018 16:00:41 GMT
I must be stupid too, as I was immediately hung up on the first quoted sentence. How in the world could anything be introduced into a bottle closed with a cork? I looked it up on youtube. Oh -- thanks for not explaining to us that the trick is for getting out a cork that has fallen into an empty wine bottle, NPR!
Also, I am immediately resistant to the idea of anything that pulls the baby out. I am one of the many, many, many people in the world with a forceps mark on my head. My husband had one in exactly the same place and no, we were not related. Every time the baby is tugged on with the forceps, the flow of blood to his/her head is cut off, meaning a high possibility of lowered intelligence.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 26, 2018 16:01:45 GMT
Then it’s good that I quoted the heart of the article....for folks like you. And bixa.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 26, 2018 16:28:02 GMT
And I edited my post to add bottom and empty, for internet-challenged folks in other countries.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 26, 2018 18:03:04 GMT
Have you considered that perhaps such things never happen in other countries?
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Post by Kimby on Aug 26, 2018 19:20:24 GMT
What things? Bar games? Corks stuck in bottles? Or babies stuck in the birth canal? Now I’m confused.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 26, 2018 19:28:21 GMT
As is he, Kimby. As is he.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 18:00:19 GMT
The cicadas here have begun "screaming" loudly in the last half hour and continue to get louder and louder. It's much earlier in the day for them to do so. It's generally later in the afternoon/early evening that they "crank up".
I read on another forum that the reason is they sense an earlier sunset and a drop in barometric pressure.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 4, 2018 20:19:09 GMT
Oh forget all that scientific stuff. Here they say the cicadas sing because it's going to rain. Seems to be true!
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