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Post by lagatta on Feb 1, 2020 22:55:39 GMT
My bush-pilot (and lots of other things) uncle is a bit younger than yours. Despite the fact that he had prostate cancer and the radiation treatment gave him diabetes, for the time being he keeps fit, though he has the good sense to know that he can go at any moment. He buried two wives since those diagnoses; his first (who is Indigenous), mother of his two daughters, and his second, mother of his son, the last child. His second wife was only two years older than I am, a large age gap, but while it lasted they were good companions.
Mossie's true grit reminds me of uncle P, who was working in a mine in northeastern Ontario (near the Québec border) when he was 16.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 2, 2020 12:14:29 GMT
Fred Trump’s middle name was Christ.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 2, 2020 13:31:53 GMT
I presume nobody told him the original was Jewish. Fred was a bigoted, miserable cuss.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 2, 2020 13:38:39 GMT
Apparently it was his old German name.
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Post by casimira on Feb 2, 2020 13:51:40 GMT
This may be a stupid question but who is "Fred" Trump?
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 2, 2020 13:52:49 GMT
I didn't look it up, but I presume it was the father, the tree from which the orange fell.
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Post by casimira on Feb 2, 2020 13:57:20 GMT
Good one! I thought it might be and could have looked it up but now I'm glad I didn't. Your answer is much better. Thanks.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 2, 2020 14:11:01 GMT
I’m genuinely surprised you didn’t know!
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Post by casimira on Feb 2, 2020 14:16:24 GMT
Sometimes, "Ignorance Is Bliss", Mick.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 2, 2020 16:09:15 GMT
When James Joyce (Ulysses etc) met his later to be wife her name was Nora Barnacle.
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Post by spaceneedle on Feb 12, 2020 9:19:38 GMT
I've been reading about the tragic Hartford Circus fire of 1944. I heard about it from one of my parents who remembers it as a child. The actor/theater director Charles Nelson Reilly survived the fire and never liked being in theaters or enclosed spaces with lots of people after that. The cause of the fire has never been determined and a new effort is being made to ID long unidentified victims via DNA. For those unfamiliar, here's more on it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_circus_fire
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 12, 2020 15:17:35 GMT
That is a fascinating Wikipedia article. There seem to be quite a few books written about that tragedy, with so much still unsolved.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 12, 2020 15:36:12 GMT
A few month ago there was a mini series in France about one of the worst fires in French history -- le Bazar de la Charité. It was a giant charity event for the aristocracy, and they would create a fabulous décor at a temporary location. Of course, the moment you say "temporary," that also means flimsy, inflammable, and all sorts of other negative things, including no (or hidden) emergency exits. 126 people died, many of whom were quite wealthy. The most famous was the sister of the Empress of Austria. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazar_de_la_CharitéHere is a trailer for the mini series, very badly dubbed into English.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2020 5:58:06 GMT
Comic book character Little Dot's real name was Dorothy Polka.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 23, 2020 20:05:20 GMT
Siberia is 1/12 of the worlds land surface.
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 23, 2020 21:39:25 GMT
Dulux are collaborating on a new colour for hi-viz jackets called "Trump Orange".
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Post by whatagain on Feb 25, 2020 15:55:01 GMT
Lifetime of plastic 27 years ago used to manufacture skiboots is 27 years. My wife exploded both her boots today on her first slope. Maybe i should not keep some tools for too long.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 25, 2020 16:40:56 GMT
The little pieces of those disintegrating plastic ski boots will be around forever, however...
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 25, 2020 16:48:38 GMT
And then the fish will eat them and then we will eat them.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 25, 2020 16:56:46 GMT
It may be time to acknowledge that humans are not to be diverted from soiling their own nest and making the only inhabitable planet we know of rapidly uninhabitable.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 25, 2020 20:30:26 GMT
I would like to know if the microparticles of plastic pass through our digestive system harmlessly or if they spell our doom.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2020 23:44:23 GMT
All of the above.
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Post by questa on Feb 25, 2020 23:53:33 GMT
Comic book character Little Dot's real name was Dorothy Polka. A TV ad in Oz shows parents trying to choose a name for their newborn son.The surname is Murray, Mum wants to call the baby Callum. A series of pictures of people laughing at him until Dad chooses "Jack" "Calamari" is a sea food a bit like squid, octopus.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 26, 2020 1:22:14 GMT
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw the other day where a couple realize they need to change the name of their burger stand. The sign over the door reads, Sam and Ella's.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 29, 2020 20:08:51 GMT
One is more likely to be born with eleven fingers than to be born on February 29th.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 29, 2020 20:46:29 GMT
Is that so? I would have guessed the other way around. By the way, there is a picture on this forum that Kerouac took of a woman with eleven fingers.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 29, 2020 20:55:29 GMT
I can remember travelling into London on the tube in a crowded train. Looking round I saw a guy holding on to one of the straps and he had two thumbs on one hand.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 29, 2020 21:05:29 GMT
I had a great-great uncle (whom I never knew) with an extra thumb or finger.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 29, 2020 21:10:34 GMT
Frequent in Chernobyl.
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Post by questa on Feb 29, 2020 23:40:11 GMT
And Vietnam.
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