Haha I saw this recently in a documentary about Cook, bizarre.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 11:12pmShould I tell them or will you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement
What are you looking up on Wikipedia right now?
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Reminds me of the joke about the three Chicago streets that rhyme with “Vagina”: Paulina, Medina, and Lunt.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 11:02amI've had Americans correct me on the pronunciation. One even persisted after I told her I was from that horrible province.revbob wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 10:51amYes, I think a lot of people assume it is just a made up place too just for the convenience of the rhyme.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 10:19amThis is true. But it shows an awareness of how it's properly pronounced.
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Flintstones Vitamins still exist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintston ... e_Vitamins
I can't recall the last time I saw them on the shelf, but I'd buy 'em in a heartbeat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintston ... e_Vitamins
I can't recall the last time I saw them on the shelf, but I'd buy 'em in a heartbeat.
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I saw them at the grocery store yesterday.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 8:45pmFlintstones Vitamins still exist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintston ... e_Vitamins
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The Pebbles vitamin ensures encephalitis!revbob wrote: ↑09 Mar 2019, 1:06pmI saw them at the grocery store yesterday.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 8:45pmFlintstones Vitamins still exist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintston ... e_Vitamins
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Tip
The largest hurricane on record was 2200 km in diameter, around the distance from New York to Kansas City.
The largest hurricane on record was 2200 km in diameter, around the distance from New York to Kansas City.
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Not on Wikipedia, but the "beautiful suicide" photo popped in my mind so I went looking for context:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/beauti ... ding-1947/
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/beauti ... ding-1947/
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Holy guacamole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September ... etic_storm
We'd be all kinds of fucked if this happened today.
We'd be all kinds of fucked if this happened today.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth
I'm revising some lectures for a US survey class and had to look up something on Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Alice, and came upon this passage:
I'm revising some lectures for a US survey class and had to look up something on Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Alice, and came upon this passage:
it was generally accepted knowledge in D.C. that she also had a long, ongoing affair with Senator William Borah, and the opening of Alice's diaries to historical researchers indicates that Borah was the father of her daughter, Paulina Longworth (1925–1957).
Alice was renowned for her "brilliantly malicious" humor, even in this sensitive situation, since she had originally wanted to name her daughter "Deborah," as in "de Borah." And according to one family friend, "everybody called her [Paulina] 'Aurora Borah Alice.'"
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Those kooky 'Velts.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Aug 2020, 3:16pmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth
I'm revising some lectures for a US survey class and had to look up something on Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Alice, and came upon this passage:
it was generally accepted knowledge in D.C. that she also had a long, ongoing affair with Senator William Borah, and the opening of Alice's diaries to historical researchers indicates that Borah was the father of her daughter, Paulina Longworth (1925–1957).
Alice was renowned for her "brilliantly malicious" humor, even in this sensitive situation, since she had originally wanted to name her daughter "Deborah," as in "de Borah." And according to one family friend, "everybody called her [Paulina] 'Aurora Borah Alice.'"
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I saw a preview for a Netflix doc on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and had never heard of it. Is this event well known in UK/Ireland? But holy shit, what a fucked up event.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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No, loyalist violence isn't really remembered in the UK.matedog wrote: ↑17 Sep 2020, 10:12amI saw a preview for a Netflix doc on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and had never heard of it. Is this event well known in UK/Ireland? But holy shit, what a fucked up event.
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Much of it has proven to be state sponsored. Like has happened in so many other places the loyalist paramilitaries were a proxy force of the state be it the state of NI at one point or the UK government itself. Im not picking sides here nor trying to stir anything up because often when this sort of thing is mentioned you get a backlash from someone saying something about Republican paramilitaries. I see this as akin in present day to someone saying Black Lives Matter to which you hear someone respond All Lives Matter. And like in the US you have police who are members of the kkk or other far right organizations you have had in NI members of the former UDR and RUC who were also in or sympathetic to the various loyalist paramilitaries.Silent Majority wrote: ↑17 Sep 2020, 10:18amNo, loyalist violence isn't really remembered in the UK.matedog wrote: ↑17 Sep 2020, 10:12amI saw a preview for a Netflix doc on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and had never heard of it. Is this event well known in UK/Ireland? But holy shit, what a fucked up event.