This stupid thought pops into my head often. So now you're going to hear about it.
I can't believe everyone's wearing polyester pants and stuff again, myself included. It used to be that you were a joke,.. an out of touch, old dude if you wore stretchy Sans-a-belt pants. Leisure suits were the last polyester thing I remember wearing before the cotton revolt. "Cotton breathes" they told us. "Polyester is unnatural" they told us. But here we are again.
The next time I order cigars, when they get here I'm going to bribe the USPS person into letting me light up one in the truck, which will be even more better than smoking it ROTT.
In a world of customization and personalization,…is there a way to do this? I want my phone/computer devices to understand the following rule: The word football ALWAYS means American football, never soccer.
@Bob_Luken said:
In a world of customization and personalization,…is there a way to do this? I want my phone/computer devices to understand the following rule: The word football ALWAYS means American football, never soccer.
Yeah and when um speech to texting about a cigar WRAPPER, I'm not talking about a RAPPER.
When mohammed invented the Islamic religion, why did he make it 72 virgins for dying during terrorist acts? Why not an even 50? Where were all the virgins supposed to come from?
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@ShawnOL said:
When mohammed invented the Islamic religion, why did he make it 72 virgins for dying during terrorist acts? Why not an even 50? Where were all the virgins supposed to come from?
I think most of them were the guys wearing exploding vests.
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It seems like in the summer the sun sets and it's still light out for half an hour/forty five minutes. Now when the sun goes down it seems like it's dark in no time. I'm probably wrong but it just seems that way.
@ShawnOL said:
When mohammed invented the Islamic religion, why did he make it 72 virgins for dying during terrorist acts? Why not an even 50? Where were all the virgins supposed to come from?
I think most of them were the guys wearing exploding vests.
@Yakster said:
Twilight is longer in the summer due to the shallower angle of the sun versus the shorter twilight we get in winter when the sun is lower in the sky.
I had some curiosity about the ty suffix for the tens. I found this interesting.
-ty
suffix representing "ten" in cardinal numbers that are multiples of 10 (sixty, seventy, etc.), from Old English -tig, from a Germanic root (cognates: Old Saxon, Dutch -tig, Old Frisian -tich, Old Norse -tigr, Old High German -zug, German -zig) that existed as a distinct word in Gothic (tigjus) and Old Norse (tigir) meaning "tens, decades."
English, like many other Germanic languages, retains traces of a base-12 number system. The most obvious instance is eleven and twelve which ought to be the first two numbers of the "teens" series. Their Old English forms, enleofan and twel(eo)f(an), are more transparent: "leave one" and "leave two."
Old English also had hund endleofantig for "110" and hund twelftig for "120." One hundred was hund teantig. The -tig formation ran through 12 cycles, and could have bequeathed us numbers *eleventy ("110") and *twelfty ("120") had it endured, but already during the Anglo-Saxon period it was being obscured.
Old Norse used hundrað for "120" and þusend for "1,200." Tvauhundrað was "240" and þriuhundrað was "360." Older Germanic legal texts distinguished a "common hundred" (100) from a "great hundred" (120). This duodecimal system is "perhaps due to contact with Babylonia" [Lass, "Old English"].
When I woke up this morning I was aware that I'd been dreaming. In that awareness I remembered that I dreamt that I was watching the credits roll by, so that I could see who'd played in my dream.
SMH
Got to stop watching TV right up until lights out.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I woke up the day before yesterday saying "help, help" after I dreamed I was in a truck camper shell being chased by something that jumped through the shell and into my body. I guess I need to cut down on horror shows.
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This stupid thought pops into my head often. So now you're going to hear about it.
I can't believe everyone's wearing polyester pants and stuff again, myself included. It used to be that you were a joke,.. an out of touch, old dude if you wore stretchy Sans-a-belt pants. Leisure suits were the last polyester thing I remember wearing before the cotton revolt. "Cotton breathes" they told us. "Polyester is unnatural" they told us. But here we are again.
It's not your father's polyester...
I had something good and stupid to post but it has since popped back out of my head.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
The next time I order cigars, when they get here I'm going to bribe the USPS person into letting me light up one in the truck, which will be even more better than smoking it ROTT.
Having a two way brain is an important asset.
I have a confession. Please don't tell anyone... I think the Cybertruck looks awesome. (I am not even remotely considering buying one, don't worry).
An off-road version with a V8 might not be so bad.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
In a world of customization and personalization,…is there a way to do this? I want my phone/computer devices to understand the following rule: The word football ALWAYS means American football, never soccer.
They do that to give the appearance of boosted ratings
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Yeah and when um speech to texting about a cigar WRAPPER, I'm not talking about a RAPPER.
Have you ever noticed that they have chicken eggs in the grocery store but never turkey eggs?
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https://modernfarmer.com/2016/11/dont-eat-turkey-eggs/
I would like to try them. Some day.
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Tastes like chicken.
When mohammed invented the Islamic religion, why did he make it 72 virgins for dying during terrorist acts? Why not an even 50? Where were all the virgins supposed to come from?
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
I think most of them were the guys wearing exploding vests.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
It seems like in the summer the sun sets and it's still light out for half an hour/forty five minutes. Now when the sun goes down it seems like it's dark in no time. I'm probably wrong but it just seems that way.
Twilight is longer in the summer due to the shallower angle of the sun versus the shorter twilight we get in winter when the sun is lower in the sky.
I don’t believe it specifies “female” virgins 🤣
Also intensity changes
Which orange came first… the color or the fruit?
Why was there no disclaimer?
https://youtu.be/SX6JPpXZxYA?si=4QCUwuUlkTBNvcJH
Somebody is going to be dumb enough to send grandma down the hill on a plastic sled.
The tree.
If 4 is spelled four, why is 40 not spelled fourty?
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lol, same reason two isn't spelled twoty I guess.
I had some curiosity about the ty suffix for the tens. I found this interesting.
-ty
suffix representing "ten" in cardinal numbers that are multiples of 10 (sixty, seventy, etc.), from Old English -tig, from a Germanic root (cognates: Old Saxon, Dutch -tig, Old Frisian -tich, Old Norse -tigr, Old High German -zug, German -zig) that existed as a distinct word in Gothic (tigjus) and Old Norse (tigir) meaning "tens, decades."
English, like many other Germanic languages, retains traces of a base-12 number system. The most obvious instance is eleven and twelve which ought to be the first two numbers of the "teens" series. Their Old English forms, enleofan and twel(eo)f(an), are more transparent: "leave one" and "leave two."
Old English also had hund endleofantig for "110" and hund twelftig for "120." One hundred was hund teantig. The -tig formation ran through 12 cycles, and could have bequeathed us numbers *eleventy ("110") and *twelfty ("120") had it endured, but already during the Anglo-Saxon period it was being obscured.
Old Norse used hundrað for "120" and þusend for "1,200." Tvauhundrað was "240" and þriuhundrað was "360." Older Germanic legal texts distinguished a "common hundred" (100) from a "great hundred" (120). This duodecimal system is "perhaps due to contact with Babylonia" [Lass, "Old English"].
Nice research, Bob. I always wondered why there wasn't an eleventy seven.
When I woke up this morning I was aware that I'd been dreaming. In that awareness I remembered that I dreamt that I was watching the credits roll by, so that I could see who'd played in my dream.
SMH
Got to stop watching TV right up until lights out.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I woke up the day before yesterday saying "help, help" after I dreamed I was in a truck camper shell being chased by something that jumped through the shell and into my body. I guess I need to cut down on horror shows.