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All attorneys are lawyers, but not all lawyers are attorneys.
 
   / Tell us something we don’t know. #462  
Something you may not know...When rolling up a garden hose, extension cord, drop something, or do most anything the part disappears, hose, rope or cord will always get tangled around something.
If someone said "I'll give you a million dollars if you can lasso a chair leg when winding up that cord", you couldn't do it if you tried 1,000 times...but...
 
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Fuddy1952 said:
Something you may not know...When rolling up a garden hose, extension cord, drop something, or do most anything the part disappears, hose, rope or cord will always get tangled around something.
If someone said "I'll give you a million dollars if you can lasso a chair leg when winding up that cord", you couldn't do it if you tried 1,000 times...but...
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Isn't that a tenet of Murphy's Law? :D
 
   / Tell us something we don’t know. #464  
MossRoad said:
On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine.
On February 25, my wife and I were in an antique/consignment shop and I found this print block.

How timely. It was probably from the WWII era.


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Would love to know the history behind the print block. I think the guy to the right is a Cossack. The Cossack's, like the Ukrainians, fought for and against the Soviets. Is the guy on the right a Russian solider....

Later,
Dan
 
   / Tell us something we don’t know. #465  
From the Live Science web site:

If all the SARS-CoV-2 particles currently circulating in humans around the globe were gathered together into one place, they would weigh somewhere between the weight of an apple and that of a young toddler, according to a new study.
 
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I can't vouch for the truth, "But I read"...

That if the world's population would live in the manner of the people living in Manhatten, Everyone could "fit" in the state of Texas. I wouldn't wish that on Texans, but it is an interesting visual.

Don't get me going on how extensive plant and fungi life is.... ;-)
 
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dmccarty said:
Would love to know the history behind the print block. I think the guy to the right is a Cossack. The Cossack's, like the Ukrainians, fought for and against the Soviets. Is the guy on the right a Russian solider....

Later,
Dan
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Russian on the left, some guy with molotov cocktails on the right. There was no history as to when it was made. I find all kinds of interesting advertising/news print blocks in our travels, as they catch my eye since I worked at a newspaper for 30 years. When I started there in 1987, there were no more print blocks. Everything was flat work, sized, cut and hand-pasted onto a sheet of paper the same size of a full newspaper page, then sent of to the camera and platemaking department to make thin aluminum polymer coated printing plates.
 
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Steve McQueen was a "towel boy" in a bordello; Richard Pryor grew up in a bordello operated by his mother.
 
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bunyip said:
Lobster was considered unfit for human consumption in France and was fed to prisoners (not recently)
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In Maine too. It’s said that prisoners in Maine once rebelled because all they were given to eat was lobster.
 
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We don't know how many people were killed during the Inquisition.

It is estimated that deaths ranged from 3000 to 10,000, but some sources say in the millions.
 
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