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The numbering system for UK motorways was only finalised 33 days before the M1 and its two spurs opened.
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Monkberry wrote:Scarlett Johansson has done an album of Tom Waits covers
So has Holly Cole.
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Some living people in China are known to be Confuis's descendent's
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Billybob Dylan wrote:Monkberry wrote:Scarlett Johansson has done an album of Tom Waits covers
So has Holly Cole.
So has John Hammond (Jr.).
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In Morocco they use piss and pigeon shit to treat leather then they make shoes and leather handbags to sell them to rich fucks.
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I learned today that ex-Clash bloke Mick Jones is the cousin of Tory MP Grant Shapps
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Einstein didn't call The theory of relativity the theory of relativity. Alfred Bucherer used for the first time the expression "theory of relativity" (German: Relativitätstheorie).[2][3]
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Monkberry wrote:In Morocco they use piss and pigeon shit to treat leather then they make shoes and leather handbags to sell them to rich fucks.
Fantastic,the rich fucks.
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Rotted lettuce is the foulest thing ever.
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Jay Cutler is a sorry excuse for a quarterback.
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Protestants don't do the whole masscard thing when someone dies.
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Jimmy Jazz wrote:Monkberry wrote:In Morocco they use piss and pigeon shit to treat leather then they make shoes and leather handbags to sell them to rich fucks.
Already in the 16th century, leathermakers in Holland would require from their staff to bring their night & morning piss to tan the leather. THIS LASTED UNTILL ABT 60 YEARS AGO.
There are still tanners that tan leather the old fashioned way. They claim there's no modern alternative that produces such a soft leather.
Talk about taking the piss, eh?
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you can't put a temporary movie screen up outdoors if the wind is greater than 40 knots
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Québécois Carl Carmoni est le meilleur joueur de mini putt dans le monde!!
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mentalist (slight return) wrote:you can't put a temporary movie screen up outdoors if the wind is greater than 40 knots
... unless the movie is "Gone With The Wind."
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It's not so much that I learnt, as much as I have gained wonderful new insight from this interview I read today. This being my favourite quote from it:
Sherry Tucker wrote:There is a wonderful Freudian formulation, which is that loneliness is failed solitude. In many ways we are forgetting the intellectual and emotional value of solitude. You’re not lonely in solitude. You’re only lonely if you forget how to use solitude to replenish yourself and to learn. And you don’t want a generation that experiences solitude as loneliness. And that is something to be concerned about, because if kids feel that they need to be connected in order to be themselves, that’s quite unhealthy. They’ll always feel lonely, because the connections that they’re forming are not going to give them what they seek.
Kid P wrote:*Deleted*
Should have quoted SF
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Dinosaur's had a blooody good innings. 160 million years.
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Each? Bonkers.Monkberry wrote:Dinosaur's had a blooody good innings. 160 million years.
Betty Denim wrote:And, quite frankly, if I had been raped and you said to me 'well yeah, it's crap innit; it's like that time I had to have a turnip curry' I'd do more than insult you.
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Kendo Nagasaki's real name was Peter Thornley.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell