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Oddities spotted in the news
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 Quote:Answer: This famous University of Ottawa alumnus donated another $2.1 million Saturday to a school forum that bears his name. Here.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
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I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
RE: Oddities spotted in the news
10-10-2019, 05:59 PM (This post was last modified: 10-10-2019, 06:00 PM by robkelk.)
2019: Squirrels' stash of winter walnuts causes car trouble for American couple
![[Image: usa-squirrel-walnuts-engine.JPG]](https://i.cbc.ca/1.5314405.1570618213!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/usa-squirrel-walnuts-engine.JPG) 2015: Squirrel blamed for car engine stuffed with nuts ![[Image: uk-mechanic-finds-engine-full-of-nuts.jpg]](https://i.cbc.ca/1.2994425.1570658987!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/uk-mechanic-finds-engine-full-of-nuts.jpg) Good thing they figured out it was squirrels, and not, say, a crow.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
It's old news (2016) but I only just spotted it, so...
Anyway, behold the oldest fluffy tail! https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016...-evolution Wanna touch...
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noli esse culus
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noli esse culus 
what I find frightening is they drive better than a lot of my fellow los angelinos.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry! NO QUARTER! No Quarter by Echo's Children 
You're surprised that rats are skilled in the rat race?
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
According to The Register, BBC News now has an official TOR onion mirror, maintained in-house.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
No, being snarky about a percieved lack of skill in everyone else on the road
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry! NO QUARTER! No Quarter by Echo's Children 
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto
Why is it when somebody says he was just doing his job, he's usually just done something noteworthy? In this case, saved another man's life.
Video and details
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
"We call it the intensive care unit for a reason"
Quote:To create awareness of the problem and raise funds to build a new hospital, SickKids partnered with Airbnb recently in a campaign that likely surprised people who came across it on the accommodations website.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
I think this goes beyond the usual acqua alta.
Venice submerged by highest tide in over 50 years Venice's Mayor Luigi Brugnaro, walking through St. Mark's Square on November 12: ![[Image: mayor-walks-on-st-mark-s-square-venice.JPG]](https://i.cbc.ca/1.5357649.1573655487!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_780/mayor-walks-on-st-mark-s-square-venice.JPG)
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown (11-13-2019, 07:20 PM)robkelk Wrote: I think this goes beyond the usual acqua alta. Holy hanna Rob. I was just reading a K-U book that had a scene set in Venice and thought for SURE the author was pulling my chain.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry! NO QUARTER! No Quarter by Echo's Children 
Keep in mind that the only thing that prevents this sort of thing happening in the Netherlands is a vast and expensive network of water control systems. To no small extent because Venice is, strictly speaking, just above the water level, and vast sections of the Netherlands are not.
Fun Netherlands fact: There is a system of locks that could flood large parts of the country, which if you internalize the fact above is unsurprising. The surprising part is that large parts of the country knows how these systems work and are able to operate them in an emergency. The Netherlands determined that everyone at the time should how to prevent the country from flooding and added it to the curriculum.
Public education works if you let it.
-Now available with copious trivia!
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Quantas Airlines has shattered the previous longest duration and longest distance with an experimental long-distance flight from London Heathrow to Sydney in an effort to convince regulators to permit ultra-long-haul flights.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/qanta...index.html 
Firearm drawn at Father Ted convention
on the GUBU spectrum, this is midly Grotesque, somewhat unbelieveable, totally bizarre and apparently unprecedented. I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed. One day they're going to ban them.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
Now that's an acqua alta! Just a reminder that unlike in Aria, this is a medieval city -- the older parts of town have the sewers just dump into the canals.
Anyway, another story: Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's The Only Guy Allowed
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto
Underground farming
"Underground" as in "take a disused bomb-shelter bunker and grow salad greens in it".
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
That's supposedly how the Lars farm worked in Star Wars, as I understand it.
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What does it take to stop a bad guy? Try a fire extinguisher ... and a narwhal tusk....
As Mako said in one Chuck Norris movie, "The warrior uses what is at hand!"
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold.... |
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