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More oddities spotted in the news
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The last thread hit 300 posts, so here's a new one.
New movie to star one Anne of Green Gables and be directed by another Anne of Green Gables.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Something old, something (relatively) new... both for the shutterbugs.
Period piece movie uses period-appropriate photography for on-set photos Ektachrome is coming back!
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
Bet Dartz will be putting in an order for Ektachrome if he didn't have one already.
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 
RE: More oddities spotted in the news
02-20-2020, 03:05 PM (This post was last modified: 02-20-2020, 03:05 PM by Dartz.)
Have a roll in the camera. And used it a few times over the last year. Slide film is the shit.
Meanwhile..... Street Racing in Ireland. 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.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
I spent the first few minutes confused why he didn't just use water, and eventually I was like, oh yeah, they have ice up there.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto
WW II vet Fred Arsenault wanted 100 cards for his 100th birthday. Canadians are making it happen
Including the local Army unit letting him carry a machine gun again.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
SETI@Home is shutting down -- not because it's out of money or someone stomped on it, but because it's been so successful they've got a massive backlog of data to go through, and are shifting focus to analyzing the data they have instead of getting more data from contributors. They describe it as a "hiatus", giving every indication they plan to start parceling out data to users again just as soon as they get their analysis on their current data done.
-- 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....
Are you ready for bug butter?
Quote:According to the researchers, consumers notice no difference when a quarter of the milk butter in a cake is replaced with larva fat. However, they report an unusual taste when it gets to fifty-fifty and say they would not want to buy the cake.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown  (03-06-2020, 07:10 PM)robkelk Wrote: Are you ready for bug butter?Just mix it with maple mead from the Dendarii Mountains, and it'll be delicious. Oh ... wrong sort of bug butter, I guess. ----- “We’ve had our differences, but he’s seen the light … and I made sure he moved toward it, instead of coming back.”
(blows dust off thread)
Meet Watershed Brewing Co.: Alberta's most real fake brewery How Nickelback became the internet's most-hated band How Trump's Yosemite slipup turned a Jewish history museum's T-shirt into an 'astronomical' best seller
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
2020 keeps the threats hits coming...
Asteroid predicted to pass close to Earth the day before the US election https://www.wpxi.com/news/trending/aster...eTNQNWPPa8
Why accents are behind the booming business of the human voice
Quote:"I think authenticity is key," said Jonathan Love, a 45-year-old voice actor based in Calgary who's known for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in 2002's Star Wars: The Clone Wars video game.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
-- 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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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
If everyone will please check their 2020 bingo cards, we can now mark the Rocketeer off as completed.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36...de-them-on
-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 (09-01-2020, 05:58 PM)nocarename Wrote: If everyone will please check their 2020 bingo cards, we can now mark the Rocketeer off as completed. I read this and was reminded of Jet Jaguar in Fenspace. 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.
Lisa Campbell becomes the first woman to head the Canadian Space Agency
Only an oddity in that "first woman to..." is still newsworthy.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Pair of FlatEarthers try to sail to the edge of the world, complications ensue
https://www.indy100.com/article/flat-ear...1599408927
Ryan Renolds brings Rick Moranis out of retirement for Mint Mobile commercial
https://comicbook.com/movies/news/rick-m...ommercial/ (article includes the commercial) it also includes a synopsis of Moranis' return to the big screen in the upcoming 'Honey I shrunk the kids' movie
RE: More oddities spotted in the news
09-11-2020, 11:07 AM (This post was last modified: 09-11-2020, 11:17 AM by Norgarth.)
modern scanning techniques allow ancient text on the Antikythera mechanism to be read, explaining it's purpose.
https://bigthink.com/robby-berman/an-anc...ts-at-last
Wow. Very cool. The discovery that it wasn't a one-off is amazing -- that means there must be more still lurking about somewhere, in various states of disrepair...
-- 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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