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Post by eeyoresmum on Jul 28, 2024 7:42:21 GMT
Good to know, Jenny. I still re-read all my PMs and then deleted them, not knowing their fate. I found a few very long and very interesting one by aTao. I wish I knew what happened to him. He used to pick fruit, slowly working his way north in Europe, following the seasons. I seem to remember Big Martin knew him IRL?
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Post by eeyoresmum on Jul 28, 2024 7:45:14 GMT
This morning my Oz bro asked me whether I remember the game Mikado, with the long sticks. Of course I did! We played it many times, but nowadays you never hear about it. Do people still play it? Thanks to its Wiki-page, i learned that the game did NOT originate in Japan, but in Europe. Interesting facts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikado_(game)
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Post by amanda on Jul 28, 2024 7:51:05 GMT
We only called it 'pick up' sticks here. One of those things that today's kids may not learn or know, along with many others.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 28, 2024 8:08:16 GMT
We only called it 'pick up' sticks here. Same here in the UK. I remember playing it with my cousin, using the repurposed "straws" from KerPlunk.
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Post by crissdee on Jul 28, 2024 9:15:56 GMT
I have seen the game advertised, but I thought it was more than just "pick up sticks". Never really looked into though....
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 2, 2024 15:14:33 GMT
...that the Old Site has gone silent. No logging in anymore. Flash was there briefly.
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Post by jenny on Aug 2, 2024 17:33:08 GMT
Yep - no logging in allowed unless you are one of the researchers. You can still read anything that was written before though.
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 4, 2024 9:07:19 GMT
TIL that there's a massive online carry-on about whether the Fruit-of-the-Loom vignet shows a cornucopia or not. I think someone used Photoshop and removed it to egg the world on, and it worked! People are taking photos of their old jeans, jackets, whatever just to prove that woven basket did feature. Even articles were written about the conundrum. www.fastcompany.com/91056449/the-great-fruit-of-the-loom-logo-mystery-is-solvedI never owned a piece of clothing of that brand (twas too expensive for me), but I very much remember the basket. That said, I always felt that the word 'cornucopia' ought to be a plural of 'cornicopium.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 4, 2024 9:52:55 GMT
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 4, 2024 11:17:28 GMT
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 4, 2024 11:21:45 GMT
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Post by jenny on Aug 4, 2024 15:26:25 GMT
We learned a bit about that when we were in Venice a couple of years ago. It's a miracle the place is still standing - sadly in the end it won't be when sea levels rise even more.
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Post by efros on Aug 13, 2024 20:01:22 GMT
That during the Euro Football Tournament, 4% of the population of Scotland travelled to the event.
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Post by efros on Aug 14, 2024 21:09:58 GMT
That John Tyler, the 10th President of the US (1841 to 1845) has a living grandson. Harrison Ruffin Tyler is 95 and a retired chemical engineer.
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Post by jenny on Aug 15, 2024 15:20:51 GMT
Tyler must have had a very small child at the time of his death, and that child must also have had a child rather late in life, since Harrison Ruffin Tyler must have been born in 1929 (or late 1928) to be 95 now.
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Post by suze on Aug 15, 2024 16:56:33 GMT
President Tyler fathered fifteen children. The relevant one here is his thirteenth child, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who was born to the President's second wife (thirty years younger than the first) when his father was 63.
Lyon Gardiner Tyler fathered only six children. Harrison Ruffin Tyler was the fifth, born when his father was 75. Again, a much younger second wife was involved.
Harrison Ruffin Tyler is much more boring. He has married only once, and fathered his own three children between the ages of 29 and 32.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 15, 2024 19:20:29 GMT
President Tyler fathered fifteen children. The relevant one here is his thirteenth child, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who was born to the President's second wife (thirty years younger than the first) when his father was 63.
Lyon Gardiner Tyler fathered only six children. Harrison Ruffin Tyler was the fifth, born when his father was 75. Again, a much younger second wife was involved.
Harrison Ruffin Tyler is much more boring. He has married only once, and fathered his own three children between the ages of 29 and 32.
There might be life in the old dog yet!!!
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Post by emily on Aug 17, 2024 12:04:41 GMT
pretty boring, but I learned presence is not the same as presents
I'd been spelling them the same all these years
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Post by jenny on Aug 17, 2024 15:06:36 GMT
Of the four largest air forces in the world, the US Air Force is the largest and the US Navy is the second largest.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 17, 2024 15:22:54 GMT
I blame all that junk food...
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Post by crissdee on Aug 17, 2024 15:57:10 GMT
I blame the US's insane obsession with the idea that they are the world's police force, and thus need the military might of the rest of the world put together, just to prevent the spread of communism, although I have never managed to work out just what their problem is with it.....
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Post by alexanderhoward on Aug 17, 2024 17:09:20 GMT
The size of the American armed forces, defending a land which has three thousand miles of ocean to defend it already, means massive spending on bases and defence contractors all across the United States - and that spending is vital to buy off Congressmen in those states.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 18, 2024 10:11:05 GMT
I accidently clicked on the old forum this morning, and I have thus learned that the maintenance work has taken away the lovely "parchment" style backing from the boards, which imho made the forum stand out from any others I have seen.
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Post by efros on Aug 18, 2024 10:51:52 GMT
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Post by amanda on Aug 18, 2024 11:11:33 GMT
pretty boring, but I learned presence is not the same as presents I'd been spelling them the same all these years Better late than never.....awhile ago for a friend's 70's party, her invitations stated that our presence was welcomed but we did not need to bring any presents.
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Post by efros on Aug 18, 2024 13:36:53 GMT
That Jayne Mansfield was a classically trained violinist and pianist.
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Post by celebaelin on Aug 18, 2024 22:37:49 GMT
MotD2 has been on the air for 20 years.
20 freaking years!
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Post by efros on Aug 21, 2024 12:06:29 GMT
That the Strawberry Switchblade song, "Since Yesterday", from 1984 was actually about Nuclear War.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 21, 2024 14:45:59 GMT
As is Shiny, Shiny by Haysi Fantayzee.
And John Wayne Is Big Leggy isn't about the size of the titular actor's <ahem> "member", it's about the European settler's treatment of the native Americans they encountered as they colonised the.. errr... colonies.
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 22, 2024 20:03:11 GMT
Courtesy of a Facebook post from "work", there are 954 C17th illustrated Delft tiles in the dairy. I've never even considered counting them, I just describe them as "several hundred little Dutch masterpieces". Now I can be pedantically precise!
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