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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
10-06-2019, 09:28 AM
Quote:Answer: This famous University of Ottawa alumnus donated another $2.1 million Saturday to a school forum that bears his name.
Question: Who is Alex Trebek?
Here.
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
10-07-2019, 09:33 AM
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
10-10-2019, 05:59 PM
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
10-17-2019, 06:27 PM
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
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
10-25-2019, 03:34 AM
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
10-25-2019, 05:30 AM
You're surprised that rats are skilled in the rat race?
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
10-25-2019, 07:52 AM
According to The Register, BBC News now has an official TOR onion mirror, maintained in-house.
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
10-25-2019, 12:29 PM
No, being snarky about a percieved lack of skill in everyone else on the road
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10-28-2019, 09:03 PM
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-07-2019, 07:29 PM
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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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-11-2019, 08:00 AM
"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.
For $2,392 per night, people could rent a bed in a mock SickKids Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for a three-hour experience they'd share with three other guests. The cost represented the actual cost of running a single PICU bed for a night, and the money went to the hospital's fundraising drive.
The experience sold out.
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-13-2019, 07:20 PM
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:
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-13-2019, 09:15 PM
(11-13-2019, 07:20 PM)robkelk Wrote: I think this goes beyond the usual acqua alta.
Venice submerged by highest tide in over 50 years
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.
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-14-2019, 05:37 AM
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.
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-14-2019, 01:48 PM
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.
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-14-2019, 06:52 PM
Before this thread gets swamped...
Can you sing like Freddie Mercury?
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-15-2019, 10:18 PM
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
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-16-2019, 10:10 AM
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.
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-20-2019, 01:11 PM
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-28-2019, 02:54 AM
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
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-28-2019, 08:00 AM
Underground farming
"Underground" as in "take a disused bomb-shelter bunker and grow salad greens in it".
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-28-2019, 11:38 AM
That's supposedly how the Lars farm worked in Star Wars, as I understand it.
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-30-2019, 01:53 PM
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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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
12-09-2019, 01:04 PM
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