I've never seen one in person either. I think that "any horse that carries the right gene" statement is bullshit. What is the likelihood of that gene traveling to distant breeds and continents? :rolleyes:

I think you're supposed to eat the ones with that gene. /Anthony Bordain

You know Malcolm and Angus Young of AC/DC fame, right?

Well, they have an older brother, George, who just died (on Oct 22nd). This guy had a songwriting/producing partnership with Harry Vanda (Vanda & Young produced several of AC/DC's albums).

Well, I told ya that to tell this:

Today I learned Malcolm's and Angus' older brother George (along w/Harry Vanda) wrote this song:



:eek:I was sorta stunned. George was also in a band called The Easybeats. They wrote and recorded Friday On My Mind, which has been recorded by, well, damn near everybody.

:eek:

Good catch sir

i did not know that

you couldn't have knocked me over any further than if you'd told me that a pre-fame Bruce Springsteen spent time in a philly diner with newly-famous Billy Joel... and a pre-fame Barry Manilow.

(but it did happen. this account of the tale leaves out important DJ Ed Sciaky, who later recalled that Manilow predicted he'd be the most famous of the bunch. He was arguably wrong, but not far wrong.)

Today I learned that people in prison can still do good things for society.

crazy lookin guy at top of story isn't either person named in story, exactly like every other mugshot in story.

still, kill your baby daughter, you deserve to die.

Honda Fits are Impossible to break into.

And very very stupid.

:(

Hmmmm


Mods - cleanup on aisle 3

Today I learned how to adjust the timekeeping rate on our cuckoo clock. UNSURPRISINGLY, the mechanism is simplicity itself. To make the clock run faster, slide the decorative weight on the pendulum shaft upward. Sliding it lower makes it tick more slowly.

*Of course!*

meee meee I knew that! grew up with a cuckoo clock at my grandparents house. only thing I have from my childhood , now an antique -they got it on vacation in the black forest not working currently, but it will again....

also ...don't swing on the weights

fortunately, on this occasion, someone got up this morning and went to walk home, and found hat the key had not in fact fallen inside the car which then auto-locked... but had fallen through a hole in the pocket of their coat and was stuck in the lining, despite us checking for that last night (before the breakdown service spent over an hour in the snow trying to open the door.....)

Cuckoo share!

Does it cuckoo twelve times at midnight?

I fell in love with the cuckoo clock in my aunt's bungalow - after she moved to Spain, she came back for a visit and brought me a smaller version that looked very like hers.


I can attest to not swinging the weights.

Yes.

Today I learned the NFL will take points off the board to protect the Patriots.

Does it wake you up?

And that was a BS call. They changed the outcome of the game with that call.

No because we don't wind that f*cker! :) Pete can't sleep with it going.

:thumb:

I don't even like clocks that tick and tock.

My best friend is a Patriots man. He damn near wept with joy.

Today I learned that the band Golden Earring took their name from an instrumental by British band The Hunters, "Golden Earrings".

Watching the PA Farm Show Fleece to Shawl competition in which is teams take fleece and card, spin, and weave it into a shawl in a set time limit, I didn't care for the winner. Now they judge on uniform dimensions, knots, and the three spinners of each team a producing the same size yarn, etc. But I didn't like the looks of the winner. The crowd vindicated my taste at the auction.
#1 brought $675
#2 brought $900
#3 brought $900
#4 brought $750
#5 the asshole announcer was taking over the auctioneer.
#6 brought $725

Today I learned, again, that some days, it just isn't worth betting out of bed.

"Good Morning, World! And isn't it a lovely morning?"

"Fuck you! You get nothing but shit today!" Slap!

FukkitI'mdrinking. I just needed an excuse, anyway.

"Fuck you, Day.":flipbird:

"Yebbut, fuck you first.":jig:

Aaaand I'm sizzlin'.

You need a bowl.

Yebbut, I wanted a bottle!

I now know this day is a conspiracy.

The ƒucking liquor store is closed.

The ƒucking liquor store is closed.

Why is the ƒucking liquor store closed?!

No! I don't like the other liquor store, and I don't like the shithead that owns it, either. So, it looks like Ima drive to the next damn town or Ima be dry today.

Aaaaaaand I'm sizzlin'.

Although it's becoming comical as to just how wrong today can go. I guess we'll see. Not much choice, is there?

:driving:

If I go to the Aston Burger King and order a chicken sandwich, fish sandwich, fries, and onion rings it's $14.88. But at the Brookhaven Burger King a couple miles away the same order is $3 cheaper. :confused:

Today I Learned about the 1976 Chowchilla Kidnapping, in which 26 school children and their bus driver were kidnapped from Chowchilla, CA, and held in a quarry in an underground moving van after being driven around in two vans for 11 hours. After several hours, the bus driver and several of the children escaped and found a quarry security guard, who called police.

Most interesting to me, was the observed impact of the event on the children:

:3_eyes:

I got a Bacon King at the Spring City Burger King today. It was over $8! Just the one sammich!

I was desperate, but still.

(When looking for rentals, our rule in Brookhaven is, we are not going to live anywhere south of the Giant.)

That doesn't leave very much. You do realize Edgemont runs NW to SE.

There are some fine neighborhoods back there. It's just hard to know where to stop. The transition to hood is really ambiguous on that road.

(Also my commute gets worse as home moves too far south)

Just above Giant is Dutton Mill Rd and then Middletown Twp, but the line slants so there are a couple streets on the other side of Edgemont. There are a lot of nice hoods southwest of Giant over to Creek Road, as far south as Brookhaven Road.

If you ever worked at a Burger King you would not eat their food. I doubt that you would work there, but you might know someone that does and you could ask them.

If their kitchen practices turn you off you couldn't have lived with my first wife.

I was the same way about working at Sonic. Didn't eat from a Sonic for over a year after I got fired.

Worse than school lunches?

Doesn't working in pretty much any restaurant in the USA make you want to cook from scratch at home forever? Even where I work we have doubleplusgood people working in the kitchen prepping the food, but we have counter staff who are too stupid to understand hygiene rules or just don't give a shit. :/

Back in the Old Country, I worked in Fish n Chip shops when I was a student and we all were ON IT, even when we thought no-one was looking. But if you fucked up and go the place in trouble with the health inspector, you would never get a job in food service again. Here, no-one will give a reference for fear of getting sued, so if you get fired for serving a customer a home-grown poop patty in place of the burger they ordered, no-one else is going to know and you can walk straight into the next place....

Today I learned about squat cobbler lobster. I learned about squat lobster.

Hey! So did I! ;)

Today I learned you actually need to give permission for Forbes to include you on their "richest people" lists. None of the Rothschild family, for example, have ever appeared. So many of the richest people exclude themselves that the lists are almost meaningless, more like a "Who's Who" of the top 1,000 people desperate to be famous for being rich.

Did not know that.


Wow, that really devalues the whole notion.

I've always declined. Seems gauche.:right:

Eh, some attention whores, some figure it's sorta public knowledge anyway, and some don't give a rats ass.

I decline because my lawyer, Michael Cohen, told me to stop paying taxes.

Did he offer to pay the taxes for you?

:lol:

*snort*

how very adroit of you^








^terrible pun may require knowledge of French

Pshaw, nothing so sinister.

Well it's nice to have the financial dexterity to be able to say no....

(if anyone follows links to this thread, they're going to be totally wrecked)


....I'll get my coat....

before you go!

internet high five!

(either hand)

;)

Thunderboy and I are the punwarrers of the family. I get to be the person who has to supervise him over 50 hours of driving practice. It gets pretty painful. My legacy.

Today I learned...

that drains and sewers are actually really interesting.


- that is all.

TIL about the Brennan B2.

[cough,gag,$putter,choke]JumpinCatfi$h tho$e thing$ are expen$ive!!!![/cough,gag,$putter,choke]

:bolt:

Think of the pissed off people who bought the B1. ;)

Heh...

Today I learned:

~Wiki

Translation:

Bobby Bonilla hasn't played for the Mets since 1999, and will receive almost $30,000,000 for a single season, that he never even played.

Base-uh-bowl has been beddy beddy good to him.

Also learned today:

Have contract negotiations coming up?

Get Bobby Bonilla'$ lawyer$.

If he's not Scotty Boras, he ain't shit.