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RDCanecutter

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  1. By any chance are you familiar with those buckskin shoes with crepe rubber soles that were popular in the 70s? I had a pair, and when they got wet the leather hardened up in weird shapes and the sole eventually peeled off. Smelled like wet gym sock from then on. I don't know what happened to my old pair, but if one of them showed up in 2024, I'd vote for it over any R.
  2. I'm guessing she doesn't know about the sun or the moon, but she is genius-level on where the bodies are buried.
  3. Cool stuff. German and Italian still have different dialects every few miles (Not implying that Luxembourg is German-- let's call it Holy Roman Empire) unlike the French, who have been doing their best to murder all their dialects. To my untrained ear it reminds me of Schwabisch or Alsatian. Probably wrong though. Moien.
  4. As a simple Medieval Knight, I'm gonna need some concrete examples to understand any of this.
  5. The motte is just a log stockade while the bailey is a tower inside. All set up to keep Saxons in line. Wouldn't the motte fall first? It's the outer ring.
  6. I didn't listen to it all, but I caught fragments of Trump's speech on the radio before I turned it off and ran some errands. I remember there was the stink of sulphur coming off of him, far worse than his usual shit-flinging. Made me think of what people said who'd been at Altamont, like there was something dark in the air. But they took their shot, and ever since we get the entertainment of hunting the bastards down.
  7. @washparkhorn! I thought you was dead. Good to see you again.
  8. I inform them that there was never a movie called "Gaslight."
  9. Their actions are a perfect way to prevent ever being on a late flight again.
  10. Don't tell 1819 news about him, we don't need that.
  11. Or do a Jesus quote in the original Aramaic.
  12. Hovde. Sounds kinda foreign. Not sure how he got inside the US, much less ran for office. #StopTheSwedes
  13. Now see this is the kind of crazy shit that makes the crowd stand up and roar. Do it!
  14. I started taking it, but then I felt Wokeness rising up in my body. I threw the laptop across the room just it time.
  15. After months of studying Gaelic (my wife and I will slip into it, as well as talking to our dog) I met a guy from Inverness who grew up speaking it. He hit me with a firehose of it, but I could figure it out. His is different from mine, which he clocked as from the Isles. I guess that's where the Duolingo instructors are from. I guess if Britain has a different dialect of English every 50 miles, why not with Gaelic. Now I will nerd-laugh until milk comes out my nose.
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