Posts posted by RDCanecutter
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1 hour ago, Cheeseweasel said:
I'm sure it's lower than the national average, but you really can't compare infant mortality rates in the US vs. other countries. They measure completely differently than we do.
Let go of your foolish pride, and get on the raft. We have 1 hour before the wind changes. Do you want to make it to Havana, or not?
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1 minute ago, MaybeACoordinator said:
FAT LADIES AT THE FOOD BAR on RASCALS OF FIRE
IS THE BIBLE CONSIDERED A CLASSIC?
I think an essential part of the Classics is getting to rub up on nekkid statues of young Ganymede, and the Bible rules-as-written is down on that. But then after the Council of Nicaea there was an opioid epidemic among unemployed Nekkid Ganymede sculptors, so one o them funny-hat dudes found a loophole, and so you could buy a nekkid Ganymede statue again, you just had to call it Sebastian and shoot it with arrows.
So maybe.
And maybe a cruise is a form of purgatory, or purgative, if you get the right bug on board.
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1 hour ago, Fozzz said:Disgusting classicism there, jimmy.
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage, Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls Of heroes into Hades' dark, And left their bodies to rot as feasts For FAT LADIES AT THE FOOD BAR, as Zeus' will was done. Begin with the clash between Agamemnon-- The Greek warlord--and godlike Achilles -
4 hours ago, Calihorn said:
This thread should be the poster child for crowd-sourcing Johnny Sackofshit. Why he’s allowed is beyond me.
I cannot remember any thread where you posted anything interesting. I do remember you calling for people to be crowd-sourced.
This board is flawed in how easy it is for people to run others off.
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2 hours ago, Huckleberry said:
Their customer base won't stand for her now that she did this, it's the right move for the publishing company.
Kind of like how she, as a customer, couldn't stand that a Metro employee was eating. Goose, gander, and all that.
I bet the publishing company is a vanity press, ie, authors pay to have them print their books, and thus the customer base is other unpublished authors with enough mommydaddy money to print up 5,000 copies of their own stuff.
Only 2,000 copies of which will be printed.
12 copies will be legit sold. 200 more will be peddled as gifts to friends, family, local libraries.
After a year, the remaining 1,788 copies will be "discovered" and the author will have the option to pay (again) to get them delivered, or else they will be pulped for recycling.
Then decades later, the remaining, moldering 1,786 copies will be found lining the author's cat-feces encrusted apartment, and finally be pulped.
Unless the author successfully becomes mayor of Baltimore, which seems unpromising at the moment.
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23 hours ago, pops said:
Assuming you had a chance to go back to your 20 year old self and talk to him for an hour what would you say?
Well, no matter what I tell him, there's a good chance that if my 20-year-old self changes anything, he (and I) will be dead now.
So if I'm back in his time, I guess I drive past his house without stopping, and go buy a bunch of Apple stock, collectible widgets, maybe bet on the next Superbowl.
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10 hours ago, Ted Lange said:
Heading to Alsace this summer., just 4 days with home base in Strasbourg. I know the obvious things, but if anyone has some random things or places to visit, I’d love to hear it.
Rent a bicycle and zip down the canal paths west of town. There will be an elf village every couple of miles where beer and good chow can be had. You won't be deep in the woods but you'll see stuff you'll never catch from a car or train.
Colmar is a nice canal town a little south of Strasbourg. Selestat is about halfway between the two, and has a small city feel. Right up the mountain from it is the Mountain of Monkeys, if you like monkeys. It's a colony of North African critters than roam free inside an enclosure, and you can go in there and feed them popcorn from your hand. When they get enough popcorn-fed monkeys to reproduce, they send some of them back to reforested parts of North Africa.
If you like the Smokies you will love the Vosges.
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3 hours ago, Anastasis said:
post WWII linguistic suppression, imo.
Alsatian was gonna get suppressed no matter what-- it's not standard Hochsdeutsch, and when they were part of Krautland they were treated as Reichs territory, like Namibia or Kameroon.
They were pretty pro-German though, until Hitler. Hitler made it much more popular to be French.
People will say there's no Alsatian spoken but they don't know jack. There are people who never speak it, people who always speak it, and a fuzzy middle group who act like they don't speak it if you speak standard German or French to them and they think you'll make fun of them, but if you hit them with a similar Baden dialect, or just show some respect, then yeah they can speak it.
I was told by one guy that Alsatian was good practice for learning English, another mixed German/French mutt. So maybe we set up some Alsatian language schools in China.
Lorraine is a similar case. Split between "French" and "German", but neither variety was like anything they spoke in Paris or Heidelberg. Whoever owned it, they were going to reteach the kids.
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17 hours ago, Anastasis said:
Flammenkugen, imo.
I like where your head is at.
Yeah, at first I was all Flammekuchen Flammekuchen, but even in towns where they spoke Alsatian they were calling it Tarte Flambee. After a while I was like, "fine, just cook me some o that good shit." Also, don't miss out on Choucroute Garnie, that's sauerkraut with all the meat from the surrounding area on top of it.
(To speak proper Alsatian, learn both French and German, then drink cough syrup until you've forgotten them both. Dude who ran the hotel in Selestat, next consonant I hear him say will be his first.)
La Montagne des Singes. Feed the monkeys popcorn.
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11 minutes ago, LonghornJudas said:
As a side note, the Pirates of the Caribbean, Mr. Toad's, and Peter Pan rides are pretty great when you're high.
Apparently it's not uncommon for the boat to get stuck for an hour inside the "It's a Small World" ride with the dolls heads clicking as they pipe out that song.
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the alabama abortion attack
in Cloak Room
I had the family servants pack the hold with Buffalo Rock. I hope they survive our absence. I feel a paternal sense of responsibility for them.