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An actor’s actor and one of my very favorites.

Thanks! I'm a Beatles song.

Most annoying sound on the road has to be a two-stroke motorbike going flat out at 45mph . EV noise is irritating. Jenson Interceptor v8 noise my favourite. There's a modern Mercedes engine that rumbles nicely.

All OK here. We're about 10 miles west of there. Thanks for checking, though.

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I was worried it might fully melt while I’m gone and I’ll come back to my car being parked three feet from the curb with a stack of tickets on it. But it doesn’t seem that’s going to happen.

@Horace said in Mildly interesting: I wonder why things have changed so much. Tobacco and alcohol probably didn't help much.

So they went to other entities hungry for the fight. That hardly makes it any better.

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Wow.

@jodi Butte. A toxic waste dump. (Seriously - I think it’s the largest superfund site in the United States). I know it well. The USEPA rep there gave me and a couple of colleagues a tour of the mine site. Disturbing to say the least. My maternal grandmother was born not far from Butte. Close to Virginia City in a little Irish village called Laurin - now, for all intents and purposes, a ghost town although the old red stone RC church and school are still in operation.

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