Mildly interesting
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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So now I learn that, at a point in my life where I’ll probably use a stapler 3 more times.
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Interesting fact about Arnold: "Despite living and working in America and even running a small part of it for a few years, Arnold Schwarzenegger still speaks with the same thick Austrian accent that endeared him to us when he was punching out the Predator in the '80s.
This particular quirk of the Governator's life has mystified and perplexed fans for years because surely by now, he's been in America long enough to lose his accent.
Well apparently he has. In an interview with The Daily Mail following the release of Terminator Genisys, the T-800 revealed that he's perfectly capable of speaking English sans his accent but doesn't because fans expect him to speak like he does in all his movies. This makes sense, as in his own autobiography, Schwarzenegger notes that he had hours of personal lessons with acclaimed dialect coach Robert Easton shortly after coming to America to learn how to enunciate more clearly."
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
Yeah, me too, but I bet Aqua would do it. It's fuckin' awesome. The origin of Steam Punk.
Holy shit Sign. Me. UP.
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@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
Yeah, me too, but I bet Aqua would do it. It's fuckin' awesome. The origin of Steam Punk.
Holy shit Sign. Me. UP.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:
Holy shit Sign. Me. UP.
Me, too. And being lighter than you I'd beat you like a brass drum.
If I didn't kill my damn self first.
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@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
Motorcycle chariot racing is a motor sport that combines motorcycle racing and chariot racing.
The first competition of the sport was held in the U.S. as early as 1922, and gained popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, further inspired by the 1925 film Ben-Hur. It went largely (although not entirely) extinct after that, although exhibition rigs are still made and driven.
One early event was held on June 4, 1922, at Idora Park in Oakland, California:
A novel feature of the day and one that excited roars of laughter from the spectators in the grandstand, consisted of motorcycle chariot races, said to be the first of their kind ever pulled off in the history of motorcycle racing.
Races might also have been held during the 1920s at the old speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina (the old speedway at 35°5′52.8″N 80°52′52.51″W, not the modern Charlotte Motor Speedway). After the early events, the sport was further developed in Australia and quickly spread to Europe. In 1925, Pathé News filmed an exhibition race at Crystal Palace Park, London.
A typical early vehicle configuration was a rider on a motorcycle pulling a chariot and charioteer who were essentially ornamental. A 1922 short piece in Popular Mechanics describes this configuration. This soon developed into a configuration with two riderless motorcycles steered by a single charioteer using reins. Steering was sometimes done with reins attached to the throttles (the charioteer steered by controlling the relative speed of the two motorcycles), and sometimes with rigid extensions attached to the handlebars. Modern rigs may have foot pedals for speed control, the reins used for steering the front wheels.
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