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    Copper
    wrote on 30 Aug 2023, 17:54 last edited by
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    And JFK had 3 of the 4 jobs at about the same time.

    There was talk of JFK for VP in 1956, JFK's father supposedly made a cash offer to LBJ to have his son as LBJ's VP. That didn't work out.

    Then JFK wanted to be the VP on a 1956 ticket with Adlai Stevenson. Lucky for him that didn't happen either.

    So he came close to having all 4 jobs.

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      Aqua Letifer
      wrote on 1 Sept 2023, 03:41 last edited by
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      Please love yourself.

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        jon-nyc
        wrote on 1 Sept 2023, 18:28 last edited by
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        Only non-witches get due process.

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          George K
          wrote on 2 Sept 2023, 11:38 last edited by
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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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            jon-nyc
            wrote on 2 Sept 2023, 19:22 last edited by
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            Wild mammals are just 4% of the total.

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            Only non-witches get due process.

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              2 Sept 2023, 19:22

              Wild mammals are just 4% of the total.

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              Horace
              wrote on 2 Sept 2023, 19:45 last edited by
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              @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

              Wild mammals are just 4% of the total.

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              Cows are tasty, thus the sum mammalian consciousness at any given moment on the planet is largely that of a cow.

              Education is extremely important.

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                Copper
                wrote on 2 Sept 2023, 20:34 last edited by
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                Take lifespan into account

                Beef cattle live for only 2-3 years.

                African Bush Elephants live for 60-70 years

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                  jon-nyc
                  wrote on 2 Sept 2023, 21:17 last edited by
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                  Only non-witches get due process.

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                    Copper
                    wrote on 3 Sept 2023, 00:57 last edited by
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                    Invasion

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                      mark
                      wrote on 3 Sept 2023, 15:53 last edited by
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                      What about Dogs and Cats? Why are Buffalo not classified "wild"?

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                        Mik
                        wrote on 3 Sept 2023, 16:21 last edited by
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                        The Cook pines.

                        https://www.newscientist.com/article/2133476-the-strange-cook-pine-trees-that-always-lean-towards-the-equator/

                        “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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                          Copper
                          wrote on 3 Sept 2023, 21:56 last edited by
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                            jon-nyc
                            wrote on 3 Sept 2023, 22:15 last edited by
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                            He’s the biggest sports star in the world. What do you expect?

                            Only non-witches get due process.

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                              3 Sept 2023, 22:15

                              He’s the biggest sports star in the world. What do you expect?

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                              Doctor Phibes
                              wrote on 3 Sept 2023, 23:11 last edited by Doctor Phibes 9 Mar 2023, 23:12
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                              @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                              He’s the biggest sports star in the world. What do you expect?

                              Yeah, but $789 to watch Inter-Miami? It's like the elephants graveyard for great footballers.

                              I was only joking

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                                jon-nyc
                                wrote on 3 Sept 2023, 23:21 last edited by
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                                In 1990-91 I was working in Miami. You could walk in 2 minutes before any Miami Heat game and get great tickets.

                                Except when Jordan and the Bulls were in town. That sold out immediately.

                                Only non-witches get due process.

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                                  3 Sept 2023, 15:53

                                  What about Dogs and Cats? Why are Buffalo not classified "wild"?

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                                  LuFins Dad
                                  wrote on 4 Sept 2023, 00:20 last edited by
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                                  @mark said in Mildly interesting:

                                  What about Dogs and Cats? Why are Buffalo not classified "wild"?

                                  Those were my questions as well…

                                  The Brad

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                                    George K
                                    wrote on 5 Sept 2023, 12:35 last edited by
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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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                                      Mik
                                      wrote on 5 Sept 2023, 15:34 last edited by
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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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                                        taiwan_girl
                                        wrote on 6 Sept 2023, 00:00 last edited by
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                                        @Mik Me too. I am very gruntled to have learned a new word.

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                                          George K
                                          wrote on 6 Sept 2023, 00:52 last edited by
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                                          https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gruntle

                                          Which Came First, gruntle or disgruntle?

                                          The verb disgruntle, which has been around since 1682, means "to make ill-humored or discontented." The prefix dis- often means "to do the opposite of," so people might naturally assume that if there is a disgruntle, there must have first been a gruntle with exactly the opposite meaning. But dis- doesn't always work that way; in some rare cases it functions instead as an intensifier. Disgruntle developed from this intensifying sense of dis- plus gruntle, an old word (now used only in British dialect) meaning "to grumble." In the 1920s, a writer humorously used gruntle to mean "to make happy"—in other words, as an antonym of disgruntle. The use caught on. At first gruntle was used only in humorous ways, but people eventually began to use it seriously as well.

                                          Word History

                                          Etymology
                                          back-formation from disgruntle

                                          First Known Use
                                          1926, in the meaning defined above

                                          "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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