Mildly interesting
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I remember a column by George Will back in the 80s where he talked about Truman being the last ‘regular guy’ president in many ways (my words not his). The examples I remember was that he was the last president who didn’t go to college, and he was the last president who walked across the street to do his banking.
wrote on 6 Dec 2023, 14:52 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
he was the last president who walked across the street
IIRC, he walked across the street to work, when the WH was undergoing renovation. There was an assassination attempt on him as well.
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Last bounty from my LSU purple tree this morning
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According to La Wik it was a French land mine. Fucking frogs.
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@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
Last bounty from my LSU purple tree this morning
This is one of those optical illusions where if you look at it long enough it flips from upside down to right side up.
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Best comment:
‘Great. Now I have to go buy 10,000 nails to see if this works.’
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That guy just killed 2 million Mongolian butterflies. Nice going, asshole.
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In 1943, a US bomber over Germany was hit by explosive ordnance directly in the fuel tanks 11 times, but none exploded. After the shells were cut open, all were found to have no explosives in them, and one contained a note in Czech saying "This is all we can do for you now".
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That air would be rather, ah, sweet.
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That would be a really shitty day.
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Clever, nonetheless.
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