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@89th said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
The mountains were formed before there were land animals, indeed even before fish had evolved. As a result most of the fossils seen on them are from early marine life.
Very cool - every time I'd hike in the Shenandoah I'd often think about this.
I was excited that you were doing something every time you'd hike, but then you said you merely 'often' did it. The promise of the phrase 'every time' was broken. I felt betrayed by this sentence.
Education is extremely important.
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DON’T let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
@horace It could be that he thought about it often on each hike.
Oh, the song got stuck in his head every time he went hiking there.
@89th, is that true? Did this Elton John song get stuck in your head every time you hiked there?
If so, I want to apologize for my previous post. Due to my lack of reading comprehension, I unfairly accused you of having betrayed me. I am sorry.
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The John Denver song stuck in my head whenever I flew there, which was often.
Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
John Denver was a pilot.
The instrument approach into Martinsburg, WV has a waypoint called HEVEN.
You hit this point over the Blue Ridge and the Shenandoah River.
So when I announced that I was inbound at (or almost at) Heven, while over the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River, there was no way to stop the song from popping in.
I wonder if he got the lyrics while on approach there.
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@horace said in Mildly interesting:
If so, I want to apologize for my previous post. Due to my lack of reading comprehension, I unfairly accused you of having betrayed me. I am sorry.
It's ok, every time I read your posts I often think about your lack of reading skillz
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@89th said in Mildly interesting:
@horace said in Mildly interesting:
If so, I want to apologize for my previous post. Due to my lack of reading comprehension, I unfairly accused you of having betrayed me. I am sorry.
It's ok, every time I read your posts I often think about your lack of reading skillz
Okay that was funny.
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In 1950, 22 percent of American adults were single, four million of them lived alone and they made up a paltry 9 percent of households. Today, by contrast, more than 50 percent of American adults are single, 31 million of them live alone and they make up a hefty 28 percent of households.
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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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@george-k said in Mildly interesting:
I read Hooker's book - the one upon which the movie was basted - about 5 months ago. It's...interesting.
Pretty nuts, right?
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DON’T let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc actually the territory was called "Louisiana" but they went to Biloxi, which is, of course, in Mississippi.
In 1719, John Law decided to offer prisoners in Paris something they could not refuse. He offered them their freedom as long as they were willing to marry a prostitute and head off to Louisiana. Anyone who agreed to the bargain was shackled together until they boarded a ship to sail to the Gulf Coast. John Law went as far as to raid hospitals for drunks and disorderly soldiers, find prostitutes and the black sheep of society, paupers and just about anyone who wouldn’t put up a fuss, and they were then forcibly taken to the docks to be shipped off to the colony. Those who came willingly were offered land and provisions.
Most of the people who arrived in Louisiana were hungry, had little provisions, and had no shelter. The area where they landed quickly became crowded and there was no one waiting to provide them with jobs, food or a home. To that end, many of the arrivals became ill and even died before they ever got to experience the garden of Eden or do anything to build upon the wealth of John Law’s investment.
The new immigrants and the old ones were settling in the town of Biloxi (which would later be part of Mississippi but it was part of what was called Louisiana at the time and it was the part that John Law could profit from).That explains a lot about Mississippi.
But with the influx of criminals and other less than ideal immigrants, many of the well-to-do immigrants who had come in an attempt to shape the new colony found themselves unwilling to stick around. They started moving East to New Orleans to get away from the starving criminals that were invading their little town.
NIMBY!
And, it was only 3 ships.
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There was a study done that found that all mammals, from about the size of a mouse to the size of an elephant, all take about the same amount of time to go pee.
About 20 secs.
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@horace said in Mildly interesting:
@klaus said in Mildly interesting:
Now I want to know the distribution of how long a "number 2" takes in various mammals.
Good question. I suspect humans are at the tail end of that.
Only because we have reading material and heated bathrooms.
