Mildly interesting
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@Copper said in Mildly interesting:
I have stayed in a couple different hotels in Slough, it is out near Windsor Castle and Heathrow.
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To MaidenheadAnd talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
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@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
Link to videoGene Simmons
Go to 10:40 where he talks about his mother taking the oath of citizenship.
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Weird stuff about Maine (and other states)
- Maine is the closest US State to Africa. Quoddy Head, Maine sits just 3,154 miles from El Beddouzza, Morocco. For comparison, Florida is more than 4,000 miles from its nearest point on the African continent.
- If you take a road trip through the Lower 48, passing through each state only once, you always end in Maine. That’s because Maine is the only state in the continental United States that borders only one other state.
- More French is spoken in Maine than any state in the United States. When French explorers landed in eastern Canada back in the 1600’s, many of them settled in what is present-day Maine. Their descendants are still there today. It doesn’t hurt bordering two French-speaking Canadian provinces, either.
- Maine is the single largest producer of blueberries in the United States.
- Nobody knows how Maine got its name. All they know is that the name first appeared in writing in 1622.
- Despite the mystery behind its name, Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1819.
- Maine is larger than the other 5 New England States combined.
If you visited one island per day, it would take you more than 9 years to visit every island in Maine - At 3,478 miles, Maine’s coastline is longer than California’s (3,427 miles)
- Maine is home to the only desert in New England (40 acres outside Freeport). It formed 11,000 years ago, when a glacier deposited large amounts of sand on the site.
- Portland, Oregon is named after Portland, Maine. The Oregon city’s name was decided on a coin toss between Portland and Boston.
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DON’T let them eat cake.
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Me/rry/Christmas
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@LuFins-Dad reminds me of some of Andy McKee's stuff.
"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:
@LuFins-Dad reminds me of some of Andy McKee's stuff.
Now, if he recorded it into a looper, he could really be doing something…
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I posted his Kashmir a while back.
Link to video
