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@xenon said in Mildly interesting:
@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
Now children everywhere will grow up not believing in cinder block magic. Great job George.
I keep hearing that as "cinder block magic woman" in my head
Side story: I knew a girl in Taiwan who worked in a pub. She was a mountain person (native tribe to Taiwan) who had darker skin, who really liked that song (Black Magic Woman).
Anyway, I saw today that the guy who wrote that song just died. And his group (Fleetwood Mac) did not make it famous. It was famous by somebody else.
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@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
Yep. People call me alarmist when I warn of the existential risk of not believing in cinder block magic. But the sad tale of the Moa species should be a reminder to us all.
Close but no cigar. The Moa bird went extinct because Christopher Columbus’s brother sailed a different route and made it much further. Thanksgiving looked very different in New Zealand.
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@Loki said in Mildly interesting:
@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
Yep. People call me alarmist when I warn of the existential risk of not believing in cinder block magic. But the sad tale of the Moa species should be a reminder to us all.
Close but no cigar. The Moa bird went extinct because Christopher Columbus’s brother sailed a different route and made it much further. Thanksgiving looked very different in New Zealand.
It was actually the inspiration for Dickens' Oliver Twist. "Please sir, may I have some Moa?"