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  • Catseye3C Catseye3

    It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.

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    @Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

    It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.

    https://ancient-archeology.com/exquisite-2000-year-old-sapphire-ring-thought-to-have-belonged-to-roman-emperor-caligula/

    "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 KG George K

      @Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

      It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.

      https://ancient-archeology.com/exquisite-2000-year-old-sapphire-ring-thought-to-have-belonged-to-roman-emperor-caligula/

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      @George-K interesting story behind the ring.

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      • KlausK Klaus

        Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.

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        @Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

        Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.

        My very first thought was that was an incredibly low price. Honestly I would personally have bid higher had I known it was being auctioned.

        I mean, if I had Horace’s riches.

        Only non-witches get due process.

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        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

          @Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

          Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.

          My very first thought was that was an incredibly low price. Honestly I would personally have bid higher had I known it was being auctioned.

          I mean, if I had Horace’s riches.

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          @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

          @Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

          Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.

          My very first thought was that was an incredibly low price. Honestly I would personally have bid higher had I known it was being auctioned.

          I mean, if I had Horace’s riches.

          I would only bid if you did. I would drive up the price to your maximum, a point I would know because of my ability to read minds. Then I would post on TNCR a list of philanthropic projects you could have used that money for. Defeated financially and spiritually, you would retire from TNCR in shame. Only to be welcomed back by my own benevolent hand of forgiveness. Humbled and improved, you would return, wearing your Caligula ring, now engraved with a simple “H” in honor of this greatest transformative experience of your life.

          Education is extremely important.

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          • HoraceH Horace

            @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

            @Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

            Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.

            My very first thought was that was an incredibly low price. Honestly I would personally have bid higher had I known it was being auctioned.

            I mean, if I had Horace’s riches.

            I would only bid if you did. I would drive up the price to your maximum, a point I would know because of my ability to read minds. Then I would post on TNCR a list of philanthropic projects you could have used that money for. Defeated financially and spiritually, you would retire from TNCR in shame. Only to be welcomed back by my own benevolent hand of forgiveness. Humbled and improved, you would return, wearing your Caligula ring, now engraved with a simple “H” in honor of this greatest transformative experience of your life.

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            @Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation. 😳

            Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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            • Catseye3C Catseye3

              @Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation. 😳

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              @Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

              @Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation. 😳

              Horace has kissed both the Blarney Stone and Caligula's ring.

              I was only joking

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              • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                @Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

                @Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation. 😳

                Horace has kissed both the Blarney Stone and Caligula's ring.

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                Aqua's Sister
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                @Doctor-Phibes said in Mildly interesting:

                Horace has kissed both the Blarney Stone and Caligula's ring.

                And other things.

                PM me and I'll tell you what.

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                • Catseye3C Catseye3

                  @Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation. 😳

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                  @Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

                  @Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation. 😳

                  +1

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                    Link to video

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                    • markM Offline
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                      mark
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                      The 50 year old Integrated Circuit still in wide use today.

                      The 555 timer IC

                      Link to video

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                      • George KG Offline
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                        Circuit older than that were racist because they were not integrated, right?

                        "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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                        • Catseye3C Catseye3

                          @Klaus A Bob Newhart sketch.

                          A roomful of monkeys, each sitting at a desk and banging away on a typewriter. Men in white coats wandering the aisles, observing. One of them stops, stares, and cries, "Jim! Jim! Get over here, quick!" The other man joins the first, who points to what the monkey had typed: "To be or not to be, that is the geframenplatz."

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                          @Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

                          @Klaus A Bob Newhart sketch.

                          A roomful of monkeys, each sitting at a desk and banging away on a typewriter. Men in white coats wandering the aisles, observing. One of them stops, stares, and cries, "Jim! Jim! Get over here, quick!" The other man joins the first, who points to what the monkey had typed: "To be or not to be, that is the geframenplatz."

                          Link to video

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                          • markM mark

                            The 50 year old Integrated Circuit still in wide use today.

                            The 555 timer IC

                            Link to video

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                            • George KG George K

                              Circuit older than that were racist because they were not integrated, right?

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                              @George-K said in Mildly interesting:

                              Circuit older than that were racist because they were not integrated, right?

                              The 555 was not the first IC.

                              The first IC was invented in 1958 by an engineer at Texas Instruments.

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                              • George KG Offline
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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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                                  https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-president-heads

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                                    Trivia: eggs fully form in the ovaries of fetuses. That means the egg that became you was once inside the body of your grandmother.

                                    Only non-witches get due process.

                                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                    • George KG Offline
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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 KG George K

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                                        @George-K Talk about tension and release. I kept looking for the bar and when it finally came into view, I was like, NFW is he going to make that.

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                                          Fake. If you look closely you can see the pole he's using to help him do that.

                                          Education is extremely important.

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