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  • J jon-nyc
    24 May 2022, 01:42

    @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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    Horace
    wrote on 24 May 2022, 02:15 last edited by Horace
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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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      24 May 2022, 02:15

      @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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      Catseye3
      wrote on 24 May 2022, 09:34 last edited by
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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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      • C Catseye3
        24 May 2022, 09:34

        @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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        Doctor Phibes
        wrote on 24 May 2022, 11:00 last edited by
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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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        • D Doctor Phibes
          24 May 2022, 11:00

          @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
          wrote on 24 May 2022, 11:28 last edited by
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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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          • C Catseye3
            24 May 2022, 09:34

            @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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            taiwan_girl
            wrote on 24 May 2022, 15:45 last edited by
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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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              mark
              wrote on 24 May 2022, 16:32 last edited by
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              Link to video

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                mark
                wrote on 24 May 2022, 19:10 last edited by
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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 K
                  wrote on 24 May 2022, 19:19 last edited by
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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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                  • C Catseye3
                    16 May 2022, 12:24

                    @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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                    xenon
                    wrote on 24 May 2022, 19:39 last edited by
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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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                    • M mark
                      24 May 2022, 19:10

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

                      The 555 timer IC

                      Link to video

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                      mark
                      wrote on 25 May 2022, 12:55 last edited by
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                      • G George K
                        24 May 2022, 19:19

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

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                        wrote on 25 May 2022, 12:56 last edited by
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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 K
                          wrote on 26 May 2022, 12:22 last edited by
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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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                            Ivorythumper
                            wrote on 26 May 2022, 19:58 last edited by
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                            https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-president-heads

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                              jon-nyc
                              wrote on 27 May 2022, 13:50 last edited by
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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.

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                                George K
                                wrote on 27 May 2022, 15:12 last edited by
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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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                                • G George K
                                  27 May 2022, 15:12

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                                  mark
                                  wrote on 27 May 2022, 15:27 last edited by
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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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                                    Horace
                                    wrote on 27 May 2022, 15:30 last edited by
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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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                                      Catseye3
                                      wrote on 28 May 2022, 12:38 last edited by
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                                      Especially for Phibes, maybe?

                                      A 2022 MIT report studied the Oreo cookie's "flow and fracture".

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

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                                        jon-nyc
                                        wrote on 28 May 2022, 18:17 last edited by
                                        #373

                                        That time when 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 1939.

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                                        Only non-witches get due process.

                                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                        • J jon-nyc
                                          28 May 2022, 18:17

                                          That time when 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 1939.

                                          13B9ABE5-3A09-4C9D-AD1C-45F7337864FE.jpeg

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                                          wrote on 28 May 2022, 18:20 last edited by
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                                          @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                                          hat time when 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 1939.

                                          Holeee Cow.

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

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