Mildly interesting
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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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Arkansas School for the Deaf has their nickname be the Leopards.
They are known as the Deaf Leopards!
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In 1974, when the mummy of Ramses II (died 1213 B.C.) had to be flown to Paris for restoration, it was issued a valid Egyptian passport, including a photo of the pharaoh's ancient face. His occupation was listed as “King (deceased).
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A friend was flying his cargo 747 from Hawaii to the west coast last night and got this "Pilot Response" message.
This pops up is neither pilot touches any controls or switches or buttons for a long period of time, I think it is usually set at about 1 hour.
This is rarely seen except for long flights like this one across the Pacific.
The 747 doesn't want the pilots to fall asleep.
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@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:
Arkansas School for the Deaf has their nickname be the Leopards.
They are known as the Deaf Leopards!
Be a shitload cooler if the mascot only had one arm.
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When you don't have a ramp.
In the comments:
"My guy was masterful with machinery as well and could tame the most wild equipment. People would watch in awe. Without guys like him and my guy, we might never have those "when machinery goes terribly wrong" videos
"Watch this" code for you might want to stand way back"
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Compressing the history of the earth into a single day.
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This had me wanting to buy a watch. And I hate wearing watches. lol
I actually went to the pre-order site but they were sold out.
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I remember Sawchuk playing for the Leafs in the mid ‘60s. He was referred to as the Shut Out King from his earlier career with the Red Wings. He had issues and unfortunately passed away in 1970 when he was the third string goalie for the Rangers. He is in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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Wow. All new to me.
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I can remember when my father, a high school hockey coach, brought home one of the original goalie masks. Nobody in the NHL was wearing a mask, or helmet, at the time.
It was a futuristic-looking sheet of curved plexi-glass. I remember that I couldn't get it to fit right. I thought, those things will never catch on.
Then Teddy Green got his brains bashed in and they wouldn't let him play without a helmet.
Then some kids came up from the minors wearing helmets.
Then it all became a little safer.
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Then Teddy Green got his brains bashed in and they wouldn't let him play without a helmet.
I remember that incident. Seems to me it was a preseason game between the Bruins and Blues. Green got into a stick swinging fight with Wayne Maki. Bruins went on to win the Cup later in the season.
I can also remember the only NHL goalie who wore a mask was the Blackhawk’s Glenn Hall. Earlier Jacques Plante was the first to wear one but he went into a brief retirement in 1965 before returning to play with the Blues in 1968. Really didn’t see many masks until the first expansion took place when several goalies came into the league from the minors with masks. Best mask ever was the Bruins Gerry Cheever’s - it was well scarred with electrical tape for every time it stopped a puck or stick that would have resulted in facial stitches or surgery.
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The First Hollywood Film To Spoof Hitler Was A Three Stooges Short Called ‘You Nazty Spy!’
Hollywood's relationship to the Third Reich before Pearl Harbor was a complex one. Film producers - particularly Jewish ones - had ample reason to dislike Nazis, but the US was not yet at war with them, and it wasn't necessarily good for business to lampoon the government of a large foreign market. So, with some exceptions, Hollywood tended to tread carefully in the late 1930s.
Charles Chaplin famously lampooned the Third Reich leader in The Great Dictator, which was released in October 1940. The Three Stooges got the jump on Chaplin by nine months, however, releasing their own quickie Third Reich parody in January that year, although Chaplin's film had started production first.
In January 1940, the Stooges released a two-reel short called You Nazty Spy! in which they play dimwitted wallpaper hangers who are installed as dictators of the country of Moronica; the businessmen who elevate them think they are stupid enough to be easily controlled.
Moe plays the Hitler-like leader, while Curly plays Field Marshal Gallstone (a mashup of Goering and Mussolini), and Larry is Propaganda Minister Pebble (a spoof of Goebbels). Various comic hijinks ensue, culminating in the dictatorial trio getting deposed and eaten by lions. In 1941, a sequel came out called I'll Never Heil Again.
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