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When we think of excellence in woodworking and craftsmanship we tend to think about the Amish or European traditions. When we think of Japan we think of electronics, robotics, and high tech… But the fact remains that the oldest wooden buildings still in use were built over 1100 years ago (one building in the temple grounds was started in 607 AD) in Japan. That craftsmanship still exists today.
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@bachophile even @copper wouldn't eat a plane.
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@mark said in Mildly interesting:
Bridge that connects Sweden and Denmark turns into an under water tunnel.
I took that bridge in 2018 by train.
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Ultimate pwn by a Dutch architect.
When the Euro was first circulated, it was important to the EU that the banknotes not have a specific country’s landscape feature so as not to aggravate anyone so they had fictitious bridges put on the bank notes.
Afterwards a Dutch architect went and made bridges in Rotterdam looking like the banknotes to “claim” all the designs for Holland.
Fvcking dutchers.
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Ralph Lauren’s son David Lauren married George HW Bush’s grandaughter Lauren.
Her name is now Lauren Bush Lauren.
DON’T let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Ralph Lauren’s son David Lauren married George HW Bush’s grandaughter Lauren.
Her name is now Lauren Bush Lauren.
I worked with a guy who had a daughter named "Kelly." She married a guy whose last name was, yup, "Kelly."
"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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I have an ancestor named Smith Smith. The family joke is she was born Smith Court, then she caught a guy named Smith....
I think she came from a strict protestant upbringing, and they didn't hold with decorative names.
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@Copper said in Mildly interesting:
But not quite as bad as Sirhan Sirhan
“ The good one about God and his wife’s difficulties had to do with the fact that it had taken God only six days to produce the whole world, whereas his wife had spent a full day and a half in labor just to produce Major Major. A lesser man might have wavered that day in the hospital corridor, a weaker man might have compromised on such excellent substitutes as Drum Major, Minor Major, Sergeant Major, or C. Sharp Major, but Major Major’s father had waited fourteen years for just such an opportunity, and he was not a person to waste it. Major Major’s father had a good joke about opportunity. ‘ Opportunity only knocks once in this world,’ he would say. Major Major’s father repeated this good joke at every opportunity.”
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“There were six people and a Scotch terrier inhabiting the remote
farmhouse Major Major called home, and five of them and the Scotch terrier turned out to be agents for the F.B.I. Soon they had enough derogatory information on Major Major to do whatever they wanted to with him. The only thing they could find to do with him, however, was take him into the Army as a private and make him a major four days later so that Congressmen with nothing
else on their minds could go trotting back and forth through the streets of Washington, D.C., chanting, ‘Who promoted Major Major? Who promoted Major Major?’ Actually, Major Major had been promoted by an I.B.M. machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father’s.” -
From Stephen Hough's Book "Rough Ideas."
The American pianist Jerome Lowenthal told me he was backstage in Paris in the 1950s when he overheard an old lady speaking to the pianist at the end of the concert.
'My father said that people always play L'Ile joyeuse too quickly.'
'Oh,' replied the pianist, 'and who is your father?'
'Claude Debussy.'
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@kluurs Not that old! She was born in 07 so the oldest she could have been in the 50s is 52. May well have still been in her 40s.
