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    George K
    wrote on 23 Feb 2023, 13:37 last edited by
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    Riding the rails.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_wheel

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/train-wheel-science/

    Link to video

    "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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      bachophile
      wrote on 24 Feb 2023, 03:52 last edited by
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        George K
        wrote on 24 Feb 2023, 12:49 last edited by
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        @bachophile even @copper wouldn't eat a plane.

        "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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          Horace
          wrote on 24 Feb 2023, 14:32 last edited by
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          I would have to call BS on passing thousands of pounds of metal through your system in the span of 1000 days.

          Education is extremely important.

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            mark
            wrote on 24 Feb 2023, 15:34 last edited by
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            Bridge that connects Sweden and Denmark turns into an under water tunnel.

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              24 Feb 2023, 15:34

              Bridge that connects Sweden and Denmark turns into an under water tunnel.

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              jon-nyc
              wrote on 24 Feb 2023, 21:45 last edited by
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              @mark said in Mildly interesting:

              Bridge that connects Sweden and Denmark turns into an under water tunnel.

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              I took that bridge in 2018 by train.

              Only non-witches get due process.

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                Copper
                wrote on 25 Feb 2023, 03:12 last edited by Copper
                #921

                There are 3 within a short drive from here.

                Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel

                Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel

                Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel that I used to go to the Norfolk airport the other day.

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                  mark
                  wrote on 26 Feb 2023, 14:32 last edited by
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                  This is the OmniVision OV6948, the world's smallest camera has just famously entered the Guinness Book of Records, measuring just 0.575 x 0.575 x 0.232mm: it's good for 40,000-pixel color images using an RGB Bayer back-side-illuminating chip.

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                    George K
                    wrote on 26 Feb 2023, 14:35 last edited by
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                    Link to video

                    "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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                      bachophile
                      wrote on 26 Feb 2023, 16:53 last edited by
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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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                        Copper
                        wrote on 26 Feb 2023, 22:58 last edited by
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                          George K
                          wrote on 1 Mar 2023, 01:10 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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                            jon-nyc
                            wrote on 1 Mar 2023, 17:20 last edited by
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                            Ralph Lauren’s son David Lauren married George HW Bush’s grandaughter Lauren.

                            Her name is now Lauren Bush Lauren.

                            Only non-witches get due process.

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                              1 Mar 2023, 17:20

                              Ralph Lauren’s son David Lauren married George HW Bush’s grandaughter Lauren.

                              Her name is now Lauren Bush Lauren.

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                              George K
                              wrote on 1 Mar 2023, 17:54 last edited by
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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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                                1 Mar 2023, 17:54

                                @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."

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                                Copper
                                wrote on 1 Mar 2023, 19:25 last edited by Copper 3 Jan 2023, 19:26
                                #929

                                I knew a guy named Brian O'Brien

                                A lack of parental imagination

                                But not quite as bad as Sirhan Sirhan

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                                  Doctor Phibes
                                  wrote on 1 Mar 2023, 19:28 last edited by
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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.

                                  I was only joking

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                                    1 Mar 2023, 19:25

                                    I knew a guy named Brian O'Brien

                                    A lack of parental imagination

                                    But not quite as bad as Sirhan Sirhan

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                                    George K
                                    wrote on 1 Mar 2023, 23:00 last edited by
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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.”
                                    ...
                                    “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.”

                                    "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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                                      kluurs
                                      wrote on 2 Mar 2023, 07:35 last edited by kluurs 3 Feb 2023, 07:36
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                                      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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                                        2 Mar 2023, 07:35

                                        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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                                        jon-nyc
                                        wrote on 2 Mar 2023, 07:47 last edited by jon-nyc 3 Feb 2023, 07:47
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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.

                                        Only non-witches get due process.

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                                          George K
                                          wrote on 4 Mar 2023, 12:34 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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