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[George K]

[jon-nyc]

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

Her name is now Lauren Bush Lauren.

[George K]

@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."

[Copper]

I knew a guy named Brian O'Brien

A lack of parental imagination

But not quite as bad as Sirhan Sirhan

[Doctor Phibes]

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.

[George K]

@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.”

[kluurs]

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.'

[jon-nyc]

@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.

[George K]

[Horace]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

That’s actually a good idea and it often works. Lots of guilty people are set free or found not guilty because the defense presents some random DNA found at the scene that isn’t the defendant’s. Reasonable doubt. And because it allows the defense to say “DNA”, the jury is impressed. In this guy’s case, he had a chance of lucking out with some random fingerprint from some random person that just happened to be at the scene.

[George K]

The shortest US presidency:

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[Aqua Letifer]

[jon-nyc]

They could have differentiated the colors a bit better but interesting all the same.

[George K]

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/marine-angel-vessel-chicago-river/

"in 1953, the biggest vessel to travel the Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway (at the time) managed to wind its way downtown on the Chicago River.

This steel hull behemoth was nearly 634 feet long (193m) and 70 feet wide (21.3m) and according to a Chicago Tribune account, the freighter had only seven inches of clearance on each side at Van Buren Street."

[Catseye3]

Thanks, George! That's really cool.

[Copper]

47% of American homes are heated with natural gas, 40% electricity (resistance + heat pumps), and about 5% each with propone and oil.

The map matches my experience, Oil in Boston, Electricity in Northern VA, and Oil in South eastern VA. It looks like there might be a small bit of purple near this neighborhood.

[jon-nyc]

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Link to video

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