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This is yet more evidence that I do not live in a cold area of the world: I had no idea batteries don't work if they're too cold.

This might provide some insight.

That is a completely silly system. I mean, it's good that I can friend/ignore people, but calling it "Friends and Foes"? Come on. Let's not get overly excited, here.

I have always wondered what a buckeye is. Now I know that it is a horse chestnut.

I LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY.

s1m0n wrote:

Congratulations wrote: I'm not entirely sure why I told that story here.

You mean that wasn't a helpful suggestion to Dale about ways to not only remain safely unselected, but to get himself stricken from the frequent suckers list?

I don't think so, no.

Peter Laban wrote:And all of you leaving out the most elegant and simple solution: FAAF BAF

I use this a lot. I got it from an epic recording of Seamus Ennis, I think.

Ahem.

Sam Houston didn't take "Sorry they were only serving burgers back then" for an answer.

OH story time: I work at a coffee shop. Earlier this week, a guy came in wearing these outrageously short running shorts (it was both cold and dark outside, but people wear stranger things), ordered a drink and sat down. A few hours later, a regular customer tipped us off (we couldn't see him very w...

Found scribbled in blue ink on a napkin in the inside pocket of the coat John Berryman left behind after his last dental appointment before he killed himself: There were oddnesses, surely. Henry heard clearly in the fluorescent hum & the fluoride bottles a thing sò dolorous, he must sigh, must p...

what's that about? Is it purely to allow me to publicly declare those members I am especially fond of and those that I am not so especially fond of? I am kind of scared of just "declaring" things, so I haven't mustered the courage to play with it.

Anyone used this feature?

Lambchop wrote:I just noticed we're limited to 60000 characters per post now!!!

WHAT WILL WE DO?

I've never been called. If I wore a tinfoil hat, would they let me off?

The new board has informed me: this is the thread in which I have been most active, having posted a whopping 99 "facts" about Sam Houston. This will make 100, I suppose.

Sam Houston could go into any McDonalds, whenever he wanted, and get a McRib.

So apparently Yeats went through a heretofore unknown-about "dental period." Fascinating.

Tikva wrote:now I'm going to earn real money for my work

You have a job, then?

Awesome.