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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 4:13 am
by Shyster
I'm very fond of my Unicomp buckling-spring keyboards. They just came out with a "New Model M" design that's supposed to be an improvement on the models I have (104-key Classics). I have one at home and another in my work office. I've owned the one I'm typing on right now for 13 years, and it's still working fine. They are pretty loud to type on, but I view that as part of the charm.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/

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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:17 am
by dodint
The one I was looking at was rated for fifty-million strokes per key; so my f, i, r, e, g, r, u, n, t, h, y, keys should be safe for a reasonable amount of time.

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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 9:54 am
by DigitalGypsy66
:lol:

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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:47 am
by Gaucho
It is illegal to name your pig Napoleon in France.

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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 6:52 am
by shafnutz05
It is illegal to name your pig Napoleon in France.
I need to go back and read Animal Farm again.

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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 7:58 pm
by Gaucho
In 1873, [Edmund J.] Davis was defeated for reelection by Democrat Richard Coke (42,633 votes to 85,549 votes) in an election marked by irregularities. Davis contested the results and refused to leave his office on the ground floor of the Capitol. Democratic lawmakers and Governor-elect Coke reportedly had to climb ladders to the Capitol's second story, where the legislature convened. When President Grant refused to send troops to the defeated governor's rescue, Davis reluctantly left the capital in January 1874. He locked the door to the governor's office and took the key, forcing Coke's supporters to break in with an axe.[11] John Henninger Reagan helped to oust him after he tried to stay in office beyond the end of his term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_J._Davis

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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:02 pm
by dodint
Don't mix concrete with your bare hands. It will hurt for quite some time.

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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:12 pm
by mikey
Haha oh boy...

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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:26 pm
by dodint
Yeah, these things are chapped af and the backsides look like the hands of an 80 year old. The thought of wearing gloves never once occured to me, just figured I had to wash it off before it hardened.

Octogenarian Stranger time, I guess.

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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 12:15 am
by Willie Kool
How long ago did you do it? Concrete is very abrasive and very caustic. A vinegar rinse will neutralize it, and hurt like hell. Don't know how long afterward that would be effective though.

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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 3:56 am
by Gaucho
oy

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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 8:59 am
by RonnieFranchise
Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, is not pronounced Pee-air as in McGuire, it's pronounced PEER, as in peeping Tom.

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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 12:25 pm
by shafnutz05
Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, is not pronounced Pee-air as in McGuire, it's pronounced PEER, as in peeping Tom.
That's an excellent TIL. I'm a geography nut and I never knew that.

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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:45 am
by Tomas
Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, is not pronounced Pee-air as in McGuire, it's pronounced PEER, as in peeping Tom.
That's an excellent TIL. I'm a geography nut and I never knew that.
Well, Prague, OK is pronounced "Preig" by those crazies there. And, of course, if you move to Pittsburgh, and hear the names of Versailles or Du Bois on the weather news for the first time... :)

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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:50 am
by willeyeam
That's like how Aussie's call Melbourne "Melbin"

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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:57 pm
by Shyster
Pittsburgh's selective French has always annoyed me. If it's "Ver-sails," then everything named Duquesne should be pronounced "Doo-kwes-nee."

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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 12:15 am
by MalkinIsMyHomeboy
I learned about it weeks ago but...

Apparently Venus flytraps are only found in southeastern NC and northeastern SC. A very small range for a pretty unique and famous plant

HOW THE **** ARE THE CAROLINAS NOT MORE PROUD OF IT?

seriously. Here in Wilmington the local uni’s mascot is the “seahawk”. Why the **** isn’t it the flytrap?

I want to run for mayor just so I can push this legislation

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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:25 pm
by dodint
Anthropophagy is the act of eating human flesh, and cannibalism is the a ritual and social institution itself.

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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:28 pm
by MalkinIsMyHomeboy
So was the Donner party not technically cannibalistic?

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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:30 pm
by dodint
Exactly.

I learned it watching a mini-doc about the Andes rugby team incident.

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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:33 pm
by dodint
Another weird but unsurprising fact about that incident was the Catholic church condemned them until the survivors said eating the bodies was an act of communion, then the church forgave them.

Jags.

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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:37 pm
by faftorial
Another weird but unsurprising fact about that incident was the Catholic church condemned them until the survivors said eating the bodies was an act of communion, then the church forgave them.

Jags.
:roll:

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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 6:13 am
by robbiestoupe
I read Alive recently. Yes, many were devout Catholics but I do not think the church condemned them at all. Many of them completely refused to eat the flesh because of their beliefs, and did not do so until their fellow survivors convinced them otherwise. The idea of the act as a form of communion was what convinced many of them

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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:21 pm
by Freddy Rumsen

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:06 pm
by dodint
Area code 878 overlays the 412/724 area code geographic space. It was enabled in 2001 but no numbers were assigned until 2013. I just had one assigned to me as a virtual number. Ick.