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  1. HudsonHawk

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Abe Vigoda, of The Godfather and Barney Miller fame, died today at the age of 94. Of course, the running joke for many years was the mock surprise of people learning he was still alive, as he looked older than he was. He always seemed to keep a good sense of humor about it. RIP.
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    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    Perhaps at the time, but then you're talking about a cover up lasting 70 years. I just can't muster up that kind of confidence.
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    Restaurant Hat Issues

    I've eaten at a number of restaurants purporting to have a dress code, but only once, at Arnaud's in New Orleans, did I ever witness a restaurant turn away customers dressed inappropriately. Unfortunately, they did let them into the bar, so what I thought would be a nice after dinner drink and...
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    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    Hoax. There is no way in hades the U.S. Government can organize that kind of cover up. Gee wiz, the President can't even have a freak scene in his own office without the whole world finding out about it, they certainly can't have that many thousands of people keep their mouths shut for more...
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    Storm Pictures

    Great pics! Glad you guys are safe and sound. Severe weather can be beautiful, but also...severe.
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    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    So driving in to work today, I heard Marty Robbins's El Paso City, and it reminded me of this thread. It also reminded me how great Marty Robbins was. So pardon me, if I'm a little sentimental... An excerpt: My mind is down there somewhere As I fly above the badlands of New Mexico I can't...
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    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    Well Pluto is still out there. It didn't go anywhere, it's just been downgraded in status. We can't take its name too, it's all the poor guy has left.
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    Rock & Roll Oldsters

    Rap/Hip Hop as we know it traces its origins back to one man, Clive Campbell, who called himself DJ Kool Herc. Campbell was a Jamaican living in the Bronx in the late 60s/early 70s. He would host street dance parties where he would play records and talk over them in rhyme. Campbell learned it...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    We had to learn "Old Folks At Home" in school because it was the state song.
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Cleaning out the garage. But You are correct. It is the conservation of angular momentum. If you keep the RPMs (angular velocity) constant, then linear velocity (or more correctly tangential velocity) increases with distance from the axis of rotation. So the needle travels faster on the edge of...
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    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    I agree that there's a lot we don't know, so I'll save the boulders for really egregious things like wearing a hat at the dinner table.
  14. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    911 was first introduced as an emergency number in 1968, but many municipalities took a long time to adopt it. We never had it growing up, and the first I remember it where I lived was around 1990. It may have been available earlier, but it wasn't commonly known. If you had an emergency, you...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Lizzie explains it better, but 4-digit dialing meant you only had to dial four numbers because everything that wasn't long distance was in the same exchange. You were still 555-1234, but for local calls you only had to dial the 1-2-3-4. Anything outside that exchange was long distance and you...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I know we've talked about phone service many times, but the "smallest" I remember in my lifetime is 4-digit dialing.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This has nothing to do with cats or anything else, for that matter, but scanning around that paper is interesting. Perhaps the best part is the classified, where you learn you can call the local drug store...their phone number? 54.
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    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    If I had to pick one, I'd say aliens. I'm not an alien conspiracy theorist, nor do I believe aliens built the pyramids. But from a strictly scientific view, it's pretty hard to believe that there is not life out there in the universe. What doesn't exist are ghosts. When you're dead, you're...
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    An Affair to Remember (The Movie and The Loss of Depth in Modern Romance Film)

    The original Red Dawn had the U.S. being invaded by the Soviet Union. I haven't seen the re-make, but the change to North Korea as the invader is not surprising on the psycho-political front, as you go with whichever "cold war" antagonist is coldest at the moment. It's only surprising on the...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    More than once I've had only a "pack of Nabs" for lunch. I used that term once, and a few of the youngsters didn't know what I was talking about. They knew the little orange peanut butter crackers, but had never heard them called "Nabs".
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    How To Pull Off A Fedora/Trilby Dress Hat

    I recognize that I am fortunate that there are several hat shops nearby, some good, some not so good. I've been in good ones and found nothing, and found a little gem in shops most of you probably would think are a joke. I also realize that it may mean I miss out on a great hat, but thems the...
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    How To Pull Off A Fedora/Trilby Dress Hat

    Another one of my heretical hat opinions: I don't buy hats I can't try on. Hats are like shoes to me in that sense, they are too personal to buy sight unseen.

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