Miscellaneous Discussion Thread II
December 30th, 2023 at 1:07:05 PM
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Quote: MrVIt would be great if they used an AI version of Alan Mendelson.
Or Walter Cronkite.
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I don't understand the Walter Cronkite reference, though.
Psalm 25:16
Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool finds no satisfaction in trying to understand, for he would rather express his own opinion.
December 30th, 2023 at 1:15:12 PM
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Quote: OnceDearQuote: MrVIt would be great if they used an AI version of Alan Mendelson.
Or Walter Cronkite.
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I don't understand the Walter Cronkite reference, though.
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You don’t know Walter Cronkite?
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others
December 30th, 2023 at 2:50:30 PM
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Quote: MrVIt would be great if they used an AI version of Alan Mendelson.
Or Walter Cronkite.
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Maybe I'm just atypically sensitive, but the timing of the speech was unusual enough to give me a Max Headroom feel.
(I exaggerate, but definitely in the uncanny valley.)
May the cards fall in your favor.
December 30th, 2023 at 3:39:28 PM
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Never heard of him..... Though I did google the guy and found items about his voice being used with AI.... Like this item https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2023/03/01/denver-veritone-walter-cronkite-cbs-generative-ai.htmlQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: OnceDearQuote: MrVIt would be great if they used an AI version of Alan Mendelson.
Or Walter Cronkite.
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[Insulting first thought redacted $:o)]
I don't understand the Walter Cronkite reference, though.
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You don’t know Walter Cronkite?
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Psalm 25:16
Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool finds no satisfaction in trying to understand, for he would rather express his own opinion.
December 30th, 2023 at 4:13:02 PM
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Quote: OnceDearNever heard of him.
He was the Oracle Of Truth when it came to the nightly news in the sixties here in the USA.
His announcement of the shooting and then the death of JFK is indelibly etched into the American conscience.
"What, me worry?"
December 30th, 2023 at 4:39:48 PM
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Quote: OnceDearI don't understand the Walter Cronkite reference, though.
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Then you'd miss the closing gaffe from this scene:
I tell you it’s wonderful to be here, man. I don’t give a damn who wins or loses. It’s just wonderful to be here with you people.
https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/gambling/betting-systems/33908-the-adventures-of-mdawg/
December 30th, 2023 at 4:42:59 PM
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Quote: OnceDearNever heard of him..... Though I did google the guy and found items about his voice being used with AI.... Like this item https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2023/03/01/denver-veritone-walter-cronkite-cbs-generative-ai.htmlQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: OnceDearQuote: MrVIt would be great if they used an AI version of Alan Mendelson.
Or Walter Cronkite.
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[Insulting first thought redacted $:o)]
I don't understand the Walter Cronkite reference, though.
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You don’t know Walter Cronkite?
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Kids.........
He was the first real network anchor. He was the man who told America that Vietnam was lost. He would have lasted another 5 years maybe 10 but CBS saw him as representing the past and Dan Rather the future.
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December 30th, 2023 at 4:46:20 PM
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Quote: OnceDear]Never heard of him..... Though I did google the guy
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He was only the most well-known news person in the world, why would you know who he was.
Here he is announceing that Kennedy died. This might not seem like much now, but this was live and this is where we heard it first. I was in a room full of people and you could literally hear a pin drop when he made that announcement. The only other time that happened in my life was in the movie Jaws when Robert Shaw was telling the story of the ship that delivered the atomic bomb that they dropped on Hiroshima. It was a packed movie theater, and there was dead silence in that huge crowd. It was almost spooky. Walter Cronkite was also the only news commentator that every night during the Iran hostage crisis he announced which day it was since the kidnapping started. He could only do that and get away with it because he was Walter Cronkite.
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December 30th, 2023 at 5:50:47 PM
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He was only the most well-known news person in the world, why would you know who he was.
I know the name as a news anchor but I must be to young to remember anything that he did.
At my age, a "Life In Prison" sentence is not much of a deterrent.
December 30th, 2023 at 6:43:19 PM
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That doesn't make a lot of sense, I thought you were retired age? His last broadcast as an anchorman was in 1981, even a kid born ten years or even less earlier might have noticed that his parents watched Cronkite. Cronkite also hosted special events and broadcasts through 2008.
For example Kissinger, even someone who wasn't around when he was active politically might know everything that he did. I wasn't around when Henry VIII was born either but I could tell you the names of each of his wives.
As far as OnceDear he's British there may be well known British broadcasters he knows of whom we have not heard, so his not recognizing the Cronkite name might make sense even though I assume he is not a youngster.
For example Kissinger, even someone who wasn't around when he was active politically might know everything that he did. I wasn't around when Henry VIII was born either but I could tell you the names of each of his wives.
As far as OnceDear he's British there may be well known British broadcasters he knows of whom we have not heard, so his not recognizing the Cronkite name might make sense even though I assume he is not a youngster.
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I tell you it’s wonderful to be here, man. I don’t give a damn who wins or loses. It’s just wonderful to be here with you people.
https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/gambling/betting-systems/33908-the-adventures-of-mdawg/
December 30th, 2023 at 7:10:25 PM
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Quote: MrVQuote: OnceDearNever heard of him.
He was the Oracle Of Truth when it came to the nightly news in the sixties here in the USA.
His announcement of the shooting and then the death of JFK is indelibly etched into the American conscience.
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Walter and his son were big comic collectors. After he passed, I got my hands of several hundred of his books, and they were sold with a COA signed by his son. They'd bought in a big-time dealer who took most of their valuable books for auction but didn't think the lower-value books were worth his time.
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction is supposed to make sense.
December 30th, 2023 at 8:41:35 PM
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CBS - 7-31-70 - Walter Cronkite's Goodbye to Chet Huntley/ NBC -Huntley/Brinkley Goodbyes On NBC
December 31st, 2023 at 1:39:35 AM
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Quote: MDawg
As far as OnceDear he's British there may be well known British broadcasters he knows of whom we have not heard, so his not recognizing the Cronkite name might make sense even though I assume he is not a youngster.
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Having never watched CBS, nor seen a news bulletin with Cronkite, i had no reason to recognise his name. I can't remember ever seeing his face on UK TV.
I only took interest in US news media in the last decade, and yes, I'm pretty old. We do indeed have our own celebs who i wouldn't expect to be known in the US.
When I did google and hear Cronkites voice, I could recognise it as the 'guy that reported Kennedy's assassination', but that's all. He has a distinct and distinguished sounding voice.
Psalm 25:16
Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool finds no satisfaction in trying to understand, for he would rather express his own opinion.
December 31st, 2023 at 2:36:04 AM
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Quote: OnceDearQuote: MDawg
As far as OnceDear he's British there may be well known British broadcasters he knows of whom we have not heard, so his not recognizing the Cronkite name might make sense even though I assume he is not a youngster.
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Having never watched CBS, nor seen a news bulletin with Cronkite, i had no reason to recognise his name. I can't remember ever seeing his face on UK TV.
I only took interest in US news media in the last decade, and yes, I'm pretty old. We do indeed have our own celebs who i wouldn't expect to be known in the US.
When I did google and hear Cronkites voice, I could recognise it as the 'guy that reported Kennedy's assassination', but that's all. He has a distinct and distinguished sounding voice.
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I give a pass for not knowing him because of living in the UK. Not because of age, though. To say one never heard of him is like never having heard of Edward R Murrow. He is just that big in journalism.
For those born after 1980, though, it is a bit hard to understand how different the media was back then. Before the 1990s you had the three networks for national news and that was it. Even in the 1990s. Remember, if not for Matt Drudge we would probably never have heard of Monica Lewinsky as it was Cronkite's successor who buried the story.
In the day Cronkite was the GM of news, he had probably a bit over half the market for the national newscasts.
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January 2nd, 2024 at 12:10:34 PM
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MDawg - in another thread you used the word "eh"
in America that word is most commonly thought of as being a Canadian expression
I'm curious if you don't mind my asking - are you Canadian or have you lived in Canada_________?__________thanks
I'm not from Canada but many members of my family were from there
I haven't thought about that word for a very long time - and don't ever recall seeing it used on this board (other than this time) or any other board that I participate in
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MDawg - in another thread you used the word "eh"
in America that word is most commonly thought of as being a Canadian expression
I'm curious if you don't mind my asking - are you Canadian or have you lived in Canada_________?__________thanks
I'm not from Canada but many members of my family were from there
I haven't thought about that word for a very long time - and don't ever recall seeing it used on this board (other than this time) or any other board that I participate in
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January 2nd, 2024 at 12:39:57 PM
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Quote: lilredrooster.MDawg - in another thread you used the word "eh"
Eh?
Speaking Canuck, are we?
Is "hoser" a term still in popular use in the Great White North?
"What, me worry?"
January 2nd, 2024 at 3:52:51 PM
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Half, or more, of my development seems to be Canadian snowbirds and they are a breed apart.
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction is supposed to make sense.
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:34:53 PM
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Quote: billryanHalf, or more, of my development seems to be Canadian snowbirds and they are a breed apart.
The city where I live in Florida is almost exclusively Midwesterners. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois are all well represented. The East coast people seem to choose the Eastern side of Florida..
At my age, a "Life In Prison" sentence is not much of a deterrent.
January 3rd, 2024 at 12:59:16 AM
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Quote: DRichQuote: billryanHalf, or more, of my development seems to be Canadian snowbirds and they are a breed apart.
The city where I live in Florida is almost exclusively Midwesterners. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois are all well represented. The East coast people seem to choose the Eastern side of Florida..
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People with taste prefer oceans. Gulfs are for red-necks.
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction is supposed to make sense.
January 3rd, 2024 at 4:50:24 AM
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Quote: billryanQuote: DRichQuote: billryanHalf, or more, of my development seems to be Canadian snowbirds and they are a breed apart.
The city where I live in Florida is almost exclusively Midwesterners. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois are all well represented. The East coast people seem to choose the Eastern side of Florida..
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People with taste prefer oceans. Gulfs are for red-necks.
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There are no rednecks in the South. Just in your fevered imagination.
Most of the South is simply northerners that have moved here. Recently, a migration from California has emerged.
So many better men, a few of them friends, are dead. And a thousand thousand slimy things live on, and so do I.
January 3rd, 2024 at 5:24:38 AM
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There are no rednecks in the South. Just in your fevered imagination.
Most of the South is simply northerners that have moved here. Recently, a migration from California has emerged.
I would disagree. Northern Florida is full of Southerners where Southern Florida is not. The panhandle of Florida is basically the same as Georgia and Alabama.
At my age, a "Life In Prison" sentence is not much of a deterrent.
January 3rd, 2024 at 5:56:39 AM
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I still frequently enough can’t understand what language people are speaking when visiting Mississippi or Louisiana. I’m not sure they’re rednecks, but they’re definitely not northerners.
January 3rd, 2024 at 8:15:17 AM
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Quote: gordonm888
There are no rednecks in the South. Just in your fevered imagination.
Most of the South is simply northerners that have moved here. Recently, a migration from California has emerged.
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You apparently have never been to West Virginia, where my dad's family is from. They speak an absolutely foreign form of English that I cannot understand and they give redneck an entirely new meaning.
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January 3rd, 2024 at 3:53:44 PM
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Future long-term felon, attacks Las Vegas judge in flying leap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HV3O3t9hbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HV3O3t9hbQ
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January 3rd, 2024 at 4:56:47 PM
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Quote: rxwineFuture long-term felon, attacks Las Vegas judge in flying leap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HV3O3t9hbQ
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Behavior is both incredibly stupid and reprehensible. A very poor life decision by the convict.
But given that I don't know anyone in that video and that no one was actually injured, I have to admit a certain kind of guilty pleasure in watching it. That's certainly something that we don't see everyday!
So many better men, a few of them friends, are dead. And a thousand thousand slimy things live on, and so do I.
January 3rd, 2024 at 5:13:25 PM
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Another filthy animal loses it when facing judgment.
Nice takedown, though, gotta give the clown props for that.
Nice takedown, though, gotta give the clown props for that.
"What, me worry?"
January 3rd, 2024 at 8:58:09 PM
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A colossal scandal is breaking in the comic world, as someone has found a way to tamper with CGCs tamper-proof slabs. So far, CGC has found 350plus books, at an average value between $3,000-6,000, with one exceeding $200,000. Amateur internet detectives have identified around 1200 books with possible tampering. It goes back to at least 2019, and there is some evidence of it happening as early as 2012.
CGC, the first and largest third-party grading system, has graded over ten million comics since its founding in the late 1990s.
This is the biggest scandal they have faced. The tamper-proof seals were defeated, and the fake books were sent back to CGC for new slabs and given a clean bill of health.
CGC, and its corporate owners, Blackstone, have said they will see that no comic owner suffers financially, but the total might exceed ten million dollars—possibly more.
CGC, the first and largest third-party grading system, has graded over ten million comics since its founding in the late 1990s.
This is the biggest scandal they have faced. The tamper-proof seals were defeated, and the fake books were sent back to CGC for new slabs and given a clean bill of health.
CGC, and its corporate owners, Blackstone, have said they will see that no comic owner suffers financially, but the total might exceed ten million dollars—possibly more.
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction is supposed to make sense.
January 3rd, 2024 at 9:50:12 PM
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Quote: billryanA colossal scandal is breaking in the comic world, as someone has found a way to tamper with CGCs tamper-proof slabs. So far, CGC has found 350plus books, at an average value between $3,000-6,000, with one exceeding $200,000. Amateur internet detectives have identified around 1200 books with possible tampering. It goes back to at least 2019, and there is some evidence of it happening as early as 2012.
CGC, the first and largest third-party grading system, has graded over ten million comics since its founding in the late 1990s.
This is the biggest scandal they have faced. The tamper-proof seals were defeated, and the fake books were sent back to CGC for new slabs and given a clean bill of health.
CGC, and its corporate owners, Blackstone, have said they will see that no comic owner suffers financially, but the total might exceed ten million dollars—possibly more.
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To be clear, it is claimed that high-quality books have been removed from slabs and replaced with copies of the same book in poorer condition. One could then sell the low-quality book for astronomical prices while still holding onto the high-quality copy.
So many better men, a few of them friends, are dead. And a thousand thousand slimy things live on, and so do I.
January 3rd, 2024 at 11:18:02 PM
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Quote: gordonm888Quote: billryanA colossal scandal is breaking in the comic world, as someone has found a way to tamper with CGCs tamper-proof slabs. So far, CGC has found 350plus books, at an average value between $3,000-6,000, with one exceeding $200,000. Amateur internet detectives have identified around 1200 books with possible tampering. It goes back to at least 2019, and there is some evidence of it happening as early as 2012.
CGC, the first and largest third-party grading system, has graded over ten million comics since its founding in the late 1990s.
This is the biggest scandal they have faced. The tamper-proof seals were defeated, and the fake books were sent back to CGC for new slabs and given a clean bill of health.
CGC, and its corporate owners, Blackstone, have said they will see that no comic owner suffers financially, but the total might exceed ten million dollars—possibly more.
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To be clear, it is claimed that high-quality books have been removed from slabs and replaced with copies of the same book in poorer condition. One could then sell the low-quality book for astronomical prices while still holding onto the high-quality copy.
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That is only part of it. After switching the books for inferior copies, they returned the slabs to replace with new ones. I think there was an insider at CGC that helped this along. Most books that receive a 9.8 are near flawless and don't have graders notes. There are 55 9.8 copies of Spiderman 194 suspected of having been switched. Thirty-seven of fifty-five have graders' notes. It's as if someone was trying to cover up the fact the books weren't really 9.8s.
As CGC uses the Post Office for delivering books, it's currently being investigated by postal authorities, but the amount of money involved should bring in the FBI
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction is supposed to make sense.
January 4th, 2024 at 3:55:31 AM
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Funny, or not so funny, I just saw a news report not too long ago on a 'replacement' scam, of adding inferior puppies to high-priced dog breeding, so they can sell more. There seems to be big money there as well.
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January 4th, 2024 at 6:02:16 AM
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the first evidence of Woke being a thing someday actually occurred in the 70s. In college it was a big thing to quit using certain terms and 'Canuck' in fact was one of them [esp schools near Canada I suppose]. It was made into a big thing as to just how insulting it was to Canadians to hear that term used.Quote: MrVQuote: lilredrooster.MDawg - in another thread you used the word "eh"
Eh?
Speaking Canuck, are we?
Is "hoser" a term still in popular use in the Great White North?
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Then about a week after a big push about this, the Vancouver NHL team was inaugurated. They had a certain mascot name, guess what it was ?
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January 4th, 2024 at 7:11:54 AM
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The British military originally used the word Yankee in a derogatory manner, but colonial Americans began to embrace the term with pride. They even named a team the Yankees.Quote: odiousgambitthe first evidence of Woke being a thing someday actually occurred in the 70s. In college it was a big thing to quit using certain terms and 'Canuck' in fact was one of them [esp schools near Canada I suppose]. It was made into a big thing as to just how insulting it was to Canadians to hear that term used.Quote: MrVQuote: lilredrooster.MDawg - in another thread you used the word "eh"
Eh?
Speaking Canuck, are we?
Is "hoser" a term still in popular use in the Great White North?
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Then about a week after a big push about this, the Vancouver NHL team was inaugurated. They had a certain mascot name, guess what it was ?
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Canuck had a similar history. It can still be used with a sneer to insult someone. Obviously, many folks from Canada accept the moniker.
Whether something is offensive has a lot to do with intent and tone.
This forum is more enjoyable after I learned how to use the 'Block this user' button.
January 4th, 2024 at 7:41:04 AM
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To foreigners, all Americans are Yankees.
To Americans, northerners are Yankees.
To northerners, New Englanders are Yankees
To New Englanders, Vermonters are Yankees.
In Vermont, Yankees are people who eat pie for breakfast.
EB White.
During WW1, the American volunteers who flew for France adapted the Hat in The Ring symbol of the New York Yankees as a symbol.
To Americans, northerners are Yankees.
To northerners, New Englanders are Yankees
To New Englanders, Vermonters are Yankees.
In Vermont, Yankees are people who eat pie for breakfast.
EB White.
During WW1, the American volunteers who flew for France adapted the Hat in The Ring symbol of the New York Yankees as a symbol.
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction is supposed to make sense.
January 4th, 2024 at 9:52:05 AM
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Quote: odiousgambitthe first evidence of Woke being a thing someday actually occurred in the 70s. In college it was a big thing to quit using certain terms and 'Canuck' in fact was one of them [esp schools near Canada I suppose]. It was made into a big thing as to just how insulting it was to Canadians to hear that term used.Quote: MrVQuote: lilredrooster.MDawg - in another thread you used the word "eh"
Eh?
Speaking Canuck, are we?
Is "hoser" a term still in popular use in the Great White North?
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Then about a week after a big push about this, the Vancouver NHL team was inaugurated. They had a certain mascot name, guess what it was ?
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Canadians?
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January 4th, 2024 at 10:18:08 AM
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Quote: gordonm888To be clear, it is claimed that high-quality books have been removed from slabs and replaced with copies of the same book in poorer condition. One could then sell the low-quality book for astronomical prices while still holding onto the high-quality copy.
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Maybe someday whenever I get around to sending in my Conan #1 in like 1.5 condition someone will accidentally switch it out for a 7+.
January 4th, 2024 at 10:19:21 AM
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In Vermont, Yankees are people who eat pie for breakfast.
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What is the logic behind that?
January 4th, 2024 at 10:23:26 AM
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Quote: TigerWuQuote: billryan
In Vermont, Yankees are people who eat pie for breakfast.
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What is the logic behind that?
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Ever have a piece of apple pie in a bowl with warm milk poured over the top of it for breakfast? Oh my God, you think you died and gone to heaven.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
January 4th, 2024 at 10:29:43 AM
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Quote: TigerWuQuote: billryan
In Vermont, Yankees are people who eat pie for breakfast.
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What is the logic behind that?
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You'd have to ask EB White, or perhaps Robert Frost.
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction is supposed to make sense.
January 4th, 2024 at 10:35:23 AM
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Quote: odiousgambitthe first evidence of Woke being a thing someday actually occurred in the 70s. In college it was a big thing to quit using certain terms and 'Canuck' in fact was one of them [esp schools near Canada I suppose]. It was made into a big thing as to just how insulting it was to Canadians to hear that term used. Then about a week after a big push about this, the Vancouver NHL team was inaugurated. They had a certain mascot name, guess what it was ?
The nick-name of a high school I attended was and still is "The Canucks."
Here's the school-approved logo, from their website:
"What, me worry?"
January 4th, 2024 at 10:56:27 AM
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Does anyone actually buy anti-virus software any longer. I haven’t for years.
There's no secret. Just know what you're talking about before you open your mouth.
January 4th, 2024 at 11:58:13 AM
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I used to buy Norton then switched to Avast long ago when Norton would just crash my computer from the bloat. Avast is jumping on the supreme bloatware train now but it's not crashing my computers yet. I must have paid $190/year + tax this time around when adding up the Premium Security (Antivirus), Cleanup Premium, SecureLine VPN, BreachGuard, AntiTrack, and the Driver Updater subscriptions for my ancient computers. The subscription is good for 10 devices, and I'm using 7, would be 8. I paid about $50 less last year, and I may have paid less than half price this year, so it must have cost about $450 if I wasn't getting a discount. I've been informed some social media sites I was on eons ago have been compromised and my passwords are out there for those sites. My gmail & hotmail get hit with massive spam daily that goes in the spam folder and it looks like hackers have taken over the e-mails or something. I'm sure a lot of it would be viral if I tried to open it without an antivirus, so I just delete it. What the software does do for me is cut my connection to known malware sites immediately, or warn me about some sites and give me a choice to go back.
Recently I've noticed my network card keeps disconnecting whenever the antivirus updates which is several times a day, so I got a USB network dongle and disabled the network card and the dongle is rated for at least 300 mbps, and it does cut out during antivirus updates, but it comes back alive and doesn't require a computer reboot or extensive diagnosing for why there's no internet.
Recently I've noticed my network card keeps disconnecting whenever the antivirus updates which is several times a day, so I got a USB network dongle and disabled the network card and the dongle is rated for at least 300 mbps, and it does cut out during antivirus updates, but it comes back alive and doesn't require a computer reboot or extensive diagnosing for why there's no internet.
January 4th, 2024 at 12:14:16 PM
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Canadians?
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Thanks. I needed a solid laugh.
May the cards fall in your favor.
January 4th, 2024 at 12:48:46 PM
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I haven't bought any anti-virus software for many years. Browsers have some of that built it, of course. Anyway, I've had no problems.
So many better men, a few of them friends, are dead. And a thousand thousand slimy things live on, and so do I.
January 5th, 2024 at 1:05:34 PM
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100 South Koreans will be born this afternoon. How many great-grandchildren will they leave behind?
5!
They are an outlier but wow! Means so many things. From no need to worry about CO2 as that will take care of itself to how many cities and towns will simply empty out.
They are an outlier but wow! Means so many things. From no need to worry about CO2 as that will take care of itself to how many cities and towns will simply empty out.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others
January 5th, 2024 at 4:08:18 PM
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On average, who is most likely to suffer serious injury during their career? An army soldier or NFL player?
I don't know, but I'm guessing the NFL player.
I don't know, but I'm guessing the NFL player.
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January 5th, 2024 at 4:49:07 PM
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Quote: rxwineOn average, who is most likely to suffer serious injury during their career? An army soldier or NFL player?
I don't know, but I'm guessing the NFL player.
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By "soldier" do you mean infantry or just someone in the Army? And what do you mean by "serious?"
Military injuries are weird when calculated. One of the more dangerous jobs is the noncombat Blue Angels and Thunderbird teams.
Infantry in combat I say is more likely to have serious injury. Just "in the Army" the NFL player as most Army jobs are not combat.
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January 6th, 2024 at 4:38:17 AM
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Quote: AZDuffman
Infantry in combat I say is more likely to have serious injury. Just "in the Army" the NFL player as most Army jobs are not combat.
Even most infantry soldiers never go to combat so I would still say NFL player.
At my age, a "Life In Prison" sentence is not much of a deterrent.
January 6th, 2024 at 4:54:11 AM
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Quote: AZDuffmanAnd what do you mean by "serious?"
Good question. That dude who had a cardiac arrest on the field had a real potential serious injury, Only, he wasn't injured, just "turned off." But could have easily stayed dead.
So, there's that.
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January 6th, 2024 at 7:14:09 AM
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I've been to weddings with retired soldiers and retired NFL players, and soldiers definitely age better. Most 50-year-old retired soldiers are fine, whereas most ex-NFL players are wrecks.
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction is supposed to make sense.
January 6th, 2024 at 7:19:43 AM
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Why doesn't someone make pepper sprayers that install on door frames for small stores, or even larger stores? One with multiple nozzles could cover the fleeing bandits in pepper spray. It would be activated by a clerk to be on a auto-trigger once the bandit passes back through the door. It could have double toggle switches a foot apart behind the counter, so if one is accidentally flipped it wouldn't go off. So, it would still be relatively easy for a clerk to activate, but still have a good safeguard against spraying a random customer.
I'm pretty sure with a little skill, your average handyman could design and install something himself with Home Depot bought items. Not sure about the legality, but pepper spray is legal in more places than most other methods.
I could be wrong, but with enough pepper spray, the fumes would keep coming at you even if you hold your breath for awhile. So, the bandit might have to do more than that to escape it if he was soaked. You're going to be pretty noticeable running or driving off with a gas mask.
If the guy is stumbling around outside, you go out and kick his legs out from under him or something.
I'm pretty sure with a little skill, your average handyman could design and install something himself with Home Depot bought items. Not sure about the legality, but pepper spray is legal in more places than most other methods.
I could be wrong, but with enough pepper spray, the fumes would keep coming at you even if you hold your breath for awhile. So, the bandit might have to do more than that to escape it if he was soaked. You're going to be pretty noticeable running or driving off with a gas mask.
If the guy is stumbling around outside, you go out and kick his legs out from under him or something.
There's no secret. Just know what you're talking about before you open your mouth.
