kbobam Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 Two responses to two recent posts. Although I'm completely in agreement with Galen in an overall sense, there can be occasional aberrations with long term averages of observed phenomena. I don't know what the heck's going on lately, but anyone who's been anywhere near me this past week would definitely confirm that I'm not being 'proportional'. : + D + O + 90 degree clockwise rotation = Soup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 I don't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 kbobam seems to mean 🍴 (sorry, I failed finding the spoon in the drawer) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup Posted September 28, 2016 Report Share Posted September 28, 2016 If you do yoga 2 hours a day, 7 days a week, for a month... Good for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted November 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2016 Women were able to become Marines starting in 1918. Ginger Rogers' mother was a Marine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted November 19, 2016 Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 Mom was a WAVE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted November 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 Neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted November 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 The little girl Terry, played by Sherry Jackson, from Make Room for Daddy grew up to be a sexy android on Star Trek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 Every 5 years, all of the atoms in your body are replaced with new ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 Many things read on the internet are not true. Think of bone, tooth enamel, nerve cells, and nuerons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 7 hours ago, lstmmrbls said: Many things read on the internet are not true. Think of bone, tooth enamel, nerve cells, and nuerons Yep, all replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 Got interested in this subject a long time ago as it id very interesting Tons of articles on that subject but they all seem to lack any quoted scientific proof,, most are from a 1954 article and a lot of other assumtion and none give specific times. We do hange most of our molecules etc but I am of the not all gets changed group. Neil Pakenham-Walsh says: June 5, 2010 at 9:33 am Richard Dawkins, in the God Delusion, wrote (as I remember) that every single one of the atoms in our body is replaced every 9 years. None of the matter that is in our bodies today was there 9 years ago. He attributed this to Bill Bryson, ‘Brief History of Everything’. I checked out Bill Bryson, and he said this: ‘It has been suggested that there isn’t a single bit of any of us – not so much as a stray molecule – that was part of us 9 nears ago.’ Bill Bryson, Short History of Nearly Everything, p331. Bill Bryson attributed this to David Bodanis, another popular science writer. I checked out David Bodanis, and he said this: ‘Every nine years or so almost every single molecule that makes you has gone, either floated away or poured out.’ (The Secret Family, p89-90). Bodanis does not give a source/reference of any kind for this assertion. Is anyone aware of any *scientific* reference (rather than hearsay) to back up the assertion that our body is, in effect, replaced every 9 years? I asked this question on Bill Bryson’s forum – no answer. I’ll try ‘the horse’s mouth’ – David Bodanis – and will let you know if I hear from him…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2017 Cricket matches last for days. Up to five days. With special rules for taking breaks for lunch, tea and drinks. My experience with cricket is watching a few seconds at a time in British television shows. So I was amazed today to learn this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godown Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 Yep Our summer sport Steph great if you grew up with the game A 5 day game is called a test match with a great historic rivalry between Australia and England Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 Don't know how I missed that bit of information all these years. Cricket is such a famous sport ... and yet I didn't even know that. My brother's family moved to England last year, which is why I know now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2017 Lake Cow Bacon, circa 1910 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C01E4D61430E233A25751C1A9629C946196D6CF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 In New Zealand, if it's coming to the end of their summer and a dad says he's buying stationery for his kids ... that doesn't mean he's sending them away and buying pretty paper and envelopes for them to write home with. Over there, at back to school time, "stationery" is a word for school supplies. I was confused for a moment, but then I remembered that in our part of the world "stationer" used to be the name for an office supply store. About a hundred years ago. The Rosenthals (who gave us Rosenthal boxes of marbles and who Berry Pink worked for before starting out on his own) -- they specialized in rubber items, including erasers -- so one could sometimes read about them in stationer trade publications. https://books.google.com/books?id=TmBYAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA20-PA8#v=onepage&q=rosenthal&f=false Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 We use stationery as a catch all for office supplies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 I hoped you might weigh in on this one. I wondered if that was the case. My NZ friend uses a lot of other UK words so I suspected you might share this word also. Our usage is very specialized. https://www.americanstationery.com https://www.papersource.com/stationery/other-stationery-set/all.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2018 Hodag ... it's a Wisconsin "fearsome critter" but I didn't know until someone in Idaho told me about it today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DINDO Posted May 24, 2018 Report Share Posted May 24, 2018 An apple day keeps the doctor away. Was actually an advertising slogan by the American Apple Association in order to sell more apples Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2018 Ha! Someone besides me bumped this. I can't tell you how happy that makes me! I haven't learned anything recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jten Posted May 26, 2018 Report Share Posted May 26, 2018 I finally found out why everyone in Mayberry on the Andy Griffith show was so happy. no one was married except for Otis and he stayed drunk all of the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steph Posted August 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 Just watched an old Doctor Who episode with the captions turned on. And the captions said the Doctor was whistling the Colonel Bogey March. I never knew what that was called. In grade school we had our own words to it which involved the Comet cleanser making your teeth turn green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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