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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/26/2017 8:06:17 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/26/2017 8:07:07 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/26/2017 8:10:13 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/27/2017 1:00:08 AM   
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And we desperately need a update on the bird and the bath.


Birds have a hard time. When they're just trying to take a bath there are all these preverts watching. I will henceforth make a special effort to catch them in the act, but I'm just paparazzi.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/27/2017 1:10:44 AM   
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And we desperately need a update on the bird and the bath.


Birds have a hard time. When they're just trying to take a bath there are all these preverts watching. I will henceforth make a special effort to catch them in the act, but I'm just paparazzi.

Just hope they didn't watch Alfred Hitchcock.




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/27/2017 1:11:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Let me speak of some non-avians for a moment. My neighbor has a couple of now mighty oaks in his back yard and there is another a short way away. It takes two years for an oak to make an acorn and drop it. This is about the intelligence of squirrels. Obviously they cannot live on acorns alone, no matter how many they bury. What is amazing to me is that they prune the ends of the branches off in years that are not producing. If you have a green thumb, which I do like all gorns, but mine is not all that effective, pruning the end of branches off causes the plant (tree or otherwise) to make more branches. Thus the tree becomes bushier, creates more acorns, more acorns for the squirrels to eat. There is no accident here. The remarkable thing is they put effort into pruning oak branches in off years when it will be a year or two before they reap any profit. Does anyone still think humans invented agriculture?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/27/2017 1:15:00 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/27/2017 2:30:50 AM   
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And we desperately need a update on the bird and the bath.


Birds have a hard time. When they're just trying to take a bath there are all these preverts watching. I will henceforth make a special effort to catch them in the act, but I'm just paparazzi.

I suspect they fear your teeth more than your camera!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/27/2017 6:42:29 AM   
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Alfred Hitchcock invented a great many things, but not Major Bat Guano.

Keep it up, and you'll find yourself trapped in a phone booth by angry birds. Very angry birds.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/27/2017 4:37:22 PM   
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Don't see any mouthparts. Male?

Some kind of Culex I expect.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/29/2017 4:30:23 PM   
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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41427689

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/29/2017 6:22:14 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/29/2017 7:13:25 PM   
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The article doesn't say so but it was found on Vangunu, SE of New Georgia.





I'm not surprised that "The Great Old One" has some giant rats along for terrestrial defense. How they found his lair from satellite images is astounding.





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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/29/2017 7:46:29 PM   
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The article doesn't say so but it was found on Vangunu, SE of New Georgia.



I'm not surprised that "The Great Old One" has some giant rats along for terrestrial defense. How they found his lair from satellite images is astounding.


No good will come of this.




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/29/2017 9:45:50 PM   
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The article doesn't say so but it was found on Vangunu, SE of New Georgia.



I'm not surprised that "The Great Old One" has some giant rats along for terrestrial defense. How they found his lair from satellite images is astounding.



I thought the colour of the fur on those giant rats looked familiar! Makes sense they would match the "Great Old One".
Apologies to witpqs for going where he dared not ...

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/29/2017 10:00:31 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/29/2017 10:55:38 PM   
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Is this "The Great Old One"?




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/30/2017 1:32:24 AM   
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Is this "The Great Old One"?




First we learn there are coconut cracking rats. Then we see the coconut cracking crabs! How the h*** does a man keep his coconuts safe if he lands there?!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/30/2017 3:55:40 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/30/2017 4:00:50 PM   
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Had to clean that up. Sorry about that.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/30/2017 4:43:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had a pretty good scare this a.m.. Woke up and checked my email and there was a note from American Express saying I hadn't paid my bill. I pulled out my current statements, which aren't due yet. I have a green card which is non-revolving and a blue card which is. Doesn't matter, I pay both of them off in full each month regardless. I mail a check for each account in separate envelopes with the bill stub included. Checking the statements I see they applied both checks to the blue card account, leaving me a credit, and nothing to the green card account. I called them up and got that straightened out. I asked "Does this sort of thing happen often?" Reply - "Oh, yes. Some of our customers have up to five cards and things get mixed up sometimes". ! My question is this: If they can misapply a check to the wrong account, what's to keep them from applying it to the account of a different customer?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/30/2017 5:07:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		I find this to be a pretty amazing story regardless of the truth of it. Supposedly this story was taken to be a diary entry of Hemingway when he was 10 yrs old of a trip to Ireland for his parents. He didn't travel to Ireland when he was 10, so now they realize it is fiction. Now they are assuming he wrote it when he was 10. However, you can see drawings of a ship that resembles the Titanic and he says "yesterday we saw an iceberg". Did he really come up with this story when he was 10 or write it after the Titanic disaster?




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/30/2017 5:12:12 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/30/2017 7:56:04 PM   
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I had a pretty good scare this a.m.. Woke up and checked my email and there was a note from American Express saying I hadn't paid my bill. I pulled out my current statements, which aren't due yet. I have a green card which is non-revolving and a blue card which is. Doesn't matter, I pay both of them off in full each month regardless. I mail a check for each account in separate envelopes with the bill stub included. Checking the statements I see they applied both checks to the blue card account, leaving me a credit, and nothing to the green card account. I called them up and got that straightened out. I asked "Does this sort of thing happen often?" Reply - "Oh, yes. Some of our customers have up to five cards and things get mixed up sometimes". ! My question is this: If they can misapply a check to the wrong account, what's to keep them from applying it to the account of a different customer?

Human capacity for error is infinite.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/1/2017 6:15:11 AM   
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I had a pretty good scare this a.m.. Woke up and checked my email and there was a note from American Express saying I hadn't paid my bill. I pulled out my current statements, which aren't due yet. I have a green card which is non-revolving and a blue card which is. Doesn't matter, I pay both of them off in full each month regardless. I mail a check for each account in separate envelopes with the bill stub included. Checking the statements I see they applied both checks to the blue card account, leaving me a credit, and nothing to the green card account. I called them up and got that straightened out. I asked "Does this sort of thing happen often?" Reply - "Oh, yes. Some of our customers have up to five cards and things get mixed up sometimes". ! My question is this: If they can misapply a check to the wrong account, what's to keep them from applying it to the account of a different customer?

Human capacity for error is infinite.

Not to worry - we have computers now to helps us do that faster!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/1/2017 11:11:47 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2017 4:00:26 PM   
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Just when you thought you knew how good Allied radar is ....

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41528521

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2017 4:31:39 PM   
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OK, time to inject some new wildlife into this thread!
Just when you thought you knew how good Allied radar is ....

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41528521

A different kind of chaff. Could they be trained to fly over German radar in a certain other game?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2017 2:09:03 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2017 7:05:43 PM   
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So that the fridge can be used in Sweden during the day.

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