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Baron Grim Posted Oct 17, 2017
Heh, the post you responded to takes me back a decade in this thread.
(And (_8(|) is still my favorite ascii emoticon.)
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You can call me TC Posted Oct 18, 2017
A decade to the day! Coincidence ...... or nighthoover?
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Oct 24, 2017
I finally remembered what my login and password are.
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Baron Grim Posted Jan 7, 2018
Siamese cats (and other similar breeds) are temperature sensitive albinos; their coloring is temperature dependent. Their cooler body paets are darker.
http://www.catster.com/lifestyle/cat-facts-genes-siamese-cats-temperature-sensitive-albino
With creative shaving you could write your initials in the new fur.
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Baron Grim Posted Jan 28, 2018
Benjamin Franklin invented swim fins (hand worn) at the age of 11.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jan 28, 2018
He was a swim coach, too. 
He also invented the fake spider joke...
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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. Posted Jan 30, 2018
Franklin has also been credited for inventing the bifocal lenses. The purpose: One lens to see his food, the other to see the cleavage of the lady on the other side of the table.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jan 30, 2018
True. The French thought he fit right in as ambassador with those priorities...
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Baron Grim Posted Feb 6, 2018
Well, this makes me feel old(er).
Today February 5, 2018, the Berlin Wall is down exactly as long as it was up - 10316 days.
I was in college when the wall came down. I wasn't alive when it went up so it feels like history. This realization that I'm now more than twice as old as "history" is heavy.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Feb 6, 2018
Worse, I *was* alive when it went up... The weight of all that history...I've got a piece of that Wall somewhere...
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Cheerful Dragon Posted Feb 6, 2018
You know you're old when something from your childhood is mentioned in history books. I'm not talking about obviously significant events like the first man on the moon, or the fall of the Berlin Wall. I mean things that don't feel that significant at the time, like the three day week and power cuts in the early 1970s. That's when you realise that history isn't something that happened before you were born.
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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. Posted Feb 6, 2018
Can we go back to three day weeks?
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Pink Paisley Posted Feb 6, 2018
I was in a Chinese takeaway in Stopsley, Luton watching the TV coverage as the destruction of the wall developed.
I too have a bit of it somewhere. (Or do I? That's what I was TOLD it was).
PP.
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