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Thursday Quote: "Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
~Martain Mull
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So, having more than one is like a spare? *Shock2*
Rainbows actually make a complete circle. We only see an arc because when you see a rainbow from the ground, the earth gets in the way.
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No wonder I've never been able to find that damn pot of gold. I've been running in circles! *Laugh*
Does Earth get in the way or are we just lousy at perceiving things?
During WWII, American spies created a stench weapon for French Resistance fighters. The weapon which smelled like human fecal matter was to be sprayed on German officers in France to humiliate and demoralize them. The name of this top secret weapon? "Who me?"
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Yes, this was real, but it wasn't used very much because the atomizer utilized to dispense the odiferous formula often sprayed the resistance member too. And The Nazi's were smart enough to understand the saying about "The one who smells... like... it, delt it."
BIG BAD WOLF is Merry Author Icon - Oh, what glorious omissions, now I want one of those guns... what a surprise there would be for the grandsons if I returned their squirt gun shots at Papa!

But then, I would surly get in trouble because there is no way they wouldn't take one to school! I've already had to deal with a repeated "Papaisum" or two, Papa must be careful when he says things like "Suck My Socks, You Nitwitted Fool!" eight-year-old grandsons get detention and must stay afterschool.
Trenchers were slices of bread used as plates in Medieval times.(seems practical, less washing up.)
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Dropping a stale one on one's foot, must have caused 'trencher foot'.
Sunday Word incipient (adjective) [ihn-sih-pee-uhnt]: beginning to come into being or to become apparent.
Saturday Word zufzwang (noun) [zoog-zwahng]:A point in a game of chess at which a player's only available moves are to their disadvantage.
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Hello is often where it starts. The exciting part is, I just haven't always realized it, yet. Lol
Considering the way I play chess, the whole game could be called 'zufzwang' or perhaps 'checkmate' would be a more apt name. *Laugh*
We'd probably be a good match, Humble Poet PNG MAYDAY MAYDAY! Author Icon. lol
Squirrel fur may have spread leprosy during the Middle Ages. It may have come to the UK via Vikings who traded squirrel fur and meat.
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That's nuts
Thursday Quote:"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill." ~ Johnny Carson.
Reading for 20 minutes a day exposes you to roughly 1.8 million words a year.
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It has to be different words. Can't just sit in parking lot reading 'No Parking, Violators Will Be Towed'. For 20 minutes.
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The first animal to be cloned was a tadpole in 1952.(my birthyear.)
Platapuses glow when exposed to UV light.
Sunday Word: disputatious: someone who often disagrees.
Saturday Word: petrichor (noun) [peh-trih-kohr]: The distictive, pleasant smell of rain falling on warm dry earth.
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Didn't you post this one a few months back? If not, I might have seen it elsewhere.
I just commented the other day how nice the spring rain smelled, I guess this is what I meant!
There is more actual lemon in lemon Pledge cleaner then there is in Country Time Lemonade.
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Sounds about right.
Yeah, but it doesn't mix up as well.
Thursday Quote: "The problem with having an open mind is that people insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
~Terry Pratchett
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Sometimes an open mind is an originator of such things, and sometimes it is a recipient.
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