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The pledge Balch came up with sounds nothing like the pledge we use today: "We give our heads and hearts to God and our country; one country, one language, one flag!"

While the pledge Bellamy came up with is instantly recognizable as the basis of the pledge used in the US today: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

I'm no fan of Cracked, but I'd have to say they're right on this one, not lying at all.
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> they always had them hot and ready to go

Same is true for gas station hot dogs... That's not really a big selling-point. Other fast food chains made their name on "made fresh when you order it" food that is not precooked and not setting under heat lamps for hours before you get it.
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Are you sure your coworker didn't get tricked into marrying a seal wearing a mumu, or several raccoons in a trench-coat? Someone should check is all I'm saying....
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Seems like incredible foolishness by Hardacre. He noticed it was "darker than usual, but thought little of it." He tried some and and immediately started selling the batch. This back in the age of no food safety regulation, with people dying of food poisoning all the time...

Feeding a sample of the obviously not-quite-right formula to the family dog, then waiting a day, could have saved many lives.
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"no looking it up. Off the dome."
I don't get it. Why is this a game? Do normal people have the birth dates of hundreds celebrities memorized. Is this someone just learning that actors often play roles where they appear younger or older?

Here's a few:

Asa Butterfield
Bella Thorne
Chloƫ Grace Moretz
Maisie Williams
Sydney Sweeney

Or find some up yourself, these names may be more notable to you than I:
https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1997-01-01,1997-12-31
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It'll let you past 21 without a camera if you just wait and click a few times. Might be best you don't, it just seems endlessly tedious to me.
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Are graves still dug by hand? I always find excavators are used, baring final touches. Are there cemeteries where even the smallest excavators can't get in, or areas of the world where hours of manual labor is cheaper than a few minutes of heavy equipment usage?
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With one small modification, my futon could be put in this configuration. For full-time use, it makes more sense to create a V-share bed frame out of wood, and put a futon mattress on top of it.
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"goal to become a pediatric neurosurgeon"

I think he misunderstood the job title... It's not the kids that are supposed to be performing the surgery...
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I'm not prepared to criticize any of these folks, except where the rich are using charitable services for the poor. But even there, who knows how damaged these folks were from the horrible things they might have gone through or at least seen first-hand during their lives. Ye Old England was a place of incredible poverty people can't begin to imagine. When the punishment for stealing food was hanging, starving to death in the streets was quite common (though it was usually some disease or another that technically finished you off first).

I remember my grandparent's yard was absolutely filled with old scraps... Every one of their old cars, washing machines, etc., was stockpiled there for years. I thought that was just a common thing for old folks. All those I knew at that age, were old enough to have lived through The Great Depression and they were all too familiar with 25% unemployment, huge numbers of people starving, successful professionals suddenly losing their jobs and never being able to earn another dollar for the rest of their lives, and even extremely wealthy folks being suddenly reduced to complete poverty. No doubt living through that left a deep impression on them, and a powerful determination not to ever run out of money and go through the same.

Living frugally, despite being wealthy, is generally regarded as a virtue in western/Christian societies, and not a vice. It's only in recent decades that "stimulating the economy" has been bandied about as an excuse for frivolous or extravagant spending. At one point the narrator says "If he were just cheap with himself, that's nobody's business but his own" which sounds good, but then 90% of this video is in fact criticizing how these wealthy folks chose to live, with very few examples of these folks being miserly to others.
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