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Technically not true regarding drinking water with bleach in it. Water is sterilized with bleach when chlorine is unavailable, to the tune of 2-10 drops per gallon. Bleach can be used to kill viruses and bacteria in water, but it’s important to use only small amounts to avoid poisoning.
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Plus it features Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet, fresh from their triumph in The Maltese Falcon. What's not to like?
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Back in 2004 I was in Seoul's airport and it was like being in another world. Spotlessly clean, and free carts to tote your luggage, plus polite people. This, as opposed to Houston Intercontinental Airport (I refuse to call it Bush), which is filthy and charges you for everything except breathing and they're probably working on that.
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True enough, the site's title block posted above does not claim 'complete', but elsewhere on the site it is stated,"the Complete Text of the Works of H.P. Lovecraft, which led me to believe the collection was complete. It is not 'complete', as you have pointed out, as it is missing all of his ghost writing. Also missing is this, which you may have seen elsewhere: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/bec.aspx
Oh well, I still enjoy reading his 'works', complete or not. Beware of the site's spelling errors, though.
Oh well, I still enjoy reading his 'works', complete or not. Beware of the site's spelling errors, though.
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Actually, his racism, misogyny, and anti-semitism are well-known if that is what you are hinting at. I've read his biography and it would be shocking to many people today, true. A decent man otherwise and far from perfect, holding contrarian views on many topics, he nonetheless was a master of horror. The French adore him, but then again, they adored Jerry Lewis as well.
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The main culprit these days is disposable wipes, which bind with the fats into a solid mass that has to be cut apart with high-pressure water jets. Compounding the problem is a lot of non-disposable wipes that have been flushed anyway.
In my working life, I had to deal with these things and did so via the Muffin Monster - https://www.nomorewipes.com/choose-your-grinder/
In my working life, I had to deal with these things and did so via the Muffin Monster - https://www.nomorewipes.com/choose-your-grinder/
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You are too kind. I gave Miss C a chance to make this post but she was too busy baking cookies.
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I just tried it and it seems to be working properly.
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One would think that eating haggis for generations would provide some sort of immunity to this kind of thing.
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I visited the Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, TX this week and samples of the Japanese war propaganda found therein aren't all that different from what we see here. BTW, this is a world-class museum since Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander of the Pacific Theater after Pearl Harbor, was born there. Highly recommended for the war buff and/or historian.
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What people don't realize is how windy it is at that height. This wasn't like walking a tightrope in your backyard. I really have to wonder if he knew how dangerous that was actually going to be.
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Yes, it was The Walk from 2015. Here's a clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofY-_TjaVd8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofY-_TjaVd8
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So it is a main coon cat, as opposed to a minor coon cat?
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Well, the title of what I am writing is:
Errors, Potential Errors, Conflicts, Inconsistencies, Anachronisms, and Mysteries in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The examples given were mainly conflicts and inconsistencies. For genuine errors, we have as an example, in The Hobbit:
Page 150 – it is stated, “…since they started their journey that May morning long ago”, but it is clear that prior to this passage the journey began at the end of April. For example, on page 25, Gandalf states, “….your father went away on the twenty-first of April, a hundred years ago last Thursday”. Thus it could be no later than April 29 when the journey began the next day. Indeed, on page 12 of FOTR, Tolkien writes of Bilbo, “With them he set out, to his own lasting astonishment, on a morning in April”.
Page 299 – it is stated, “……Gandalf had been to a great council of the white wizards….”. As learned later when Tolkien fleshed out the mythos of Middle-earth for LOTR, there had only ever been five wizards in Middle-earth and only one of them (Saruman) was a white wizard. Thus there could not have been any council of white wizards. In LOTR, Gandalf states that this event was a Council of the Wise (which included elves). Further confusing the issue is the fact that the Council of the Wise was also known as the White Council.
For The Lord of the Rings, there are many errors but I am in the midst of cataloguing them. Also numerous are outright conflicts with The Hobbit. Here are some samples:
Dwarves in TH are armed with bows and arrows, mattocks, and swords but those in LOTR use axes exclusively.
Talking trolls with first and last names are unique to TH. Trolls in LOTR are mute and nameless.
Tolkien frequently refers to tobacco in TH, although in LOTR tobacco is mentioned only as pipe-weed. Pipe-weed as such is not mentioned in TH.
Tolkien did word some passages poorly such that their meaning is ambivalent. in FOTR, Frodo is said to be thinking about Balin's visit to the Shire long ago, giving the impression that he is remembering it from experience. But the timeline in the Appendices indicate that Balin's visit occurred about 20 years before Frodo was born. There are others and I will be collecting them as I go through the books again line by line.
Thanks,
WTM
P.S. Stay away from Entmoot.com if you don't wish to be disrespected and called names. Tolkien fanboys aren't always reasonable. But if you haven't seen it, The Encyclopedia of Area is a Tolkien scholar's dream. http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.asp
Errors, Potential Errors, Conflicts, Inconsistencies, Anachronisms, and Mysteries in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The examples given were mainly conflicts and inconsistencies. For genuine errors, we have as an example, in The Hobbit:
Page 150 – it is stated, “…since they started their journey that May morning long ago”, but it is clear that prior to this passage the journey began at the end of April. For example, on page 25, Gandalf states, “….your father went away on the twenty-first of April, a hundred years ago last Thursday”. Thus it could be no later than April 29 when the journey began the next day. Indeed, on page 12 of FOTR, Tolkien writes of Bilbo, “With them he set out, to his own lasting astonishment, on a morning in April”.
Page 299 – it is stated, “……Gandalf had been to a great council of the white wizards….”. As learned later when Tolkien fleshed out the mythos of Middle-earth for LOTR, there had only ever been five wizards in Middle-earth and only one of them (Saruman) was a white wizard. Thus there could not have been any council of white wizards. In LOTR, Gandalf states that this event was a Council of the Wise (which included elves). Further confusing the issue is the fact that the Council of the Wise was also known as the White Council.
For The Lord of the Rings, there are many errors but I am in the midst of cataloguing them. Also numerous are outright conflicts with The Hobbit. Here are some samples:
Dwarves in TH are armed with bows and arrows, mattocks, and swords but those in LOTR use axes exclusively.
Talking trolls with first and last names are unique to TH. Trolls in LOTR are mute and nameless.
Tolkien frequently refers to tobacco in TH, although in LOTR tobacco is mentioned only as pipe-weed. Pipe-weed as such is not mentioned in TH.
Tolkien did word some passages poorly such that their meaning is ambivalent. in FOTR, Frodo is said to be thinking about Balin's visit to the Shire long ago, giving the impression that he is remembering it from experience. But the timeline in the Appendices indicate that Balin's visit occurred about 20 years before Frodo was born. There are others and I will be collecting them as I go through the books again line by line.
Thanks,
WTM
P.S. Stay away from Entmoot.com if you don't wish to be disrespected and called names. Tolkien fanboys aren't always reasonable. But if you haven't seen it, The Encyclopedia of Area is a Tolkien scholar's dream. http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.asp
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Hadn't known the full story of FF, thank you. But I do notice that places that used to sell comics - the drugstores, the dime stores - no longer seem to carry plain comic books. At least, I don't notice them. MAD is reeling too, with the death of the old guard, people like Jack Davis, and the rise of millennials, who think everything should be free. Their circulation must be a small fraction of what it was at their peak, and I shouldn't be surprised to see it become just an e-magazine. That is, if it survives at all.