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Almost six minutes. This fellow has watched Mythbusters too many times: "First, I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna show you; Then I'm gonna show you what I have to show you; Then I'm gonna tell you what I just showed you." All he needs is a commercial between segments.Mind you, it's a nice effect and I'm glad he showed me.
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Best unapologetic typo I ever heard of was in a London newspaper, who referred to a police officer as "... a defective with the Bristol Police Farce".
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One word we're hearing more often is 'Indigenous', which is a term from biology, meaning 'found naturally in the particular geographic location'. But it's being used to cover 'Indian' in Canada, and it works for 'Eskimo' as well. And on the evening news, when you hear it about 'black' people in Africa. Useful or not?
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Two great inventions in Human history, that are pretty-well taken for granted today: Elevators and Air Conditioning. Try imagining a modern city today without either.
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Is there a way to comment on the daily items on XKCD? I mean 'react in a positive way', as in Heap Praise, Offer Congratulations, or just Ha Ha Ha. I've been all around the site and haven't found a simple Comments place. But I'd like to.
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I hope they were really sure that he was, in fact, deceased. I can see this as being part of a terrible situation comedy. Maybe call it Murphy's Law.
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Let us not forget The Population Explosion, which is a one-way trip to hell. Asimov's essays, written in the '60s and '70s, outlined just how much time we have before the entire Earth is shoulder-to-shoulder with starving, dying people all demanding equal rights.
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Wow! When I first looked, I thought 'Red Green's looking good these days', then I saw it's really his cousin Avner. Fell upon hard times, I guess, having to eat the napkins.
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Just now reading 'Lucifer's Hammer', by Larry Niven. Written in 1977, it describes a 'visit' from a comet into our neighborhood, and the resulting effect on the world. Fascinating, and strangely predictive.
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We have visitors from 'south of the 49th' and they're always surprised and pleased by how polite they find Canadians. That's nice. Not so nice is when my family drives to Niagara Falls and goes across to the U.S., and we're irritated and bummed-out by how rude Americans are. Or is it only New York State?
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