If we're going for picky Brandon, that particular incarnation could be anything from about 900 years to 1100 years old. If, of course, he's telling the truth about his age. And we're all well aware of rule one.
BassDude I was just about to say that. The correct name for it is a bass guitar (not to be confused with a bassitar or indeed a guitbass) and the first such instrument postdates the guitar by many decades.
The bass guitar is much closer to a guitar than to a bass. Yes, I play both guitar and bas guitar and no I don't play standup bass. Too different and too difficult.
"Large-scale curing is usually done by injecting a brine solution into the belly of a butchered swine."
That really isn't how you make bacon. Well it's how you make cheap modern mass produced bacon. Manufacturers and vendors like it because it pumps up the volume of meat with liquid so the rashers look big and the shopper seems to be getting a lot of meat for their money. However when cooked the meat loses a load of mass as the liquid cooks away.
Traditional Bacon properly done is dry cured and as such liquid leaches away during curing. Not only does dry cured bacon taste better, but if you weigh the cooked product you will find that wet cured bacon is actually a false economy.
It works quite well right until it gets to the chorus where it completely falls appart. Presumably the harmony for the verse of the two songs is similar, but clearly the same does not apply to the chorus.
@gussiebuns that would never work. Take a look at the way a hoof print is made in mud. Were the shoes on backwards you would be able to see something wrong, not only from the relative depth of the front and rear edges, but also the "toe" of the hoof would leave a print.
IIRC one use of cow shoes was among cattle thieves. Anybody looking for the missing cows it would find only cow's prints.
Border reivers (who also stole cattle among other things) were also alleged to have used them. That would be back in the 12th century, some time before prohibition.
And was he sure it was his bike? I ask because I knew somebody who did something similar with a guitar.
His guitar was stolen and a similar guitar turned up in the window of a secondhand shop a few days later. He went into the shop asked to look at the guitar and played a few licks. Satisfied that it was his guitar he asked if he could look at it outside the dingy shop to check the finish. The shopkeeper agreed and our hero(?) ran from the shop doorway to a friend's waiting car and took off. The friend received a visit from the police later that same day, obviously the shopkeeper had clocked the registration.
As a result of this the police paid a call to the main protagonist of this tale. Turns out it wasn't the same guitar. The shopkeeper could produce not only proof that the instrument in question had been in his shop for some weeks, but that he had all the paperwork for it including tags (with serial number) and the original sales receipt (with serial number).
Our hero did not know the serial number of his instrument and indeed when he managed to find the original sales receipt as evidence for the police he discovered that it was different from the one he'd stolen. Luckily for him the police and the shopkeeper were pretty understanding and he got nothing more than a stern talking to and had to apologize in person to the shop keeper.
Mrsprmise, that's a kind of subtle way of pointing out that there's nothing special about this. The vendor simply went out and bought some TARDIS fabric and made it into a garment. It's not like the vendor did anything particularly creatively TARDISy and original there.
Got to say Etsy is getting less and less original, there's plenty of stuff out there which is less original than this. There's a whole load of stuff made from commercially available patterns and patterns from books which probably violates the terms of sale and copyright on those patterns. Shame really, because Etsy used to be full of really original stuff and now you have to dig to find it.
The interesting thing is that the worst offenders are older people. Kids have grown up with texting and it is second nature to them, they can text and pay some attention to their surroundings at the same time. Adults OTOH have to concentrate on texting to the exclusion of all else.
I've seldom seen a young person step in front of me when texting, but it happens almost weekly with women who look to be in their thirties or forties.
Some people have a strange attitude to kids. They seem to believe that they are all sweet and lovely and that any problems they may have are caused by adults. Sorry, but an awful lot of mental illness doesn't work like that.
Indeed a paper I read a few years ago on a specific psychopath stated that interviews with the subjects parents and others who had known him as a child suggested that he had always been a psychopath, but the condition had only been noticed when it got completely out of hand.
And of course we have to remember that if all psychopaths were easy to diagnose they wouldn't cause such problems for others. It's the fact that psychopaths seem "normal" that always surprises. Thanks to TV and film portrayals we expect psychopaths to be bezerks and that isn't often the case in real life.
The bass guitar is much closer to a guitar than to a bass. Yes, I play both guitar and bas guitar and no I don't play standup bass. Too different and too difficult.
That really isn't how you make bacon. Well it's how you make cheap modern mass produced bacon. Manufacturers and vendors like it because it pumps up the volume of meat with liquid so the rashers look big and the shopper seems to be getting a lot of meat for their money. However when cooked the meat loses a load of mass as the liquid cooks away.
Traditional Bacon properly done is dry cured and as such liquid leaches away during curing. Not only does dry cured bacon taste better, but if you weigh the cooked product you will find that wet cured bacon is actually a false economy.
IIRC one use of cow shoes was among cattle thieves. Anybody looking for the missing cows it would find only cow's prints.
Border reivers (who also stole cattle among other things) were also alleged to have used them. That would be back in the 12th century, some time before prohibition.
His guitar was stolen and a similar guitar turned up in the window of a secondhand shop a few days later. He went into the shop asked to look at the guitar and played a few licks. Satisfied that it was his guitar he asked if he could look at it outside the dingy shop to check the finish. The shopkeeper agreed and our hero(?) ran from the shop doorway to a friend's waiting car and took off. The friend received a visit from the police later that same day, obviously the shopkeeper had clocked the registration.
As a result of this the police paid a call to the main protagonist of this tale. Turns out it wasn't the same guitar. The shopkeeper could produce not only proof that the instrument in question had been in his shop for some weeks, but that he had all the paperwork for it including tags (with serial number) and the original sales receipt (with serial number).
Our hero did not know the serial number of his instrument and indeed when he managed to find the original sales receipt as evidence for the police he discovered that it was different from the one he'd stolen. Luckily for him the police and the shopkeeper were pretty understanding and he got nothing more than a stern talking to and had to apologize in person to the shop keeper.
Got to say Etsy is getting less and less original, there's plenty of stuff out there which is less original than this. There's a whole load of stuff made from commercially available patterns and patterns from books which probably violates the terms of sale and copyright on those patterns. Shame really, because Etsy used to be full of really original stuff and now you have to dig to find it.
I've seldom seen a young person step in front of me when texting, but it happens almost weekly with women who look to be in their thirties or forties.
Some people have a strange attitude to kids. They seem to believe that they are all sweet and lovely and that any problems they may have are caused by adults. Sorry, but an awful lot of mental illness doesn't work like that.
Indeed a paper I read a few years ago on a specific psychopath stated that interviews with the subjects parents and others who had known him as a child suggested that he had always been a psychopath, but the condition had only been noticed when it got completely out of hand.
And of course we have to remember that if all psychopaths were easy to diagnose they wouldn't cause such problems for others. It's the fact that psychopaths seem "normal" that always surprises. Thanks to TV and film portrayals we expect psychopaths to be bezerks and that isn't often the case in real life.