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BuckyB93 Offline
#201 Posted: Mon, Feb 14 2022, 1:47 PM EST
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Interesting site: https://factourism.com/
RMAN4443 Offline
#202 Posted: Mon, Feb 14 2022, 2:47 PM EST
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If your Jewish, and you get tattooed, you can not be buried in a Jewish cemetary...unless it's a concentration camp # tattoo
delta1 Offline
#203 Posted: Mon, Feb 14 2022, 2:50 PM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
Interesting site: https://factourism.com/



some interesting tidbits
frankj1 Offline
#204 Posted: Tue, Feb 15 2022, 7:25 PM EST
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RMAN4443 wrote:
If your Jewish, and you get tattooed, you can not be buried in a Jewish cemetary...unless it's a concentration camp # tattoo

I grew up with that as a hard fact, and though it is true that tats themselves are considered, for lack of a better word, illegal, like other broken laws of the Torah it does not automatically mean exclusion, as I was taught decades ago.

However, as I recently learned (staying with the brilliant OP) individual cemeteries/Synagogues can have that as a rule.
Or have a separate burial area. Or not.

Just so strange to believe something for 60 years and find it isn't written in stone...
frankj1 Offline
#205 Posted: Tue, Feb 15 2022, 7:29 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
some interesting tidbits

We used to get tidbits #1 or #2 at a local Chinese restaurant when I was growing up.
An array of "Polynesian" appetizers designed with the suburban American palate in mind.
Chicken wings, spare ribs, pork strips, fried shrimp...very close to a Pu Pu Platter.
RMAN4443 Offline
#206 Posted: Tue, Feb 15 2022, 7:30 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
I grew up with that as a hard fact, and though it is true that tats themselves are considered, for lack of a better word, illegal, like other broken laws of the Torah it does not automatically mean exclusion, as I was taught decades ago.

However, as I recently learned (staying with the brilliant OP) individual cemeteries/Synagogues can have that as a rule.
Or have a separate burial area. Or not.

Just so strange to believe something for 60 years and find it isn't written in stone...

ok,thanks...it was something I heard from someone, but wasn't 100% sure if it was a fact or not
frankj1 Offline
#207 Posted: Tue, Feb 15 2022, 7:41 PM EST
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RMAN4443 wrote:
ok,thanks...it was something I heard from someone, but wasn't 100% sure if it was a fact or not

I only very recently learned I had been wrong all these years, and I am still sort of hoping that your post is correct.
Not sure why, but I do.
8trackdisco Offline
#208 Posted: Tue, Feb 15 2022, 7:53 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
I grew up with that as a hard fact, and though it is true that tats themselves are considered, for lack of a better word, illegal, like other broken laws of the Torah it does not automatically mean exclusion, as I was taught decades ago.

However, as I recently learned (staying with the brilliant OP) individual cemeteries/Synagogues can have that as a rule.
Or have a separate burial area. Or not.

Just so strange to believe something for 60 years and find it isn't written in stone...



Like how you mixed in 'isn't written in stone'.

Very Moses of you.
MACS Offline
#209 Posted: Tue, Feb 15 2022, 8:52 PM EST
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Huh... I've read the Torah twice. Never saw anything in there that said no tattoos. lol
Dg west deptford Offline
#210 Posted: Tue, Feb 15 2022, 9:35 PM EST
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Leviticus 19:28

There's no exclusionary burial laws in scripture though.
Those are laws of men.
frankj1 Offline
#211 Posted: Tue, Feb 15 2022, 11:07 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Like how you mixed in 'isn't written in stone'.

Very Moses of you.

I really did know when I wrote it.
Just wasn't feelin' it called for a "see what I did there"...

thanks for noticing.
Stogie1020 Offline
#212 Posted: Tue, Feb 15 2022, 11:24 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Huh... I've read the Torah twice. Never saw anything in there that said no tattoos. lol

Apparently, as lengthy as the Torah is, there just wasn't enough in it to argue about. As a result, rabbis have been making additional rules and laws for centuries... And arguing about them for just as long.

One thing I value about Judaism is the profound responsibility to question all aspects of the faith and teachings. As an example, those who wish to convert just as a rabbi to teach and guide them through the process, but the rabbi Tells them "no" three different times before he accepts them as students. That way, they really question the decision and have to decide to commit.

Also, to Frank's point about knowing something until you don't know it, i was a grown damn adult before I found out you don't really have to wait 30 minutes after you eat to go swimming. Yeah. The rest of the dive boat had a good laugh that day.
RMAN4443 Offline
#213 Posted: Wed, Feb 16 2022, 10:54 AM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Apparently, as lengthy as the Torah is, there just wasn't enough in it to argue about. As a result, rabbis have been making additional rules and laws for centuries... And arguing about them for just as long.

One thing I value about Judaism is the profound responsibility to question all aspects of the faith and teachings. As an example, those who wish to convert just as a rabbi to teach and guide them through the process, but the rabbi Tells them "no" three different times before he accepts them as students. That way, they really question the decision and have to decide to commit.

Also, to Frank's point about knowing something until you don't know it, i was a grown damn adult before I found out you don't really have to wait 30 minutes after you eat to go swimming. Yeah. The rest of the dive boat had a good laugh that day.

Well,when they all get stomach cramps and drown, you'll have the last laugh...Anxious
frankj1 Offline
#214 Posted: Sat, Feb 19 2022, 4:38 PM EST
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Ukraine is the world's #1 exporter of barbers with coke nails

bgz
8trackdisco Offline
#215 Posted: Sat, Feb 19 2022, 11:00 PM EST
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Learned people in the northern third of the USA should smoke their cigars differently in winter vs Summer.

Slower in winter as the moisture in the cigar expands, popping the wrapper when turbo puffing.
In Summer, smoke faster as the higher humidity makes it go out if not well tended.

Have certainly never though about it. During those rare, 45 degree winter afternoons, if I go outside to smoke, I smoke fast. Mainly because it is 45 degrees.
8trackdisco Offline
#216 Posted: Sat, Feb 19 2022, 11:01 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
I really did know when I wrote it.
Just wasn't feelin' it called for a "see what I did there"...

thanks for noticing.


Appreciate the craftsmanship.
bgz Offline
#217 Posted: Sun, Feb 20 2022, 12:01 AM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
Ukraine is the world's #1 exporter of barbers with coke nails

bgz


You made me look it up... I think I was mistaken, I think it's actually Uzbekistan...

Sorry about that.
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#218 Posted: Mon, Feb 21 2022, 11:44 AM EST
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I just learned that that a local priest has baptized babies for the last twenty years using the word "we" instead of "I" during the ceremony and all are now considered by the Catholics as not baptized. Oh the humanity!

I'm not Catholic but this is why I just don't think too highly of organized religion in general.
frankj1 Offline
#219 Posted: Mon, Feb 21 2022, 3:52 PM EST
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betcha he didn't say "they" instead of "I" once in those same 20 years
8trackdisco Offline
#220 Posted: Mon, Feb 21 2022, 9:04 PM EST
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There was a third Apple founder, Ronald Wayne. He sold his 10% stake in 1976 for $800.

I can now forgive myself for selling Netflix for $16 a share 15-20 years ago.
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#221 Posted: Wed, Feb 23 2022, 12:02 AM EST
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[email protected] says my MacAfeeTotal Subscription has expired.

I didn't know that I had a MacAfeeTotal Subscription. This is some knowledge that I recently acquired.

There's a link in the e-mail to click for easy renewal. I bet if I follow the link and provide the information needed to renew this previously unknown subscription, I would be overwhelmed with a bunch more of Recently Acquired Knowledge.
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#222 Posted: Wed, Feb 23 2022, 12:55 AM EST
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One of my car warranties is about to expire.
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#223 Posted: Wed, Feb 23 2022, 6:07 PM EST
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Victor809 just called me about mine
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#224 Posted: Wed, Feb 23 2022, 6:11 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
There was a third Apple founder, Ronald Wayne. He sold his 10% stake in 1976 for $800.

I can now forgive myself for selling Netflix for $16 a share 15-20 years ago.

I bought blockbuster instead of Netflix d'oh!
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#225 Posted: Wed, Feb 23 2022, 8:32 PM EST
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Crows can memorize human faces

Wildlife biologists figured this out by conducting a simple experiment using rubber masks. A "caveman" mask, for example, designated a "dangerous" face while a mask of former Vice President ****** Cheney was "neutral." Researchers in the dangerous mask trapped and banded individual American crows and then released them. While they were careful not to harm the birds during trapping, "it's still a scary experience for the bird," Swift says.

To see whether the crows remembered the dangerous face, researchers returned to the area and walked around wearing the different masks. And when the birds saw the dangerous face, Swift says, "they would alarm-call, they would dive-bomb that person." The neutral face was mostly ignored.

The gender or body type of whoever was wearing the dangerous mask didn't much matter — the crows seemed to key in on the face. Researchers even flipped the mask upside down to see if the crows could still recognize it. "For a brief moment, the crows seemed a little confused, and then they would just tilt their head upside down and then they'd start an alarm-calling," Swift says.

Even crows that hadn't been tagged or banded scolded and dive-bombed the wearer of the dangerous mask. Swift says this suggests the crows "were actually learning from their peers that this particular person is dangerous."

And if you need another reason to be nice to crows, they can also remember faces for years.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/23/927088859/crows-are-they-scary-or-just-super-smart
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#226 Posted: Fri, Feb 25 2022, 11:43 AM EST
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Phil Donahue is still alive.
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#227 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 9:55 AM EST
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corned beef in original New England Boiled Dinner...

"Before it was available in every supermarket in cryovac bags, cooks had to cure their own, submerging the beef for weeks in a brine made from salt and gunpowder (the latter contained in shells known as “corns,” hence the name). "
- from New England Food Today
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#228 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 11:51 AM EST
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More people in the world have access to a cell phone than have access to a real toilet. Thus: Chit holes.
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#229 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 12:28 PM EST
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People in New England eat gun powder and waste perfectly good brisket.
MACS Offline
#230 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 12:33 PM EST
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Mom used to make corned beef and cabbage in the pressure cooker.

So damn good... with taters and carrots... mmmmmm...

Huh. Maybe I need to go get a corned beef brisket, some taters, carrots and cabbage and fire up da crock pot!
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#231 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 12:41 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
People in New England eat gun powder and waste perfectly good brisket.

mmmmmmmmmmm,gunpowder...Drool


https://youtu.be/8-4P1WPE-Qg
MACS Offline
#232 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 3:08 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Huh. Maybe I need to go get a corned beef brisket, some taters, carrots and cabbage and fire up da crock pot!


So let it be written... so let it be done. 4 lb corned beef brisket, 6 small golden taters, 6 small carrots, half an onion and a small head of cabbage stuffed into da crock pot. Dinner will be ready at 6pm.

Also doing a couple loads of laundry. I don't have a fancy driving gig like 8track, so I gotta do other stuff to stay busy. Whistle
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#233 Posted: Wed, Mar 2 2022, 12:08 PM EST
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Watching the movie In the Heat of the Night (1967).

Movie takes place in 1966 Sparta, Mississippi. It is a real town, but not the town the movie was actually filmed.

Ironically, it was filmed in another Sparta. Sparta, Illinois.
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#234 Posted: Thu, Mar 3 2022, 11:34 AM EST
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Always thought a vehicle either had Shocks or Struts.
Turns out some vehicles have both.
Shocks are a 'couple hundred" to replace. Struts are over $1,000.
MACS Offline
#235 Posted: Thu, Mar 3 2022, 1:34 PM EST
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Wanna know why the price is much different??

https://help.summitracing.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5260/~/what%E2%80%99s-the-difference-between-shocks%2C-struts%2C-and-coilovers%3F
8trackdisco Offline
#236 Posted: Thu, Mar 3 2022, 4:50 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Wanna know why the price is much different??

https://help.summitracing.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5260/~/what%E2%80%99s-the-difference-between-shocks%2C-struts%2C-and-coilovers%3F


Read it. Not sure how much I comprehend it. That said, always appreciate a Brother trying to help.
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#237 Posted: Fri, Mar 4 2022, 7:41 AM EST
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A situation is never to cruel as long as it is funny.
MACS Offline
#238 Posted: Sat, Mar 5 2022, 8:01 PM EST
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Watching Blue Planet.

We have very little knowledge of where Blue Whales travel... and no idea where they breed. And they are more than twice the size of any of the dinosaurs... so the largest thing to live on the planet. Now or ever... and they feed on one of the smallest. Plankton.

Strange, but true.
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#239 Posted: Sun, Mar 6 2022, 11:34 AM EST
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Shawnski.... Pressure cookers and crock pots aren't the same thing.

That's some knowledge you can say you recently acquired.

-signed
Gerbski
MACS Offline
#240 Posted: Sun, Mar 6 2022, 1:34 PM EST
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Dear Gerbski...

I knew that. I don't have a pressure cooker and I was in no hurry.

fog
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#241 Posted: Sun, Mar 6 2022, 2:24 PM EST
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I just recently acquired knowledge that MACS doesn't own a pressure cooker.
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#242 Posted: Sun, Mar 6 2022, 2:50 PM EST
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Shorting the Ruble has paid well recently

Problem is it's also possible to pop back fast as analysis has it undervalued in comparison with its neighbors

Fertilizer, Phosphorus, pot ash, etc. Is the new Gold
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#243 Posted: Sun, Mar 6 2022, 3:05 PM EST
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Pot ash???? Hmmmmm...Anxious
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#244 Posted: Sun, Mar 6 2022, 3:26 PM EST
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I always thought pre ash pot was where the money was
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#245 Posted: Sun, Mar 6 2022, 3:56 PM EST
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Need Fertilizer to grow pot
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#246 Posted: Sun, Mar 6 2022, 5:13 PM EST
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Thunder.Gerbil wrote:
I just recently acquired knowledge that MACS doesn't own a pressure cooker.

MACS is low...pressure
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#247 Posted: Sun, Mar 13 2022, 8:11 PM EST
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Minnesota’s license plates say Land of 10,000 Lakes.

Wisconsin has 15,070.

Suck it, Sota!
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#248 Posted: Sat, Mar 19 2022, 11:48 AM EST
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was the voice of Paddington Bear in the Ukrainian versions of “Paddington” and “Paddington 2".

Whoda' thunk?
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#249 Posted: Sat, Mar 19 2022, 5:04 PM EST
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A burger joint started out called Insta-Burger. It later became Burger King.
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#250 Posted: Sat, Mar 19 2022, 5:55 PM EST
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did they get sued by the real Burger King?
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