Interesting site: https://factourism.com/

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.

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.

Huh... I've read the Torah twice. Never saw anything in there that said no tattoos. lol

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

thanks for noticing.

Well,when they all get stomach cramps and drown, you'll have the last laugh...

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.

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

Sorry about that.

betcha he didn't say "they" instead of "I" once in those same 20 years

[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.

Victor809 just called me about mine

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

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

People in New England eat gun powder and waste perfectly good brisket.

mmmmmmmmmmm,gunpowder...


https://youtu.be/8-4P1WPE-Qg

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.

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

A situation is never to cruel as long as it is funny.

Shawnski.... Pressure cookers and crock pots aren't the same thing.

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

-signed
Gerbski

I just recently acquired knowledge that MACS doesn't own a pressure cooker.

Pot ash???? Hmmmmm...

Need Fertilizer to grow pot

Minnesota’s license plates say Land of 10,000 Lakes.

Wisconsin has 15,070.

Suck it, Sota!

A burger joint started out called Insta-Burger. It later became Burger King.