Random thoughts
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Canna Chameleon
Muted by mods. Run off by rudeness.
i really wanted to like that movie. I loved the cartoons so much. When it came out I was so bummed.
coolbreeze
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Vitolo
Vaporist
I loved the movie so much... Shelly Duvall was the perfect Olive.
By the way...
Happy National Watermelon Day / August 3rd!
coolbreeze
Well-Known Member
I loved the movie so much... Shelly Duvall was the perfect Olive.
By the way...
Happy National Watermelon Day / August 3rd!
Whoa! National Watermelon Day? Coincidentally this will arrive in the next hour or two!
I aim to get stoned, eat some watermelon, watch a little Popeye, and join the nation in contemplating truth and consequences.
Speaking of random thoughts, Popeye invented the 'straw method':
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Ramahs
Fucking Combustion (mostly) Since February 2017
I had that done to me, didn’t do any fucking good though.
I'm in that club (since 1999) and I have performed three weddings!I have one of those, from 2009 from ULC
I'm your elder, lol
vapviking
Old & In the Way
I have one of those, from 2009 from ULC
I'm your elder, lol
Well, there's a new thread...
Vitolo
Vaporist
I'm 72 years old, and the hall is filled with my Elders!
Now... the Random thought:
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that's the gauge they used. So, why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that same wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break more often on some of the old, long distance roads in England . You see, that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. And what about the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or run the risk of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.)  Now, the twist to the story: When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature, of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system, was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything.
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BabyFacedFinster
Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.
The original voice of Olive Oil (and Betty Boop BTW) in the 1930's cartoons was an actress named Mae Questel. Much later in her career, many would know her best as Aunt Bethany in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
ChooChooCharlie
Well-Known Member
Wat da fuck...
Angkor Wat has a dress code, no shorts
Nieces bought local Cambodian dresses
They got up early for this pic:
Angkor Wat has a dress code, no shorts
Nieces bought local Cambodian dresses
They got up early for this pic:
Perfect_Speed4069
I am the beetle in a box that only you can see
Fnord
florduh
Well-Known Member
Well. Honest Abe wasn't a pussy.
In my reckoning there were only a small handful of hinge points in American history. Points where we could've headed down a saner path. One...is if Abe didn't let that nutty wife of his talk him into going to the theater. Thus handing the Presidency to that scumbag Demonrat Johnson, who fumbled the fuck out of the bag on Reconstruction.
Another big one is if they invented blood pressure medicine like a year or two earlier. Right before FDR died his blood pressure was like 300/200 or something insane like that. His doctors told him to "take a warm bath
". The guy was only 63, which is a youngster by today's standards in politics. He could've won another 3 terms, lol. A glimpse of what could've been....
