Perhaps you could be more explicit about how the USSR/Russia gave us the chance for whirled peas and we thumbed our noses and laughed at it? Russia ap...
Is it possible that Poland, perhaps, had experiences in the not-very-distant-past of being invaded and occupied that led it to consider belonging to N...
When do you think the the transcendentalist movement began, and when do you think the abolitionist movement peaked? Seems to me they were both in busi...
You are probably correct in saying that the northern abolitionists were primarily Christian. Certainly, not every American was Christian (or a theist ...
"I see" said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw. He lied, because he didn't see at all." An old idiom. My grandmother used to say ...
Yes, Richard the Conqueror--a Frenchman from the part of France previously conquered by the Germanic Franks (who named the non-germanic place after th...
Alas, I am not multi-lingual. But it does seem like there is more to the difficulty of other languages than the 'distance' between branches. English s...
Wosret didn't address your question, focused as he was on the transitive function of the verb, 'shitting'. "Shitting bricks' can also reference "dire ...
When I was a little kid I would find these dry odorless white tubular objects, about the size of a Tootsie Roll. I did not eat them because they were ...
Fact: GARTHER, n. Men invented this elastic band to keep women from jumping out of their stockings and desolating the country. Ambrose Bierce understo...
It's not who sells them, it's the hybrid variety grown and who bids highest at the planetary blueberry auction house. Of the various berries, the thre...
This "cure" advertised on YouTube looks WAY too much like koala scat discussed a few days ago in these esteemed pages. https://live-production.wcms.ab...
Finns are significantly happier than North Americans. How much does it cost to move to Finland and share in their inordinate happiness? Does one have ...
I ate shredded wheat--for the fiber, certainly not for the flavor. I have bought the very best brewed coffee available and it was delicious. I have bo...
Closer to unethical, closer to immoral. might be amoral. However, there are two sets of agents here: First, there are the content producers. Content i...
loan, lent, lint. "I need a loan", was his lame lament, so a little was lent for his low-rate rent. Soon aught was left of the loan they sent but a la...
This being a philosophy forum and not a mechanics or agriculture forum, intellectual developments take center stage. However, the Middle Ages were not...
There is a difference between people who "just eat food" and those who are really "into food". The same goes for people who "just wear clothing" and p...
Koala feces... It says that the ridges on the fecal matter are caused by the Koala's wrinkled sphincter. So, wrinkled sphincter, Vegemite. Ayres rock....
Re: fish are nothing like us... "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin is a pretty good read....
Maybe the Ukrainians could weaponize it against the Russians. It isn't the contents, it's the grubby fingers, warm temperatures, and air born bacteria...
Non-snout or not, head cheese, a disgusting Ding an sich. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Sülze001.jpg/440px-Sülze001.jpg It...
If one is an absolute pacifist, then no war can be just. The Roman Catholic Church's definition of a just war is: the damage inflicted by the aggresso...
Love sausage but the high speed industrial stuffing of sausages is disgusting. Anyway, we have known for a long time that laws and sausage should not ...
I wish I could say "wild adventure with notes of erudition and good sense" but it will probably be more like the bland flavor of midwestern hot dish. ...
Humanely fattened pigs are put into a coma and fed with an IV drip of artificially flavored high fructose corn syrup until they reach the desired stat...
Of course God has preferences. God likes me more than he likes you, for instance. I can't help it. It's not my fault. I'm not in charge of God's prefe...
There is a big difference between "stockpiling" 1 small sample of an organism in a very cold freezer and "stockpiling" a few hundred pounds of the org...
Fortunately for her, neither Goethe nor Confucius wrote in Sanskrit, so that's one less thing for her to worry about while that roaming hand is on Tif...
Amazing how Putin managed to do all that without anybody noticing. I think an additional reason for the invasion is to wreck the economy of Ukraine, a...
My guess is that the size of their entry in Who's Who or a history book is probably not their main motivation, but ego is certainly a factor. The main...
One of my favorite hymn. The tune for Lo how a rose is blooming was written by Michael Praetorius in 1599 for a slightly older lyric. It's a Marian ad...
No. The only relief for tired doves is the same as the relief for tired Christmas carols: They must undergo a 25 to 50 year hiatus. Then, when they ar...
Doves are pigeons. As a famous New Yorkers described them, pigeons (and doves) are rats with wings. Sort of extreme, I suppose. 1 pigeon is OK. 500 pi...
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