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Did you notice the signs never state, "No Pants"? So, I guess as long as you are wearing a shirt and shoes with no pants, they will serve you.songsmith wrote:Just saw on the evening news:
There is no law on the books of any state that says, "No shirt, No shoes, No service." It's perfectly legal to go anywhere barefoot, but they can refuse you service for nearly any reason otherwise, so don't push it.--->JMS
In the 50's & 60's, popular cartoons were used to sell cigarettes and beer.
The Flintstones sold Winston cigarettes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZvHiiWFbBU
Mister Magoo sold Stag Beer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNF-0Qs ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf77ld5l ... re=related
The Flintstones sold Winston cigarettes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZvHiiWFbBU
Mister Magoo sold Stag Beer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNF-0Qs ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf77ld5l ... re=related
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JackANSI
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Time for something really boring.
The whistling sound you hear in a turbocharger is not so much from the air moving but mostly from the tips of the compressor breaking the sound barrier (on a 13T turbo pushing 20psi the compressor/turbine is rotating at >120,000rpm. The popular turbo used to boost performance on super-bikes can exede 180,000rpm in normal operation).
This is also how a turbo can build so much boost without stators (aside from centrifugal forces alone which only account for 40% of the energy required to move that much air), the compression wave from breaking the sound barrier reflects against the housing which builds boost. You don't hear any boom or other events associated with braking the sound barrier because the compression wave doesn't have time to fully form before being reflected against itself.
This is similar in principle to how the SR-71 and Concorde's engines work with super-sonic air, minus the jet fuel. Since a turbo-jet/fan can only work with sub-sonic air the nose of the engine uses a reflection of the pressure wave to slow the incoming air.
The turbocharger gets its name from one of the slowest creatures in nature. The name 'turbo' is a genus of turban snail.
The turbo was patented in 1905.
The whistling sound you hear in a turbocharger is not so much from the air moving but mostly from the tips of the compressor breaking the sound barrier (on a 13T turbo pushing 20psi the compressor/turbine is rotating at >120,000rpm. The popular turbo used to boost performance on super-bikes can exede 180,000rpm in normal operation).
This is also how a turbo can build so much boost without stators (aside from centrifugal forces alone which only account for 40% of the energy required to move that much air), the compression wave from breaking the sound barrier reflects against the housing which builds boost. You don't hear any boom or other events associated with braking the sound barrier because the compression wave doesn't have time to fully form before being reflected against itself.
This is similar in principle to how the SR-71 and Concorde's engines work with super-sonic air, minus the jet fuel. Since a turbo-jet/fan can only work with sub-sonic air the nose of the engine uses a reflection of the pressure wave to slow the incoming air.
The turbocharger gets its name from one of the slowest creatures in nature. The name 'turbo' is a genus of turban snail.
The turbo was patented in 1905.
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Dr. Seuss aka Theodore Geisel invented the word NERD...in his book "If I Ran The Zoo" written in 1964.
There was enough cement used to build the Hoover Dam to pave a two lane highway from San Francisco to NYC.
The mummy of Ramsis the first was found by chance in a roadside museum in Niagara Falls. It has since been returned to Egypt.
A woman by the name of Irena Sendler helped to save 2,500 Jewish children in Poland during the holocaust by begging the children's parents to give their children up. She then gave the children to Catholic families with the intention of returning the children to their parents at the end of the war. To identify the children, she wrote their names, addresses and parent's names on a slip of paper and put them into glass jars. When the jars were full, she burried them in a hole under her apple tree. Sadly, most of the children never saw their parents again. Irena died on May 12 at the age of 98 - her story and heroic efforts were just recently discovered.
There was enough cement used to build the Hoover Dam to pave a two lane highway from San Francisco to NYC.
The mummy of Ramsis the first was found by chance in a roadside museum in Niagara Falls. It has since been returned to Egypt.
A woman by the name of Irena Sendler helped to save 2,500 Jewish children in Poland during the holocaust by begging the children's parents to give their children up. She then gave the children to Catholic families with the intention of returning the children to their parents at the end of the war. To identify the children, she wrote their names, addresses and parent's names on a slip of paper and put them into glass jars. When the jars were full, she burried them in a hole under her apple tree. Sadly, most of the children never saw their parents again. Irena died on May 12 at the age of 98 - her story and heroic efforts were just recently discovered.
Who needs gold and diamonds when you can have chrome....
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http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/airstrip.aspDMFJ03 wrote:The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
Sorry, dude....
Here's my contribution:
There are mountains in Alabama! No shit! I live east of Huntsville, on top of Keel Mountain, and this area looks just like PA. Aww.......
You better call me a doctor - feelin' no pain!
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Actor Cary Grant's real name was Archibald Leach. Here's a link to the real names of celebrities. Some are pretty funny.
http://www.changednames.com/
http://www.changednames.com/
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Most have heard of Hadrian's Wall, which the Romans built across Northern Britain to keep the Scots/Picts from attacking them. Until recently, I'd never heard of The Antonine Wall, which was built further North in Scottish/Pictish territory, ostensibly to replace Hadrian's Wall. I thought the last name of the dude who built it being 'Urbicus' and the 'Grim' references were quite interesting and amusing, too. 
The Antonine Wall is a stone and turf fortification, built by the Romans across what is now the central belt of Scotland and is also known as the Clyde-Forth frontier line. Although most of the wall has been destroyed over time, sections of the wall can still be seen.
Construction of the Antonine Wall began in 138 AD, during the reign of Antoninus Pius, by Quintus Lollius Urbicus and was completed in 142 AD. The wall was intended to replace Hadrian's Wall 160 km (100 miles) to the south, as the frontier of Britannia, but while the Romans did establish temporary forts and camps north of the wall, they did not conquer the Caledonians, and the Antonine Wall suffered many attacks. The Romans called the land north of the wall Caledonia, though in some contexts the term may mean the area north of Hadrian's Wall.
The Antonine Wall was inferior to Hadrian's Wall in terms of scale and construction, but it was completed in only 4 years at the northern edge of the Roman empire in what they perceived as a cold and hostile land. The wall was typically an earth bank, about four metres (13 feet) high, with a wide ditch on the north side, and a military way or road on the south. The Romans initially planned to build forts every six miles, but this was soon revised to every two miles, resulting in a total of 19 forts along the wall. The best preserved, but also one of the smallest forts is Rough Castle Fort.
The wall was abandoned after only twenty years, when the Roman legions withdrew to Hadrian's Wall in 162 AD (although there is evidence to suggest that they left the wall in 158/60 AD but its reliability is unclear), and over time reached an accommodation with the Brythonic tribes of the area who they fostered as the buffer states which would later become "The Old North". After a series of attacks in 197 AD, Emperor Septimius Severus arrived in Scotland in 208 AD to secure the frontier, and repaired parts of the wall. Although this re-occupation only lasted a few years, the wall is sometimes referred to by later Roman historians as the Severan Wall. (This led to later scholars like Bede mistaking references to the Antonine Wall for ones to Hadrian's Wall.)
In medieval histories, such as the chronicles of John of Fordun, the wall is called Gryme's Dyke. Fordun says that the name came from the grandfather of the imaginary King Eugenius, son of Farquahar. This was corrupted into Graham's Dyke, a name still found in Bo'ness at the wall's eastern end and then linked with Clan Graham. This name is the same one found as Grim's Ditch several times in England in connection with early ramparts. Grim is presumed to be a byname for Odin or Wodan, who might be credited with the wish to build earthworks in unreasonably short periods of time. By antiquaries, it is usually called the Wall of Pius or the Antonine Vallum, after the emperor Antoninus Pius, in whose reign it was constructed. In a Scottish context, Grim is also found as a variant of the name Giric, a name borne by an obscure King Giric Mac D'ungail of the late 9th century, to whom many great victories were attributed in medieval times.
The Antonine Wall is a stone and turf fortification, built by the Romans across what is now the central belt of Scotland and is also known as the Clyde-Forth frontier line. Although most of the wall has been destroyed over time, sections of the wall can still be seen.
Construction of the Antonine Wall began in 138 AD, during the reign of Antoninus Pius, by Quintus Lollius Urbicus and was completed in 142 AD. The wall was intended to replace Hadrian's Wall 160 km (100 miles) to the south, as the frontier of Britannia, but while the Romans did establish temporary forts and camps north of the wall, they did not conquer the Caledonians, and the Antonine Wall suffered many attacks. The Romans called the land north of the wall Caledonia, though in some contexts the term may mean the area north of Hadrian's Wall.
The Antonine Wall was inferior to Hadrian's Wall in terms of scale and construction, but it was completed in only 4 years at the northern edge of the Roman empire in what they perceived as a cold and hostile land. The wall was typically an earth bank, about four metres (13 feet) high, with a wide ditch on the north side, and a military way or road on the south. The Romans initially planned to build forts every six miles, but this was soon revised to every two miles, resulting in a total of 19 forts along the wall. The best preserved, but also one of the smallest forts is Rough Castle Fort.
The wall was abandoned after only twenty years, when the Roman legions withdrew to Hadrian's Wall in 162 AD (although there is evidence to suggest that they left the wall in 158/60 AD but its reliability is unclear), and over time reached an accommodation with the Brythonic tribes of the area who they fostered as the buffer states which would later become "The Old North". After a series of attacks in 197 AD, Emperor Septimius Severus arrived in Scotland in 208 AD to secure the frontier, and repaired parts of the wall. Although this re-occupation only lasted a few years, the wall is sometimes referred to by later Roman historians as the Severan Wall. (This led to later scholars like Bede mistaking references to the Antonine Wall for ones to Hadrian's Wall.)
In medieval histories, such as the chronicles of John of Fordun, the wall is called Gryme's Dyke. Fordun says that the name came from the grandfather of the imaginary King Eugenius, son of Farquahar. This was corrupted into Graham's Dyke, a name still found in Bo'ness at the wall's eastern end and then linked with Clan Graham. This name is the same one found as Grim's Ditch several times in England in connection with early ramparts. Grim is presumed to be a byname for Odin or Wodan, who might be credited with the wish to build earthworks in unreasonably short periods of time. By antiquaries, it is usually called the Wall of Pius or the Antonine Vallum, after the emperor Antoninus Pius, in whose reign it was constructed. In a Scottish context, Grim is also found as a variant of the name Giric, a name borne by an obscure King Giric Mac D'ungail of the late 9th century, to whom many great victories were attributed in medieval times.
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Answer 1) Damn, that's how I do my secret Christmas cards.bfoust wrote:The cover of Metallica's Load album was created using a mixture of semen and bovine blood mixed between sheets of plexiglass. .
Answer 2) Lars only had enough underwear-scrapings for the one album cover, luckily, that was enough.
Answer 3) If they added poo, they could have gotten a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Answer 4) That may be how they make them gay album covers in San Francisco, but around here we use 100% American pork blood, from certified heterosexual pigs. Take that, yins cawmmie faygits!
Answer 5) At what point do you ask, "What if we mix jissum and animal blood?"
-------->JMS