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    Shevek replied to the thread Weird Time Zones.
    My province does not do daylight savings time. Where I live, solar noon is seldom before 1 PM anyway. Canada's weird one is in the...
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    Maybe we are missing the same gene. Baby monkeys will keep trying to hug an artificial mother that repeatedly pushes it away with...
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    Unfortunately, the determining factor here is not the good of society, but the possibility of profit and/or control.
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    There's a Far Side cartoon of a dog on a TV talk show. The host asks "So, how long have you been a talking dog?" The dog is looking at...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Post something Weird or Random.
    My friend who lives out in the sticks had his landlord voluntarily replace the wood stove in his kitchen with a bigger, better wood...
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    FWIW, I didn't feel any of that. Mother was around, with occasional contact for much longer, so it was a bit odd with her gone, but no...
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    Colin Fletcher wrote the Bible for Backpacking, and he relates that after a few years, he'd gotten pretty good at it, and was able to...
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    With an AS mother, our house felt like four polite roommates. I never heard or said "I love you" at home. I was given what they would...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Today I learned....
    Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who can be convincing actors for short events, like product returns, job interviews or Police...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Post something Weird or Random.
    I'd never heard of him, and I buy my vegetables in his home town. Asked about the over-representation of Canadian drivers in F1, one of...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Today I learned....
    It is curious that so many people value the opinions of actors when, by definition, an actor is good at fooling us into thinking they...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Post something Weird or Random.
    Well, the bootleggers were racing on horse ovals, so it wasn't too discreet. In the 50s, NASCAR star Jr. Johnson had to miss many races...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Post something Weird or Random.
    NASCAR had two roots. They started off running cars very close to stock to help sales, but there was also a long tradition of racing...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Post something Weird or Random.
    Curiously, NASCAR never ran Mustangs, Camaros, and Barracudas, continuing with the largest cars. Maybe they were just easier to see...
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    Shevek replied to the thread One of these days, Alice..
    I don't think it is commendable at all. It was all easy and attractive, not difficult. I can easily prepare my favourite dishes with a...
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