Amazing, eh? That’s a farm kid from Maine!
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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:59 am
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: U.S. Military Stuff
- Replies: 77
- Views: 14132
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:06 am
- Forum: Arts, Music, Photography, and stuff like that
- Topic: Musical Theatre Including Opera
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3745
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Weather Alerts
- Replies: 2430
- Views: 285490
Weather Alerts
Fun week in Maine. Big ice storm on Saturday left 220,000 customers without power. Considering there’s only 570,000 households in the state, it’s a Big Deal. Trees and wires down everywhere. At the height of the storm, friends were reporting trees exploding. Local Facebook said exploding transformer...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:40 am
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Hijack This Thread
- Replies: 6970
- Views: 583028
Hijack This Thread
Thanks so much for posting this! I probably never would have run across it. This kid looks like he's 12. And I love the music from Succession - great choice. He just floats through the air...it looks effortless, even in the slo mo. Did someone check to make sure he's not 3D AI? I’d believe advanced...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:23 am
- Forum: Law and Lawsuits
- Topic: Hotel Guest “Owns” Hotel: NYT
- Replies: 0
- Views: 89
Hotel Guest “Owns” Hotel: NYT
Stay the night, own the hotel, blame the Moonies, bewilder the courts. The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave Mickey Barreto’s five-year stay cost him only $200.57. Now it might cost him his freedom. On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New Yorker Hotel. He was assign...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Cats!
- Replies: 1256
- Views: 162804
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Hijack This Thread
- Replies: 6970
- Views: 583028
Hijack This Thread
I’m not into figure skating, but this men’s free skate performance is astonishing. Highest score in the sport’s history, insanely difficult, and powerful. Love it.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:09 pm
- Forum: Arts, Music, Photography, and stuff like that
- Topic: Musical Theatre Including Opera
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3745
Musical Theatre Including Opera
For those in the other Portland, the one in Oregon, the Portland State University’s Opera program is putting on The Merry Widow. Starring my adopted godchild and soon to be famous March Steiger. April 19-28. https://www.pdx.edu/music-theater/merry-widow I might fly out to attend, depends on Things. ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Weird Houses, etc.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 816
Weird Houses, etc.
We once were the first people to tour a house in the precise neighborhood we were looking in. Close to stores, train, good size yard, on paper looked like a dream. The listing came into our gung-ho agent’s office and she had us there within an hour. Was a nightmare. Note — We don’t do fixer-uppers. ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: It sucks growing old
- Replies: 1200
- Views: 272753
It sucks growing old
Condolences and thoughts.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: The View From Maybelot
- Replies: 365
- Views: 59394
The View From Maybelot
That’s utterly amazing.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Fire!
- Replies: 622
- Views: 79089
Fire!
Big hugs from the W’s. So much work you guys put into the Maybelots. Fortunately, one of you has disaster recovery experience.
Sending good vibes and weather requests.
Sending good vibes and weather requests.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:43 pm
- Forum: U.S. Culture and Media
- Topic: Parents Acting Badly
- Replies: 3
- Views: 133
Parents Acting Badly
Provo couple charged after alleged rape of their 15-year-old daughter, police say The girl’s mother and stepfather allegedly decided it was “safer” for the girl to experience “sexual things” with them instead of strangers, according to police documents. A Provo couple was charged Monday after their...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: Foreign Countries and Culture
- Topic: UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland
- Replies: 1065
- Views: 75293
UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland
King Chuck :-o :fingerwag: :nope: Never never never "Chuck", that's purely American, not used in the Old Country. Either Charlie or Chas (rhymes with jazz, based on an old convention of abbreviating given names on signs and in documents, in this case Charles–>Cha s ). Chuckles.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: Foreign Countries and Culture
- Topic: UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland
- Replies: 1065
- Views: 75293
UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland
Ya, once it became obvious the Photo was altered the Press would have pulled it. No sinister vampire overlord machinations needed. Welllllll… not pulled it in the way intended, rather than disappearing the shopped photo gained massive exposure and appeared on more front pages. A corollary of Streis...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:54 pm
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Today In History
- Replies: 443
- Views: 86425
Today In History
Elizabeth Smart Marks 21st Anniversary of Kidnapping Rescue: ‘Always Be a Reminder That Miracles Happen’ The activist and commentator, 36, who was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City at the age of 14 in June 2002, shared a TikTok video on Tuesday to mark the date of her rescue. “For those of y...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: On Death and Dying
- Replies: 2
- Views: 85
On Death and Dying
Very profound article about end of life moments. Many of us are at the age where our parents, spouses, and friends are at the ends of their lives. :oldlady: I’ve been thinking about this transition for a while. What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living Researchers are documenting a phenomenon that...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Rest in Peace - Friends of The Fogbow
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2615
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Patagoniagirl
- Replies: 68
- Views: 1969
Patagoniagirl
BTW - Chris says he and his mom shared politics. He is currently wearing this t-shirt, which I’m sure PG approved of.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Patagoniagirl
- Replies: 68
- Views: 1969
Patagoniagirl
I spoke with her son Chris today. He said PG loved Fogbow and the boogle and spoke of us many times. PG was born in Germany as a military brat. She joined the Michigan National Guard as a clerk and hated it, but subsequently joined the army and chose Germany as her posting. They assigned her to tank...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:45 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Patagoniagirl
- Replies: 68
- Views: 1969
Patagoniagirl
PatagoniaGirl passed away peacefully on Wednesday. More details to come.
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 7:17 pm
- Forum: US President
- Topic: Trump 14th Amendment Eligibility Cases
- Replies: 168
- Views: 149356
Trump 14th Amendment Eligibility Cases
Bwahahaha
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 4:28 am
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Cats!
- Replies: 1256
- Views: 162804
Cats!
Tricksy being twisty
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:33 pm
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: What's your ancestry and other genealogy stuff
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2156
What's your ancestry and other genealogy stuff
One of my father’s cousins was a very prominent historian in North Carolina. She did the family tree going back to the 1600s in England. She wrote books about the part of NC the family was from as well as civil war histories and local ghost lore. She inserted various family stories in her histories....
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:58 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Bill_G, retired, affluence of effluent, and errata
- Replies: 636
- Views: 240913