I couldn’t find a magic thread so here it is.
Yahoo’s been sending me things like this so maybe it’ll catch on (or not):
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Volkonski
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When I used to go to Antwerp regularly for business I sometimes had to stay over a weekend. I had time to walk about the city center. The cathedral had life-sized statues depicting its construction. A street performer would dress up like the statues and kneel amongst them with a hammer and a chisel. Next to him was a bowl for coins. Every time someone put a coin in the bowl he would strike the chisel with the hammer. Kids out with their parents for a weekend stroll loved it. I may even have dropped in a coin or two myself.
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Penn & Teller are awesome. I've had the opportunity to see them a few times in Vegas over the last twenty-some years. Once got a chance to do a meet & greet with them and Teller was out of character, totally talking it up. Freaked me out! Dunno why I just assumed he was always like that
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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I saw and heard him speaking on a show about Houdini not too long ago. Actually, two shows. I think in the first one, they shadowed his face when he spoke, but not in the second one.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
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As he did on an episode of Big Bang.
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The bitterest truth is more wholesome than the sweetest lie.
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now that's crude.
Let's see how the expert does it, first the traditional way that requires expierience, in the second half of the clip using a tool that lets anyone work easily on the lock.
To note, when done by this non-destructive way the lock mechanism can be reused with a new set of keys, the code for filing the key read from the tool. A locksmith could also repin the core to a matching key already owned.
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keith
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Fair warning: OGLAF comics are USUALLY filthy jokes! This one is clean, even SFW, but if you wander around the site it is your own darn fault!
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Has everybody heard about the bird?