Description:
The brother Douglas Adams never talks about.
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Out of Left Field -- phrase origin
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Today's fun fact? An unusual idea would be "something out of left field" in American idiom. This is obviously a baseball-based expression, but why left field? Why not use center field, which is usually farther out? [link]... more »
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Subject Line Serendipity
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Little rude noises AFCA cheap imitation Summary for 16-May-08 Let's talk to Hitler Ghastly Songs Ghastly Songs Looking for a punch line Looking for a punch line The Government War On Porn Neil Young redux Payday Lending Part Deux Payday Lending Part Deux Empowerment in Old Age
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Iran
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Looking at the last 30 years for guidance (since 1977 or so), what have we learned about what might or not work in foreign relations with Iran? Are they a huge threat, or do they want a nuclear weapon to have and hold, being surrounded by nuclear powers? (Pakistan, India, China, Russia, Israel, and the more distant but still close at hand U.S.)... more »
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Thermosats
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Here's some tech I didn't know about. Big rig reefers temp-monitored by satellite. [link]
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Guilty Pleasure Songs
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Yeah, yeah; undoubtedly done before, but a complementary counterpart to "Ghastly Songs". I'll start: I have a weakness for "Unbreak my heart", even if (or maybe because...) it's a song-writer's literary conceit. Works for me.
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Payday Lending Part Deux
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I don't think we've got anyone from Ohio on this group, do we? The Ohio Senate voted Weds to, effectively, put payday lenders out of business. To my company, that means we'll be closing down approximately 289 stores and terminating app 1156 people. It also means that Ohio vendors will lose the $15 million dollars we pay in rent, utilities,... more »
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Super Delegate votes
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"Just when we thought this superdelegate stuff couldn’t get any weirder, Indiana Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D), who had told NBC’s Mike Viqueira after the Indiana primary that he’d cast his superdelegate vote for Clinton because she won his district, revealed that he actually voted in the PRIMARY for Obama. He said he’s still going to... more »
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