@groksocket & nutbastard -- I'll see if I can manage to attract some pee to my car without getting arrested for it. Talk about trip prep I've never had to do before....
I'm actually dropping off my car at Denver International Airport tomorrow morning. It'll just be there for the weekend, but ... wow, I've never had the opportunity to test a Neatorama story before.
Drake grad here from the early 1990s. Uf-da. It's actually a pretty good school, if one that normally flies under the radar. I'm curious to see how this works.
American living in the UK here. Squash seems to be sold warm, near the bottles of soda and other soft drinks. A wide variety of flavors are available, but HOLY COW do you need to water them down. I learned the hard way.
I do like the birdhouse ad. That's what I always assumed the inside of bird houses looked like, after all. They're not called "bird empty boxes," after all.
The lake that the fountain is on is right next to the Persian Gulf. It's not like this is set in the middle of nothing but sand for days. It becomes a lot more problematic if it's a freshwater fountain -- but is that less environmentally nuts than any of the other building they've been doing in Dubai?
I did it when I was a kid. Though it was a metal screen door, not a flagpole. And I was alone in the house, so I had to just brace myself and rip my tongue away from the metal. Ow. Lesson learned.
I was once standing in line behind two chatty young ladies, one of whom proclaimed that she planned to name her firstborn son "Orlando Legolas." I thought that was the worst possible name -- but now I realize I just hadn't thought it through enough. Egad.
I attended a MENSA lecture by a professor of physics who'd had a chance to physically study the Shroud decades ago, and (while I can't remember the details) he seemed pretty convinced that the carbon dating that had been done at that time (mid-1990s) didn't actually disprove that the Shroud could have been around in the early CE days.
I don't "believe" in the Shroud myself, but I know there are intelligent, educated people who do.
(I do love that the police felt the need to point out that they found no evidence of a vampire.)
I do like the birdhouse ad. That's what I always assumed the inside of bird houses looked like, after all. They're not called "bird empty boxes," after all.
I don't "believe" in the Shroud myself, but I know there are intelligent, educated people who do.