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Thursday Quote: "The problem with having an open mind is that people insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
~Terry Pratchett
You can smell your own lungs, but your brain just filters it out.
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I avoid getting close enough (most of the time) to smell anyone else's lungs. *Wink*
Hippocrates, father of modern medicine, was able to diagnose diabetes (as far as knowing that a patient's trouble was being caused by excess sugar) by smelling the patient's breath and tasting the patient's --- uhm, ammonia-based liquid output. Even today, a diabetic in crisis often has sweet or fruity breath.
Does Amazon carry Antiperspirants or Deodorants for Lungs?
Elephants can purr just like cats.
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Yeah, but emptying thier litter box is a real pain in the... *Rolling*
🌖 HuntersMoon Author Icon - About 2:50 is what you want -

Great swords (the ones that need the use of both hands) were not medieval. They became a thing during the late 1500s, which is the Renaisssance,not the Middle Ages.
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And this is how my mind works, I read this interesting fact, and then I think, "Hey! This is cutting edge news." So sorry dragonwoman Author Icon
Sunday Word lunule(noun) [loo-nyool] 1. the white crescent or semicircle found at the base of a fingernail. 2. One of a pair of parentheses.
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Cool info if I ever get called to the game show Jeopardy *Laugh*
So, I was petting my dog and when I finished, I had a lunuleatick? That doesn't seem right... *FacePalm*
The world's largest tire producer by total number of tires made is....Lego!
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Hmm... Wonder how TIRED they are making them?🤔😂
I get very emotional over Legos. I cry whenever I think about them in quiet moments, see them in stores, and step on one in the floor.
Saturday Word: situs(noun) [sahy-tuhs]: 1. the place where a thing originates or is located, often an organ.2. The place where something is held to be located in law.
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When we would get drunk the sheriff would situs up in the jail.
By definition, this must be situs music... *Facepalm*
Thursday Quote: "One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."
~Bryant H. McGill
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Truth! Too often people only want to be heard instead of listening.
In medieval England and Scotland, public insult battles called "flyting" were held. People whoud insult each other in all kinds of funny and clever ways.
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So, some of Monty Python and the Holy Grail could be true?
Ichabod Crane-writing-reading. Author Icon - It's all true, isn't it?
We have that here in America too. It's called 'political debate.' Well. I'm not sure it's at all clever.
After Juan de Pareja was freed from slavery by Spanish painter and slave owner Diego Velazquez in the 1600's, he went on to become a painter.
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Another case of two for Juan... *FacePalm*
In medieval England, children were given a beating on December 28th, on the day that it was believed that King Herod ordered the killing of all Jewish babies under two years old in the hope of killing the King that might usurp him.
Sunday Word: quire (noun) [kwahyr]: two dozen sheets of paper.
The writer placed a quire into her printer before printing out her work.
Saturday Word: Contronym: a word that can mean one thing or the exact opposite. Example: cleave can mean to adhere or to divide.
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Hmmmm. I wonder if Tarrif is a contronym... *Rolling*
The Great Wall of China didn't actually work. It never effectively kept invaders out of China.
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Neither did the Great Wall of America... *Rolling*
Little known fact: it was observed in the 18th century that the wall was not doing what it was intended to do, so it was renamed The Not-So-Great Wall of China.
         I've read some books about the Great Wall, and Bren & I watch an occasional documentary about it. There are many misconceptions about it. For instance, it is not visible from space and has not been seen by astronauts.
         Even so, it's an amazing series of structures which required uncountable man-hours of (mostly slave) labour to build.
         The Chinese people are well-known for their reverence for their ancestors. The Great Wall is a unique symbol of China, built by those revered ancestors. The Chinese people of today may look to it with pride as an unsurpassed cultural icon.
Thursday Quote: "To settle an arguement, think of what is right, not who is right."
~Author Unknown.
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It's still me. *Bigsmile*
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