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He was saying 35-40 mph on small rural roads.

>They could use a Japanese kei truck. I was hearing elsenet from someone who was planning to buy a Japanese kei truck until he borrowed one. Apparently with more than about 300 lb …

British Airways certainly made a profit from Concorde, which was operated by a separate division of the company. I don't know if (then state-owned) Air France did.

In the extended edition of Two Towers they show him in a flashback of Gondor retaking Osgiliath. It's not a particularly flattering portrayal- the military success is shown as belo…

FEHB plans would also have this incentive. I think at least historically Federal employees didn't switch employers as much (though job-hopping between agencies happens), but more i…

Got it in one!

My favorite diner is just off an Interstate exit in Connecticut. I'm pretty sure it opened after the Interstate highway was built. Whenever I'm in there, it seems busy. Part of the…

>a cop train https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e6/55/f9/e655f9c6ae124664ad5c...

As opposed to the story about the person who leaves their unwanted furniture outside with a sign reading "Free- Please Take". It sits there undisturbed for a week. Then they replac…

They do if you drive over a stinger (or perhaps a sufficiently large number of nails or other sharp objects).

AIUI a Catholic monk who is also an ordained priest is addressed as Father not Brother (certainly this is true of the Dominicans I've met). I think this is also true for Orthodox m…

Why would a flock of birds large enough to be ingested by both engines of a two-engined plane not also be large enough to be ingested by all four engines of a four-engined plane?

Of course William Tell was a crossbowman so could hold his bow at full draw for as long as he liked.

Reminds me of the Catholic friend who once told me that he had done IT support for every Catholic religious order with a presence in the city where he lived, except two. The Carthu…

How do IP addresses work with cell towers? The WiFi where I work doesn't allow personal devices to connect, but there's reasonable 5G.

>Not only does the system know exactly where you are at every moment, it knows who your friends are, what they are interested in, and who you are spending time with This actually m…

> London Zoo penguins were fed “slivers of cat meat dipped in cod-liver oil.” I'm fairly sure this is a mistake and is supposed to be "cat's meat"- in other words, cheap poor-quali…

>Posh = not from round here. Perhaps the best example of that is that, as one of the linked maps [0] says, both British people who rhyme "scone" with "gone" and those who rhyme it …

The big issue AIUI is die-cut cardboard. The vast majority of modern board games come with several sheets of it to punch out small pieces (think coins or victory point chips). Prod…

Rowing had the sliding rigger boat which was banned in international competition within a year of first being used. (In a normal racing rowing boat, the athlete sits on a sliding s…

Here's a museum catalogue entry [0] of a very similar object which the museum calls a fire mark. The Licensed Victuallers' Association was a mutual benefit society for pub landlord…

The same thing that serfdom has to do with monarchy. In other words, nothing.

Or to a slave in a Republic (whether that's the Confederacy, Rome or Athens).