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Manufactured by Peel on the Isle of Man. There was also a one-seat microcar that's even smaller, the Peel P50, but it's not as retro-futuristic. Looks like it uses the same engine as the DKW Hummel 155. They're also pretty neat looking.
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They're taking the fathers to Isengard!
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If you've seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, you've seen Chicago's Von Steuben Day Parade.
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Surprised the sponsor didn't see this coming.
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True. At that point British America wasn't especially concerned with food preservation technology, just food in general, since the Starving Time was 1610. (I am resisting looking up which early Americans had that dictionary because I'm about to start heading home from vacation).
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This post is sus.
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According to my mother, we walked by Doc Rivers eating at an outside table at a restaurant. My dad and I never saw him.
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As you wish.
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And occasionally played for laughs/fridge brilliance like Ivan trying to make everyone think he's one of the failure modes.
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The word's earliest known appearance is in Randle Cotgrave's A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, published in 1611.
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Are there photographs of the interior? The organization of storage space in those was usually brilliant.
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The next wave of outlaw country will be folks refusing nominations in that category and leaving it to the pop stars with acoustic guitars.
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It also doesn't help when the records are from before standardized spelling. I was going through a French document from the early 1600s and had to read it out loud because the spellings made no sense but it still sounded (mostly) like modern French.
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Itty-bittiest of nitpicks - father, not grandfather. His grandfather was a draft-dodger, an illegal emigrant, and a pimp, but not a redlining slumlord like his father.
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On the positive side, maybe the hagiographic signage at First Manassas can finally be replaced with the honest truth that the Marines broke and ran, with the commandant noting it was the first time the Corps had turned its back to an enemy.
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Greenland withdrew from the EU on February 1, 1985.
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with a color out of space?
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Oh FFS my rep is on that list.
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Tarentino: your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter
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The Soviets had an early concept for a submarine that launched their knockoff V2 (SS-1 Scunner). Because of how it needed to be fuelled, launching one would have taken (IIRC) 90 minutes on the surface.
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You take your chances.
We take your eels.
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Me to a friend earlier today about an "examples of historic food" garden: Only three brassicas? Are they even trying?
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While it's not *as* decorated, I suspect the inspiration for the ballista front plates was the Cremona plate in Abb. D of Schramm's Die antiken Geschutze der Saalburg.
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Being a junior means even real names vary by whether a person knows my father or not.
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Do not tilt the goose.
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Ooh, homoiousia in the wild. Don't see that every day.
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Thought those were percentages for a moment until I read the header. Since it's per 1000, percentages would be one decimal to the left, so still nearly 10% for Egypt in 1914.
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Life on Bluesky is just one perpetual block party.
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I hate to interrupt your schadenfreude, but would you mind stepping away from the internet a bit more?
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AHEM
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A clear case of RICO.
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It must make things rather challenging when one's skirts are 90% the size of the carriage.
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Second political incident when it's revealed the position of driver is restricted to people named Greg because of the same misheard word.
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Drive it off the deck. It'll convert to a submarine real quick.
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Due to electrical by Lucas, the van won't be drivable at night or in the rain, something which will surely have no appreciable effect on its use in Britain.
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0-200 in 240 seconds? I see they're going for the sport model.
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They're the same room.
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Hopefully someday in the future we'll get a sketch with a bunch of "five Pals shocked silent" posts where the order of presentation keeps changing.
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I started him off with Consider Phlebas. I only own the first three novels (although I've read all of them except...uh...Excession, which I have somehow missed getting from the library). I wasn't going to start him with Use of Weapons or let him have my copy of Player of Games. 😁
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I did that to my father at Christmas with the Culture.
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Every day must be a wonder of mysteries to these people, because they have no understanding of cause and effect.
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Thank you for the reminder. I had it saved but hadn't pledged yet because I was waiting until I knew whether or not I'd be moving during the fulfillment period.
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The false hope being the dry cookies when you needed a pair of scissors.
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It's like Comic Sans had a child with Papyrus.
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They came up a little short.
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This one *seems* to have started when pollution and overharvesting were making lobsters more scarce and more expensive. One theory I saw is that it began as a "I remember when they were so common people refused to eat them" story and it snowballed from there.