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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: jtksu on January 24, 2014, 11:23:15 PM
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This dude I know just got back from a few weeks in Europe. He's claiming that modern science has never been able to remake the cement (concrete?) used in ancient Rome.
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Someone posted in some other thread that Wyoming has 2 escalators. Seems bogus but who's got the time to google crap like that?
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Someone posted in some other thread that Wyoming has 2 escalators. Seems bogus but who's got the time to google crap like that?
I was more thinking things you could easily debunk but whatever. It's all good in the thread.
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"KU football is on the right track."
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I need a special lady friend
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A guy, supposedly from Tennessee, sat at my bar and told me for an hour how "bourbon" only applied to whiskeys made in Bourbon County and if you went to his state and called them bourbons when they weren't bourbons everyone would laugh at you.
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You cannot fold any piece of notebook paper, no matter the size, in half more than 7 times.
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I have a relative who lives in the mountains in West Virginia. He probably finished high school, but I'm not sure. He's a tree trimmer. Over Thanksgiving, we were discussing the show Gold Rush and how some claim owners required their percentage cut of the gold after each wash plant clean out (like that kick ass Russian dude) and how others just took theirs at the end of the season, all at once. After discussing some of the pros and cons of each, he says something like, "yeah, and the claim owner who takes his share after every clean out probably screws over the gold miners because it adds up to more that way." I did not bother to correct.
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JC "fired" frank.
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A guy, supposedly from Tennessee, sat at my bar and told me for an hour how "bourbon" only applied to whiskeys made in Bourbon County and if you went to his state and called them bourbons when they weren't bourbons everyone would laugh at you.
lol stevesie :thumbs:
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Someone posted in some other thread that Wyoming has 2 escalators. Seems bogus but who's got the time to google crap like that?
I do, and it's true. :D
That's 0.000003467 escalators per capita, according to the magazine's run of the 2012 population numbers.
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Someone posted in some other thread that Wyoming has 2 escalators. Seems bogus but who's got the time to google crap like that?
I do, and it's true. :D
That's 0.000003467 escalators per capita, according to the magazine's run of the 2012 population numbers.
At the time I posted that fun fact, I didn't even believe it :D Thanks lopakman.
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This dude I know just got back from a few weeks in Europe. He's claiming that modern science has never been able to remake the cement (concrete?) used in ancient Rome.
Dr. Seaman (sp?) said this same thing in my Appreciation of Architecture class.
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This dude I know just got back from a few weeks in Europe. He's claiming that modern science has never been able to remake the cement (concrete?) used in ancient Rome.
I've heard the same thing for mortar used on the great pyramids. Obviously Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).
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http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/06/04/Ancient-Roman-concrete-better-than-todays/3571370365287/ (http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/06/04/Ancient-Roman-concrete-better-than-todays/3571370365287/)
Roman tech really is pretty fascinating.