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I wanna visit the Faroes just to see that underwater tunnel with the three way roundabout.

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Hospital socks rule! I always save mine. No, not as trophies; to wear.

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Thank you! That was driving me nuts!

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And I suppose you could possibly take communion several times a week, once a day or even more; at 2 communions a day the time would be cut to about 412 years if I did the arithmetic right.

Dave Empey @daveempey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Google says a communion wafer weighs 1/4 gram; supposing Jesus weighed about 75kg then it would take 75,000/0.25 =300,000 communions to consume Jesus‘ weight in wafers, which would take 300,000/52 weeks per year =5,770 years. Ofc this doesn’t account for the wine.

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Not purgatory. You eventually get out of purgatory.

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Types of periodic tables - Wikipedia

oh man, have I got a periodic table for you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_o...

en.wikipedia.org

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There's a like 5-second Robot Chicken sketch about that idea: doctor about to give little kid a shot, kid presents an apple, doctor hisses and cringes away.

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As H. Beam Piper put it, English is "The result of the efforts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids in the [Eleventh] Century, and no more legitimate than any of the other results."

CaliguLard is good. (Or “goood” as my fat thumbs would put it.)

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Dave Empey @daveempey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I can't speak for Ryan Cooper but I don't know what that means. Are you saying he was better than LBJ? Worse? In what respects?

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You knew one thing more than the lady, which made you an expert.

Dave Empey @daveempey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hmm. If Belarus doesn’t have enough potash of their own to sell to America, maybe they can buy some from somewhere else? I hear Canada may have some.

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Dave Empey @daveempey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A closer version comes from testimony before Congress on June 8, 1970, by Bernard F. Hillenbrand, who attributed to "another Irishman" the "philosophy" that "you can depend on Americans to do the right thing when they have exhausted every other possibility."

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Dave Empey @daveempey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The oldest version of the line QuoteInvestigator.com found is from an Israeli diplomat named Abba Eban who was quoted by the NYT in March '67 as saying “Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources.” quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/e...

quoteinvestigator.com

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Dave Empey @daveempey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whoa! Heater looks to be my housemate’s cat’s long-lost twin sibling

My housemate‘s cat once bit me painfully hard (though in fairness not hard enough to pierce the skin) so I yelled “owww!” and shoved him away. Now when he bites it’s the softest gentlest nibble. So either he didn’t like getting yelled at and shoved, or he’s sorry he hurt me.

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💯% would watch. With Sigourney Weaver as Mother Superior.

Well I hope you can wear the beekeeper costume b/c that is ka-reepy-with-a-capital-k.

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Time for a constitutional amendment making people named Madiba eligible to be Prez?

Dave Empey @daveempey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I’m not satisfied by a mere “rebuke”. I want him (and all of his corrupt stupid hateful toadies) to be PUNISHED. Ceterum, Factio Republicana delenda est.

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Accent? What accent? He just talks normally.😝 —Signed, 30 years in SC

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Dave Empey @daveempey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've heard a lot of people thought Swift's "Modest Proposal" was serious.

Bring back the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms!

Not to defend Ellison, but what kind of track record does Paramount (or any other production company) have at predicting movie success? Is it better than flipping a coin?

My fear is that red states would leave the compact right away if that would get a Republican elected.

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Can I just say thank you for using punctuation? I get so tired of post that go like "the column has a real well I just started thinking about this five minutes ago here are my expert insights sensibility."

Preparing well in advance is a good policy, I'd say. 😜