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  1. Homer Potvin

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    Dear Lord... you ate it raw?
     
    Homer Potvin, Sep 22, 2017
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    or oven roasted with cheese and wrapped in bacon .... no good for veggies though unless you use disgusting pretend bacon
     
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    ... That's not what you were talking about?
     
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    who eats asparagus raw ? (apart from simpson it seems)
     
    big soft moose, Sep 22, 2017
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  5. Homer Potvin

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    The new thing is fried asparagus sticks:

    upload_2017-9-22_9-52-9.jpeg

    They're pretty good but usually lose out to fried brussel sprouts.
     
    Homer Potvin, Sep 22, 2017
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    I actually don't, but I didn't know that other people didn't either
     
    Simpson17866, Sep 22, 2017
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    Why would anyone do that? It'd be like eating a pencil.
     
    Spencer1990, Sep 22, 2017
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    When bed bugs are disturbed, they release a chemical that smells like cilantro.
     
    Sclavus, Sep 22, 2017
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    Yeah I don't eat potatoes raw either, or cabbage ;)
     
    big soft moose, Sep 22, 2017
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  10. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    To protect against incoming 105mm artillery fire, one must have two layers of wood beams, at least six inches in diameter, separated by three feet of packed earth, topped with sandbags. The maximum unsupported span of the covering is six feet, so to protect one squad, one needs thirty tons of engineering materials.

    Source: Hell in a Very Small Place, by Bernard Fall.
     
    Iain Aschendale, Sep 24, 2017
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    Stieg Larsson based The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo on what he thought Pippi Longstocking would be like as an adult.
     
    NobodySpecial, Sep 26, 2017
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    There was a mental illness in the Middle Ages known as the Glass Delusion where a person, among other symptoms, became convinced he or she was made of glass and would shatter if touched.
     
    Nightwraith17, Sep 26, 2017
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    The Dapper Hooligan, Sep 26, 2017
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    That is so painfully '90s!!
     
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  15. Iain Aschendale

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    A professional (someone who got paid) working for a major studio on a big-name movie looked at that and said "Yurp, looks great!"

    Wow.
     
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    I'm guessing it was supposed to be ironic
     
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    [Looks Heavenward] Please God, have somebody name a band Listerine Martini, and make the company who owns the Listerine trademark allow them to use it.... Oh, and have them be a really good band. Thank you, and Amen.

    KUDOS to you @Iain Aschendale!
     
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    I once played lead guitar in a band called Translucent Aardvark so anything is possible (we could have been the next Bon Jovi, if only we hadn't been crap).
     
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    Or you could have just called yourselves The Next Bon Jovi, and it wouldn't matter whether or not you were crap. You'd still be The Next Bon Jovi. ;)
     
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    Roald Dahl was working on a third Charlie Bucket book, but died before it was finished.
     
    NobodySpecial, Sep 27, 2017
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    In their defense, it was 1996 -- most people were still trying to figure out what "that internet thing" was all about, so I can forgive them for such a horrid design. :p

    Also, I need to urinate.
     
    Link the Writer, Sep 27, 2017
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    Bad web pages have that effect on some people
     
    NobodySpecial, Sep 27, 2017
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  23. NobodySpecial

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    William Makepeace Thackeray was Virginia Woolf's Great-Grandfather.
     
    NobodySpecial, Sep 27, 2017
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    Queen Elizabeth I, last Tudor monarch of England, died 416 years ago. It's fascinating how much technological advancement happened in the last 200 or so with industrialisation. If every member of your heritage lived a long life that's only five or six generations ago but it seems so long ago.
     
    Oscar Leigh, Sep 28, 2017
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    They put out Christmas stuff way too early where I'm at.

    Pretty useless fact but yesh.
     
    Moon, Sep 28, 2017
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