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I'll start and tell you something that I'll bet you don't know, but that I found out today.
If you are in the bathroom and need to wash your hands, but there is no soap, you can wash your hands with toothpaste. (my hands are minty-fresh!)
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Flavour-changing neutral currents do not exist at tree level in the Standard Model, but may be imitated by one-loop penguin diagrams. The existence of penguins was confirmed at BaBar in 1995.
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We are all spirit children of God, greatly beloved, and as such we each have a divine nature, unlimited potential, and are of infinite worth.
I just found out yesterday that every object is precious to Him as well, similar to the way that your favorite tree you used to climb as a child is precious to you, for instance, or maybe some trifle given to you by the one you love, which appears to the unknowing eye to be some inconsidered nothing, but is actually one of the keys of the universe, precious beyond jewels, do you know what I mean? Look around you. Every single object is beloved by Him in that same way only much much more so. It sort of made me look at the world with new eyes to realize that.
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The Ravenous Bug Blatter Beast of Traal thinks that if you can't see it, it can't see you. And I can go for weeks quoting only Douglas Adams.
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When a wheelchair goes out of control and rolls down a hill into a ditch full of water, face down, don't let go of the wheelchair YOU are holding so you can go help.
This might seem self-evident, but I learned today it is not.
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I'm so glad that I have an inadequate vacuum system.
I don't even know what a black recado is, but if I ever get one, I'll try feeding it to the heffalump I just caught.
SteveR, why do you think that I don't know Douglas Adams?
Do you think the Khan Army started out carrying rations of milk, and it just kind of turned to yogurt on the long march?
And Megan, I wear thick glasses, too, when I'm not wearing my contact lenses.
And I hadn't thought about every object being precious -- I was just getting my trash together to take to the curb, and I wonder if I should be feeling unappreciative.
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Eaquae Legit, I actually did already know that about the wheelchair, but it sounds like an interested story. Care to share?
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Okay, second hand, but I work with these folks so it's actually a bit better than second-hand.
Group from my support centre goes on an outing to an amusment park. Fairly large group, some in wheelchairs they can't push themselves, several with behavioural issues. One chair soemhow gets loose and rolls down a hill, splat, facedown in a ditch of water. The staff pushing another client's chair rushes to help, forgetting that gravity is a ahrd habit to break. THAT chairs goes rolling down the hill, splat, facedown in a ditch of water. Client #3 has a major meltdown in all the excitement, and needs to be restrained facedown on the grass all covered in goose crap. Client #4 starts running around and yelling. All par for the course as far as this place goes, except a concerned bystander calls 911. Those poor cops went first to the client in restraint, then to the one who is still running around and yelling a bit, and finally get directed to the guys in the ditch, who by now have been righted. Everyone makes the evening news.
But the part that gets me is I know these people, and these situations, and it doesn't seem very far-fetched at all. But at least I could tell you a story you didn't know before.
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Well! That is good to know! Sounds like quite a wild ride. Less of an amusement park trip and more like an abusement park trip.
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The staff have been on story-telling mode recently, and that is actually the least disturbing of them. For example, no one was naked, biting the tops off toothbrushes, or throwing barbeques around. Posts: 2849 | Registered: Feb 2002
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Since you asked, it wasn't milk that turned into yogurt. They carried yogurt because there was leftover product when they made cheese. This leftover they turned into yogurt.
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What the pro-shop needs is a ball-finder. It'd sell like hotcakes and cut-short all those hikes into the rough.
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THe definition of sport: An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
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Currently, I would consider competitive mountain climbing a sport. However, 4000 years ago were people racing up mountains? I can't say for certain, but I would imagine not. They were too busy looking for food.
quote:Originally posted by Parsimony: 4000 years ago were people racing up mountains? I can't say for certain, but I would imagine not. They were too busy looking for food. --ApostleRadio
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ESPN airs poker because it gets ratings, and ratings brings money.
Fine, a less contentious sports fact: Max Schmelling, the German heavyweight who boxed Joe Louis before WWII, fell out of favor with Hitler for hiding Jews in his home to keep them out of concentration camps.
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