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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2020 on: December 14, 2011, 01:44:03 PM »

It's interesting going through the 0% Fresh movies at Rotten Tomatoes and contrasting them.  Because I'd much rather watch Manos or Mars Needs Women than Jack and Jill or The Smurfs.

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2021 on: December 18, 2011, 12:15:08 PM »

I just learned about the Krampus, which, according to some regional legends, was a demon that accompanied Santa Claus and who would shove naughty children into a sack, tie them up in chains and drag back to his cave to eat.

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2022 on: December 18, 2011, 12:39:41 PM »

Those are some of the less nasty ones.  In some cultures he's a straight up Pedogoat.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2023 on: December 18, 2011, 12:55:38 PM »

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When the Krampus finds a particularly naughty child, it stuffs the child in its sack and carries the frightened child away to its lair, presumably to devour for its Christmas dinner.

Prrrrrresumably. :shifty:
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2024 on: December 18, 2011, 05:46:26 PM »

Go watch A Very Venture Christmas.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2025 on: December 19, 2011, 10:19:52 AM »

That they make double-breasted sweaters.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2026 on: December 19, 2011, 04:14:46 PM »

I already knew GI Joe and Transformers occurred in the same universe.  And I think Cannon or Roger or somebody told me COPS tied in too.

But I didn't know Jem, Inhumanoids, and Battle Beasts were in there too.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2027 on: December 19, 2011, 04:35:56 PM »

Now can they tie them into St. Elsewhere

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2028 on: December 19, 2011, 08:49:01 PM »

Donald Glover (of Community and Bro Rape fame) and Childish Gambino (of awesomely immature rap) are one in the same man.

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2029 on: December 21, 2011, 10:18:46 AM »

Today I learned that there's an invasive species of fish called the snakehead. They live in freshwater and eat every other kind of fish.

Hey Mongrel, do you think they could survive in Hamilton Harbour?
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2030 on: December 21, 2011, 11:12:31 AM »

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2031 on: December 24, 2011, 01:54:41 PM »

The original Micheal Myers mask was just a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2032 on: December 25, 2011, 09:31:19 PM »

"Tight Oil" and the Bakken Shale

Coles notes version: Tight oil is basically the petroleum equivalent of shale gas, which already carried the possibility of rewriting the world's energy supply balance. The most optimistic projections would have the US weaned entirely off non-North American oil sources by 2015. This is unlikely, but even low projections show the US may have found a very significant new domestic source of oil, which would go a long way toward stimulating the domestic economy and reducing trade imbalances.

When you boil it down, shale gas and shale oil are just the small pockets we would have ignored historically, because giant oil strikes were much easier to tap. So who know what the really long-term viability of this is. Could be boost for domestic production that lasts a mere 20 years, or it could last 100. The strikes are all collections of small pockets, so variability of finds is much wider.

The down sides here is that like shale gas, much (but not all) of this stuff has to be obtained through fracking, which carries the danger of earthquakes, ruined water tables, and having your oil well mistaken for a set for a sci-fi TV show.

This could get interesting (Thad, if this generates much discussion, feel free to move it to Death Panel land).
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2033 on: December 26, 2011, 08:14:11 AM »

Tight oil is the oil equivalent of licking the beer that dribbled on the floor.

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2034 on: December 26, 2011, 08:26:01 AM »

Tight oil: For when you want oil but don't want your water supply.

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2035 on: December 26, 2011, 08:56:43 AM »

Tight Oil: For when you want to make innuendo-based jokes about the petrochemicals industry.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2036 on: December 26, 2011, 04:59:26 PM »

Today I learned about Jesse H. Jones, the head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which helped bring America out of the Great Depression, and who was the second president of the Houston Chronicle. I learned about this from my Great Aunt Mildred, who is the widow of Frank E. Warren, the fourth president of the Houston Chronicle. She told me all about this as she showed me her autographed copy Jesse Jones' Fifty Billion Dollars: My Thirteen Years with the RFC, 1932-1945.

I also learned that my mom's cousin, Mildred's son, Richard Warren -- a prolific fashion photographer in New York -- that his daughter played Carnagie Hall.

... I also learned what it feels like to be the black sheep in your family.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2037 on: December 26, 2011, 05:08:23 PM »

I also learned that my mom's cousin, Richard Warren... his daughter played Carnagie Hall.

How did she get there?
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2038 on: December 26, 2011, 05:10:10 PM »

BY LIVING UP TO HER BLOODLINE
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2039 on: December 26, 2011, 05:14:08 PM »

Hey, someone's got to be stuck with the recessive genes, right?
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