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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:20 pm

You guys. You guys. Especially you American guys. I found this Twitter thread with illustrations from a Japanese book from 1861 called Paintings for a Child from All Over the World about the founding of the USA.

Finally you can learn the *true* story of how George Washington was taught archery by the Goddess of America, or how John Adams summoned up an eagle to defeat the giant snake who ate his mother.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by gkscotty » Fri Nov 16, 2018 8:00 pm

Woah, history's coming alive!
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by Stretch_Dude » Sat Nov 17, 2018 1:47 pm

This is all completely accurate. We started the more widespread "historical facts" so that no one would know about our tiger-punching, snake-killing founding fathers and thus underestimate us.
I memorized "Holy Grail" really well
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by archonix » Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:48 pm

Fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. Since I'm convalescent (again) I figured I'd spend a bit of time actually working on this thing.

Bloody big it is.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Sat Dec 08, 2018 9:41 pm

Pretty photos! How many parsec does she make
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Post by SirMustapha » Sat Dec 08, 2018 9:50 pm

Oooh, looks impressive! Hope is helps you get better!
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by SirMustapha » Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:02 am

For whatever reason, I'm watching the 2017 Speed Chess final between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, and I'm positively delighted by the fact that the commentators refer to the knights as "ponies".

I'm doing this forever now.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Wed Dec 12, 2018 9:18 am

*LOL*

Heresy! Proper chess masters know that the name is "little horsey-headed ones."
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by archonix » Sat Dec 29, 2018 8:53 pm

Swedish Piano
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Sat Dec 29, 2018 9:34 pm

I'd love to bash out Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor on it, but I don't think it sounds well any more. Also I can't play the piano.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by SirMustapha » Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:51 pm

*eye twitch*




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Re: Random & Fun

Post by Stretch_Dude » Sun Dec 30, 2018 2:38 am

The strange part is that they started out trying to assemble a bookshelf.
I memorized "Holy Grail" really well
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Sun Dec 30, 2018 9:36 am

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@Fernie: If it's any consolation, it's outside a local art/culture type building, so it's intentional. I assume they used a piano that was already out of order.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Thu Jan 10, 2019 10:24 pm

Farmer Jones looked from the domestic pigs to the wild boars, from the wild boars to the domestic pigs, and he saw no difference at all.

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Re: Random & Fun

Post by gkscotty » Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:21 pm

What a nice lady.
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