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Your toenails still grow when you buy the farm.
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The reason some people are allergic to coffee is,because of the dried dead cockroaches mixed in with the beans at time of harvest.
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Sorry to burst the long time "fact", but your hair and nails actually don't grow after death
SnopesHere is one that many of you probably know but if you forget if the eegs in your fridge are hard boiled or raw then spin it on a flat surface. If it wobbles, it’s raw. If it spins easily, it’s hard boiled. Also a fresh egg will sink when placed in water, and a stale one will float to the top!
Mason jars and bale top jars, mason jars and bale top jars.... that is all!
"There’s truth in the statement that pipe tobacco will never be any less expensive than it is today, so think of your cellar as a cost averaged investment" - G.L. PeasePosted 1 year ago # -
Bubbadrier wrote:
Sorry to burst the long time "fact", but your hair and nails actually don't grow after death
I went to embalming school until heavy drinking and money problems got in the way before I could pass the board. I still plan on finishing.
The misconceptions don't stop there.
For some reason people assume that in cremation, the bones burn too...nope. People think the gauge of steel on the casket is important; the only thing keeping them from getting crushed is the vault. They think they'll be six feet under, in my state it's around four, some states are less. Most of all, they think that any of it matters beyond a few days after they're gone. It's really just cosmetic stuff to help the grieving.
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bubbadreier said "Sorry to burst the long time "fact", but your hair and nails actually don't grow after death.
Thanks for clarifying that.I believed it all these years because of an old friend that prepared dead bodies for funerals.She said at times with open caskets,it was common to cut the nails again just before the funeral because the nails had regrown since death.
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I would like to know more about what they do in the morg with dead bodies.
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Bubble gum does not take years to digest. It usually comes out within the next bowel movement.
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So onizuka , you are saying it all works out in the end?
If at first you don't succeed you are running about average.Posted 1 year ago # -
Lol. It will work itself out.
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That Im fat!!!
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Glass is stronger than steel . But it can not handle shock loads . Honey does not spoil .
“There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.”Posted 1 year ago # -
Hot glass looks EXACTLY like cold glass (From my old chem prof )
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Well dudley that is kinda wrong also. When a body is put in the retort and they start it up the process takes about 3 hrs and the bones are for a better term burned. They gentlemen operationg the retort does have to move them around a bit but they also break down to a fine white ash after a bit of time and help.
Also this is very weird, Dudley and I share the same birthday, same year, and same job ambition. I will have to ask my mother if I have a twin she got rid of or if I was adopted.
Why does it seem that todays youth has added lead paintchips to their daily diet!?!Posted 1 year ago # -
Did you know:
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.The longest war in British history started when the Dutch declared war on the Royalist held Scilly Isles in 1651, during the English Civil War and, due to an administrative error, forgot to conclude a peace treaty until the mistake was discovered in 1986.
Another long war took place between Russia and Berwick on Tweed. Queen Victoria, in formally declaring the Crimean War in 1853, did so in the names of England, Scotland, Ireland and Berwick on Tweed, a town that, at the time, was in dispute between England and Scotland. The peace treaty of 1856 was concluded between England, Scotland and Ireland, leaving Berwick Town at war with Russia. A formal peace treaty was signed in 1966 between the mayor of Berwick and the Soviet ambassador, after which the mayor, Mr Robert Knox, told his Excellency the ambassador that “The Russian people can now sleep peaceably in their beds!”
"A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth." - C.S. LewisPosted 1 year ago # -
Back to chewing gum. The main ingredient is latex. The powder on top of the gum is not sugar; it is talc (to keep the gum from sticking to the wrapper).
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excav8tor----I love hearing about History,and I did not know that.
Also,is there a mathematical equation for how much a body will weigh after the burning in relation to the weight before death?Or are there too many variables?
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After I "buy the farm," what do I care if my toenails grow? As long as I have a pipe and tobacco to take with me. I won't need matches.
I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.Posted 1 year ago # -
LOL Chuck. Me too, and we'll always have a poker near by.
Pics of my pipes & stuff: http://photobucket.com/menckenite Posted 1 year ago # -
Did you know: If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Somebody pass those pickled eggs. I have a hankering to go to N.Korea in a few years.
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To be honest Earnest the variables are to great to get to the exact second. It does have to do with body type and mass, it also has to do with the external enviroment as well (humidity and such). Saying that, if you are fat you can start a fire in the retort and do large amount damage do to the oils in your fat.
The intresting thing about this profession is that there is no one way to get the same end result. You will meet some that will use one method and the next guy will do it totally differnt.
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LOL..... very true
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Did you know that whenever you post in the forums that I can see your ip address?
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Did you know,I would like to know,if there is anything we don't know,about Pipes and Tobacco.
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Did you know that whenever you post in the forums that I can see your ip address?
Of course... You are
myour Big Brother!Posted 1 year ago # -
Did you know...
That since time slows down when you travel faster, and the ultimate speed limit is the speed of light at which time essentially stops, and photons travel at the speed of light, the light from the sun takes 8 minutes to get to Earth by our clocks, but from the point of view of the photons themselves, no time elapses on the trip.
By the same token, people talk about black holes all the time as singularities: a star crushed down to zero size. Yet, due to the relativistic effects of being in such a grand gravity well, it has been calculated that the universe is not old enough to have allowed a singularity to fully form yet. They're collapsing, but getting slower and slower all the time from our point of view.
Some physics geekery for you. That should pull the closet physicists out and into the discussion!
Simon
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Some physics geekery for you. That should pull the closet physicists out and into the discussion!
I'm not in your league Classic, but I do read the Scitech section of Foxnews.com on a daily basis.
One new theory concerning "Black Holes" suggests the old science fiction movie The Black Hole may be premised on what could turn out to be science fact. The idea that "Black Holes" could be used to travel to parallel universes, may be theoretically possible.
So, I guess the old adage "What goes around, comes around" may be true on several levels.
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I shan't debate the merits of having one's cosmology education supplied by Fox News.
... because there is a TON of stuff we just don't know. And until someone effectively explains a lot of the facts that might add up to the Black Hole = gateway to parallel universe theory, that theory has the scientific right to exist and be disproven. But I draw the line at giant red robots
Exactly how much we do and don't know are summed up pretty well in the book Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Worth a read, but not if you don't have a decent grounding in the basics of cosmology.
Simon
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Actually,classicgeek,I did know that.Although you explained it with much fewer words then I ever could.
I posted a week or two ago under "What are you reading",and my response was "Einsteins theory of Relativity"
Somewhere before or after that I had learned what you wrote in your post.Ya,cool stuff.
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I dropped out of cosmology school... just couldn't handle the sideburns class.
No matter how much I tried, I just couldn't keep their ears on straight.
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I am still trying to get over the idea that an eclipse ISN'T a monster eating the sun!
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"I am still trying to get over the idea that an eclipse ISN'T a monster eating the sun!"
-one half bottle J.D.
-two Perks
-325mgs AspirinThat should clean you up in time for last call at the local Pub.
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I'm sorry classic.... if I look at the bottom of my bowl I can see a black hole. Guess I'll have to fill it with a couple of grams of tobacco to sort that Physics quandry out!!!
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If you had a sphere as big as the Earth, and a rope was wrapped closely around its equator,
you would only need to splice-in an additional 3.14 feet of rope to create enough slack
to raise it 6 inches above the surface throughout its circumference.If the sphere were only as large as a basketball, you would still need 3.14 feet of rope
to produce the same amount of slack.I find myself sitting idly on the line dividing past and future,
as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- ThoreauPosted 1 year ago # -
I did not know that.And as I love mathematics,I just made a formula that,and it said you are 100% correct.
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@cortezattic I also thought you were full of it on that one, so I pulled out the calculator, too. That really blew me away.
Simon
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The powder on top of the gum is not sugar; it is talc (to keep the gum from sticking to the wrapper).
Hey Papipeguy,
Hate to step in your gum, but that powder on chewing is calcium carbonate not hydrated magnesium silicate. It is mined in Sylacauga Alabama.
It is the only source of eatable marble in the world. My wife's cousins have been working in those mines for generations. It is also the source of the whitest marble in the world. If you don't believe that just drive your black vehicle through those areas and you'll see.....Posted 1 year ago # -
Can you buy talc in a jar for people that have dentures?
They could just dip there dentures in the talc once in a while.
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In NY:
-the penalty for jumping off a building is death.
-people riding in elevators may not talk to anyone and must keep their arms folded and facing the door
-women may go topless in public as long as they are not using it for business purposes but...
-women may not wear "body hugging" clothing outside
-It is illegal for people to greet eachother by "putting one's thumb to the nose and wiggling the fingers"Posted 1 year ago # -
Very interesting.I did not know that.
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In CT adultry is still punishable by death.
Gotta love the old blue lawsPosted 1 year ago # -
But wouldn't that punishment by death law give your career more work in the morg duncan?
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It would but I am in NJ, and you can do the worst things posible and get a slap on the wrist here. This state is so ass backwards.
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I went to Westfield, NJ many times working on a big pipe organ. They told us to go East to a motel they mentioned, and we got 5 miles East of Westfield and turned around...scared us big time...it got really bad, really quick.
Marry the right person, this one decision will determine 90% of your happiness.
Does a culture based on seperation and competition, of scientific sophistication and mideval religion, offer happiness even as it ravishes the Earth that sustains it?Posted 1 year ago # -
That is the nice thing about Jersey, if you don't like the neighborhood travel 10 min and be in a totally different tax bracket.
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Addressing the Poker thing......
Did you know that I have had 15 Royal Flushes in live games?
Side note: Two were back to back.
Edit: odds of getting a Royal Flush 649740 : 1
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ptlpkr,
either you play a LOT of poker, or you're REALLY lucky!Did you know that you can't touch your elbow with your tongue?
(How many of you tried to?)
-Jason
unclearthur on high nicotine blends:
A few will leave you wandering around wondering who you are .Posted 1 year ago # -
Hey Lordnoble,
I have played poker for many years.
I picked up number 15 last year at the usual "men behaving badly night".
I haven't played too much recently, but I do play a lot of online tourneys.
I generally finish in the top 20 out of 3 to 5,000 online.
Also, I like to go over to Mississippi and play $200 tourneys.
I always pay for the weekend with my winnings.
Best show was 3rd out of 500.... paid for a month in Gulf Shores.
In a (few) words I'm sneaky, and very patient.As for the last factoid..... Who would want to lick their elbow?
Edit: The most important "house" rule..... Deal to left.... Fart to the right.
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