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In a State where 80,000 people are at or below poverty level (KY) they voted yesterday to retain Mitch McConnell. (slow clap) Way to vote against your own self-interests, guys...let me know how that works out for you...again.
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I carried a pocket watch for a long time. I remember those pockets.

The word lady is an old Saxon word meaning bread giver. It came from way back when women gave loaves of bread to the poor. So good morning all you bread givers out there. :wink:
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Bighuey wrote:I carried a pocket watch for a long time. I remember those pockets.

The word lady is an old Saxon word meaning bread giver. It came from way back when women gave loaves of bread to the poor. So good morning all you bread givers out there. :wink:
Really? Learn something new everyday :)

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Cherophobia is a fear of fun. None of that on here that I can see, thankfully! :D
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Did you know Cats have the same sense of internal clock that we have...and DST seems to have completely befuddled Tucker. He now thinks breakfast is at 4 AM. And tips on how to reset a cat?
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Did you know that apparently "studies show" that a teenagers body clock is an hour behind an adult which explains why they want to stay up late and lie on in the morning.
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Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone.
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Condoleezza Rice who has been studying the piano since age 15, performed for the Queen w/the London Philharmonic Orchestra...
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he originally intended it for hearing impaired people.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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The French in WWII were referred to as Frogs because of their enjoyment of eating the little hoppers...
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That makes sense.

Where giving someone the finger came from comes from one of the wars the English had with the French a few hundred years ago. The English had crossbows, they were one of the deadliest weapons at that time. The French said when they heard the English were going to invade one of their castles, they would capture all the crossbow archers and cut off their middle fingers, which was used to pull the trigger on a crossbow. The English heard that, so when they went into battle the crossbow archers held up their middle fingers at the French. So if someone gives you the finger, just holler at them "Wheres your crossbow, a-hole!!"
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Wow! That's definitely one that I did not know.

The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Did you know...all of Shakespeare’s plays were written within 22 years. @@
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