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  1. J.T. Woody

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    *googles hyrax*
    "the hyrax is also called rock rabbit or dassie, is a small furry mammal. It looks like a robust, oversized guinea pig, or a rabbit with rounded ears and no tail. Hyraxes have stumpy toes with hoof-like nails; and four toes on each front foot and three on each back foot."





    (they are adorable! [​IMG]
     
  2. Iain Aschendale

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    Jeebus, that looks like the marmot that drank the Nazi scientist's super-soldier serum and is in the first stages of the Change.
     
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    So cute and cuddly, then? :p
     
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    Phoenix Sky Harbor officially closed terminal 2 on the 4th February 2020. It will be torn down, and planes will leave from terminal 3 or 4. Terminal 1 was torn down in 1991.
     
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    Apparently, in he medical field, the big toe is also referred to as the great toe.
     
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    Wikipedia describes them as well-furred and rotund:supergrin:
     
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    blob fish are only blobby out of the water. at their natural depth, they look like normal fish
     
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    If you're a smoker, maybe not so useless, but.... wow. o_O

    Here are the latest cigarette prices in Australia:
    • a packet of 20 cigarettes costs $23.86
    • a packet of 25 cigarettes costs $29.48
    • a packet of 30 cigarettes costs $38.11
    • a packet of 35 cigarettes costs $41.95
    • a packet of 40 cigarettes costs $49.63
    • a packet of 50 cigarettes costs $53.95
    • RYO tobacco costs between $34.95 and $74.95
    https://www.aussieprices.com.au/cigarette-prices/
     
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    And Japan is debating a minimum $10/pack law. (¥1000, roughly the same at 107 to the dollar)
     
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    I mean... don't get me wrong... I just dropped a C-note at the dispensary, but with both supply and demand legalized, the cost is half of what it was in the mid 90's when I was at U.F. (America's "greenest" city five years in a row in High Times Magazine of the day), but I would have thought that the demand curve would drop off for cigarettes long before the prices they mention.

    Also, a C-note's worth of the devil's lettuce will last me almost a month. How long does a pack of reds last the average smoker?
     
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    I was a pack a day man at $2.50, but the rationale here is not to drop existing demand but to price tobacco out of the convenience range of young people. At 50¢ a pop they're less likely to be casually shared by the purchaser, and $10 is more than an hour's work at the convenient store or Mickey D's. Grandpa will keep burning his pension to support his habit, but dad will be the last generation to have picked it up.

    ETA: I teach university debate class, yo!
     
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    Yeah, I get that, but it just seems like... overkill. If I had to pay $100,000 USD for a Toyota Corolla as an incentive for me not to be loose with the lending of keys, I'd likely buy a Cannondale.
     
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    The ham and beans variety of military c-rations (canned field rations which preceded today's MREs) were known universally by those who had to eat them as 'beans and motherfuckers'. I'm not sure why.
     
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    4 dicks of death
    A United States Marine nickname for the beef links included with beans in certain Meals-Ready-To-Eat. It is Aptly named for their foul taste and similar appearance to male genitalia.
    1. I'll have the 4 dicks of death and the Marinated Mushroom sauce, please.
     
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    I remember those things. Still better than the omelette with cheese or the Tuna Noodle Casserole though. Even the Koreans knew better than to trade for those.
     
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    Yeah, my mom used to trade the ham and eggs in a can (Bloody Snot) for better things.
    There seems to always be that one weirdo who can eat anything. o_O
     
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    There are over 2300 marijuana stores in Oklahoma. The state contains 155 McDonald's locations.
     
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    But how many Taco Bells do they have?
     
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    That's not useless... that's a glorious fact! The whole country smells like weed! We are on the right track.
     
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    I found a word in a different language, stoel, that means both "chair" and "siege"???? How does a word develop that connection?
     
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