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Happy end - removal of a leg cast in Pirogov Hospital

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 7 October 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link

There is a hole in the bottom of the koozie for suctioning

Shy Betting Mega Hit (sic), Monday, 8 October 2018 03:43 (five years ago) link

Weighing paper is often used when weighing solid, powdery substances on an analytical balance. By preventing the substance from being gunked up, it increases the precision of the measurement.

mick signals, Monday, 8 October 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link

Journalist Garance Franke-Ruta, writing for The Atlantic, described her in 2013 as a "lissome blonde".[4]

mookieproof, Thursday, 11 October 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link

They also stated that several Yoshi features were omitted, such as Yoshi vomiting water fed to him.[15]

ciderpress, Thursday, 11 October 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link

hard to believe no minnesotans have weighed in here

mookieproof, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link

let us not speak of them

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 12 October 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link

All 3DO games use the string iamaduck to pad out the disc.

adam the (abanana), Saturday, 13 October 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link

The 1969 special runs for approximately 52 minutes 37 seconds, while the 2010 documentary runs for approximately 70 minutes 54 seconds.

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 14 October 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link

Highest governing body Professional Disc Golf Association
Registered players 103,785 current[1]
Clubs Yes
Characteristics
Contact No
Team members Single competitors, doubles
Type Outdoor
Equipment Flying disc, consider bringing cash for some pay to play courses.
Presence
Olympic No
World Games 2001

coetzee.cx (wins), Monday, 15 October 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link

The new seal [of Durban, South Africa] contained a coat of arms without helmet or mantling that combined the coats of arms of Sir Benjamin D’Urban and Sir Benjamin Pine. An application was made to register the coat of arms with the College of Arms in 1906, but this application was rejected on grounds that the design implied that D’Urban and Pine were husband and wife.

anatol_merklich, Monday, 15 October 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link

The song is upbeat, describing in various ways how the singer will not be deterred or impeded in their goals, because they possess the quality of 'having the music' in them.

mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link

His Battlestar Galactica theme was featured prominently in the film Airplane II: The Sequel (1980).

dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 October 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link

According to an essay on the web site for The Biography Channel, in the 1970s, entertainment journalists did not investigate the private lives of performers who were best known as game show regulars.[29]

Freddy "Boom Boom" QAnon (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 25 October 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link

From the mid-1960s until 1980 Felix ran a record stall in Derby's Guildhall Market. Since 1981 Felix has been delivering ghost tours around Derby every Halloween.[2] He has also been campaigning during this time to set up an exhibition centre in Queen Street, Derby, at the old clockworks.[3][4] Felix is quoted as saying that there is "barely a corner [of Derby] which shouldn't have a blue plaque on it."[4] He hopes to use the now abandoned warehouse as an exhibition of Derby's past, both paranormal and otherwise.

the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 October 2018 08:15 (five years ago) link

Felix is quoted as saying

technically writing it into his own wikipedia entry counts as saying it

calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 27 October 2018 08:26 (five years ago) link

BINGO

the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 October 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link

Bach was dissatisfied with the standard of singers in the choir. He called one of them a "Zippel Fagottist" (weenie bassoon player).

mick signals, Thursday, 1 November 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link

"fagottist" is the half of that that means bassoon player, fortunately

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 1 November 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link

Bellomo is the son of Salvatore Bellomo. He is the double cousin of Genovese associate Liborio Thomas Bellomo; their fathers are brothers and their mothers are sisters. This has led law enforcement to confuse their identities on several occasions. In 1997, Liborio Thomas Bellomo swore in an affidavit that he was guilty of federal charges instead of Bellomo

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 November 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link

The song speaks of the mutual opening of hearts as being the only way to preserve a relationship once the partners have allowed themselves to grow apart. The lyrics acknowledge the fact that most relationships do not endure the test of time, yet still some are able to do so.

a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 November 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link

Rusty is a 76-year-old capo in 2004 when he first appears in the series, making his character born in 1928, in the Lupertazzi crime family, married to Gianna Millio. He is a capo that controls territory for the family in Brooklyn, New York and Queens, New York. The name Rusty is a pet name of Ruston or is a nickname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.

mick signals, Sunday, 4 November 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link

The word "duplex" is occasionally mispronounced with the last letter silent due to multiple misperceptions: (1) that the English word came from French, (2) that an English word naturalized from French needs to retain the French pronunciation, and (3) that the terminal -x would be silent in French. But (1) this English word came straight from educated English speakers' use of Latin (not by way of French), (2) most English words that came from French words use naturalized pronunciation, and (3) the French pronunciation of the French cognate ends in /ɛks/ anyway.

silverfish, Monday, 12 November 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link

what? people call it like... a dupleh? do they go see a movie at the cinepleh? is brock lesnar the master of the german supleh?

vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link

never heard this in my life, maybe you are thinking of the duplass brothers

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link

It's a compleh issue.

pplains, Monday, 12 November 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link

Surely nobody has ever said “dupley”

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link

In Olympic and amateur wrestling there exists a move called a souplex, pronounced suplay, a Greco-Roman wrestling term derived from French.[citation needed] During his career, pro wrestling commentator Gordon Solie used the soo-PLAY pronunciation (as have the AWA's Rod Trongard and Terry Taylor), but almost all other pro wrestling talent pronounces it SOO-plex.[citation needed]

mick signals, Monday, 12 November 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link

holy shit you just broke my head

vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Monday, 12 November 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link

Sossamon attended Galena High School in Reno, graduating in 1995. The day after her high school graduation, she relocated to Los Angeles with two friends, to study dance. "Nothing compares to that feeling when you first leave home and arrive somewhere new," she once recalled. "When we woke up in the morning, just making coffee felt amazing. It felt like being so free – just to wake up and make coffee and look at our couch. Nothing beats that".

mick signals, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link

Later that year, he adopted the stage name "Little Tich", which he based on his childhood nickname of "Tichborne", acquired through his portly stature and physical likeness to the suspected Tichborne Claimant Arthur Orton. The terms "titchy" or "titch" were later derived from "Little Tich", and are used to describe things that are small.

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 26 November 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link

that's some good trivia

Number None, Monday, 26 November 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link

During World War I, King ... was a frequent visitor to the Royal Navy and occasionally saw action as an observer on board British ships. It appears that his Anglophobia developed during this period, although the reasons are unclear.

pplains, Friday, 30 November 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link

Rock samphire, Crithmum maritimum is a coastal species with white flowers that grows in the United Kingdom. This is probably the species mentioned by Shakespeare in King Lear.

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 1 December 2018 02:15 (five years ago) link

On December 31, 1967, John Derek recruited his wife to operate one of his cameras after he had been commissioned by daredevil Evel Knievel to film his motorcycle jump of the fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. It was Evans who captured the iconic images of Knievel's devastating crash as the jump failed.

(That's Linda Evans of Dynasty fame).

Josefa, Saturday, 1 December 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link

During 1979, Loggins and McDonald wrote "This Is It" for Loggins' ailing father who had to choose between life and death.

The house from the popular "Our House" song (bernard snowy), Friday, 7 December 2018 02:45 (five years ago) link

in an ironic mirror of his son's career

biliares now living will never buey (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 December 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link

That evening I rushed back to visit my father at the hospital with my first demo of "This Is It" in my hand. As I played it for him in his room, tears came to our eyes, we held each other and silently I knew he'd be alright. My father lived four more good years before suffering kidney disease created by lack of blood flow, and died in 1987.

pplains, Friday, 7 December 2018 03:27 (five years ago) link

Not saying it's not a good/true story, but the sentence I quoted is really... something.

The house from the popular "Our House" song (bernard snowy), Friday, 7 December 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link

He is the eldest son of actor Stellan Skarsgård (Also known professionally as "Stellar Skateboard" due to his short stint as an early skateboarding enthusiast)

mick signals, Friday, 7 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link

^ that's a joke from the bad-movie podcast How Did This Get Made

sans lep (sic), Friday, 7 December 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link

Maggot, like the other members of the group is a supporter of Liverpool F.C. although he has never seen them play.

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 9 December 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link

Bongusto enjoys playing football and tennis, and is very good[citation needed] at both sports.

Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 11:21 (five years ago) link

Instruments

Vocals
guitar
bass
piano
keyboards
synthesizer
slide guitar
harmonica
autoharp
harmonium
violin
accordion
buildings [1]

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 16 December 2018 09:34 (five years ago) link

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Byrne

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 16 December 2018 09:34 (five years ago) link

Synopsis[edit]
The song details the travails of a couple geographically separated by the Mississippi river. They emphatically pledge that their love is too great to let the wide distance of the river keep them separated. Overcoming alligators and bouts of distraction (the man is often sidetracked by spending time fishing) the man pledges to somehow cross the river while the woman claims she'll go so far as to swim the distance (1 mile the song claims). This is an especially bold proclamation on her part as in 1973, arsenic, E. coli and fecal coliform bacteria levels in the Mississippi river far exceeded modern WHO recommendations by over 2000% (similar to current levels in the Ganges river).

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link

I was waiting for it, and I wasn't disappointed.

Would've also accepted statement explaining how due to current conditions, one would need to start swimming from a point one mile up the river to successfully reach the rendezvous point.

✈️✈️ (pplains), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link

In the 29th episode of the first season (Storm Center), it is revealed that Helen Kimble was strangled. This is not the method of choice for a man with only one arm.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 December 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link


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