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cricket is boring to watch, but there is something to be said about a sport that stops mid-game for the players to have cocktails

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If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar

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1^2= 1
11^2= 121
111^2= 12321
1111^2= 1234321
11111^2= 123454321
111111^2= 12345654321
1111111^2= 1234567654321

Sorry, math nerd :D

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Rene Descartes came up with the gems "cogito ergo sum" - I think therefore I am, the Cartesian Coordinate plane (x axis, y axis and use it to graph), the idea to use superscripts to represent exponents, and numerous other things.

The interesting part, he did all this but refused to get out of bed until after 11 am. And he adhered to this until the year he died.

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Yeah, well, what time did he go to bed the night before??? :r

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Chili can be made with or without beans.

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Chicago's virtual absence from movie and TV screens for almost twenty years arose from the late 1950s TV series "M Squad", when a scene of a Chicago cop taking a bribe enraged Mayor Daley. (The fact that it coincided with the Summerdale police theft scandal definitely didn't help matters.) He refused to allow any outside filming in "his" city for the duration of his reign as mayor (although a few movies and scenes were filmed "guerilla style" without authorization).

The use of "Metro Police", instead of "Chicago Police", in movies and TV shows filmed in Chicago in the 1980s and 90s reportedly arose from a single line in the movie "The Blues Brothers". ("Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved.") The line was a poke at a certain event in 1968...apparently the Chicago Police brass were not amused.

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When Chicago hosted the Democratic Convention in 1996, I had a CPD shirt that said "We kicked your father's ass in '68...wait until you see what we do to you this year". :r

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:r

He actually went to bed at a normal time. He got into the habit because when he was younger he had extremely poor health. He was allowed to lay in bed until 11 while he was at a Jesuit boarding school because of his health issues. He then kept the habit through most of his life but he wasn't sleeping, he would just lay and think all morning.

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Most people who deal with me on professional basis think I am a very serious person.


MCS

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But it can't be made without meat....otherwise its just spicy tomato soup.

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I REMEMBER THOSE!!!!! :r:r:r

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Yeah, one of the guys on my old hockey team stole mine. :mad:

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Elvis presley never once gave an encore.
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I call bullshit. :D

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Lobsters urinate out of their faces.

They do this often in battle with other lobsters as a scent signature. Lobsters can "remember" scents of others so they know to fight or flee. Kind of like "Oh I remember that the pee I'm sensing is from that big lobster that kicked my butt last week. I'm outta here!":sl

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That is wickedly cool. :tu

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On the other hand, I have five different fingers.

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Only 30% of working class Americans are college educated.

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<-- not one of the 30%