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JSojourner
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« Reply #125 on: May 12, 2009, 03:32:05 PM »
That we are perfectly safe and beagles & squirrels are not secretly plotting to take over the planet and enslave us.
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« Reply #126 on: May 12, 2009, 04:11:46 PM »
Quote from: JSojourner on May 12, 2009, 03:32:05 PM
That we are perfectly safe and beagles & squirrels are not secretly plotting to take over the planet and enslave us.
Hate to break it to you, but that's rabbits.
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« Reply #127 on: May 12, 2009, 04:48:02 PM »
Quote from: Merrill Farnsworth Christensen on May 12, 2009, 04:11:46 PM
Quote from: JSojourner on May 12, 2009, 03:32:05 PM
That we are perfectly safe and beagles & squirrels are not secretly plotting to take over the planet and enslave us.
Hate to break it to you, but that's rabbits.

That's what the beagles and the squirrels want you to believe, Lewis.
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« Reply #128 on: May 12, 2009, 07:09:15 PM »
squirrel combined with beagle = rabbit

think about it
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« Reply #129 on: May 12, 2009, 08:48:09 PM »
Quote from: Lunar on May 12, 2009, 07:09:15 PM
squirrel combined with beagle = rabbit

think about it

Dude...

*mind blows*
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« Reply #130 on: May 13, 2009, 12:05:53 AM »
Quote from: StatesRights Throwback© on May 12, 2009, 08:42:30 AM
That southerners were completely intolerant to non-Protestants and non-whites prior to the civil war.
On this subject.  The greatest baseball game ever played.  link
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« Reply #131 on: May 13, 2009, 12:10:14 AM »
That Columbus discovered that the world was round.  Probably in the thread somewhere, but I'm not reading through 9 pages.
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« Reply #132 on: May 13, 2009, 01:17:37 AM »
That summers in Minnesota are very cold.  Summer 2008 in Minneapolis was very pleasant AND it fell on a weekend! Smiley
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« Reply #133 on: May 13, 2009, 01:39:20 AM »
In Dirty Harry, Inspector Callahan said, "Do you feel lucky?"
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« Reply #134 on: May 13, 2009, 09:43:58 AM »
Quote from: Lunar on May 12, 2009, 07:09:15 PM
squirrel combined with beagle = rabbit

think about it

OMG

Screw the Zombies...the killer rabbits are coming!
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« Reply #135 on: May 13, 2009, 09:47:13 AM »
Just don't use this squirrel in your evil mad scientist games
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« Reply #136 on: May 22, 2009, 11:22:04 AM »
That people never lived past their 20s/30s/40s in Ye Olden Days (including prehistoric times)... though the life expectancies back in the day were indeed in the 20's and 30's, those are pretty much due to infant mortality; it was not uncommon for people who lived past their 20th birthday to live into their sixties and seventies (especially if they were men who didn't need to deal with childbirth!).  Just take a look at your family tree for evidence.  The people who lived to childbearing age who were your ancestors probably lived a while after that, too.
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« Reply #137 on: May 22, 2009, 12:22:35 PM »
shaving causes facial hair to grow in thicker/darker

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« Reply #138 on: May 23, 2009, 07:08:08 AM »
Quote from: ilikeverin on May 22, 2009, 11:22:04 AM
That people never lived past their 20s/30s/40s in Ye Olden Days (including prehistoric times)... though the life expectancies back in the day were indeed in the 20's and 30's, those are pretty much due to infant mortality; it was not uncommon for people who lived past their 20th birthday to live into their sixties and seventies (especially if they were men who didn't need to deal with childbirth!).  Just take a look at your family tree for evidence.  The people who lived to childbearing age who were your ancestors probably lived a while after that, too.

Also that people were somehow much shorter only 200 years ago.
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« Reply #139 on: May 23, 2009, 01:22:36 PM »
Quote from: StatesRights Throwback© on May 23, 2009, 07:08:08 AM
Also that people were somehow much shorter only 200 years ago.
They were.
Or their feet and inches were longer.

Actually, people were much shorter even fifty years ago.
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« Reply #140 on: May 23, 2009, 02:06:25 PM »
« Edited: May 23, 2009, 02:10:09 PM by The Sweetness and the Light »
Here's another question almost everyone will answer incorrectly:

What is the oldest continuously inhabited city still in existence? Almost everyone will answer Rome. Rome was founded around 750 BC. Damascus, Syria is mentioned in the Book of Genesis and by some estimates was founded as early as 8000 BC. Rome isn't even the oldest city in Europe.
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« Reply #141 on: May 23, 2009, 02:11:43 PM »
Quote from: The Sweetness and the Light on May 23, 2009, 02:06:25 PM
Here's another question almost everyone will answer incorrectly:

What is the oldest continuously inhabited city still in existence? Almost everyone will answer Rome. Rome was founded around 750 BC. Damascus, Syria is mentioned in the Book of Genesis and by some estimates was founded as early as 8000 BC. Rome isn't even the oldest city in Europe.

Isn't it some where in the Indus Vally?
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« Reply #142 on: May 23, 2009, 02:12:54 PM »
Damascus predates even that.
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« Reply #143 on: May 23, 2009, 02:13:26 PM »
« Edited: May 23, 2009, 02:18:17 PM by Dc_united_15 »
wow.

how about Baghdad?
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« Reply #144 on: May 23, 2009, 02:20:04 PM »
Baghdad is a relatively new city founded after the Caliphate.
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« Reply #145 on: May 23, 2009, 02:20:24 PM »

... I hope that wasn't a serious question.
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« Reply #146 on: May 23, 2009, 02:20:39 PM »
     What about Hebron?
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« Reply #147 on: May 23, 2009, 02:21:24 PM »
The oldest continuously inhabited city is Jericho.
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« Reply #148 on: May 23, 2009, 02:22:05 PM »

Baghdad dates to ~750 CE, if I remember correctly.  You want ancient in that neighborhood, Ctesiphon and Babylon are both within walking distance of Baghdad and are much, much more ancient.  Ur and Nineveh are both in Iraq, too.

There are a lot of claimants for oldest city.  The folks at Jericho are pretty insistent about their claim to the title.
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« Reply #149 on: May 23, 2009, 02:26:48 PM »
BRTD, while I agree that Damascus is overlooked as the oldest city, I disagree that Rome is commonly referred to as the oldest.

I'm pretty sure most people would say Athens or Jerusalem.  Granted, they are both wrong.

It also wouldn't surprise me to hear people chime off some Egyptian city like Cairo even though Cairo was long after ancient Egypt.
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