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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Sept 11, 2015 15:21:51 GMT -5
Olaf opened a library in Argentina. Buying ten books, he gives you one and also burns your house and steals your fortune for free!  |
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Post by Skelly Craig on Sept 11, 2015 16:04:43 GMT -5
That's hilarious. Maybe Count Olaf survived, changed to the good side of VFD, and moved to Argentina to open a bookstore.
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Post by B. on Sept 11, 2015 16:17:38 GMT -5
When you buy 10 books you get one as a gift!!!
Edit: I was trying to show off my Spanish skills and then realised Zortegus had already provided a translation.
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Post by Antenora on Sept 21, 2015 12:43:48 GMT -5
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Post by gliquey on Sept 29, 2015 12:11:16 GMT -5
I came across the Sieve of Eratosthenes (a method for finding prime numbers) a couple of days ago while doing some random bits of programming.
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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Sept 29, 2015 12:25:05 GMT -5
I just noticed I posted an Odd ASOUE Real-Life Coincidence in this topic. Damn the titles are too similar. Oh welp.
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Post by Dante on Sept 29, 2015 14:15:13 GMT -5
One of these days I'll combine the two threads. Today is not that day, though.
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Post by gliquey on Sept 29, 2015 15:34:28 GMT -5
Which board would it go in?
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Post by Dante on Sept 29, 2015 16:00:11 GMT -5
And there you see the reason why we don't already have just one.
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Post by Dante on Oct 4, 2015 3:02:12 GMT -5
Yesterday, I boarded a steam train on an obscure line after having requested an unscheduled stop at an unfrequented platform.
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Post by M David Steel on Oct 18, 2015 11:23:12 GMT -5
Ive watched a film called in your eyes. at the end they both jump onto a moving train
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Post by Skelly Craig on Oct 28, 2015 17:29:45 GMT -5
Murder, Inc.Sure enough, there's also a 1960 film noir called 'Murder, Inc.' based on these eponymous groups. And another one called 'The Enforcer' from 1951, starring Humphrey Bogart.
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Post by bear on Nov 16, 2015 16:45:50 GMT -5
in Molloy by Samuel Beckett
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Post by Dante on Nov 23, 2015 15:23:36 GMT -5
Just a few minutes ago I remembered a storybook from my childhood entitled The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch, a tale involving a long rope connecting a lighthouse and a nearby building. Now, a lighthouse is one thing, but I'm surprised that the hawser parallel didn't occur to me before.
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Post by Skelly Craig on Dec 6, 2015 18:03:44 GMT -5
I've discovered that the police watchman in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is kinda similar to S. Theodora Markson. The most striking example being when he lists a number of charges (numbered out of order) that are all the same thing:
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