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I liked the reply from NoelCaslerComedy: "20 Fascists in the back of a truck is called a U-Heil"
North Idaho is a beautiful place...except for the people in it. The Aryan Nations had their compound up there, until they were sued into bankruptcy. There are plenty of other white separatists groups up there. It might have to do with all the lead.
I didn’t realize that any other city existed in Idaho expect for Boise.
I'm not sure what constitutes a city. I suppose I could look it up...but why bother.
We have a few cities. We have even more places that call themselves cities, but aren't all that big, so other states might not call them cities. Then we have places that have 'city' in their names, but NOBODY would call them a city (Idaho City, Elk City, etc.) if they didn't have it in the name.
I just got a second offer to buy my house in Detroit. I wonder how much I could get for it? Considering I have never even BEEN to Detroit, and don't THINK I have a house there, any offer would be pretty good.
Cities get "incorporated" in CT - not sure that works in each state government the same way.
Most of the time, "counties" contain "cities" - in the case of New York City, is contains "five counties" (Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island and Kings County, commonly known as the Brooklyn) also called"boroughs".
I was born in the College Point, the borough of Queens County, New York City...
There are more "official" county names - I think Staten Island is actually Rockland County, or some such things as that,
It does not. The New England states have a rather different system than most of the rest of the country, but it may be that NH (where I grew up) is different from CT, as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
In NH, you are always in a town and there are cities. In Idaho, you are always in a county, but you are not always in a town. Since you were always in a town in NH, they tended to be sprawling things, since they covered all the ground. In Idaho, towns can be really small in geographic area, so they can appear much larger than NH towns because the people are packed more tightly together. If you are outside of the town, you can be out of luck if you need fire, police, and so forth.
There are also other, semi-formal, entities in Idaho. There can be spots on the map that have names. There might be a house, or two, or perhaps there had once been a town there. Frankly, I still don't understand it all, out here.
Louisiana is more along the lines of Idaho, expect we call counties parishes.
Fun fact, Louisiana had counties at one point, but residents didn’t respect them. So the government redistricted them to reflect the Catholic parishes and residents were like “ok, this is cool”
Reminds me of the place I live, which was once a village but that was dissolved decades age and got folded back into township government. The village name lives on as a school district and post office.
I still have some old photos that show a cattle drive down the main drag to a stockyard next to the railroad platform (both long gone now too). Until just a few years ago you could stand in that street and hold the photos up and still recognize the old church, homes, and storefronts crowding in the cattle.
Since then most of the old buildings were razed to make room for creeping gentrification. Earlier residents have long been priced out of the old "downtown" by developers. People who had come here in the 1980s or before now feel like unwelcome guests in their own home town. Several churches, a mosque, a Hindu temple, and even an ashram/monastery have all moved several miles out into the countryside.
Cities are a woolly concept in the UK. Historically it needed to have a cathedral but the queen can also just declare a city. Cardiff is particularly weird. It's a city but it contains Llandaf... which is a city. It's like a Russian Doll of Cities.
I still can't get over the fact that brits call cookies biscuits. So the fact that y'all have a city inside a city does not surprise me.
"Biscuits" and Gravy? Perhaps the equivalent there is something like Scones in Curry?
Sheep are a woolly concept in Idaho.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
About a week ago, well over 100 sheep were killed when they fled a pair of wolves and ended up trampling one another to death (none managed to trample themselves to death, as far as I know). Of course, the wolves got blamed when it should have been the stupidity of sheep that was to blame.
I would imagine that the wolves were either laughing like hyenas, or were aghast.
Cities might be an aspirational thing, in Idaho. Some of the places with the name 'city' were VERY temporary, such as Silver City in Owyhee County. Technically, it wasn't so temporary, as some buildings still stand. It might even have had a pretty large population, but it was all miners. They were allowed to drink, in those days.
Then somebody started a rumor that rubies had been found, and everybody moved. I don't think there was ever much silver near Silver City, but there certainly weren't any rubies wherever they ran off to.
There are some nice quartz crystals in the mine tailings from the speculative digs around the area.
Well it's not so simple as that, we call particular types of Biscuits, Cookies i.e. theseQuote:
I still can't get over the fact that brits call cookies biscuits. So the fact that y'all have a city inside a city does not surprise me.
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Where as these are all Biscuits
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And these are Cakes..... at least for Tax purposes
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Same names for the same items in France : cookie, biscuit and gateau. Biscuit can be also called "gateau sec" ie dry cake. We use the word cookie in french. it came in use in France with the first box of cookies who arrived.
by the way, biscuit is a french word.
We call these Keks in Germany.
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Originally Posted by NeedSomeAnswers
We call them dinner, in the US.
Well, that page didn't last long.
Uh oh, got a 503 error on that post, though it went through. I remember some recent troubles related to that.
By the way, did you make that picture?
Yes. I did that Photoshop in 2018.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I had to add something to this gingerbread town.
https://www.vbforums.com/images/ieimages/2022/06/9.jpg
Those are fun.
Star Wabs Assemble!
https://youtu.be/OPnys-pfPSQ
Makes me wanna Photoshop another Lego set. :bigyello:Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
@Peter - My son (who is 8) nearly died of laughter when he saw your "Salvaged Death Star" box.
He kept saying, "that can't be real, omg"
It's certainly a good idea, though. One of the complaints I have with the direction that Lego has gone is that they make too many models. The whole point of Lego is to see what you can do with your imagination, rather than just putting together some model. There need to be more, "a whole lot of random pieces" kits out there. It seems like that's all I had when I was growing up. The kid with the most pieces won, not the one with the most models.
Kits have there advantages. It makes all kids capable of making cool things with Legos. It makes it easier for the parents to participate. This way everyone gets a participation award. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
When I was a kid, I use to love building my own pirate ships with Legos. I don't mind models, but large sets of random pieces is better. That's how I started my kids out when they were as young as yours. Before we brought Star Wars sets, me and my kids built our own space ships with retractable landing gears and slide and pop-up canopys and sliding doors. We actually built a Star Destroyer. It was huge, but it wasn't exact, using different colored pieces. Had alot of fun with that thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
In Germany we can still buy sets with tons of random pieces. If there's something we need that's not included in these sets, well for my family, Legoland was close by to buy whatever we needed from their shops.
Yeah, and it's a good thing that Legos float, because one hit from a Lego cannonball and those ships tended to fall to pieces. Eight of them, to be exact. They fell into pieces of eight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Porter
My response was always, "Arrrrgggh!", but that was mostly because my Lego parrot would fall off my shoulder.
Ahh, a way to reinforce the Lake Wobegon Effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I'm sure if I would've placed any of my builds in water, it will sink without a single strike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I preferred Meccano to Lego - with screws and nuts and metal plates and gears and screwdrivers and spanners and chains and motors and ... I thought Meccano had gone but I see that it's still around. I've still got my old sets from the 60's and 70's. I spent many happy hours building cranes, bridges, engines, landmark models (favourite Blackpool Tower) etc. Ah, those were the days...
I vaguely remember that. I thought it went away decades back.
At one point, Lego also had extensive gear options. I don't remember pulleys, but there were certainly gears of many different sizes. You could create some really complicated moving designs that all shared one awesome feature: They fell apart as soon as you moved things.
As it turned out, Lego connections didn't really handle torque all that well.
So did I - but apparently not.Code:I vaguely remember that. I thought it went away decades back.
https://www.meccano.com/en_gb
I've heard of Meccano, but during my Lego days, I always wanted to have something from Erector, which Meccano absorbed in 2000.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2kaud
I see some of the Meccano stuff when I go to the Walmart. I never bought it for my son though. It looks like it's very cheap material to be honest.
I don't know what it is like now - but back in the day (60's and 70's) it was all metal and very sturdy - held together with proper metal screws and nuts using metal spanners and screwdrivers. The only plastic seen were the trays the various parts were stored in.
To me, this is Meccano. A motorised crane...
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I don't know about motorized cranes, but I encountered a sandhill crane once. It was pretty well constructed.
We have plenty of egrets here.
While my kids were into Legos and Playmobil, I showed them how to build a police station/hospital out of cardboard and small pieces of wood. Both sides have 2nd floors which wasn't part of the orginal box, with only one staircase, an elevator, and a bridge. I'll explain more about it's design as soon as I post a photo.
I wonder if anyone builds stuff out of big piles of Starburst or Now-And-Later candy?
You'd need some sort of glue that works on waxed paper, or maybe unwrap them and lick them to stick them?
Yeah, after reading your first line, I knew what the 'glue' should be, but you covered it in your second line.
Seems like I heard a story about a witch who built a house with those kinds of materials. It didn't end well for her. Diabetes, I think.
Nah... it was heart disease. Ginger is beneficial in small amounts, but she was living in it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Her own damn fault!
Ginger is fine in any amount, but I still prefer Mary Ann.
My Great Blue Heron chases away our Egrets - eats whatever it wants!Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
https://youtu.be/xBqk6OcZYDM
A couple blackbirds help rid my garden of earwigs roaming around in the morning. They also come around when I work in my garden, hoping I would come across maybugs for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
We thought about building a pond once, but dropped that idea due to major mosquitoe problems, birthed from our neighbors pond.
Thank god affordable portable wireless telegraph machines weren't mass produced for the public! :bigyello:
https://www.vbforums.com/images/ieimages/2022/06/11.jpg
Oxford University, Diseases of Modern Life article:
"The Victorians had the Same Concerns about Technology as We Do"
https://diseasesofmodernlife.web.ox....ology-as-we-do
That GBH looks like it had a frog in its throat.
I'm still baffled as to how they did the tickers for the stock market through those things.
Poorly.
I would assume that it was essentially a typewriter with a reduced set of keys (you need far fewer) and no moving carriage (the paper was one character wide, essentially, so each key stroke advanced the paper like a carriage return...without a carriage to return).