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Mar 17th, 2021, 06:00 PM
#65161
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It might just be a Cajun thing.
Basically it says that the winds are spirits who get to roam about the Earth at the start of Lent and then when Easter comes (and the winds die down) they return to heaven to coincide with the resurrection of Jesus.
I think it was coincidence that it gets windy around Lent and the myth popped up in absence of science. Then again, defining meteorology as “science” is a laughable statement.
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Mar 17th, 2021, 07:28 PM
#65162
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Sometimes, the winds inhabit a person...but never for long.
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Mar 17th, 2021, 07:29 PM
#65163
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Originally Posted by Delaney
On the other hand, I love macaroni
Oh yeah, right. He's the guy who invented radio communication, which was diagramed using wavy lines through the air, which was chopped up and turned into tubes. Is that the guy?
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Mar 17th, 2021, 07:29 PM
#65164
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He became immortalized in pasta.
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Mar 18th, 2021, 04:43 AM
#65165
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yep, that's him, the guy with the dog
(With a french pun as we don't pronounce the H in pathe and pate mean pasta)
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Mar 18th, 2021, 09:53 AM
#65166
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We had the same image, with partially the same caption, but I thought the company that showed that was RCA. I'm probably wrong about that, and don't feel like looking it up.
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Mar 18th, 2021, 10:47 AM
#65167
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You are right about that, in europe the logo belong to EMI (the group that own Pathe Marconi) and for the other countries :
"In North America, the rights to use the mark belong to RCA Victor (currently a label of the Sony Music Entertainment group) and to the Hilco group in other parts of the world except Japan where it is owned by JVC. Due to different owners in various parts of the world, the HMV brand (and its French equivalent La Voix de son maître) no longer appeared on internationally released records from the 1990s." (wikipedia)
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Mar 18th, 2021, 11:09 AM
#65168
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By now, most people who see that icon won't understand it anyways.
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Mar 18th, 2021, 11:11 AM
#65169
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Yeah, I have no idea what that is.
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Mar 18th, 2021, 11:23 AM
#65170
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I've only seen them in old movies. I'm sure they can still be found, though possibly only in museums and Hollywood prop departments, but I've never seen one in person.
Frankly, the same could be said of sasquatch.
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Mar 23rd, 2021, 08:47 AM
#65171
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Too many days since the last post.
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Mar 23rd, 2021, 11:01 AM
#65172
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After marching steadily into spring, we've taken a turn for the cold. I was getting snowed on as I drove home, yesterday, though it was more like slush. There's the old saying that March is in like a lion, out like a lamb. In this area, that's usually backwards. March comes in like a lamb, out like a lion. We get some warm weather at the start of the month. Just enough to convince me to remove the studded tires and take the skis out of the car. Then it snows for a few days.
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Mar 23rd, 2021, 11:19 AM
#65173
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My parent's anniversary is the first day of Spring. They made 34 years together this year.
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Mar 23rd, 2021, 03:03 PM
#65174
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My house is very close to flooding. The rain didn’t even get this bad during the hurricanes last year.
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Mar 23rd, 2021, 03:07 PM
#65175
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How low are you? I'm on the highlands of a low valley. There's a spring line near my house, so the water table is probably only about 5-10 feet below me, but I'm in no risk of flooding, because the river is probably more than 100 feet down and many miles away. Haven't seen floods like that since the Bonneville Flood....and I wasn't around for that....nor was anybody else.
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Mar 23rd, 2021, 03:17 PM
#65176
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My house is 4 feet above sea level. I couldn’t find our water table information on the USGS website, but probably because we’re apart of a levee system.
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Mar 23rd, 2021, 03:44 PM
#65177
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Are you close of the river or the ground is just saturated by the rain?
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Mar 23rd, 2021, 03:51 PM
#65178
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A little bit of both. Bayou Lafourche is about 2 blocks away from and Company Canal is about 5 blocks away. But historically speaking, the closer to the bayou you are, the less likely you are to flood. My understanding is that hundreds of years of the bayou flooding and receding caused it to build up a layer of silt which makes it higher against the bayou and it gradually gets lower the further away you are.
But this is also our first hard rain of the year, which is unusual. It is a delicate balance because you want a little bit of rain before a hard rain so that the ground soaks it up, but you don't want too much rain to where the ground becomes saturated.
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Mar 23rd, 2021, 07:18 PM
#65179
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I drove to Houma today and the little bayou they got running down Main St is overflowing. There were some houses with water in them.
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Mar 24th, 2021, 02:43 AM
#65180
Re: Post Race!
So maybe you need one of these
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Mar 24th, 2021, 08:12 AM
#65181
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That is how Helen got her son, Bobby Boucher, to the Bourbon Bowl on time.
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Mar 24th, 2021, 08:23 AM
#65182
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Mar 24th, 2021, 09:36 AM
#65183
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by dday9
I drove to Houma today and the little bayou they got running down Main St is overflowing. There were some houses with water in them.
My house has water in it. Both hot AND cold water!!
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Mar 24th, 2021, 09:38 AM
#65184
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Originally Posted by dday9
That is how Helen got her son, Bobby Boucher, to the Bourbon Bowl on time.
I'm not sure about that reference. I remember a book by Carl Hiaasen that had something like that, but I think that's not what you are referencing.
I've ridden in one of those. We ran over a gator. Probably didn't hurt it any, just kind of mooshed it down into the water, a bit.
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Mar 24th, 2021, 09:56 AM
#65185
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Adam Sandler's The Waterboy
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Mar 24th, 2021, 10:19 AM
#65186
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My entire knowledge of Louisiana comes from watching The Waterboy. It's why I've always assumed that DD looks like this:-
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Mar 24th, 2021, 10:53 AM
#65187
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I'm about as pasty white as that guy.
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Mar 24th, 2021, 03:12 PM
#65188
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That guy doesn't take his shirt off very often.
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Mar 24th, 2021, 07:38 PM
#65189
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Merry Christmas everyone
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Mar 25th, 2021, 10:02 AM
#65190
Re: Post Race!
Are you early, late, or on time?
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Mar 25th, 2021, 12:30 PM
#65191
Re: Post Race!
In a different spacetime..
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Mar 31st, 2021, 03:28 PM
#65192
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Got a vaccine, today. I have no idea whether or not I'm eligible, so I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to get it until I got it. The eligibility rules here are confused enough that I was thinking that some sites were following different rules from other sites. Not sure if that's true, and by now I don't care.
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Mar 31st, 2021, 03:29 PM
#65193
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By the way, the last post was only because there had been nothing in the Post Race for several days.
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Apr 4th, 2021, 12:47 PM
#65194
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Apr 4th, 2021, 02:08 PM
#65195
Re: Post Race!
don't eat too much chocolate !
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Apr 4th, 2021, 02:32 PM
#65196
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2 days of blazingly sunny bank holiday that I'm finally allowed to go out in and what did I do with them? My accounts
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Apr 9th, 2021, 08:53 PM
#65197
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I officiated a wedding tonight and I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many mullets in one place before.
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Apr 11th, 2021, 06:17 AM
#65198
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All business in the front, party in the back!
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Apr 12th, 2021, 03:31 AM
#65199
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Had a snow shower last night (mid April!). Now all the primroses are covered by snow.
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Apr 12th, 2021, 05:01 AM
#65200
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Had a snow shower last night
Yeah, us too. Me and some friends got together for a pizza in the garden (6 of us... all legal) and the next thing you know it's bleedin' snowing... in April... what's up with that?!
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