The Off Topic Topic

[mongers]

Robbing a museum sounds incredibly dull.

OK, an anecdote especially for you.

I visited one of my elderly friends this afternoon and he's just had an advance device fitted for restarting his heart, it's not a pacemaker but something a bit more complicated.

So he now has something inside him, powered in all probability by a 'rare earth' element that's only found inside nuclear reactors.

Happy ?

Can I still say "All nuclear, All and alway bad" ?   

[The Brain]

I'm sure you can.

[Duque de Bragança]

Some local city council elections stats, in Paris:

out of 1400 voters, only 11 EU (Non-French) electors registered, of which only three voted and I know two of them (family). Shameful
I am counted as French due to dual citizenship.
This is extremely low, there is at least 5-7% of non-French EU citizens in this part of Paris.

[Admiral Yi]

Is city council a meaningful office in France?

[Duque de Bragança]

Well, if you want to be teh Mayor, it is.

[Admiral Yi]

From an article in the NYT about the Little Ice Age: in 1690 the Bosporus and the Baltic froze and people could walk across them.

[CountDeMoney]

The Krakatoa eruption was so powerful, the sonic boom from it circled the globe 7 times.

[alfred russel]

From an article in the NYT about the Little Ice Age: in 1690 the Bosporus and the Baltic froze and people could walk across them.

I think the Swedish army once took advantage of this by walking to Copenhagen in the middle of winter. Not in 1690 though.

[Sheilbh]

From an article in the NYT about the Little Ice Age: in 1690 the Bosporus and the Baltic froze and people could walk across them.

I read today that the week-long (anti-Catholic) Gordon Riots in 1780 destroyed ten times more property than was destroyed in Paris through the entire French Revolution.

[Ed Anger]

Bored.

[CountDeMoney]

Have an affair.

[sbr]

And it is spring break, prime high school cheerleader hunting time.

[The Brain]

From an article in the NYT about the Little Ice Age: in 1690 the Bosporus and the Baltic froze and people could walk across them.

I think the Swedish army once took advantage of this by walking to Copenhagen in the middle of winter. Not in 1690 though.

1658.

[Razgovory]

Man, I'm gassy today.

[Beenherebefore]

I just came back from four days in Amsterdam.