The Off Topic Topic

[katmai]

I just came back from four days in Amsterdam. 

I know

[Beenherebefore]

I just came back from four days in Amsterdam. 

I know

Current emotional state: 

[jimmy olsen]

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.

The Baltic sure, but the Bosporus really?

[Beenherebefore]

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.

The Baltic sure, but the Bosporus really?

Seems like Yi's right. It has frozen over on a couple of occasions.

http://www.theodora.com/encyclopedia/b2/bosporus.html

Wouldn't have thought so, but apparently it has.

[Ed Anger]

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

Not around here yet. Next Week!

[Capetan Mihali]

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.

The Baltic sure, but the Bosporus really?

Seems like Yi's right. It has frozen over on a couple of occasions.

http://www.theodora.com/encyclopedia/b2/bosporus.html

Wouldn't have thought so, but apparently it has.

Hmm, I wouldn't have thought so either.  I could see some freezing, but enough to walk over seems like a stretch.

It sounds a little like the premise for a Greek or Turkish folktale from the era, where some cunning but stupid stock figure decides he's found a great solution to avoid paying for a ferry ride and starts out across a stretch of ice, gets stuck, has to be rescued, and ends up owing twice as much.

[Beenherebefore]

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.

The Baltic sure, but the Bosporus really?

Seems like Yi's right. It has frozen over on a couple of occasions.

http://www.theodora.com/encyclopedia/b2/bosporus.html

Wouldn't have thought so, but apparently it has.

Hmm, I wouldn't have thought so either.  I could see some freezing, but enough to walk over seems like a stretch.

It sounds a little like the premise for a Greek or Turkish folktale from the era, where some cunning but stupid stock figure decides he's found a great solution to avoid paying for a ferry ride and starts out across a stretch of ice, gets stuck, has to be rescued, and ends up owing twice as much.

Hehe. 
Sounds about right. The moral of the story is not to wait until the Bosporus is frozen.

[derspiess]

I'm sure the Russians will get it right this time

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/as-us-war-ends-russia-returns-to-afghanistan-with-series-of-investment-projects/2014/03/21/11fab228-a5fc-11e3-b865-38b254d92063_story.html

[garbon]

I'm confused on the Jimmy Carter thing. Why doesn't he think the gov't spies on letters - only email?

[Grey Fox]

Is it an holiday in the US? No post in an hour on a monday!

Oh, it's a DST issue.

[Sheilbh]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/pictures-of-politicians-when-they-were-younger
A lot of these people had truly awful/astounding hair (Blair, Osborne, Boris). More amazingly Jacob Rees-Mogg hasn't changed AT ALL:


Also, who knew that Alastair Darling was pretty good looking (if need of a wash by the looks of it):

[Ideologue]

Er, not me.  That's for sure.

[Syt]

Can you tell who says the truth and who's a liar?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/21/science/can-you-spot-the-liar.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=SC_CYS_20140324&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000

I got 8/10.

[sbr]

I just made an inappropriate comment about epileptic people in front of a co worker who just found out her teen aged daughter has epilepsy. 

[Josquius]

Cleopatra lived closer to the construction of the first ipod than the great pyramids.
Makes sense when you think about it.
But still.
Wow.