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Started by Admiral Yi, April 06, 2021, 03:00:38 PM

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Valmy

Oh...well that isn't too far off.
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Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Eddie Teach

Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2021, 03:08:42 PM
A desire to bath in the blood of Irishmen?

I guess I always thought Oliver was a descendent of Thomas. I guess this is where I learn that is not true.

Do you mean ancestor?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

grumbler

Quote from: Eddie Teach on July 03, 2021, 03:17:55 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2021, 03:08:42 PM
A desire to bath in the blood of Irishmen?

I guess I always thought Oliver was a descendent of Thomas. I guess this is where I learn that is not true.

Do you mean ancestor?

Oliver was the ECW general (17th Century).  Thomas was Henry VIII's chief minister during VIII's chief mischiefs (16th Century). 
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Eddie Teach

To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

Judith Love Cohen was an aerospace engineer who worked on the guidance system of the Minutemen missiles and the Abort-Guidance system of the Apollo lunar module which played a critical role in saving Apollo 13.

She is also the mother of an actor/comedian. Who is he?
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
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The Larch


Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

The Larch

Continuing with the space race theme:

Astronaut candidates that wanted to join the Mercury program (the famous Mercury Seven) had to fulfill a series of criteria, such as being qualified jet pilots, having at least 1.500 hours of flight time, and having a bachelor's degree, but they also had a couple of more arbitrary ones related to their age and height. Which were these requiriments?

The Brain

Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Agelastus

At least 30 years old and under 5ft 10"?
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

The Larch


Admiral Yi

24 hour rule, or something.

Which five nationalities were present at The Battle of The Boyne?

I say nationalities because two of them, the English and the Irish, were not countries.  So what are the other three.

Liep

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Admiral Yi


Agelastus

English, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Scottish, (Ulster) Scots and probably several more.
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."