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Started by mongers, February 11, 2023, 08:40:09 PM

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Savonarola

The most likely scenario for me is a hurricane.  I would pack a week long trip, take my wife and the dogs and drive to Michigan or (depending on my work schedule) the Greater Toronto Area.  I'd get a pet friendly AirBnB and spend a week (or longer again depending on work.)

Long term is in the hands of the insurance company.  :(

(Actually, unless the roof blows off, there's probably not going to be major issues.  Our house has stood since the 1950s and we don't live in a flood plain.)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

The Brain

I don't leave home without my AmEx.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

PDH

I criss cross the globe living off the credit cards while spending enormous sums on hookers and blow.  When the money runs out I explain that it wasn't my fault.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Zanza

Saw this on Reddit - no source provided though:

Syt

Swedes/Norwegians are in for a surprise if shit goes down in Scandinavia.
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

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