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Post by missouriboy on Sept 28, 2020 0:21:54 GMT
Any relation Ratty? "How rat Magawa became the world's greatest landmine detector: Winner of the animal's George Cross was bred from previous heroes and trained from just ten weeks old to smell TNT
Bomb disposal rat Magawa has been awarded for its work detecting landmines
It is the most successful detector rat in history, identifying 39 landmines
He has worked in Cambodia since being trained from birth in Tanzania
Rats there are scent trained using TNT on tea eggs to detect the explosives "www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8773043/How-rat-Magawa-worlds-greatest-landmine-detector-trained-smell-TNT.htmlDistant relative. We have a proud history of community service.  The Truth About UsSome of your cousins are also very descriptive.  |
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Post by Ratty on Sept 28, 2020 21:51:05 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Sept 29, 2020 2:56:51 GMT
An Australian train driver (royalty of all skilled workers) dies in a car accident on his 40th birthday and finds himself at the Pearly Gates.
A brass band is playing, the angels are singing a beautiful hymn, there is a huge crowd cheering and shouting his name, and absolutely everyone wants to shake his hand.
Just when he thinks things can't possibly get any better, Saint Peter himself runs over, apologizes for not greeting him personally at the Pearly Gates, shakes his hand, and says, "Congratulations son, we've been waiting a long time for you."
"Totally confused and a little embarrassed, the train driver sheepishly looks at Saint Peter and says,
"Saint Peter, I tried to lead a God-fearing life, I loved my family, I tried to obey the 10 commandments, but congratulations for what? I honestly don't remember doing anything really special when I was alive. Is it because I'm a train driver, the royalty of all skilled workers?”
"Congratulations for what …?" says Saint Peter, totally amazed at the man's modesty. "We're celebrating the fact that you lived to be 160 years old! God himself wants to see you!"
The train driver is awestruck and can only look at Saint Peter with his mouth wide open. When he regains his power of speech, he looks up at Saint Peter and says "Saint Peter, I lived my life in the eternal hope that when I died I would be judged by God and be found to be worthy, but I only lived to be forty.”
“That's impossible, son" says St Peter. "We've added up your timesheets".
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 30, 2020 12:16:06 GMT
"Shedding Light
on Smart City Privacy
Cities and communities generate data through a vast and growing network of connected technologies that power new and innovative services ranging from apps that can help drivers find parking spots to sensors that can improve water quality. Such services improve individual lives and make cities more efficient. While smart city technologies can raise privacy issues, sophisticated data privacy programs can mitigate these concerns while preserving the benefits of cities that are cleaner, faster, safer, more efficient, and more sustainable."Interactive graphic here - fpf.org/2017/03/30/smart-cities/
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 30, 2020 16:38:15 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 2, 2020 17:59:51 GMT
Picture this ...
Has a human ever been mailed via the United States Postal Service?
Actually, yes. Shortly after parcel post was introduced in the early 1900s, several parents sent their small children though the mail. This was done with the help of sympathetic postal workers, most commonly over short distances in rural areas. And it was cost effective—in 1913, it cost just 15 cents to mail an 8-month-old baby to his grandmother.
Before you get any big ideas, though, know that the fun came to an end in 1920 when the postmaster general officially outlawed sending people through the mail. How lame.
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Post by walnut on Oct 3, 2020 3:51:21 GMT
Corvids and parrots are some of the smartest creatures on the planet today. They must have incredible neuron density in those little feathery nut sized processors. Here is a cockatoo who recently retired from the merchant marine. |
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Post by blustnmtn on Oct 4, 2020 13:16:28 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 5, 2020 0:32:43 GMT
Looks to me like the eye of Sauron may emanate from either Georgetown or George Washington Universities. Mount Doom has then swallowed the National Cathedral.
How is The Apple these days? The Controllers seem to have shut down the mobs until the election.
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Post by Ratty on Oct 5, 2020 6:16:45 GMT
A man has six children and is very proud of his achievement.
He is so proud of himself, that he starts calling his wife, 'Mother of Six' in spite of her objections.
One night, they go to a party. The man decides that it IS time to go home and wants to find out if his wife is ready to leave as well. He shouts at the top of his voice, 'Shall we go home Mother of Six?'
His wife, irritated by her husband's lack of discretion, shouts right back, 'Any time you're ready, Father of Four.'
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Post by blustnmtn on Oct 5, 2020 12:34:58 GMT
Looks to me like the eye of Sauron may emanate from either Georgetown or George Washington Universities. Mount Doom has then swallowed the National Cathedral. How is The Apple these days? The Controllers seem to have shut down the mobs until the election. I do not go into NYC. The vast majority of NY State is reasonably ok. Judging by morning and evening traffic, most are going to work. I never stopped. Upstate is very normal except for the mask edicts. I personally know no one who has/had the virus despite living here. |
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 7, 2020 1:15:14 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 8, 2020 0:47:22 GMT
Death of A Master - Eddie Van Halen
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Post by Ratty on Oct 8, 2020 5:35:52 GMT
[ Snip ] Long lost relative? Two fingered so must be Anglo Saxon  Did you mean "light fingered"? |
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 8, 2020 12:07:37 GMT
[ Snip ] Long lost relative? Two fingered so must be Anglo Saxon Did you mean "light fingered"? The old European equivalent of a single finger was more complex and consisted of making a fist and as you do putting your thumb between index and second finger. This was a more complete emulation of the act gestured but only those with long thumbs had much visual effect  . The process involved the index and second finger being made into the fist last. It became easier to stop there and just wave two fingers rather than form the complete fist. So in UK at least two fingers are the equivalent of the single finger in the USA. Examples:   There are numerous times when Americans counting show two as 'two fingers' completely unaware of the meaning to people from UK  Which is why the 'V' for victory was usually signalled with the palm toward the audience  There is an older claim that it was a gesture made at the time of the Battle of Agincourt about removing the first and second fingers of archers to prevent them from being able to use a bow. But that is the kind of discussion that is made in the cloistered halls of Oxford or Cambridge  |
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. The process involved the index and second finger being made into the fist last. It became easier to stop there and just wave two fingers rather than form the complete fist. So in UK at least two fingers are the equivalent of the single finger in the USA. 