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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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ursus said:
My wife has become obsessed with birds in the little tiny backyard of our townhouse. She has several feeders now. We get a variety of small finches and some sparrows, but lately a pigeon (my kids googled it and it is a collared dove, I guess?) started coming around. He stress-tested the feeders (he is quite fat, not missing any meals) and now comes and eats on the regular. We have named him Pudgy. Pudgy the Pigeon. Yesterday, he brought a friend for the second time. We have named him "the Brother of Pudgy". That's a Mormon joke. It would have killed if you were all Mormon. :)
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The Eurasian Collared Dove is not a native species to our fair state. The Mourning Dove is and does migrate out in the Fall. The ECD stays all year and is considered a pest and can be hunted without a permit or limit. The MD is legal to hunt only in September.
 
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WSU MUP Student said:
I've never been a fan of pot pies, frozen or freshly homemade. My kids on the other hand absolutely love them. It doesn't matter if it's the cheapest, saltiest, frozen pot pie or a freshly made one from grandma or the local grocery store. I'm convinced my kids would eat nothing but various pot pies for every meal if we would allow that.
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Fresh turkey pies FTW (picking ours up for T-Day this weekend)


(Yeah, I've posted about these a few times)
 
NHPlanner said:
Fresh turkey pies FTW (picking ours up for T-Day this weekend)


(Yeah, I've posted about these a few times)
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I associate them with growing up. Those and frozen dinners were treats. It was break from the mix of German and
Americanish food I grew up eating. It's was like going to McDonalds and Pizza Hut. In retrospect, the food wasn't all that good, but it was a treat.
 
DVD said:
Frozen, Marie is the best you'll get, but my wife makes a great Guiness pie when I can get her to make it. It's apparently a lot of work.
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I never seem to get a pot pie that cooks evenly. I hate when part of the pie good and hot, and you get a frozen chunk of something. Plus I despise peas. I love the crust though, especially homemade.
 
NHPlanner said:
Fresh turkey pies FTW (picking ours up for T-Day this weekend)


(Yeah, I've posted about these a few times)
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I've never been a big fan of turkey in any form but we always had a lot of turkey pot pie, turkey casserole, and turkey and dumplings, and turkey noodle soup, and whatever else you could make with leftover turkey in late November and early December after Thanksgiving and I hated every single bite of it. Thankfully, my parents always gave us the option to have a bowl of cereal for dinner if we didn't like what they had cooked.

Whose Yur Planner said:
I associate them with growing up. Those and frozen dinners were treats. It was break from the mix of German and
Americanish food I grew up eating. It's was like going to McDonalds and Pizza Hut. In retrospect, the food wasn't all that good, but it was a treat.
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Every once in a while we'd have "TV Dinner Night" when I was a kid and we'd each pick whatever frozen meal. My go-to was always the Banquet brand fried chicken dinner.
 
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2025 USPS Stamps
Baby Wild Animals
Offering whimsical, eye-catching designs for letters and cards, these 10 stamps show baby wild animals from across the United States, with visual elements suggesting the habitat or behavior of each one. Tracy Walker designed and created the artwork by digitally layering colored shapes on solid backgrounds. Greg Breeding provided art direction.
 
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2025 USPS Stamps
The Appalachian Trail
Covering almost 2,200 miles of footpath along one of Earth’s most ancient mountain ranges, the century-old Appalachian National Scenic Trail is within easy reach of large metropolitan areas of the East Coast. The Appalachian Trail is maintained by a network of volunteer clubs, led by the nonprofit Appalachian Trail Conservancy. This pane of 15 stamps includes a photographic view from each of the 14 states along the Maine-to-Georgia trail with an additional stamp showing stretches of trail through dense forest. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps with images from various photographers.
 
JNA said:
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2025 USPS Stamps
Baby Wild Animals
Offering whimsical, eye-catching designs for letters and cards, these 10 stamps show baby wild animals from across the United States, with visual elements suggesting the habitat or behavior of each one. Tracy Walker designed and created the artwork by digitally layering colored shapes on solid backgrounds. Greg Breeding provided art direction.
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2025 USPS Stamps
The Appalachian Trail
Covering almost 2,200 miles of footpath along one of Earth’s most ancient mountain ranges, the century-old Appalachian National Scenic Trail is within easy reach of large metropolitan areas of the East Coast. The Appalachian Trail is maintained by a network of volunteer clubs, led by the nonprofit Appalachian Trail Conservancy. This pane of 15 stamps includes a photographic view from each of the 14 states along the Maine-to-Georgia trail with an additional stamp showing stretches of trail through dense forest. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps with images from various photographers.
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Want to see some part of my sweet coin collection? So...the interesting obscure detail about these coins is that they represent broad-based historical snapshots of individual national economic and political periods from the 19th and 20th centuries.

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;)
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I've never been a big fan of turkey in any form but we always had a lot of turkey pot pie, turkey casserole, and turkey and dumplings, and turkey noodle soup, and whatever else you could make with leftover turkey in late November and early December after Thanksgiving and I hated every single bite of it. Thankfully, my parents always gave us the option to have a bowl of cereal for dinner if we didn't like what they had cooked.



Every once in a while we'd have "TV Dinner Night" when I was a kid and we'd each pick whatever frozen meal. My go-to was always the Banquet brand fried chicken dinner.
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I remember them well. They had the aluminum trays.
 
I would switch up what TV dinner I got as long as it had the burn your mouth brownie in it.
 
fringe said:
Future pith helmeted archaeologists...
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There was an anthropology (archaeology) professor at Valdosta State College (and then Valdosta State University) in the 70s and 80s who wore a pith helmet on a daily basis. His nickname was (wait for it...)…

"Pith Helmet"
 
Bubba said:
There was an anthropology (archaeology) professor at Valdosta State College (and then Valdosta State University) in the 70s and 80s who wore a pith helmet on a daily basis. His nickname was (wait for it...)…

"Pith Helmet"
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In the summer I spend a lot of time at my parents farm helping my dad bale hay and straw. Now that I'm getting older, most of the time I'm sitting on a tractor while one or two of my nephews throw the bales up on the wagon. Every year I say I am going to get a pith helmet to wear while I lord over them from my perch high up on the Ford tractor.
 
Bubba said:
There was an anthropology (archaeology) professor at Valdosta State College (and then Valdosta State University) in the 70s and 80s who wore a pith helmet on a daily basis. His nickname was (wait for it...)…

"Pith Helmet"
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...sure it wasn't Valdostopithecus?

...anyone here remember that outrageous paleontologist that first pitched the idea that dinosaurs may well have had feathers and bright colors?
He wore a cowboy hat all day everywhere, that prompted his colleagues to deride "his effing hat".
 
I went to a new little women's group on my sunny island last night that a friend started that's called "Lagniappe" meeting. We had dinner (gumbo), got caught up and then the activity was finger knitting a small wreath. I failed macramé in the 8th grade and it was traumatizing, so I watched. I am hosting the January meeting and thinking I may do a wine sampling with my daughter who is a sommelier.

Nice change from just a book club, though a host can do that for their month.
 
"The autumn leaves have got you thinking
About the first time that you fell, fell
You didn't love the boy too much
No, no you just loved the boy too well, yeah"

What does that even mean - you didn't love the boy too much, you loved the boy too well? WTF?
 
Bubba said:
There was an anthropology (archaeology) professor at Valdosta State College (and then Valdosta State University) in the 70s and 80s who wore a pith helmet on a daily basis. His nickname was (wait for it...)…
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While I don't have a good pun, there was a professor at Auburn that dressed as a wizard with pointy hat, cape, and large wooden staff.

WSU MUP Student said:
In the summer I spend a lot of time at my parents farm helping my dad bale hay and straw. Now that I'm getting older, most of the time I'm sitting on a tractor while one or two of my nephews throw the bales up on the wagon. Every year I say I am going to get a pith helmet to wear while I lord over them from my perch high up on the Ford tractor.
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One year my brother jack knifed the hay wagon, broke the pin and the wagon went 300 feet down a hill with me 5 bales high. When the tongue dug in, I went flying over the top. I told them I wasn't going to haul hay without a motorcycle helmet if my brother drove the wagon.
 
Wannaplan? said:
What kind?

a) https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Rock_Pigeon/overview (Rock Pigeon Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

b) https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mourning_Dove/overview (Mourning Dove Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
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Pudgy and the Brother of Pudgy are both Eurasian Collared Doves (thank you, @SlaveToTheGrind, for the info.) Can't miss 'em on account of the black feather collar. Also, they are definitely more....pudgy. :)
 
fringe said:
...sure it wasn't Valdostopithecus?

...anyone here remember that outrageous paleontologist that first pitched the idea that dinosaurs may well have had feathers and bright colors?
He wore a cowboy hat all day everywhere, that prompted his colleagues to deride "his effing hat".
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You would never in a million years expect to be set up to make that joke. I salute you! :D
 
Gedunker said:
What does that even mean - you didn't love the boy too much, you loved the boy too well? WTF?
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I kind of interpret it as she didn't love him too much, but she didn't hold him accountable in the relationship... let him get away with too much. "You had an affair? I forgive you."
 
luckless pedestrian said:
I went to a new little women's group on my sunny island last night that a friend started that's called "Lagniappe" meeting. We had dinner (gumbo), got caught up and then the activity was finger knitting a small wreath. I failed macramé in the 8th grade and it was traumatizing, so I watched. I am hosting the January meeting and thinking I may do a wine sampling with my daughter who is a sommelier.

Nice change from just a book club, though a host can do that for their month.
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I think for a Little Women's group you should probably host a cotillion and let somebody contract scarlet fever.
 
Gedunker said:
"The autumn leaves have got you thinking
About the first time that you fell, fell
You didn't love the boy too much
No, no you just loved the boy too well, yeah"

What does that even mean - you didn't love the boy too much, you loved the boy too well? WTF?
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The boy got more love and care than he gave.
 
Maister said:
Today I learned that GPS satellites in geosynchronous orbit not only pre-correct for the time it takes a signal to reach earth from orbit, but also to account for the microscopic time differential imposed by the differences in time experienced by satellites compared to time experienced on the surface of the Earth, consistent with Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
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I have a lot of geeky radio and weather toys at home . . . My wife even lets me play with them.

I minored in journalism, but, really, it was the technical aspects of broadcasting that I really liked. Fun fact: started my college career as a major in "aviation meteorology," with a minor in city planning. Ended up majoring in city planning with a minor in journalism. I am still a weather geek and can read clouds and sky very well though.

Wifey hates it when the weather alarm goes off at 2 a.m. though. "Too loud!" (It's supposed to be loud--it's an alarm. :) )


Jim
 
"I'm very excited for the changes the future brings."

Executive corporate-speak at a company all-hands meeting.

Huh. Capital B time.
 
I might be the Ender of Worlds. I just wanted you all to know. Last night I dreamed that I became a gigantic, long-necked bear-thing with bat wings and started destroying the surrounding city.

In case I am some kind of demon-born ender of worlds and just didn't know it, I wanted to make sure to say beforehand that If I lay waste to your town it isn't personal - it's just end-of-the-world business.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
While there are so many great KITH skits, this one might be my absolute favorite just for the sheer absurdity and brevity of it.

I have probably made my kids watch this 20 times over the years.
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This is another classic absurd and brief sketch that ranks in the top ten of their's in my opinion.

 
ursus said:
I might be the Ender of Worlds. I just wanted you all to know. Last night I dreamed that I became a gigantic, long-necked bear-thing with bat wings and started destroying the surrounding city.

In case I am some kind of demon-born ender of worlds and just didn't know it, I wanted to make sure to say beforehand that If I lay waste to your town it isn't personal - it's just end-of-the-world business.
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As long as you're not dreaming of this thing we're fine.
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A natural gas explosion leveled a home here and killed a 15 year old. From the local article: "The investigation by the NTSB — the agency known for investigating crashes involving aircraft and overseeing the transportation of natural gas — is ongoing and will now look at Enbridge's integrity management program and pipeline safety management system." Why is the NTSB involved in the transportation of natural gas? Seems like this should not be in their purview. Many items are "transported" but that does not give the NTSB the oversight, or does it? What am I missing?
 
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