Would be even cooler if the apartments were haunted by the ghosts of gladiators. I would totally watch a movie about that.

Mobile reddit is a bitch

Brooms are odorless and colorless. The more you know

I took some classes from an old timer that worked at a power plant that had steam turbines. He said they would look for leaks waving a 2x4 over the pipes for that reason.

There was an incident during the Apollo Program where they were venting off LOX after a test on the pad, and a car driving nearby burst into flames for no apparent reason. Another car stopped to help, and it also burst into flames. After that, they changed some of the pad crew rules.

John Neal. The Quentin Tarrantino of his time

There was nothing illegal about supporting the right of the Confederacy to secede. But yes, he did do some pretty awful things.

I just think that reading it will give people an interesting window into the way things were happening during that time.

As I said, it's about a LOT more than "he shot himself in the courtroom."

The 60s/60s

Oh I wasn't trying to imply anything against you. Just giving my opinion

I didn't say he was right or wrong, I said it was an interesting read about First Amendment rights in the time of war - something that had never come up before and the Supreme Court got involved.

Another interesting part -- he left the Confederacy and went to Canada. He campaigned for election in Ohio and was nominated by the Democratic Party - even though he was living in Canada - but lost the election.

It was a messy time.

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If you are sitting on the engine, then it is a hazard.

That has nothing to do with it, though. It was because of the dairy farmers in the midwest. They didn't want people to think that it was actual butter.

> Dairy farmers also successfully lobbied for restrictions that banned the use of yellow dyes to make margarine look more appetizing. By 1900, artificially colored butter was contraband in 30 U.S. states. Several states took even more extreme measures to turn consumers away from margarine—they required the product to be dyed an unappealing pink color.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/25638/surprisingly-interesting-history-margarine

The white color makes sense if it was named after being pearl-like.

CE is still christian-centric you just changed the name, it doesn't matter

An excellent analogy for showcasing wealth.

Woosh! Reading and reading comprehension are two separate skills.

That's some dedicated lawyering.

FYI, I'm 73 and retired

That's a term?

Might be an old sailor's tale, but an old Navy man I met claimed they used the broom method to detect steam leaks around damaged boilers. Those apparently could also be nearly invisible and capable of cutting the straws off the broom.

Canaries were most thankful

It's a fire distinguisher!

Do you think this is some kind of Twitter-esque 'gotcha?'

It's an ongoing process. For example, "fuck" once had an impact. Now it's a routine vocabulary word. It happens the other way around too. "Piss" was once the normal word for urination. When "piss" became crude, it was euphemized to "pee."

Edit: Another example: In medieval England, "cunt" was tame enough to officially name a street where prostitutes plied their trade "gropecunt lane." Most (not all) of them have been renamed.