Wikipedia Article-of-the-Day

[BoganGod]

No way the CIA doesn't have a little stash of 1/2 a gallon or two sloshing around somewhere.

or even 150 pounds of it that got away from 'em

Wow, sounds like the Australian military. Australian government fines people for not voting. Can't work out past the one fall guy who sold 10 shoulder held missile launchers and missiles to bikies who were on selling to wacky muslims.

RGJ

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Lol it's not like it'd be all that difficult to isolate more saxitoxin if needed. I'm sure there's at least one complete synthesis, too, which any lab could cook up.

-TG

[BoganGod]

Lol it's not like it'd be all that difficult to isolate more saxitoxin if needed. I'm sure there's at least one complete synthesis, too, which any lab could cook up.

-TG

How cool would it be to introduce tiny, tiny, tiny trace amounts into the miso soup at high class sushi restaurants. Chefs would be having nervous breakdowns, resigning, asking for permission to commit harikuri.

RGJ

[saxitoxin]

Lol it's not like it'd be all that difficult to isolate more saxitoxin if needed.

I beg to differ - saxitoxin is (a) one of a kind, (b) unstoppable.

[saxitoxin]

Use of bayonets for crowd control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_ba ... wd_control

[BoganGod]

Ouch, that is a stab in the back for democracy.......

RGJ

[riskllama]

Lol it's not like it'd be all that difficult to isolate more saxitoxin if needed.

I beg to differ - saxitoxin is (a) one of a kind, (b) unstoppable, (c) a sore losing dead beater.

[BoganGod]

Lol it's not like it'd be all that difficult to isolate more saxitoxin if needed.

I beg to differ - saxitoxin is (a) one of a kind, (b) unstoppable, (c) a sore losing dead beater.

Sycophantic crawler.

RGJ

[jusplay4fun]

saxitoxin first isolated in fish and found in bivalve filter feeders; some found in puffer fish, too....

So there is plenty found in nature......

That isolation MAY BE easier than synthesis, but that area of Chemistry is not my forte.....

Mike JP4Fun

Lol it's not like it'd be all that difficult to isolate more saxitoxin if needed. I'm sure there's at least one complete synthesis, too, which any lab could cook up.

-TG

[Dukasaur]

Waste container (Redirected from Trash can)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_container

The term "garbage can" is also used for a model of decision making, the Garbage Can Model of decision making. It is concerned with cases of decision making in great aggregate uncertainty which can cause decisions to arise that from a distant point of view might seem irrational.

A "trash can" metaphor is often used in computer operating system desktop environments as a place files can be moved for deletion.

In a workplace setting, a bin may be euphemistically called "the circular file". Whereas useful documents are filed in a filing cabinet, which is rectangular, junk mail and other worthless items are "filed" in the bin, which is often round.

[BoganGod]

Have mused on this in the past. Beautiful phrase/word in papua new guinean pidgin english. Asskan long u. Often Asskan is abbreviated to AK.
Literally your arse is a trash can that any passer by can lob random stuff into. So no one respects you, everyone can potentially mistreat you. Fun word to use.

RGJ

[saxitoxin]

Many early motion pictures are lost because the nitrate film used in that era was extremely unstable and flammable. Additionally, many films were deliberately destroyed because they had little value in the era before home video. It has often been claimed that around 75% of silent films have been lost, though these estimates may be inaccurate due to a lack of numerical data.

In 1978 in Dawson City, Yukon, a bulldozer uncovered buried reels of nitrate film during excavation of a landfill. Dawson City was once the end of the distribution line for many films. The retired titles were stored at the local library until 1929 when the flammable nitrate was used as landfill in a condemned swimming pool. Stored for 50 years under the permafrost of the Yukon, the films turned out to be extremely well preserved. Included were films by Pearl White, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, and Lon Chaney. These films are now housed at the Library of Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_film

[BoganGod]

amyl nitrate or poppers are a common dance party drug in the gay/fringe scene. In Australia amyl is often referred to as rush. Has some mild spincter loosening properties.

[DoomYoshi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans_(commentary)

"The Americans" is a famous commentary by the late Canadian broadcaster Gordon Sinclair. Originally written for a regular broadcast on CFRB radio in Toronto on June 5, 1973, it became a media and public phenomenon. It was replayed several times a day by some United States radio stations and released as a hit audio recording in several forms.

This version here, by 25 year old Byron MacGregor, set the record for highest debut on American Top 40, debuting at 33. It eventually hit No. 4 before falling again. At that time, another Canadian spoken word recording was on the chart as well - Sister Mary Elephant by Cheech and Chong (Chong is the Canadian).

[saxitoxin]

Misty Malarkey Yin Yang, Amy Carter's cat, unexpectedly joined presidents Carter and Portillo, according to one source "marching down the stairs most regally and surefooted" at the head of the group. (Another source, however, seems to dispute this description of events, reporting that Misty Malarkey Yin Yang actually appeared "very confused" while leading the procession.) The performance of the Presidential Entrance March ceremony was resurrected the following week, during the official visit of Canada, and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau remarked "I love coming into that music" in reference to the performance of "Hail, America".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail,_America

[mrswdk]

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau remarked "I love coming into that music"

I hope he wore protection.

[saxitoxin]

The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy -

The history of Bank of America dates back to October 17, 1904, when Amadeo Pietro Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America#History

[notyou2]

Many early motion pictures are lost because the nitrate film used in that era was extremely unstable and flammable. Additionally, many films were deliberately destroyed because they had little value in the era before home video. It has often been claimed that around 75% of silent films have been lost, though these estimates may be inaccurate due to a lack of numerical data.

In 1978 in Dawson City, Yukon, a bulldozer uncovered buried reels of nitrate film during excavation of a landfill. Dawson City was once the end of the distribution line for many films. The retired titles were stored at the local library until 1929 when the flammable nitrate was used as landfill in a condemned swimming pool. Stored for 50 years under the permafrost of the Yukon, the films turned out to be extremely well preserved. Included were films by Pearl White, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, and Lon Chaney. These films are now housed at the Library of Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_film

So basically, Canadian trash becomes American treasures. Dumpster diving is an American art form.

[BoganGod]

Many early motion pictures are lost because the nitrate film used in that era was extremely unstable and flammable. Additionally, many films were deliberately destroyed because they had little value in the era before home video. It has often been claimed that around 75% of silent films have been lost, though these estimates may be inaccurate due to a lack of numerical data.

In 1978 in Dawson City, Yukon, a bulldozer uncovered buried reels of nitrate film during excavation of a landfill. Dawson City was once the end of the distribution line for many films. The retired titles were stored at the local library until 1929 when the flammable nitrate was used as landfill in a condemned swimming pool. Stored for 50 years under the permafrost of the Yukon, the films turned out to be extremely well preserved. Included were films by Pearl White, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, and Lon Chaney. These films are now housed at the Library of Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_film

So basically, Canadian trash becomes American treasures. Dumpster diving is an American art form.

If only Canada would take American trash like Shaun King, Lena Dunham, and all the other SJW deplorables

[saxitoxin]

Foreign military units at the state funeral of John Kennedy included elements of the British Army and Irish Army. This was the only state funeral of a President of the United States in which foreign military forces participated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_m ... hn_Kennedy

[DoomYoshi]

Histoires ou contes du temps passé or Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oye (Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals or Mother Goose Tales)[1] is a collection of literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, published in Paris in 1697. The work became popular because it was written at a time when fairy tales were fashionable amongst aristocrats in Parisian literary salons.[2] Perrault wrote the work when he retired from court as secretary to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister to Louis XIV of France. Colbert's death may have forced Perrault's retirement, at which point he turned to writing. Scholars have debated as the origin of his tales and whether they are original literary fairy tales modified from commonly known stories, or based on stories written by earlier medieval writers such as Boccaccio.

Elaborate embellishments were a preferred style at the French court. The simple plots Perrault started with were modified, the language enhanced, and rewritten for an audience of aristocratic and noble courtiers. Thematically, the stories support Perrault's belief that the nobility is superior to the peasant class, and many of the stories show an adherence to Catholic beliefs, such as those in which a woman undergoes purification from sin and repentance before reintegration into society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoires_ou_contes_du_temps_pass%C3%A9

The original Mother Goose was high society in Paris. Funny how everywhere else it is an infantile pleasure.

[saxitoxin]

Among Gulley's allegations was that vast sums of "black budget" money earmarked to build emergency bunkers for the President of the United States had been diverted to finance improvements to the personal properties of Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon including the installation of swimming pools and movie theaters; that the United States Secret Service was the "worst, most inefficient, badly run, highly political outfit in the United States government"; and that Lyndon Johnson had given several of his alleged mistresses clerical jobs in the U.S. government.

He also alleged that Richard Nixon had ... once described the position of United States Secretary of the Navy as "a job anyone can do ... why we even had John Warner in that job".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Gulley

[DoomYoshi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typee

Before Typee's publication, the publisher[which?] asked Melville to remove one sentence. In a scene where the Dolly is boarded by young women from Nukuheva, Melville originally wrote:

Our ship was now given up to every species of riot and debauchery. Not the feeblest barrier was interposed between the unholy passions of the crew and their unlimited gratification.

The second sentence was removed from the final version.[8]

Here I provide what I think is the context. I didn't find the line "riot and debauchery" anywhere in the text, but I'm just reading it on Gutenberg, not an academic critical edition.

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This is like the 1840s edition of reading National Geographic for the pictures.

[saxitoxin]

TE24 was standing on the tarmac refuleing, Suddenly Ahmjed Ali came in the flight deck and said they have to do what he says or he will blow up the plane.

The hijacker was armed with a paper bag full of explosives made from a gold mine.

Soon later everyone on board apart from the flight crew and then the engineer smacked the hijacker with a wisky bottle, the hijacker was nocked out.

The hijacker later got arrested by police and a police took one of his bombs to destroy a car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_24

[DoomYoshi]

Muhammed never actually lived because he would've lived during a period of time that never happened -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis

First published in 1991, the hypothesis proposes a conspiracy by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and possibly the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, to fabricate the Anno Domini dating system retrospectively, so that it placed them at the special year of AD 1000, and to rewrite history[1] to legitimize Otto's claim to the Holy Roman Empire. Illig believed that this was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation, and forgery of documentary and physical evidence.[2] According to this scenario, the entire Carolingian period, including the figure of Charlemagne, would be a fabrication, with a "phantom time" of 297 years (AD 614 to 911) added to the Early Middle Ages.

The bases of Illig's hypothesis include:[7][8]

The scarcity of archaeological evidence that can be reliably dated to the period AD 614–911, the perceived inadequacies of radiometric and dendrochronological methods of dating this period, and the over-reliance of medieval historians on written sources.
The presence of Romanesque architecture in tenth-century Western Europe, suggesting the Roman era was not as long ago as conventionally thought.
The relation between the Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar and the underlying astronomical solar or tropical year. The Julian calendar, introduced by Julius Caesar, was long known to introduce a discrepancy from the tropical year of around one day for each century that the calendar was in use. By the time the Gregorian calendar was introduced in AD 1582, Illig alleges that the old Julian calendar should have produced a discrepancy of thirteen days between it and the real (or tropical) calendar. Instead, the astronomers and mathematicians working for Pope Gregory XIII had found that the civil calendar needed to be adjusted by only ten days. (The Julian calendar day Thursday, 4 October 1582 was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582). From this, Illig concludes that the AD era had counted roughly three centuries which never existed.

I'm glad mr. hot sauce doesn't know how to use Wikipedia, or we'd have a whole new problem to defend against.