And now for something weird...

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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When Casimir IV Jagiellon, the King of Poland, died in 1492, nobody could’ve predicted the death that would follow the reopening of his tomb half a millennium later. Having rotted away into a biological bomb of pathogen potential, it became a hazardous place for the living to poke around in. Unfortunately, in 1973, that’s exactly what a group of archaeologists did.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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I can't imagine ... one goes in there to have a good time and ends up listening to a bunch of off-key idiots ...


Audience member Karl Bradley told BBC Radio Manchester that some spectators in the higher tier had started a countdown ahead of the finale, which features the classic song I Will Always Love You. He said they "started to project themselves" by singing along and attempted to hit the song's high notes, but could not "and that's when the chaos began".
 

WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
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I like the attitude of both candidates. Small town politics tend to either be either extremely civil or extremely uncivil, it seems like there's seldom a stable middle-ground.

Every few years (well, may every decade or so) there's some election somewhere that is decided by chance. I suspect it happens quite a bit more often than we are aware because it mostly happens in very small races that are settled quickly, without fanfare, and that therefore get no media coverage. But it happens at the state level, too. I think it was in Wyoming about thirty years ago that a position in the state legislature was decided on the floor by chance (I think it was either a coin-flip or cutting cards).

Many states (and towns, and school boards, and HOA boards, and on and on) have tie-breaking rules that, at some point, come down to a game of chance as a means of ensuring that the race absolutely cannot end with a tie.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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If it's possible, it will happen.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-a-true-constitutional-crisis-ends-in-the-washington
It was on this day in 1801 that the House finally decided a tied presidential election because of a constitutional flaw: the deadlocked race between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

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It took 36 ballots in the House before Jefferson, with help from his rival, Alexander Hamilton, defeated Burr. The election only added to the animosity between Hamilton and Burr, leading in part to the 1804 duel that left Hamilton dead and Vice President Burr charged with murder.
Thank goodness we now live in a civilized age. :eek:
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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The recent rash of fires in high-rise hotels and deaths occasioned thereby has given rise to the need for a breathing device and method for supplying a hotel guest and/or fireman with fresh air until he can be rescued. The device and method of this invention provide for the insertion of a breathing tube through the water trap of a toilet to expose an open end thereof to fresh air from a vent pipe connected to a sewer line of the toilet, to enable the user to breathe fresh air through the tube.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://6abc.com/dime-theft-trailer-containing-dimes-philadelphia-walmart-parking-lot/13121955/
ESTIMATED 2 MILLION DIMES STOLEN FROM TRUCK IN NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA
The truck driver picked up the dimes from the Philadelphia Mint on Wednesday but then went home to get some sleep before a long drive to Florida.

"This is common practice - to pick up a load going to Florida and go home for the night, get to sleep, and get on the road in the morning," said Capt. Jack Ryan of Northeast Detectives.

The truck driver parked the big rig in the Walmart parking lot. When he came back Thursday morning he found the trailer door was open.
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Who the hell would leave a truck load of money in a Walmart parking lot overnight?

Maybe they took them.
 
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