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I dropped a few things off in her storage unit.
Hopefully I don't get a call abt that 9 months from now.
Damn that's cold. I will admit to chuckling though.
The winner of the American Comedy Award for best stand-up comedian and two CableAce Awards, the New York-born comic has come a long way. A mathematics wizard with a penchant for political analysis, Richard Jeni found he could study both at Hunter College. He said he called, asking his professors what he could do with a political science degree. “`You can teach political science to others.”‘ they said. “And what would they do?” Jeni asked. “They’ll teach it to other people,” he was told. It was then that Jeni realized, “This isn’t college, it’s a pyramid scheme. It’s Amway with a track team.”
Having raised kids through college, I came across many other parents with kids who went with these majors:
- Sociology
- Business
- Communications
- Phys-ed
- Liberal Arts
You can do something useful with these degrees, but they happen to also be the most popular majors for kids who don't know what to do with their lives. Sociologists can become psychologists/therapists, or teachers, or do various types of social work - such as child care, child welfare, hospital worker, elderly services, etc. But most graduates do nothing with the degree.
How can birds perch on powerlines and not die?
I had fpl here like a day ago (that's the power company in s FL.) They took down these old wooden polls right by my place...really happy abt that btw. Now their all cement and don't look like they'll fall over w a small breeze, let alone a hurricane.
Anyway I was talking to the workers. The one lady told me the top wires are for electric. Below them is cable internet and below them cable TV.
The birds sit on the top wires. How? I'm pretty sure if i climbed up a pole and grabbed one of those it would end very badly. Like Tim in jurassic Park when they turn the fence back on.
This isn't a don't Google situation...now I'm too lazy to do it, but I kinda want to know the answer
I had fpl here like a day ago (that's the power company in s FL.) They took down these old wooden polls right by my place...really happy abt that btw. Now their all cement and don't look like they'll fall over w a small breeze, let alone a hurricane.
Anyway I was talking to the workers. The one lady told me the top wires are for electric. Below them is cable internet and below them cable TV.
The birds sit on the top wires. How? I'm pretty sure if i climbed up a pole and grabbed one of those it would end very badly. Like Tim in jurassic Park when they turn the fence back on.
This isn't a don't Google situation...now I'm too lazy to do it, but I kinda want to know the answer
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Assuming the lines were not insinuated, if you were to hang onto the power line without touching the pole or the ground, you would not be electrocuted. There would be no ground. Birds are the same. If they were insulated, then the live wire is covered and again you would be safe. Now before you go try this, the wire probably wouldn't hold your weight. It would break and you would go crashing down. Since you would probably keep holding onto the wire, the minute you hit the ground you would be fried. If you let go the ground would probably kill you anyways. So you get 1 second to choose your method of death.
Hahah the minute u mentioned it was not going to electrocute me that's exactly what I was thinking. So good warning.
Although I prolly couldn't Jimmy my way up those poles. The don't have leg rungs or anything like that.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Throwbacks is crap that you finally no longer hear on top 40 radio and are thankful for it.
When I hear the word "throwback," Idon't think of music. I think of a caught fish that is too small to keep and has to be thrown back into the water. KQIE, a rhythmic oldies station in Redlands, doesn't use the word "throwbacks." No, KQIE is "Old School 104.7." What the heck does "old school" even mean?
We had a 103.3 FM?
How about that?.....
If I can remember, I'll tune it in to see if it needs to be thrown back or not.
How about that?.....
If I can remember, I'll tune it in to see if it needs to be thrown back or not.
In rap, I've heard the term "Mack" get thrown around a lot. "I'm the mack" "Mackin' all the ladies" etc. It basically means being successful with the women (can either be used to say he's a ladies man, or a he's actually a pimp). I've never known the origin of it.
Someone posted the song "Stagolee", written about 'Stag Lee' Shelton, in another thread and I was reading about it. The wiki page says, "Lee Shelton belonged to a group of pimps known in St. Louis as the 'Macks.'" Clicking on the reference citation, I'm taken to a book that says, "In St. Louis, pimps were known by the French word maquereaux, which became shortened to macks." That French word has two meanings with two different word origins. The second meaning is "pimp" and that origin is traced back to Middle Dutch makelaer/makelare meaning “broker”.
Now I know!
Someone posted the song "Stagolee", written about 'Stag Lee' Shelton, in another thread and I was reading about it. The wiki page says, "Lee Shelton belonged to a group of pimps known in St. Louis as the 'Macks.'" Clicking on the reference citation, I'm taken to a book that says, "In St. Louis, pimps were known by the French word maquereaux, which became shortened to macks." That French word has two meanings with two different word origins. The second meaning is "pimp" and that origin is traced back to Middle Dutch makelaer/makelare meaning “broker”.
Now I know!
I'm just waiting for @Channel98 to add to this.In rap, I've heard the term "Mack" get thrown around a lot. "I'm the mack" "Mackin' all the ladies" etc. It basically means being successful with the women (can either be used to say he's a ladies man, or a he's actually a pimp). I've never known the origin of it.
Someone posted the song "Stagolee", written about 'Stag Lee' Shelton, in another thread and I was reading about it. The wiki page says, "Lee Shelton belonged to a group of pimps known in St. Louis as the 'Macks.'" Clicking on the reference citation, I'm taken to a book that says, "In St. Louis, pimps were known by the French word maquereaux, which became shortened to macks." That French word has two meanings with two different word origins. The second meaning is "pimp" and that origin is traced back to Middle Dutch makelaer/makelare meaning “broker”.
Now I know!
I will share this song by Mark Morrison and ask if he was calling himself a pimp. Return Of The Mack was a #2 hit in June 1997. It was kept out of the number one spot by Hanson's MMMBop.
Wolf
AI is here, time to obey our robot overlords!
Alright you pretend Nickelback haters out there. Nickelback is back with "San Quentin" so get rollin!
Wolf
AI is here, time to obey our robot overlords!
Let's get this new single on down the road
We're takin' bets how far up the chart it will go
Call all your best friends, don't be sloppy
Tell everyone to buy a copy
Our last hit was in Canada in 2015
Seven years with no hits, that is just obscene
If San Quentin isn't a hit, I'll wish I was dead
I called my lawyer and here's what I said:
If this song bombs, I'll go out of my mind
Let the record show I did it all for rock & roll
Screamin' every night, playing 25 to life
So everybody please make a hit out of San Quentin
Out of San Quentin
Make a hit out of San Quentin
Ooh, can everybody please make a hit out of San Quentin?
We're takin' bets how far up the chart it will go
Call all your best friends, don't be sloppy
Tell everyone to buy a copy
Our last hit was in Canada in 2015
Seven years with no hits, that is just obscene
If San Quentin isn't a hit, I'll wish I was dead
I called my lawyer and here's what I said:
If this song bombs, I'll go out of my mind
Let the record show I did it all for rock & roll
Screamin' every night, playing 25 to life
So everybody please make a hit out of San Quentin
Out of San Quentin
Make a hit out of San Quentin
Ooh, can everybody please make a hit out of San Quentin?
The groove is kinda fun, but the lyrics should have him more worried about landing in Gitmo than San Quentin.....
