Pittsburgh is the only city where all professional sports teams align in color schemes (black & gold for the Steelers/Pirates and Penguins)
President Garfield was tall, athletic, good looking and was both a university professor as well as a civil war general- he could write Latin with his left hand while simultaneously writing Greek with his right....he was shot 6 months after being inaugurated and died in office ~ 3 months later
his successor- President Arthur - was a member’ of THE HALF BREED PARTY (so called because they combined political sub-groups) ....I picked that up by reading my moms set of 1962 encyclopedias recently - Wikipedia lists him as a Republican
but he was a half-bread man all the way ...
Calpis- is a Japanese drink that’s similar to Gatorade- used to drink it fervently when I was there — but that name is ALSO unfortunate cause it sounds like
Cow-Piss when Americans say it ...yum
Bonus Japanese info - their word for “serious” is HONKI...,So if you’re asking your Japanese friends if they’re really serious about something you just say ...Honnnnki??
Guess what
THAT sounds like when Americans say or hear it ?
Honkey!!! As in...
fool-crackah-slow footed white jive *** Honkeys!!!
fun
So here’s some nuclear weapon trivia for you - our Air Force ICBM fleet now consists solely of the Minutemen III”s - the Peacekeeper Went offline as I was leaving active duty in 2002 - and the Minuteman Units are online in glamorous places like South Dakota and other such bucolic outposts
The Minutemen used to feature a warhead configuration called MIRV (multiple-independently-targetable-reentry “vehicles “).,..it means each Missile would go into low orbit and then release something like 6-9 Separate nuclear warheads aimed at 6-9
Different targets OR all aimed at one unlucky target)....it’s like a nuclear shotgun
We no longer use the MIRV tech and have reduced each ICBM to having one warhead each ...
But nukes have gotten MUCH MUCH smaller of course- we could use one now and you’d hardly notice .....
The movie “Night of the Living Dead” (1969) was considered a genre starter of sorts and was a cult favorite for a lot of people for a long time.....when the movie was released...the production team FORGOT TO COPYRIGHT IT....
just - forgot that part....
I bet someone’s *** Got Chewed at some kind of meeting or another over that
Germany was saddled with the entire F’ing war debt for WW-I — (a war they didn’t start)
Germany paid the debt in full in 2014
(Can’t say the same for NATO dues but HELL..)
The seahawk that serves as Seattle’s NFL mascot - isn’t a real animal
Finally- did you know that there’s a Constitution Free zone 100 miles inland from our coastal and landlocked borders?
yep - technically...the Constitution doesn’t apply there ....ISNT that just a bipartisan kick in the junk ??
PS - you now have 5 months to do your Christmas shopping (avoid the constitution free areas if possible!)