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The Carbonated Beverage and Things Named After Earls Before the End of the Year Thread

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,260
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I vote for Nebraska.  I once rode my motorcycle east to west across Nebraska on Interstate 80.  I almost forgot that the universe has 3 dimensions.  I was in flatland.  I was beginning to think two-dimensionally.  The only excitement is when the corn field gives way to a wheat field.  But somewhere in my mind numbing journey I saw a single tree off in the distance.  Overjoyed, I mused on that vision for the rest of the trip that day, realizing that I had seen the "Great Nebraska Forest".devil

    ....yeah on our ski team excursions from Wisconsin to Colorado we went through Nebraska, fortunately mostly through the night.  That is why I refer to it as the "Sleep Through State". 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,260
    kenshaw011267 said:

    Bok Tower might be one of the only things that could get me back into Florida. The mosaics are glorious but that door is just amazing. I have no idea who polishes it but that is an awful lot of brass for that much humidity.

    But its not all limestone. That's almost all marble. The pink stone is Etowah marble from Etowah GA and the gray stone is from a different marble quarry in GA. The tan stone is limestone from FL.

    If for some reason you must go to central Florida, I know Orlando and kids, Drive down to Polk county and see this place. The guy who designed the park around it is world renowned for his work and this might be his best work. It is simply astonishingly beautiful. If you can catch a performance by the carillon bells you will not regret it, assuming you survive the mosquitoes.

    Cape Canaveral Monsters? I like bad Atomic era sci fi movies and have never heard of that one it most be utter trash. Will have to look into it.

    ...there's very little that would ever get me to want to go back to Florida, and I am "old fart" as well.  Only been there once and that was enough to convince me (particularly the bad motorists). to never want to return.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,681
    edited July 2020

    A couple of my great aunts (born in the 1890s) moved from western NY State to Florida when they got married in the 1920s.  They moved to the Miami area (back when it was still mostly jungle).  When they spoke of their city, they called it "my-AMAH".  About the only cities in lower Florida at the time were "TAM-pah" and "my-AMAH".  Yet the single road between the two cities  was the "Tamiami Trail"  pronounced "Tammy-Ammy" (not much more than a set of model-T ruts in sand through the high parts of the swamp that covered the entire bottom of Florida at the time)

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,260
    NylonGirl said:
    Divamakeup said:

    The local vs non-local pronunciation is an interesting conversation. I have family who live in Arkansas and the locals pronounce it "Are-Kin-Saw" but often people from out of state will come in and call it "Are-Kansas".

    Where I live, the big debate is whether the "ri" in Missouri is pronounced as "ree" or "ruh". You should never become one of the people who say Missouruh.

    We have another situation that revolves around the city being called "Kansas City" even though it's in Missouri. It has led to many visiting music artists, comedians, and even a president or two, publicly referring to the state as Kansas just based on the name of the city. That never ends well.

    ..crikey, we've been dealing woth people mis-pronouncing the name of the state for a while now,.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,260
    NylonGirl said:
    Divamakeup said:

    The local vs non-local pronunciation is an interesting conversation. I have family who live in Arkansas and the locals pronounce it "Are-Kin-Saw" but often people from out of state will come in and call it "Are-Kansas".

    Where I live, the big debate is whether the "ri" in Missouri is pronounced as "ree" or "ruh". You should never become one of the people who say Missouruh.

    We have another situation that revolves around the city being called "Kansas City" even though it's in Missouri. It has led to many visiting music artists, comedians, and even a president or two, publicly referring to the state as Kansas just based on the name of the city. That never ends well.

    ..crikey, we've been dealing woth people mis-pronouncing the name of the state for a while now,.

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,939
    Greymom said:

    You might also check the video card priority or selection in the BIOS.  If you had it set to other than the default (which varies) it would be reset to default by a dead battery.

    Now is that a biscuit or a cookie?

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,939

    Am I a thread killer?

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,614
    NylonGirl said:

    Am I a thread killer?

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/289791/are-yoo-a-thread-killer#latest

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,085
    NylonGirl said:

    Am I a thread killer?

    Yep.

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