thinking of Born In The USA?
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The TIE Fighter sound was a combination of a car driving on wet pavement and the trumpeting of a male elephant.
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Ah, yes. You’re correct. Thanks.
A great patriotic song, detailing the wonders of our beloved country.
/s
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TIL: Romans made some pretty good concrete, and how they did it:
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I’ll just assume it’s true…and I won’t take issue with “east of MN” actually meaning “east of at least one part of MN”…
Kind of like how Greenland is North and South and East and West of Iceland.
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Heh, I have one of the books they reference: This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland.
I heard the author speaking on NPR and bought the book on a lark. The first part was interesting, but I couldn’t get through it. It remains unfinished.
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Alaska is also the Eastern most US state
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By an arbitrary metric, sure.
There is a SPAM Museum in Austin, Minnesota. Apparently, there are several varieties of SPAM.
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I vaguely recall hearing there was a museum, I didn’t know there were multiple varieties of SPAM.
“Stuart’s Plumbing of Austin Minnesota”?
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Don’t sign up for his mailing list!
Is that the one owned by Stuart Smalley?
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I saw at Target, individually packed single serving slice of SPAM, in case you don’t want to open a whole can.
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Today I learned that kids in Des Moines haven’t trick or treated on Halloween since 1938
Back in my day, in Watertown, WI, ToT was in the afternoon.
I recall my youth wondering when we were doing tricks-or-treats (or both). I think it was mainly Beggar’s Night (10/30), so there could be Halloween Parties on 10/31.
That was a long time ago, so I’ll have to ask my historian (small “h”) brother who remembers such trivia in our early lives.
I don’t recall any changes due to weather. Your costume is now “The Ghost of Gene Kelly” with an umbrella.