Ima go check GoGroceryBaggers.com for an Insignificant Signal thread.
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The term “broflake.”
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The term dime to describe an assist in basketball is because pay phone calls were 10 cents for a long time.
To assist the police in catching a criminal you would go to a pay phone and ‘drop a dime’ and call the police to report the tip.
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I’ve also heard drop a dime as in “drop on a dime” to describe a really accurate pass. I think both turns of phrase are commonly used in sportscasting.
Maybe an extension of “turn on a dime”
i know drop a dime as snitch and
stop on a dime as an immediate halt
and turn on a dime as the same concept
don’t know drop a dime as a sports term
Oak trees essentially took over the place of chestnuts in the ecosystem since then.
There are people making efforts to bring back the American chestnut using a combination of techniques: crossing more disease resistant American Chestnuts with just enough Chinese chesnut to make it viable, and genetic engineering resistance to the blight.
Walking in wooded areas in the East, you can still see American chestnuts frequently. They sprout from the ruins of the old giants. They usually start dying from the blight before they can produce nuts, so mostly less that 15-20 feet tall. I found one a couple of years ago that I’d estimate was at least 30 feet tall and healthy.
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Lodi produces more wine than Napa and Sonoma combined
Not much of it to drink, though. I’ve tried some.
I have had a few Zinfandel from there that I liked, but don’t remember drinking any other varietals from there.
The SSA considers people born on 01/01 (mm/dd) to have been born in the year prior…at least for purposes of calculating full retirement age.
Eh, pretty much for everything.
I just say that Social Security’s fiscal year is January 2 - January 1. (As opposed to the much more common January 1 - December 31.)
In terms of calculating your age when you collect benefits they look at your age on the first day of the month because you have to be that age for the full month for it to count.
The months, of course, also run from the second to the first.
June 30 = June
July 1 = June
July 2 = July
July 3 = July
Say you want to start collecting benefits right at age 62 / as early as possible.
You have to be 62 for the full month, so in the year you turn 62…
June 30, July 1, July 2 are all eligible to collect in July. (July means July 2 - August 1)
July 3 is not eligible to begin collecting benefits until August because unlike July 2, he was not 62 for the full month of July.
Another example…
SSNRA:
12/31/1954: 66
01/01/1955: 66
01/02/1955: 66 and 2 months
01/03/1955: 66 and 2 months
And the really fun one…
Month you can collect full SSNRA benefit:
12/31/1954: January 2021
01/01/1955: January 2021
01/02/1955: March 2021
01/03/1955: April 2021
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It also means that there is no such thing as a person who could start their full SSNRA benefit in February 2021. Not mathematically possible.
And a bunch of other months too.
And of course the only people who got it in March 2021 are people born specifically on January 2, 1955. No other DOB would have you collecting your full benefit starting in March 2021.
It’s a weird phenomenon.
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I got given a bottle of wine from the Jordan river/valley area. They told me they’ve been making wine there for thousands of years. Does that make it good wine? I dunno, I guess we will find out.
Report back. I have been severely disappointed by every glass of South African and Lebanese wine I’ve ever tasted, but had good experiences with wine from other parts of Africa. I’ve never had Jordanian wine. (At least I don’t think I have.)
Chateau Musar from nearby Lebanon is excellent but is expensive. The Phoenicians (from Lebanon) were an important influence in wine history -
The culture of the ancient Phoenicians was one of the first to have had a significant effect on the history of wine. Phoenicia was a civilization centered in current day Lebanon. Between 1550 BC and 300 BC, the Phoenicians developed a maritime trading culture that expanded their influence from the Levant to North Africa, the Greek Isles, and the Iberian Peninsula. Through contact and trade, they spread not only their alphabet but also their knowledge of viticulture and winemaking, including the propagation of several ancestral varieties of the Vitis vinifera species of wine grapes
On the subject of Jordanian wine, it seems you have some esteemed drinking buddies -
Several sources suggest that the wine served to Jesus during the Last Supper came from Umm Qais in Northern Jordan.
Not good but back when I drank cheap wine often, I found when Trader Joe’s had South African wine it was generally decent for the price point.
Interesting. The woman that gave it to me was a Christian from Jordan, I think born in Bethlehem. She’s a post doc student I took fishing a couple of times. And - interesting to me - her husband is some religion from Iran that predates and likely was the source of the abrahamic religions.
I just find the connection going back thousands of years for people.like this, interesting.
Is that the one with the supreme being inspiring the name of a car company?