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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #525 on: October 19, 2013, 04:13:34 PM »
How do you know Caligula & Co didn't mix their wine with water?
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #526 on: October 19, 2013, 04:15:16 PM »
How do you know Caligula & Co didn't mix their wine with water?

I can't know for sure, it's just a feeling I have. It doesn't seem like Caligula's style to dilute his wine.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #527 on: October 19, 2013, 05:01:07 PM »
How do you know Caligula & Co didn't mix their wine with water?

I can't know for sure, it's just a feeling I have. It doesn't seem like Caligula's style to dilute his wine.

  Maybe he diluted it with ... something else.     :pee:
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #528 on: October 19, 2013, 05:03:55 PM »
The Romans used horse piss as mouthwash, because they were  :viking:

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #529 on: October 19, 2013, 05:07:09 PM »
Ew.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #530 on: October 19, 2013, 09:03:06 PM »
It cost just under $10 in poll commissioner costs for each vote cast in our precinct.  92 voters and $850 dollars in pay.
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #531 on: October 26, 2013, 06:29:29 AM »
Medical Latin is usually false. Oesophagus for instance is just a latinized form of Greek οἰσοφάγος but not just that: the Romans called the food pipe fistula cibalis, which actually means just "food pipe". οἰσοφάγος on the other hand is a glutination of φέρω + ἔφαγον="I carry"+"I ate".

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #532 on: October 26, 2013, 02:17:57 PM »
Tomorrow it's the last Sunday in October, so it will be Central European Winter Time again. Good.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #533 on: October 26, 2013, 02:28:40 PM »
Medical Latin is usually false. Oesophagus for instance is just a latinized form of Greek οἰσοφάγος but not just that: the Romans called the food pipe fistula cibalis, which actually means just "food pipe". οἰσοφάγος on the other hand is a glutination of φέρω + ἔφαγον="I carry"+"I ate".

And stethoscope is a rough translation of Greek "chest looker"
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #534 on: October 26, 2013, 02:36:53 PM »
"Prostate" is prostata in Swedish and pronounced próstata by doctors. It's also Greek in origin, though, and the Greek pronunciation is prostáta which ironically is the pronunciation often heard from laymen here.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #535 on: November 02, 2013, 05:13:08 PM »
Just like you say "thee" instead of "the" in English when you want to stress something, you can say si in French instead of oui and zwo in German instead of zwei.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #536 on: November 02, 2013, 06:05:22 PM »
Corn in cat and dog food makes their poo smellier. Try pet food without corn fillers. More expensive, but less smelly. There are forums dedicated to making homemade petfood that is healthier than the storebought kind and possibly cheaper. At least cheaper than the natural ones that are prepackaged.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/homemade-dog-food/

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #537 on: November 02, 2013, 06:50:29 PM »
Don't work for someone who's looking for a "hard worker."  Work for someone who's looking for a "smart worker."
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #538 on: November 10, 2013, 12:39:04 PM »
JB Weld epoxy is magnetic and will coat neodymium magnets while it's still wet making a mess and possibly drawing it away from what your gluing the magnets to. 
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #539 on: November 10, 2013, 01:46:45 PM »
JB Weld epoxy is magnetic and will coat neodymium magnets while it's still wet making a mess and possibly drawing it away from what your gluing the magnets to.

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