I knew where your joke was going and still LOL’ed! ![]()
You should spoiler-blur the punchline though, so future visitors can better appreciate the awesome construction of the joke.
I knew where your joke was going and still LOL’ed! ![]()
You should spoiler-blur the punchline though, so future visitors can better appreciate the awesome construction of the joke.
I knew it was far too obvious but sometimes the fun is in the journey rather than the destination.
It occurred to me you often see abandoned Pizza Huts, sometimes turned into something else. Not unlike the Pyramids? Great minds…
I always got the canopic jars mixed up with the red pepper flakes.
I was thinking Le Louvre…
Along those lines, my favorite totally true yet completely misleading fact is that the age of dinosaurs lasted for 160,000,000 years, long enough for them to have seen fossils of dinosaurs!
Something I probably that made an impression on me from a book on worms I read some years back - Nematodes are so prevalent that if all the matter in the world was swept away, leaving only nematodes, then ghostly, nematode-formed shapes would remain of every single thing. Oceans, humans, mites, trees…
Other fun factoids: Nematodes make up 80% of earth’s multi celled creatures;
There are 57 billion nematodes for every human.
[Mallory Archer] And this is why we have ANTS![/Mallory Archer]
That doesn’t account for all the ants carrying around ten times their own body weight.
The U.S. state that is closest to Africa is Maine.
About 50 years ago (yikes!) a coworker told me embryonic kangaroos crawl from the mother’s uterus to her pouch. I was certain she was putting me on until I saw a video.
Do I live in the only city which has several abandoned Pizza Huts? I can think of at least three close to me - the architecture is not hard to identify.
Just as time caught up with Cleopatra, I suppose someone outpizzaed the pyramids? Pizza Hut was reasonably good, but it’s a competitive industry and Covid helped few.
Just how bad did her Béchamel Sauce go?
That’s awesome.
I’d like to hear that story.
And kangaroos/wallabies cannot step backwards.
Child joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1942[1][2] after finding that she was too tall to enlist in the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) or in the U.S. Navy’s WAVES.[10] She began her OSS career as a typist at its headquarters in Washington but, because of her education and experience, soon was given a more responsible position as a top-secret researcher working directly for the head of OSS, General William J. Donovan.[11][12][13]
As a research assistant in the Secret Intelligence division, she typed 10,000 names on white note cards to keep track of officers. For a year, she worked at the OSS Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section (ESRES) in Washington, D.C. as a file clerk and then as an assistant to developers of a shark repellent needed to ensure that sharks would not explode ordnance targeting German U-boats.[1][2] From 1944–1945, she was posted to Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where her responsibilities included “registering, cataloging and channeling a great volume of highly classified communications” for the OSS’s clandestine stations in Asia.[14][15] She was later posted to Kunming, China, where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.[1][15]
When Child was asked to solve the problem of too many OSS underwater explosives being set off by curious sharks, “Child’s solution was to experiment with cooking various concoctions as a shark repellent,” which were sprinkled in the water near the explosives and repelled sharks.[16] Still in use today, the experimental shark repellent “marked Child’s first foray into the world of cooking.”[17]
For her service, Child received an award that cited her many virtues, including her “drive and inherent cheerfulness”.[11] As with other OSS records, her file was declassified in 2008. Unlike other files, her complete file is available online.[18]
While in Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) she met Paul Cushing Child, also an OSS employee, and the two were married on September 1, 1946, in Lumberville, Pennsylvania,[19] later moving to Washington, D.C. Paul, a New Jersey native[20] who had lived in Paris as an artist and poet, was known for his sophisticated palate,[21] and introduced his wife to fine cuisine. He joined the United States Foreign Service, and, in 1948, the couple moved to Paris after the State Department assigned Paul there as an exhibits officer with the United States Information Agency.[15] The couple had no children.
I don’t know of any repurposed Pizza Huts locally, but I’ve seen plenty of references to them online.