# Good News Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-thread/824231>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 9, 2018, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-thread/824231 "2018-11-09T07:37:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-thread/824231/21 "2018-11-14T20:46:29Z")

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Forecasting possible chance of rain/snow for Northern California next week.

Fingers crossed!

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-thread/824231/22 "2018-11-14T21:11:47Z")

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> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> We found a house we really liked and our offer was accepted today! That’s good news, it will be great news when we have the actual purchase contract in hand tomorrow…

We officially crossed into the “great news” zone! Offer was reasonably countered and we accepted. Now we have to start that whole rigamarole known as “getting a mortgage”, still the most convoluted process known to man. :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-thread/824231/23 "2018-11-15T14:24:35Z")

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[He fled Nazi Germany with his toy monkey. Eighty years later, it helped him reunite with his family.](https://www.npr.org/2018/11/14/663059048/a-toy-monkey-that-escaped-nazi-germany-and-reunited-a-family?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2043&fbclid=IwAR11gaQqJ3_H7rvWiu7HFPQwPCy4cuJS8O1zO0Era7IqfPGDegTI8NP8Qx4)

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-thread/824231/24 "2018-11-24T14:54:51Z")

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[Folks displaced by the California wildfires were not forgotten on Thanksgiving.](https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/us/gallery/wildfire-survivors-thanksgiving-trnd/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-11-23T19%3A43%3A05&utm_term=image)

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