# Post whatever's on your clipboard right now **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657 "2008-03-25T07:38:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/81 "2008-03-25T21:50:58Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fXu_YdyKQJE/hqdefault.jpg "Dr Feelgood Richard Hammond Brainiac Kebabology") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXu_YdyKQJE) I’ve been watching Brainiac clips on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/82 "2008-03-25T22:36:27Z")
DBMS\_STATS.GATHER\_TABLE\_STATS(v\_curr\_schema, UPPER(p\_table\_name), ESTIMATE\_PERCENT =\> p\_estimate\_percent, DEGREE =\> 3, CASCADE =\> TRUE We’re analyzing tables like a motherfuck! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/83 "2008-03-25T22:43:22Z")
sdmb ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/84 "2008-03-25T23:04:54Z")
The atmosphere in the caves was perfect for the waiting involved when you have to send eight people up a 60-foot rope one at a time. I sat and enjoyed being in the caves, relishing how damned cool it was that I was there looking at them. It didn’t matter that they were not really extensive, or that they did not contain anything amazing. It was more than enough to realize just how amazing our journey had been. We’d traveled through five separate tunnel systems, twice using connections we’d created ourselves. We’d followed a route so unlikely, so convoluted, and so difficult that it seemed impossible to believe that anyone could would ever replicate it on their own. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/85 "2008-03-25T23:06:32Z")
- 1 hour of this on stcopp2493D, need to obtain new code ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/86 "2008-03-25T23:14:56Z")
I’m debating between “I used to think suicide would solve all of my problems, but your Daddy never had the guts to do it” or an alternate version: “I used to think suicide would solve all of my problems, but I could never talk your Daddy into it”. Both are actual quotes but I can’t decide which I like better. _context if interested: an email letter to a friend debating which is the better opening line for a story._ ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/87 "2008-03-25T23:54:17Z")
Mera Naam Joker ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/88 "2008-03-26T00:29:18Z")
The problem with being Democrat is that if you vote for Obama, you’re sexist. And if you vote for Hilary, you’re racist. It’s easy being a Republican. No matter what you’re retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/89 "2008-03-26T01:15:18Z")
> **[Intertwined Inspired](https://flickr.com/groups/673593@N20/?rb=1)** > > Yarns inspired by Intertwined. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/90 "2008-03-26T01:50:46Z")
[http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/tenniel/alice/7.3.html](http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/tenniel/alice/7.3.html) ---
**Author:** ![larsenmtl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@larsenmtl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/larsenmtl)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/91 "2008-03-26T02:27:27Z")
Tom Lehrer ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/92 "2008-03-26T02:30:43Z")
Roland Arnall Only the Telegraph has reported the death of Roland Arnall, former US ambassador to The Netherlands. He died at the age of 68, apparently of cancer. His was an odd life, full of honor and controversy. Bornin Paris, his family fled to the countryside when the Germans invaded. They hid from their young son his Jewish heritage until the war. Later his family moved to Canada then to California. In Los Angeles he lived the American dream, parlaying a flower stall into a real estate empire. He then moved into financing real estate, establishing Ameriquest, a firm which more-or-less invented the now-reviled “Sub-prime Mortgage.” When the firm collapsed four thousand people lost their jobs, thousands more lost their American dream and some huge fines were paid to regulators for violations. While in California, he was an active supporter of the Republican party, raising millions for George Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger. These efforts led to his ambassadorial appointment, one so awkward politically that the Republican-controlled Senate had difficulty approving it. So the headline would be one of “Evil Republican,” but look again. He was a charitable man. He helped establish both the Simon Wiesenthal Center and something called the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. While ambassador, he spoke repeatedly about the need for fair treatment for Europe’s growing minority of Muslims. In a final act of class and elegance, he resigned his position when his son became ill and needed his father’s full attention. American lives, it is said, have only one act. He we see a life that had two distinct parts. Link: [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/03/25/db2502.xml](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/03/25/db2502.xml) Wiki-Link: > **[Roland E. Arnall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Arnall)** > > Roland E. Arnall (March 29, 1939 – March 17, 2008) was an American businessman and diplomat. As the owner of ACC Capital Holdings, he became a billionaire with Ameriquest Mortgage. Additionally he funded, financed and was the visionary and co-founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and from 2006 until shortly before his death he was the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands. > Roland Arnall was born on March 29, 1939, in Paris, France. His parents were Eastern European Jews who had fled to P... ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/93 "2008-03-26T02:31:18Z")
[http://blogs.earthsky.org/larrysessions/space/032190/why-not-the-clarke-event/](http://blogs.earthsky.org/larrysessions/space/032190/why-not-the-clarke-event/) ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/94 "2008-03-26T02:44:38Z")
> **[Go See Cal, Go See Cal, Go See Cal!](https://jalopnik.com/go-see-cal-go-see-cal-go-see-cal-346945)** > > We wrote about Southern California car-dealership-ad legend Cal Worthington a while back, when the New York Times saw fit to honor him with a big story... but now we've found a collection of clips from his old Los Angeles-area Worthington Ford ads,... ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/95 "2008-03-26T03:20:17Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNDh_tFIHn4) You have been LeekRolled. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/96 "2008-03-26T03:22:52Z")
> **[Featured Content on Myspace](https://myspace.com/discover/featured)** > > Featured Content on Myspace EDIT: That’s ‘Why Leno needs a bodyguard’. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Cream\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ice\_Cream\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Cream_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/97 "2008-03-26T03:30:56Z")
[http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001509perfect\_mashed\_potatoes.php](http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001509perfect_mashed_potatoes.php) ETA: They were good with some fresh chopped rosemary. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Thalia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba8739/32.png) [@Northern\_Thalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Thalia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/98 "2008-03-26T03:45:28Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5uGsUXSbI4E/hqdefault.jpg "Telemarketer Call: Crazy Old Lady") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uGsUXSbI4E) Only click the link if you want to hear a whole bucket load of crazy! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/99 "2008-03-26T03:49:19Z")
According to the [Muppet Wiki](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Big_Bird), Big Bird’s species is often given as a canary, although, as **RealityChuck** pointed out, the bird himself once told Mr. Rogers he was a Golden Condor. The official _Sesame Street_ [website](http://www.sesameworkshop.org/) has no information regarding Big Bird’s species, but looking at some of the videos that are avaiable on the site, Big Bird himself states that he is an “eight-foot bird,” and also points out that he is not a giant or an aardvark. [For a thread in Cafe Society about Big Bird’s species.] ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-whatevers-on-your-clipboard-right-now/442657/100 "2008-03-26T04:12:35Z")
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