It gets even better. There is a street locator for Manhattan for the Avenues above 14th Street. Given the building number, it gives you the approximate cross street. The algorithm is in all NYC’s phone books.
It’s as simple as calculating in your head the name of a weekday from the date. (Which is easier than finding the formula on the internet, otherwise I’d show a link.) Huh – somebody calls it the Doomsday Calculator.
Not baseball, but Steven Hill (Dan Briggs of Season 1 Mission Impossible) only worked Season 1 of Mission Impossible because he was not able to work Sabbath (he told producers prior to start), and his role became more and more reduced as production went on.
He later played District Attorney Adam Schiff on Law & Order.
Did you know goldfish can get this big?
Did you know they can go without oxygen for a long time?
I sure didn’t.
No need to carp about it
I’d rather be koi.
Two very different items of clothing still in use today derive from the relatively short Crimean War (1854-1856), the cardigan and the balaclava. The first is named after Lord Cardigan who lead the Charge of the Light Brigade, the second named after the battle of Balaclava just outside Sebastopol.
The much longer Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815) also produced two, the Wellington boot and the Raglan sleeve, whereas World War I (1914-1918) only the trenchcoat as far as I can see. From World War II (1939-1945) I can only think of the bomber jacket.
If tobacco, alcohol and aspirin were submitted today to the FDA, none of them would be approved. 
The FDA doesn’t regulate alcohol.
Why wouldn’t aspirin be approved?
@D_Anconia True. But it’s just a hypothetical, you realize.
@hajario Actually I don’t even remember where I first heard it. It was a while ago, but from a reliable source . FWIW a doctor once told me that he had his misgivings about Aspirin, even though it was basically freely accessible even to children.
If it was “submitted today” there wouldn’t already be an Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Bureau (TTB)
TIL about Deep Pectoral Myopathy (DPM). Also known colloquially as “Green Muscle Disease,” it’s a condition that causes chicken breast meat to turn green - but only the deep pectoral muscle, i.e. the “tender”, so you likely won’t discover it until after you’ve roasted and carved the bird.
Supposedly presents no danger when eaten, but most consumers would not eat it if it showed up on their plate.
I have heard…if wood was a brand-new material, the authorities probably wouldn’t approve it for construction etc. due to its not being fire resistant/fireproof.
Thank you for that!
Dear God, this happens because broiler chickens are so over-bred that if they flap their wings, blood gets trapped in their muscles and causes swelling, killing the muscle tissue?!
Poor deformed creatures. I think I’ll stick with the local place that raises chickens that can use their bodies.
Happy Bastille Day, everybody!
To mark the 100th anniversary of the Revolution, one design proposed a giant replica of the guillotine…
Back in 1989, the 200th anniversary, I heard that the French were commemorating the event by putting images of the guillotine on lots of things…including condoms. That would totally take me out of the mood but whatevs.
Bonus: crazy “parachute” dude.
He made quite an impression.
Naw, it’s a F4U head on
Well, as long as it’s a reliable friend of a friend…
I knew they could get pretty big. we had some goldfish in a tank in our daughter’s room when she was little. All but one died, but that one grew until it hit a “comfortable” size in the tank. And it lived one heck of a long time.