The word rickety, meaning unstable or physically unsound, is derived from rickets, the disease caused by lack of vitamin D and whose symptoms include soft and deformed bones.
I always assumed it was the other way around!
Very funny. Although I once attended a Unitarian-Universalist service and I thought it was so christian it made my eyeballs ache from the rolling I gave them.
Just as a BTW to the preceding posts, etymonline says rickets was coined in 1630 and rickety followed a half century later.
Maybe they should go back to the pigeons. Ineternet Protocol over Avian Carriers (IPoAC), or sending flash drives by carrier pigeon, started as a joke. However, when tested in the real world, it has sometimes been found to be faster than transmitting data over the Internet.
Don’t you mean look back to 2017-21? Does anyone here think Trump could under any circumstances be called a Christian?
When you started working there, did they turn the lights on so you could see where your desk was, where the chemicals were, etc., or was it darkness from day 1?
I think it was dark as soon as the first person started working …
The dark room was solely for breaking open the film cassettes and taping the
films together onto spools with a length of clear acetate at the end - no chemicals or anything else, just film cassettes and empty spools.
The spools were loaded into cannisters which were lightproof so could then be passed out to the processing area, which was lit normally.
The length of acetate which protruded from the cannister would be stapled
to the end of the previous spool (gotta be quick !) when that was disappearing
into the processing machine so as to have a continuous band of film going
through at all times, with clear acetate being use if the next cannister wasn’t ready, or
at the end of the day after the last cannister (it was a pain to have to rethread the
whole machine !)
I give you a quote from A. Tanenbaum, computer scientist
Throw a few flash drives in the glovebox and you got something going.
Richard Nixon almost chose Ronald Reagan as his VP. I wonder how that would have changed history?
The Soviet Union was notorious for chronic shortages. What’s lesser known was that they were also plagued by surpluses of certain undesired items. So much so that stores would often pair a highly desirable good in short supply with a less desirable good that they had a lot of. For example, if you wanted a can of instant coffee from India (yum!) you’re also required to buy a can of “sea cabbage” or seaweed (ugh!). The Soviet term for this was нагрузка (nagruzka).
This wasn’t just limited to groceries. In bookstores, for instance, if you wanted a copy of the latest bestseller, you’d also have to buy Comrade Leonid’s biography. If wanted tickets to a soccer match with a top team, you’d also have to get tickets to a third-rate team as нагрузка.
Francis Spufford noted in his book “Red Plenty “ that some Soviet factories actually produced negative economic value, usually by turning perfectly good cloth into clothing that nobody would willingly wear.
I’m pretty sure that the Soviet command economy produced enormous amounts of negative value throughout.
He wasn’t the first, though.
And isn’t Trinitarianism kind of the defining feature of Christianity?
In a similar vein, Pitcher Orel Hershiser batted 1000 in the 1988 World Series. He was only at bat five times…actually, that’s still pretty damn impressive.
In that case, Jehovah’s Witnesses aren’t Christian, either.
Just for fun:
Well, obviously, Unitarians like Adams didn’t think so, and many modern Unitarian-Universalists today don’t, either.
Toronto is a town in the Greater Newcastle area, New South Wales, Australia.
Newcastle is a town in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada.
(Okay, Newcastle is just barely in the Greater Toronto Area, being on the extreme eastern edge, but you can get there on the GO Bus, so it still works.
Also, capitalization is significant in the first two sentences of this post. 
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Apparently named in honour of the rower Ned Hanlon! I remember watching the NFB vignette about him during Saturday morning cartoons.