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First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 11:11 PM Sep 2017

Things that keep me up at night...

...Who arrived first--Car 54 or Scooby-Doo?

...Did the Earl of Oxford write Bacon's essays?

...Where *was* the rest of Ronald Reagan?

...Whatever happened to the Byzantine Empire?

...Were the Wars of the Roses inevitable?

...If Kayzer Soze invented the whole thing...then who invented him?

...Where are our flying cars?

...Was it actually Vaughan Meader who was assassinated in 1963?

...these, and many other questions, constantly nag at me. I really need to get a life...

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Things that keep me up at night... (Original Post) First Speaker Sep 2017 OP
How in the heck True Dough Sep 2017 #1
Hey--if they can predict the half-life of radioactive isotopes so precisely... First Speaker Sep 2017 #2
More to the point, PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #3
Oh, by the way, which one WAS Pink??!? lastlib Sep 2017 #4
What kind of cop is named Schnauzer? longship Sep 2017 #5

True Dough

(17,246 posts)
1. How in the heck
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 11:18 PM
Sep 2017

can food manufactures tell you with such precision exactly when something will expire or be past its "best before" date? I've noticed packages with dates like May 23, 2018. So it will be fine on May 22, but on May 23 something magically is "off"?!?

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
2. Hey--if they can predict the half-life of radioactive isotopes so precisely...
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 11:22 PM
Sep 2017

...then "they" can do this. And we can trust everything they tell us, can't we...?

longship

(40,416 posts)
5. What kind of cop is named Schnauzer?
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 12:49 AM
Sep 2017

I remember this to this day:

There's a holdup in the Bronx.
Brooklyn's broken out in fight.
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
That's backed up to Jackson Heights.
There's a scout troop short a child.
Khrushchev's due at Idlewild.
Car 54, where are you?

There's an ear worm for you.
Enjoy it.

My favorite episode, Boom, Boom, Boom:

It's true lunacy.
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