It's like all those stories from the 1800s of clocks stopping the moment a person died. Turns out of a lot of the clocks back then would stop running if you turned them sideways, which a lot of doctors did at night to be able to read the time of death.
Jesus Christ. All I found in my house was a hat one of the workers left in the attic when it was built (1942).
One of my profs in grad school had a new house built like that, enormous with almost no yard around it separating it from the neighbors. I asked him why and he said his wife liked it like that because it made her feel more secure. I was like, OK so now your neighbors can easily come kill you and then just go home instead of having to flee from a gated community.
TBF this was in Gainesville right after the Rolling murders. Reading about somebody's head on a turntable might make you do strange things.
He kept bogarting the J.
When I saw it in a theater, the film broke during the trash compactor scene. My poor mother was like "oh well, time to go home" but I was having none of that.
No tolls only fees!
vowing to hold off on any future layoffs
He didn't say anything about holding off past layoffs. Get ready for some retroactive shitcanning.
If you have somebody gullible enough to hand you a bag full of cash, you have to be there to receive the bag. You can scam from India or wherever, but you have to deal with gift cards and the like.
When I lived in Florida in the '90s, there was a big story in the news about a woman who was contacted by scammers claiming to be the FBI. They told her they needed her help to catch some criminal, and that they needed her to take out $5000 in cash from her savings account and give it to them in a public place. She did this, and they contacted her again and said they almost had the guy but they needed her to take out another $5000, which she did. She only got suspicious and called the cops after they tried this a third time but nobody showed up to receive the money. Apparently they assumed she was on to them and that the third time was a trap set up by the police.
I've been feeding my local crows peanuts for years now. The only thank-you gift I've ever gotten is bird shit on my car.
I had no idea who he was until he got shot. I was vaguely aware of some right-wing pundit that people made fun of for having a tiny face on a big head. When I saw the assassination footage, my only thought was "damn, that really is a tiny face on a big head".
I'm renovating my house which was built in 1942. Even though these houses were built as temporary worker housing during the war, the 2x4s are just insane quality. Perfectly straight and not a knot to be found in them anywhere. I repurposed some of them as stairway bannisters because they're so great.
Unfortunately, it took me awhile to notice that they're all 3.75" x 1.75". I knew older 2x4s were really 2" x 4" instead of the modern 3.5" x 1.5", but I never knew that there was an intermediate dimensional period like this. I kept building new walls 1/2" too high with them until I figured it out because they looked modern.