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An Onion article that has stuck in your memory

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A lesser-known cocktail (definition: if you order it, a seasoned bartender won't bat an eye before making it, but the bartender at TGIF would cock her head sideways)

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A movie that actually was a fairly good adaptation of the book

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Something with prawns in it

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Today in the 'rona

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OUR RUMBLING STUMBLING BUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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PRO

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CAL

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Oski - at around 5 years old my parents brought me up to Oski and I did did not react as they hoped despite being fascinated from a distance...Up close, looming over met, it was too much.

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Off topic: Were any Cal players undrafted free agents??? I saw that Kalilh Tate went to the Eagles, Anthony Gordon to the Seahawks, and Stephen Montez to the Redskins...

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Nope.

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Plato and the ancient Greeks on soulmates ...

It is said that in the beginning of time, when humans were first created, they had a form different to that they have today. They were both man and woman, had four arms, four legs and a single head made of two faces.

And there was a time that humans were very powerful creatures, fearless and strong, and even dared to threat the Gods. They threatened to conquer them and rule in their stead, and become the new Gods.

So Zeus came up with [a] solution. They would split the humans in half and punish them for their pride and hubris. Apart from the pain that would cause them, they would also double the population of humans, hence doubling the tributes that had to be made to them by humans. And so they did and the humans everywhere split in two.

Apollo, God of music, truth and prophecy, healing, and light, could not bear see them like this, so to ease their pain, he sewed them up, reconstituted their body forms and just left the navel as the only reminder of their original form. So, humans went from double face and double sex creatures with eight limbs, to single faced ones of a single sex, with two arms and two legs.

*** And they forever longed for their soul and physical other half. ***

Their physical nature would feel a burning desire to be completed with the physical nature of the other sex, and their soul alike would yearn for their soul’s other half be complete, their soulmate. And according to the myth, when these two halves find each other, there will be a silent understanding of one another, they will feel joined and exist with each other in unison and will know no greater joy than that.

https://elligold.com/the-myth-of-soulmates/

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math puzzles

wasnt somone doing math puzzles recently in their spare time?

you might want to check this out.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/store/ebooks/martin-gardner-adventures-in-flatland/

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