Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

So who the hell is Terry Virst.  Apart from a mouthy astronaut who is no more qualified than Katy Perry.

He wants to be a what?

Bally

It was the first I ever heard of him. In his campaign clip he sounds like a conservative republican.

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"Congrats, you won an all expenses paid trip to Ipanema Beach in Rio on Rogue Airlines!"

You flamin ripper mate.  Seat 11A please...!


Bally

Ok fine, have you reserved in seat 11A. I'll be 727Sky's co-pilot. Pack a parachute just in case.

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By 1903, Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870–1965) had his own brokerage firm and gained the reputation of "The Lone Wolf of Wall Street" because of his refusal to join any financial house. Baruch was on the Cover of Time magazine for February 25, 1924; March 12, 1928; June 28, 1943.




Another year's worth of meat ration books is being issued across Britain: Ministry of Food adverts warn customers not to try and "wangle extra on the side".




Between 1945 and 1952, The treni della felicità ‘happiness trains’ transported 70,000 children from southern to northern Italy to live with wealthier families. It was a scheme organised by the Union of Italian Women and the Italian Communist Party in an attempt to make the lives of southern Italian children better.

Ten-year-old Bianca D’Aniello was one of the passengers to travel from Salerno in the south to Mestre in the north where she was looked after by a family with more resources.
Italian happiness trains


In 2019, Viola Ardone published Il treno dei bambini, a novel about a young Neapolitan boy who travels to northern Italy on the treni della felicità. It was adapted into a Netflix film, The Children's Train, which premiered in 2024.


Saturday night movie: UFOria (1984) starring Cindy Williams, Harry Dean Stanton, Fred Ward. Sheldon Bart, a drifter and con man, meets Brother Bud and falls in love with Arlene, a religious supermarket clerk. When Arlene sees a UFO, everyone deals with it differently.




Related or not but this was one of my theories during Covid. TPTB were looking for someone special.

Scientists Identify New Blood Group, And It's The World's Rarest

"However, resources at the time did not allow for further research."
LOL, they really expect us to believe that BS?!


If you thought Bezos wedding was over the top, checkout...




Had to check that this is actually coming from an official gov account...









Weekend words...



A SCOTS DIALECT DICTIONARY comprising the words in use from the latter part of the 17th Century to the present day (1911); 750 page PDF.

From Cows to Cabinetry: Milk Paint and 6 Awesome Uses for It

All About Milk Paint

Herodotus asserts that if the Persians decided something while drunk, they made a rule to reconsider it when sober. Authors after Herodotus have added that if the Persians made a decision while sober, they made a rule to reconsider it when they were drunk.

The Babylonian Talmud contains the passage, 'wine enters, secret goes out'. It continues, 'in three things is a man revealed: in his wine goblet, in his purse, and in his wrath'.

Round, round with the glass, boys, as fast as you can,
Since he who don't drink cannot be a true man.
For if truth is in wine, then 'tis all but a whim
To think a man's true when the wine's not in him.
Drink, drink, then, and hold it a maxim divine
That there's virtue in truth, and there's truth in good wine!
— Benjamin Cooke, "In Vino Veritas"