There was no year zero.

And there really wasn’t a year 1 AD through about year 524 AD that people living at those times kept track of. Those years were numbered after the fact by Dionysius in 525 AD. People living at during those times before that used various other ways of counting years (if they did at all), such as Roman emperor reigns.

So nobody living in, say, what we now call 300 AD would have ever said “the year right now is 300 AD.”

Nicholas was just one of the middle people in a long line of Dread Pirate Clauses.

I sometimes do the math, but I mainly just see it as a donation that happens to result in a few cookies.

True. Barter exchanges (organizations set up to match people willing to barter goods and/or services) are still a thing.

>”You will do these. It’s not negotiable,” Zappala said at the news conference.

And if they don’t? He’s the DA. He has no power to compel them.

He’ll have a very difficult time making Kennywood’s security response to the shootings into a prosecutable crime.

The monkey paw strikes again.

Meh, I've had a few high-alcohol beers and to me the excessive alcohol "taste" (or whatever you want to call the alcohol sensation on the tongue and mouth) ruins the beer taste. But that's just me. Although it's not just the alcohol, because I like hard liquor.

Give me 9% or below in beer. I've had the Troegs Mad Elf (11%) and it was "ok" but I quickly tired of it. I've had a couple 12 or 13% beers that were not enjoyable at all.

Molecules (or photons) aren’t psychic, and our sensory receptors aren’t psychic either. So of course a receptor needs to come into physical contact with a molecule or photons.

I wouldn’t say they are all a variation on the sense of touch, but rather all senses — including touch — are a variation on the stimulation of sensory receptors.

Those kangaroos should be able to swim the few thousand miles to get elsewhere. Koalas can hitch a ride in the kangaroos’ pouches.

But it’s still a finite number of legs. Similarly, there are not an infinite number of book pages — even if we consider every book ever printed.

If you mean just the one first page of each of those books and comic books, then wouldn’t it be a number equal to the number of books/comics?

If by “first pages” you mean the first few pages, then wouldn’t that be a finite multiple of the number of books/comics?

Or am I misunderstanding what you mean?

Not me. I'm descended from some guy named Steve who was Charlamagne's cousin's gardener.

Dinosaur? I think you mean a "Jesus horse"

Seriously though, our ancestors were the shrew-like mammals that survived the K-T extinction event that ended the dinosaur era.

Raspberries too, sometimes.

I bought some raspberries recently only to discover that some of them still had a stem plugging up the hole. Those stems are definitely butt-plug shaped.

What a tit.

Came here for this.

When I was younger, I would let my Cap'n Crunch sit for a few minutes so it could get a little soggy.

If you have the soapbox and people are listening, you could invent a word like "cromulent" like The Simpsons did, and it could become an accepted part of the language.

Shakespeare also invented words that later became accept (i.e., became perfectly cromulent).

My mother would swear around us in her native language of Greek. Nothing terrible ("skata", etc), but curse words nonetheless.

“There are two things I can’t stand in the world: People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.” -- Nigel Powers

Hobby Lobby.

Strangers with Candy.

Skeletons are to be known from now on as “defleshed individuals.” ^/s

- Randy Johnson enters the chat

Warning: Real exploding bird

Even if this were actually said, Apollo 13 was a failure as a mission.

Everyone got back safely, but the contractor who built the cryo tanks dropped the tank, tried to burn off the fuel overnight, unknowingly and accidentally exposed the wiring inside the tank to temperatures that far exceeded the design temperatures, which burned off the protective wire insulation.

That would (months later) result in the liquid oxygen in the tanks being ignited by a spark from the wire.

That was a procedural failure that lead to a moon-landing mission failure.

The point is, failures happen and always will continue to happen -- whether your program wants them to or not.

Never Trying Never Fails -- By Jerry Smith