They must have skipped yellow-pea/green-pea day in high school Biology.
They must have skipped yellow-pea/green-pea day in high school Biology.
“You chose books, I chose looks.”
– Matilda’s mom
From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.
I am in my 60s now. I figure this will start to kick in any day now.
Old people like MTG and Boebert and Gaertz? /s
I wonder how much money it takes to rebuild a blown engine in a new BMW 3-Series nowadays?
Edit: so I went and had a brief look in Google. It looks like they run between $6000 and $12000 depending on how powerful the engine is. So for a base model it would indeed be somewhat cheaper.
That’s an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.
I feel personally attacked by this comment.
… and Nemo was taken from Jules Verne.
That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.
Aha! So YOU are the reason AltaVista died!
I don’t think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Thanks. Other comments and replies have been alluding to this, but this is the only one that described the mechanism.
Google for “Intuit lobbying.”
It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.
… and chips (Frito-Lay).
Of course he knew. That’s why he invited Rudolph into the lead position, at the front of the reindeer team. Santa didn’t really need a red light.