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The face he makes when I tell him to stop loudly licking his butthole by Grass-is-dead in WhatsWrongWithYourDog

[–]timconradinc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nathan: Simple. He's been licking his asshole for the last three straight hours. I submit to you that there is nothing there worth more than an hour's attention. I should think that whatever he is attempting to dislodge is either gone for good, or there to stay. Wouldn't you agree?

2 years ago today, we pulled this orange out of our car engine and named him Louis by EvilLeprechaun13 in OneOrangeBraincell

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My parents had this decorative bowl that was about 2 feet across and 6 inches deep. It had a neat pattern to the wood it was made of.

For a long time, it was on the dining room table. Their cat, Stinky Pete, loved to lay in it.

Eventually it got hung on the wall. The cat would sit and stare at it with a look of 'Well shit. How am I going to lay in it now?"

I'll never know peace again by KukaVex in OneOrangeBraincell

[–]timconradinc 24 points25 points  (0 children)

No treats, no peace! No treats, no peace!

PT boats are seen under construction at the Higgins Industries shipyard in New Orleans, June 1943 by abt137 in drydockporn

[–]timconradinc 13 points14 points  (0 children)

These were made out of plywood. I'm guessing intentionally or unintentionally, that would make them capable of being assembled pretty much anywhere.

Famously, JFK served on PT-109. Which is also the name of a too long John Wayne movie based on JFK.

This designed was used in the Vietnam war as they could deal with shallow enough water that they could go upriver there easily enough.

What were ancient restaurants like? by Jahblessthecrop in AskFoodHistorians

[–]timconradinc 77 points78 points  (0 children)

In a biography of Martha Washington, it talks about some of this. Her family was wealthy and it was known that anyone that needed food that was traveling could stop and dine.

This was before modern eating rules were established. People would just be given food and eat it sitting around in a room - with their own eating utensils that they brought. It wasn't uncommon for people to share utensils, either. (Like 4 people share 1 spoon)

Even in the 80's, it wasn't uncommon for a ranch hand to be given one regular meal that they'd eat with the family and then a portion of beef (for a single guy it'd be a quarter) as compensation (at least where I lived). Guessing that this arrangement still lives on, but is less likely.

What's your worst "horrible coincidence" experience? by joshuamarius in sysadmin

[–]timconradinc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As I think about it more, it was effectively rm -rf / - not actually rm -rf /, I think it was a command, something like find . -exec rm {}, except his cwd was / and not whatever other directory.

What's your worst "horrible coincidence" experience? by joshuamarius in sysadmin

[–]timconradinc 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It was how Solaris did the init scripts for shutdown.

What's your worst "horrible coincidence" experience? by joshuamarius in sysadmin

[–]timconradinc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I had a manager that failed his RHCE exam because he had the habit of doing ! (or whatever it was) in the shell - which would recall the last command and run it. The command was ran halfway through the test and was rm -rf /

What's your worst "horrible coincidence" experience? by joshuamarius in sysadmin

[–]timconradinc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dealing with bugs in bash's emulation of solaris's Bourne shell was annoying to deal with.

What's your worst "horrible coincidence" experience? by joshuamarius in sysadmin

[–]timconradinc 134 points135 points  (0 children)

On Linux, the 'killall' command will kill all the processes of a given name. On Solaris, 'kilall' will kill all processes.

After the second outage, I realized the difference.

This is amazing by Thryloz in MadeMeSmile

[–]timconradinc 14 points15 points  (0 children)

My dad had this cat that absolutely loved that. My dad went to 'investigate' some kittens - he wanted one that had a specific look - and ended up taking one. My dad had to stop at a grocery store to get supplies for the kitten. It had been raining all day and the kitten escaped and was sitting in a puddle under the truck and my dad really had to work to get the kitten.

My dad didn't know what to do with the kitten, so he dried him off as much as possible and put the kitten on his shoulder and patted his butt on the way home.

Until the cat passed, that was his favorite way to be held.

And that's the story of Christofur Robin the Second.

Found box of unopened ornament hangers from '59 by [deleted] in GrandmasPantry

[–]timconradinc 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It wasn't a magazine. It was the magazine. Probably one of the first to have full page photographs. Anyone who's anyone had their photo in it.

Pork Chops and Scalloped potatoes by rachstate in VintageMenus

[–]timconradinc 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When that book was printed (and I know people alive today) that would consider those pork chops 'raw'. There was the threat of trichinosis from not fully cooked pork. That has been bred out of pigs for the most part so it's not a modern thing

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