Threads going off topic

I must confess I cried myself to sleep many a night when he was too busy with work to grace us with his presence. May it never happen again!

Yeah, my parents threw away a lot of my cool stuff too that I left in the garage.

:-P
Switch, I had the same problems, finally broke down and got a new computer. It goes too fast sometimes! I got wiplash last nite while playing a live game!  :-D
Good luck with the old machine, but I think they are killing them with some  kind of viruses  8-) so we have to buy new ones.
  OHH no!? The system police are coming for me now, gotta hide in the matrix now! :-o

@desertrat:

I heard, that there is acutally a “Loosers Museum”

Yeah, it’s Ford Field.

First ever Championship for a professional sports team with a home in the Carolinas.

Lord Stanley’s cup spent a lot of time nearby when I was living in Pennsylvania (Penguins!), and now that I am in Carolina, it is in the same city :-)

I love Deadliest Catch and Mythbusters! It Takes A Thief is pretty good too. :wink: Oh, and I love Dirty Jobs. Yeah, Discover rocks!

@dabaron:

The term “Palestine” was invented by the Romans as a means to dishonor the Jews, because they hated them. They wanted to file the Jews and the Arabs together in a land called “Palestine” instead of Israel. So really, the “Palestinians” are just Jordanian Arabs that have lived in the region since the great dispersion and, in my opinion, have no rightful claim to the land whatsoever. Now let’s get back to the topic, unusual stuff.

You’re quite right, dabaron. “Palestine” was what Emperor Hadrian named Judea (omdern day Israel) after the second revlot against Rome in 135 CE. It came from the extinct nation of the Philistines. Hadrian hoepd that by naming Judea and all its cities after extinct nations, he could eventually make the Jews extinct. He failed.