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Posted by glatt
10/15/2020 8:06 am 		#1

I just learned today that Eddie Van Halen had a patent

That link should take you to the image in the USPTO's database, and it's worth seeing the illustration of his invention.

 
Posted by Limey
10/15/2020 10:11 am 		#2

glatt wrote:

I just learned today that Eddie Van Halen had a patent

That link should take you to the image in the USPTO's database, and it's worth seeing the illustration of his invention.

It did and it is.

Living life on the edge.
 
Posted by lumberjim
10/15/2020 11:18 am 		#3

Lol.  Or get a chair and put it on your lap.  Stoner

my spirit animal
 
Posted by Flint
10/15/2020 5:03 pm 		#4

lol

i thought that's what b o n e r s are for

signature s c h m i g n a t u r e
 
Posted by monster
10/20/2020 5:03 pm 		#5

you can stop running, Spencer Davis isn't chasing you any more

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54619718

81. Pneumonia
 

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
 
Posted by footfootfoot
10/23/2020 9:24 am 		#6

Claims of James Randi's escape from this mortal coil not debunked.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obituaries/james-randi-dead.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi

Hey! That's me up there!
 
Posted by monster
10/25/2020 5:32 pm 		#7

Frank Bough (UK TV presenter) 

COD: old

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54684374

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
 
Posted by Carruthers
10/25/2020 6:19 pm 		#8

I found Frank Bough an intensely irritating presenter.

His style was to rattle through a clipboard load of questions and not listen to the interviewees' answers.

His interlocutors were never heavyweights who deserved a grilling, and an informal, conversational style of interview should have developed but didn't because he never listened to the damned answers.

That said, RIP.

Last edited by Carruthers (10/25/2020 6:20 pm)

 
Posted by monster
10/25/2020 7:47 pm 		#9

I just found his last name funny.  

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
 
Posted by monster
10/29/2020 9:41 am 		#10

UK folks again:  Bobby Ball (of the interminably annoying Cannon & Ball) COVID
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54731384

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
 
Posted by Carruthers
10/29/2020 10:29 am 		#11

monster wrote:

UK folks again:  Bobby Ball (of the interminably annoying Cannon & Ball) COVID

Until this very minute, I didn't know which one was which.

I don't think I missed anything.

 
Posted by griff
10/31/2020 8:47 am 		#12

Sean Connery calls a halt to 2020.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 
Posted by monster
10/31/2020 11:42 am 		#13

No!

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
 
Posted by monster
10/31/2020 11:45 am 		#14

wow 90, I had no idea he was so old.  Never thought about it really, always seemed so ageless

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
 
Posted by monster
10/31/2020 12:14 pm 		#15

Nobby Stiles (for the older Brits)

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
 
Posted by Carruthers
10/31/2020 1:28 pm 		#16

monster wrote:

Nobby Stiles (for the older Brits)

You leave me out of this!
 

 
Posted by footfootfoot
10/31/2020 10:36 pm 		#17

griff wrote:

Sean Connery calls a halt to 2020.

That there is a giant pile of quelle on that dommage.

Hey! That's me up there!
 
Posted by xoxoxoBruce
11/01/2020 9:02 am 		#18

When unclear, Google it...
Quelle = damn near anything including what, spoken of before, not close to the speaker, already known to the speaker and listener, a spring or well, source. 

Dommage = shame, pity, damage, harm, injury, damage, mischief.​

It's as clear as mud but it covers the ground.

 Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose.
 
 
Posted by xoxoxoBruce
11/02/2020 4:50 am 		#19

But translate from what, apparently those two words show up in several languages , french, German, Spanish, Russian, with vaguely similar meanings, not to mention the Urban dictionary with a language  that's just as foreign to me.

Last edited by xoxoxoBruce (11/02/2020 4:51 am)

 Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose.
 
 
Posted by xoxoxoBruce
11/02/2020 7:32 pm 		#20

That's a pretty good trick when the same words appear in multiple languages.

 Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose.
 
 
Posted by footfootfoot
11/02/2020 10:50 pm 		#21

A big pile of That on Sucks

Hey! That's me up there!
 
Posted by Limey
11/03/2020 10:44 am 		#22

John Sessions
😭

Living life on the edge.
 
Posted by DanaC
11/03/2020 2:30 pm 		#23

that makes me really sad. 

 
Posted by Limey
11/03/2020 2:52 pm 		#24

DanaC wrote:

that makes me really sad. 

Me too. Though he had a pretty tortured existence, but I read an interview not so long ago which kind of implied he was beginning to feel better ...

Living life on the edge.
 
Posted by xoxoxoBruce
11/03/2020 2:57 pm 		#25

Undertoad wrote:

Google Translate autodetects "quelle dommage" as French   ~ I'm just trying to help ~

I know, when I asked Google about the two words individually instead of a definition like usual it gave me all the uses in different languages that went down the rabbit hole like an express elevator. LoL
That's why I wondered how they determined it was French. Have to tell  foots to talk amurican.

 Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose.
 
 


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