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Josh, Actually, fresh pine trees are not flammable. In those times, people got their trees from woods which were so close, they could walk them home. When I was in high school (70s), I knew a family whose mother was German. They got their trees fresh-cut, and they put candles on them. Kinda nerve-wracking for someone brought up with the now-common fear of trees catching fire, but beautiful. Also, later in life, I did tree work, and learned first-hand how fresh pine is so different than pine which has had time to dry. Now, even much later, I know where I can get xmas trees which are delivered less than 48 hours after being cut. So, it's still possible.
#24 When I was a kid (60s), before texting, etc, if we wanted to tell one of the neighborhood kids we would be coming to their house to get them to go do whatever we were going to do, we would say 'I'll knock up for you'. If my mother heard us using that expression, she would get angry and tell us not to use it. If I asked why, she would just get angrier and give me the old bs of 'because I said so'. Turns out ten or so years later, I was old enough to learn that the expression 'knocked up' meant 'pregnant'. Then, about 40 years later, after developing an interest in linguistics, I learned the original meaning of 'knock up'. Now I understand how the meaning evolved, and how the dysfunctional catholic upbringing my mother had led her to freak tf out at what had originally been an innocent figure of speech. ...Moral of the story: if you can't have an open honest conversation with your children, you are a lousy parent, and you will fuck up your children. Grow up and learn how to talk about life.
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Ads are nowhere near as intrusive and annoyingly in the way as the Izismile request to 'consider becoming a subscriber's panel that sits over the screen and can't be closed
Josh, Actually, fresh pine trees are not flammable. In those times, people got their trees from woods which were so close, they could walk them home. When I was in high school (70s), I knew a family whose mother was German. They got their trees fresh-cut, and they put candles on them. Kinda nerve-wracking for someone brought up with the now-common fear of trees catching fire, but beautiful. Also, later in life, I did tree work, and learned first-hand how fresh pine is so different than pine which has had time to dry. Now, even much later, I know where I can get xmas trees which are delivered less than 48 hours after being cut. So, it's still possible.
#24 When I was a kid (60s), before texting, etc, if we wanted to tell one of the neighborhood kids we would be coming to their house to get them to go do whatever we were going to do, we would say 'I'll knock up for you'. If my mother heard us using that expression, she would get angry and tell us not to use it. If I asked why, she would just get angrier and give me the old bs of 'because I said so'. Turns out ten or so years later, I was old enough to learn that the expression 'knocked up' meant 'pregnant'. Then, about 40 years later, after developing an interest in linguistics, I learned the original meaning of 'knock up'. Now I understand how the meaning evolved, and how the dysfunctional catholic upbringing my mother had led her to freak tf out at what had originally been an innocent figure of speech. ...Moral of the story: if you can't have an open honest conversation with your children, you are a lousy parent, and you will fuck up your children. Grow up and learn how to talk about life.
In what possible way?
And, with a well placed mouth slit, they can be worn as a beard/mustache combo, evidently.
#40 I wonder if they're that reclining man's 'Hair-um.' Get it? "Hair-um?" Instead of Harem? Oh, c'mon, that's kinda funny! Isn't it? ((((sigh))))
#20 Victorian Santa's summer gig.