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Frank Mariani's avatar

Is "convicted felon" on your bingo card?

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Michael's avatar

The link to the Abbey Road photo is great!! Thanks, Paul!!

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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

I thought it was quite cool too! Thx

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Mark Connolly's avatar

You made me think of some advertising phrases that are contradictory, like "New and Improved".

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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

Words arer interesting. Thanks Mark!

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…great mercury…had never heard that one!…

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Ms. Writer's avatar

Cool stuff as always!

I've always been a Boomer, but now there's a subset that says I'm a Generation Jones member. I think that one suits me better. 😄

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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

What's the Generation Jones Boomer?

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Angela Treat Lyon's avatar

I have to call you out on this one - "...Why do the Amish have lower cancer rate than the rest of the population? Decreased use of tobacco and decreased sexual promiscuity...." Seriously? Sexual promiscuity causes cancer?

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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Janette Parr Consulting's avatar

I love how plants 'know' what to do.

We can trick them a bit, though. In warmer climates, where winters are really mild, we give bulbs (tulips, hyacinths and daffodils) a little 'wintering' – 6 to 8 weeks in the fridge – to prompt them to grow and bloom once they come out into the spring weather (or even earlier).

It works.

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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

They are amazing. However, bulbs are above my pay grade :)

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Dan Pal's avatar

Sting isn't blonde??!

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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

sorry to disappoint you, Dan.

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Jim Geschke's avatar

Jacques Plante was my first hockey hero with St. Louis Blues 🏒

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

I didnt know Shopify was Canadian! 🍁

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Samaara Robbins's avatar

Love the list of redundancies! Another favorite of mine is oxymorons. So much so, I had jumbo shrimp for dinner. Loved the Freddie Mercury and Montserrate Caballé duet. But then, I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan...It's the Gen X in me :)

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Jeanine Kitchel's avatar

The book The Light Eaters was incredible. The outpouring of information now regarding plants' abilities is mind-blowing.

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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

Thanks for the comment, Jeanine!

I read another book about plants a while ago which was also quite good…called “The Secret Life of Plants”.

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Jeanine Kitchel's avatar

I've read that too, Paul. It was quite popular a while back. Zoe, author of Light Eaters actually said that book actually set the science of plant wisdom back for awhile b/c it combined both science w. more touchy-feely stuff. But this book of hers, if you have a chance to read, even skim for a bit, is really something. Also I enjoyed the info that came out about how trees in forests communicate through their roots, etc. The bio-scientist from Vancouver, forget her name, has done such great research on that. There was even a good documentary on NFLX about plant wisdom a while back, you may have caught it.

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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

I've seen that documentary. Here is another Ted talk by Suzanne Simard: https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other

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Jeanine Kitchel's avatar

Yes! That’s her!! She’s great. For years they didn’t believe her research and now, voila!!

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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

She is awesome!

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Jeanine Kitchel's avatar

Yes!

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Donna McArthur's avatar

An incorrect turn of phrase I often hear in my office is my patient telling me they "have TMJ". Everyone has TMJ because it means temporalmandibular joint!

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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

That's why you're the professional!

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