What I Learned Today

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  1. Micki Pembroke

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    I learned yesterday how to access my internet speed with the help of @Beth Gallagher, happy camper. I checked my storage locker in my brain to make sure i have room for all this new learned stuff....no fear....lots of room. :):p:D:rolleyes:.
     
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  2. Patsy Faye

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    Today in 1908, Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)
     
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    By today’s standards, that comes close to somewhere between $10,000 - $10,500.
     
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    I know, I'm always shocked when I work things out and compare - must stop doing that :p
    @Bobby Cole
     
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    Interesting to note that my Dad bought a brand-new Ford car in 1935, complete with V-8 engine which easily kept up with Cadillacs costing 5 or times as much, for $605! Prices may have dropped due to the Depression.
    Frank
     
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    I learned today that the Pokomoke River in Pokomoke City, MD is the deepest river in the U S and second deepest river in the world,
    after the Nile.
     
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    images - 2019-10-02T195109.371.jpeg

    I really didn't know this!
     
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  8. Beth Gallagher

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    I learned that when walking downstairs with a cup of coffee, sometimes I'm not actually on the last step. It's OK though, the floor broke my fall. :D

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  9. Micki Pembroke

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    @Beth Gallagher OUCH....Is the floor okay:eek::eek::eek::D. Hope you didn't hurt anything.
     
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    I learned today that I do not have to feel like such an idiot by thinking I am the only one who occasionally thinks the step or rung on a ladder I am on is the last one.

    Perhaps today is my lucky day and I’ll find someone who also trips on the crack in a sidewalk,
     
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    ooooh the times I've done that myself..... :eek:
     
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    I learnt a new word today - rebelistic
    Me darlin' came up with the word - said he was feeling 'rebelistic' - I like it :cool:
     
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    I learned yesterday that men are not the gentlemen they once were. I had 2 heavy shopping bags in one hand and a cup of hot coffee in another. I tried to get out the big glass pull handle door of the pub but there was no where to put the coffee down. I was surrounded by men sitting at nearby tables..(I mean just as little as 3 feet away)... I put my shopping on the floor, but the bags fell over and the shopping fell out and I still had the hot coffee in my other hand.. so I couldn't pick the bags up..Do you think one of those men offered to open that door?.. not a bluddy chance!!:eek:
     
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    Also on this day - 1990 Reunification of East and West Germany. :cool:
     
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    Rolling the word around in my head, it works much better with a British accent than an American southern accent. The British version gives it a little bit of a Victorian flair whereas the American southern sounds redneck as heck. :)
     
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