40s anyway. :)
40s anyway. :)
Exactly. This is a 60s thing, not a 70s thing.
They must have skipped yellow-pea/green-pea day in high school Biology.
From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.
Sorry – it is a reference to Monty Python, where a father is trying to get his son to marry.
Edit: as one of your honorary fathers, I advise you to go watch the movie, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
NaoPb! You must marry this girl! She has huge … tracts of land!
And no singing!
What do non-Americans think it is?
I wonder how much money it takes to rebuild a blown engine in a new BMW 3-Series nowadays?
Edit: so I went and had a brief look in Google. It looks like they run between $6000 and $12000 depending on how powerful the engine is. So for a base model it would indeed be somewhat cheaper.
That’s an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.
That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.
I don’t think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Google for “Intuit lobbying.”
It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.
… and chips (Frito-Lay).
Cool. But the goals are almost beside the point. This action makes people associate goals that I agree with, with being an asshole.