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I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

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    #2162
    LostinBlanch
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    in 1989 Pepsi had the 6th largest navy in the world*

    Pepsi was allowed to trade in the USSR since 1972. They couldn't accept Rubles in payment but did get Stolichnaya in exchange. But when the USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1980 the US boycotted Russian goods including vodka which Pepsi couldn't sell anymore.
    Pepsi asked for the money it needed differently. In 1989, the Soviet government and Pepsi signed a strange agreement in which Pepsico acted as a middleman to scrap 17 old submarines and three warships.

    But in order to scrap them, they had to take ownership of them.


    *In your face Coke. :P


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    #2163
    New Home
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    6ip46kpli7.jpg
    https://media.ifunny.com/results/2014/06/05/6ip46kpli7.jpg


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    #2164
    LostinBlanch
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    New Home wrote: »
    6ip46kpli7.jpg
    https://media.ifunny.com/results/2014/06/05/6ip46kpli7.jpg

    *Sigh* You couldn't even let me have two hours could you? I might have to send the Pepsi Navy after ya. :cool:


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    #2165
    New Home
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    :confused:

    Sorry, what?


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    #2166
    LostinBlanch
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    A bad joke. :o


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    #2167
    New Home
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    Ah, yes. NH misses the point yet again, what a shocker... :p


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    #2168
    New Home
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    #2169
    joujoujou
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    ^^ He gave away even more. His foundation closed down 14 of September 2020 after giving more than 8 billion dollars away.


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    #2170
    silliussoddius
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    Didn’t he die last year?


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    #2171
    Professor Moriarty
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    silliussoddius wrote: »
    Didn’t he die last year?

    Rumours of his death are greatly exaggerated.


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    #2172
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Julius Wagner-Jauregg won a Nobel Prize for a syphilis treatment.

    Give the patients malaria to induce fever.

    And the best bit was only 15% of patients died of malaria.


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    #2173
    New Home
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    What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, wha'?


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    #2174
    johndaman66
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    New Home wrote: »
    What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, wha'?
    Except for polio anyway.


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    #2175
    ohnonotgmail
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    The name Vanessa was invented by Jonathan Swift


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    #2176
    New Home
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    Wasn't that a type of butterfly?


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    #2177
    ohnonotgmail
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    New Home wrote: »
    Wasn't that a type of butterfly?

    He took it from the name of Esther Vanhomrigh, who he had a long relationship with. Van from her surname and Essa from the pet form of her first name. He wrote a poem called Cadenus and Vanessa after her.

    The naming of the butterfly postdates his life.


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    #2178
    Capt'n Midnight
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    New Home wrote: »
    Wasn't that a type of butterfly?
    Flutterby is a much better word.


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    #2179
    humberklog
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    The name Vanessa was invented by Jonathan Swift


    And the name Wendy was created by J.M. Barrie for the character in Peter Pan.

    There was no Lorna until R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doon


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    #2180
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    humberklog wrote: »
    And the name Wendy was created by J.M. Barrie for the character in Peter Pan.

    There was no Lorna until R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doon

    I always thought Wendy was a diminutive of Gwendolyn. You learn something new every day.


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    #2181
    Meleftone
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    humberklog wrote: »
    And the name Wendy was created by J.M. Barrie for the character in Peter Pan.

    There was no Lorna until R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doon

    While research shows that Barrie didn't invent the name "Wendy", he might as well have. Barrie introduced the character Wendy Darling in Peter Pan in 1904.

    "The name Wendy appeared twice in the 1881 census of England, one born 1840, and one born in 1880. The magazine Family History also states that Wendy, along with the names Marian and Shirley were once boys names, and that in 1797 a boy named Wendy was apprenticed to some one in Glos."

    link https://web.archive.org/web/20160125143240/http://www.wendy.com/wendyweb/history.html


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    #2182
    Esel
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    He took it from the name of Esther Vanhomrigh, who he had a long relationship with. Van from her surname and Essa from the pet form of her first name. He wrote a poem called Cadenus and Vanessa after her.

    The naming of the butterfly postdates his life.
    Who was Stella in Swift's life?

    Not your ornery onager



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    #2183
    Professor Moriarty
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    Esel wrote: »
    Who was Stella in Swift's life?

    A sixpack of lager.


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    #2184
    cdeb
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    The surname MacGregor was banned in the United Kingdom under pain of death between 1603 and 1774, apart from a brief respite when Charles II was on the throne.


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    #2185
    Speedsie
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    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Esel wrote: »
    Who was Stella in Swift's life?

    Stella was his name for Esther Johnson.
    He liked his Esthers!


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    #2186
    silliussoddius
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    Esel wrote: »
    Who was Stella in Swift's life?

    Someone who made him yella


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    #2187
    BonnieSituation
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    Esel wrote: »
    Who was Stella in Swift's life?

    Stella was a diver, and she was always down...


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    #2188
    New Home
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    #2189
    KevRossi
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    Montgomery, the state capital of Alabama and one of the birthplaces of the Civil Rights movement in the US was named after Richard Montgomery from Swords. He never went there, or anywhere near there, having fought in the West Indies, Canada and New England. He has counties names after him in 13 states.

    He grew up in Abbeville House in Kinsealy, which was later owned by Charlie Haughey.


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    #2190
    ohnonotgmail
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    The Rolling Stones first performed "I can't get no satisfaction" at the Adelphi theatre on Abbey St in Dublin.


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    #2191
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Squirrels are behind most power outages in the U.S. https://cybersquirrel1.com/


    The electric chair was invented by a dentist.


    It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose


    J is the most recent addition to the alphabet.


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