Whoa, that puts a different spin on my favorite Cathy Ladman routine! 
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I have that red skeleton pirate flag somewhere 
Yeaaaars ago in my 20’s i was in Louisiana with some friends and we stumbled/wandered into a pirate festival (to my delight). I got the typical skull and bones flag and the other flag, i need to find out where they are.
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Yep - that’s the only ‘solution’ I could come up with, but it does rather assume a lot about the properties of the knife and the apples. An economist’s solution, perhaps.
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Have you seen Our Flag Means Death?
I seem to recall there were some very silly pirate flags in a number of episodes.
You may need a VPN and to view via iPlayer. (Or HBOMax?)
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my avatar is a stitched version of Cpt. Edward Teach’s flag. you might recognize it:
of course, Capt. Teach is perhaps better known by his Pyrate moniker - Blackbeard!
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Nightwish “Once”
Epica “The Holographic Principle”
After Forever “After Forever”
Decent intro there.
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Why do they assume the 1980 one is fresh? Could have just been pulled out from under the front seat of someone’s Malibu.
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right?
they don’t have a shelf life, they have a half life. slow decay big mac 
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Maybe they’re both “hero” burgers for advertising photography, inedible wonders faked to look good for hours under hot lights?
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Without knowing where else to put it: is wikipedia, wiktionary, wikimedia, etc, down for anyone else?
ETA:
More specifically, wikipedia.org/, wiktionary.org/ and wikimedia.org/ appear to work, but nothing past that. No specific links. Whenever I browse past the front page, or follow any link to a specific page in search or my browse history, it says
Error
Our servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem. Please try again in a few minutes.See the error message at the bottom of this page for more information.
Original error: upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure
ETA also
Request from 175.39.116.211 via cp5017.eqsin.wmnet, ATS/9.2.6
Error: 502, Broken pipe at 2024-12-05 04:42:18 GMT
It looks like something’s gone a bit doolally with Wikimedia’s internal routing.
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Works for me just now
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It’s working for me.
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the constant emission of alpha particles makes it inflate like a helium balloon
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$1.20 in 1980 is $4.60 in 2024.
5.31 in 2024 is $1.39 in 1980.
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A primary database server for cached data experienced an issue serving requests. We have corrected the issue and services are recovering.
Posted 3 minutes ago. Dec 05, 2024 - 05:02 UTC
So that explains that.
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I have read a history book that apparently decided to extrapolate inflation to ancient times. “Back then a laborer’s wages was the equivalent of just 15 cents a month, but 15 cents was enough to buy a goat and two bushels of dates…” It didn’t really help me understand.
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