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The life of a buccaneer is a hard one. I wonder if she had two eye patches as well…
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Likely. And I think she’s on her way to pick up her two parrots.
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High leather boots always make me quiver.
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I wrote this Grave Mood Rings script, and @ProfOddfellow lovingly and punningly embellished it!
N.B.: The Ghoul was the great Ghoulardi’s protégé, and his 70s/80s/00s late night weekend horror movie show ran in Ohio, the Detroit area, and all too briefly in Chicago.
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Bonus: There’s even an implied banana knock-knock at the beginning!
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World’s longest-living shrub
A number of papers, including Savon Sanomat, carry an STT news agency report that researchers from the University of Padua, Italy, have found a juniper bush at Utsjoki in Finnish Lapland, which they say had a lifespan of 1,647 years.According to the researchers’ analysis, the juniper started growing in the year 260 and died in 1906. It is the oldest shrub in the world dated by annual rings and the oldest woody plant in Europe determined with this method.
The researchers found the juniper during a 2021 visit to the Kevo Subarctic Research Institute of the University of Turku located at Utsjoki. At that time, they determined the age of the juniper at 1,242 years. However, the researchers returned to Utsjoki in 2024 and revised their dating, revealing that the juniper is an incredible 1,647 years old.
The research team also found four other junipers in Utsjoki that are over 1,000 years old.
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Junipers are amazing plants. Despite having had a thing for gin for quite a while, I never truly appreciated them until I went to Finnmark. Fantastically robust.
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So, they finally found one?
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The spirit is willing, but the fleche is weak.
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Were they repurposed shipping containers being used as temporary housing? That information is missing from the report.
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It mentions that the workers were sleeping in the containers when the avalanche hit, so either temporary accommodation or an overnight shelter perhaps.
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Yeah, I had to extrapolate that from the context, because I was thinking “Why are they in metal containers? What kind of metal containers? Do they hold one person, or more?”
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