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I'm not sure I have a fetish but if I did it might very well be women in suspenders.

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ImLawBoy wrote:501s or get out!

Bad news for troops hoping to feast on a pizza MRE in 2018.

A problem with mass production has delayed the new meal offering, and it’s unclear when or if the issue can be resolved.

All Meals Ready-to-Eat must have a shelf-life of at least three years when stored at 80 degrees or below, explained Jeremy Whitsitt, deputy director of the combat feeding directorate at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center.

To test this, MREs are placed in a 100-degree box for six months, simulating the 3-year span. When the pizza MRE underwent this test it became too brown, Whitsitt said.
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It was not a safety issue, but “more a quality issue,” he added. In other words, you could eat the brown pizza, but it’s not something we really want to ship to our warfighters.

Initial forecasts called for a 2018 launch of the pizza MREs, which were to come in both pepperoni and cheese varieties.
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For those bummed readers out there, here are three words to cheer you up: caffeinated beef sticks. Yes, they’re truly on the agenda and coming soon to an MRE near you, Whitsitt said.

coopasonic wrote:My mother-in-law's 75th birthday is Tuesday. We are having a surprise party in about an hour with ~35 of her friends, mostly church-folk of an age with her. I am trying to decide if it better or worse that this even is taking place at my house. If it were elsewhere, I'd still have to go and probably have limited options of places to hide... at least at my house there are a few places that are off limits to guests but open to me. Oh did I mention they are all strangers to me and I have significant social anxiety and I'm also bothered more than most people would probably find reasonable by the disruption to my home and routine. One guest arrived early and I am already afraid to go out to the living room.

So an afternoon surrounded by old, church-going, Texan strangers... I'm sure we'll have a lot to talk about. Maybe we can talk politics! My wife knows how I feel about this. I'm wondering if she will give me grief about hiding.

coopasonic wrote:I survived.

His fellow long-distance hikers speak of him in mythical terms. They told me that, in order to avoid foot infections, he had chosen to have all 10 of his toenails surgically removed. He was said to never carry more than 10lbs on his back, and to have invented a tiny stove that ran on twigs and grass, so he wouldn’t have to carry fuel.

Over 15 years, he had hiked 34,000 miles. First he completed the so-called Triple Crown of long-distance trails: the Appalachian trail (2,200 miles), the Pacific Crest trail (2,650 miles), and the Continental Divide trail (3,100 miles). Then he went on to complete all 11 national scenic trails in 2013. Triumphant, fulfilled, and nearing his 75th birthday, he vowed to hang up his hiking boots.

tjg_marantz wrote:Worked Friday, Saturday (Canada day) and Sunday from 05:30 to 17:30. Working tonight and tomorrow night from 17:30 to 05:30. I'm doing long weekends wrong in two countries. Ah!

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Thus the “rabbit test” was born, and with it the misconception that the rabbit’s death was an indicator of a positive result. In those early tests, the rabbit always died, because the animal had to be killed so its ovaries could be removed and examined. Later refinements to the test enabled clinicians to inspect the ovaries without having to kill the rabbits first, but as the example cited above demonstrates, the misconception that the test rabbit died only if the woman was pregnant is still with us today, even though the “rabbit test” itself is not.
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In an episode of TV’s M*A*S*H (“What’s Up, Doc?”, original air date 30 January 1978), Hot Lips thinks she’s pregnant, and the only available means of testing her requires the use of Radar’s rabbit.

JRR Tolkien's family have settled an $80m case against Warner Bros over the merchandise rights of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.



The famous author's daughter, Priscilla Tolkien, and his estate, joined up with publisher HarperCollins to sue Warner. The estate sold the rights to the films in 1969 along with some merchandising. But they said the studio had overstepped the mark with video games, apps and gambling games. Warner said the matter was "amicably resolved".

It ends a legal wrangling which first began in 2012, when the family sued the studio for $80m in damages plus legal costs for copyright infringement. Warner then counter-sued, claiming the estate had made an "about face" and had previously consented to merchandise rights. However, the estate had argued the rights only allowed Warner Bros to create "tangible" goods such as figurines, clothing and stationery. They claimed the studio had gone beyond the deal by using Tolkien's characters in digital form - including in online gambling games and casino slot machines - which the family said caused irreparable harm to the author's legacy and reputation.

After settling the case, Warner Bros says: "The parties are pleased that they have amicably resolved this matter and look forward to working together in the future." Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films were released between 2001 and 2003. The trilogy won 17 Academy awards, a record for a movie trilogy. His Hobbit series was released between 2012 and 2014.

Kraken wrote:Back when Impressions Games was working on the Tolkien-derived Lords of Magic, we ran it through Sierra's legal department to find out what the boundaries were when incorporating elves, halflings, wizards, etc. The legal minds opined that, to be safe, anyone who had read Tolkien should not be permitted to work on the game. Which ruled out the whole company, of course. We all had a good laugh and went right on making our game.