well, I didn’t want to bring the SDMB into legal problems, or anybody else… but MODs OK’d it If you go on reddit, it’s quite abuzz with the epstein-files and there are now quite a lot of sources where you can download 900 or so pages un-blacked-out. It seems the administration used a wrong function to black out and did NOT “flatten the image” afterwards, so it turned out that you ...

I’ve never read Dungeon Crawler Carl specifically though, it sounded too grimdark for my taste (the Royal Road stub even has the “Grimdark” label). I can see that; the premise of the series itself is pretty danged dark, and it’s really violent. OTOH, at least IMO, while the two main protagonists are certainly flawed, they do try to make good choices and help others; it’s not as ...

In the song, 16 Tons, the singer claims on the day he was born he loaded “16 tons of number nine coal.” What does “number nine” mean? Does it designate quality, or size of lumps, or what?

Far as I know no high school in the US allows nude models. However, jr high & HS students can attend art classes with live naked models outside of school. My son said he was taking art classes there at USC soon, he is only 14 & said they bring in the nude models later in the semester. Hmmmm.

“Dude, let’s go to Dillards, and get ourselves a mighty hookah!” No, I’m not talking about that sort of bong. When I was a child, my mother would often drag me shopping to AM&A’s, her favorite department store in Buffalo. Id didn’t matter if you went to the AM&A’s downtown, in Univiersity Plaza, or at Eastern Hills Mall; throughout the store, you would hear the call of the store ...

I admit I probably should have been paying more attention, but anyway, re the original with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. At the end when she is crying because he is not there to be arrested and has stood her up re his…

According to this source, although the combinations of multiple women results in some interesting and amusing meanings, there is no actual character consisting of two women under one roof. A “woman” under a “roof” means “quiet,” “peace,” “tranquility.” Two “women” means “handsome” or “pretty,” and also “cunning.” This negative (misogynistic) suggestion ...

I can see by the context that “Lawks a lordy!” is an expletive (“Oh, my goodness!”?), but what does it actually mean? Where did it come from? What’s a “lawk”?

When I was in elementary school back in the '70s, I remember a couple of my roguish schoolmates occasionally bringing a substance that, when inhaled, caused momentary dizziness and head spinning. No big deal, but at the time it was a real hoot. ( I know, stupid too, but we were twelve). I remember it was in a small dark jar, and looked vaguely like vaseline. It was called “Rush” or ...

Obviously all religions have rules for how their followers should live their lives, but I’m wondering if they all have a neatly packaged set of ‘biggies’? Christians and Jews obviously share the Ten Commandments (with slight variations in how they are divided up/worded in various denominations.) How about Islam? I vaguely remember reading that Moslem’s consider Christians and Jews ...