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   margueritem said, 6 months ago

   Pops, that’s your job.
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   Linguist said, 6 months ago

   Poor kid will catch more than fish in that Amsterdam canal.
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago

   re: Linguist

   especially back then, before such things as modern sewerage. It would be another 1.5 centuries before Europe started fixing the problem.
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   The Thames in London was badly polluted by people just draining their home wastes into a local aquifer (that ended up in the Thames). No one did anything for years. It took a group of persons on a boat drowning not far from shore to get the public’s attention. The people died from being dumped into what amounted to raw sewage and were overcome before they could get to shore.
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   Pacopuddy said, 6 months ago

   I would do it myself but I’ve got this puppy to pluck and stuff ready for lunch.
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   Pacopuddy said, 6 months ago

   @Nabuquduriuzhur

   The main prompt was a really hot summer, known as "The Great Stink’, when the reek of the river was so strong that MPs couldn’t bear to sit in the Houses of Parliament because they couldn’t breathe. (Of course, being rich, they had for many years just disappeared to their country estates when the weather got unbearable – on this occasion Parliament was sitting, and they couldn’t!)
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   Dogsniff said, 6 months ago

   The last thing these people wanted was modern sewerage. They were Crappie fishermen!
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   pcolli said, 6 months ago

   But she’s texting her daughter to see if she really wants to go fishing or if she’d rather hook the hats off of people passing under the balcony.
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   lisapaloma13 said, 6 months ago

   And for Pete’s sake, you could at least let the dog out when he needs to go!
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   finale said, 6 months ago

   Might that be a small buggy whip so that the child may start learing the fine art of animal and servant cruelty?
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    Joe said, 6 months ago

    @Nabuquduriuzhur

    Just like the Ganges today, only fewer corpses.
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    Joe said, 6 months ago

    @Nabuquduriuzhur

    ..or they could “walk on water”. That would explain the alleged “miracle”.
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    Joe said, 6 months ago

    “Mom, could you sign this note from my teacher?”
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    JohnnyDiego said, 6 months ago

    @Pacopuddy

    Why do you think all the Dandies had perfumed scented hankies stuffed up their sleeves?
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    mabrndt said, 6 months ago

    Click-to-enlarge image can be found here, or at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry.
    
    A Woman and a Young Man With a Letter (Google translated Dutch title) is shown by its current-location page (with a page-size interactive, different coloration image — click the i at the bottom for painting’s physical details, Chrome can automatically translate, neither Google nor Bing will translate the page). The artist‘s Wikipedia page and collection (more under Subcategories). Influenced Vermeer.
    
    Third of the 7 works by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.
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    coolhand000 said, 6 months ago

    @lisapaloma13

    Ya stole me comment. . .!
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