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GregP Mar 2021 7:58pm, 29 Mar 2021 126,099 posts	0 GregP good work Dave
GregP Mar 2021 7:59pm, 29 Mar 2021 126,100 posts	0 GregP That Taysom Hill is the new face of The Idaho Potato Commission.
NDWDave Mar 2021 8:01pm, 29 Mar 2021 14,545 posts	0 NDWDave [He could also be the face of Birdseye potato waffles. He’s waffly versatile]
mr d Mar 2021 8:20pm, 29 Mar 2021 4,676 posts	0 mr d Lots of Huguenot names on Ipswich streets and this had lead me to to discover something about a building I've walked past thousands of times. The 15th-century St Lawrence Church has the oldest ring of five church bells in the world.
swittle Mar 2021 7:57am, 30 Mar 2021 74,218 posts	0 swittle 'Hymen L. Lipman (March 20, 1817 – November 4, 1893) is credited with registering the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser on March 30, 1858.' [from wikiped.]
McGoohan Mar 2021 8:14am, 30 Mar 2021 49,072 posts	0 McGoohan That someone thought 'Hymen' was a good boy's name in the Nineteenth Century
McGoohan Mar 2021 8:14am, 30 Mar 2021 49,073 posts	0 McGoohan And some more: An incorrect picture of Hymen Lipman that surfaced on the internet in an April 3, 2012, YouTube post (Mr. Hymen Lipman - The Father of Modern Content Editing - This Day in SEO History - Vol 4 by Fathom) has been subsequently used by many others on the internet. The picture most often used is not of Hymen Lipman but rather Crawford W. Long of Georgia, credited with first using ether for surgical anesthesia on March 30, 1842. Another picture occasionally used as Lipman on the internet is an artist's rendition of a younger Edgar Allan Poe.
Homeless Kodo Mar 2021 8:30am, 30 Mar 2021 1,469 posts	0 Homeless Kodo The work girl originated in the 13th century and was originally a genderless reference to a young person. Gay girl was the term for a young female. Knave girl was the term for a young male.
McGoohan Mar 2021 9:23am, 30 Mar 2021 49,077 posts	0 McGoohan ^That's a great one
Hills of Death (HOD) Mar 2021 9:33am, 30 Mar 2021 35,566 posts	0 Hills of Death (HOD) Ben Miller is a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln