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Pacific Rim: Uprising

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Today, i saw Pacific Rim: Uprising. It was awesome. The special effects were beyond belief. The acting was top shelf spectacular. The storyline picks off nicely where the the last one left off. All in all a cinematic tour de force. I highly recommend it.

Trivia 3/20/2018

WHO SAID IT? QUOTE: "I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath." HINT: Played three seasons (1947-48, 1948-49, and 1949-50) with the New York Rangers. He was the coach of the Flyers when they won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975. *********************************************************** RANDOM TIDBITS PEZ candy was first introduced in 1927 in Vienna, Austria as a breath mint for adults. *** The word PEZ was created using the first, middle and last letter in the German word for peppermint PfeffErminZ. *** The first PEZ dispensers were known as regulars and did not have character heads on them. They were marketed to adults as an alternative to smoking. Original dispensers have sold for more than $100 each. *** When making a single piece of PEZ Candy it takes 3,000 pounds of pressure to compress the sugar into the familiar brick shape of a PEZ Candy. *** The first national gathering of PEZ collectors was held on Saturday June 15,

Random Facts. 3/19/2018

The fall and spring equinoxes are the only two times during the year when the sun rises due east and sets due west. On the first day of spring, a person at the North Pole would see the sun skimming across the horizon, beginning six months of uninterrupted daylight. A person at the South Pole would see the sun skimming across the horizon, signaling the start of six months of darkness. The myth that it is possible to balance an egg on its end on the spring equinox is just that: a myth. Trying to balance an oval-shaped object on its end is no easier on the spring equinox than on any other day. Easter always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. Pi is an irrational number, meaning it cannot be written as a simple fraction. Instead, it can be expressed as an infinite, nonrepeating decimal (3.14159...) or approximated as the fraction 22/7. Oddly enough, the day is also the birthday of Albert Einstein. He was born on March 14, 1879. The ancient Ba

Jokes 3/19/2018

"In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for your liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people." --Tina Fey Into the local pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he'd just been run over by a train. His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and bruised and he's walking with a limp. "What happened to you?" asks Sean, the bartender. "Jamie O'Conner and me had a fight," says Paddy. "That little shit, O'Conner?" says Sean, "He couldn't do that to you, he must have had something in his hand." "That he did," says Paddy, "a shovel is what he had, and a terrible lickin' he gave me with it." "Well," says Sean, "you should have defended yourself. Didn't you have something in your hand?" "That I did," said Paddy, "Mrs. O'Conner's breast, and a thing of beauty it was, but useless in a fi

Slipknot

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Chimaira

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