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    And it's kind of in the nature of "exploratory" that you may find things you didn't anticipate.

    If the stuff that was supposed to be holding the patella in place wasn't actually working, but nothing had happened to cause it to be out of place when the doctors looked - then opening things up for an exploratory surgery could easily allow it to go cottywompus.

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    1 hour ago, ChronosCat said:

    Also, comparing the age of something with a real-world date of origin with the age of a character that lives in a fictional world with a sliding time scale is bound to produce strange results (and ever-changing ones at that).

    This comic began on January 21, 2002 and the main-cast kids were in high school - mostly juniors, I believe.

    It's 22 years later. A real-world person born on Jan 1 2002 would have finished high school by now (and possibly have a bachelor's degree). The main cast in the comic, are still in high school.

    This is not unusual. Rain began with a 3-page prologue, then on December 1 2010 got into the story with the title character beginning her first day of senior year in a new high school (among other changes). She graduated in January 2021.

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    IMHO Jay is confused because she can't believe how pathetically weak, and near-useless even in its appropriate context, AJ's spell is.

    AJ is using magic to learn something about another player's deck, that will be pretty much equally apparent by the non-magical means of watching that player play the first 2-5 non-mana-producing cards.

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    14 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Back when I lived on a sorta farm, we would start the water to boil, drive up to the garden, pick just enough corn for the day, husk it on the way back in the pickup truck.  By the time we got back the water had just come to a boil and in went the corn.  3 minutes later corn on the cob.

    The way I heard it, you take the pot of boiling water out into the cornfield with you. Grab an ear of corn, peel the husk back and take the cornsilk off, then bend the stalk over so you can put the ear in the water.

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    13 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    There is a tornado-like thing called waterspouts which are over water; for a reason I don't recall, they are supposed to be milder (you still wouldn't want to be in one).

    It doesn't make sense to me that a tornado at the moment it becomes a waterspout would be weaker than a tornado at the moment it touches down on land (all else being equal, which of course it never is exactly).

    However...

    At any given spot on land, there is a limit to how much stuff that tornado can pick up and lift high in the air.

    At any given spot on a large body of water, there is functionally no such limit.

    That picking up, and lifting high in the air, takes energy away from the tornado itself (even as it makes the tornado more dangerous - that rapidly flying debris can hit stuff, and the higher it's lifted the further it can fly out in a random direction before landing).

    So, to me, it makes sense that a waterspout would lose energy faster.

    (I went looking for an estimate of how much the debris in a tornado can weigh - no luck.)

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    1 hour ago, mlooney said:

    Fresh off the vine Lima beans are a whole other experience than canned or frozen

    Can't vouch for that from personal experience, but it doesn't surprise me. Because the best way to eat peas is to pop the pod open, put it up to your mouth, and use a finger to scrape the peas out of the pod into your mouth - then pluck the pod off the vine and drop it on the ground next to the vine's roots.

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    11 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Apparently few places are truly immune.

    Tornadoes have been seen in every state of the US.

    But they're significantly more common and more dangerous in some states than in others.

    I remember reading the newspaper reports of the first time on record that the western half of the state of Washington actually had two tornadoes on the same day. Both were category zero. One touched down in the middle of Puget Sound, sucking up a fair amount of salt water and discomfiting an unknown number of fish. The other very briefly touched down in a paddock, lifting a horse off its feet and turning the animal 180 degrees before setting it down again - but not significantly damaging the horse or the fence.

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    3 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    This reminds me of that situation where the kid asks, "Mommy, what is sex?", then mommy has that awkward, lengthy talk but the birds, the bees, the flowers, the trees, the human plumbing, and so on; the kid's eyes get wide, and they ask, "But how do I fit all that into these two little squares?

    The version I heard ended with "Grampa said he'll be ready to go in a few sex."

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