This typo has since been FIXED. But, we have the screen grab.
Saw it earlier in the day today & grabbed the screenshot then-&-there. Good job I did. For a RARE change they fixed this typo. Typically most of their typos, & they have many, go uncorrected.
Click to ENLARGE. The infamous motto. What prompted me to move to New Hampshire in 1986 (36-years ago). Click to ENLARGE. I used a variation of this motto: “Think Free, Or Die“.
I wasn’t sure whether I was surprised or shocked when I saw this #1 ranking for ‘New Hampshire‘ in the U.K. ‘Daily Mail’ (which I read (at least) 4 times a day).
I moved to New Hampshire, in 1986, because I was captivated by the ‘Live Free Or Die’ motto that I saw on a car license plate. I knew I had to live there, i.e., New Hampshire (as opposed to ‘Taxachusetts‘, i.e., ‘Massachusetts‘). I had a job, with Wang, in MA but I knew I wanted to live in NH.
That, amazingly, was 36 years ago.
Suffice to say much water has flown under the numerous NH bridges over those many years.
Soon after I moved I discovered, to my horror (& to those of some others) that NH had NO ordinance against ‘explosive blasting’. So, the folks who had bought the empty lot next to us in extremely rural ‘New Ipswich‘ could use dynamite, with abandonment, to break up the granite ledge (that NH is so famous for) so that they could dig out space for their basement. NOTHING. They didn’t even have to notify the abutters. That was how free the State was. Not sure what the regulations are now for blasting. Though I made numerous calls I am not sure whether anything got changed.
I personally don’t feel that NH is that FREE — especially having been a small business owner. But, I really have no experience of any other states.
But, I am glad that NH is ranked #1 in terms of the FREEEST States. That is cool. Makes me smile.
This poor, BEAUTIFUL (endangered species) tiger did NO wrong. It was minding its own business! It did what nature intended for him to do.
Well I am NOT going to say it, BUT you can see where I am going.
OK. Confession & full disclosure time. Yikes! [Smile]
I used to pet a Bengal tiger, through the fencing, at a zoo — Marwell Zoo in the U.K. I lived ‘next door’. [This was in the 1970s.] I used to go to the zoo, when I could, late in the day, & sit by the tiger’s cage. I used to talk to it, like I would to a dog. After awhile I reached over & used to pet its head. Was I stupid? Well, you know the answer to that. But, I am still alive & have all my limbs & the tiger was never harmed.
Why, did I confess to this. Because, I can empathize, even more than some, about the desire of wanting to stroke a majestic tiger.
But …
IF my arm was in a tiger’s mouth I would be yelling: ‘Don’t shoot the tiger. Don’t shoot the tiger!‘ I am pretty sure of that, but, yes, of course, none of us can be sure.
Couldn’t they have fired above its head just to scare it away.
A tranquilizer dart might have taken a few minutes to act — but wouldn’t it have been worth it.
Click to ENLARGE & read here. Click here for the CNN original.
That is pretty young. It was his age, i.e., 35, rather than anything that caught my eye to begin with — even though the gratuitous ‘leftist‘ part did make me smile. Leftist is not always a bad thing. Some folks call ‘Bernie Sanders’ a leftist & he is, for the mots part, good & decent. But, let’s get back to the age.
35, coincidentally, is the STATED minimum age in order to be elected President in the U.S. or to be a Catholic bishop. [In the case of being U.S. President, that 35 refers, alas, to physical age rather than mental. I will leave it at that.]
Who was the youngest U.S. President is kind of a TRICK question. Depends whether you mean elected President or became President. At 43.65 years, ‘John F. Kennedy’ was the youngest elected. ‘Theodore Roosevelt’, who had been V.P., stepped into the Presidency when he was 42.88 years when ‘William McKinley’ was assassinated in 1901. So, the new Chilean President is much younger.
Wikipedia, bless them, has a list of the 10 youngest serving state leaders. Currently the youngest, at 27, is the Captain Regent of ‘San Marino’. [Coincidentally, I mentioned San Marino just last week in another post!] Then it is the Prime Minister of Finland — ‘Sanna Marin‘, who came to office when she was 34. That is impressive. New Zealand’s admirable ‘Jacinda Arden‘, who was elected when she was 37 is 8th on the Wikipedia list. She is quite the lady.
Wikipedia, alas, does NOT have the youngest ever! The best they can currently do is ‘from 1942‘. That is not that useful — PLUS the first 9 are all Kings. That doesn’t count. But, #10 is ‘Baby Doc’, viz. Jean-Claude Duvalier, of Haiti. Hhhmmm. He wasn’t elected & he was NOT a good man. He came to power when he was 19. I will, when I have time, dig into this more.
The youngest Prime Minister of the U.K. was the estimable ‘William Pitt the Younger‘, at age 24.5 in 1783.
Click to ENLARGE & enjoy. Here is the link to actual Sept. 19, 2021 post.
This was ‘Speaking with an Indian ACCIDENT‘ typo from a few days ago.
So, it says: “to defend their coworker, who was left with viruses & scratches …“.
Yes, you could even miss that on a quick read. Plus, the crux of the article was COVID — i.e., a virus. So, it is kind of easy to get lulled into submission.
Yes, OF COURSE, you could catch a virus or two (or even more) in a scuffle such as that.
But, usually we don’t speculate about catching viruses in a brawl UNLESS one of the participants was known to be infected with a virulent viral infection. In such cases the virus carrier could get charged, by the police, with a serious crime to hurt.
In this case, however, it was typo.
You got it right. I am not going to bruise your ego by spelling it out. SMILE.
