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Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest serving First Lady of the United States:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt

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Her death anniversary was November 7.
 
Another American tradition, Car Night at the local joint. :tup:

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(Of course, a brisk peel off down the main straightaway when leaving the show is traditional. The burbling at idle and the snarl at full throttle of powerful engines and the aroma of burnt rubber and hi-octane gasoline is impossible to describe. :D )


Only in America can people get access to jet engines and do crazy stuff like this in their spare time.
 
November 17, 2016

TOM HANKS' SPEECH DURING MUSEUM OF MODERN ART'S FILM BENEFIT


We are going to be all right. America has been in worst places than we are at right now.

In my own lifetime, our streets were in chaos, our generations were fighting each other tooth and nail, and every dinner table ended up being as close to a fist fight as our families would allow.

We have been in a place where we looked at our leaders and wondered what the hell were they thinking of?

We've had moments with administrations and politicians and leaders and Senators and governors where we asked ourselves, 'Are they lying to us? Or do they really believe in this?'

That's all right. We have this magnificent thing that is in place, it's a magnificent document, and it starts off with these phrases that if you're smart enough, you memorized in school, or, just read it enough so you learned it by heart, or, you kind of watched those things on ABC where they taught you little songs, and the song goes like, [sings] 'We the People ... in Order to form a more perfect Union. establish Justice and insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare,' and it goes on and on. That.

That document is going to protect us, over and over again, whether or not our neighbors preserve and protect and defend it themselves.

We are going to be all right, because we constantly get to tell the whole world who we are.

We constantly get to define ourselves as Americans.

We do have the greatest country in the world.


We may move at a slow pace, but we do have the greatest country in the world, because we are always moving towards a more perfect Union.

That journey never ceases. It never stops.
Sometimes, like in a Bruce Springsteen song, one step forward, two steps back.

But we still, aggregately, move forward. We, who are a week into wondering what the hell just happened, will continue to move forward.

We have to choose to do so. But we will move forward, because if we do not move forward, what is to be said about us?
 
Food prices in the US.

Thanksgiving is coming up. The local school is having a get together. At the last minute we volunteered to bring in some more turkey.

So I go to the local store. Looked at the turkey prices, Bought this one:
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$17.67 for a fresh 20lb turkey. That's awesome.
The funny thing is if I bought a frozen one (we had no time to defrost it) it would have been even more cheaper.
19.85lbs * 0.59/lb = $11.71

Threw it in the oven for a little less than 4 hours at 325F, and it was all done.
 
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https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=97&t=3

How much electricity does an American home use?
In 2015, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer was 10,812 kilowatthours (kWh), an average of 901 kWh per month. Louisiana had the highest annual electricity consumption at 15,435 kWh per residential customer, and Hawaii had the lowest at 6,166 kWh per residential customer.
 
Of all the things i find the americans obsession with anagrams the strangest. The way americans want to find some deeper meaning in it. Anagrams are meaningless. 13 letters make half of the alphabet. Half of english vocabulary can be made up with a phrase of 13 letters. I mean duh!
 
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