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Mickey_Moose
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OCT 12, 02:28 PM
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For the record, Columbus never set foot in North America. He only traveled to South America, First landed in the Bahamas and then sighted Cuba a few months later (which he thought was mainland China) only to then land on Hispaniola in December, which he thought to be Japan. [This message has been edited by Mickey_Moose (edited 10-12-2021).]
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williegoat
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OCT 12, 02:35 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Mickey_Moose:
For the record, Columbus never set foot in North America. He only traveled to South America, First landed in the Bahamas and then sighted Cuba a few months later (which he thought was mainland China) only to then land on Hispaniola in December, which he thought to be Japan.
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But Columbus blazed the trail for Ponce De Leon, who established the first permanent European settlement in what is now the USA. When I was a kid, I actually drank from the Fountain of Youth.
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williegoat
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OCT 12, 02:38 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by RWDPLZ:
People lived in Arizona before air conditioning? I call bullshit. |
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I grew up in Florida and didn't have A/C at home or in school until I was 12 years old.
I have also lived in houses in AZ that did not have A/C.[This message has been edited by williegoat (edited 10-12-2021).]
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blackrams
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OCT 12, 02:51 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
I grew up in Florida and didn't have A/C at home or in school until I was 12 years old.
I have also lived in houses in AZ that did not have A/C.
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Grew up in Central Kansas, my parents had an old water cooler in their bedroom, nothing else for the rest of the house, we used box fans in the windows. It was my job to keep it filled while dad slept during the day and then again in the evening. Then about 1964 we built our own new home and installed an HVAC with real air conditioning. My lord I thought we were living large. Kansas isn't as hot as AZ but, in the middle of summer it isn't exactly cool there either.
Rams
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sourmash
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OCT 12, 03:00 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by RWDPLZ:
People lived in Arizona before air conditioning? I call bullshit. |
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I got it. Not sure why they're not participating.
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sourmash
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OCT 12, 03:02 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
Because only you possess the secret knowledge of the Oracle of Wikipedia. |
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Do far young haven't shown the same knowledge. Where in North America was that, little one?
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sourmash
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OCT 12, 03:05 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
When I was a kid, I actually drank from the Fountain of Youth. |
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Maybe have a drink from the Fountain of Emotional Maturity?
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blackrams
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OCT 12, 03:17 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by sourmash:
Maybe have a drink from the Fountain of Emotional Maturity? |
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Says the man who's started a pissing contest in every thread he's entered......................... Yeah, there ya go. 
No, I don't care how you respond.
Rams
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sourmash
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OCT 12, 03:35 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by blackrams:[/B
Says the man who's started a pissing contest in every thread he's entered......................... Yeah, there ya go.
No, I don't care how you respond.
Rams
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| quote | [B]Originally posted by RWDPLZ:
People lived in Arizona before air conditioning? I call bullshit. |
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Says the man who can't acknowledge a joke. You did know it was a joke?
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williegoat
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OCT 12, 06:03 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by sourmash:
Do far young haven't shown the same knowledge.
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English isn't your first language, is it?
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Where in North America was that, little one?
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As I have said before, it is not my job to remediate your abysmal lack of historical knowledge.
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