Silly stuff

How did Victorian age women get dressed – & go to the bathroom

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An amusing article – Victorian Age as in the 19th century. Turns out it took the properly dressed woman 10 to 20 minutes to get dressed. How they went to the bathroom is at the end of the article. Victorian fashion, like many aspects of British society during Queen Victoria’s reign, was defined by order, … Read more

News 12 – “hyperlocal coverage” – downsizes with dozens of staff cuts.

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Thanks to MC for pointing me towards this. Of interest to some people who follow local (yawn) news. An earthquake hit local broadcast journalists across the New York metropolitan area this week as News 12 carried out sweeping layoffs that gutted newsrooms, eliminated dozens of jobs and sharply scaled back hyperlocal coverage, The Post has … Read more

YIKES! 11,000 bottles of bourbon stolen!

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If they show up in my neighborhood… I did some research, a relatively low cost bourbon, around $32 a bottle. The bottles, worth about $500,000, were taken in what company officials called a “coordinated cargo theft operation carried out in broad daylight.” It was a sunny Friday afternoon in Philadelphia when the driver of a … Read more