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Ret3net:talk:how we got the clap. How We Got the Clap. The word applause comes to us from the Latin applaudere, meaning to strike upon or clap. In addition to having a lasting term for the practice, the Romans had a tidy system for doing it, some parts of which may look familiar. In the case of general mild approval, there was finger snapping. At's cool daddio. If the subject was better than that, there was your bog-standard palm-smacking style. The Emporer Aurelian, though, favored the hanky wave instead.

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One good turn, I'm told, deserves another. One bad turn, though, apparently deserves several weeks on crutches and the threat of an MRI. My fellow Wavemakers and Guests, distinguished and otherwise, I'm about to milk my recent scooter crash for a speech. There are many schools of thought about how to learn, among them my personal favorite, that teaching is the best way to learn. Another is the ever-popular "Hard Way." I've already done the latter. Today, I attempt the former. Slowing first establshes a r...

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ret3.net:talk:a star is born

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Ret3net:talk:a star is born. A Star is Born. Intro: Mr. Toastmaster, distinguished guest, and fellow Wavemakers of planet Earth: When ancient peoples looked at nature, they ascribed personalities to the forces infulencing their lives. These ideas grew into complex mythologies that tried to explain why things are as they are. With our modern science such explainations seem silly and largely useless. II Learning to Shine. 1 Pressue from infalling matter. 2 IR radiation released from motion. 3 Color: a func...

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ret3.net:talk:issue 0

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INTRO: You (metaphorically) hold in your hands a mint slabbed-and-graded holofoil gatefold cover edition of Russell Taylor, Issue 0, wherein is recounted the secret origin of your friendly neighborhood.Russell. Mr Toastmaster, perpetually distinguished guests, toastmasters and True Believers all, let us break the seal on this Astonishing Tale and turn to. I In which Our thrilling tale begins. A Cold, distant, dying world.Krypton! Err, "New Joisey". B Flight to Smallville.err, Buda,Texas. 1 My weakness fo...

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ret3.net:talk:crime and punishment

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And so, over the next fifteen minutes, I swapped candy. Their peanut butter treats were replaced with my coconut ones, their crispy with my plain, their grape with my lemon. Oh, I may have kept more than I returned, but I was older, and who would know? Not my parents, as they had been in bed hours before our lapine visitor arrived. And the hippity-hoppity one himself had millions upon millions of other homes to visit, surely never looking back once his chore was done. I would be 19 by then.OLD!

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ret3.net:talk:media for nothing

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Media for Nothing (and Books for Free). But I've found help: the Austin Public Library. You don't need to be an addict to enjoy their services, though. Really, even reading is optional these days. 1Audio: CDs of popular, local, classical and classic music available (and not, say, copy-protected in any tangible fashion). 2Video: Instructional, Classic, and Children's titles. 3Research: the library comes to you via TexShare. 6Oh, yes, books. The ones you've "been meaning to read.".

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ret3.net:talk:the locks that bind

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Ret3net:talk:the locks that bind. The Locks That Bind. My mother has often been told, even by stangers in the grocery store, that hers is impressive. My father, though, finds his rather diminshed. My wife, for all her effort, never seems satisfied with hers. Me? Frankly, I'd be glad to be rid of much of mine. Even those most blessed, though, will at some point find themselves pulling their hair out over their hair.

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ret3.net:talk:surprise party

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She had a point, as she so often does. Whatever my Irish forebearers had passed down is lost, but for the reddish hue of my father's beard. My family's knowledge of our Limey roots isn't much more than that they were Tories during the American Revolution, and fled to southern Jersey. My Italian relations, (FLIP CHART). Type ones. Not that I'm complaining. In short order, I got a prescription to control them. The tumor itself, after some careful observation, doesn't seem to be growing. It ...