i accidentally made this thread [NO POLITICS, NO OFFENSIVE POSTS, NO NSFW]

[jonshep]

Talking about accidents...
I'll share this through the anonymity afforded by the forum.
Back when my 1st son was born we lived in a fairly rural part of south Florida. All dirt roads, mail box on the main dirt road about 1/2 mile away and for garbage you could take it to the dump, burn it in a 55 gal drum, or pay a local big money to take it to the dump. Anyway, as a baby we had a lot of wet diapers on burning day. Put in some garbage, put in the diapers and get it started. Well wet diapers don't burn so well, so after trying a number of times I went to the lawn mower and got some gas and put it on the diapers. Went to light it, out of matches. Into the house to get matches. Never thought about the gas vapors sinking to the bottom of the drum. Came out lit it and BOOM. a cylinder of flame out of the drum, dirty burning diapers up in the falling all over the yard, running around trying to put them out, melted section sticking to the shoes. In all very exciting. Got an instant sun burn and some singed hair and eyebrows. Live and learn

By any chance, would you have a video of that incident?

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By any chance, would you have a video of that incident?

Spoiler: Don't do this at home . . .

 

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[Leand60]

 

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Why did the Pumpkin cross the road?

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He was feeling a little Off - - icer.

 

[Back2Trucking]

Anything? I found a Bicentennial quarter with no mint mark. Thinking it was rare I thought I had something valuable. Turns out the Philadelphia Mint made in excess of 800,000,000 of them. Not so rare. Turns out its worth a bit more than 25 cents.

Back two or three centuries ago when people cut coins into 8 pieces (to make smaller change) the original term "bit" referred to one of those pieces. A Spanish dollar was called a piece of eight (all 8 bits), so “two bits” meant a quarter of a dollar. So your coin was worth 2 bits, not a bit more than quarter.

 

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Back two or three centuries ago when people cut coins into 8 pieces (to make smaller change) the original term "bit" referred to one of those pieces. A Spanish dollar was called a piece of eight (all 8 bits), so “two bits” meant a quarter of a dollar. So your coin was worth 2 bits, not a bit more than quarter.

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So that's what bit-coin is.

 

[Back2Trucking]

Oh -

So that's what bit-coin is.

Ha! The 17th century meets the 21st! Of course, if you're going to get into cryptocurrencies, best have at least a 64-bit computer...

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