You know that Chris Columbus was the first European to step onto the mainland of South America in 1498...
...but did you know that, 15 months earlier, John Cabot, a Venetian in the service of King Henry VII of England, had become the first European since the Vikings to make a similar landing in North America?
Did you know?
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black bart
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The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.
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Did you know that Edd's Tavern, started by Edd when he still used to post here, is now entirely in Russian? The url hasn't changed and the heading says Таверна Эдда, which is the same in Cyrillic. It seems to be nothing but recipes now. Weird.
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DavidH wrote:Did you know that Edd's Tavern, started by Edd when he still used to post here, is now entirely in Russian? The url hasn't changed and the heading says Таверна Эдда, which is the same in Cyrillic. It seems to be nothing but recipes now. Weird.
You mean... Edd's been TURNED!?!!??
EDD'S A COMMIE! EDD'S A COMMIE!
No, not really:
WHOIS wrote: Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: EDDSTAVERN.COM
Registrant:
Dmitry Kazancev
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.TIMEWEB.RU
NS2.TIMEWEB.RU
NS3.TIMEWEB.ORG
NS4.TIMEWEB.ORG
For complete domain details go to:
http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx? ... TAVERN.COM
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I don't understand...how did that happen?
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He's rearing his head into EDD's Tavern airspace!
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He must have given up the domain name and someone else has picked it up. You register them for limited periods of time. I sometimes (usually when I'm drunk) go back and look at domains I used to own or administer for a laugh. Now Edd can too...
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OK, but *why* did the sinister Putin and his evil minions take the name over, rather than picking a new one like Putinskya Krappska or whatever? There's something going on here ...
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It's official then...the commies are taking over the Internet!
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DYKT that on 2nd October in a swimming pool near Bournemouth a man shouted at some kids who bere being a nuisance. Four squad cars arrived with 8 cops; 2 cops jumped into the pool fully-clothed and dragged the man out. They later stated that no offence had been committed and released the man without charge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSrEK83rRks
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DYKT DavidH is currently leading the boards for double posting? 
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Do the mods have access to stats for that kind of thing? In which case I shall start lobbying to be made one. I love stats, me.pieces o'nine wrote:DYKT DavidH is currently leading the boards for double posting?
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Beware the Ides of June!
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