The Swamp

Jerloma wrote:Sure, it was disgusting, but not illegal and as long as the legal dominoes continue to fall, and they're falling quickly, the videos of those rallies at CFA are going to eventually be looked at the same way everyone looks at the anti-black rallies of the 50s.

mister d wrote:

Jerloma wrote:Sure, it was disgusting, but not illegal and as long as the legal dominoes continue to fall, and they're falling quickly, the videos of those rallies at CFA are going to eventually be looked at the same way everyone looks at the anti-black rallies of the 50s.

And there you'd be, at the counter chatting up the virulently racist owner and later explaining "I don't think he's an asshole, just a southerner. This is how he was raised."

Jerloma wrote:I think you guys (except Rass) all might need a little lesson in religious tolerance.

mister d wrote:And my argument is publicly denouncing gay rights and funding anti-gay marriage organizations constitutes active harm.

howard wrote:This line wins the swamp today:

Jerloma wrote:I think you guys (except Rass) all might need a little lesson in religious tolerance.

rass wrote:The cardinal is the State Bird of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia.

Thanks Geico, and sorry for thinking you were lazy.

AB_skin_test wrote:I assume we all have access to Pruitt's mail library.

L-Jam3 wrote:Seroiusly, can we start a new Random Thoughts thread, like I started that secondary Learn Something New Every Day Thread? I hate the fact that I have to see that colostomy bag's name every time this thread gets bumped because he started it.

The Sybian wrote:

sancarlos wrote:

The Sybian wrote:...Otherwise I'd think he was going to compete with Shawn Kemp and Antonio Cromartie.

Travis Henry feels disrespected.

Ha, forgot about him.

The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Around 400 people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about one month, some of those affected died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

Events
The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Mrs. Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg.[1] This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers, predominantly female. Some of these people eventually died from heart attacks, strokes, or exhaustion.[1] One report indicates that for a period the plague killed around fifteen people per day.[2]

Historical documents, including "physician notes, cathedral sermons, local and regional chronicles, and even notes issued by the Strasbourg city council" are clear that the victims danced.[1] It is not known why these people danced, some even to their deaths.

As the dancing plague worsened, concerned nobles sought the advice of local physicians, who ruled out astrological and supernatural causes, instead announcing that the plague was a "natural disease" caused by "hot blood". However, instead of prescribing bleeding, authorities encouraged more dancing, in part by opening two guildhalls and a grain market, and even constructing a wooden stage. The authorities did this because they believed that the dancers would recover only if they danced continuously night and day. To increase the effectiveness of the cure, authorities even paid for musicians to keep the afflicted moving.[3]

Historian John Waller stated that a marathon runner could not have lasted the intense workout that the men and women died from hundreds of years ago.[4]

Johnny Carwash wrote:Then Martha Reeves was burned at the stake.

Jerloma wrote:Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.

Jerloma wrote:So, it's finite then? Does he ever run out of webbing?

rass wrote:

Jerloma wrote:Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.

Yes. The mid-2000's Tobey Maguire movies made a change from the standard comic setup and had the webbing come from Spidey's body instead of being mechanical. It was sort of a nerdy big deal at the time. I don't know what the last set of movies (with Andrew Garfield) did. The new Spidey that showed up in the last Captain America movie is back to mechanical webbing.

Shirley wrote:

rass wrote:

Jerloma wrote:Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.

Yes. The mid-2000's Tobey Maguire movies made a change from the standard comic setup and had the webbing come from Spidey's body instead of being mechanical. It was sort of a nerdy big deal at the time. I don't know what the last set of movies (with Andrew Garfield) did. The new Spidey that showed up in the last Captain America movie is back to mechanical webbing.

Pretty sure it's a longstanding split in the Spiderman universe. Some storylines have mechanical webs and others have biological.

A_B wrote:

Shirley wrote:

rass wrote:

Jerloma wrote:Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.

Yes. The mid-2000's Tobey Maguire movies made a change from the standard comic setup and had the webbing come from Spidey's body instead of being mechanical. It was sort of a nerdy big deal at the time. I don't know what the last set of movies (with Andrew Garfield) did. The new Spidey that showed up in the last Captain America movie is back to mechanical webbing.

Pretty sure it's a longstanding split in the Spiderman universe. Some storylines have mechanical webs and others have biological.

MOst of them have mechanical webbing in my experience. The tobey maguire stuff really pissed of the purists, like rass said.

Shirley wrote:instead announcing that the plague was a "natural disease" caused by "hot blood". However, instead of prescribing bleeding, authorities encouraged more dancing, in part by opening two guildhalls and a grain market, and even constructing a wooden stage. The authorities did this because they believed that the dancers would recover only if they danced continuously night and day. To increase the effectiveness of the cure, authorities even paid for musicians to keep the afflicted moving.[3]

A_B wrote:

Shirley wrote:

rass wrote:

Jerloma wrote:Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.

Yes. The mid-2000's Tobey Maguire movies made a change from the standard comic setup and had the webbing come from Spidey's body instead of being mechanical. It was sort of a nerdy big deal at the time. I don't know what the last set of movies (with Andrew Garfield) did. The new Spidey that showed up in the last Captain America movie is back to mechanical webbing.

Pretty sure it's a longstanding split in the Spiderman universe. Some storylines have mechanical webs and others have biological.

MOst of them have mechanical webbing in my experience. The tobey maguire stuff really pissed of the purists, like rass said.