TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."

03 March 2022

Cremated ash tatoos: "I've got you under my skin"

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The prevalence of ash tattoos is increasing as a way for those mourning a loved one to cherish that person’s life and legacy . Some are even...
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Scummy

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Legal, of course.  But still scum, IMNVHO. 
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Complex theology simplified

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One of the most vexing questions for a theist to ponder is the coexistence of evil deeds and an omnipotent beneficent god.  This is the answ...

Best-selling children's paperbacks in 1990

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Found this smudged photocopied list in my files.  Saved at the time because of the odd (though perhaps not surprising) distribution of title...
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Good name for a dog

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"Karen sandwich"

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Context .
02 March 2022

How to help the people of Ukraine

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There is currently a massive worldwide effort to help the people of Ukraine in their resistance to Putin's aggression.  Countries are co...
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28 February 2022

Comfy chair

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Image cropped for size from the original at the Awful Taste but Great Execution subreddit.

The best book about the Shakespeare authorship controversy

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In the Shakespeare section of TWYKIWDBI, I've alluded several times to my belief that the true author of "Shakespeare's" w...
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Coin purse

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From the Awful Taste but Great Execution subreddit.
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Transcript from the Apollo 10 mission

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From the Twitter thread of the elves at Quite Interesting.
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Three new words in one paragraph

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"In some ways, Stewart was the last person one might expect to find immersed in acts of gonzo fieldwork. He was a tweedy, lifelong acad...
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"Have some sunflower seeds"

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A civilian woman confronted a heavily armed Russian soldier and offered him sunflower seeds... so that flowers will grow where he dies on Uk...
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25 February 2022

"The narcissism of small differences" explained

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Late in Democracy in America , in a chapter lavishly titled “Why the National Vanity of the Americans is More Restless and Quarrelsome than ...
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The reason old books smell better than new ones

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Details in the embedded infographic, but for the TL;DR crowd, it's basically because the cellulose in old books breaks down into ring st...
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