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[spencer @techspence]

By default on Windows11 everything you've ever copied to your clipboard is saved in the "clipboard history." Super fun right! :D

It saves images, text, urls.

To disable it, go to Settings > System > Clipboard and toggle it off.

[Mark Schlereth @markschlereth]

The league is knee-deep in bed with gambling sites. They’re making billions of dollars… I can’t make it all make sense

[marqix ☆ @fwmarqix]

My wife has a strict rule: I am not allowed to be left unsupervised in public for more than twenty minutes. This weekend reminded me why.

I’m standing in a long line at a garden center with a massive 50lb bag of specialized bird seed.

This woman behind me taps me on the shoulder and asks, "Oh, do you have a lot of birds?"

Standard small talk, But I’d been in line for fifteen minutes and I was bored.

I looked at her, completely deadpan, and said: “Actually, no, This is for me, It’s a new holistic cleanse I’m trying, High protein, great for the hair.”

The guy behind her immediately stopped scrolling on his phone.

The woman’s eyes went wide. “You… you eat that? Is that even safe?”

I leaned in like I was sharing a government secret. “The results are incredible. I lost 30 pounds last summer. The only problem is the side effects. Last time I did it, I ended up in the emergency room for two weeks. Tubes, monitors, the whole deal.”

She gasped. “From the seeds? Did you get a parasite?”

“No,” I said. “I was perched on a telephone pole trying to sleep and a hawk knocked me off. Fell forty feet.”

The guy behind her made a sound like a tire blowing out. The woman just stood there, paralyzed, trying to process the mental image.

Right then, my wife comes back from the bathroom, sees the look on the woman's face, grabs my arm, and starts dragging me toward the exit.

“He’s kidding,” she tells the woman. Then she turns to me: “This is why we can’t have nice things.”

I don't care. The look on that lady's face was worth more than the bird seed. 😂

[PLCee @ceetgeek]

we used to get ads like this

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 The true story behind the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads” from a WVU graduate

The song was released in 1971. WVU began the tradition of singing it at games in 1972.

The songwriters, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, got the idea for the song riding down Clopper Road in Montgomery County, Maryland. They are husband and wife.

The songwriters have confirmed the song is about West Virginia. It’s not about Western Virginia.

Bill originally wanted to write the song about his home state of Massachusetts, but couldn’t get the cadence and syllable count right.

Danoff and Nivert opened for John Denver in DC in 1970. Later that night they played the song for Denver who loved it. They all stayed up that night finalizing the lyrics.

John Denver had not yet even been to West Virginia when he recorded the song.

Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River were added because they sounded poetic. They are also physically present in Jefferson County, WV.

Video: John Denver playing Country Roads at dedication of Mountaineer Field in 1980.

It’s a beautiful song and I love hearing it, especially after Mountaineer wins!

[Lilly Batson @Lilly_bat98]

There will never be another Norm 😭

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.

Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Rick Moranis as Michael McDonald on SCTV.

One of Moranis’ funniest impressions, perfectly capturing McDonald’s unmistakable voice and mannerisms while pushing them into pure comedy gold. 📺

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

This makes me very happy🥰

[Shawnee Gregorio @ShawneeMG2]

Is it crack? Nope. But the addiction is real!! Who knew ranch dressing wasn’t available in the EU? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Europeans’ discovery of ranch dressing is flipping priceless!! We’re sorry we kept it from you! We had no clue!

Someone call the WH because that shit could make world peace happen!! 🤣🤣

[Brett Kollmann @BrettKollmann]

Honestly the main thing I hope we get out of this world cup is the Argentinians swapping barbecue knowledge with the people of KC while they’re in town so we can create a hybrid super barbecue.

[Gregory Blotnick @gregoryblotnick]

all these anecdotes on the Scots drinking the city of Boston dry (after drinking entire airplanes dry) are the stuff of legend

from bars:
“We’ve been here for over 30 years, and we’ve never seen anything like it.”

“We tripled St. Patrick’s Day.”

“They’re drinking everything.”

[The Loftus Party @theloftusparty]

A bunch of Scots… in Fenway Park… singing Abba at the top of their lungs.
And it’s perfectly awesome.
The Scot’s are putting on an absolute clinic for good times.

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

Hollywood has spent nearly $600 million trying to bring Matt Damon home.

Have they considered maybe he just doesn’t want to come back?

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Someone replaced the dinosaurs in JURASSIC PARK with PEE-WEE HERMAN and I love it even more now 😂🔥 (not created with AI btw)

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

In 1977, before anyone knew what Star Wars would become, Alec Guinness sat down to explain how a knighted Shakespearean actor ended up in a science fiction film he almost turned down.

The script arrived while Guinness was finishing a picture in Hollywood.

The name attached to it impressed him.

"I heard it had been delivered by George Lucas, and I thought that was impressive because he was a respected young director."

Then he learned what kind of film it was, and his enthusiasm collapsed:

"When I found out it was science fiction, I thought, 'oh crumbs,' and felt it simply wasn't for me. But then I started reading."

What kept him going wasn't the writing. By his own account, the writing was a problem:

"It seemed to me the dialogue was pretty ropey, but I had to keep turning the page. That is an essential quality in a script. You have to want to know what happens next."

That instinct, the inability to put the pages down, was enough. He met Lucas, the two got on well, and Guinness found himself signing on.

Then comes the part of the interview that has since become legend, told here in 1977 with no idea of how the numbers would balloon.

Guinness recounts the percentage deal:

"My agent asked for 2% because we didn't think it would make any money. I'd never had a percentage on a film before."

The story of how it grew is almost comic in its modesty:

"The day before the film opened in San Francisco, George Lucas phoned me. He's very diffident and shy, and said he thought the movie was going to be all right. He said they were grateful for the little alterations I suggested and offered me another half percent, making it two and a half. A few weeks later, I asked the producer for something in writing, and he mentioned a quarter percent, so it ended up being 2 1/4%."

A modest slice of a film nobody expected to earn anything.

Asked what fascinated him about it, Guinness reached past the genre and landed on something simpler:

"I think it has a marvelous healthy innocence. It has great pace, it's wonderful to look at, and it's full of guts. There are no horrors and no sex at all."

He described the strange aftereffect of watching it:

"It had a sort of wonderful freshness about it. It was like fresh air. When I came out of the cinema into London, I thought the city looked gritty and full of rubbish because the film had been so invigorating. It's simple stuff for all ages."

And already, before the franchise existed, people were reading more into it than Guinness ever intended. Asked if he was becoming a kind of guru figure, he answered with characteristic dryness:

"I am getting some pretty strange letters. One said, 'my wife and I have got problems, would you come over and live with us for a few months?'"

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

Paul McCartney telling the story behind “Come Together” — 2021. 🎸

The legendary Beatle reveals how one of The Beatles’ most iconic songs was created.

Pure rock history from the man who lived it.

[Today In History @historigins]

At the 1989 Academy Awards ceremony, Sean Connery and Roger Moore shared the stage with Michael Caine to present the award for Best Supporting Actor. ⁠
⁠
The trio delighted the audience with a humorous skit in which they jokingly debated their respective merits, culminating in Connery uttering his iconic line, “My name is Bond,” while pointing to his fellow 007. ⁠

[タンタンパパ @tintinpapa1]

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