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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Hawkmoon on September 06, 2020, 12:59:31 PM
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Truth in advertising has a new hero -- and he doesn't even wear a cape or Lycra or have a secret identity. He's just a guy who thinks that calling lumps of chicken that don't originate as chicken wings "boneless wings" is wrong and should be banned.
https://www.fox6now.com/news/buffalo-wild-wings-wingstop-respond-to-nebraska-mans-viral-plea-to-denounce-term-boneless-wings
I happen to agree with him.
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How about chicken fingers?
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What about chicken nuggets?
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Think about the poor people who lie awake at night wondering about buffalo wings, grasshopper cocktails, and turtle sundaes . . .
Seriously, if "boneless chicken wings" aren't made from actual chicken wings, they shouldn't be called that.
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Chicken things.
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(https://images.baklol.com/1_jpegee44ff212cea7965fa72c357b8eca7e1.jpeg)
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Hot Dogs
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Yams being passed off as Sweet Potatoes
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Peanuts
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Jumbo Shrimp. Though that is more a contradiction in terms.
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Yams being passed off as Sweet Potatoes
What? Yams aren't disgusting enough to satisfy?
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Democrats
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Antifa
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McRibs
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I'll pass on all that stuff and take the pumpkin pie, please!
Woody
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Yams being passed off as Sweet Potatoes
It usually goes the other direction :)
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Soylent green meat product.
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Soylent green meat product.
Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green Day
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Soylent green meat product.
Long pig.
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Paper Boy
Pedal Pushers
Mushroom Cloud
Underwear
110 Volts
Meteoric Rise (Man, oh maaannn, do I ever hate that one.)
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Meteoric Rise (Man, oh maaannn, do I ever hate that one.)
I've got to agree with you on that one.
From an earthbound perspective it should be a "meteoric burn out" or "meteoric crash and burn" or something like that.
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From almost any perspective, a meteor (or any object) in space is always falling in one direction or another.
The "almost" comes in because there is zero gravity at the exact center of any body, where the pull is equalized from all directions.
I'm not too clear in this one, but the other "almost" is that gravity (except for external fields) does not exist in a hollow sphere since wherever you put an object inside this sphere, all the gravitational forces from the mass of the sphere's "walls" cancel out.
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_Thinking/grvtysp.htm
Graphically:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Mechanics/sphshell2.html
A gravity "neutral point" is also true of any two bodies in an otherwise "sort of" gravity-free volume. Even Jules Verne knew this in his "From the Earth to the moon," where at one point the pull from the earh was canceled out by the pull of the moon.*
It's also true for any number of bodies. Considering the same principles involved in the cited article about hollow spheres, for any N bodies, there must be a point somewhere between them where the pull from each of them acting at one particular point cancels out.
I surmise, therefore, that there may be many volumes (as opposed to "areas") in the cosmos (including the centers of black holes) where this situation pertains.
I was trying to put these conceptions into a theory of "dark matter," but I don't have the background to make it all "click."
Terry, 230RN
*Yeah, I know, they should not have felt any "weight" at all after the initial acceleration and final deceleration, since they would be in free fall all the way. But Verne knew about that equalization point.