THIS WEEK'S DEAR JOHN LETTER!
Dear John,
I have been invited to a wedding for a classmate. We were never really close. I'm not even sure why she invited me. My mother said I should go. I think it would be weird. We have not talked in over a decade. We were never super close friends. We had a few classes together, but that's about it. We are friends on facebook and she comments on my stuff quite a bit, but we have not even chatted on that platform for over five years. I actually checked to see how long it's been. I think this would be a very strange thing to do. Am I being rude? Should I send a gift and tell her I can't make it? That would save her money on a dinner and it would save me the awkward evening.
Signed – Old Friend
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KFC has added 2 mouth-watering new items to the menu, but you’ll have to go quite a distance to try them. The new Flossy Original Recipe Chicken Porridge and the Shroom ‘N Cheese Pockett are both exclusive to Singapore. Priced at about US $2.85, the Flossy Chicken Porridge is just what it sounds like: warm porridge topped with Original Recipe fillet chunks and chicken floss. What is chicken floss? “A dried meat product with a light and fluffy texture similar to coarse cotton.” Shroom ‘N Cheese Pockett is described as a “warm and hearty toasted wrap” filled with KFC’s famous hot & crispy Zinger fillet, herb-marinated mushrooms, mayonnaise, and melted mozzarella and cheddar cheese. It goes for about US $5.00.
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Beethoven was totally deaf when he composed his classic Ninth Symphony.
Hawaiian pizza comes from Canada. It was created in 1962 by Sam Panopoulos in Chatham, Ontario, Canada.
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A man who accidentally threw away a hard drive with 8,000 bitcoins on it wants to use robot dogs and AI to help dig through a dump and recover his lost fortune, according to a report. James Howells, from the Wales city of Newport, mistakenly threw away the iPhone-sized drive in 2013. The bitcoin stored on it is now worth roughly $175 million. So, he’s fighting for council’s permission to spend $11 million to excavate the landfill and sort through 110,000 pounds of trash. Both humans and AI-powered machines trained to recognize the hard drive would sort through the garbage in a process he expects to take 3 years. A pair of Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs would also sort through garbage during the day and patrol for trespassing treasure hunters at night.
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ODD BOOKS – THAT WERE ACTUALLY PUBLISHED:
⇒ Historic Bubbles, Frederic Leake (1896)
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⇒ Careers in Dope, Dan Waldorf (1973)
⇒ How to Fill Mental Cavities, Bill Maltz (1978)
⇒ The Romance of Leprosy, E. Mackerchar (1949)
⇒ A Do-It-Yourself Machine Gun, Gerard Metral (1995)
⇒ Practical Candle Burning, Raymond Buckland (1970)
⇒ American Bottom Archaelogy, Charles Barris and James Porter (1983)
⇒ Handbook for the Limbless, Geoffrey Howson (1922)
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Sex
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