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Ham

@jon-nyc good point. I don’t know that I could explain it if pressed.

It seems like advent calendars are everywhere now (online at least). As a kid, I don’t remember even knowing what an advent calendar was. In fact, I first remember really noticing them when I moved to Japan. I remember another English teacher talked about having her students make them for a cross-cultural activity, and I would see them in import shops where they were presented as an example of a western Christmas tradition. I remember just assuming that it was a British thing.

But evidently that’s not the case.

Were advent calendars part of your Christmas tradition growing up?

Chainmail

I’m pretty sure Chun King Chow Mein was sold into the 70s.

And Bireley’s orange juice is sold in Japan, owned by Asahi, the company that makes beer. I drank it a lot when I lived in Japan, I didn’t know it was originally a U.S. company.

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@wtg said:

I was starting to think about selling my digital piano but this has prompted me to reconsider...

Don’t do it!! Play it!

Best comment (that I’ve read so far)

I’m not sure if learning to play the piano makes me smarter but it does make me happier.

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@Mark said:

you sink into easier acceptance of mediocrity.

I think I'm already there....

Eyes

What a great trip!! What were some of the highlights?

Lickety

@DougG he was one of my first guesses too.

The other thing that this reminds you of is that in the end, acting is just a job and these people are all coworkers/colleagues and the ones with higher connectedness are just the ones that work more.

Also, the gender gap is real. Wow.

Egg roll

If you’re home sick and poking around online, this website is kind of neat. They created visualizations to show which actors are among the top of the most connected. And actually, it’s not Kevin Bacon, he ranks at 175th.

Can you guess who’s in the number one spot? Check out the site and you can enter different actors’ names and see where they land.

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/

@AdagioM said:

@ShiroKuro Don’t be sorry; I didn’t like it either!

Does anyone know 9 or 15? We’re stumped over here.

Totally clueless!

@AdagioM doh! I knew I should have known that one!

Also, that is a horrible, horrible song and I’ve always hated it!

Sorry!

@AdagioM I have never heard this song (I’m listening now on YT).

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@wtg thanks! I couldn’t find it on my phone, but when I opened it on my iPad I saw it, and then I realized that to do it on the phone, you have to turn the phone sideways to see the option.

***answers***

ETA ok that was only a test