ProfessorZhirinovsky
ProfessorZhirinovsky t1_iwhm7xp wrote
Reply to comment by HotpieTargaryen in TIL Of the Bre-X fraud. The Canadian mining company was a penny stock that reportedly found billions of dollars of gold in Indonesia. The stock skyrocketed but collapsed following the suicide of one of the geologists and discovery that the core samples were salted. by jamescookenotthatone
Oh? I thought it rather shale-ow.
ProfessorZhirinovsky t1_iwftcpj wrote
Reply to comment by brianinohio in TIL that a district in India’s Punjab state requires prospective gun owners to plant 10 trees and take pictures with them as proof by cjfullinfaw07
The largest funding source for US wildlife conservation programs is from taxes generated from gun owners buying firearms and ammo.
ProfessorZhirinovsky t1_iu85ysf wrote
Reply to TIL that when the French first arrived in North America they met the Ojibwe Indians who introduced them to other tribes but used nasty names. The Lakota/Dakota people were called "Nadowessiwag," which became Nadouessioux in French, then Sioux in English. It means "little snake." by marmorset
This was very typical all over America. The whites would ask the local Indians they’d just met “ok who are those people over there?”, and the response would be what they did indeed call them; “yes, well those are the No Good Bastards Who Go Around Stealing Other Peoples Horses” or some such.
ProfessorZhirinovsky t1_j6p1sj3 wrote
Reply to comment by thetacticalpanda in ‘Poker Face’ is an absolute gem of a show. Would be blowing up if it was on a larger streaming service by mattyhegs826
IIRC this type, where the audience knows who the murderer is and the question is how the detective is going to figure it all out, is called a "Howcatchem."