“It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth”

[larryhammer]

Links for everyone—take as many as you want, we have more in the back:

What we know about infamous 18c. BCE copper merchant Ea-nāṣir, based on the 26 tablets found in his house in Ur. (via & via) (yes, he's infamous enough to have a subReddit fandom -- and RPF on AO3)

Thanksgiving Recipes by Kindergarteners. (via)

7 ways to improve microwave performance. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from Lepanto, G. K. Chesterton.

Comments

[graydon]

"Set down your feet upon him, that Our Peace be on the earth."

Horrid worldview but the man could write.

[larryhammer]

Yup, and yup.

[sartorias]

Those recipes are hilarious! (Though you can tell the kids have been earnestly been taught to be careful around ovens

[larryhammer]

(Indeed)