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I don’t go immediately to the parking lot after mass.

I do additional prayers like the Anima Christi and light some candles and pray even more.

By the time I leave there’s no one left in the parking lot.
 
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I don’t go immediately to the parking lot after mass.
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I used to drive my wife nuts parking on the street a block away . . .

But an obscure benefit of having turned East is much better parking lots. (Besides, we rarely leave within a half an hour . . . We take our socials seriously: noone is allowed to leave with less than 400 calories! :crazy_face: . . .and we don’t even cook on Pascha anymore, because we know how much everyone will ply one another with after the baskets are blessed . . .)
 
Colorado and Wyoming have had that law for ages. I’m in real trouble if I’m ever in a state that doesn’t allow it because I’ve been doing it for years. I doubt that ignorance of the law would apply here, either! But, I’d try to use it anyway! 😅
 
The “interesting” split is that left on red from one one-way street to another seems to be the exception, not the rule . .
 
True. We aren’t allowed to turn left on red on a one way. Why not, she wonders…
 
The last native of Dalmatia, an ancient Roman province, was Pope John IV in 640.
 
Polar bears could eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting…

…If they didn’t live at opposite ends of the earth! Polar bears live in the arctic, whereas penguins usually live in Antarctica.
 
Now they do.

That’s because the polar bears already ate all of the arctic penguins . . . we know this because, well, there aren’t any penguins in the arctic today!

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There are no dinosaurs either. Does that mean the polar bears ate them? If so, we need to give @Sarcelle much more respect!!
 
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, converted to Catholicism on Holy Saturday, 2009. A lifelong Baptist, Speaker Gingrich said his conversion was a ten-year journey.
 
The first toy to be advertised on television was Mr. Potato Head. That was in 1952. In those days, you had to supply the potato.
 
My father remembers having one of those!

And mom would probably take it back to cook, anyway . . .
 
Any penguin experts here? Don’t some penguins migrate to the Arctic for mating…then leave after? For some reason, I have it in my head that there are penguins in the Arctic…sometimes? Whereas, penguins an Antarctica live there year round. I need to watch the BBC nature shows again. They are wonderful!
 
All penguins are flightless, so they don’t migrate that far.

The Tawaki penguin has the longest sea-going migration, swimming up to 1500 miles (2500 km) between its nesting grounds in southern New Zealand and its feeding grounds in the Southern Ocean and around Tasmania.

The Emperor Penguin famously migrates up to 100 miles (160 km) over ice and land to its nesting grounds. When foraging at sea, it may range as far as 900 miles (1400 km.)

The northernmost penguin is the Galápagos penguin, which lives around the Galápagos Islands. It is the only penguin found north of the equator.
 
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