



The United Arab Emirates (UAE) are arguably the most westernized of the muslim nations, however… https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/middle-east/united-arab-emirates/what-you-can-or-cant-do-in-the-united-arab-emirates
Betty and Wilma were allowed to drive, but why did the Flintstonemobile have a steering wheel? BTW, Fred Flintstone ordered the BrontoRibs at a drive-in restaurant, apparently ate them there. He never brought them home, therefore the photo above is historically inaccurate. 😀
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18 April 2018 was the 75th Anniversary of The Doolittle Raid of 1942, the daring attack on mainland Japan after their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. A 1983 interview with (then 87 year-old) General “Jimmy” Doolittle can be found here.
Why some doorknobs are knurled.
Zen moment: Just saw a bee with one wing. Every time it tried to fly it ended up on its back, rolled over, crawled for a bit and tried to fly again with the same result. It never gave up, but it made the same mistake over and over. There’s more than two morals in that story.
“Have You Ever Really Seen The Moon?” is a collection of peoples’ reactions to looking through a telescope [via].
A beheaded majestic white swan didn’t bleed, wasn’t killed.
This is clever. Mechanical servos go digital.
Gumball Wars [via].
Ever work on a carpentry project, mis-measure the cut and end up with a short board? The BS100o Board Stretcher is the solution. “Measure once, cut twice.”
The Institute for Centrifugal Research (ICR) is worth the visit. If you’ve seen it before, it’s worth a revisit.
American humor cannot match that of Ronnie Corbett & Ronnie Barker [via].
Not sure who they are, but they’re a Scottish Bagpipe Rock Band.
Meanwhile, Jim Stafford is both an underrated guitarist, a talented comedian, and he had some minor hits in the 70s, and he’s still alive. Congrats.
Stafford had a number of minor hits, but I remember one in particular. I’d just lost a girlfriend, and this song seemed to make sense of it all. In retrospect it didn’t, but so what.
Dude was and is funny.
Here’s one of the prettiest songs George Harrison ever wrote and one of the most appropriate videos I’ve ever seen.
For some unknown reason that song always makes me tear up, and there’s something in that innocent video that hits my heart.
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow.

“Make a slight right, then turn kinda left, then turn kinda almost left, then turn right and get into the left lane, then veer north at the light. I’m at 3rd liquor store 9 blocks down on the left.”
If GPS ever goes down, we’re screwed.
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