“A Marine dentist sets up his office on Saipan, using a Japanese box as a footrest, a Japanese pail as a waste-bucket, and a Japanese shrine (left background) as decor for his waiting room. In order to keep his dentistry really ‘painless’ a Marine patrol nearby kept on the alert for Jap snipers.” (U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archives)
[Caption and image found here. Story at the link.]
Cruel but funny.
This story should piss you off.
Tushar’s Great Adventure [via].
There’s a reason it’s called a ram.
No other word to describe them. Animals.
THIS irritates some folks, but somehow THIS doesn’t.
From The Naiveté Department: Couple Travels To ‘Break Stigma’ Of Countries Getting A ‘Bad Rap.’ Iran locked them up.
A Humble Request. Thanks to all contributors and those of you who continue to donate.
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
[Top image: A “kid” was spotted smoking at a soccer game, except the “kid” is 36 years old, and the “kid” next to him is his son. Image and story found here. (h/t Octo).]
Amazing. The contents of clay cylinders found during the excavation of ancient Babylon is evidence that soapmaking was known as early as 2800BC, and these guys in Nablus are still doing it the ancient way, by hand. Why?
Nice animation that must have taken a while to make [via].
Fishing with John (with Japanese subtitles). From the Utoobage comments: “The problem with other fishing shows is that they are too polished, too normal. And they don’t have enough Tom Waits.”
Reminds me of “The Fishin’ Musician” series featuring John Candy.
Now for something completely different.
I don’t know what Fishbone was yammering about here, but I like the vibe.
As long as a tune was good, I never paid much attention to lyrics, but sometimes, years later, I found that the songs I liked a lot weren’t about what I thought they were about at all.
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow for stuff.
Don’t laugh. You know exactly what he’s selling, ya?
He probably knows more about growing, harvesting and distributing food than you or I, and his wheels are better than yours. Jes’ sayin’.
[Found in here.]
Heh.
“…and he was never seen again.“
Obama may run for US Congress.
CNN spared Alabama from Hurricane Dorian. [via]
Efficiency BBQ. (Back in the day, we used stolen hubcaps.)
Racist declares, “White Athletes Should Leave Black Colleges.”
Oh wait.
The Midnight Sun aired November 1961. Watch in full screen mode.
“Bull Doze Blues” Henry Thomas 1928. Sounds kinda familiar, ya?
The Warm List was last updated in 2012.
“Footnote (September 2015) Why the list stopped growing.
The time it takes to process a new entry increases approximately with the square of the list length, after checking for duplications, spoofs etc. Starting it was based on the naïve assumption that the rate of appearances would decline as opposing evidence accumulated, but the reverse happened. That’s the difference between science and religion. […] There have since been hundreds more claims of an increasingly ludicrous nature.“
And The Warm List compiler was right.
At 0:38, “Teacher” Martha Readyoff actually asked Bernie Sanders, “Educating everyone on the need to curb population growth seems a reasonable campaign to enact. Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address Climate Catastrophe?“
Look how CNN rephrased her question:
Bernie responded “YES.” Anyone else smell eugenics? I do.
Pheeew.
I decided to close down our CafePress store. Six months ago there was a security breach and I was just notified today via snail mail!
KimKommando chimed in and posted this link: haveibeenpwned.com. Type in your email address(es) and it will tell you if you’ve logged into a site/service that has been the victim of a security breach that may have compromised your personal information (including birthdates, SSNs & passwords).
A Humble Request. Thanks to all contributors and those of you who continue to donate. She had more surgery last week.
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[Top image from here. Related post here, and the comments are awesome.]
Maddy Bailey takes no offense [via].
Frank Zappa conducted Ravel’s Bolero, one of the most boring compositions ever, but added a Reggae beat. Why not?
The Cadillac Three make some fun noise. Never met ’em, but I grew up with some just like ’em. Good people.
Holy crap! Look at the lineup of that John Lee Hooker backup band!
Have a great weekend, folks. Boogie chillun’.
Tacky Raccoons 