Darrow’s “Monopoly” made him a millionaire, but it wasn’t completely original. It was an adaptation of “The Landlord’s Game” patented over three decades earlier by Elizabeth J. Magie:
Elizabeth Phllips (nee Magie) renewed her patent in 1924.
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What a pretty Christmas song.
BR5-49 took their name from Hee-Haw skits featuring Junior Samples as a used car salesman who proffered BR-549 as a five-digit phone number. It was also the number of an International Trucks engine used in tractors and fire trucks and the designation meant Broad-Ring cylinder 549 cu. in. It was a powerful heavy-duty low-rev gas hog that got 3 mpg max.
Sorry, I got distracted chasing down obscure modern-day trivia. Not.
The Moron Brothers are a hoot. They sell coffee, too.
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio Suite (1734) as performed by Septura. They’re a brass septet from London who don’t know how to dress properly, so turn your head away and listen instead. They are very good.
Merry Christmas & Happy Hanukah to all.
[Found here, available here. Chet Phillips’ artwork is awesome.]
Kiviaq is an Greenlandic Inuit treat: auks fermented in a bladder of sealskin. The link includes this DIY video on preparing the auks. The fermentation takes about three months. Enjoy!
One-armed man won a lumberjack competition. TRUE.
“Large raccoon” knocked out power to 9,600 in New Mexico.
[h/t Alan U.]
There are four kinds of color blindness: protanopia, dueteranopia, tritanopia and achromatopsia.
The COBLIS Color BLIndness Simulator is kinda cool.
What if a color that you perceive as blue is perceived by your friend as red, yet you both call it purple? If you were a dog, what would your favorite shade of gray be? Stoner questions are awesome.
Actually dogs can see colors, according to this, just not all colors. Humans can’t see all of them either, and some have told me so.
I just Googled “hybrid freak animal.” Now I won’t to be able to sleep for a month.
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RIP Joji Tani (1922-2017).
Born in San Pedro, California, he graduated high school in 1942. He grew up on Terminal Island, and that same year all people of Japanese ancestry were given 48 hours to evacuate to internment camps. His father was taken to North Dakota and interrogated for six months. Allowed only two suitcases per family, Joji’s family was sent to the Santa Anita racetrack, where they lived in makeshift housing among the horse stables. From 1942 to 1944 Tani’s family lived in various internment camps in California, Arkansas and Texas.
He’s the father of one of my wife’s best friends and unfortunately I never met him.
Tacky Raccoons 