[Image found here. Every google hit for fish ladder Switzerland Pichoux Gorge has the exact same comment so I won’t repost it here.]
Category: True Stories
Taeniacidal Hot Links
Danny Dell & The Trends- Froggy Went A Courting, 1960
In the medical business? Gomerpedia is kinda cool.
It even lists a Karen.
It’s open mic poetry night at Honky Joe’s Beat Bar.
Jökla-mýs = Glacier mice.
They move around and nobody knows how [h/t Bunkarina].
Speak Appalachian? Here’s a quiz. Pretty easy – I got 100%.
[h/t Busted Knuckles.]
THIS JUST IN:
A new proof has confirmed the Schinzel-Zassenhaus conjecture, which predicts that the smallest roots of a non-cyclotomic polynomial effectively repel the largest roots, like magnets pushing each other away.
[Top image & story here. More here. Video here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Hot Links UNMASKED!
RUN.
Polar bear being a polar bear.
I’ve got an uncontrollable urge to buy a DEVO Energy Dome COVID-19 face mask.
Betsy Ross incubated an egg in her bra and hatched a duckling.
King Rhadamanthus: If a person defends himself against another who initiated violence then he should suffer no penalty.
Cat Man – Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps 1957
[Top image: On Friday afternoon, L.A. guerilla artist Sabo was interviewed on AM640KFI. Scroll down to listen.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Big Busts
4 May 1970 – Kent State
Remember Always
Who Set It Up and Who Paid The Price
It began when left-wing activists from off-campus arrived by bus on Friday May 1 1970 to host a May Day protest rally. Kent State, a small university in northeast Ohio, had been chosen.
Doppelgangers.
[Update: Apparently the one on the left is a fabrication, but it still amuses me. The beach photo comes from Getty Images.]
[Update 2: Looks like it’s either a mistake or a joke that went viral. https://jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2020/04/21/no-this-beach-photo-doesnt-prove-the-media-is-lying/ ]
Doktorskaya kolbasa
Russian Докторская колбаса (Doctor’s sausage) had it’s origins in the United States.
The Bolsheviks mismanaged food production resulting in a widespread famine, so in 1936 Josef Stalin sent his food industry administrator to find out what the Americans were doing. Anastas Mikoyan found a lot of bologna.
Here is the exact recipe of Doktorskaya kolbasa that was used as industry standard from 1936 till 1974:
Quantities of ingredients to produce 100 kg of Doktorskaya kolbasa:
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- 25 kg of beef meat
- 70 kg of semi-lean pork meat
- 3 liters of milk
- 2 liters of eggs
- 2 kg of salt and 200 gr of sugar
- 30 gr of cardamom
- 50 gr of ascorbic acid (color stabilizer)
Manufacturing technology included dicing and mixing all ingredients in a homogenous paste, filling the tubes and later drying and boiling the sausage. Final product was incredibly tasty and quite healthy.
At least it was tasty and healthy enough for those who hadn’t starved to death during the famine, or slaughtered during Большой террор.
Social Distance Shaming Hot Links
Jungle Boogie, The Bobby True Trio, 1948:
I spy Walter Wick.
Who did the voice of Cecil the Turtle best?
COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic stats are interesting. To date, less than four-thousandths of one percent (0.003.5%) of the US population has contracted it; six ten-thousandths of one percent (0.0006%) of the US population has died from it. Italy’s death rate from the virus is 1.7%.
The Republic of San Marino is a 24 sq. mi. micronation surrounded by Italy. It has the highest fatality rate (of the countries listed) at 6.5%.
PJMedia parsed the same statistics I did and posted the graphs below:
From the What-Are-They-Hiding Department:
This. Oh, and also This.
Earlier this year, a Beijing district office for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that pants should be an effective barrier against farts that might disperse the Wuhan virus.
[Status update: A Humble Request.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
An Unplanned Vacation
Yeah, I’m gonna go dark for a while. Might be a week or more.
Seems I’ve got a nasty little beastie inside that requires some medical attention. I don’t know how long the recovery is going to take or what it entails, but I’ll find out soon enough. Meanwhile, check out the great sites in the blogroll, tell ’em I sent you.
Rock on wit yo bad sefs.
Bunk
The First Del Taco, Yermo, California
“Ed Hackbarth and David Jameson opened the first Del Taco in Yermo, CA in 1964. With a menu of 19¢ tacos, tostadas, fries and 24¢ cheeseburgers, Del Taco brought in $169 in sales on its first day in business – the equivalent of 900 tacos.”
Seems that the Del Taco pictured above opened in 1961, predating the one that opened in Barstow in 1964. It was originally named “House of the Taco,” er, um, “Casa del Taco.”
$169 in 1961 is about $1,500 in 2020 dollars. Not a bad first day.
[Image found here, caption here.]
UPDATE: Ed Hackbarth Jr. points out that Dave Jameson had nothing to do with the Del Taco Yermo. He joined Ed Hackbarth later 1964-65, opening the Del Taco in Corona CA. – Thanks, Ed.
Tacky Raccoons 