


For many years it was the practice for cigarette manufacturers to put what was called a ‘cigarette card’ inside each packet of cigarettes. These and others were produced by the cigarette company ‘Wills, in collaboration with the ARP (Air Raid Precautions), an organisation dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air-raids.

[Found here.]
NASA scientists are studying planet magnetic fields and revisited raw data collected by Voyager 2 over three decades ago. They found that
Voyager 2 spotted a massive magnetic bubble pulling gas out of Uranus’ atmosphere.
https://www.space.com/uranus-gas-blob-voyager-2-discovery.html
Such loop-like plasmoids are typically formed as a spinning planet flings bits of its atmosphere to space. “Centrifugal forces take over, and the plasmoid pinches off.”
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=119
There’s a happy patient. One squeeze and she’s happy; two squeezes and she’s dancing on the table; three squeezes and she’s prepared to serve in congress.
[Found here. Nice one, McGoo.]

Oil prices are up. Propane prices are up. Methane prices are going up, too, so save it for a rainy day. Don’t keep ’em bottled up inside, collect ’em all and cash ’em in! Register a brand name like I did (Jumpin’ Jack Flashizza™) and wait for the FartMart to open a retail outlet near you. Then you can barter your best SBD BarnBurners in bulk and get paid for your flatulence daily, weekly, or monthly as required.
Just another Money Saving Tip for loyal readers of Tacky Raccoons.
[Image from here. Nice find, Planetross.]
Humor-Blogs.com (and if I don’t start getting some hits from Diesel’s website I’m gonna drop the widgets.)
[UPDATE- I think I got the link to Humor-Blogs fixed. Try it out and get Tacky Raccoons back into the top 10% – Bunk]
[UPDATE 2 – The link still doesn’t recobanize the post source. (The guttural non-fricative “grrrrg” comes to mind.)]