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Another Great Gift Idea: Chinese Mickey Grits
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Tag: WTF
More Great Gift Ideas: The Beta Versions
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Papa Was A Rolling Hot Links
Pure brilliant simplicity: “It’s my dog.”
Here’s the unofficial History of AutoTune.
Fan of The Walking Dead? Here are some of the filming locations.
High Resolution Corrugated Cardboard.
Milton Friedman’s argument against Inheritance Taxation.
It’s deep. Real deep. Even deeper than that. It’s scary deep.
Guessing Someone’s Age By Their First Name.
From The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes Department: “My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic.”
Clever camouflage entry door.
[Top image from here, and I messed with it a tad.]
Another Great Gift Idea: Remover Installer
Wright Brothers’ Early Spacewalk Test (ca. 1915)
Using a pressurized helium-vapor suit, Orville and Wilbur Wright sought to solve future problems of space exploration, and their younger step brother “Nottle” volunteered to be the test pilot. Once afloat, the tethers snapped, and he sailed over the horizon. He landed in France and enlisted with the 43rd Balloon Company, serving as a practice target in WWI. Out of eleven volunteers, he was never shot down by the Boche once, and he survived the friendly fire, too.
Okay, maybe it wasn’t a spacewalk test, and maybe it had nothing at all to do with WWI, but maybe it did, depending on how you look at it.
[Original image found here.]
Partly Cloudy With A Chance Of Hot Links
11 Epic RickRolls. This one’s classic-al in case you missed it. Here are two more.
Andrew Loomis’ Fun With A Pencil [1939] was his first book, and my all-time favorite. Download it and give it to your favorite budding artist.
Pink Halibut is not a medical affliction.
Tardigrade plush animals [via].
How to read divinations signs from candle burning – the Hoodoo Method.
An image of a woman wearing hat and sunglasses with a plastic bee on her nose is available for purchase here.
The Divje Babe flute, estimated at 43,000 years old, is the oldest surviving wind instrument. It was played by Neanderthals.
The Geißenklösterle flute is pretty old, too.
[Top image of a drive-in restaurant movie theater found in here.]
Roof On A Tin Cat Hot Links
- lima bean (n.)
- 1756, associated with Lima, Peru, from which region the plant (Phaseolus lunatus) was introduced to Europe c. 1500. Among the earliest New World crops to be known in the Old World, Simmonds’ “Dictionary of Trade” (1858) describes it as “esteemed,” but it has the consistency of a diseased dog kidney.
I grew up with a subscription to Mad Magazine. Check out what writer Dick DeBartolo is doing these days.
Interesting list of “hate crimes” that were hoaxes (with links).
Grifters. I’ve seen ’em everywhere I’ve ever lived. I remember growing up in Ohio and hearing the warning that “the Williamsons are in town.” Their gig was to offer to reseal your asphalt driveway with hot mop. The “hot mop” washed away with the next rain, and by that time they were out of town.
10 Best Leon Russell Songs (R.I.P. 1942-2016).
A turkey’s gender can be determined from its droppings–males produce spiral-shaped poop and females’ poop is shaped like the letter J. More fun turkey facts here.
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Nothing Much Happened Today.
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Live Streaming Hot Links
Late Election predictions by media talking heads were spot on.
Here’s one reaction. Here’s another. Okay, I’ll stop.
The Dig Tree was where the Burke and Wills Expedition buried supplies in 1861. It was Australia’s version of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, except they had camels instead of horses. Out of 19 explorers, only one man survived the trek.
Very cool World Map puts things in better perspective [via].
Clever Billy Bass Hack.
The Timberline Lodge should look familiar to horror film fans.
Woman describes why she (legally) immigrated to the U.S.
Another WMD (Washing Machine Destruction) video [via].
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Tacky Raccoons 