One Of My Very Own…
THERE WILL BE FULL POSTS THIS WEEKEND
Very short and very well done...Bernie Sanders playing the bongos...
Petra Laszlo is the
unpleasant human who tripped a Syrian refugee called Osama Abdul Mohsen as he
walked past her with a child in his arms.
She is currently on
trial for disturbing the peace, but has vowed that whatever the outcome, she
will sue Facebook (for not clobbering the message-boards in which people say
mean things about her) and her victim, Mr Mohsen, who has settled in Italy.
That's right, she is suing the person she tripped who was holding a child.>
Got this comment from a faithful visitor:
Are you aware that
someone has created a Facebook profile for Folio Olio? It appears to have been
created by someone with a fake profile. I'm not sure how familiar you are with
Facebook, but your bartenders can tell you, you might want to have that
removed. Whoever this is can publish any trash they want as if they were you, and
I just don't want to see anyone mess with your legacy, damn it. You and your
wife are fucking awesome. Take care.
Ninja Grrrl
I really don't know what to do about that.
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From my nephew who lives in Texas...
One of the forecast models
for rain through Midnight Sat/Sun.
We live between Austin
(13.17) and Georgetown (10.17).
What kills me, is they forecasted it to the
nearest 1/100 of an inch. That’s
.25 millimeters (or about two one dollar bills high). 
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Crossword Clue: Two in a row.
_ _ _ S
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The ruins of a Roman colony
in Africa.
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Not saying dogs are better than kids in every aspect; but
good luck finding a kid willing to lick up his own vomit.
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O A R S
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I've often opined about the instructions photographers give models; here the tables are turned.
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“I’m just going to wing it.”
- Me,
about something I most definitely should not wing.
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Deforestation in Amazon
Rainforest, Brazil
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This is fascinating. Stare at the plus sign...
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These soft little fingers
form a capsule which protects the uterus of the dam from the foal’s hooves
during gestation.
The rubbery capsule also protects the mare as
the foal travels along the birth canal.
You have to be quick to
snap a pic of them as they begin to dry out and fall/wear away the minute that
they make contact with the air. Within 24 hrs of birth there is barely a trace
of them remaining.
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A Folio Olio riddle...
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You think this will work?
Wouldn't it clog?
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"You should only have to tell them once."
- People with no children
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I'm pretty
confident I can perform this Appendectomy on myself. Thank you, YouTube.
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The Lytro Illum dares to be
different, boasting even more robust features than its first generation
predecessor and a sleek design reminiscent of professional DSLRs. What's so
cool about it? Most cameras capture the position of light rays, producing a
statoc 2D image.
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It was a sad
day when I discovered my Universal Remote Control did not, in fact, control the
Universe. Not even remotely.
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Speaking of...
Police responding to a 911
call turned up at the Austintown, Ohio home to find the 22-year-old man who
called for emergency help "laying on the floor, in the fetal position...
surrounded by a plethora of Doritos, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, and Chips Ahoy
cookies." According to the police report, the fellow said he “smoked too
much weed” and was “too high and could not feel his hands."
And that one was true.
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I smoked an alcohol once and my left arm fell off.
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Result of a steel ball,
moving at 4.2 miles per second, impacting a 12 inch thick steel block. The ball
bearing in the photo is just for show. The original steel ball vaporized.
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There are people who wake up in the morning and go to work
at the googly eye factory.
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I've heard -- and repeated
-- the theory that addiction rates among indigenous people in the Americas was
caused by genetics -- specifically, that "new world" populations
hadn't gone through the European plague years' genetic bottleneck that killed
everyone who couldn't survive on alcoholic beverages (these having been boiled
during their production and thus less likely to carry infectious diseases). But
there's no evidence to support that theory.
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Delft, Livia Marin
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How smug a kid must feel when he’s due to be vaccinated
but is already autistic.
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This was a gif that didn't load, but he really did it.
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One day you too will transform from "copulate"
to "copunever."
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Leaked footage proves Mars
mission a hoax.
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The Middle Ages was a very
exciting time in Europe.
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The riddle:
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Loyal Viewers, I give you
Buster Keaton
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I could survive 3 months in the wilderness with a pocket
knife and the contents of a my wife's purse.
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Why don’t any of those hoarders hoard any good stuff like
paintings or pottery or fossils or…?
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How....demotivational...
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"I bet he's as smart as he looks."
Universal observation of a baby that means absolutely nothing.
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What idiot called it a bookshelf instead of a know ledge?
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Ever been so poor you had sleep of dinner?
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This is my stop!
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Man in a bear suit?
I'm thinking it has shoulder or back problems, but that sort of answers the evolution deniers' question about why would a monkey just "decide" to walk on two legs.
And it has better posture than most of my relatives.
THERE WILL BE TWO FULL POSTS THIS WEEKEND. ONE IS A THEME POST BECAUSE YOU ASKED FOR IT.
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Wonder books you need:
Some quotes that impressed me:
When the Amboseli matriarch
Eleanor was dying, the matriarch Grace approached her, her facial glands streaming
with emotion, and tried to lift her to her feet. Grace stayed with the stricken
Eleanor through the night of her death, and on the third day Eleanor’s family
and closest friend Maya visited the corpse. A week after the death the family
returned again to express what can only be called their grief. A researcher
once played the recording of a deceased elephant’s voice to its family. The
creatures went wild searching for their lost relative, and the dead elephant’s
daughter called for days after.
A telling characteristic of
Twenty-one was the way he loved to wrestle with the little ones and pretend to
lose. The wolf expert Rick McIntyre said, “He’d just fall on his back with his
paws in the air. And the triumphant-looking little one would be standing over
him with his tail wagging.” “The ability to pretend,” McIntyre said, “shows
that you understand how your actions are perceived by others. It indicates high
intelligence.”
The wolves that were better
able to read human tendencies and reactions, and were less skittish of human
contact, would have gotten access to more food scraps from human camps. And
human clans willing to tolerate the wolves would have obtained valuable
warnings of the presence of danger from other animals (and other humans).
Because female killer
whales can live up to eighty years, around a quarter of females in any group
are post-reproductive. Yet they remain sexually active. Grandmothers are
evidently very important in killer whale societies, almost certainly because of
the wisdom they have gathered over a lifetime.
An equally odd aspect of
killer whale culture concerns food taboos and ways that whales observe them. In
this they offer an extraordinary parallel with some human cultures. One clan of
killer whales eats only a single species of salmon. Another kills only one
species of seal. When members of a mammal-eating clan were captured for the
aquarium trade in the 1970s, they starved themselves for seventy-eight days
before eating the salmon being proffered, and then they ate the fish only after
they had performed a strange ceremony. The two whales held gently onto either
end of a dead salmon, and swam a single lap around their pool with it in their
mouths, before dividing the fish between themselves and consuming it. Killer
whales are strongly xenophobic. Clans of salmon eaters never mix with mammal
eaters, for example. Genetic studies show that clans with different food taboos
don’t interbreed, leading to slightly different appearances and genetic makeup.
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