One Of My Very Own…
All right, listen up...and pay attention!
I'm not easily impressed, but this just about blew me away.
The first across clue in USAToday's puzzle:
Here is the second down clue:
Those two words just so happen to have crossed each other and here, amazed viewer, is what I got for a Christmas present...
It, of course, reminded me of a story...a bit of history, actually. Just prior to D-Day the London Times crossword had these three answers: Overlord (the code name for the invasion), Sword and Utah (two of the beaches) and the planners of the invasion about shit themselves. Come to find out the creator of the puzzle just happened to pick those words, so the invasion was on.
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I'm feeling somewhat better. Got a great night's sleep last night for the first time since the Berlin Wall fell. I'm slowly getting my strength back and now I have enough pep to lift my feet off the floor while walking instead of that condemned man shuffle of late.
Did I mention it is T-shirt and flip flop weather - has been a week and no sign of abatement.
Lots of animals in today's post...don't know why.
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Problem solving at its finest...
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ABOUT SONS AND DAUGHTERS
A family has two children,
one of which we know is a boy. What then is the probability that the other
child is a boy? The obvious assumption to make is that the likelihood is 1/2,
the child could be either a boy or girl. In a two-child family, however, there are
actually four possible combinations of children: two boys (MM), two girls (FF),
an older boy and a younger girl (MF), and an older girl and a younger boy (FM).
We already know that one of the children is a boy, meaning we can eliminate the
combination FF, but that leaves us with three equally possible combinations of
children in which at least one is a boy—namely MM, MF, and FM. This means that
the probability that the other child is a boy—MM—must be 1/3, not 1/2.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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World War I
I'm assuming the war is over and they are in a staging area to be shipped home.
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“Hold my beer and watch
this.”
I think his last words were, "It's off."
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How to tell a poisonous plant in the wild.
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A Robot Spent 36 Hours
Painting This
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Deciding what to buy in a
Grocery Store (Men vs Women)
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Just a Guy on a Buffalo...
...chasing a bear.
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THE CROCODILE AND THE BABY
A crocodile takes a baby
from a river bank. The mother asks the crocodile to return the baby, to which
the crocodile replies he will only return the child if the mother can guess
whether or not he will return it. If the mother guesses the crocodile will
return the child, there is no paradox, if she is correct then the child will be
returned. If, however, she guesses that the crocodile will never return her
child and this was indeed his
intention all along, then the crocodile must return the child thereby breaking
his word. If this guess is incorrect, then the crocodile must keep the child
though he never intended to, again breaking his word.
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The founder of Vitality Air
said, "We wanted to do something fun and disruptive so we decided to see
if we could sell air.".
"In North America, we take our fresh air for granted but in China
the situation is very different."
"If China can import food, water, why shouldn't they have the right
to import air?" The company has sold about 1000 bottles so far and is now
taking pre-orders. The hand
bottled air sells for $14 - $20.
("Hand bottled" means they just put a lid on the empty can.)
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She's very, very good.
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You think your job is
stressful?
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Need any gift ideas for me?
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A wise man once said, “Fuck this shit,” and he lived
happily ever after.
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Holy shit, what an awesome idea!
Next the little bastard will be out looking for a weed guy and a hooker.
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I've written about such animals before...
I don't care how skillful they are at such things, there has to be lots of accidents.
What's the payoff for such behavior?
Avoidance of predators? It doesn't seem logical that they can find food up there.
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Guy runs from the police, gets shot climbing out of wreck.
So sad. That might be a phone in his right hand, but the cop had no way of knowing. I would have shot the dumb fuck also.
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I had a neighbor, Rupert, one time who called animal control because a dog kept turning over his garbage can at night.
The officers installed one of these...only a little bigger.
About three o'clock in the morning the whole neighborhood was awakened by the most unearthly sounds. It sounded like a couple of dozen retards going over a cliff in the short bus while still strapped into their head restraints. I had only heard screams like that when my wife gave birth to that first big-headed kid - the second one came out doing the backstroke and didn't even touch the sides.
Anyway...where was I...oh, yeah...so all us men just stood out in our front yards watching that trap thrash about for 20 or so minutes when Rupert decided to take action. He managed to stop the trap with his foot, then sat astraddle the thing while trying to open the door of the trap. We all watched for another 20 or so minutes when Rupert's wife screamed from the porch, "Try the other end." Which turned out to be excellent advice. So the dog ran home and Rupert stood. Then he looked at the trap and kicked it as hard as he could...forgetting, I guess, that he was bare footed. And it's true; blood does look black in the moonlight.
Anyway...where was I...oh, yeah...so all us men just stood out in our front yards watching that trap thrash about for 20 or so minutes when Rupert decided to take action. He managed to stop the trap with his foot, then sat astraddle the thing while trying to open the door of the trap. We all watched for another 20 or so minutes when Rupert's wife screamed from the porch, "Try the other end." Which turned out to be excellent advice. So the dog ran home and Rupert stood. Then he looked at the trap and kicked it as hard as he could...forgetting, I guess, that he was bare footed. And it's true; blood does look black in the moonlight.
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You may want to look this up on Youtube...
Before pouring the molten aluminum in the water, he added a granule that formed what looked like glass balls about a half inch across...only made of water and almost completely transparent.
This is the part that actually fascinates me.
The marble-like things are called "Balz Balls," but I'm not sure what those beads are, but it was said that the spheres are mostly water.
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Salamander discovered outside a cave
near Chongqing, China, is over 4 and a half feet long and weighs nearly 115
pounds. Experts believe that it may be around 200 years old.
Why did they remove it from
its natural habitat?
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( Just the price us bloggers pay.)
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People think a lot, you know that?
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Speaking of time travel…
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Medusa on a bad hair day?
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Enceladus and Tethys, The
Sirens of Titan
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What sorcery is this?
Camera shutter speed
synchronized with helicopter blade rotation.
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When you cum but the fetish
porn is still playing.
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“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that
is both incisive and probing when every 12 minutes one is interrupted by 12
dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.”
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