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I'm an artist, educator, militant anti-theist , and I write. I gamble on just about anything. And I like beer...but I love my wife. This blog contains observations from a funny old man who gets pissed off every once in a while.

Thursday, November 23, 2017

THURSDAY #3256

One Of My Very Own

EMAIL: ralph.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

PERRY COMO - "Don't Let the Stars 



NEWSY BITS

Brave (or desperate) sumbitch.

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This is the world watching us fuck up a good thing.

Do you want your access and speed controlled by Time fucking Warner? Wake up, people, this is serious.

Actual visual of the Internet freaking out about net neutrality.

And then there's this...
Please read that again.
"...inferior or white"?!?!?!?!?!
Good god, man, this is 2017! We have all moved far beyond that! Or not.

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I would love to see that.

The man is on point.

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I have sold all my scaffolding and ladders. I'm officially out of the mural business.

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I've only got one Thanksgiving story so here it goes...again.
On their first Thanksgiving after getting married, the young wife asked her husband to cut the turkey in half so she could cook it. He asked why and she said that's the way her mother always did it. But why he asked and she didn't know so they called her mother. The mother said that her mother always did it that way, so the young woman called her grand mother who explained that her oven wasn't big enough for a whole turkey.
And that is EXACTLY the way I think about religious idiocy. 




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Laughter is the best medicine. Unless you have herpes. Laugh all you want, you'll still have herpes.

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MACHINES YOU JUST GOTTA LOVE

Gaming platform or real flight simulator?

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Could somebody explain to me how that air scoop on the bottom works when the engine is in the front?

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Firing an absolutely frozen shotgun.

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Conventional vs electromagnetic car suspension.
So why aren't we using these things?

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He's called a glazier and he's a pro.
Growing up, my best friend's father owned a glass company. We would visit from time to time and the old pro taught us a trick. He took a normal glass tool like this...
And in the middle of a scrap piece of glass he would etch a small X. Then using the rounded end as a hammer, he would strike the very middle of the X, and a perfect quarter-sized hold was made - without damaging the glass otherwise.
We tried it dozens of times and never could get it to work for us.

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Formula One racer steering wheels.


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 In the event of a robot invasion, show them a photo and ask them to point out the street signs. It fries their circuits and they explode.

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HUMAN STUPIDITY

Close calls

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Did he not wonder why those other men were wearing the protective suits?

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The most maddening clue in the Watergate investigation was a mysterious 18.5-minute silence in one of the White House tapes. President Richard Nixon curiously recorded all White House interactions, but we'll never know what was said during that period that was later erased. The erasure itself was suspicious, so Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods took the blame, and explained the accidental erasure.


In testimony, Woods claimed that she had been transcribing the Oval Office conversation in question, when, due to the set-up of her desk, she reached over to answer a phone call, and in doing so, accidentally hit the erase button, keeping her foot on the transcription machine’s pedal, which forwarded the recording. The press dubbed this unlikely move, “The Rose Mary Stretch.”

[RH - She claimed she held that pose for 18 1/2 minutes.]


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[Onion]

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Sad isn't it, that that is now a joke.


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Ernest Hemingway buys a pair of shoes mail order, but accidentally orders in a baby's size. He tries to sell them, but no one understands.

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SILLINESS


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Juxtaposition with ad.

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Oh, my.


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 Accidentally mixed up Sudoku and Sepukku again. Long story short it's a good thing I was already in a doctor's waiting room.

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ART

Dead grasshopper stuck to Van Gogh's "Olive Trees" painting for 128 years unnoticed.
Pieces of the small insect, including its thorax and and abdomen, were preserved peacefully in the paint for 128 years. A conservator stumbled across the infested find under magnification during research on French paintings.

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Amazing to watch as modern chemicals are able to safely remove the varnish that has accumulated without damaging the original artwork.
[ Just a matter of using the right solvent.]

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Lyon, The City of Murals
It's called an Architectural Illusion and that is a very good one.

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Abandoned 19th century Greenhouse, France.
How could somebody not restore that and live in it?

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This guy takes old police images and superimposes on the modern building.

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Handmade binary ceramics imprinted with typewriter keys.
I'm glad he didn't stick with the binary keys.

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Raku Firing Process.
This is the technique I was using when and entire semester's work blew up in the "kiln." The culprit was the clay mixture.


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 Me: I'm exhausted! I'm going to get a good night's sleep tonight.
Toddler: Hold my sippy cup.

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FUN WITH LANGUAGE

It's not like they have a choice, kid.

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When you had 4 bowls for breakfast but only 1 was cereal.

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Eve: I think we should see other people. 
Adam: There's other people here? 
Eve: No. 
A: What the...
E: Sshh! Don't make this difficult.

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WHEN THINGS GO SOUTH

Bummer.

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Walk of Shame World Champion

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Staged? Probably.

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Being single is basically avoiding people who have seen you naked while trying to find new people to see you naked.

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INTERESTING IMAGES

But those are pine trees. No bird would bring a pine cone to the island.

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French Fries with mayonnaise.
I ate tons of fries like that in Germany and they are delicious.

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And, yes, he's playing drums on five gallon buckets.

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I've posted this previously, but I was still amazed.

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In the 1930s, you could mail anything from rabbits to pheasants so long as it had a neck label with a mailing address and another which stated that ‘no liquid was likely to exude’.

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How the fuck is going on here?!


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 Y’all keep saying Columbus was a bad man and he shouldn’t have his own day, but y’all need to shut up because I like getting mattresses on sale.

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Whatever it is, it's broke now.

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He got a much bigger man's teeth.

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1 comment:

Jambe said...

The large scoop underneath the P-51 is the radiator intake. The engine breathes through the smaller scoop on the front of the plane beneath the spinner (you can see it in the checkered yellow & red area on your image).

Random notes, since I'm a Mustang-nerd:

1) the older poorly-performing P-51s with Allison engines had a raised carb intake above the nose, whereas the non-shit variants w/British-designed Merlin engines (license-built by Packard Motor Car) had the scoop-style intake below.

2) the radiator system actually provides the plane with a bit of thrust at certain speeds.

Regarding the elephants: people are throwing burning tar at them. The elephants kill people and/or destroy buildings and crops, and mobs torture and/or kill them in response (or just for fun) as they always have. Individuals or groups from both species can be cruel.

... but you and I both know that the existence of cruelty is another part of God's plan. The terror on the baby elephant's face reminds us of His boundless love and His everlasting compassion. See also: botflies. They, surely, are the perfect living embodiments of His universal magnanimity.

"Go forth," He uttered in His infinite wisdom, giving rise to many species of flesh-rending parasites. "Eat their flesh, even as they liveth. For though they yet know it not, they are all masochists."

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