FOLIO OLIO: WEDNESDAY #3255

One Of My Very Own

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

WOODY GUTHRIE

NEWSY BITS

And if by now you don't hate this man, then you are part of the problem.

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Last week Argentina Navy submarine San Juan established contact for the last time, and hasn't been heard from since.

When the news broke on Thursday, the comment I read/heard the most was "ARGENTINA HAS SUBMARINES?!" But yeah, Argentina's Navy apparently has 3. And one of them is lost at sea right now with 44 people on board.

Rescue vessels and planes from all over the world has joined in the search.

My wife's dancing style could best be described as "Frantically trying to pet the ghosts of animals only she can see."

FUN WITH LANGUAGE

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Ouch!

The Ugly Duckling has the best moral: “Everybody has to apologize to you if you get hot.”

PEOPLE DOING THINGS I CAN'T OR WON'T

This asshole blew the horn...

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Keep it classy, London.

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"Blue foam slip n' slide" is all the description I have.

I'm assuming fire suppression.

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Stealing from the Uber's tip jar?

That's just low!

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Kid's gonna need a bigger lock on his bedroom door.

Just once I would love for someone in a movie letting out the blood curdling scream, "HELP, MY BLOOD IS CURDLING!"

THOSE DAMN FOREIGNERS

It has been asserted that when the French captured English longbowmen they would cut off their middle finger so they could never use the bow again. In defiance, when lined up for battle the British troops would show the French that they did, in fact, have a middle finger.

That may not be true, but I don't care. Never let a few facts get in the way of a good story.

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Toilet paper as a weapon...

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How not to cut up a gas tank...

"I done fucked up now."

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See anything odd about this train wreck?

Somebody stole the track rails...THE FUCKING TRACK RAILS!

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This from the UK...

[RH - For the love of sanity.]

What character would I like to see throwing up in a parking lot? - How I pick my Halloween costume.

RATHER FAMOUS INDIVIDUALS

Carl Sagan holding one of the two Pioneer plaques he helped design with astronomer and astrophysicist, Frank Drake.

The artwork was prepared by Linda Salzman Sagan, Sagan’s wife at the time. NASA gave them only 3 weeks to prepare the message.

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Would You Pay $10,000 For This Painting By Britney Spears?

Someone Just Did.

And it is just as vomit inducing awful as one would think.

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Janis Joplin ~ 1968

And she was shunned in high school. When she became an American icon, she went back for her high school reunion and probably enjoyed herself very much...until she blacked out.

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Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Beverly Kelso, Bunny Wailer ~ early 60's

When the zombie apocalypse comes and you’re in Walmart, how will you know?

PONDERABLES

I blame Google for not doing something about the dangerous ads.

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Ergo, it is taught behavior. I would have thought it would be born with the knowledge.

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"I am honestly torn. In a report from the Twin Cities Press, someone at Concordia College in Minnesota posted these signs all over campus. The message itself is completely true (it would be true for all races), but is the intentions behind this message being posted really innocent or tarnished with racism."

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As a former art teacher of young children, I can attest to how difficult it is to teach children this concept.

I finally hit upon asking them to hold the crayon next to their arm and use accordingly.

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"Can you imagine if every time you opened your wallet, a third of your cash fell out – and you did nothing about it? Consider the fact that one-third of the food grown annually for human consumption is never eaten – for one reason or another, it ends up in the garbage. That’s $218 billion – or 1.3 billion tons – of food annually. In America, families chuck about 25% of the food and beverages they buy at a cost of $1,365 to $2,275 annually. Yet at the same time, 800 million people around the globe are starving."

Even the gases released from all the rotting vegetation is bad for the greenhouse effect and global warming.

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"A non-Jew known as a Shabbos goy may be employed to press the buttons and hold the door for Jewish people, in buildings that do not have Shabbat elevators. As discussed in that article, a non-Jew is not expected to keep the Sabbath like a Jew, hence a Jew may benefit from work performed by a goy if the goy performs this work for his own good and of his own free will. A borderline case is when a Jew hints to a non-Jew that he wants him to perform a certain service without explicitly asking him. These borderline cases are considered legitimate in most Jewish communities."

[RH - How could anyone read that without laughing? And they think the creator of the universe ordered it. Hilarious.]

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"Michigan National Guardsman move down a looted street as a small boy shows he is not armed during the destructive riots in Detroit, US in 1967. The riots started with a police crackdown, which resulted in a huge response from the black communities. This was during a time of heavy racial tensions in the US. In fact, in the summer of 1967 alone, 159 documented race riots occurred throughout the country. This one was the worst."

[RH - It wasn't just in the South, y'all.]

Why did they call it 'Rambo: First Blood Part 2' instead of 'Rambo: Second Blood'? That's some bullshit right there.

SCIENCE AND NATURE

I've shown you that previously, but I still find it mesmerizing.

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"Newton's Apple Tree in Lincolnshire

The story of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple is one of the most famous anecdotes in science. The young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree in his garden when a fruit fell on his head, and in a sudden stroke of brilliant insight, he came up with the theory of gravity. The story is most likely embellished—at least the part where the apple hits Newton’s head—but there is also some truth to it."

"The first written account of the apple falling incident appears on the notes of John Conduitt, who was Newton’s assistant at the Royal Mint and husband to Newton's niece. In 1726, the year of Newton's death, John Conduitt described the event: In the year 1666 he retired again from Cambridge to his mother in Lincolnshire. Whilst he was pensively meandering in a garden it came into his thought that the power of gravity (which brought an apple from a tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from earth, but that this power must extend much further than was usually thought. Why not as high as the Moon said he to himself & if so, that must influence her motion & perhaps retain her in her orbit, whereupon he fell a calculating what would be the effect of that supposition."

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