MONDAY #1857

You're behind, it's 4th down, times running out....what do you do?!? Throw a touchdown, of course!!!

I would like to thank the 2013 NFL season for making me a whole bunch of money...at least I have that going for me.

This is the greatest Christmas gift I've ever seen.
Boyfriend sends girlfriend a box of oysters...each individually vacuum sealed...

But when she opened them, she found out that each had a pearl...

True news...

Bald eagles are dying in Utah -- 20 in the past few weeks alone -- and nobody can figure out why.

Hundreds of the majestic birds -- many with wing spans of 7 feet or more -- migrate here each winter, gathering along the Great Salt Lake and feasting on carp and other fish that swim in the nearby freshwater bays.

My guess is that that was done by a temporary seasonal worker.

This Google+ thing is starting to piss me off. All I did was open a Gmail account in an attempt to give my blog visitors a way to send me images, but Google+ won’t leave me the fuck alone. Now I’m so angry that no matter how great it is, I will NEVER use it.

This is det (detonation) cord shaped like a Christmas tree. I used to handle it in Germany when we practiced blowing up nuclear weapons in case our base was overrun...

The above was slowed down a million or so times so you could see it...it blows up almost instantaneously from one end to the other.
Here's another that I think involves det cord...also slowed down...

If you look closely, you can see the loops of det cord running under the bridge...

The reason det cord is a good idea is because it can be strung from one explosive charge to the next and ignites so fast that the explosion from one does not displace the next charge...it simply explodes the next charge faster than the concussion wave can reach the next charge.

There's a "Kiss my ass" joke in here somewhere...

My daughter suggested that the great photographs that I post should have a frame to let people know that they approach art. I tried, but it took way too much time...

That photograph deserves a frame.

Art is not just the picture.
Art is how society views art and what it's supposed to accomplish. If you don't study art, then there is no way you can know of all the other "solutions", thus you are cursed to resolve problems long ago solved.

Picasso’s girlfriend Dora Maar cried a lot and sort of painted a horse in his famous “Guernica,” so that was pretty cool.

I once posted a website that would tell you words that were coined on the year of your birth. My word was "orbit", which I think is kind of cool.

An award winner...

Social workers were deeply involved in the violent colonization of indigenous peoples and also in eugenics. Social workers were mostly white people.

I want to meet this gal's husband.

 All married men have tried the old "Stick-the-boner-in-her-face" trick...

It seldom reaches fruition.

All parents have seen this look...

This is exactly the way my daughter looked at me when she asked if Santa was real and I was forced to tell her the truth. She looked at me and said, "You lied to me?"
I admitted that I had, but tried to hedge my guilt with lame retorts that it had been fun for her and fun for me...but she would have none of it. 
I had, in fact, lied to her and I swore I would never do it again.

Emily Dickinson wrote about the clitoris a lot, and maybe S&M; people fail to pick up on this because she mostly narrates it through birds.

The British Library has put like fifty-quadrillion old images on line for free. 

Here is a sampling....

That image reminds me of when I owned a bar and the phone would ring and three or four guys would yell out "I'm not here!" One time a woman asked to speak to a patron and I said, "He's not here" and she said, "Goddamnit, Ralph, I just drove by there and his car is in the parking lot! Tell him dinner is ready." So I tell the guy dinner is ready and he stood up and said, "Well, I'm going home, and if dinner ain't ready I'm going to raise hell....and if it is I ain't going to eat it."
I knew that I never wanted to visit them.

There is a fisting joke in here someplace...

How ugly was she?

The downside of head armor...

Most of the prints are etching, and having done more than my share of etchings, I can appreciate them...

On the image site there are also many charts and maps...

Being a slave must suck...

I seem to remember how the Americans used to use unconventional warfare on the British and did rather well. Then somebody decided to fight the war just like the British and we almost lost. My question is, who in their right mind would think standing when people are shooting at you, as opposed to kneeling or even laying, was a good idea? Wouldn't any thinking person want to make himself as small a target as possible?

This is one particularly beautiful designed image...

Okay, I'm pretty sure slavery sucks...

Ladies and gentlemen, the addle-addle...

Oh look, another example of god's love...

Here's a link to their site, if you are interested...

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What you could have given your man for Christmas...

I'm a big believer in adopting orphan pets. I've also found they are the most loving...

OOMVO...

Amazing...

A black hole bending the light from a galaxy.

Ready for the Google car...

Ancient Greeks and Romans knew about intestinal worms because they crawled out of their buttholes.

Gulf War I: I have never understood how that man could have been so stupid as to think he could stay in Kuwait with half the world sided against him.

Sometimes, politicians put their penises in things that they should not.

I find that very funny, but have become to sophisticated to do the whole HAHAHAHA thing.....just kidding....
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHA!

Two fathers in a special moment with their daughter...

It turns out that old people prefer old age homes full of young, attractive people.

Most people would look at this and think it mildly unusual, but, boy, does it bring back some memories for me...

We had a AAA minor league team in Columbia one time and I used to take my daughters often. One of the "games" we played was the batter's count being 2-2 and 2. Then looking to see if his number was 2 in the 2nd inning...then to see if there was a man on 2nd....etc.

Rather sad this...

The effects of Head Start on children do not seem to be outweighing the effects of poverty.

My great-nephew personalizing a walking stick for his cousin...

 He takes after his Uncle Ralph.

You are standing on hardened lava when suddenly liquid lava squirts out next to your foot. QUICK! What do you do....

 Pee on it and put it on YouTube, of course.


This thing is GREAT!!!

You can buy the kit consisting of the front battery and receiver unit connected to the rear control unit by a wire that runs in the crease of the paper airplane that you fold yourself out of common copy paper. And the best part? You download an app and control it with your phone!!!

  
The insides of a pool table...

Rich people like to fly fish because why the hell not?

This still amazes me...

Everyone is excited about these materials for sustainable energy applications, but I have second thoughts after learning how much pollution rare earth mining produces.