TUESDAY #3722

One Of My Very Own

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NEW EMAIL:

ralh.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

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ABOUT ERIN BURNETT

I was once married to a brilliant woman who worked at an ad agency. I found out that they had news search services who would physically cut out articles that published anything about the person or topic you paid them to look for and mail them everything they find. Well, I think today with the internet that could be much easier.
I'm thinking Erin Burnett of CNN has a news search and she found out from my blog that my wife and I gamble on whether her part will be straight or crooked. Well, now it is straight almost every day. So now we also gamble on whether she will show cleavage. We found her proclivity to reveal her cleavage odd in that she's had a dozen or so children. We shall see if her news service picks up on our latest gambling endeavor.
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ABOUT EX-CONS
An ex-con applied for a job in my favorite pizza restaurant's kitchen with this explanation: He had a 40 hour a week job, but because of his court-imposed ankle bracelet he couldn't leave his apartment all weekend. He was going nuts and needed something to do on Saturday and Sunday. He was given the job and now is described by the owner and manager as one of their most cherished employees.
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My wife has a habit of answering Trump's tweets:

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GALILEO AWARDS FOR THOSE WITH NO UNDERSTANDING PHYSICS

Without understanding physics, wheeled conveyances and ramps are a deadly combination.

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Children can be excused, but still...

What's with the fucking robot?!?
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 He died doing what the liked best...

Being stupid.
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Gone wrong?! Don’t you mean went perfectly?!

Any passengers would all have bad cases of whiplash...at best.
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How babies traveled by plane in the 60's.

The same engineers who knew about the physics of flight couldn't predict what would happen to that child in an emergency?
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One of the most over-engineered pieces of nonsense I have ever seen.
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Like, obviously I'm against a baby fight club on a moral basis but in terms of humor, it's gold.

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WINNING DESIGN AND ENGINEERING

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I have a thing for bathroom door design...

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A great bike rack...

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How small round things are made.

Notice how those two come out faster than the others, thus cut longer. Yeah, I notice stuff like that.
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 The ancient trails that are hidden in Chicago’s grid system
infrastructure that helped make Chicago a successful city.

Map of American Indian trails and villages of Chicago, and of Cook, DuPage and Will counties in 1804. Map by Albert F. Scharf, 1900-1901.

Members of the Chippewa, Pueblo and Winnebago tribes look out over Chicago’s skyline from the roof of the Hotel Sherman.

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Welcome to Mars - Real pictures from Mars Rover.

There is a Heart of Stone at the very bottom of that photo. It's halfway between the middle and the left.

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SpaceX foundry casting Raptor engine manifold out of Inconel.

As I understand it, that material is extremely difficult to work with.

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Notice how thin and even the walls of the pot was thrown. I am greatly impressed by that.
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 *MNBT
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I'm a huge fan of interactive art where you are encouraged to become part of the art.

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How desperate do you have to be?

I look at that and think about how I can incorporate it into one of my dollar art pieces.
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My wife just apologized to me for the first time in years!!!

Her: I’m sorry but you’re wrong.

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YOU NEED ADVICE? I GOT ADVICE

No one is ever in such hurry as to do something that stupid.
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Same here. If it was a real emergency, then why not turn on your flashers?

The small white pickup was alert as shit.
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How fucking stupid can you be?
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Don't risk your life for fake internet points. Please. 
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I've read that you need to get a credit card with a $500 limit to use online. That way if stolen the thieves won't get much.
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Do as I do, not as I say.
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ON WORK

None of us will reach immortality...

But making money does have its perks...


I suggest that you just find something you can get good at.

Then find someone to pay you to do it.
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Yes, there are dark thoughts out there.


When my young friend killed himself, it got all of us wondering what we could have said. After all these weeks we still have no idea.
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Tread carefully, my friends.
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On so many issues I see an anti-science bias and it baffles me.

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When someone begins, “With all due respect,” stop them right there, because that is as good as the sentence gets for you.

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FAMOUS PEOPLE NOT LIKE US

Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor that portrayed Adolf Hitler in 'Downfall' dies at 77 from cancer.

I thought he deserved an Academy Award for that. 
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NEVER forget the atrocities Belgians did in Congo. NEVER.

In the period from 1885 to 1908, many well-documented atrocities were perpetrated in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) which, at the time, was a colony under the personal rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. These atrocities were sometimes collectively referred to by European contemporaries as the "Congo Horrors", and were particularly associated with the labor policies used to collect natural rubber for export.

Together with epidemic disease, famine, and a falling birth rate caused by these disruptions, the atrocities contributed to a sharp decline in the Congolese population. The magnitude of the population fall over the period is disputed, but it is thought to be between ONE AND FIFTEEN MILLION PEOPLE. 

 In theory, each right hand proved a killing. In practice, to save ammunition soldiers sometimes "cheated" by simply cutting off the hand and leaving the victim to live or die. More than a few survivors later said that they had lived through a massacre by acting dead, not moving even when their hands were severed, and waiting till the soldiers left before seeking help. In some instances, a soldier could shorten his service term by bringing more hands than the other soldiers, which led to widespread mutilations and dismemberment. Other practices used to force workers to collect rubber were taking women and family members hostage. Leopold II was reported to have disapproved of the dismemberments, not on human rights grounds but because it harmed his economic interests. He was quoted as saying "Cut off hands—that's idiotic. I'd cut off all the rest of them, but not hands. That's the one thing I need in the Congo."

Every country has bad shit in their history. I'm not sure we can hold present people responsible for the acts of their great-great-great-grandfathers.

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Say what you will, but nuclear weapons have put a stop to world wars. 
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That movie The Quartet had real stars in a retirement home.

 The stars were...well, stars, but the rest were opera people mostly.

I once wrote a novel about a retirement home for old actors and actresses, and a group of college students arrived to interview some of the patients. After hours of interviews, they left but one of them returned unannounced a couple of weeks later for a couple of additional questions and found everyone had switched characters. All of the contacts were just acts and, I thought, they were just delightful.
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We've all been there, haven't we? 
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Who knew?
[verification needed]
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 I accidentally walked into the women's room at the gym today, then I bought a tampon from the machine so it wouldn't be awkward.

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GET LEARNT

A mongoose playing dead.

 Who knew?
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And they are HUGE! They are used to biting caribou through their hide, so biting me through my jacket, shirt and T-shirt was no problem at all. 
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[verification needed]
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"He must smell my fornications." 
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At first I thought she was giving birth to a rotisserie chicken!

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 Never turn your wheels toward oncoming traffic until you are ready to turn.

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 Door-be-gon.
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Simple but effective strategy. 
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 You are not allowed to smile at these people.

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Two types of animals...

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