One Of My Very Own
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EMAIL: ralh.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com
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THINGS I HAVE SEEN WITH
MY OWN EYES
300.4 MPH in One Mile by a 2005 Ford GT
I had the opportunity to drive one of those. I declined thinking no good could come from it.
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But I don't care if that particular person said that particular thing. What matters is that that string of words has a message you care to share.
Would these words matter less if the famous guy had not, in fact, penned them? I think not.
And this one doesn't need an author to be provocative.
Is life just sentimental drivel? Who the fuck knows?
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Today I saw a billboard advertising a cheap gym. It read:
DON'T PAY DIDDLY FOR YOUR SQUATS
I always thought I would be good at writing billboard ads.
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I've stated before that during roadtrips with the guys we always bought rags like these then took turns reading the articles just as convincingly as possible. It was a hoot.
Those rags seem to have a thing about homosexuality.
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When I was in the military in Germany I watch a friend try this exact same thing. On a turn just like that, he went off the road and down the hill at about 40 mph, but because he was drunk he didn't die.
Back then German movie theaters had rooms in the back like the one below only they were for smokers. They also sold beer.
You may wonder what I was doing in a German movie theater. Well, I liked German women and German women like German movies. Plus, of course, German theaters sold beer. Duh.
I watched a guy do this with an empty whiskey bottle. Well, it had a few drops left that he allowed to coat the inside of the bottle as much as possible. Then he would vigorously rub the bottle between his thighs to warm it up, thus evaporating the whiskey. Then he lit it.
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See anything odd about this?
I can spot shit like that almost every time.
As I instantly spotted what was wrong with this image in a "You had one job!" dump.
The tiles are upside down. In the first one, the man's sleeve completes the man's head.
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I like knowing that this is the Venus of Willendorf.
The 'Venus of Willendorf' is the name that was given to a female figurine that was found in 1908 by an archeologist named Joseph Szombathy in an Aurignacian loess deposit near the town of Willendorf in Austria. It is now in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Most historians believe that it is a fertility symbol, but I have long advocated it being a masturbation aid for men out on long hunts.
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I have recently stopped being irritated with young people never looking around no matter how many beautiful people there are in the room. It just helps me understand the reports that today's young people don't fuck. Makes perfect sense now.
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My favorite cookie.
It has been 27 years since the then-Nabisco introduced SnackWell's, a low-fat cookie which was advertised as healthier because of the lower fat content. It became a craze and soon it sold out shelves in supermarkets.
It continued growing until the mid-90s when its sales started to decline. What people neglected to consider was that though they were labeled 'low-fat', they still had the same amount of calories.
Sure enough, in the midst of the low-fat craze, obesity levels in the United States climbed dramatically and have continued to do so. “What If It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?” asked the New York Times Magazine in 2002, exploring the then-recent revival of the high fat, low carbohydrate Atkins diet and the fact that the advice to eat as little fat as possible had been overly simplistic and counterproductive.
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My greatest accomplishment was siring my daughters, but that didn't keep me from having horrifying nightmares about me doing something like this...
Now I have a grandson and I take the responsibility very, very seriously.
My greatest disappointment is not living closer to him.
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People are usually shocked when they find out I'm not a very good electrician.
(shocked)
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PEOPLE MORE FAMOUS THAN I
50 years in the making - all surviving members of the Apollo missions.
Check out Aldrin's socks.
Back then science was king, but now...not so much.
And...
I don't when or how the anti-science bias began, but it is a very dangerous trend that needs to be addressed seriously.
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[verification needed]
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An Early Run-In With Censors Led Rod Serling to The Twilight Zone
In August of 1955, 14-year-old Emmitt Till was kidnapped, beaten, and shot in Mississippi. His mother insisted upon an open casket so Americans could see the damage. The story was a critical point in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly when the perpetrators were acquitted by an all-white jury.
Rod Serling, a 30-year-old rising star in a golden age of dramatic television, watched the events play out in the news. He believed firmly in the burgeoning medium’s power for social justice. “The writer’s role is to be a menace of the public’s conscience,” Serling later said. “He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus the issues of his time.”
Soon after the trial concluded, Serling, riding off the success of his most well-received teleplay to date, felt compelled to write a teleplay around the racism that led to Till’s murder. But the censorship that followed by advertisers and networks, fearful of blowback from white, Southern audiences, forced Serling to rethink his approach.
Serling was impelled to change the script of the resulting story until it was about an old white man from an unnamed country killed in a small town in New England.
And this was my favorite episode.
An avid reader survives a nuclear blast and after amassing stacks of books he breaks his glasses. (For Margaret)
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Just a reminder. This exists.
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Judas Priest!
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Now that I'm old enough to do anything I want I'm too tired to actually do it.
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PECULIAR HUMAN ACTIVITY
I found these two images on the same day on two different sites.
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People exerting themselves for our amusement.
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Speaking of amusement...
Did you notice that the mat is still distorted by his weight?
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How exactly do you decide that you want to spend the time necessary to learn how to do that?
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People take their bird abuse very seriously...
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How can you tell that it is absolutely positively time for a diet?
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How to get kicked out of an airport: Lesson One
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You can forget about that football scholarship, Sparky.
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"I'm white trash and I'm in trouble!!!"
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She has far too much confidence that none of those elephants are going to do something stupid.
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Russian weddings can be fun...
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And if these people aren't Russian, they ought to be...
Yeah, that looks vodka induced.
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Remember that feeling when you had the loudest truck at Sonic but still didn't get laid?
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GET LEARNT
New Species of Four-Legged Whale Discovered
We know that aquatic mammals (whales, dolphins, manatees, etc) evolved from land animals who returned to the ocean. Here's a new example of what the in-between version may have looked like. The fossil remains of a 42-million-year-old quadruped whale have been found in Peru. The find is significant because scientists say early whales swam from Africa to South America, and this one shows they made it to the Pacific, too. The new species, Peregocetus pacificus, appears to have been equally adept at walking and swimming.
Analysis of the Peregocetus fossil shows it was well adapted to both land and sea, bearing characteristics similar to modern otters and beavers. This animal was relatively large, measuring around 4 meters (13 feet) in length, which is more than twice the size of otters living today. Peregocetus’s terrestrial abilities were evidenced by small hooves at the tips of its fingers and the orientation of its hip bones, suggesting a quadrupedal gait on land. At the same time, it had tail bones similar to those of beavers and otters, which means its tail played an important role in its aquatic abilities. Finally, the size of its fingers and feet suggests webbed appendages, according to the researchers.
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Different ways of seeing these moving dots.
Pass the LSD.
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Thurmond is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, on the New River. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge, it thrived. Across the river was the Dungeon Hotel, which served as a brothel and gambling mecca that holds the record for the longest poker game in history.
Anyway, the game lasted for seventeen years!
As a poker player, I know that the only way for that to happen was that when one player left the game another took his seat.
As a poker player, I know that the only way for that to happen was that when one player left the game another took his seat.
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Why do we all pull for the underdog?
There are many more zebra than lions. Anyway, with the injuries sustained I doubt the little zebra will survive the encounter.
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I didn't know that.
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"Note that the use of the term 'Indian subcontinent' predates the discovery of tectonic plates.
The Indian sub-continent is bounded by mountains and other unfriendly terrains on all of its landward approaches.
This led to a degree of distinctiveness from the surrounding areas. Not only do Indians look different from the Persians/Arabs to the west and the Sinosphere peoples to the east, but they have a very different culture or spectrum of cultures.
You rarely hear 'subcontinent' used in different contexts because there really isn't anywhere else like India in this respect. All of the various places don't contain significant geographically isolated distinct peoples and cultures."
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That must be Finnish for "weekdays."
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The trash – including a blood-filled biohazard container that landed in one lucky resident's yard – is coming from a nearby landfill that takes in two tons of fresh trash a day. The bald eagles pick out the juicy morsels of food found in the landfill and then discard the junk that they don't want in the nearby neighborhoods.
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I've said it many times, why spend time designing something that millions of years of evolution has already solved?
I'm referring to robot mobility and there is a reason insects have more than two legs.
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What are the advantages of this door - exactly?
I'm not saying that it isn't clever. I'm asking - besides the aesthetics - is there any function that door serves that an ordinary door doesn't do better?
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This Small Hamlet in Kyoto, Japan, Has a Fire Sprinkler System That Covers the Entire Village.
Maybe the whole state of California should look into that.
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This from "Women as War Machines of World War I."
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Pure genius...
...if it works as advertised.
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Seriously. Opt to act or not to act, then learn to live with the consequences.
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The guy who ate the evidence.
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#12 Merle Dixon from the Walking Dead...???
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