FOLIO OLIO: THURSDAY #3808

One Of My Very Own

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THINGS COMBUSTIBLE

I've shown you this before, but watch carefully.

Tungsten rod fired from "Rail Gun" at Mach 7 penetrating 1-inch steel plates.
But notice in the still below that between two of those plates it seems remarkably calm compared to the ones before and after it.

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A burning fountain.

The gif was beautiful but far too large to load.
It was done by placing the water jet valve right next to the propane valve.

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Planet Venus Seen During Sunset

How come I've never seen anything like that? I would, in all probability, freak the fuck out.
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I like to think I understand fantasy as well as the next person but...

In Game of Thrones, that dog can't run faster than the speed of light; no archer can shoot arrows as fast as a modern machine gun, and ships can't submerge themselves. So we have dragons, which is cool, I guess since we have walking dead people, but those dragons couldn't possibly hold enough fuel to spew that much fire.
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The next two are perfect segues for the next section.

Did you notice all the gawkers? People watching dozens of propane tanks burn. Insanity.

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You may ask what that has to do with combustibles. Well, that would be found in the comments:
"I've not seen many people burn themselves this badly outside of a kitchen or Buddhist protest."

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I once named my dog Achilles so I could say "Achilles heel!" But he never did it - that was his weakness.

IMPRUDENT PEOPLE

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The Catholic has a ban on birth control for one simple reason - they want more Catholics. More Catholics equal more donations, more nuns, and more priests. And it matters not if the parents can afford those children.
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Sure that's silly, but you can bet if anything like this were to be left unattended then somebody man-child would write his name on it in fat letters.

It may be my imagination, but that kind of graffiti seems to be waning. Maybe it's just hopeful wishing.
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How not to celebrate...

Did you notice that the right door was being held open but the bouncer chose the old face bump?
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1939 – Lina Medina became the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

Authorities initially considered Lina’s case had to be child incest, hence her father was accused of sexual abuse. But there was nothing to support the claim and Lina’s father was quickly dismissed. In fact, the identity of the baby’s father was never revealed. Neither Lina nor any other member of her family spoke about what happened.
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He shot an arrow into the air...

And it seems that the second arrow did, in fact, intersect the first.

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1878 – The last witchcraft trial held in the United States began in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.

That's what you get with religion, but 80 years earlier this is what science gave us.
1796 – Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox inoculation. Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other human."

Another nice segue.
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My wife made the mistake of grocery shopping on an empty stomach and now she's the proud owner of aisle 4.

STEM MATTERS

Ancient Moa footprints millions of years old discovered in New Zealand.

Amazing.

So what do you do with such a worldwide treasure?

Well, you cut it up into pieces and haul it away, of course.
Then again had they left them somebody would probably come along and spray paint their name on it in fat letters.
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Water cools the body at a much higher rate than air. It's also a better workout for the body, as a low impact.

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I have one of these.

The only purpose of the two round magnets is to put tension on the lower string which activates a micro-switch when taut.
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This is how a mosquito finds and pierces a blood vessel under your skin.

Sometimes he sucks the blood so hard that the blood vessel can tear.
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Try to imagine the number of engineering manhours that goes into such a machine.

I admire engineering like this...

Sure the initial costs are relatively high, but then you don't have to empty them near as often.

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Sometimes I just want someone to hug me and say "I know it's hard. You're going to be okay. Here's a coffee and 5 million dollars.

PEOPLE BEHAVING ADMIRABLY

https://en.wikipedia.org//Sikhism
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This lady has a wonderful hobby.

She has a pickup truck...

And a trailer...

She spends her free time cleaning up wooded areas near her home.

Think about it. It's rewarding, she gets exercise, a tan, and breathes fresh air, while communing with nature.
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He ought to pick us some thrash while he down there.
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Some people bemoan the fact that people like people who look like them. I do not.

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The guy scattered people with a camera all around a subway car then started laughing.

Soon everyone joined in even though they had no idea what the man was laughing at; proving laughter is, indeed contageous.

Even the token Asian smiled.

I like humor.

As a bartender, it was my job to remember a great many jokes.

Then as a muralist, I included humor in much of my work.

(this is not one of mine)

And now that my wife and I are old, we laugh more than ever.

(that is not my wife and I)

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The wife and I made lists of 5 people we would like to have sex with. She listed 5 celebrities and I listed 4 of her friends and her sister. Apparently, I did it wrong.

LOGIC NEED NOT APPY

When you use quantum physics instead of Newtonian.

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Guy found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles.

The most anal motherfucker on the planet.
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That is the only reason I can see to get a cat.

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I agree...kind of.
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Cool concept but wouldn't the whole coffee cup be one sticky mess?
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Now that we are retired and have less money we have decided to get rid of the cleaning lady. My wife does the whole house and my only duty is the bathroom.

*MNBT

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Gentle Read, I do my best. I site everything I can, but it is simply not always available. Oh, sure, I could send you right back to the site I from which I got the information, but you aren't going to learn anything more from it. Bare with me. I'm trying the best I can.
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