THURSDAY #3899

One Of My Very Own

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EMAIL: 

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

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On the same day I heard both of these news items: 


And...

 If you built it they will abuse it.
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I predict that my Gamecocks' football team will have a dismal year. We play BOTH teams in the national championship game last year - Alabama AND Clemson.

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"Obviously, they claim no fault in the crisis. Cause settling lawsuits to the tune of Batman levels of money is the sign of a clearly innocent corporation who only wants to help. 
Fuck them, fuck the Sackler family in particular. I've lost friends to their deceptive sales practices and I honestly hope they rot." 
Link to the article: 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/purdue-pharma-offers-10-12-billion-settle-opioid-claims-n1046526
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NOTE: Weird things are happening with me and the internet. It seems that nobody is using gifs anymore, opting instead for mp4s. They do this whether their upload has sound or not, which confuses me. 
The problem is that my Google sponsored blog platform does not allow mp4s. I have no idea why.
Anyway, I had to convert all mp4s to gifs on a site designed to do just that. Well, it has stopped working. So I went to two other sites that both limit conversions to two a day. All of this has almost doubled the time it takes for each Folio Olio post. So be patient with me as I struggle to solve this problem.

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 https://boingboing.net/2019/08/14/boy-finds-massive-woolly-mammo.html
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https://boingboing.net/2019/08/14/geeks-idea-to-get-null-l.html
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I would love to see more building using this technique.

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A smoke ring creator at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England

https://i.imgur.com/B0YC6ZX.mp4
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RH: To think, I have been here since its inception. 
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Did you read the bottom?
I heard a business expert on CNN say that Amazon is the most successful business ever. An interview with Bezos stated that it was all based on one thing...keeping the customer happy.
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But no matter how great the design...

And that, Gentle Reader, is a perfect segue to the next section.
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Death: This is the afterlife.

Me: Ugh there's more?

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MISTAKES WERE MADE

The only thing that saved him from countless facial reconstruction surgeries was that the tip of the saw hit the ceiling before his face.
Sorry, Mel. 
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I think he mistook his reflection for another goat. 
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Smack dab into the press pool.
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Architectural Nightmares

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Me: I'm terrified of aging rock bands

Therapist: You too?

Me: [screams]

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SOCIAL ISSUES

This from a country that elected a reality show host as president.

I will write about that every single time I come upon a visual about it. It infuriates me. 

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I really like my guns but I'm coming around to banning high-capacity assault weapons. And don't try to tell me an AK47 is no different than a hunting rifle. We both know the difference.
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Hell, anytime I had to talk to a student alone I always did it in the hallway where there were cameras.
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Do you believe that the strength of the United States lies in its diversity? We all used to believe that. I still do. I remember my military unit being made up of rich kids and poor, Jews, blacks, Cuban born, etc. And we all worked well together thank you very much. The only thing I didn't serve with was women. Weren't any. That sounds so weird nowadays.
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If you ever smoked weed and you are now anti-weed so much that you want experimenters locked up, then fuck you.  We have enough people locked up don't you think? 
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Waiter: How is the chicken?

Me: Not great. You are the one who killed it.

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SHIT YOU DON'T SEE EVERY DAMN DAY

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 Oh, my.
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 Damn time travelers are getting too damn sloppy with the rules.
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Shift change-over at a coal mine

 https://i.imgur.com/TAemQKc.mp4
Go in blue, come out black.

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 https://boingboing.net/2019/08/14/the-stupid-it-burns.html
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Well, well, well. What have we done? 
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I concur. 
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It's hard to believe that signs like that are necessary. 
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What a time to be alive...

 https://i.imgur.com/J1yRvTn.mp4
How could this be the optimum survival strategy?
Do you think that young female was from a different pride?

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Our vision of Hell doesn’t come from the Bible; it’s a composite drawn from fictional sources like The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost. Fearing Hell is tantamount to fearing the plot of a Stephen King novel.

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LAST LAUGHS

 Just had to take the wife in for her 10,000-mile cervix.
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She got fired from IHOP.
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In another example of life imitating Seinfeld, Melville, Saskatchewan citizen Dave Assman (pronounced Oss-men) applied for a personalized license plate of his last name but the Saskatchewan Government Insurance (like the DMV) put the kibosh on the request and also his appeal. So Assman created a large decal inspired by the Saskatchewan plate design and slapped it on the rear end (ahem) of his truck.
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 *MNBT

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