FOLIO OLIO: TUESDAY #4023

One Of My Very Own

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DEPRESSING TOPICS FIRST

I knew a guy who was rear-ended by a car at a red light. When the motorcycle cop showed up the lady in the car said that the motorcycle backed up into her car. The cop smiled at my buddy, then told the woman that the motorcycle had no reverse.
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In 1922, the Bureau of Mines created a series of educational dolls to illustrate common mining injuries, and how they should be dealt with in an emergency.

The dolls were exhibited at various mining centers. According to Popular Mechanics (Sep 1929), the dolls were also "intended to serve as a safety warning.”
I wonder how he depicted black lung disease.
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He was a made man.
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I'm "I have been lying about my age so long that I have forgotten how old I actually am" years old.

SHIT YOU DON'T SEE EVERY DAMN DAY

I think it's on a fishing line.
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Must have hit an artery.
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Never turn your back on a thrown beer keg.
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"I need some attention."

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How nice.
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How unusual.
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This is fast food...

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Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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A spear point that screws into a paint roller extension pole.

Oh, hell yeah!
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See anything odd?

They are the same image.

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Celebration after the goal...

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In Canada at their Black Friday sales, they fight to see who gets to hold the door open for others.

CAPTIONS MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER

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The dog may be a vandal but he's no liar.
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How to make it sound healthy.
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*MNBT
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Craigslist: Meet your soulmate and lose a kidney all in one magical night.

LEARNING NEW THINGS IS NEATO

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How Dan the Zebra Stopped an Ill-Fated Government Breeding Program in Its Tracks

In the late 19th and early 20th century, several countries were busy colonizing as much of Africa as they could. They ran into problems raising familiar livestock on the continent, however. Horses and other beasts of burden were no match for tsetse flies and parasites that carried diseases. But native animals had developed resistance to the natural environmental hazards. What if the hardy zebra were to be domesticated and put to work? It was an intriguing idea, and a zebra named Dan was put to work to test a theory. Dan was a gift from the King of Abyssinia to President Roosevelt in 1904.
As Western interests in Africa and other challenging climates for livestock transport expanded, these traits raised questions about whether zebras might be domesticated. Arriving in the U.S., Dan quickly became the focus of a government program that sought to domesticate the zebra by cross-breeding the animals with domestic horses and donkeys. It didn’t go well. Dan was unruly, known for attacking his caretakers, and uncooperative with efforts to cross-breed with other equids. A 1913 summary of the program, published in The American Breeder’s Magazine, describes how Dan refused the mares brought to him. Dan was said to have “a positive aversion” to his horse counterparts, and when one was let loose in his paddock, he “rushed at the mare, and would undoubtedly have killed her had he not been driven back into his stall.” He did, however, ultimately mate successfully with a number of jennies (female donkeys).
But zebras and donkeys are different species, and Dan's progeny were sterile. The zebra's wild animal behavior convinced researchers that crossbreeding zebras just wasn't worth the effort.
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SOURCE: CLICK HERE
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Pre-Hillary Fact

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"To identify the U.S. cities with the highest and lowest excessive drinking rates, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the percentage of adults who report binge or heavy drinking across 381 metro areas. Metro level data were aggregated from county-level data provided by County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute joint program. All data areas of the most recent available year. Median household income and poverty data came from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The number of bars per capita came from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Health outcomes, including the number of potential lives lost per 100,000 people due to premature death annually and the percentage of adults who report fair or poor health were also aggregated from county-level data obtained from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps."

DAMN, WISCONSIN!!! You guys need help.

I lost my virginity in Wisconsin.

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Did you find that story a bit...off?

I think it was a mere publicity stunt.

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SOURCE: CLICK HERE
I guess a toad is as legitimate as anything else to worship.
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I am aware that I've posted this before but it's as close to the perfect photo that I've ever seen.