Bird coasters

https://duxa.io/product/set-of-6-bird-pun-coasters/?twclid=2-71xsqplgh3p62fe8wvyc6ek00

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Bubble wands

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Doorways to Demonic Possession

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Charles Guiteau

Charles Julius Guiteau (September 8, 1841 – June 30, 1882) was an American man who assassinated James A. Garfield, president of the United States, on July 2, 1881. Guiteau falsely believed he had played a major role in Garfield's election victory, for which he should have been rewarded with a consulship. He was so offended by the Garfield administration's rejections of his applications to serve in Vienna or Paris that he decided to kill Garfield, and shot him at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. Garfield died two months later from infections related to the wounds. In January 1882, Guiteau was sentenced to death for the crime, and was hanged five months later.

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James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881 until his death six months later—two months after he was shot by assassin Charles J. Guiteau.

age 16

age unknown

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Melting stuff

 

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Fuzzy toilet cover

Let it be known that the prankster who put this in one of the employee restrooms, will be dealt with harshly. Carpeting and fecal plumes do not mix. In fact, fuzzy toilets are expressly forbidden on Bathmat Factory property. 

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Blondie

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Scientology sucks

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Flatid Planthopper Nymph

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More amazing insect videos by Andreas Kay here.

Poster about communal hairdryers

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Wheels 2

Thanks to Randy_B for his expanded "Ugly Car" research and story (below).

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https://eldoce.tv/el-doce-y-vos/el-auto-que-dibujamos-de-chicos-y-se-hizo-viral-es-cordobes-dean-funes-mecanico_48958

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Well, not only does the car exist, but it belongs to a man from Córdoba and can be seen circulating in the town of Deán Funes, according to what Oscar Soria, a resident of that city, told us.

Its owner is called Francisco Alberto Rodríguez, better known as "Cuerito". His son Diego told us that his father is a mechanic and also has a small music band. For this reason, he used his knowledge to adapt the old Fiat 1500 with an engine from a Fiat 125 and add a box to carry the instruments.

https://ar.motor1.com/news/476111/dean-funes-125-el-encantador-atractivo-del-auto-mas-feo-de-la-argentina/

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For starters, a clarification: do not try this at home. It is forbidden to manufacture homemade cars in Argentina. The previous government promised to regulate the Artisan Car Law, but did not. And the new government allowed it to progress a bit, but it seems that it was also forgotten (read more).

Having clarified the illegality of this case, let's go with the beautiful story of the ugliest car in Argentina. The photos that are published here were sent by Gaspar Ringuelet, Autoblog paparazzo.

It is located in Dean Funes, province of Córdoba, and is owned by a retired couple who lives in a rural area. They made it with pieces of other cars. On its back it says "Fiat 125", but it only has the engine of that model. It also has components from a Fiat 1500. And suspensions from utility vehicles.

The bodywork is a handmade work. Design may not be its forte, but it appears to be a very roomy vehicle. Its owner is a member of a music band and uses the vehicle to transport instruments.

The nose, thrown well forward, could accommodate a much larger engine. From a boat, maybe.

At the back it has a side-opening gate, with the spare wheel hanging outwards. Many will say that it was inspired by the Ford EcoSport, but it surpasses it in one key detail: a ladder to access the roof, where there is a drawer to store more objects.

It has details in the latest fashion: central exhaust outlet and little glass surface, with a very high waist.

It's ugly, yes: but in a hypnotic way. Almost charming.

Wheels

See post #FB00762 for Randy_B's expanded research/story.

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Stereotypically Canadian

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Color names and synonyms

Names and Synonyms for Gray / Grey

• Graphite
• Pewter
• Lead
• Fog
• Silver
• Cloud
• Iron
• Gray
• Flint

Names and Synonyms for White

• Ivory
• Offwhite
• Linen
• Snow
• Snowflake
• Frost
• Cotton
• Pearl
• Eggshell
• Alabaster
• Coconut
• Lace
• Bone
• Ecru
• Porcelain

Names and Synonyms for Black

• Charcoal
• Ebony
• Raven
• Ink
• Oil
• Jet black
• Coal
• Obsidian
• Midnight
• Onyx

Names and Synonyms for Brown

• Coffee
• Chocolate
• Mocha
• Peanut
• Pecan
• Hickory
• Umber
• Tawny
• Gingerbread
• Cinnamon
• Brunette
• Tawny
• Walnut
• Caramel

Names and Synonyms for Pink

• Rose
• Flamingo
• Fuschia
• Hot pink
• Bubblegum
• Salmon
• Watermelon
• Carnation
• Rouge
• Magenta
• Blush pink
• Coral
• Peach

Names and Synonyms for Purple

• Mauve
• Orchid
• Boysenberry
• Grape
• Lavendar
• Magenta
• Lilac
• Eggplant
• Amethyst
• Heather
• Iris
• Mulberry
• Raisin
• Plum

Names and Synonyms for Blue

• Sky blue
• Navy blue
• Royal blue
• Indigo
• Azure
• Cerulean
• Sapphire
• Lapis
• Turquoise
• Teal
• Ocean
• Cornflower
• Powder blue
• Baby blue
• Midnight
• Periwinkle
• Ultramarine

Names and Synonyms for Yellow

• Banana
• Buttermilk
• Sunshine
• Sunflower
• Lemon yellow
• Electric yellow
• Dandelion
• Daffodil
• Rubber duck
• Golden poppy
• Pineapple
• Butterscotch
• Corn
• Eggnog
• Bumblebee
• Mustard

Names and Synonyms for Green

• Chartreuse
• Sage
• Forest
• Kelly green
• Pistachio
• Basil
• Seaweed
• Emerald
• Juniper
• Shamrock
• Pear
• Mint
• Seafoam
• Lime green

Names and Synonyms for Red

• Maroon
• Scarlet
• Cherry
• Rose
• Blood Red
• Wine
• Brick
• Apple
• Berry
• Sangria
• Crimson

Names and Synonyms for Orange

• Rust
• Burnt umber
• Tangerine
• Cantaloupe
• Amber
• Carrot
• Honey
• Squash
• Pumpkin spice
• Bronze
• Apricot     

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Inspired by nature...

Left to right: hypodermic needle, pit viper fang, spider fang, scorpion stinger.

Closeup up Froglandia's newest bathmat. Loofah, non-slip.

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A lethal dose

Especially for those among us who are opiate naïve, and do not have a tolerance for opiates. I must take high doses of morphine daily for a painful chronic condition, so I have no idea what a lethal dose would be for me... I'd rather not find out. 

Heroin is illegal. Fentanyl should only be used in a hospital setting (imo), and carfentanil is for veterinary use-- to sedate elephants and other large mammals.

To break it down, carfentanil is a synthetic opioid that is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl, which itself is 50 times more potent than heroin.  

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The face of Alzheimer's

 In 1995, U.K.-based American artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. 

Before his death in 2007, he created a final series of self-portraits. We can see that over time he could barely recognize his own face.

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Running errands with goats

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2160182339756

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Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band or The Bonzos) was created by a group of British art-school 
students in the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz and psychedelia with surreal humour and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to public attention through a 1968 ITV comedy show, Do Not Adjust Your Set.

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6turtle9... hang in there

Things are a mess here. We have gotten battered by all the storms. No electricity since Wednesday. Many trees down, snapped power poles, broken lines, flooding, closed roads, smashed buildings. 

I have never seen winds like that before (Weds. night.)  I have been in tropical storms and severe weather, but this was next level. Gale force 130 mph winds. The wind was not just making the trees sway and bend over, but also swirl around like whirling dervishes. The wind was whipping through like a vortex and snapping like a bull whip. 

I went out on the deck to look during the most violent part, cause I’m crazy like that. It was honestly terrifying. Looking up at the towering redwoods, hundreds of feet tall, and watching them be tossed around like match sticks. I honestly wondered if I should evacuate, but where would I go? Best to just hunker down. 

More winds and rain forecast for tonight. Hopefully it doesn’t get any worse. Power will be out for the week. No running water. Flushing the toilets with rain water. Pining for a hot shower.

This is what the creek normally looks like…

This is what it looks like now…

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American Gothic

American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the American Gothic House in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people [he] fancied should live in that house". It depicts a farmer standing beside his daughter – often mistakenly assumed to be his wife. The painting's name is a word play on the house's architectural style, Carpenter Gothic.

The figures were modeled by Wood's sister Nan Wood Graham and their dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 20th-century rural Americana while the man is adorned in overalls covered by a suit jacket and carries a pitchfork. The plants on the porch of the house are mother-in-law's tongue and beefsteak begonia,

which also appear in Wood's 1929 portrait of his mother, Woman with Plants.

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People who die on their birthday...

Joseph A. Hardy III (January 7, 1923 – January 7, 2023) was an American businessman and the founder and CEO of 84 Lumber Company and Nemacolin Woodlands Resort.

I'm working on a FA cartoon now, but I'd be interested in finding out (from anyone who has the time and research skills) to determine what percentage of people actually die on their birthday. Also, being that one's 100th birthday is such a monumental one, I can't even imagine the odds of it happening on this particular birthday. Wow.

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Indifferent penguin

An indifferent penguin next to a bagpipe-playing explorer.  Just the sort of juxtaposition that makes perfect sense to me.  

Agreed! Supremely ridiculous. I overlooked the identification of Piper Kerr (right). It's a good thing this was pointed out to us all. I know I might have mixed up which was the penguin vs the bagpiper.

I had a multi-paragraph rant that I created here, then erased. Those of you who subscribe to the LLL, are already familiar with my painfully lame rants. There's no reason to subject my unsuspecting blog visitors to more of the same.

Thanks for the entertaining comment and clearer image, Randy!

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The most stolen item from airplanes

The most commonly stolen item are the life vests. Check that your flotation device is there before the plane takes off next time.

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Society for Happy People

Society for Happy People

Society for Professional Obituary Writers

 http://www.societyofprofessionalobituarywriters.org/member-directory.

There seems to be a society for everything.

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Eel pots

The colonists had their own European methods for harvesting eel, using cylindrical woven rush pots with internal funnels to capture and contain the fish. These pots were used in the eel fishery for centuries.

The European colonists also dined on eels, a familiar and welcome comfort food from home. Jellied eels and eel pie were standards of British cuisine, especially in London, where eels were abundant in the tidal Thames. The river-oriented homesteads and plantations that colonists established along Chesapeake waterways gave them ample access to the teeming population of American eel. Recipes from this period are remarkably creative, with guidance on how best to pickle, smoke, roll, boil and broil, stew, and collar them.

From License to Eel

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Representative to be Sworn into office on Superman #1

 Read here.

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Are dead popes still hit on the head with a hammer?

Find out here.

And here.

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Thanks to Randy _B.

 

Apple duck

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Surrealim... no longer an art movement?

It's now argued that Surrealism is no longer an art movement – it's an attitude. From Dalí and Schiaparelli to Björk and Lady Gaga, Beverley D'Silva explores a fantastical, unsettling world of dreams.

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Melting clocks drape over trees; men in bowler hats float through the sky; a disembodied eye blinks back from a plate of soup… Disturbing, displaced, dreamlike – the visual language of Surrealism is now so normal that "to be surreal" can be shorthand for anything strange, unreal, or hinting at the deeper, darker recesses of the human mind.

Surrealism began as a literary movement in Paris, 1924, when writer André Breton created its first manifesto – he described it as "pure psychic automatism" – and it was shaped by Symbolist poetry and Dadaism, whose "anti-artworks" defied reason. It was soon embraced by fine artists including Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró and René Magritte, who were reacting to the horrors of World War One, and the devastation of the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Read rest of this article here.

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That's to FA reader Pete.

Prosthetic fingers

My father lost three of his fingers in 1994.

It was cold that morning in the field, but the hard work was done for the year and all that was left was to load some seed into the truck.

He reached into the auger to get a sample for the elevator agent and the machine grabbed the collar of his glove. The auger took his index finger, middle finger, the end of his ring finger, and the glove.

He told me that in hind site, that was the easy part.

The hard part was the aftermath of what severe trauma like that can cause: Shame, depression, the fact that you have been mutilated for life.

There is a serious lack of options in the world for when the injury has healed and you’re just trying to get on with life.

After years of struggling with artificial-looking and expensive prosthetics, my dad had an idea.

He took the problem into his own broken hands. He designed an enhanced ring that would cover the injury and allow for some functionality. 

Right away, he noticed the burning and tingling phantom pain he felt in his fingers had vanished. 

Minutes later, he realised these rings looked incredible on his hand.

His anxiety and depression began to fade. He could work again. People would stop him in the street and ask where he got them because they had a brother, sister, aunt or uncle, that was living with the same affliction. 

He was a new man. But now he had to help...

Read more here.

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