Society for Happy People

Society for Happy People

Society for Professional Obituary Writers

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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

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

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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.

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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...

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