“This is all kinds of awesome.”
Erin knows what she is talking about:
An American Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City on Friday after a passenger stripped, put his clothes back on and then tried to open an emergency exit door before being subdued by members of a Major League Soccer team on board, the FBI said.
Dear Clusterflock
What’s keeping you going today? For me, it’s this delicious photo.
“Men on a Mission”
The fellow who created this calendar of Mormon missionaries has been ex-communicated for presenting an unbefitting image of the church. (thanks, e)
Oobleck
Oobleck is a non-Newtonian viscous fluid that changes from liquid to solid by applying pressure and it looks pretty easy to make. (video via Coudal)
Old Ladies Fight
Why did the shelf-stacker not wish to be named, I wonder:
A store worker said: “It was shocking.
“Seeing these two old ladies going for each other like that was truly disturbing.”
The shelf-stacker, who did not wish to be named, added: “They could have been seriously hurt - they were ramming each other like dodgems.”
Man Uses Cheese Grater In Robbery
Odd USDA Nutritional Facts
It’s real, don’t believe me? Check for yourself. Or, here is a spreadsheet with the screen-captured oddities for less inquiring minds.
I also remember seeing Emu, Buffalo, and Pigeon (under “Squab”).
A DIY Rollercoaster
Up, Up and Away
“This is the strangest thing I’ve seen since I’ve been on the
force,” said Paul Madison, first officer on the scene. Madison
questioned the man who looked like Jesus and discovered that he was
dressed up as Jesus and was on his way to a toga costume party when
the tarp covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose and released
twelve blow up sex dolls filled with helium which floated up into the
air.
Can’t vouch for the source, but a good story any way you look at it.
New State Abbreviations, according to Wired Mag
Well… they did it… they changed the abbreviations for Pennsylvania and Virginia.
They are now PE and VI, respectively. I wonder if they notified the Virgin Islands about this.
(link to original article)
I simply note:
Has anyone else observed the intriguing temporal co-incidence between commentary postings by Jandek and by Aaron Winslow?
This is clearly unclean.
It was 42 years.
A police spokesman said: “So far, we have no idea how it is possible that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found before in the same apartment she used to live in.
The Dirty Italian
I just don’t care enough about wrinkles to ever begin to think about doing something like this:
An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.
The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car and took her to his home where he made her iron and wash dishes after threatening her, they said.
Besides, why didn’t he just get his mom to do it?
How Punny
As included and referenced in a link at Coudals’ Fresh Signals to the 50 best stores with puns in the title, I would just like to mention that I live literally less than a minute from the establishment pictured above.
“Lady” Things”
What, do you suppose, “Lady” things” are?
church key included
The red part on the back of this rack doesn’t only act as a red flag, it’s also a bottle opener. Because bikes, beers, and cars mix so well…
Letters To Those Who Have Been Left Behind
Here’s a fantastically insane blog hosting letters written by Christians to non-Christians about why all the good people have up and disappeared from Earth and the lowly heathen jerks have been left behind.
Dear Friend,
Are you looking for me? Is the world looking for millions of missing people that have just vanished in an instant? Are all little children around the globe part of the missing group? If so, I can tell you what has happened. Don’t believe the very convincing lies you will hear. Don’t believe UFO’s got us. Don’t believe some cosmic reaction erased us.
The truth is - are you ready for this? - we’re at a wedding. Yup. In fact, we are the “bride.” The “groom” is Jesus, the Messiah, the Promised One from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (Hear, O Israel!) He has come to take His cride, the true Church and all little innocent ones, out of this world because of what is coming.
Yes, yes, I know. There are all sorts of Christians running around now insisting that this explanation CANNOT be the correct one because THEY are Left Behind. This may include some very visible Christians, like maybe a Pope or something. What does this tell you? It tells you that any “Christian” left behind was a phony. They may have said they believed, blah blah blah, but God knows the heart of men, and He has seen that they are fakes.
It’s like fan fiction, only 1000x more pathological.
(thx Sean)
Unideer (For Mary)
Dreams do come true, Mary.
I Wanted To Be with Lion-O…
Okay, so, this morning, I happened to mention the ThunderCats to Alisia (my wife), and immediately, without even the slightest hesitation she said,
I loved the ThunderCats. I wanted to be with Lion-O. He was my first boyfriend.
So, should I’ve just taken that in stride, or should I still be wondering, six or seven hours later, what it means for me?
Update: The World Ends This Friday, June 12
The incredibly normal, down-to-earth man in the video below says the world will end this coming Friday. Then again, he also said the world would end in 2000, and when that didn’t happen he picked 2006.
Anyway, this sorta sucks. The weather is supposed to be nice, too.
(thx Cyn-C)
Whatever Happened To Mildred Simmons?
Overheard in the Hospital Cafeteria
So, you going home to grill some biscuits and drink beer?
Everything That Rises Must Converge
okay, the coincidences on the site are starting to freak me out. yesterday I posted about the Temecula chicken right after Sheila posted about Renner driving through Temecula and last night, as I was falling asleep, I was thinking about how Trojan refers to themselves as Trojan Brand, and how odd that was, thinking “can you imagine if it was Coca Cola Brand, or Toyota Brand” and they put it on the packaging? (Deron Bauman)
Okay, and I thought that Deron had posted the Temecula chicken story in response to my own post about being stopped by a trooper in Temecula!
This is yet another example of what Alek Lindus and I term ‘convergences’. And there are an awful lot of them going around lately.
Speaking of which, just after I’d posted the Temecula ‘aliens’ anecdote, I read Jack Lindus’s comment on Alek’s recently posted portrait of him over at enigma janitor.
‘Scuse me while I resume work on my universal field theory. It all fits together.
I think that maybe Alek is orchestrating this from that island of hers. Like Prospero.
Sugar Bush Squirrel (for Cindy)
