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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Faces No. 360 - Where were you when you heard about The Pope's resignation?
By Jack Brummet
[hard drawn/digital hybrid]
[hard drawn/digital hybrid]
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Alien Lore No. 244 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower Met With Aliens?
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower Met With Aliens, according to testimony by former New Hampshire State Representative Henry W. McElroy Jr.
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
The ruins of Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans
LoveThesePics has a pretty amazing article with photographs by several photographers of the abandoned Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans.
Go here to read the article and see the images...
Go here to read the article and see the images...
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Saturday, February 09, 2013
The Japanese Monster?
We don't know what the provenance of this image is (Tineye returned no matches), but we like it.
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Friday, February 08, 2013
The paintings of Ex-President George W. Bush
By Jack Brummet, Painting and Drawings Editor
A hacker recently broke into some of the Bush family's email accounts. From GWB's sisters account, comes images of paintings that Dubyah has created... A report from The Smoking Gun is here.
For my part, the best revelations were of George W. Bush, the artist--one shows him naked in the shower, the other of his legs and feet in a bath, with the tap running. The Smoking Gun said that Dubyyah sent them to his sister, Dorothy Bush Koch. There was also a photograph showing him at his easel working.
The artist at work [Guccifer is the hacker who stole these photos]
A hacker recently broke into some of the Bush family's email accounts. From GWB's sisters account, comes images of paintings that Dubyah has created... A report from The Smoking Gun is here.
For my part, the best revelations were of George W. Bush, the artist--one shows him naked in the shower, the other of his legs and feet in a bath, with the tap running. The Smoking Gun said that Dubyyah sent them to his sister, Dorothy Bush Koch. There was also a photograph showing him at his easel working.
George W. Bush, self portrait in the shower
George W. Bush, self portrait in the bath
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The etymology of "blowing smoke up your a**"
[thanks to Jeff Clinton for the news tip!]
The Tobacco Smoke Enema seems to have had some popularity in the mid to late eighteenth century. It's hard to source this one because dozens of websites and blogs use the same exact wording:
"The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient’s rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum. The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration, but doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase “blow smoke up one’s ass.”
The Wikipedia claims a book by Eric Burns, The Smoke of the Gods as the source of the quote and photographs, however that book doesn't actually say that this contraption led to the phrase. That book says "To blow smoke up one's ass. Today it means to compliment in a crude and obvious manner; in the past it meant to cure in a manner even more crude."
This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang claims that "to blow smoke" as an older phrase, from the mid-19th Century or later, and the phrase "to blow smoke up someone's ass" dates from the 1950s and is a modern addition to the older phrase. A related (and great) phrase, is used less commonly: "blowing sunshine up your skirt."
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Thursday, February 07, 2013
Painting: bearded Commie
By Jack Brummet
[Karl Marx portrait on silk with acrylic, pencil, Sharpie, and pen and ink]
[Karl Marx portrait on silk with acrylic, pencil, Sharpie, and pen and ink]
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Wednesday, February 06, 2013
A database geek's rant on Mongo (NSFW, and seriously cranky)
Using the Xtranormal tool, a user with an obvious ax to grind about databases created this foul mouthed and hilarious debate about database architecture. Yeah, it's pretty serious inside baseball. And a little difficult to understand how worked up he gets. . .
Mongo DB Is Web Scale
by: gar1t
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"My kingdom for a horse": King Richard III's bones discovered in England
By Jack Brummet, Shakespeare Editor
Researchers in England announced earlier this week that they have found skeletal remains of King Richard III under a parking lot in a Midlands city. Richard is one of the most despised of all Kings due to his short but violent reign.
Richard Buckley, the lead archaeologist told reporters that tests proved “beyond reasonable doubt” that the “individual exhumed” from a makeshift grave under the parking lot was “indeed Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England.”
note the pronounced hunch in the spine
Researchers in England announced earlier this week that they have found skeletal remains of King Richard III under a parking lot in a Midlands city. Richard is one of the most despised of all Kings due to his short but violent reign.
Richard Buckley, the lead archaeologist told reporters that tests proved “beyond reasonable doubt” that the “individual exhumed” from a makeshift grave under the parking lot was “indeed Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England.”
A geneticist, Turi King, said in a press conference that DNA samples from living descendants of Richard III’s family matched those of the bones found beneath the parking lot. The skeleton showed signs of scoliosis, a disease that caused Richard's hunchback. The skeleton also showed a massive blow to the head, which jibes with accounts of his death on the battlefield. He was not on horseback, but on foot.
King Richard III apparently died on foot, which also squares with Shakespeare's account of the events ("my kingdom for a horse").
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Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Monday, February 04, 2013
The Day The Music Died
By Jack Brummet
It was fifty-four years ago today that, as Don McLean wrote in "American Pie," the music died.
A small airplane crash February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa, killed rock musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and the pilot Roger Peterson.
A large large steel pair of horn-rim glasses, similar
to those Buddy Holly wore, sits near the crash site
It was fifty-four years ago today that, as Don McLean wrote in "American Pie," the music died.
A small airplane crash February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa, killed rock musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and the pilot Roger Peterson.
Richardson, Holly, Valens
Buddy Holly had parted ways with the original Crickets by this time, and put together a new band with Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup, and Carl Bunch, for a '"Winter Dance Party" tour. The tour included Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper Richardson, who were promoting their own albums.
The tour had been on tour buses, but the cold weather, long distances, and conditions aboard the ratty tour buses, began wearing down the musicians. The bands were passing a raging 'flu virus back and forth, and Holly's drummer was hospitalized for frostbite. Buddy Holly decided to charter a plane in Clear Lake, Iowa, to reach their next venue in Moorhead, Minnesota (near Fargo). Waylon Jennings was bumped from the plane in favor of someone who was suffering from the flu (well, I guess that cured the flu). Tommy Allsup flipped a coin with Ritchie Valens to see who got a seat. Valens "won." Another survivor, Dion DiMucci (Dion and the Belmonts) didn't want to spend the $36.
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Germany's failed experiment legalizing beastiality
By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.
The German parliament has just passed the country's first anti-bestiality law, and it was an uphill battle much of the way. “Zoophiles” were organized (ZETA - “Zoophilic Engagement for Tolerance and Enlightenment”) and released loads of propaganda to the German people about how human-animal sex is entirely consensual and how their willing “partners” become sexually aroused. Beastiality/zoophilia now becomes illegal for the first time in more than 40 years.
Michael Kiok, chairman of the Zoophiles said that "Central to the beliefs of zoophiles is that we don't do anything that the animal doesn't want. We do not treat them cruelly. An animal is quite capable of showing precisely what it wants and does not want. When I look at my dog I know immediately what it wants. Animals are much easier to understand than women."
The German parliament has just passed the country's first anti-bestiality law, and it was an uphill battle much of the way. “Zoophiles” were organized (ZETA - “Zoophilic Engagement for Tolerance and Enlightenment”) and released loads of propaganda to the German people about how human-animal sex is entirely consensual and how their willing “partners” become sexually aroused. Beastiality/zoophilia now becomes illegal for the first time in more than 40 years.
Michael Kiok, chairman of the Zoophiles said that "Central to the beliefs of zoophiles is that we don't do anything that the animal doesn't want. We do not treat them cruelly. An animal is quite capable of showing precisely what it wants and does not want. When I look at my dog I know immediately what it wants. Animals are much easier to understand than women."
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