FUN: Way too funny or why I don’t dance?

Sunday, November 2, 2025

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/comedy-wildlife-contest-unveils-wonderful-photo-finalists-to-make-everyone-smile/?_bhlid=09200a8b0d635a45582c8760c52baba000277c86

Comedy Wildlife Contest Unveils Wonderful Photo Finalists to Make Everyone Smile
By Good News Network – Oct 26, 2025

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The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards just released their annual finalists.

“We are absolutely delighted to reveal the hotly anticipated finalists of the 2025 competition. They are a cracking collection of jaw dropping and laugh out loud photos of some of the most incredible wildlife that we share this planet with,” said contest officials in a news release.

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Animals in nature should teach us not to take ourselves too seriously.

Who cares what others think?

Isn’t bullying the absolute expression of jealousy?

Dona Nobis Pacem

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FUN: A person like you should have been died with some time ago

Saturday, June 14, 2025

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14755069/death-clock-brandon-franson-alzheimers.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

I invented the ‘Death Clock’… and was horrified when it confirmed my worst fears about my own health
By LUKE ANDREWS SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 16:17 EDT, 7 June 2025 | Updated: 16:22 EDT, 7 June 2025

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Brent Franson wasn’t afraid of dying. He was afraid of dying from Alzheimer’s disease.

He remembers seeing sufferers on TV growing up, with their listless expressions and inability to walk. It left him certain he did not want to develop the devastating condition. 

His worst fear was revealed when he used the Death Clock – an artificial intelligence that predicts – down to the minute – when and how a person will die. 

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https://www.thecalculator.co/lifestyle/Death-Calculator-216.html

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This death calculator is designed as a death clock based on the average life expectancy for each country and gender specific. Read more on this topic below the form.

Based on the average life expectancy for your country and on your general conditions and life standard specified, a person like you should have been died with some time ago. Congratulations for your performance to live a number of years above the average life expectancy. Enjoy your live!

Disclaimer:Please note that the Death Calculator is a funny tool and that it does NOT pretend to be accurate. The creator of this tool is in no way liable of any actions which might be taken by users, as this calculator was made for entertainment purposes ONLY.

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“Enjoy your live!”

Did you mean life?

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I think these things are funny,  In this story, the fellow was able to change his life style and purportedly get a lot more time to spend with his family,  (Until he steps off a curb and gets hit by the metaphorical bus.  Let’s see AI predict that!)

So since I’ve already outlasted the prediction, on to 132. (When I can have finally stolen back my social security “contribution” on a dollar for dollar basis.  Ignoring that I “contributed” good strong dollars and received poor weak dollars that are but a shadow of their former purchasing power.)

Beans, Band Aids, Bullets, Bullion, and ₿bitcoin!

(I like Goldbacks for their low denomination and low cost to acquire. YMMV!)

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GUNS: Defend yourself and others and get evicted — just wrong

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/04/18/florida-woman-evicted-from-apartment-after-shooting-would-be-intruder-n1228364

Florida Woman Evicted From Apartment After Shooting Would-Be Intruder

By Cam Edwards | 4:01 PM | April 18, 2025

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Even if Diego had no ill intent when he tried to enter the apartment, the women inside had no idea what his intentions were. As far as they’re concerned, a stranger (who turned out to be armed himself) was trying to break into their home. Under Florida’s Castle Doctrine, there’s a strong case to be made that the armed citizen acted in lawful defense of herself and her roommates, and the fact that police haven’t filed any charges more than a week after the incident at least suggests that law enforcement is leading to that conclusion. 

The management of the complex, however, isn’t waiting for police to officially determine whether any charges should be filed. It sounds like as far as they’re concerned, the tenants are already guilty of violating the terms of their lease. 

*** and ***

So if you discharge a gun, even in self-defense, you’re violating the terms of your lease? What about telling a would-be intruder “leave or I’ll shoot you”? Would that be considered threatening violence by the apartment complex’s management?

I’d love to see these tenants fight the eviction notice, but Lurie says his daughter and her friends plan on leaving the Carlton Apartments in the next few days. Still, he’s speaking out about the letter they received because he’s “shocked” at the policy and the disregard for the particular circumstances involved here, telling Fox 4. “If the intruder had gotten in and harmed the occupants, including my daughter, then they’d be allowed to stay? It just doesn’t make any sense to me.

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Sorry, but I think “Carlton Apartments” is guilty of making the victims defenseless against a criminal.  As such, isn’t that some type of “unreasonable restriction”?

I hope the various “Justice” organizations take this to court.

If I was a judge, (I’m not!) then I’d declare that the lease is defective and unenforceable as a against public policy!

Argh!

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FUN: Cute — a little dumb — what if she said no?

Saturday, January 18, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/01/11/sports/knicks-fan-proposes-to-girlfriend-at-thunder-game/

Knicks fan proposes to girlfriend at Thunder game in OKC: ‘I could have gotten booed’

By Angela Barbuti 

Published Jan. 11, 2025, 9:01 a.m. ET

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Diehard Knicks fan Joseph DeSimone popped the question to his girlfriend Erica Vann on the Kiss Cam in Oklahoma City as the team took on the Thunder in a clash of NBA heavyweights last Friday. 

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I thought this was funny.  Clearly she might have said “no”.  Not sure what you do then.  Propose to each and every cheerleader.  Even the male ones?  Maybe the mascot.

Anyway it all worked out for the happy couple and I hope they have a long and great life.  One can only hope.  

Maazel Toff!

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FUN: “We’ll see” … won’t we?

Thursday, January 2, 2025

FROM FARK

https://www.fark.com/comments/13505092/175607260?f=Fbwk_SWHpPoHWXUxWu4P2ImyyIB4OduZrcMdD#c175607260

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dryknife   2024-12-25 11:29:28 AM    

There was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit.

“Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically.

“We’ll see,” the farmer replied.

The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses.

“How wonderful,” the neighbors exclaimed.

“We’ll see,” replied the old man.

The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune.

“We’ll see,” answered the farmer.

The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out.

“We’ll see,” said the farmer. 

*** end quote ***

Funny but very understandable.  Wde don’t always see the good and the bad immediately.  If ever.

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FUN: I was in the peanut gallery for the Howdy Doody Show once

Monday, December 30, 2024

https://cordcuttersnews.com/its-howdy-doody-time-first-premiered-77-years-ago-this-week/

“It’s Howdy Doody Time!”: First Premiered 77 Years Ago This Week
By Luke Bouma on December 29, 2024

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The show, originally titled “Puppet Playhouse,” quickly gained popularity and was renamed “The Howdy Doody Show.” It introduced audiences to a colorful cast of characters, including the freckled marionette Howdy Doody, the friendly ringmaster Buffalo Bob Smith, the mute clown Clarabell, and a host of other memorable puppets like Phineas T. Bluster and Chief Thunderthud.

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I remember the beautiful Princess SummerFallWinterSpring.

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FUN: A Christmas tradition that I think is “priceless”

Friday, December 27, 2024

https://www.fark.com/comments/13494756/175388094?f=Fbjk9mpT0wsasZqUb92Wa3pw_oGgAw5zU7Q88#c175388094

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In 1981, we drew names and everyone had to go to a garage sale and buy the ugliest thing there – the kind of thing that the seller put $.25 on just so someone would think it had *some* value and wasn’t just junk.

My dad ended up being given an 18″ tall plaster bust of Queen Nefertiti from someone’s ceramics class. It was painted in light blue with a bright red jewel in her headpiece.

The next year, it was given to someone else, but we recorded with a black sharpie who it had been given to each year.

The rule is that if you receive it, you have to display it in your house in a prominent place. No sticking it in a closet.

It’s been passed down every year with few exceptions (Covid being one and a well-meaning but ill-advised prank being the other).

Somewhere along the way we started recording births and deaths on it.

CSB: My mother has threatened to smash iat several times – not because she hates it, but because she’s gotten it the least.

CSB 2: Was in a store and found several duplicates once. If I’d had the money, everyone would have gotten one. 

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I just thought this was a great idea!

Made me laffffff, and glad I don’t have “family” traditions.

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FUN: Kiss a llama and avoid airport rage?

Saturday, November 9, 2024

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/03/nx-s1-5173755/therapy-animals-portland-airport-llama-alpaca

HEALTH NEWS

Anxious at the Portland airport? Beni the Llama is here for you, spreading joy
NOVEMBER 4, 2024 · 5:00 AM ET
By Katia Riddle

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When Beni the llama and Captain Jack the alpaca saunter with their handlers through the front doors of the Portland International Airport on a recent morning, time seems to stop.

People who were moments earlier hustling to their gates stand still. Those who were occupied with their phones look up and stare. Some take videos. A crowd quickly forms. Within minutes, a dozen people are lined up for the chance to have their picture taken with one of these animals.

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Cute.  Llamas are strangely attractive. And all I’ve seen at a llama farm are friendly.  Could be due to the fact that we had “llama food” and they’re all on special diets.

Scratching them was uniquely and strangely calming.  Mush like petting a dog. 

Wonder what the magnetism is?

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FUN: Wholesome Posts May Cheer You Up — interspersed with comments on aging

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

https://www.boredpanda.com/wholesome-posts-memes/?lctg=5b61141e-0270-4a35-bef0-7cb2bcf31a0e

Wholesome
Aug 09, 2024
If You Are Having A Bad Day, These 50 Wholesome Posts May Cheer You Up Interview With Expert
Justin Sandberg and Justinas Keturka

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Bored Panda got in touch with the lovely ladies behind Love of Aging, an organization dedicated to helping older folks live life to the fullest. Naturally, we wanted to know if there was any story behind its creation.

“Love of Aging was founded in 2020 by three friends — Candace Shivers (now 77), Liz Dietz (now 70), and Maureen Charles (now 64) – all experts on the difference that attitude makes one’s experience of life. As we aged, we noticed that society wanted us to believe that life after 60 was on an inevitable downward slope, but that was not our experience. We found a lot to love about this stage of life, and we suspected that the key to our own experience was our attitude.”

*** end quote ***

In between the copied posts, some good observations about aging.

I loved the one about Robin Williams.  His death was sad enough but reading the story make it even more so.

Sigh!

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FUN: “That’s the biggest chicken I’ve ever seen.”

Monday, May 6, 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-derbyshire-68931938?ICID=ref_fark

Repton: Rhea on the run in village shocks driver

A rhea on the run left a driver in shock after it jumped out in front of his car.

The large, flightless bird was seen running down Main Street in Repton, Derbyshire, on Sunday afternoon.

Robert Jay, a window cleaner in the village, was driving with his wife when the rhea suddenly appeared.

Mr Jay shared a video, which was filmed by his wife, on social media with the caption: “That’s the biggest chicken I’ve ever seen.”

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I just found this video funny and can not imagine that I’d have thought it was chicken.

Laugh!

Not every story has to be a serious Debby Downer.

Poor “chicken”.

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FUN: Skydiving beavers — another Gooferment idea that was not half bad

Friday, March 29, 2024

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70282/watch-beavers-parachute-planes-footage-1948?ICID=ref_

Watch Beavers Parachute From Planes in Footage From 1948
Skydiving beavers. What could possibly go wrong?
By Rebecca OConnell | Mar 25, 2024, 3:27 PM EDT

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With the help of test beaver Geronimo, Heter created a special wooden box that opened on impact. In total, 76 beavers were dropped in Chamberlain Basin, with all but one surviving. They went on to live fruitful, busy lives in their remote new home. 

The story of the furry skydivers may sound too silly to be true, but there is video evidence. Fish and Game historian Sharon Clark found the forgotten footage, and thanks to the magic of the internet, we can all enjoy it today.

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Well for one beaver, it didn’t work out so well.

Pretty funny to me.  Wonder what the beavers thought of it?

Do beavers think?

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FUN: If I knew then what I know now, what different world it would be.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

https://punchdrink.com/articles/third-shift-bars-detroit-michigan/?utm_placement=newsletter

Detroit’s Best Third Shift Bars Are a Vital, Dying Breed | PUNCH

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Reminds me of the River Road Tavern in Piscataway off Centennial Avenue to have a few quick ones before I had to jump on 287 and race for injinnering skrule up in the Bronx.

Laugh!  I miss those easy old days.  And the overtime paychecks!

Sigh!  

Sadly so many wasted hours and brain cells.  If I knew then what I know now, what different world it would be.

Coincidences seem to govern our destinies?  

“Regrets I’ve have few but too few to mention.”  — Frank Sinatra singing My Way

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FUN: Lawyers’ ads that don’t take themselves too seriously

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-attorney-ads-for-dogs-kensingtoncampbell/

 

Funny Personal Injury Ads For Dogs (11 Pics)

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Very funny. And, shows a fun side of advertising.

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FUN: How high can an emu jump?

Saturday, April 15, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11975989/Hilarious-videos-escaped-EMU-leading-Tennessee-police-20-mile-chase-speeds-40mph.html

Road runner! Hilarious video shows escaped EMU leading Tennessee police on 20 mile chase at speeds of up to 40mph after breaking free of his enclosure

  •     MeeMoo cleared the fence of his enclosure with a seven-foot vertical leap and led police on an incredible 20-mile chase through a Tennessee town
  •     Harry McKinney said his pet escaped on Wednesday after being spooked by construction workers logging behind his home
  •     Police eventually surrounded the flightless bird, which had clocked speeds of up to 40 miles per hour, and MeeMoo made it back home safely

By Kamal Sultan For Dailymail.Com
Published: 09:20 EDT, 15 April 2023 | Updated: 09:37 EDT, 15 April 2023 

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If you answered more than 7 feet, you’re right.  

MeeMoo’s next challenge is 9 feet.  Anyone giving odds it can do it?

Remember  “Now ladies, I’ll share some advice that I picked up from a tattooed lady in a bar on Second Avenue late one Saturday night at closing time. She said ‘Sonny, if a man wants to bet you that he can have the Jack of Spades jump out of that deck of cards there on the bar there and it will piss in your ear, be prepared to have a wet ear.’ Sorry, that’s the whole and literal truth. My betrothed made me promise to tell the whole exact truth.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 234

Laugh!

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FUN: CLUE would be fun but not for 60$/year

Friday, March 31, 2023

https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/classic-mystery-board-game-clue-lands-in-apple-arcade/#ftag=CAD590a51e

Tech Gaming
Classic Mystery Board Game Clue Lands in Apple Arcade

  • Eat your heart out, Sherlock Holmes.

Zachary McAuliffe
March 24, 2023 12:23 p.m. PT

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Get your magnifying glasses ready because Clue: Hasbro’s Mystery Game Plus, based on the classic board game, arrived on Apple Arcade Friday. If you subscribe to Apple Arcade ($5, £5 or AU$8 a month), you can play this game free of cost, ads or in-app purchases.

Marmalade Game Studios is responsible for bringing the board game to your screen, and this isn’t the first time the studio has brought a board game to digital devices, either. The studio has digitized other classic games, like Monopoly and Battleship, too.

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I was initially attracted to it. BYAS (But Yet Another Subscription) turns me off BIG TIME!

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FUN: How to remember the digits of pi when checking dollar bills.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

I can use this, when I look at serial number of dollar bills, seek ing π!

Laugh!

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FUN: How to become a “real” programmer — screw up big time; then you have been “trained”!

Monday, July 18, 2022

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vz8t4y/its_official_boys_im_a_real_programmer_now/

Subreddit Icon
r/ProgrammerHumor
•Posted by
u/nosam56
3 hours ago
Bravo!Press FHelpful3WholesomeSilver3Narwhal Salute
It’s official boys, I’m a real programmer now

Just accidentally deleted every single entry in our production database. At 4:50pm. And i fucked up the backup, so we have to wait till tomorrow for someone to do a system restore.

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I just thought this was hilarious!

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FUN: USA – USSA 2032?

Sunday, May 15, 2022

https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/children-of-the-free-states-2?s=r

Https bucketeer e05bbc84 baa3 437e 9518 adb32be77984 s3 amazonaws com public images 0f238d44 6f2b 42a6 9e64 5ae6d0a94069 1027x611

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FUN: Keep calm … and … May the Fourth be with you

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Fourth

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FUN: Remembering when I was a “Miles Chaser”

Thursday, April 14, 2022

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-songsheet-airline-miles?utm_source=Bitcoin+Magazine&utm_campaign=4e1027bcbe-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f7d45fbb67-4e1027bcbe-357073741&mc_cid=4e1027bcbe&mc_eid=386b7b0895

Bitcoin Songsheet: Airline Miles Are The Original Altcoins
Airline miles are the original altcoin, allowing zombie companies to issue
value for nothing while encouraging people to be “Miles Chasers.”
Jimmy Song
Apr 11, 2022

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Confessions of a Miles Chaser

I used to be one of those Miles Chasers. I’d spend an hour looking for a way to earn miles so I could get the equivalent of $8 in miles. Somehow, it never registered that I was giving myself a job at $8/hr. The sadder thing is that the work didn’t really benefit anybody or build anything. It was as productive as doomscrolling through Facebook. Unfortunately, Miles Chasing is a hard habit to break because of the scarcity mentality that’s so common to fiat money: You can take the miles from my cold, dead hands.

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I was once a “miles chaser”, but I never bought into the credit card offers and other ”extra miles” gimmicks.

I had a job at AT&T where I was doing database trying for a new footprint side roll out.  I had to visit an absurd number of cities in — as I remember it — in 8 week window.  The United plan had some number of miles and “segments” for a few week in Hawaii including free round trip first class tickets for two people.  Getting miles was the “easy part”; segment were much harder. Reading the “rules”, a non-stop counted as one segment, but stops along the route counted as segments. Since I was allowed to chose my flights, I took the roll out schedule and figured out how to do the training and collect the required number of segments. Laugh!  (Just tell me the rules and I’ll figure it out.)  So I was doing two cities a week Monday / Tuesday in City #1 and then Thursday / Friday in City #2.  So Sunday night I went Trenton to Pittsbugh to O’Hare then proceeding to City #1. On Wednesday I’d fly from City #1 to City #2; non-stop unless I needed more segments. And finally on Friday night, inbound to home from City #2 to O’Hare, Pittsburgh, and Trenton. Laugh!  No problem. Then Frau Reinke and I went to Hawaii via LA and San Fran with side trips to Las Vegas and Reno. 

Made it all worthwhile. Got a great appraisal for doing the training with a raise, bonus, and promotion. No much of a life for those 8 weeks but everything in life was a trade off.  I even got kudos for “saving travel money” since the price of direct flights at the time was about triple my connectors. 

It was a great “life hack” and I learned to always study the rules.

Laugh!

I never used or collected “miles” after that. 

Laugh!

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FUN: Capturing a getaway eagle

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

https://gizmodo.com/kodiak-the-eagle-has-been-captured-after-week-long-adve-1847792273

Kodiak the Eagle Has Been Captured After Week-Long Adventure in Pittsburgh
Preliminary veterinary tests suggest the bird is healthy and uninjured.
By George Dvorsky
Yesterday 10:03AM 

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On Sunday, October 3, a National Aviary team spotted Kody at a residence in Pine Township following reports of the bird loitering nearby. Using “professional falconry techniques and equipment,” the team was “able to safely retrieve Kody and bring him back home,” according to a National Aviary tweet. Apparently this entails a large net and running towards the eagle as quickly as possible.

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Pretty funny to watch the guy chasing the bird.  Good think the bird wasn’t hurt or anyone else.

I’m not so sure if I would want to be that close to one big bird.  Especially if it was mad!

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FUN: White House Fence

Sunday, July 11, 2021

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3975231/posts

White House Fence

Three contractors bid to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Kentucky and the third is from New Orleans. All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.

The New Orleans contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil.

“Well,” he says, “I figure the job will run about $9,000. That’s $4,000 for materials, $4,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me.”

The Kentucky contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, “I can do this job for $7,000. That’s $3,000 for materials, $3,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me.”

The Chicago contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, “$27,000.”

The official, incredulous, says, “You didn’t even measure like the other guys. How did you come up with such a high figure?”

“The Chicago contractor whispers back, “$10,000 for me, $10,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Kentucky to fix the fence.”

“Done!” replies the government official.

And that, my friends, is how the Government Stimulus plan worked.

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FUN: From the “why can’t they keep drugs out of prison” file!

Sunday, May 23, 2021

https://www.boredpanda.com/people-share-dumbest-school-rules/

#28
My highschool had “coordinates”, not a uniform. But they stopped selling the shorts like a decade before I started there… So me and a bunch of buddies tracked down used pairs and started wearing them.

Next year, shorts were banned outright… So me and a bunch of buddies on the rugby team started wearing skirts, because the rules said skirts were acceptable, but didn’t specify gender. So you had a bunch of guys with hairy, hairy legs walking around in skirts we deliberately hiked up a little to show some thigh.

Shorts were allowed again in a week.

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FUN: Ever hear of “cork ball”? I hadn’t.

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/corkball-the-mutant-baseball-game-thats-a-st-louis-tradition/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theartofmanliness+%28The+Art+of+Manliness%29

In: Health & Sports, Sports
Brett and Kate McKay • May 6, 2021
Corkball: The Mutant Baseball Game That’s a St. Louis Tradition
 
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Welcome to corkball: a mutant baseball game hailing from the streets of St. Louis, that you just might want to import to your own neighborhood. 

The Origins of Corkball

In the 1840s, Irish and German immigrants came pouring into St. Louis. Many of the latter brought beer recipes from Deutschland and opened breweries that mass-produced German lagers for the country’s growing population. While brewing companies like Anheuser-Busch were innovating beer-making with pasteurization and refrigeration, the employees at these breweries were making innovations to American baseball and created a version of the game that allowed them to play with a limited number of players, in a limited space, without the usual regulation equipment. 

Legend has it that corkball got its start in an east St. Louis tavern sometime around 1900. Some bored, slightly drunk dude popped the cork bung off a beer barrel and wrapped some tape around it. He then tossed it to a drinking buddy who tried to hit it with a broomstick. 

Boom!

Corkball was born. 

The most significant difference between corkball and baseball was that corkball had no runners, so there were no bases. Because there were no bases or runners, men didn’t need a big space or many players to play corkball. They could technically get a corkball game going with just four total — two to a team. 

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Ever hear of “cork ball”? I hadn’t.

Sounds like it could be a real winner.

Except for calling balls and strikes.

That injects subjective judgments.

Have to think about how to eliminate that.

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FUN: Never take your eyes off little kids!

Thursday, March 18, 2021

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Chinese girl gets stuck in claw machine after climbing inside to claim prizes

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A girl got stuck in a claw machine in northern China after she climbed inside to get her hands of the prizes inside.

The CCTV video, captured in the city of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia on March 14, shows a girl in a black dress climbing into a claw machine through the pickup hole.

After she grabbed a doll, she was trying to climb back out but could not manage it.

Her friend informed their parents and the workers at the arcade game centre were called to the site to open the claw machine door to free the girl.

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Never take your eyes off little kids!

They are amazing.

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FUN: “Driving Ms. Crazies”

Thursday, July 23, 2020

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Sadly, he is so impaired he shouldn’t have a license!

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