Oddities and Humor

In days gone by you would have been subjected to the merciless lashings of A2K peevists, Tsars.

Chinese hair stockings. Meant to thwart perverts.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and He is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than He who believes what is wrong. -Thomas Jefferson (Notes on Virginia, 1782)

Says Thomas Jefferson, the guy who twisted words making a great pretense that he was something that he was not.

Thom mouthed that he was against slavery yet he kept slaves his entire life. You can call him the founding father of American hypocrisy.

And there I was thinking - why did that guy shave his feet?

Not too funny.
"Yeah, Boss," they said, "Then we pour in the nitrogen and it makes this very cool looking cloud."
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/liquid-nitrogen-jagermeister-mexican-pool-party-sickens-guests-article-1.1376739<br />

Joe(That kill people)Nation

He's an athlete is some sport where he needs to get his ankles wrapped?

Peruvian woman tosses husband’s ‘mistress’ off cliff

Lissette Lupo Mamani dragged her romantic rival to the edge by her ponytail and sent her flying.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/peruvian-woman-tosses-husband-mistress-cliff-video-article-1.1377910#ixzz2WmKOxBzX

Kayak fisherman meets Chompy the shark!

Odd but human echolocation actually exists apparently
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/125-exploration/risk-takers-gallery?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_content=link_tw20130621ngm-riskbat&amp;utm_campaign=Content/#/17

It's nice to know your former employer is safeguarding all of your personal information so securely.

http://news.yahoo.com/mass-man-ordered-tie-gets-ss-numbers-instead-171111591.html.

Man order tie, gets personnel files instead.

Joe(Hello, Mr. Nation, You don't know me, but I know a lot about you.)Nation

Love the new one, enjoy the old one.

My longtime mentor/boss in landscape architecture had a fabulous signature. My colleague and I were envious of his suav-o style, and when the three of us started up what turned out to be a short term interior design business, she and I wasted a good part of one not very busy day practicing our signatures, both of us having learned penmanship as children and still caught up is the shoulds of all that. That was a lot of fun that day, music in the background and the trio of finches chirping, but we ended up using our usual non-flare signatures.

Now years later my signature is more loosey goosey, a default mode of age mixed with devil may careness.

Whoa, Nellie!


http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/06/muni_passenger_halts_runaway_b.php



Quoting -
Last night Muni took commuters for a ride they won't forget.
A 43-Masonic bus reportedly went off its usual route when it slammed into a car, jumped a curb, and kept on running until finally a passenger intervened.

KTVU tracked down the "cool-headed" passenger, Frank Primus, who was sitting in the rear of the runaway bus. Primus says when he realized the bus wasn't actually stopping after hitting the Jetta, he dashed up to the driver's seat, and put his foot on the brake.

"I realized we were headed toward Fell and the bus wasn't stopping, the guy wasn't stopping the bus," Primus told KTVU.

Cyclists were jumping out of the path of the moving bus, which barely dodged oncoming traffic.

"I got up there, his eyes were open, he was mumbling something, and I just put my foot on the brake and stopped it before it went into Fell [Street]," Primus told the news station. He said it appeared the driver was in shock "saying over and over he couldn't stop the bus."

Amazingly enough, the driver of the Jetta climbed out uninjured and all 12 passengers on the Muni bus were safe, yet understandably shaken. The bus driver was hospitalized with some back pain. Police are considering citing the driver for illegally turning in front of the bus, the news station reports.

"Either oncoming traffic was going to stop the bus, or someone was going to," Primus said. "Obviously, at the time you don't think about it, you just do it and I'm glad I did something," he said.

By the way, Primus is in medical school at UCSF, studying to be a surgeon. We know what you're thinking: This is exactly the kind of guy you want operating on you.

Never heard of giant hogweed plant but avoid it if you can.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/giant-hogweed-plant-blindness-skin-irritation_n_3479022.html

Aptly named, isn't it, Edgar? One would tend to think that it uses more than its fair share of Mother Earth's offerings.

There's no such thing as fair shares under the evolutionary discipline I'm afraid JT.

"Fair" is a Christian invention.

They've had a pretty good propaganda system in place too, Spendi, tho' it's seems to be in tatters of late. Perhaps they should get in touch with the US government.

Don't tell me that a few lurid stories in Media have bent your brain all out of shape JT.

"Fair" is a Christian invention. Are you suggesting that the lurid stories you have carefully had brought to your attention for one reason or another undermines that proposition?