Oddities and Humor

Oh no, they're lovely people, really! A bit stubborn and politically uninformed, but who cares? Give them jobs up in the territories. (I'd suggest manual labor. )

Good for the Dungeons and Dragon geeks!
Rise up and pelt your oppressors!

Death to all those who would whimper and cry.

Because these videos were a set of twins, here's part two:


http://www.avclub.com/articles/bestworst-vhs-covers-part-two,46050/

Sears (yes, Sears) has created some hilarious zombie ads AND a zombie shopping website!



http://www.sears.com/shc/s/dap_10153_12605_DAP_Zombie?origin=zeta&storeId=10153&catalogId=12605&expCheckout=&orderEmail=&langId=

The Key To Cleaning Up At Poker? Quantum Physics
npr.org
Poker's a game of probability, statistics and modeling -- which makes it a perfect pastime for physicists. They're flocking to the game, and the best are winning millions...

They probably cheat, edgar.

More oddities.

ATLANTA -- The Georgia Department of Agriculture confirmed on Thursday that Africanized honey bees -- more commonly known as "killer bees" -- were responsible for the death of an elderly man in southwest Georgia last week.

The Dougherty County man disturbed a colony of the bees with his bulldozer, and received more than 100 bee stings.

Africanized bees are a hybrid of African and European honey bees. The Africanized bee and the more familiar European honey bee, which is Georgia's official state insect, look the same. They both are only able to sting once, and there is no difference between the venom produced by each variety.

The difference is that Africanized honey bees are extremely defensive and are likely to defend a much wider area around their nest. They are also very aggressive, and will sting individuals in large numbers.

Africanized bees first appeared in the United States in Texas in 1990. They have since been found in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, and now in Georgia. Experts have been expecting the arrival of the killer bees in Georgia for several years. A breeding population of the bees have been in Florida since 2005.

"Georgia beekeepers are our first and best line of defense against these invaders. They are the ones who will be able to monitor and detect any changes in bee activity," said state Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin in a recent statement.

Now the humor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5JiD9yxL4U

Watch out for them jealous bees.

The bees need to be crossbred with fire ants, to make them mellow, letty. Honeysuckle Roses would be all over the body when they finished with one.

I'd feel safer if they crossbred the Africanized bees with something a little more cuddly then fire ants... something like jackals, hyenas, wolverines, or mountain lions perhaps.

Sock zombies... bring em on!!

A Murder of Crows, Nature, PBS Video
Although cultures around the world may regard the crow as a scavenger, bad omen, or nuisance, this bad reputation might overshadow what could be regarded as the crow's most striking characteristic - its intelligence. New research indicates that crows are among the brightest animals in the world.

I would love to have a crow for a pet but they're too intelligent and I'd bet the crow wouldn't want me for an owner.

I believe I saw that nature doc before (or one like it on PBS).

As a kid, my neighbour had two birds, a big, beautiful, mean African parrot. It could talk a wee bit, but her magpie...found as a fledgling with a broken leg was fascinating. It could talk a blue streak. Mrs. T would let the bird out every morning, it would fly around the yard harass the other birds and then come home and boss the dog around.
If Mrs. T lost her keys or an earring she would look in his favourite hiding places and they would usually be there alone with all kinds of other stuff he'd found, like a gorgeous emerald ring that we could never find the owner of.

I have never met a bird I didn't like. But, there was this one annoying parakeet -

Fascinating bird friend Ceili. BTW: was that a REAL emerald ring?

Yep, 14k gold with four diamonds. I'm not sure what ever happened to it. Mrs. T wasn't really a jewelry wearing type o gal.. Maybe one of the grandkids got it. I have a pair of Moccasins Mr. T made for me. I would like to frame them one day.

I need to be quick with this one Ceili. We use to call our talkative friend the magpie.



LONDON (AP) — Who shot the Emperor?
Nature lovers are mourning the death of a red stag dubbed the Emperor of Exmoor — a nine-foot (2.75 meter) giant reported to be the biggest wild animal in the British Isles. He was found dead soon after his picture appeared in the national press.
His size set him apart from the herd, but also made him prize prey for hunters willing to pay handsomely for such a majestic trophy.
"With a set of antlers such as this deer had, it was basically going to kill him in the end," said Richard Austin, the photographer whose images of the stag appeared in newspapers earlier this month — inevitably accompanied by the word "majestic."
"He was his own worst enemy, I suppose, Austin told the BBC Tuesday. "Growing that big and that huge and that magnificent, he was a definite target."
For the 12 years of his life, the Emperor roamed Exmoor in southwest England, a wild swathe of heath and woodland that has drawn hunters for 1,000 years.

Now the humor. Stag party AKA Bachelor party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIXFfJ-1_Tw

We had a similar situation locally. A celebritized tame deer got killed just for the thrill of it. THe killer was caught in our instance.

Get me to the church is from my favorite musical of all time, letty.