@edgarblythe,
They all have two letters repeated.
@Roberta,
But there is more to it -
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
I'm still staring, edgar.
@Roberta,
You can put the first letter at the end and spell the same word going backwards.
@edgarblythe,
double consonants..
or whatever you call two of the same consonants - probably repeat consonants.
@ossobuco,
Ah, just saw your answer, eb.
Oh, well.
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
You can put the first letter at the end and spell the same word going backwards.
AHA! I made the mistake of trying things by removing letters. Thanks, edgar. This was a good one.
Odd, no humor. In fact, it's sickening:
Twin brothers have been charged with allowing their elderly mother to die on the floor of the home where she had fallen, then leaving the body there for three months while they lived in the house.
Edward Larry Berndt and Edwin Christian Berndt, both 48, are charged with felony murder in the death of Sybil Berndt, 89, whose body was discovered inside the family home at 8402 Glenscot about 4:30 p.m. Monday, according to the Houston Police Department.
Police said Sybil Berndt had been dead since Jan. 13. Her sons said she had fallen three days earlier.
An officer was dispatched to the home after receiving a call to check on Sybil Berndt. After arriving and knocking on the door, one of the twins allowed the officer inside house, which was in "deplorable condition and smelled terribly," according to court records.
The officer found Sybil Berndt’s body lying face-down and badly decomposing on the floor in the front foyer, court records state.
The brothers told investigators they were their mother’s caregivers. According to court records, they told police they were trying to watch the BCS Championship football game on Jan. 10 when their mother came in the room "ranting and raving."
The brothers told police that’s when their mother fell and did not get up. The pair then decided that they did not have the money to provide medical treatment for the woman and decided to leave her on the floor, without providing her with food or water, court records state.
Edwin Berndt told investigators that his mother was conscious for about a day after she fell and that she died two days later, a day after her 89th birthday.
Because they said they also did not have the money for the funeral, they told police they left her on the floor after she died.
dale.lezon at chron.com
The Onion
[VIRGO] You and a man with no arms will be stuck in an elevator together for three and a half hours, but it'll only take you eight minutes to piss him off with insensitive questions about ass-wiping.
(I'm a Virgo)
@edgarblythe,
The brothers said they could not afford a doctor. Turns out, the mother's bank account totalled $700,000.
@dlowan,
I think MERDE!!! might be more apropriate.
@dadpad,
I wonder if the pilot of the bigger plane left a note on the smaller plane's windshield with his insurance information and contact information on it....
@tsarstepan,
tsar, I couldn't get your whale to work.
Another oddity but no humor.
Crucifixion nails found at a burial cave in Jerusalem could be connected to the crucifixion of Jesus 2,000 years ago, an Israeli documentary maker said on Wednesday, according to media reports.
The nails were shown to reporters this week at the premiere of a History Channel documentary series.
Simcha Jacobovici, the filmmaker making the claim, said the nails were found at the burial spot of the Jewish high priest Caiaphas, who turned Jesus over to the Romans, according to the New Testament.
Amazing how a nail can lie in the dirt that long and be found in a recognizable piece.
I had to buy a car battery today. Ho boy have they gone up. I spent over a hundred dollars getting Auto Zone's cheap one.
.(AP) LONDON (AP) — In life, Pall Arason sought attention. In death, he is getting it: The 95-year-old Icelander's pickled penis will be the main attraction in one of his country's most bizarre museums.
Sigurdur Hjartarson, who runs the Phallological Museum in the tiny Icelandic fishing town of Husavik, said Arason's organ will help round out the unusual institution's extensive collection of phalluses from whales, seals, bears and other mammals.
Several people had pledged their penises over the years — including an American, a Briton, and a German — but Arason's was the first to be successfully donated, Hjartarson said.
"I have just been waiting for this guy for 15 years," he told The Associated Press in a brief telephone interview.
Hjartarson's museum started in Reykjavik but has since moved to Husavik, a small community better known for its whale watching. The Phallological Museum is an important part of the region's tourist industry, bringing in thousands of visitors every summer.
Highlights of the museum's collection include a 170-centimeter (67-inch) sperm whale penis preserved in formaldehyde, lampshades made from bull testicles and what the museum described as an "unusually big" penis bone from a Canadian walrus.
Hjartarson, 69, said his interest in what he calls "phallology" began when, as a youngster in rural Iceland, he was given a whip made from a bull's penis to help him herd cattle. Later, when he worked at a school near a whaling station, colleagues brought him whale penises as gifts.
"That was how it started. I opened this museum 15 years ago with 62 specimens," he said. Now, with the addition of Arason's organ, he has 276, many suspended in formaldehyde or dried and mounted on the walls.
Photos posted to the museum's website show small army of ghostly, whitish penises stuffed into jars, tall glass cylinders and large aquariums. There are sculptures, molds and other penis-related craft items. Outside, the museum has a large tree trunk carved into the shape of an erect phallus.
Most items are donations from friends and well-wishers, people listed on the museum's website as "honorary members."
Arason was described by Hjartarson as a former tourism worker who died Jan. 5 in the nearby town of Akureyri. Thorvaldur Ingvarsson, the medical director of Akureyri's hospital, didn't give a cause of death but said the specimen was removed from the body under the supervision of a doctor.
The phallus was officially installed in a ceremony last week, Hjartarson said, adding that he saw nothing wrong with the idea of having someone donate their penis to be shown off to the public.
"People are always donating some organ after they died," he said. "It's no more remarkable to donate a penis than it is to donate an organ like a kidney."
