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• Why so many people in China are becoming mermaids (CNN)

“I was searching worldwide to get a swimmable tail. There weren’t many nice options – they are mainly decorative costumes for kids and not functional for mermaid diving. Luckily, I did find a very good ‘merfin’ that was powerful enough to move and swim in. Then I used Lycra fabric to design my first series of mermaid tails,” says Li.

• Illusions of Time, by Vsauce (YouTube)
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• One More Time (2015) (IMDB)

Bidens and Carters

Dennis’ Slab Hole

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  My course is coming along faster than I am 😃. But it’s nice to have a faithful rehab partner, man’s best friend.

• Fly Me To The Moon – Frank Sinatra (YouTube)

• Damian Lewis announces wife’s death (Twitter)

  I’m heartbroken to announce that after an heroic battle with cancer, the beautiful and mighty woman that is Helen McCrory has died peacefuly at home, surrounded by a wave of love from friends and family. She died as she lived. Fearlessly. God we love her and know how lucky we are to have had her in our lives. She blazed so brightly. Go now, Little One, into the air, and thank you.

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• Trouble With Transporters, by CGP Grey (YouTube)
• The 1919 Influenza Blues (YouTube)

It was nineteen hundred and nineteen; Men and women were dying, With the stuff that the doctor called the flu. People were dying everywhere, Death was creepin’ all through the air, And the groans of the rich sure was sad.

(CHORUS:) Well it was God’s almight plan, He was judging this old land, North and south, east and west, It can be seen, It killed the rich, killed the poor, It’s gonna kill just a little more, If you don’t turn away from the shame.

Down in Memphis, Tennessee, The doctor said it soon would be, In a few days influenza would be controlled. Doctor sure man he got had, Sent the doctors all home to bed, And the nurses all broke out with the same. This song was originally posted on protestsonglyrics.net (CHORUS)

Influenza is the kind of disease, Makes you weak down to your knees, Carries a fever everybody surely dreads, Packs a pain in every bone, In a few days, you are gone. To that hole in the ground called your grave.

(CHORUS)

• Stand Up Guys (2012) (IMDB)

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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

– Heraclitus

• Moving the Indiana Bell Central Office (YouTube)
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• Ep. 71 – Quantification of a Qualitative Question, when Dennis got run over by a motorcycle
• Close-Up of Dennis’ polyps
• Ep. 2 - That’s not my arm!

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• El ministerio del tiempo – The Ministry of Time (Wikipedia)
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• Straight Dope on the IPod’s Birth (Wired)

The ultimate hub, Chieco figured, would be a spaceship. You could leave the spaceship in a smaller vessel, a pod, but you’d have to return to the mother ship to refuel and get food. Then Chieco was shown a prototype iPod, with its stark white plastic front.

The ultimate hub, Chieco figured, would be a spaceship. You could leave the spaceship in a smaller vessel, a pod, but you’d have to return to the mother ship to refuel and get food. Then Chieco was shown a prototype iPod, with its stark white plastic front.

• HAL 9000 – Origin of the name (Wikipedia)

…about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution … As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.

• Tiger Woods is awake and recovering from surgery after serious accident (CNN)

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There is a movie that came out in 1952 called “Pony Soldier,” and in the movie, the term “Pony Soldier” is used to refer to a Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who is also the protagonist of the film. The term also appeared in “Hondo,” a John Wayne film that came out in 1953. Other than that, “pony soldier” is an esoteric term that isn’t used much by English-speaking communities.

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• The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen (Amazon)

• Go rate us on Apple Podcasts!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Trump stole model of Air Force One (Politico)

While in office, Trump tried to repaint Air Force One red, white and blue. Like a lot of his worst ideas, that never happened, but he did have a model of the plane that he kept in the Oval Office and that often appeared in official photos with world leaders. He apparently really liked the souvenir, because instead of leaving it behind for Biden, Trump packed it up and brought it down to Mar-a-Lago, where it’s now prominently displayed on a coffee table in the lobby.

• Biden to put focus on coronavirus relief at Wisconsin town hall event (The Hill)

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• I’m from Marjorie Taylor Greene’s District and I would like to say something (Twitter)
• Trae Crowder, the guy Erik referenced
• Bryan Cranston in The X-Files - Drive (YouTube)
• Vince Gilligan on the X-Files episode “Drive” starring Bryan Cranston (YouTube)
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• Murray Head - Say It Ain’t So Joe (YouTube)

Say it ain’t so, Joe please

Say it ain’t so

I’m sure they’re telling us lies Joe please tell us it ain’t so

They told us that our hero has played his TRUMP card

He doesn’t know how to go on

We’re clinging to his charm and determined smile

But the good old days are gone

The image and the empire may be falling apart

The money has gotten scarce

One man’s word held the country together

But the truth is getting fierce

Say it ain’t so, Joe please

Say it ain’t so

We pinned our hopes on you Joe and they’re ruining our show

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• Incredible National Anthem Before Bills vs. Chiefs | AFC Championship | Brandon Niederauer (YouTube)
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Joe and Jill

Went up The Hill

To take a sacred oath.

Joe gave a speech,

Without naming the impeached,

And heralded the return of Truth.

• Midnight Sky (Netflix)
• Mike and Karen Pence are homeless and appear to be couch surfing their way through Indiana (Business Insider)
• 30,573 lies during Trump’s presidency (Washington Post)

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• Cartoon by Deligne
• Covfefe (Wikipedia)
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• Kellyanne Conway to Receive New Federal Post Appointment (Conservative Journal Review)

  On Tuesday, a list of new appointments was published by the White House.

  On that list was Kellyanne Conway, who is now going to be sitting on the Board of Visitors to the United States Air Force Academy.

  This is not an appointment that is being received very well.

  For instance, former Air Force Lieutenant Kathryn Smith stated that she was “really disappointed that the president has selected someone who doesn’t have the gravitas to deal with the really important issues with board should be dealing with.

• BREAKING: Giuliani has been air-lifted to Walter Reed & Sons Piano Repair (Twitter)

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• Perfect Crime, longest running play (Wikipedia)

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• What Makes Joe Run (Time)
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• Stairway to Heaven (Strong Songs)
• Greg Norman has one word for revealing viral beach photo (New York Post)
• "Well That Was Weird As Shit!” (Twitter)
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• Tiger Woods Sunday Flash Interview 2020 The Masters Tournament - Round 4 (YouTube)

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• All-American: Tiger Woods (Apple Podcasts)

  Tiger Woods is one of America’s most awe-inspiring icons. He’s been world-famous for decades and his story has many chapters: a phenom’s rise, a shocking fall from grace, and debatably the greatest sports comeback of all time. But few people have really gotten to know Tiger Woods - it’s been largely left to the media to define who he is. On this season of All-American, Jordan Bell and journalist Albert Chen revisit Tiger’s journey to find out what the media got right, and what it didn’t.

• Botched restoration of Spanish statue turns it into ‘The Potato Head of Palencia’ (New York Post)

• David Spade’s Stories About His Friend Chris Farley on the Stern Show (YouTube)

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• The image we were laughing at:

• Top Grade Aggregates
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• Jon Rahm skips to a hole-in-one on No. 16 | Masters Tuesday (YouTube)
• New Memoir Tells Tale Of 1967 Beer Run To Vietnam (WBUR)

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• Pennsylvania bakery’s election-themed ‘cookie poll’ is now showing clear front-runner (Fox News)

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• The Matrix 4 (Wikipedia)
• Trump Tweeted Empty Book from 60 Minutes (Twitter)

Three Screws Riddle ends on January 1, 2021.

The Finished Shed

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• batten (Merriam Websters)

  1 a: to grow fat

  1 b: to feed gluttonously

  2: to grow prosperous especially at the expense of another – usually used with on

• Banking Explained – Money and Credit (YouTube)

• You’ve Been Trumped Too: Documentary that Trump ‘doesn’t want you to see’ to be released worldwide (Independent)

• Free-rider problem (WIkipedia)

• How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (NYTimes)

• 1860 United States presidential election (Wikipedia)

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• Long-Concealed Records Show Trump’s Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance (NY Times)
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• AFI’s 100 Years…100 Heroes & Villains (Wikipedia)
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• Original “horrible experiment” tweet (Twitter)
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• Descript – podcast editing software (Descript)
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• Damian Lewis Interview (YouTube)
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• was just testing some new set material and unfortunately there’s an actual cricket in my house (@itsnashflynn on Twitter)
• How Do Crickets Make Music? (Thought Co.)
• Corinthians 14:34-35 (Bible Gateway)

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

• Temple (eyeglasses) (Wikipedia)
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• Kevin James YouTube Channel (YouTube)
• What Was I Going To Say? | Kevin James Short Film (YouTube)
• Joaquin Phoenix full interview on David Letterman (YouTube)
• Joaquin Phoenix: A three-decade career filled with dark, complicated characters (60 Minutes)
• Erik’s Viral Tweet (Twitter)
• Detroit Lions blow 17-point fourth-quarter lead to lose to Bears 27-23: Live updates recap (Michigan Live)

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• Trump’s Deceptive Comparison of the Coronavirus to the Flu (FactCheck.org)
• Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ (The Atlantic)
• Obama – Romney tweet (Twitter)

Obama is lucky he ran against @MittRomney, a man with very little talent or political skill, as opposed to someone who knows how to fight and win!

• The Reason Barns are Painted Red Goes all the way Back to the Cosmos (Vintage News)
• At least 3 teachers have died from Covid-19 complications in recent weeks (CNN)
• Gender Reveal Party (Wikipedia)
• El Dorado Fire – started by gender reveal party (Wikipedia)
• Andy Kaufman (Wikipedia)

Dennis’ Shed Project

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• Joaquin Phoenix as Max in Space Camp (YouTube)
• Elizabeth Moen debuts song criticizing Gov. Kim Reynolds’ disconnection from small-town Iowans (Little Village)
• Homeland (Wikipedia)
• Steve McQueen Scene | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (YouTube)
• Brian Cox on Bill Maher (YouTube)
• Unforgiven (Wikipedia)
• Chadwick Boseman Gets Emotional About Black Panther’s Cultural Impact (YouTube) – Have a tissue handy! 😭
• Warren Zevon (Wikipedia)
• Warren Zevon - His Last David Letterman Show on October 30, 2002 - Part 1/4 (YouTube)
• Terry Fox (Wikipedia)
• Terry Fox video (Twitter)

On this day, 20 years ago, Terry Fox ended the Marathon of Hope. After 143 days and 5,373 kilometres, the 21-year-old made the difficult decision to end his marathon across Canada after cancer spread to his lungs.

• Lincoln Project video about RNC Ratings (YouTube)

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• In recordings, Trump’s sister says he ‘has no principles’ (ABC News)
• 57 Percent of Republicans Think Number of U.S. Deaths From Coronavirus Has Been ‘Acceptable’ (CBS News)
• Connected (Netflix)
• Scottie Scheffler’s caddie carted off at The Northern Trust with lower leg injury (MSN)
• DeChambeau’s “Sound Travels” (Twitter)
• Just like us: Tiger and Rory play 18 and then grab a burger (AP News)
• GOP announces no new 2020 platform, party to ‘enthusiastically support’ Trump agenda (Fox News)
• Irresistible (IMDB)
• Coastline Paradox (Wikipedia)
• Help, from Yesterday (YouTube)

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• Democratic National Convention: Billy Porter, Stephen Stills’ performance close out Day 1 of DNC (YouTube)
• The “Rubio” Report (Marco Rubio)
• Billy Porter - “For What It’s Worth” with Stephen Stills - 2020 Democratic National Convention (YouTube)
• Sentimental Journey (song) (Wikipedia)
• In China, they never eat chili (Wikipedia)
• Hanna (film) (Wikipedia)

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• Good Morning Captain Kangaroo, from 1976 (YouTube)
• Rosy Retrospection (Wikipedia)

Rosy retrospection refers to the psychological phenomenon of people sometimes judging the past disproportionately more positively than they judge the present. The Romans occasionally referred to this phenomenon with the Latin phrase “memoria praeteritorum bonorum”, which translates into English roughly as “the past is always well remembered”. Rosy retrospection is very closely related to the concept of nostalgia. The difference between the terms is that rosy retrospection is a cognitive bias, whereas the broader phenomenon of nostalgia is not necessarily based on a biased perspective.

• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker (Amazon)
• Manchester by the Sea (Wikipedia)
• Fences (Wikipedia)
• How the Media Could Get the Election Story Wrong (NY Times)

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• Idler Riverboat
• Never Is Now 2019 | ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen (YouTube)
• Who is America? (Wikipedia)
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• I Kill Giants (IMDB)
• A Monster Calls (IMDB)
• Jason and The Argonauts (1963), full movie, (YouTube)
• The Grey (2011) (IMDB)
• Cold Pursuit (2019) (IMDB)
• This Factory-Built ’64 Hemi Wagon Really Happened! (HotRod)
• Chitina, Alaska (Wikipedia)
• Highway Angler, Fishing Alaska’s Road System (Amazon)
• Déjà vu (YouTube)
• Niagara Falls tour boats highlight US and Canada’s stark Covid-19 divide (The Guardian)

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• Trump Interview with Chris Wallace (YouTube)
• I took a closer look at the cognitive test Trump claims to have aced (The Guardian)
• Spontaneous Human Combustion (Wikipedia)
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• Hamilton Movie (Disney Plus)

onomonopoeia: : the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss), also : a word formed by onomatopoeia (Merriam-Webster)

• Forsaken (Wikipedia)
• Rock throwing scene in Braveheart (YouTube)
• Black Mirror (Wikipedia)
• The Entire History of You – Black Mirror episode (Wikipedia)
• Watch Black Mirror (Netflix)
• TV Dinner By The Pool reference (AZ Lyrics)

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• Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travelers, but no one came (Mashable)
• The Far Side – New Stuff (The Far Side)
• Bad Taxidermy 👀 MUST SEE 🤣
• Another Earth (Wikipedia)
• Ford v Ferrari (Wikipedia)
• Paul McCartney as Neil Young Wannabe (YouTube)
• Brown Shoes Don’t Make It – The Mothers of Invention (Metro Lyrics) – Dennis’ outro song

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Owner: Well, he’s…he’s, ah…probably pining for the fjords.

Mr. Praline: PININ’ for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?

Owner: The Norwegian Blue prefers keepin’ on it’s back! Remarkable bird, id’nit, squire? Lovely plumage!

Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.

(pause)

Owner: Well, o’course it was nailed there! If I hadn’t nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!

Mr. Praline: “VOOM”?!? Mate, this bird wouldn’t “voom” if you put four million volts through it! ‘E’s bleedin’ demised!

Owner: No no! 'E’s pining!

Mr. Praline: ‘E’s not pinin’! 'E’s passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E’s expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed 'im to the perch 'e’d be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E’s off the twig! 'E’s kicked the bucket, 'e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

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COLOUR

Spanish sunset.

NOSE

Raisin, dates and figs dominate whilst sultana and toffee apples add texture and depth. The weight of flavour from the raisins is dark and rich with great viscosity. Dry ginger and soft cinnamon hint at the edges the edges. Dark chocolate is majestic, vanilla sweetness lingers in the background.

PALATE

Heavy and sumptuous. A rich fruit cake of raisin, dates and figs, apples, sultanas, orange then ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and hints of clove. Oak notes are like velvet, soft and chic.

FINISH

Silky smooth with a long and full finish.

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Douglas Adams was asked many times why he chose the number 42. Many theories were proposed, including that 42 is 101010 in binary code, that light refracts through a water surface by 42 degrees to create a rainbow, that light requires 10−42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton. Adams rejected them all. On 3 November 1993, he gave this answer on alt.fan.douglas-adams:

The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘42 will do’ I typed it out. End of story.

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Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth You pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigarette The wall-to-wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget Oh oh, oh, oh, you’re a rock ‘n’ roll suicide

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n. A person who only ventures outside their room for compulsory activity or food.

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Un faro quieto, nada sería Guía mientras no deje de girar No es la luz, lo que importa en verdad Son los doce segundos de oscuridad Doce segundos de oscuridad

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• Did a Man Die Demonstrating a Window’s Strength? (Snopes)

It isn’t often we have occasion to employ the term “accidental self-defenestration” in an article, but that phrase certainly applies to the case of Garry Hoy, a 38-year-old lawyer with the Toronto law firm of Holden Day Wilson, who on 9 July 1993 plunged to his death from the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower building at TD Centre in front of several horrified witnesses:

Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building’s windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously had conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lauwers, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was “one of the best and brightest” members of the 200-man association.

• Irish Weather Report (YouTube)
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• The Case of Al Franken (The New Yorker)

Last month, in Minneapolis, I climbed the stairs of a row house to find Al Franken, Minnesota’s disgraced former senator, wandering around in jeans and stocking feet. It was a sunny day, but the shades were mostly drawn. Takeout containers of hummus and carrot sticks were set out on the kitchen table. His wife, Franni Bryson, was stuck in their apartment in Washington, D.C., with a cold, and he had evidently done the best he could to be hospitable. But the place felt like the kind of man cave where someone hides out from the world, which is more or less what Franken has been doing since he resigned, in December, 2017, amid accusations of sexual impropriety.

• Matt Damon #MeToo Statement (YouTube)
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• Joker: Joaquin Phoenix Lost 23 Kgs, Practiced the Laugh For ‘An Uncomfortable Amount of Time’ (News 18)
• Jared Leto Went Really Method With His Dallas Buyers Club Beauty Routine (The Cut)

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According to the documentary History of Rock ‘n’ Roll, King had no intention of recording the song himself. King had written it for the Drifters, who passed on recording it. After the “Spanish Harlem” recording session in 1960, King had some studio time left over. The session’s producers, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, asked if he had any more songs. King played it on the piano for them. They liked it and called the studio musicians back in to record it.

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He is best known for writing the Millennium trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, starting in 2005, after the author died suddenly of a heart attack. The trilogy was adapted as four motion pictures in Sweden and the U.S. (for the first book only).

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A proboscis /proʊˈbɒsɪs/ is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate. In invertebrates, the term usually refers to tubular mouthparts used for feeding and sucking. In vertebrates, a proboscis is an elongated nose or snout.

• Ad Astra (Trailer) (YouTube)
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• Uncanny valley (Wikipedia)

In aesthetics, the uncanny valley is a hypothesized relationship between the degree of an object’s resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to such an object. The concept of the uncanny valley suggests that humanoid objects which imperfectly resemble actual human beings provoke uncanny or strangely familiar feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers. Valley denotes a dip in the human observer’s affinity for the replica, a relation that otherwise increases with the replica’s human likeness.

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• Original manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ unrolled (YouTube)
• Donald Trump and Benito Mussolini: Striking Parallels (The HyperTexts)

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• Bohemian Rhapsody – press conference scene (YouTube)
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Quantitative analysis utilizing a newly introduced parameter to assess the regularity of vocal vibrato corroborated its perceptually irregular nature, suggesting that vibrato (ir)regularity is a distinctive feature of the singing voice. Imitation of subharmonic phonation samples by a professional rock singer, documented by endoscopic high-speed video at 4,132 frames per second, revealed a 3:1 frequency locked vibratory pattern of vocal folds and ventricular folds.

• Good Vibrations Episode: Ep. 11 - Work the Body, Grow the Mind
• SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback (Cornell University)

In general, human speech is jammed by giving back to the speakers their own utterances at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds. This effect can disturb people without any physical discomfort, and disappears immediately by stop speaking. Furthermore, this effect does not involve anyone but the speaker. We utilize this phenomenon and implemented two prototype versions by combining a direction-sensitive microphone and a direction-sensitive speaker, enabling the speech of a specific person to be disturbed. We discuss practical application scenarios of the system, such as facilitating and controlling discussions.

• Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) (Wikipedia)
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A thorough shower with soap helps remove perspiration, body oils, cosmetics and traces of urine and fecal matter on the body. Sending those substances down the shower drain goes a long way toward reducing the “yuck factor” for everyone who shares the pool, but there is much more to consider.

The pre-swim shower helps minimize the irritating, smelly substances formed in pool water when impurities introduced on the bodies of swimmers combine with chlorine. Many people identify that smell as the smell of chlorine. The survey found 38 percent of people believe the characteristic chemical odor of some swimming pools in an indicator of a clean pool. In fact, that stringent odor is not from chlorine, but from irritants produced when chlorine reacts with impurities.

• Recreational Water Illnesses (CDC)
• Lexicon Valley Podcast (Slate)
• Deadwood: The Movie (Wikipedia)
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• Deadwood: The Movie (HBO)
• Deadwood and the English Language (PDF) (Digital Commons)

If, as seems demonstrable, words like prick, cunt, shit, fuck, and cocksucker would have been in common usage in the time andplace in which Deadwood is set, then, like any words, in form and frequency their expression will be governed by the personality of a given character, imagined by the author with whatever imperfection, as the character is shaped and tested in the crucible of experience.

• Talk Pretty – The linguistic brilliance of HBO’s Deadwood (Slate)

Deadwood’s characters utter long, serpentine sentences, in diction that—depending on the speaker—can ascend to courtly abstraction or sink to the ripest vulgarity. Newspaperman Merrick (Jeffrey Jones), distraught over Hickok’s death and disgusted with McCall’s acquittal, offers a sarcastic toast: “Should it ever be your misfortune, gentlemen, or mine, to need to kill a man, then let us toast, together, the possibility that our trials be held in this camp.”

• Dawson’s Creek (Wikipedia)

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• Surrogate Angels of Death – What to make of the First Lady holding the motherless child and youngest survivor of the El Paso massacre (The Cut)

Imagine this: A shooter has entered a public place, where you are walking with your family. You have but a minute to realize you can save your 2-month-old by using your own body to shield him from the bullets raining down around you. Mere days later, your baby, the youngest survivor of the El Paso massacre, will appear on television with the very man who inspired the terrorist who killed both you and your husband. A photograph is taken, for posterity.

• Bill Maher Monologue (YouTube)
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• TED Talk: Fake videos of real people – and how to spot them | Supasorn Suwajanakorn (YouTube)
• Bad Lip Reading: Trump In Asia (YouTube)

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• Are all the ants as heavy as all the humans? (BBC) SPOILER: NO.
• The Bugs Of The World Could Squish Us All (Five Thirty Eight)

“There’s an estimated 10 quintillion insects on the globe,” said Julie Peterson, professor of entomology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “That’s 10 with 18 zeros after it, and that’s just insects. That’s not counting other arthropods like spiders and mites.” Insects — along with ticks, centipedes, spiders and all the other land-dwelling creepy-crawlies that we colloquially call “bugs” — probably represent as much as 80 percent of the species on this planet. In contrast, humans are a single species, made up of (as of this writing) 7,386,922,190 individuals.

• Dennis’ Termite Video (YouTube)
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• Impossible Foods, makers of the Impossible Burger (Wikipedia) – Erik was wrong, they are made from plants (so far).
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• Google Maps Street View from square in Slovenia (Google Maps)

• Gross footage of Jeff Goldblum in The Fly (YouTube)

• Will Baby Birds Be Rejected by Their Mother If You Handle Them? (Snopes) SPOILER: NO.

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• Cudcast, an LGBT chat show, is an actual podcast already.

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• Making of Forrest Gump Ping-Pong Scenes (YouTube)
• Bad Lip Reading Channel (YouTube)
• Exclusive: The Bad Lip Reader Speaks (Rolling Stone)
• Bad Lip Reading: Bernie & Hillary (YouTube)
• Bad Lip Reading: Romney & Obama (YouTube)
• Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio (YouTube)

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• Sadly, our research team was unable to find Dennis’ published essay in US Catholic Magazine
• George Bush: ‘God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq’ (The Guardian)
• “Jewish Child”? “Muslim Child”? “Christian Child”? (Richard Dawkins Foundation)

My oft-repeated (some might say too oft) point about the absurdity – indeed wickedness – of labelling children with the religion of their parents (“Would you speak of a ‘Postmodernist child’, or a ‘Gramscian Marxist child’?”) is usually effective. People nearly always get the point immediately, although whether their future consciousness is raised to the point of actually wincing, as I do, whenever they hear ‘Catholic child’ or ‘Muslim child’ is another matter.

• Honduras Lost City of the Monkey God Discovered (The Guardian)

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• Right to be forgotten (Wikipedia)

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• Smaug’s Jewel (The Physical Educator)

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• What’s so funny about Jerry Lewis? (Rolling Stone)

  It seems that Jerry categorically refuses to wear a pair of socks more than once. Every morning, Jerry receives a new pair of socks. He wears them all day and then throws them out. Jerry Lewis may well spend $5,000 a year on socks alone.

• Infinitus annorum braccas (Google Translate)

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• “My kingdom for a horse” (Wikipedia)

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• Trump faces giant penis mowed into field near airport where he lands for UK state visit, in climate change protest (The Independent)

• Monty Python: “The Funniest Joke In The World” (YouTube)

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• 8 US States Have Made Happy Hour Illegal (Spoon University)
• How Golf Explains Trump. Seriously. (Vox)
• Commander in Cheat, How Golf Explains Trump, by Rick Reilly (Amazon)

• Let’s remember the time Donald Trump cashed a 13¢ check sent to him as a prank (Spinter)
• The History Behind the Donald Trump “Small Hands” Insult (ABC News)
• Trump did not have his hands photoshopped bigger (Snopes)
• Angola Convict Rodeo
• CBS Sunday Morning story about the Convict Rodeo (YouTube)
• Monkeys Riding Dogs Herding Sheep (YouTube)
• Imperdible (SpanishDict)
• Kansas Supreme Court: Abortion now a constitutional right in state (KSNT)

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• Sagardotegi - the type of cider house in the Basque Country (Wikipedia)
• The Long Pour: Sidra de Asturias

  The long pour is serious stuff for sidra enthusiasts, and there are certain rules to achieving the perfect long pour. For starters, the glass is held with the thumb and forefinger, with the middle finger supporting the bottom of the glass (and the ring and pinky finger tucked away in the palm of the hand). The arm holding the glass must be stretched down straight with the glass held at the center of the body. The arm holding the bottle must be stretched straight and high above the head. When the bottle is tipped and the cider is poured, the stream of cider must find the glass while the glass stays still. It’s the responsibility of the cider-pourer to ensure that the cider foams.

• Great video shot by an American demonstrating the Basque cider house experience (YouTube)
• International Animal Sounds (ESL)
• Chicken Dance (YouTube)
• Hokey Pokey (Wikipedia)
• The Ambitious Origins of the Hokey Pokey (Mental Floss)
• Whirling Dervishes (Wikipedia)
• Nun (2017) (IMDB)
• How did they get Mr. Ed to talk? (The Straight Dope)

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• List of Disney Parks – Spoiler: there are 6 of them. (Wikipedia)
• Disneyland Paris (Disney)
• FastPass (Wikipedia)
• Cutest Babies Seeing for the First Time Compilation (YouTube)
• childrensjoy.com is available for $3,215 at Hover
• Colonel Sanders kisses with Aunt Jemima (YouTube)
• Colonel Sanders lifts Aunt Jemima (YouTube)
• The riddle of experience vs. memory, TED Talk by Daniel Kahneman (YouTube)
• French Bathrooms (Paris Perfect)
• That “Five Monkey’s Experiment” Never Happened (Throwcase)
• Happy Hour Patreon (Patreon) 💰💰💰
• First Black Hole Image (Time)
• Hawking Radiation (Wikipedia)

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• Pale Blue Dot photo (Wikipedia)
• Pale Blue Dot book (Wikipedia)

“We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives.

The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there — on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light . . .

To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

— Carl Sagan, speech at Cornell University, October 13, 1994

• There are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible NCAA basketball tournament brackets.
• Overview Effect (Wikipedia)
• Spaceship Earth (Wikipedia)
• The Habitat podcast (Gimlet Media)
• Christina Koch (NASA)
• It costs about $20 to get a gram into low earth orbit. (StackExchange)
• French Quarter Festival
• Money Buys Happiness Up To $70,000 / year (Time)
• How Fast Would You Have to Go To Make A Red Light Look Green? Relativistic Doppler Effect – Spoiler: 54,900 km/s (Science Notes)
• MacKenzie Bezos $1.1 billion divorce settlement (CCN)
• Cindy Lou Who (Suess Wikia)
• Anyhoo (Merriam-Webster)

I’m assuming Pelosi isn’t a Jewish name, right? It sounds Italian but I’m bad that way. Anyhoo … give me a shout back and let’s get the dialogue going!!— Rob Long, National Review, 20 Nov. 2006

Anyhoo. These divers saved a shark.— Kathie Lee Gifford, NBC News Transcripts, 4 Mar. 2010

… moving with the animated dash peculiar to the quickie films of the time, snapping such lines as “Say, what’s the big idea, anyhoo?”— Diane Werts, Newsday, 21 July 1991

Speaking of blonds with ambition, check out the latest from Tara Reid. You remember her—party girl, sometimes does a little acting. Anywho, she’s looking into other ventures, just like Miss Paris H.— Jan Uebelherr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2008

• Law of large numbers (Wikipedia)

• Mandela Effect, a phenomenon of common false memories, like “Fly my pretties! Fly!” (Wikipedia)

• Misremembered “Fly my pretties” clip (YouTube)

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• Bacchanalia (Wikipedia)
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• Jack White and Jack Black (Wikipedia)

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• The Ricky Gervais Show (Wikipedia)

• The Ricky Gervais Show, Season 1, Episode 1 (YouTube)

• Three Identical Strangers (Wikipedia)

• What Twins Can Tell Us About Who We Are (Hidden Brain Podcast)

• How to play together online? (Stack Exchange)

• The Longest Shortest Time

• Michigan State defeats LSU in Sweet 16, 80-63 (NOLA)

• Amazon Basics

• Joseph Bathanti, North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2012-2014 (Wikipedia)

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• Mel Blanc car accident (Wikipedia)
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• Hold My Beer (Know Your Meme)
• Jackass - Meat stuffed underwear over alligators (YouTube)
• Black Knight (Monty Python) (Wikipedia)
• Tab Benoit
• Jake Kershaw
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film) (Wikipedia)
• Christina Hammock Koch NASA Astronaut (NASA)
• Neoclassical Architecture (Wikipedia)
• The Quarrymen (Wikipedia)
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• Wildflowers (Tom Petty album) (Wikipedia)
• Morra (game) (Wikipedia)

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• Billy Bookcase (IKEA)
• IKEA Effect (Wikipedia)
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• I Feel Pretty (IMDB)
• Jared Ruston, Billy, from Big (IMDB)
• Airy Soho love featured in Big sells for $9.75M
• Minecraft
• Four Yorkshiremen Sketch (again)
• Michael Cohen SNL Cold Open (YouTube)
• “As I have always said, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about", Roger Stone (NYT)

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Links

• Ann Ivory Studios
• Jesus Fresco Restoration (Wikipedia)
• Life of Brian Debate, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (YouTube)
• Corpsing (Wikipedia)
• The Four Yorkshiremen, Monty Python Sketch (YouTube)
• First and Second Councils of Nicaea (Wikipedia)
• Moonstruck Scene (YouTube)

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