Congrats PA & KY, we made the headline!

From Intercourse, Pa., to Monkey’s Eyebrow, Ky., how U.S. places got their names

At least we (KY) got mentioned in the article. Barely. :eyebrow:

Intercourse is fuckin' simple, but Monkey's eyebrow is kinky. :lol:

:thumbsup:

I *love* the dovetail vise / bench featured on the cover in the lower left hand corner. And the spokeshave. And the stick welder. And I'm not done with the pdf yet. Thanks for this post Jon!

So are you going to buy the book from this spammer?

I don't think they sell a book. It's a free ebook with links to the projects.

OK, you're right. The first time I downloaded the PDF none of the links worked, not even the buy the book link. I tried again and found it would link to the site, then a daisy chain of links to a particular item build.

Idioms from around the world

Hey, don't throw a chicken at yourself, click the link, you might end up banging your butt on the ground. And I ain't hanging noodles on your ears, either. Even if I do live in the butt of the wolf.

Them feriners talks funny.

Wonder how Wolf feels about that?:sweat:

I thought being full of soup was to be silly, not fat

A Look at Life Inside a 1969 Hippie Tree House Village in Hawaii ***(NSFW)***

Or:

Boobs, Beards, Bushes, Babies, (& Blazo)

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Not exactly "cool", but interesting.

Using the very late 1940's and very early 50's, the "inflation calculator" doesn't work for my memory of:
gas: ($0.25/gal), cigarettes ($0.25/pack), a 2-bedroom suburban ranch-style house ($8,000), or a car ($3,000/Kaiser sedan)

Gas, housing, and cars are still essential for suburban living, but I don't understand how people can afford cigarettes today.

People shouldn't want cigarettes anyway.

Don't have children. :haha:

That works out well.

A wooden space shuttle??

A wooden space shuttle.

Here's something interesting, but can be very time consuming, depending on your interest level. It's a website with a US state by state list of 1,982 abandoned airports, many of them military, with old and new photographs of the facilities and planes.

I've been to that site numerous times. My uncle Joe's old airport has a big entry. No direct link to Zahn's Airport. You have to search for the name in the page.

He owned an apple orchard on Long Island not too far from NYC, and in 1936 he put in an airstrip in his orchard. It got more and more popular, and he wound up expanding the place and basically cutting down the whole orchard. He sold it in the 1950's but it kept his name. At one point, it was the busiest private airport in the US. It closed in 1980.

I've got a vague memory of visiting it as a kid. Just going to the parking lot and looking at a hangar with my uncle's name on the roof. I've got more vivid memories of visiting my aunt Emma and uncle Joe at their house on the water in Long Island. They had a big boat in a canal behind their house, and they took us out on the water for the day one time. He did well financially, turning that orchard outside NYC into an airport and selling it.


It's a shopping mall or industrial park now, but I understand there's a hunk of concrete behind one of the stores that was part of one of the old hangers.

That's my uncle on the right.
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and James Gandolfini in the plane?

' see, there's some gobbalgoo on the plane right here, joey '

Apparently, Terrence Howard is batshit insane...:(

I have a few links for you today:

The Dark Side Of Funny: Growing Up In George Carlin's Shadow

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Have you wondered whatever happened to Joe Pesci?

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A pretty decent interview with Lemmy Kilmister, of Motörhead. I say it's a decent interview, because, well, how many Lemmy interviews have you read?

~Lemmy

Hey, remember The Time A Tanker Saved A Fighter That Was Falling Apart Over The Atlantic, by towing it 160 miles to Gander, Newfoundland using the refueling boom?

That's nuts. But so is air to air refueling, for that matter. :unsure:

Foxtrot Alpha?

More like. Oscar Hotel Hotel Sierra India Tango!!!

FIFY

A Perfect Murder in the French Alps

A fairly long, very interesting, real-life murder mystery.

The War Racket
 

War Is A Racket by Major General Smedley Butler

Smedley Darlington Butler
•Born: West Chester, Pa., July 30, 1881
•Educated: Haverford School
•Married: Ethel C. Peters, of Philadelphia, June 30, 1905
•Awarded two congressional medals of honor:
1.capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914
2.capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917
•Distinguished service medal, 1919
•Major General - United States Marine Corps
•Retired Oct. 1, 1931
•On leave of absence to act as director of Dept. of Safety, Philadelphia, 1932
•Lecturer -- 1930's
•Republican Candidate for Senate, 1932
•Died at Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, June 21, 1940
•For more information about Major General Butler, contact the United States Marine Corps.

Chapter 1: War Is A Racket
Chapter 2: Who Makes The Profits?
Chapter 3: Who Pays The Bills?
Chapter 4: How To Smash This Racket!
Chapter 5: To Hell With War!

Major General Butler writes about primarily WW I, the war to end all wars, and it's costs not only in blood and treasure, but the fucked up society it leaves behind.

NASA has just released ~8400 re-scanned/remastered hi-res Apollo-era photos through Flickr, with more to come.

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I should think spending a zillion dollars to send those guys as representatives of the US, they could have bought them a prettier truck. :p:

War is a Racket was a really interesting find, bruce. As was It’s All About Scale. That blew my mind.

It's scary that was written about 80 years ago and it hasn't changed, except, like you say, the size of the numbers.

In recent years with a full time military and drones/robots, the average citizen is far removed from the battles. The costs in humans is only late night ads for wounded warriors, unless some kid from your neighborhood gets hurt. Even then, it's only physical hurts, the mental hurts aren't talked about unless a tragedy happens.

So the contractors who own the congress critters, keep raping the coffers and Mr Citizen doesn't even know there's a war going on. Oh yeah, there was something on the news, but I was trying to tune in the ball game.:rolleyes:

Tennessee man admits to stealing boss’ truck to get arrested and away from wife. :lol2:

I can top that.

I was locked up in Tennessee with a fellow, and his brother. One night their third brother came strolling into the dayroom wearing the orange jail get up. Both brothers jumped his ass about getting thrown in jail. They gave him a pretty hard time. Finally, they asked what he did. He had thrown a series of bricks/rocks through a series of downtown shop windows, with the plan of getting thrown in jail.

Why, you may ask, did he wish to be in jail? Missed the fam, perhaps? No.

He was hungry. (If you came in after the late meal (supper) is served, they gave you a sammich and a soda to hold you til breakfast.)

5 Laws That Made Sense On Paper, But, Were Disasters In Reality

Interesting read, link goes to Cracked.com, so...

that link goes to a reply box, grav

W. T. F?

Thanks, Jim.

The link in post #3157 should have lead you to 5 Laws That Made Sense On Paper, But, Were Disasters In Reality, instead.

Apologies.


I'm not sure if a moderator would want to bother with deleting or correcting my mistake, post #3157, but, if one did...:rolleyes:

Anybody wanna buy a watch, uh, chronograph?

It's a Bulova.

Some guy named Dave wore it while driving some funky little car around some place. Oh yeah, it was The Fucking Moon!

Bidding starts at $50,000.:right:

No No No, the mods don't save you from embarrassing fuckups. :lol2:

Yes, yes you did. Thanks.

Why would I want to know Moon time. :p:

Amazing Aussie Doctor reattaches a baby's head.

no

You won't find the article of much interest then. I wouldn't read it if I were you.

I had already read it, but thought I'd answer you anyway.

I'm reading this book about Bill Murray that was a gift, and it mentions Rick Moranis a few times. He sounded like a real creative force in his movies.

So, yeah, I wondered.

The Bill Murray book is kind of boring though. It feels like a chore reading it.

Cranberry harvest on Cape Cod. I was surprised when the guy who owned a Cape Cod cranberry farm told me all those wet harvested Cranberries go into juice or Cranberry products. The ones you but in the market are dry harvested.

A 17 year old Slovakian artist has made a map of the world labeled with stereotypes.

Can't speak for the rest of his maps, but he's right on for Calif and Oregon.

I wonder why Baphomet in particular...

Representative of nonreligious plotters and schemers?

Reference to The Endless Maze, maybe?

Have you always wanted to be a mermaid or merman but you don't know how? The first academy of mermaids and tritons ‘Sirenas Mediterranean Academy’ is born

how fast do you read?

http://i.imgur.com/awgnsgM.gif

Gradually speeding up to 500 wpm was not terribly difficult.

But the trick is that Spritz centers each word for you,
so there is no the need to change your focus.

right. I remember them doing something like that in reading class when I was in 8th grade. I think they just scrolled the words past a clear window at a speed to determine how fast you read. I read slowly, but my retention is really good.