• Chernobyl 25

    TIME cover 05-12-1986.© Time Inc.

    My previous post about Chernobyl.

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  • WTF Illustrated

    The secret of the mystery billboard was finally revealed:

    Readers of this blog submitted far better captions than the underwhelming A/C advertisement from the company which is famous for annoying the radio listeners with various renditions of its jingle. I may not be an expert on puns but if you used  “hot wife-hot wife” combination, doesn’t it follow that your wife will be less hot when you fix the A/C and it’s in your best interest to keep the A/C not working or you would have to go back to seeing you plain ol’ not hot wife? By the way, the caption contest is open for another week.

    I saw this sign yesterday:

    I wonder who is the ad-wizard who came up with this one? At the time when “unusual banking” already helped you lose your job, your house, your savings and pension, maybe some usual banking is in order now? Like the kind the doesn’t bankrupt the country. Just an idea.
    Lastly, things like this never get old (sorry for the quality, I recorded this from my TV screen):

    httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebqvm9Nvv90

    Update: I forgot that I had this photo of a t-shirt in the window of a local religious-supply store:

    img000131Here we see the Lord doing push-ups in his own gym with the cross representing “the sin of the world” on his back. The caption “bench press this” is confusing unless the t-shirt is hanging upside-down, then the Lord would be lying on the cross and bench-pressing the rock. I am just saying: Lord would know the difference between the push-up and bench-press, that’s all.

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  • Another Drop In My Bucket (List)

    I thought of another item to put on my bucket list (if it existed): I’d like to become a groupie (or is at a roadie? I need to get my terminology straight before I do it) for a mini donuts stand:

    I’d just follow this thing around the country and feed exclusively on “Lil’Orbits” until I die happily and quietly from clogged arteries at some random state’s fairgrounds. Now you could say that I should buy this miracle machine and stay home, but what do I do with my free spirit?

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  • Real Pie Day

    All the talk about Pi Day made me think that I hadn’t had an apple pie for some time. Couple of hours later the situation had been rectified.
    Pie crust by Mrs. Smith recipe by Kraft.
    Chimpo, I ate this pie so you don’t have to. Stay on track, fatso!
    Apple Pie
    Apple Pie
    Apple Pie
    Apple Pie
    Apple Pie

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  • Old Photos: Kansas City’s Golden Calf

    Found this cool photo via Google Life Photo Archives. This bull is still standing in Kansas City, in a different spot and on a shorter pedestal.

    Plastic bull in Kansas City on top of Pylon in front of American Hereford Assn. Building. © Time Inc.Joseph Scherschel
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