Reminds me of one of Richard Pryor’s Mudbone skits…Mudbone and Jesse are out for a walk. As they are walking across a bridge…
Mudbone: Seeing all that water makes me have to piss.
Jesse: Me too.
so they whip ‘em out and get at it.
Mudbone: G**damn! The water’s cold!
Jesse: Yeah, and it’s...
I’ve done this more times than I care to admit to. Try putting in or taking out contact lenses after cutting peppers or eating Tabasco-drenched potato chips. Agony is too weak a word to describe this.
Denny McLain was a pitcher with the Detroit Tigers. During and especially after his career in Detroit he had some…ummm…issues. He was convicted of racketeering, extortion, bribery, drug trafficking, mail fraud, money laundering and various conspiracies. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison. I...
Today a lot of sports teams play their games in arenas and coliseums. The words “Arena” and “Colisseum” both have roots reaching back to the Colisseum in Rome. The word arena translates to sand. The use of the word as a place for sports and entertainment arose from sand being the floor surface...
The weird truth behind this is that in 1835 Michigan and Ohio were on the verge of armed conflict (there were actually shots fired) over the ownership of Toledo. The federal government settled it by granting Toledo to Ohio and granting the Upper Peninsula to Michigan. Can’t swear to it, but this...
Marilyn Monroe was BRILLIANT. Evidence?
The average American has an IQ of 98.
Albert Einstein’s IQ was measured at 160.
Snoop Dogg’s IQ has been measured at 147.
Marilyn Monroe (dumb blond?) had an IQ of 165. Five points higher than Einstein.
In the early 1900s, Sakichi Toyoda invented the power loom. His invention was used to support Japan’s textile industry. Looms are used to weave silk and other fabrics.
Fast forward 100 years or so and the company he founded is back in the loom manufacturing business. But this time the looms are...
Modern day Jonah & the Whale. A lobster fisherman was swallowed by a humpback whale. The whale then came back up to the surface and spit him out. He survived the ordeal with seriously bruised legs and one whale of a cocktail story.
President Biden’s recent signing of a bill to officially establish the Bald Eagle as the national bird reminded me of something that fits this thread.
One of the finalists for consideration as the national bird during the 2nd Congressional Congress was the wild turkey. Thanksgiving would have...