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[balrog]

 

[Broken Crow]

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I always suspected we share a similar sense of humour. Your post just transported me back about 45 years to high-school...you remember how crowded the hallways got between classes... a great opportunity to have silly fun:
Do you remember those matchbook/masking tape 'firecrackers'?... You take a matchbook, pull the sleeve off the matches and turn it inside out with the striker-strip against the match-heads and wrap it in a few winds of masking tape, throw it and it bounces and then goes "POP!"... Well, I was never one to do anything half-assed, so I stacked 2 matchbooks with strikers on both sides of the match heads and a little extra tape just to get twice the POP....and then went overboard and lined up 3 match bundles deep, and 3 books wide and a lot of carefully applied tape to make a biggie. When the bell went and the hall was packed, I let off 2 of my doubles, keeping the huge one in my pocket... I saw a teacher staring straight at me through the crowd and I played it casual and kept walking but: Someone ploughed into me and my right pants pocket went up in flames and smoke! I still played it casual and kept walking while trying to press the flames out and burned my hand in doing so...saw the teacher laughing out of the corner of my eye and had to spend the rest of the day with my jacket tied around my waist pretending there wasn't a huge hole where my pocket had been and exposed burned flesh underneath. But hey: it was grade nine and a catholic school at that, so it was worth it.

 

[Kent88]

https://www.livescience.com/animals...in-south-carolina-interrupting-disc-golf-game

 

[balrog]

https://www.livescience.com/animals...in-south-carolina-interrupting-disc-golf-game

SHARKNADO !

 

[Kent88]

https://www.startribune.com/hormel-...age-lawsuit-sue-trade-secret-recipe/601375897

 

[Pkrd]

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/56...-robbing-post-office-armed-with-just-a-banana

 

[balrog]

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/56...-robbing-post-office-armed-with-just-a-banana

"The money was yet to be recovered"

But, but, but - what happened to the banana?

 

[jschein]

https://www.wbrz.com/news/dashcam-video-shows-moment-electrical-worker-hit-by-18-wheeler

 

[Broken Crow]

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/56...-robbing-post-office-armed-with-just-a-banana

"The money was yet to be recovered"

But, but, but - what happened to the banana?

They forgot their training:

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Brits ordered to go on pub crawls to save boozers and 'boost happiness', say boffins​

Although this is in the Daily Star, not the most dependable of sources, this is based on a real paper from a "Professor of Pubs", Victoria Wells :
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/227735/2/Pub_Crawl_LR_IJHM_Final_Accepted.pdf

More of her work at :
https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/victoria-wells/publications/

 

[homebeerbrewer]

"The money was yet to be recovered"

But, but, but - what happened to the banana?

The banana split when the cops came.

 

[jschein]

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/vol...-new-smyrna-beach/27JSZBK5OJFSVBBXDDOX3JONNI/

Be safe

 

[balrog]

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/vol...-new-smyrna-beach/27JSZBK5OJFSVBBXDDOX3JONNI/

Be safe

Reason #453 why I never took up surfing.

#1 was that whole coordination/balance thing.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

One solution to declining congregations...

'Any excuse to go to pub' culture at crisis-hit cathedral​

On the BBC homepage yesterday they had a different headline, from memory it extracted the quote about "There's too many people taking shots in dog collars"

 

[bleme]

Autopsy reveals cause of death for Brazilian tourist who fell into volcano

 

[jschein]

Only in NY they say
https://nypost.com/2025/07/07/us-ne...-operating-in-the-street-for-days-goes-viral/

 

[MaxStout]

Because they can.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/chimpanzee-grass-butt-1.7583207

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Because they can.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/chimpanzee-grass-butt-1.7583207

Disappointed that CBC only included ear decoration photographs.

 

[balrog]

Aw man. Ozzy's headed off on the final ride of the crazy train.

 

[Skeeter686]

Aw man. Ozzy's headed off on the final ride of the crazy train.

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I'm saddened, but also surprised that he lived this long.

RIP, Ozzy.

Feel safe now, all you bats out there.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

He said, “Mama, I’m Coming Home”, boarded the Crazy Train. And shed No More Tears.

 

[Kent88]

I have no strong feelings for Ozzy and don't understand his appeal

 

[Kent88]

Because they can.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/chimpanzee-grass-butt-1.7583207

Balrog, log into your own account

 

[balrog]

...

somehow I'm a female chimpanzee influencer now?

either I've had too much to drink, or not enough

 

[Kent88]

Or you hacked Max's account

No, I like your interpretation better

 

[day_trippr]

It's happening. I'm safely away, out on the Cape Of Cod...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...massachusetts-dunkin-desert-name/85325940007/

 

[lumpher]

https://www.foodandwine.com/kfc-hismile-fried-chicken-toothpaste-collaboration-11706210

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Oops

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0z1d28e5o

 

[homebeerbrewer]

More than $1.5K worth of stolen meat from Walmart found during traffic stop, police say

 

[Dland]

https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireSt...ighway-pennsylvania-commuters-wurst-124294402