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Mid-Week Palate Cleanser
Posted on: April 20, 2022
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Hello Shinners! It’s been a while since we did anything light and fluffy, and boy, do we need and deserve it.
Let’s have some fun! Since it’s spring, I’m in full birding mode. Here are some of the amazing birds we’ve been seeing in our back yard and in the nearby park.
Hooded Oriole – this beauty drinks nectar, and his beak is skinny enough to insert into the holes in our “flying saucer” hummingbird feeder. We see him perched on it almost every day.
Western Bluebird – We think we have two pairs of these in our yard. The male’s deep blue and rusty breast are extremely striking.
Northern Mockingbird – This bird’s song is the real star of the show. The variety is mindboggling!
Black Phoebe – This is a really pretty black and white bird with a crested head. We see them flying around the creek in our neighborhood park.
Open thread – let the fun, fur and feathers fly!
I see… stupid people
Posted on: August 26, 2018
Hi all! How’s your weekend going? If I had a dollar for every time I’ve used the words stupid or dumb over the past three years, I could buy a good used car. Still, when describing Trump, stupid or dumb is lame. I’m not talking about ignorant or uniformed or uneducated (although he is that, too). I mean profoundly stupid. Deeply dumb. So very, very, very stooopid.
I guess we’ve all done something stupid in our lives. I have a few regrets. I don’t recall any ‘hold my beer’ moments. Then again, maybe I just can’t recall any. Here are a few stupid people. There’s stupid and drunk…
An Austin man is facing charges for running over a woman as she attempted to sprint across a road to prove to she could “run fast in heels” and driving away, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News.
The woman was walking back from a local bar around 2:30 a.m. Saturday with her sister when an unidentified male asked if she could run in the shoes she was wearing. To prove her talents, the woman then started to run across the road.
A maroon SUV hit and dragged the woman roughly 15 yards during her attempt to get to the other side of an intersection along Interstate 35, the Austin Police Department said in the affidavit.
Ouch. That stupidity combined with alcohol landed her in the hospital with a brain bleed. Sad. Then, there’s stupid and racist…
An Iowa woman fired for disparaging Mexicans at work cannot collect unemployment despite her testimony that other employees also made derogatory comments about “blacks and foreigners” since Donald Trump became president.
Angela Diers filed for unemployment after she lost her job at Dexter Laundry, a Fairfield manufacturer of commercial washers and dryers, for telling a co-worker that she hated “f—ing Mexicans.”
Iowa’s Employment Appeals Board ruled that Diers’ statements clearly met the definition of misconduct and disqualified her from collecting unemployment benefits. The board reversed Administrative Law Judge Beth Scheetz, who said Diers deserved unemployment benefits.
The most amazing thing is the initial judge ruled in her favor before the Appeals Board overturned. (although she may have been trying to make a point)
Since President Trump’s election, it was common for workers to talk about hating blacks or hating foreigners,” Scheetz wrote in her ruling. “If management wishes all workers to be treated with respect, it must enforce respectful treatment amongst co-workers and supervisors, and apply those expectations consistently throughout the chain of command.”
Doubly stupid for using the dumbest man on the planet as an excuse. Then, there’s stupid and horny…
Chinese married couple—who were desperately trying to conceive—learned they had been having sex the wrong way for four years.
The young pair, whose identities have been kept anonymous, went to see obstetrician Liu Hongmei after the woman failed to get pregnant despite having sex on a regular basis, reported the Guiyang Evening News. During their appointment, the woman admitted that sex was “usually painful,” which prompted Liu to perform a gynecological examination.
“The couple were very young, the man 26 and the woman 24. They were very healthy, but, despite being married for four years, couldn’t conceive,” Liu said. “Their family was giving them a lot of stress because of it.”
The results were unexpected. Liu discovered that the couple, from Bijie city in China’s south-western Guizhou province, had mistakenly been having anal intercourse rather than vaginal to conceive.
Welp. Let’s just move on to an oldie but goodie. Stupid and fanatical…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The son of a snake-handling Kentucky preacher who died from a snakebite says he’s recovering from his own rattlesnake wound.
Cody Coots, 21, took over services at Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro after his father, Jamie Coots, died after being bitten during a service in February.
Since they don’t believe in medical treatment for bites (God’s will ‘ya know), I wonder if he’s still alive. Don’t care. How about stupid and armed?
WARREN, Ohio – A man in Warren was injured after being shot by a gun that went off while it was in his oven.
Police said the incident happened on Riverview Avenue on the city’s Northwest side Sunday evening.
Detectives told 21 News the man placed a revolver in the broiler section of the oven to keep it safe.
A woman who lives at the home then started using the oven to cook when the gun went off, according to police.
Detectives said the man was in the basement at the time and did not know the woman was cooking.
When he heard the first shot, he ran upstairs and tried to get the gun out of the oven, but it was too hot.
It fired again, striking him twice, according to police.
Who knew the broiler may not be the best place to stash your gun? Finally, stupid and rich. Although I shouldn’t really call Kim Kardashian stupid. She’s made a mint for… pretty much nothing. But, she can spend her money stupidly.
Kim Kardashian may not be able to keep Kanye from blaming black people for slavery, but there’s still one man in her life she can control.
That man is her dog, Rocky, whom she had neutered, as any responsible pet owner would do.
Strangely, she has reportedly purchased fake testicles for him … for a whopping $10,000.
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Allegedly, she purchased the Neuticles and had them implanted because she wanted to help Rocky’s self-esteem.
Way back in the simpler times of 2012, Kim Kardashian told The Independent that she “doesn’t like big balls on dogs, or anything else.”
All we can do is laugh at these idiots. I hope y’all got a good laugh out of these, ’cause we sure need something to laugh about.
Open thread.
Random weirdness
Posted on: May 24, 2018
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So I don’t know if you’ve heard, but Dump did crazy shit and now the media is making excuses for him. But –
Did you also know that Brad Pitt’s first name is actually Bill? Brad is his middle name.
Chuck Norris’ first name is Carlos.
Justin Bieber knows how to juggle.
Once upon a time Madonna worked at Dunkin Donuts, but was fired after squirting jelly at a customer.
Tom Hanks is a third cousin, four generations removed, of Abraham Lincoln.
Beyoncé has a species of horse fly named after her. Australian researchers named a
Larry Fishburne
golden-bellied insect Scaptia beyonceae in 2012.
Elvis Presley was a natural blond.
Dr. Ruth is a trained sniper.
James Earl Jones stuttered when he was a child.
When he was 37, Jack Nicholson discovered that the woman who he thought was his sister (16 years his senior) was actually his mother. Puts “Chinatown” into some sort of perspective.
In 1933 Lucille Ball was asked to shave off her eye-brows for a film role (Marlena
Dietrich shaved hers.) They never grew back.
Actor Larry Fishburne (later to rename himself Laurence Fishburne) was 14 years old when he was cast to be in “Apocalypse Now.” He lied about his age. By the time the film finished filming, he was 17 (the age his character is in the movie.)
Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) was the first American film to show a flushing toilet.
The first series to show an abortion (illegal) on TV was the soap opera Another World in 1964.
Michael Myers’ mask in the movies “Halloween” is Captain Kirk’s face painted white.
William Shatner’s face
This is an open thread!
Did You Know?
Posted on: May 3, 2018
This week my post will be non Dump related. Our comments will follow the latest news, but I thought I’d do something a little different to take our mind off the bananananity of our lives. It’s a “Did You Know?” of interesting facts you may not know about. So let’s dive in and maybe learn a thing or two (I didn’t know any of these things.)
Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is estimated to be worth about $780 
million? (Seems cheap, no?) But since it’s not for sale and never will be it’s unclear how much someone would actually be willing to pay for it. I’m sure an auction would bring the price into the billions. The most expensive painting ever actually sold and bought is da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, painted in around the year 1500 of our lord. It sold in 2017 for $450.3 million. The seller? Dmitry Robolovlev. Yes, the same guy who bought Trump’s worthless Florida house for tens of millions more than it was worth…
Did you know that the German chocolate cake is named after an English-American baker Sam German, not the country??
Did you know that the chainsaw was invented to aid in childbirth. Think about that for a minute. The instrument of horror in horror movies was invented in 1830 by a German (naturally) orthopedist Bernhard Heine. Heine made a prototype for cutting bone and by late 18th century two Scottish doctors revised the instrument to aid in symphysiotomy (widening of the pelvis to help the baby move out.)
Did you know that the last letter added to the English alphabet was the letter J and it is located next to the letter I because it looks almost the same?
Did you know that the Citicorp building in Manhattan, built in 1977 and designed by 
William J. LeMessurier, was destined to be blown down by the wind if Diane Hartley, an enterprising architecture student, didn’t notice the flaw in its design? The building has an unusual structure – its 9 story columns stand in the center not the corners of the building to make room for a Church that was there first. It looks cool, right? Now think about winds: there are two types of winds – winds that blow at the corners and winds that blow directly at a wall, and all buildings take into account strong winds, so the building doesn’t collapse in a storm. LeMessurier accounted for the winds by installing a gigantic weight at the top that would swing in the opposite direction of the building in a storm and keep it balanced. After this Citicorp building was already opened and occupied, Mr. LeMessurier got a phone call from an assistant who had a phone call from a young architecture student (Diane Lee Hartley) writing a thesis on the building and she noticed that LeMessurier did not account for the winds that would blow at the corners of the building. Typically buildings are strongest at their corners, so it wouldn’t be an issue. But this was not an ordinary building. It had no support at the corners which would have made it vulnerable to strong winds blowing at the corners and there was a high chance (1 in 16) that the building would eventually collapse from a storm. And there was a
Diane Lee Hartley in 2014
Hurricane Ella making its way towards the island! In the middle of the night, in secret to prevent panic, the architects worked to fix the mistake, and the NYPD and emergency services coordinated an evacuation plan within a 10 block radius in case the building collapsed. 2500 Red Cross volunteers were on stand-by. The good news is that Hurricane Ella never made it to Manhattan and the building was reinforced without its occupants even knowing they were in danger.
Did you know that “a buttload” is an actual measurement of weight?
Did you know that opening a barrel of whiskey is called “drilling the bunghole?”
And if I were to ask you what is the most perfect day in the history of the world, what would you say? I’m beginning to think that the most perfect day in the history of the world was April 18, 1930. Why? Well, it was so perfect that there was literally no news to report. A BBC News announcer came on the air at 20:45 and said: “There is no news.” And with the remaining 15 minutes of the broadcast the BBC played music.
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A GOOD SUNDAY TO YOU WIDDERSHINS!
Fredster still has not felt like the muses have come around so once again let’s take a look at some of the odd, funny or strange things I’ve found out there on the internet.
Ways in which Amtrak should not emulate the Japanese
This one is kind of old but I had it in the bookmarks for strange/odd news.
So this “super-express train” was barrelling down the tracks the way those Japanese (and German and French and probably Italian) fast trains travel. (Wish we had some of those) And anyway a passenger on the train notices that a snake is wrapped around the armrest of a passenger seat (occupied) in front of him!
The train’s operator, JR Tokai, or Central Japan Railway Co., said the passenger sitting in the reserved seat was unaware that the snake was wrapped around his armrest for about 50 minutes until the person behind him saw it and notified a conductor.
Railway spokesman Atsuo Utano said the train crew made an announcement asking if anyone had lost a pet snake and informing passengers of an unscheduled stop, but nobody came forward.
The super-express train made a stop at Hamamatsu station about 25 minutes later, and
railway police removed the snake and the train departed in about one minute, Utano said.
He said the train arrived in Hiroshima, its destination, on time.
Now…the snake was on that armrest for 50 minutes before another passenger noticed it? Then, the train people asked if someone had lost their snake? And then finally, after another 25 minutes they stopped. Uh..no people. I would have been looking for that damned emergency rope thing you see on trains in the movies and yanking on it like crazy. I have a rule about these things: ∅ snakes on the train.
I could probably die happy too in this case
It’s actually a variation on a theme we’ve seen before. But still, maybe I won’t even have to die for this to happen.
Corlis Gilchrist, 92, must have been a staunch Democrat. And we know how staunch Democrats felt after last November, right?
Mr. Gilchrist’s obituary included this :
he was “a proud union member and took great pride in his work with Armstrong Tire, retiring after more than 40 years of service
And so his family did this for him:
…died peacefully this month after family members falsely told him the process to impeach President Donald Trump had begun “so that he could rest in peace.”
I would have lied to him too and secretly hope that it does happen…very soon. And apparently some people were sooo worried back in November they decided on an early checkout:
Last year, a woman’s obituary published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch said Mary Anne Noland, 68, of Richmond, Virginia, decided to “pass” instead of vote in the November election.
“Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God,” the obituary read. Her husband said it was meant as a joke as a means for her family to continue her sense of humor.
Truth in advertising or delusions of grandeur?
Okay folks, I had to really think about adding this one, but it’s so preposterous I had to include it.
So once again in Florida (always in Florida!) a man is on trial for murder for choking his girlfriend to death. But Richard Patterson has an explanation of how said choking occurred. His defense attorney also wants Patterson to provide a visual to the jury.
Not Patterson
Richard Henry Patterson, 65, has admitted he choked his girlfriend, Francisca Marquinez, 60, to death on Oct. 28, 2015, but claims it happened accidentally during oral sex, The Sun Sentinel reported.
He’s now seeking a judge’s permission to show the jury his penis — to prove her death was a mistake.
Patterson’s attorney, Ken Padowitz, said his client’s member figures prominently in his “rough sex” defense, which hinges on the argument that Marquinez died accidentally, while engaging in consensual sexual activity.
Padowitz has enlisted expert witness and former Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Ronald Wright to testify that Marquinez’s death “is consistent with being accidentally sexually asphyxiated during oral sex,” the motion said.
He insists that a viewing of Patterson’s penis is integral to the jury understanding Wright’s argument.
Now I’m all in favor of a defendant using any means they can to put on a defense but…really? Wouldn’t it be interesting if, instead of a large Bockwurst, Patterson had more of a vienna sausage and a large ego? Oh and by the way I hope they convict the bastard.
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A couple of humorous You Tube Clips
This guy has been doing convenience story inventory for waay too long.
Yes it’s true – watch out for lightening.
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Okay that’s all I have Widdershins. Take the conversation in any direction you wish. And also, a Happy Mothers’ Day to all the moms out there!
The Widdershins 
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