The street finds its own uses for things.
New Jersey business owner arrested for using a drone to drop dye packets into local swimming pools.
Oddly, it seems like his business was not a pool service business, but a heating and cooling service company. If it was a pool service company, that’d at least be understandable to me.
Remember that movie from back in March? The one that I won’t even name, because the trailer sent me into a state of apoplectic rage?
It opened this weekend…
…and finished fifth at the box office, having been beaten by “Blue Beetle” (a movie about a minor tier DC superhero), “Barbie”, “Oppenheimer”, and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”.
Heh. Heh. Heh.
Wikipedia cites the estimated budget for this pile of crap at $46 million, which means it needs to gross $92 to $138 million to break even. With an opening in fifth place, I’m thinking this is going to turn out to be one of this year’s biggest dogs, and I remain hopeful this will destroy the careers of everyone involved.
I did not know there was a Yogi Berra stamp.
I guess these were issued in 2021, which would explain why I can’t find first day covers on the USPS web site. But my local post office still had sheets of them.
Also, postage is 66 cents now. Good thing the Yogi stamps are forever stamps. After all, as someone once said, “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
Shot:
Chaser:
It seemed to me that much of the etiquette I was learning had to do with never having to tell yourself, “I’m stupid and now I’m dying.”
–Tim Cahill, Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered
In other news, “Violent Taco Rampage” is the name of my new Smiths cover band.
From YouTube: a factory tour of the Smith and Wesson plant in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Why, yes, as a matter of fact, I have been on that tour…
I have a bingo on my buzzword bingo card.
As a smart man says:
for some reason the economics of building a skyscraper in the middle of a city and then piping in water and light are less favorable than using flat lands in Iowa which gets rain and sun
— ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs (@MorlockP) April 28, 2023
Shot:
You know he wants to commit murder, but you have to let him in the building every day. https://t.co/SyPFeNwagy
— Dr. Blast Hardcheese (@punch_sideiron) March 22, 2023
Chaser:
So as long as you believe, the marriage is valid. But when you stop believing, the marriage is invalid. And Pablo Escobear’s authority to officiate weddings is a giant consensual hallucination…and doesn’t the fact that Wikipedia states the bear does not have that authority invalidate the claim that the parties believe the bear has that authority?
Shot:
–Oliver Cromwell, Speech on the dissolution of the Rump of the Long Parliament, 20 April 1653
Chaser:
“You shut down our schools, you shut down the churches, you shut down the businesses,” Kelly railed, according to a video posted by Forbes.
“You did the one thing that I thought could never happen,” he said. “As someone who was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, I never thought in my life that I would ever see the city of Chicago brought down so low as you have managed to bring it down.
“Shame on you,” Kelly said. “That is a legacy that you are going to have to carry.”
…in fact, it’s cold as hell.
New Hampshire’s Mount Washington felt more like Mars than planet Earth on Friday as wind chills dipped below an unfathomable minus 110 degrees, a new record for the coldest wind chill ever recorded in the US.
Known for having some of the world’s worst weather, Mount Washington saw air temperatures plummet to minus 46 degrees with wind speeds averaging over 100 miles per hour with gusts over 125 miles per hour as the artic air mass wreaked havoc Friday, according to the Mount Washington observatory.
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This goes out to FotB RoadRich:
Nimbus the cat, who lives in the observatory with staffers, was reportedly cozied up and unbothered by the deadly storm, despite being a bit grumpy from taking his flea medication.
“He is actually sleeping through most of this event,” Tarasiewciz said.
