Archive of entries posted on 12th March 2021

Friday Night Open Thread: Don’t Injure Ginger!

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You know there are some days when reporters just love coming to work.

Florida Woman Attacks Her Roommate for Playing the Same Song Over and Over
Radio.com | 3/4/2021

A 53-year-old Florida woman named Mary Ann has lived with her cousin in Clearwater for the last five years. And earlier this week, she lost it when the cousin wouldn’t stop blasting the same song over and over again on a loop.

It happened around 12:15 in the morning on Tuesday. And the song she freaked out over was . . . Chic’s 1978 disco hit, “Le Freak.” (It’s the one where they sing “freak out” over and over.)

Mary Ann shoved her 64-year-old cousin into a makeshift tiki bar they’d set up, and it collapsed.

Her cousin fell through the bar . . . landed face-first on a speaker . . . and ended up with a black eye.

Cops arrested Mary Ann for domestic battery, and she’s not allowed to have any contact with the cousin for now.

Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.

Once you have passed through the makeshift tiki bar, that is.

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OK, Not Exactly the Stay-Puft Man, But Kinda Different

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20-Foot ‘Ice Volcano’ Erupts in Western New York
Adriana Navarro | AccuWeather

No sex jokes, please

Freezing temperatures have helped transform a New York fountain from the 1800s into a 20-foot “ice volcano.”

Outside of the Glen Iris Inn in Castile, New York, a cone of ice sprays water up to some 50 feet in the air, giving off the appearance of an icy volcano.

This is not an unusual sight for the Glenn Iris Fountain, however, and even the 20-foot height it has reached this winter is not the tallest it can grow.

In fact, it gained national attention in 2015, drawing tourists to its location in Letchworth State Park when it reached its full height of 50 feet.

Lest We Forget

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Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean War Soldier Accounted for After 70 Years
AmericanMilitaryNews.com | Based on a Press Release by the US Army. March 09, 2021

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced last week that Korean War Medal of Honor recipient, Army Chaplain (Capt.) Emil Joseph Kapaun, has been accounted for.

Kapaun, of Pilsen, Kansas, served as a chaplain with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On Nov. 2, 1950, the 3rd Battalion was near Unsan when the unit came under heavy fire and received orders to withdraw.

Eventually surrounded and besieged by Chinese Communist Forces, unit members became trapped and dug inside foxholes or behind bunkers. 

Kapaun stayed with the wounded but was soon captured and marched from village to village, with little food and shelter, to Old Pyoktong, later known as Chinese Camp 5, on the south bank of the Yalu River.

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He died of exhaustion and possible heart failure induced by pleurisy at the age of 35 on May 23, 1951.

Our generation: banning Dr. Seuss and Pepe le Pew because someone might be offended.

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Interesting

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Now this is interesting. In many ways.


Some sea slugs sever their own heads, grow whole new bodies

I wonder if it is the male, married ones.

I think the we will have immortality if our scientists were on the ball instead of trying to work out how many genders they can fit on the head of pin.

Enough fun, on to the article.

For at least two species of sea slug, decapitation is no big deal. After purposefully severing its head, a sacoglossan sea slug can regrow its entire body, heart and all.

Scientists observed the phenomenon — detailed Monday in the journal Current Biology — while studying the development of the marine invertebrates, from eggs to adult sea slugs.

They only noticed headless sea slugs now?

The slug’s bodiless head began feeding on algae just a few hours after scientists first spotted it.

I’d have the munchies if I had no body as well.

Scientists kept a close eye on the slugs, and witnessed several more of them amputate their bodies.

I would want to amputate my body as well if scientists kept staring at me.

Unfortunately for veteran slugs, decapitation and regeneration are a young slug’s game. The heads of older slugs survived for about a week, post-severance, but died without regrowing a body.

Damn, now they tell me.

Scientists also aren’t yet sure why the slugs perform the amputation and regeneration, but they suspect the process may help slugs get rid of parasites that prevent healthy reproduction.

So they were married!


Link to article.

Well, wasn’t that interesting?

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