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New: “Father Humor: Mastering the Art of the Dad Joke” 🐸 Later this year, a new “Choose Your Own Adventure” 🐢🐢🐢🐢 “Arguably one of Oregon’s top 73 Barts.” –Barts Weekly 🧃
I’m not saying flowering artichokes are dangerous, but if you saw the “Star Trek” episode where Spock gets sprayed by an spore-plant and gets turns into a hippie, well…
We've got WAY too many crafting books in our house, and this one's the last...
I think there is a <1% chance I could score in the World Cup on a penalty kick if the goalie suffered a cardiac event just as I was kicking.
Evidence of a marathon jamming session *or* of a murder scene cleanup? I don’t know, officer, you tell me.
This LoC photo of farmworkers' kids at a movie in Tulare County (CA) is just preposterously sweet.
"An anadrome is a word or phrase whose letters can be reversed to spell a different word or phrase. For example, 'desserts' is an anadrome of 'stressed.'" Exhibit A: Stevie Wonder's ninth studio album? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadrome
Our neighbor called with a non-medical emergency and asked one of us to come over. My wife just got back – the emergency was that they couldn’t keep up with their raspberry harvest. But I'm actually annoyed by these free berries, mostly because they're bigger than our berries. (Banana for scale.)
Find someone who looks at you with the intensity of a federal agent gazing at illegal spirits during Prohibition.
Funeral potatoes are often eaten at funeral receptions in Utah. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral...
Henry Ford set up an English School set out to “Americanize” his immigrant workers. This 1916 English School graduation in Detroit shows students emerging from a giant melting pot, carrying American flags.
If anyone needs me, I’ll be outside putting in some plantings that I’m sure everyone will love— DON’T YOU DARE SAY A WORD AGAINST THEM, THEY ARE SPECIAL
The 1865 Petition of Citizens of South Carolina is a 55-foot document signed in by 3,000 Black South Carolinians. They appealed to Congress for voting rights and requested that Congress not “sanction any state government which refused to grant the franchise to citizens.” www.loc.gov/item/mss3355...