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A 15-pound (6.8kg) hamburger. Your horror should be tempered by the knowledge that it's meant to feed ten to fifteen people, but still…. And of course there must be a contest to see if anyone can eat the whole thing by himself. Note the word "Mallett" on the guy's t-shirt. That surely is a reference…
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You'll never guess…
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Warning: scary stuff "For the love of God, Montresor…" [[[shiver]]]
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Thanks to Jeff Woodward for sending me this poignant story about a bottle of Jim Beam. I should arrange to leave something of this sort for my grandchildren to find. I wrote something similar back in 2005.
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…at least a little, even as I think "Wow, that was really stupid." And I've never been cheated that way.
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Is it possible that the name of the goalkeeper of the US women's soccer team is really Hope Solo? It's not a made-up name describing her job? I don't think many novelists would be so audacious with a character's name. Well, in any case, I wish them well. Unfortunately I probably won't have time to…
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‘Depressed’ ferret flees Siberian circus (Link removed due to reported malware found at the destination, a story in the Moscow Times.)
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Whenever Windows starts badgering me about this, which as you might guess it's doing right now, I remember that old warning from somewhere back in the '60s or '70s: "When I want your advice I'll beat it out of you."
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Sounds interesting. Not that I need another Internet distraction.
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From Smithsonian magazine: In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun called I Aim at the Stars. Comedian Mort Sahl suggested a subtitle: But Sometimes I Hit London. I posted that only because it made me laugh, but it got me to thinking: I grew up near Huntsville, Alabama,…
