Once again his application to work in the oil refinery was rejected
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?” – – George Carlin
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With the world collapsing around us, it will be the innovative few
who see brilliant opportunities and take us to a whole new level
“I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.” – – Douglas Adams
Cherpumple, the Turducken of the holiday dessert table
Behold the Cherpumple!
For Charles Phoenix, the turducken apparently wasn’t enough. The turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken – an increasingly popular Thanksgiving treat – was in need of a dessert counterpart.
So he came up with one worthy of the holiday, and he called it … thecherpumple. The dessert is a weighty, three-layer cake with an entire pie baked inside each of the layers.
Phoenix, a humorist from Los Angeles, describes his creation on his website this way: “Cherpumple is short for CHERry, PUMpkin and apPLE pie. The apple pie is baked in spice cake, the pumpkin in yellow and the cherry in white.”
Hmm.
He further explained that the inspiration came from the typical dessert table at his family’s holiday celebrations…
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For the love of God, will the real sucker please stand up?
“If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.” – – Woody Allen
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The new plans for the military are both creepy and
freakishly out of touch with the enemies they will be fighting
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” – – Brendan Gill
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Jamie was going to add a bit more highlighter to her hair, but decided she had enough
“Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait” – – A. Whitney Brown
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If you are out of work, perhaps you should consider becoming a professional scapegoat.
The paranoia is real and it comes in a lovely shade of yellow
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – – Douglas Adams
Animals Adopting Animals – Top 10 Crazy Stories
1.) Isabella, a golden retriever in Kansas who adopted 3 white Bengal tiger cubs and nursed them as her own. Zookeepers Tom and Allie Harvey brought the cubs home, and their dog Isabella stepped right up.
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Matters of war are far too serious to entrust to people
who believe the American political system works
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – – Albert Einstein
Fascinating turtle facts & pics
How much do you know about non teenage mutant ninja turtles?
Dark Roasted Blend has a great article on turtles right now, complete with tons of great pictures and some interesting facts about the creatures. For example:
The rigid shell means turtles cannot breathe as other reptiles do, by changing the volume of their chest cavity via expansion and contraction of the ribs. Instead, turtles breathe in two ways…
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Yes, cell phone radiation is a problem, but the damage will stop after the flesh is gone
“Life’s greatest question…. which I have not been able to answer… is, “What does a woman want?” – – Sigmund Freud
Ball-camera that you toss in the air for a 360° panorama
Jonas Pfiel’s “Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera” sports 36 cameras and contains firmware that stitches their output together to form a global panorama; you throw it into the air and at the top of its arc, it takes a snap and processes it…
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