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'Geese' is part of my continuing exploration into finding 'value' where none appears apparent, particularly with birds and animals that came to my country when colonization occurred in the mid to late 1800's. Our rural beginnings were heavily reliant on domestic birds and farm animals for survival. While agriculture is still a very big earner in my country (and many other countries in the west) the animals as individuals have lost the value and importance they once had to us in our every day lives, as we have divorced ourselves from the land and the things we eat. -Cally Whitham | Auckland, New Zealand

DUCKS Published: November 15, 2012

Wonderful 3D Pencil Drawing

3D pencil drawing created by reddit user fnord-prefect. Totally realistic. It almost lures you to try and look under the table to see the rest of the Greek columns bursting out from the paper grid.

mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.    THE MISHEARD: “Michelle ma belle, some say monkeys play piano well, play piano well.” Real Lyric: “Michelle ma belle, sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble,très bien ensemble.” Artist: The Beatles Song: Michelle

Michelle ma belle, some say monkeys play piano well, play piano well.

Real Lyric Michelle ma belle, sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble, très bien ensemble. Artist The Beatles (Click for more) Song Michelle (

#Mondegreen #Michelle #Beatles #LOL

Trivia Before Beverly Hills was home to the rich and famous, the area was better known for its Lima beans.

MML Word/Phrase of the Day Thanksgiving Tetris The annual act of rearranging your refridgerator in order to accommodate all of your Thanksgiving leftovers. Girlfriend: "Ugh, the fridge is completely full of our regular food. I don't know how we're ever going to cram all of these leftovers in here." Boyfriend: "Looks like it's time for a round of Thanksgiving Tetris! Here, take this milk carton and hand me those yams..."

This Day in History - November 24th November 24, 1971

Hijacker parachutes into thunderstorm

A hijacker calling himself D.B. Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 into a raging thunderstorm over Washington State. He had $200,000 in ransom money in his possession.

Cooper commandeered the aircraft shortly after takeoff, showing a flight attendant something that looked like a bomb and informing the crew that he wanted $200,000, four parachutes, and "no funny stuff." The plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where authorities met Cooper's demands and evacuated most of the passengers. Cooper then demanded that the plane fly toward Mexico at a low altitude and ordered the remaining crew into the cockpit.

At 8:13 p.m., as the plane flew over the Lewis River in southwest Washington, the plane's pressure gauge recorded Cooper's jump from the aircraft. Wearing only wraparound sunglasses, a thin suit, and a raincoat, Cooper parachuted into a thunderstorm with winds in excess of 100 mph and temperatures well below zero at the 10,000-foot altitude where he began his fall. The storm prevented an immediate capture, and most authorities assumed he was killed during his apparently suicidal jump. No trace of Cooper was found during a massive search.

In 1980, an eight-year-old boy uncovered a stack of nearly $5,880 of the ransom money in the sands along the north bank of the Columbia River, five miles from Vancouver, Washington. The fate of Cooper remains a mystery.

This Day in History - November 24th November 24, 1947

"Hollywood 10" cited for contempt of Congress

The House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt against 10 Hollywood writers, directors, and producers. These men had refused to cooperate at hearings dealing with communism in the movie industry held by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The "Hollywood 10," as the men were known, are sentenced to one year in jail. The Supreme Court later upheld the contempt charges. The contempt charges stemmed from the refusal of the 10 men to answer questions posed by HUAC as to whether they were or had ever been members of the Communist Party. In hearings that often exploded with rancor, the men denounced the questions as violations of their First Amendment rights. Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Samuel Ornitz, Ring Lardner, Jr., Lester Cole, Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Edward Dmytryk, and Robert Adrian Scott were thereupon charged with contempt of Congress. The chairman of HUAC, J. Parnell Thomas, dismissed the arguments raised by the men, claiming that Congress had every right to ask people what their political affiliations were. "The Constitution," he declared, "was never intended to cloak or shield those who would destroy it." The Hollywood 10 responded with a joint statement in which they argued that HUAC had succeeded in having "the Congress cite the Bill of Rights for contempt." "The United States," the statement concluded, "can keep its constitutional liberties or it can keep the Thomas committee. It can't keep both." The impact of the charges against the Hollywood 10 was immediate and long-lasting. Hollywood quickly established the so-called "blacklist," a collection of names of Hollywood personalities suspected of having communist ties. Those on the list rarely found work in the movies. The contempt charges also created a chilling effect on the Hollywood film industry, and producers, directors, and writers shied away from subject matter that might be considered the least bit controversial or open them up to charges of being soft on communism. The blacklist was not completely broken until the 1960s.

This Day in History - November 24th

November 24, 1963

Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald

At 12:20 p.m., in the basement of the Dallas police station, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is shot to death by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner.

On November 22, President Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in an open-car motorcade through the streets of downtown Dallas. Less than an hour after the shooting, Lee Harvey Oswald killed a policeman who questioned him on the street. Thirty minutes after that, he was arrested in a movie theater by police. Oswald was formally arraigned on November 23 for the murders of President Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit.

On November 24, Oswald was brought to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters on his way to a more secure county jail. A crowd of police and press with live television cameras rolling gathered to witness his departure. As Oswald came into the room, Jack Ruby emerged from the crowd and fatally wounded him with a single shot from a concealed .38 revolver. Ruby, who was immediately detained, claimed that rage at Kennedy's murder was the motive for his action. Some called him a hero, but he was nonetheless charged with first-degree murder.

Jack Ruby, originally known as Jacob Rubenstein, operated strip joints and dance halls in Dallas and had minor connections to organized crime. He also had a relationship with a number of Dallas policemen, which amounted to various favors in exchange for leniency in their monitoring of his establishments. He features prominently in Kennedy-assassination theories, and many believe he killed Oswald to keep him from revealing a larger conspiracy. In his trial, Ruby denied the allegation and pleaded innocent on the grounds that his great grief over Kennedy's murder had caused him to suffer "psychomotor epilepsy" and shoot Oswald unconsciously. The jury found him guilty of the "murder with malice" of Oswald and sentenced him to die.

In October 1966, the Texas Court of Appeals reversed the decision on the grounds of improper admission of testimony and the fact that Ruby could not have received a fair trial in Dallas at the time. In January 1967, while awaiting a new trial, to be held in Wichita Falls, Ruby died of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital.

The official Warren Commission report of 1964 concluded that neither Oswald nor Ruby were part of a larger conspiracy, either domestic or international, to assassinate President Kennedy. Despite its seemingly firm conclusions, the report failed to silence conspiracy theories surrounding the event, and in 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in a preliminary report that Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy" that may have involved multiple shooters and organized crime. The committee's findings, as with those of the Warren Commission, continue to be widely disputed.

This Day in History - November 24th November 24, 1859

Origin of Species is published

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, a groundbreaking scientific work by British naturalist Charles Darwin, is published in England. Darwin's theory argued that organisms gradually evolve through a process he called "natural selection." In natural selection, organisms with genetic variations that suit their environment tend to propagate more descendants than organisms of the same species that lack the variation, thus influencing the overall genetic makeup of the species.

Darwin, who was influenced by the work of French naturalist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and the English economist Thomas Mathus, acquired most of the evidence for his theory during a five-year surveying expedition aboard the HMS Beagle in the 1830s. Visiting such diverse places as the Galapagos Islands and New Zealand, Darwin acquired an intimate knowledge of the flora, fauna, and geology of many lands. This information, along with his studies in variation and interbreeding after returning to England, proved invaluable in the development of his theory of organic evolution.

The idea of organic evolution was not new. It had been suggested earlier by, among others, Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin, a distinguished English scientist, and Lamarck, who in the early 19th century drew the first evolutionary diagram—a ladder leading from one-celled organisms to man. However, it was not until Darwin that science presented a practical explanation for the phenomenon of evolution.

Darwin had formulated his theory of natural selection by 1844, but he was wary to reveal his thesis to the public because it so obviously contradicted the biblical account of creation. In 1858, with Darwin still remaining silent about his findings, the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace independently published a paper that essentially summarized his theory. Darwin and Wallace gave a joint lecture on evolution before the Linnean Society of London in July 1858, and Darwin prepared On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection for publication.

Published on November 24, 1859, Origin of Species sold out immediately. Most scientists quickly embraced the theory that solved so many puzzles of biological science, but orthodox Christians condemned the work as heresy. Controversy over Darwin's ideas deepened with the publication of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), in which he presented evidence of man's evolution from apes.

By the time of Darwin's death in 1882, his theory of evolution was generally accepted. In honor of his scientific work, he was buried in Westminster Abbey beside kings, queens, and other illustrious figures from British history. Subsequent developments in genetics and molecular biology led to modifications in accepted evolutionary theory, but Darwin's ideas remain central to the field.

Annals of Obsession

Deadhead

The afterlife

by Nick Paumgarten November 26, 2012

The Grateful Dead in San Francisco, in 1970. “Our audience is like people who like licorice,” Jerry Garcia said. “Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.”

Alt. Link- http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_paumgarten#ixzz2D7zZ72VT

Makes you proud to be an American!!!

A Glimpse Of The Apocalypse: Walmart Customers Fight Over Phones On Black Friday

On Black Friday, discounted boxed smartphones seem to be the equivalent of dry foods in a post-apocalyptic movie.

This video, first spotted by the Telegraph, shows customers of a Walmart in Moultrie, Georgia, duking it out over discounted pay-as-you-go smartphones.

Walmart has announced that the big box retailer has completed a total of 10 million transactions between the hours of 8pm and midnight on Thursday, with electronics topping the list of best sellers, according to PhoneArena.

As you may already know, Black Friday was pushed up to Thursday evening this year.

Smartphones are becoming more and more crucial in today’s world. Not only do they keep us connected to our social networks, calendars, email, etc., but they are an external display of who we are. However, I’m not sure a cell phone is worth the scratching, pulling, yanking, shoving and down-right snatching that is apparent in this video.

The good news is that Cyber Monday should see similar sales with far less physical violence.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

youtube Video: Black Friday Fighting Over Phones During WalMart 2012 VERY SAD!!!!

"WHO WANTS LEFTOVERS?!?"

-Hannah Hart (Harto)

Coming Out (Ch. 1) by yourharto

TURKEY WAFFLE SANDWICH (by MyHarto)

My Mephetic Life 11.23.2012 Howdy, Well, I find myself in my home State. The State that is responsible for electing basically, every one of the U.S. Presidents. How does that fact make you feel? Have you lost your appetite? Can you sleep at night? Do you find yourself crying spontaneously for no reason whatsoever? My Home State, where the State motto is, "With God All Things Are Possible." (They're a little weak in the separation of Church and State area) The state slogan is "Birthplace of Aviation." You might have guessed North Carolina, with the Wright Bros. Kitty Hawk and the first controlled powered airplane flights at the Kill Devil Hills, and all. But, you'd be wrong. However, it is the birthplace of 24, count 'em 24 NASA Astronauts. These astronautical pioneers include: John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell, Judith Resnik and a bunch of other guys with bad PR reps and no significant endorsements deals. This NASA Astronaut fact accounts for the oft asked question, "How f*cked up is that State that it compels it citizens to, not just leave the State but, rather to leave the Planet Earth all together?" The State flag is ??? Trick question! There is no State Flag but rather this State has a State "Burgee," as a swallowtail shape pendant. Best of all, before incarceration Jeffrey Dahmer (serial killer) and Charles Manson (murderer, cult leader) called it home. Give up? It's in the Midwest and it's the best, I love it, "Ohio." So," Just what does one do whilst in Ohio?" you may ask. Lots of things. Things like going to the movies. Ohio has enormous movie theaters, about the size of the Goodyear Blimp Hanger (located in Akron Ohio.) So watching movies, eating and performing the required bodily functions is pretty much what I've done so far. There is a restaurant in Toledo, OH that serves Lebanese, Italian, Pizza and Seafood food. Now, everybody can be happy! Full disclosure: actually I must say this restaurant in Toledo is really very good and I like it, like it a lot. It's called "Byblos." Check it out when you find yourself in the neighborhood. So far, I have seen Argo (directed by Ben Affleck) and The Life of Pi (Directed by Ang Lee.) My review? Definitely well worth seeing. I give them both a 8.5 Junior Mints on the MML Movie Scale. I'll report back after the next movie. -bal _________________________________________ ARGO (2012) Director: Ben Affleck

Writers: Chris Terrio (screenplay), Joshuah Bearman (article)

Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman

In 1979, the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans are taken hostage. However, six manage to escape to the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador and the CIA is eventually ordered to get them out of the country. With few options, exfiltration expert Tony Mendez devises a daring plan: to create a phony Canadian film project looking to shoot in Iran and smuggle the Americans out as its production crew. With the help of some trusted Hollywood contacts, Mendez creates the ruse and proceeds to Iran as its associate producer. However, time is running out with the Iranian security forces closing in on the truth while both his charges and the White House have grave doubts about the operation themselves.

Life of Pi (2012)

Director: Ang Lee

Writers: David Magee (screenplay), Yann Martel (novel)

Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan and Adil Hussain

Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zoo keeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival.

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