A bizarre little Nutrigrain ad from the Eighties.
I don’t know what they put in those bars, but I’ll have what he’s having!
Category Archives: Travel
the war on terror: iPod deprivation
“Eight hours without an iPod – that’s the most inconvenient thing,” Hannah Pillinger, a 24-year-old at Manchester, said.
I’m not sure if Hannah is stoic or just slaveringly idiotic, but the Guardian has managed to find passengers who are whining about the delays that have been caused by the recent British terrorist schemes.
As my father, the lifelong airman, said, if the plane blows up, we all get home early. And: always get the cheap seats, no plane ever backed into a mountain.
today in Midwestern Octopus news
It’s not every day a mild-mannered MidWesterner catches a six-foot Pacific Octopus in the Ohio River, but it was Monday. Via Sploid.
“I thought, ‘This guy’s got to be drunk,’ ” Putt
said. But “we looked at it and that’s what it was.”
The octopus might take the prize for weird discoveries at the falls, where park crews and visitors have found crocodiles and piranha-like tropical fish over the years — animals probably kept as pets and released by owners into the river and onto river banks.
If the Calamari Wrestler ever finds out who killed his cousin, the slime will fly!
Here’s a handy-dandy map of Ohio, just so you can wrap your head around how very far our Octopoid masters have learned to portage:
aeroporn 2.0
Behold the last-ever catapult launch of an F-14. Weep if you must.
Atlantic Ocean (July 28, 2006) – Aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), an F-14D Tomcat assigned to the “Tomcatters” of Fighter Squadron Three One (VF-31), aircraft number 112, completes the final catapult launch of an F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft. The last launch marks the end of an era for Naval Aviation. The F-14 will officially retire in September 2006, after 32 years of service to the fleet. Theodore Roosevelt is completing Joint Task Force Exercises with USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Laird
paging Al Gore
Better known for building igloos during hunts on the polar ice, Inuit in the village of Kuujjuaq in Quebec, Canada, are installing 10 air conditioners for about 25 office workers.
From Reuters, via Fark, and guaranteed 100% photoshop-free.
raincoaster 