Common sense is becoming more and more uncommon, but cluelessness is eternal.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Golden Retriever Agility
We rate Dogs found an older video of Mack the golden retriever, learning how to do the weave poles in an agility course. He approaches his task in the most golden retriever way possible, which many of his fans admire greatly. Right off the bat, Mack gets an A for enthusiasm. He eventually learns what he's supposed to do. (via Boing Boing)
An Honest Trailer for Anaconda
The 1997 movie Anaconda sent a bunch of movie stars into the Amazon, but some of them weren't yet movie stars. The story is about a world-record-size anaconda, a type of boa constrictor. In other words, a big snake. The film is overstuffed with sweat, sex, and over-the-top special effects, which is all well and good if you're into that sort of thing. Critics didn't care for Anaconda, and the film was nominated for six Razzie Awards. It would have won some if it weren't for Kevin Costner's movie The Postman. Still, Anaconda became a cult classic -as a comedy.
And now it has become a comedy. The 2025 movie Anaconda starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black opens on Christmas Day, so it's only natural that Screen Junkies went retro and bring us an Honest Trailer for the original Anaconda.
Miss Cellania's Links
8 of the Most Shockingly Dark Stories Behind Beloved Disney Movies.
A theory about Christmas prophesy you may not have ever heard of.
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State. (via Boing Boing)
Cousin Molly and the Kentucky Christmas Fund. (via Strange Company)
Gifts for People You Hate 2025: Boycott Friendly Edition. (via Everlasting Blort)
Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich. (via Damn Interesting)
Trump administration replaces America 250 quarters honoring abolition and women’s suffrage with Mayflower and Gettysburg designs.
6 of the Strangest Snow and Ice Formations in Nature.
I Gotta Feeling
The Ein Prat Fountainheads celebrate Hanukkah, which continues all this week. The Fountainheads are the group who brought us Livin' in a Booth And Dip Your Apple. Here's to a blessed celebration!
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Beatnik Christmas Tale
From 1970. That seems strange to me, as the term beatnik was pretty much replaced by the term hippies by then. I mean, my parents were beatniks. I was a hippie. (via Weird Universe)
A WWII Christmas Story
Christmas can be hard when you're thousands of miles away from your loved ones, and especially when you're facing dangers that could prevent you from ever seeing them again. Anything that makes that ordeal easier is a Christmas miracle. Sean of the South relates one Christmas gift in 1943 that no one involved will ever forget.
The story checks out, but there's a small correction that make it even better. The movie that the sailors received wasn't just still shots, but film footage of wives and children opening the gifts from their husbands and daddies and waving "hi!" to them, all arranged by Macy's. The entire project started out in August, or else it never could have been pulled off.
The Reason You Drink
Mary and Paul Sommers of Dayton, Ohio, sent all three of their children through the same Catholic grade school. This is the final year for their youngest son, Jake. To show their appreciation for the patience the teachers showed, they got Jake's teachers bottles of chardonnay for Christmas, with specially-printed labels you can see here. Their older son DJ Tweeted pictures of the gifts. The response was overwhelming, which Mary did not expect. They even made some TV stations and newspapers. The teachers were more appreciative than shocked. (via Buzzfeed)
Bird Cowboy
Remember that story The Ugly Duckling? If you ever wondered what happened to the subject of that tale, this song will continue the story after he rides off into the sunset. Except here, he remains a duck instead of a swan. Except he's more than a just duck- he's a cowboy! Or rather, a Western gunslinger, because there's no cows in sight. Okay, he's a duck gunslinger who goes by the name Bird Cowboy. A story doesn't have to make sense when it's this good. You can almost hear Johnny Cash singing this. But it's from Mummy Joe, and the illustrations are both silly and adorable. (via Everlasting Blort)
The Christmas Closet
The challenge is to concentrate as many Christmas lights into a small space as possible, or so it seems. Why else would you decorate a tiny room with no furniture? Watch as Justin strings lights in a closet and adds extra Christmas enhancements. You know he fell off those ridiculous homemade stilts at least once. And how many plug-ins can one electrical outlet hold? When the big moment comes, you expect a fire instead of Christmas lights. Watch the video before you continue reading.
Miss Cellania's Links
Volcanic eruption triggered 'butterfly effect' that led to the Black Death, researchers find. https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanic-eruption-triggered-butterfly-effect-that-led-to-the-black-death-researchers-find (via Strange Company)
A child bride who was due to be executed this month in Iran over the death of her husband has had her life spared by his parents, who were paid the equivalent of £70,000 in exchange for their forgiveness. (via Damn Interesting)
Truckers Say These Are The Best (And Worst) Highways In The U.S.
Looking Back at the White Man: The story of Julius Lips. His 1937 book on colonialism as seen from the other side rubbed Hitler the wrong way. (via Metafilter)
Hegseth’s New Pentagon AI Is Telling Military Personnel His Boat Strike Was Completely Illegal. (via Fark)
The Lost Forty: How an 1882 Surveying Error Saved a Patch of Forest from Logging.
The Judy Garland Christmas Movie Meet Me in St. Louis Was Surprisingly Spicy Behind the Scenes.
Most radioactive site in US is moving on from the Manhattan Project. And finally dealing with its nuclear waste in a surprising way. (via Damn Interesting)
A Hamilton Hanukkah
2016 was the year for a Hamilton Hanukkah. The a cappella group Six13 was invited to perform at the White House, and they unveiled their 2016 Hanukkah sequence, modeled on the Broadway musical Hamilton.
Not to be outdone, the a cappella group the Maccabeats also did Hamilton for their annual song parody for Hanukkah 2016. "Hasmonean" tells the tale of the miracle of the lights, also in the style of the Broadway musical Hamilton. (via Metafilter)
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