Why Frasier Never Showed Niles' Wife Maris, According To David Hyde Pierce.
Please consider choosing a trans girl scout to get your cookies from this year - the kids are under attack this year more than ever, so let's give them some joy. (via Metafilter)
Three New Movies Are Resurrecting Frankenstein.
After overwintering at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, the blogger at brr finally left Antartica in November after the sun came up and regular transportation became available. Read the process for departure in two parts, here and here. (via Nag on the Lake)
Dizzying Gifs by Etienne Jacob Infuse Mathematical Equations into Endless Loops.
9 Infamous Kidnappings From History. You might remember some of them.
The Simpsons: 13 Jokes That Sailed Over Our Heads.
Shrinking Families Will Reshape Society This Century. The average 65-year-old woman living in 1950 had 41 living relatives in her extended family, while in 2024, I have ten.
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Further reading on kidnappings:
The Blue Tattoo, The life of Olive Oatman by
Margot Mifflin is a good read. The character
Eva Oates in AMC's Hell on Wheels is "loosely"
based on Oatman.
Empire of the Summer Moon - Quanah Parker and
the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most
Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by
S.C. Gwynne should be required reading in high
school. Absolutely awesome. The movie is in
pre-production. John Wayne's The Searchers is
based on Cynthia Ann Parker.
And here's a freebie special:
Narrative of the capture and subsequent sufferings of Mrs. Rachel Plummer
Written by Rachel Plummer, it's only 32 pages
and available on-line. Read it.
Thank you for using the word infamous.
I spend copious amounts of ink correcting people's misuse of the word famous, on the internet's social sites.
Oh, the irony.
In the '13 Jokes That Sailed Over Our Heads' Grandpa Simpson orates about '40 rods to the hogshead' and then the text goes on to explain that a rod equals some other old fashioned measurement, also now defunct, at least, in 194 of the world's 197 countries.
Lols in metres.
"I spend copious amounts of ink correcting people's misuse of the word famous, on the internet's social sites."
....... WilliamRocket
Don't you mean, "I annoy countless numbers of electrons" rather than
"spend copious amounts of ink", since almost everything on the internet is just images on a screen rather than something that is in hard-copy form and physically tangible?
-"BB"-
Don't waste your breath BB, he can't grasp the reality there's more of US than UK, NZ, AUS, CDN, SA, and the rest of the empire put together so we make our own rules instead of being sheep.
The problem with ordering cookies online is I don't know where they are. Girl Scout cookies are different in different regions depending on the baker.
xoxoxoBruce
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