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    Strip Down, Facing Me

    When you go to to the store to buy something and the clerk says, "Strip down, facing me," trust me, they're not talking about you, they're talking about your credit card.
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    Monitor-Merrimac Bridge

    This is just a shot taken as I drove across the bridge. On the horizon across the bay you can see 3 aircraft carriers at the Naval Air Station Norfolk.
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    Really, Internet?

    The new McDonald's holiday coffee cup. Most people look at this and see a pair of mittens. But not the Internet. No.
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    Canada Happy Canada Day!

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    Facts You Shouldn't Believe

    Napoleon was short He was actually 5' 7". The confusion comes from him being listed at 5' 2" at this death, but that was measured in French feet and inches, which was slightly larger than Imperial units. Don't Swim after Eating Going swimming after eating might make you short of breath if you...
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    Canada Canadian Humor

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    The Great American Eclipse

    August 21, 2017, a Monday Mark your calendar and make it a point to see this. Nearly the entire Lower 48 will see at least a partial eclipse that day, with the total eclipse happening roughly 2:20PM Eastern Time. That's just the ballpark, at it will vary a great deal depending upon where you...
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    An Italian, an Irishman and a Chinaman

    An Italian, an Irishman and a Chinaman are hired to work on a construction site. On the first day the foreman points to a huge pile of sand and says to the Italian," You're in charge of sweeping." To the Irishman he says, "You're in charge of shoveling." To the Chinaman he says, "You're in...
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    OK, Which Way?

    This is a picture of a bus located in Anywhere , USA. The bus is moving. Which direction is the bus moving, to the left or to the right? 80% of kids 10 years old and younger got the answer nearly immediately, without hesitation, without having to think about it. 80% of adults are flummoxed...
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    Accent-Off: Minnesota Edition

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    Where's Panda?

    It's like Where's Waldo, only not the same.
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    POLL Do You Like Polls?

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    Baby, Baby!

    The Smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr. Smith kissed his wife goodbye and said, 'Well, I'm off now. The man should be here soon.' Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door...
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    The World's Most Advanced Humanoid Robots

    This never gets old.
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    Happy Pi Day!

    If you're a math geek, you already know. Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. You can use pi to to calculate the circumference or area of a circle (area = pi times the radius squared: A = πr2). The Pi Day celebration is held annually on March 14th, because 3/14...
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    Mad Archery Skills

    Legolas Greenleaf the Elf (Orlando Bloom) in Lord of the Rings can fire off arrows in rapid fire succession like crazy, just as fast as he could draw them from his quiver. Same with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in The Hunger Games. Grab. Whoosh. Grab. Whoosh. ("I recently read about a...
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    Eat Like You Mean It

    Ah, the Super Bowl, that time of year where we get to see the latest from Carl's Jr slash Hardees. In an homage to a scene from Austin Powers, played to the music of all-natural meat-eating Ted Nugent, Carl's Jr debuts the All Natural Burger, with no antibiotics, no added hormones, and...
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    Seattle Dog Takes Bus to Dog Park

    Eclipse is her name, and she routinely gets on the bus, alone, rides it to her stop at the dog park, then gets off the bus, alone. http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Seattle-dogs-rush-hour-ride-on-the-bus-by-herself-weekly-288345081.html?tab=video&c=y "She's been urbanized, totally. She's...
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    Christmas Lights Ditto

    Christmas Decorations Ditto This looks like something I'd do, but even that looks like a lot of work. :D
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    From Splint to Cast in a Week

    Happened Wed morning, 11/19/14, Columbia, MO. The splint was big and bulky and heavy. Like wearing a concrete mitten. The cast is considerably lighter, and I have at least a very limited use of my fingers. Can't really make a fist yet because of the pain and the fingers are still swollen a bit...
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