Things You Should See

End or beginning?

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Starting tomorrow, we'll be over here

Noticed this the other day, actually

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Direct and to the point, I like it

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Pretty sure I know her...

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Well, there you go then

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Yup

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No.

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I'll let Stewie take it from here (let it load...):

Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy...

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Um, wrong?

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Always good advice

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Something's wrong here

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Everything

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The decade in review

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KRAKAPOW!

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I wish I knew where this was

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Should have written it in code, I'm thinking...

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from What The Facebook?

James Woods, ladies and gentlemen

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Would this really surprise you?

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You what now?

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A day late, what can I say?

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No sense of humor at all, I said

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Merry Christmas!

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They call him "Mr. Glass"

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awsome

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It came from 11,000 BC

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At the top of a small hill in suburban southern California, there is what appears to be a thicket of stunted, gnarled oak trees wedged between a pile of boulders. A passerby would likely miss this ancient, biological wonder.

The entire grove of trunks is in fact one plant, a newly discovered Palmer's oak (Quercus palmeri) that researchers estimate is over 13,000 years old, making it one of the oldest plants on Earth.

From Discovery News

Ah, the 70's

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No, no no.

2009-12-22T13:58:00.000-08:00

Dogs have no sense of humor. Well known fact

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Uh huh...

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Guess I missed it then...

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I'm sorry, ok?

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Oh, well that makes perfect sense then...

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I have nothing to add

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Best Man Rigs Newlyweds’ Bed To Tweet During Sex. Not Kidding.

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awesome

Snoop tells you where to go

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They can rebuild him...

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Rachel Maddow: new personal hero

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Whoops!

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Funniest Facebook Snafus

Swirly thing alert!

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A mysterious light display appearing over Norway last night has left thousands of residents in the north of the country baffled.

Witnesses from Trøndelag to Finnmark compared the amazing sight to anything from a Russian rocket to a meteor or a shock wave - although no one appears to have mentioned UFOs yet.

The phenomenon began when what appeared to be a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain. It stopped mid-air, then began to circulate.

Read more

ironic?

2009-12-07T15:18:00.000-08:00

Glass Microbiology

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E. coli (105cm long)

These transparent glass sculptures were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomena. Jerram is exploring the tension between the artworks' beauty and what they represent, their impact on humanity.

Artists site here

OK, seriously, what the hell?

2009-11-23T13:35:00.000-08:00

From Awkward Family Photos

Good to know

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ha!

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I have no words

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Probably not

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Unquote

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“For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him — he may have a razor on him.”

– Editor of the London Daily Express, refusing to see John Logie Baird, inventor of television, 1925

Excellent claymation (pretty gory though)

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Amazing sculptures

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"Today I create the illusion of flesh by mimicking nature -- basically using materials that feel and behave like what they represent. “Bones” are made with wire shaped by heavy felt, “muscles,” simulated by batting, are attached to the bones in the correct anatomical way, and this all makes a perfect frame for the fiberfill and nylon that beautifully simulates skin."

The artists site is here.

How small is it?

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Check it out here

I love slow-motion photography

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Awesome papercraft

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More pictures here

Burj Dubai Fountain Show

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The tallest fountain in the world (with water reaching as high as 150 meters), near the tallest building in the world was recently completed and tested with this water/light/music extravaganza.

I did not know that

2009-11-16T12:05:00.000-08:00

It all started with dancing goats...

Figures

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From the always wacky Wondermark!

Completely speechless

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Chickens are decent people

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ha!

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Oops

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Gonna pass, thanks

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more info

Poke

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Great 'shop

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It's a fair question

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just sayin'

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What?

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What's happening?

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Girls with guns

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yowza.

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Anyway you can, I guess

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Mind if I play through?

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hahahaha

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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha

Everyone's learning something today

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Professor: So when humans evolved to bipedalism and were walking on two legs instead of four, their sexual practices changed and they began to have face to face sex.
Guy in back of class: Well, I mean... it's not always face to face.
Professor: Well, it tends to be the most common and most comfortable way for bipeds to have sex.
(long pause)
Professor: I assume by your silence that you disagree.

--Barnard

Overheard by: You had to say that to the Prof???
via Overheard in New York

Valley fog

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Hey, it's good advice

2009-10-28T12:00:00.000-07:00

Tourist man to girlfriend, pulling out a ring: Will you marry me?
Bag lady, interjecting: Has he made you come yet?
Tourist girlfriend, terrified: Um... no?
Bad lady: Don't marry him 'till he makes you come.

--Central Park

Overheard by: Kari
via Overheard in New York

Like Frogger, only different

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Quality family time, right there

2009-10-27T12:00:00.000-07:00

Dad: I won't tell mommy about the donut you're eating if you don't tell mommy about the cigarette I'm about to smoke.
Daughter: Okay.

--Coffee Shop, Park Slope
via Overheard in New York

Falling

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Yeah, seriously!

2009-10-26T12:00:00.000-07:00

Brunette girl: (enters elevator and stares angrily at Asian girl next to her, then leaves elevator)
Asian girl, to guy next to her: Oh my god!
Guy: What?
Asian girl: That was the same girl! I stuck a dildo in her mouth while we were all drunk last night.
Guy: Haha.
Asian girl: I don't know why she's mad at me. Like, what's the big deal, get over it.
Guy: Yeah, seriously.

--Chelsea
via Overheard in New York

Great face

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It starts at home, apparently

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Mom to screaming girls: If you do not stop right now, there will be no tv for a week.
Girls: Nooooo!
Mom: That or a spanking.
Girl #1: I'll take the spanking.
Mom: You don't want the spanking. I will spank you so hard you won't sit for a week.
Girl #2, yelling: When are you going to beat me? I want you to beat me!

--Post Office, Staten Island
via Overheard in New York

Couger cubs

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wow

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No one knows what causes the “morning glory” clouds of northern Australia, but they’re striking — long rolling tubes that can stretch for hundreds of kilometers across the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Glider pilots converge on tiny Burketown in Far North Queensland each fall, hoping to “surf the glory,” riding the unique air currents that accompany the clouds.

via Futility Closet

I can't get the hang of this lingo either

2009-10-24T12:00:00.000-07:00

50-something man to friends: Have you heard about Twitter? It's a new way of communicating in short text messages. Each message is called a twoo... No, a tween. No, a twain. No, a twat... No, that's certainly not it.

--Lobby, Off Broadway Theater

Overheard by: another electric guy

via Overheard in New York, Oct 21, 2009

Buff!

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Um...

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On Feb. 5, 1958, during a simulated combat mission near Savannah, Ga., a B-47 bomber collided with an F-86 fighter. The fighter crashed; the bomber, barely airworthy, needed to reduce weight to avoid an emergency landing.

So it dropped a 7,600-pound nuclear bomb.

The bomb contained 400 pounds of conventional explosives and highly enriched uranium. There’s some disagreement as to whether it included the plutonium capsule needed to start a nuclear reaction.

That’s rather important, because in 50 years of searching the Air Force still hasn’t found the bomb. It hit the water near Tybee Island off the Georgia coast and is presumably buried in 10 feet of silt somewhere in Wassaw Sound. But exactly where it is, and how dangerous it is, remain unknown.

Politeness counts, I guess

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Older gentleman on phone: I was just calling to ask if you wanted to make love to my nice, long, Lebanese penis again tonight. (pause) Yes, yes, 10 works for me.

--45th & 5th Ave

Overheard by: Morgan

via Overheard in New York, Oct 21, 2009

Ahhhhhhh

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I did not know that

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Imaginary patrons of Jersey City’s Tube Bar paged by owner Louis “Red” Deutsch at the request of telephone pranksters John Elmo and Jim Davidson in the mid-1970s:

Al Coholic
Al Kaseltzer
Al Kykyoras
Ben Dover
Butchie Pantsdown
Frank Enstein
Holden McGroin
Imov Irgin
Jim Nasium
Joe Mama
Mike Ocksmall
Moe Ronn
Oliver Closeoff
Rufus Leakin

Elmo and Davidson recorded Deutsch’s earnest pages and the wild, vituperative threats that followed when he realized he’d been had. In the 1980s the tapes began to circulate among professional sports leagues and eventually found their way to animator Matt Groening … who turned them into a running gag on The Simpsons.

via Futility Closet

Gonna pass, thanks.

2009-10-22T12:00:00.000-07:00

Comedy club promoter: Comedy club, comedy club. Laugh until you get violent diarrhea!

--Times Square

Overheard by: Patrick

via Overheard in New York, Oct 21, 2009

Apparently you get it from swimming?

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Katrina: Four years ago

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They're not winning

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A policeman puts his hand in a bag containing dozens of spent bullet casings that he helped collect from the Morro dos Macacos slum after a shootout between drug gangs, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on October 17, 2009. A police helicopter was shot down by the gangs when it tried to intervene in the battle, leaving two policemen killed and two injured in the crash. (REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes)

The 2009 United Nations World Drug report, released earlier this year, notes that 2009 marks "the end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)", and that the illicit drug market worldwide has now become a $320 billion-per-year industry. As drug-related violence in Mexico appears to continue unabated, and crackdowns in Afghanistan are being made against its massive opium crops, new efforts are also being made worldwide in methods of enforcement and treatment of recovering addicts. Collected here are a handful of recent images from the rough world of illegal drugs across the globe. (37 photos total)

CSI in 30 seconds

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Coworker #1: There was a barn fire just outside of town. The whole barn was destroyed. The farmer was missing at first, but they found his remains in the barn. They are sending the remains to Toronto to figure out the cause of death.
Coworker #2: Burnt.
Coworker #1: Excuse me?
Coworker #2: Burnt.
Coworker #1: You are a sick fuck, know that?

Waterloo
Canadia

Overheard by: Meesh

via Overheard in the Office, Oct 15, 2009

Styx wrote a song about you people

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More here

Awesome!

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Just sayin'

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Attendee at Microsoft event: So what's a Zune?
Zune rep: It's a music and media player that...
Attendee: So, it's an iPod?

--Cooper Union

Overheard by: Peter Pentacostle
via Overheard in New York, Oct 9, 2009

Killdozer!

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Marvin Heemeyer

Have you dreamed this man?

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In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist's desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN.

thisman.org

Sounds about right

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Well, what about tomorrow?

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Man selling glasses on the street: Would you like a piercing today?
Woman on phone: Hang on... What?
Man selling glasses: Would you like to get a piercing today?
Woman: Would I like a...? No, I would not like to get a piercing today. (back into phone) I love New York.

--St. Mark's St

Overheard by: Logan
via Overheard in New York, Oct 13, 2009