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Jon Lovitz's SNL Liar character.
Big fish swallowing smaller fish swallowing still smaller fish.
Size matters Known as the Animal Proportion Formula (APF), it divides asteroids and meteoroids – their smaller counterparts – into 10 simple categories. “Blue whale” is the biggest, covering asteroids ranging in size from 20 to 30 m. “Colossal squid” refers to anything between 10 and 20 m, with smaller sizes being “elk” (5–10 m), “bear” (2–5 m) and “lion” (1–2 m). Controversially, giraffes have been excluded from the new system as they lack spatial symmetry. Meteoroids, in turn, are split into “dog” (0.5–1 m), “cat” (0.2–0.5 m), “gerbil” (0.1–0.2 m) and “cockroach” (0.01–0.1 m) with “tardigrades” below that. Objects lying between those sizes may be sub-divided further into “halves”, “thirds” and “quarters”. ESA suggests astronomers should refer to, for example, a 3 cm meteoroid as being “one third the size of a gerbil”.
Mutley chuckling
In a scene from Twilight Zone's "To Serve Man" episode, Patty, cryptographer Michael Chambers' assistant, calls to him that "It's a cookbook!" as she's being restrained by a Kanamit.
By urging us to once again eat food, he challenges the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach — what he calls nutritionism — and proposes an alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown, unprocessed food. Our personal health, he argues, cannot be divorced from the health of the food chains of which we are part.
Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.
Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.
Eli Wallach as Tuco Ramírez in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly assembling a pistol from parts.
Minnesota Twins' Christopher Austin Martin in AAA St. Paul Saints uniform. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olivares_stole_2nd_(53146665334)_(cropped).jpg
Three Turk's cap lilies in mass of foliage
American robin taking a sun bath
Among the recommendations: reduce lawn watering to about one inch per week, turn off automatic irrigation controls, water only when soil is dry, and check hoses and sprinklers for leaks. Indoors, the city suggests fixing leaking toilets, running dishwashers and laundry machines only with full loads, and turning off the tap while brushing teeth or shaving
Many mainstream environmentalists (and certainly policy wonks) downplay the need to couple the energy transition with something just as important: reducing consumption in wealthy societies, especially among the billionaire class. Some argue that humans aren’t capable of consuming less and rarely address the market-based economy’s reliance on endless growth. Doing so, of course, would require a more sophisticated analysis of what we are up against.
"All right, listen up... our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes... What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. ... Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimble. Go get him."
Two closed dumpsters and one open and overflowing, with garbage on the ground.
Opinion Here's Why It Would Be A Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes by Some Rich Asshole
Harvey Corman as Hedley Lamarr in movie Blazing Saddles.
Nelson of The Simpsons saying Ha-ha!
Will Geer as Wyatt Earp in movie Winchester '73 declaring the shooting match a tie.
Great blue heron along cornfield behind my apartment.
Monkey clanging cymbals in Homer Simpson's head.
Crows picking through garbage in open dumpster.
Airplane with red dots indicating where damage occurred.
Horse Tread Mill Power Unit: The horse walked on the tread mill, and that turned the pulley wheel which powered different machines.
A Century and a Half After Custer’s Last Stand, the Battle of Little Bighorn Continues to Mystify The June 1876 firefight resulted in the deaths of George Armstrong Custer and 267 of his men. Historians continue to debate exactly how the Lakota Sioux and the Northern Cheyenne secured their victory over the U.S. Army
Trees reflected in rain puddle.
Human "battery" in the Matrix.
Mallard ducks along Mississippi River, St. Cloud, Minnesota.
AI Overview The Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Shore Leave" (1966) heavily draws from Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It pioneered the concept of a reality-manifesting planet, serving as a direct precursor to the franchise's later "holodeck" and drawing thematic parallels to the Westworld concept.
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions. --Thomas Paine
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Michael Douglas pointing gun at viewer (from the film Falling Down.)
Wood frog near Kraemer Lake in Stearns county, Minnesota.
In The Bob Newhart Show episode, Mr. Plager mentioned feeling alone like "James Arness in The Thing from Another World," but Mr. Carlin interrupted, arguing that Arness was in the movie but wasn't actually "The Thing". Newhart then set the record straight by confirming Arness did indeed play the monster.
Minnesota led the nation in farm bankruptcies in the first quarter, and farmers are anxious
“If we ought to discuss a posting platform we ought to discuss a posting platform, and if we ought not to discuss a posting platform we ought to discuss a posting platform ; in either case, therefore, we ought to discuss a posting platform. For if a posting platform exists we ought certainly to discuss a posting platform, because a posting platform exists ; and if it does not exist, even so we ought to examine why it does not exist, and in examining this we shall be discussing a posting platform, because examination is what makes a posting platform.” ― Aristotle
Female Mallard with two ducklings.
American Robin atop fir tree.
Simpsons character Nelson saying "HA-ha!"
Robot "Gort" from film "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
Oliver Hardy throws up his arms in exasperation.
Two panel Hi & Lois cartoon from July 4, 2025. First panel: Hi, the dad, says, "249 years ago we declared our independence from a tyrannical ruler." Second panel: Ditto looks back at his father while fireworks flash in the night sky and says, "I hope we don't have to do that again."
Chris Farley going from pleasant to confused to embarrassed.
Mallard ducks in a windy swale.
We can thank old-time toadeaters for toady. In 17th-century Europe, a toadeater was a showman's assistant whose job was to make the boss look good. The toadeater would eat (or pretend to eat) what were supposed to be poisonous toads. The charlatan in charge would then "save" the toad-afflicted assistant by expelling the poison. It's little wonder that such assistants became symbolic of extreme subservience, and that toadeater became a word for any obsequious underling. By the early 1800s, it had been shortened and altered to toady, our current term for a servile self-seeker. By the mid-1800s, toady was also being used as a verb meaning "to engage in sycophancy."
Hiroshima after A-bomb.
Lyle Lanley character from Simpsons "Marge vs the Monorail" episode.
Sketch of human skeleton next to early speculative vision of T. rex skeleton https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Tyrannosaurus_skeleton.jpg.
Minnesota Twins logo featuring baseball players representing Minneapolis and St. Paul shaking hands across the Mississippi River. Above them is the clarion call "Win! Twins!"
Happy Earth Day! Counting-Out Rhyme by Edna St. Vincent Millay Silver bark of beech, and sallow Bark of yellow birch and yellow Twig of willow. Stripe of green in moosewood maple, Colour seen in leaf of apple, Bark of popple. Wood of popple pale as moonbeam, Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam, Wood of hornbeam. Silver bark of beech, and hollow Stem of elder, tall and yellow Twig of willow.
War chief Hegseth announcing his incongruous bodily autonomy for his beardless troops via a video on X/Twitter. He captioned his post "We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately."
Homer Simpson in a blue suit, red tie, and an American-flag lapel pin and a gravy boat on his head ostensibly uttering the word "Ballroom"
Roughly seven weeks into the war with Iran, investors have repeatedly shrugged off the sky-high price of oil, sending the S&P 500 soaring back to record highs. That exuberance on Wall Street offers a sharp contrast with the hardships facing many Americans, who are feeling the financial blowback of a conflict that President Trump once promised would be brief but seems to have no end in sight. With high gas prices cutting deeply into many families’ budgets, the U.S. economy is under increasing strain, raising the odds that inflation will worsen, unemployment will rise and growth will slow this year.
Wikipedia entry for Joe Btfsplk character in Li'l Abner Comic. This excerpt contains a textual description next to a two panel sample of comic strip. Text calls Joe the world's worst jinx and Wikipedia editors flag this [citation needed]. The comic explicitly says that Joe's the world's worst jinx.
Minnesota Twins players suited up on Jackie Robinson Day.
The day polio met its match: Celebrating 70 years of the Salk vaccine Seventy years ago, on April 12, 1955, a scientific breakthrough changed the course of public health and inspired hope worldwide. The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and colleagues was officially declared “safe, effective, and potent”—a moment heralded as a triumph of medicine over one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century.
AI-generated image of Artemis II splashing down.
NY Times Headline Iran Looks to Project Unity With Large Delegation to Peace Talks At least 70 people are in the team that is scheduled to negotiate with the American side in Pakistan on Saturday.
AI Overview Spanish defaults to stress on the second-to-last syllable if a word ends in a vowel, n, or s (e.g., luna, joven), and on the last syllable if it ends in any other consonant (e.g., ciudad, hablar). A written accent (tilde) is used to mark exceptions to these rules.