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The hole left by a pried-out nail... what goes on in there?

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A tree branch "mysteriously" fell to the ground during Elvis's funeral and later sold at auction for $748 in 1977. WHERE IS IT? Proof of the supernatural. I want this heist movie!

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Is this true? Since 1958, there are 52 unrecovered nuclear warheads somewhere on the ocean floor. Those aliens from The Abyss weren't warning Ed Harris about nuclear war... they were announcing their first strike.

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Looking up weird valuable things (like there are 15,000 barrels of whale oil believed frozen somewhere in the Arctic); turns out there are rare Sacagawea $1 coins minted for a Cheerios promotion. $5500 per coin, if you have one. Most are missing. Checking!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I wish we could copy/paste Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty along an entire coast

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Someone please write a 12 Angry Men-style dramatization of a wrongful termination suit brought by George Jetson against Cosmo G. Spacely #scriptsky #tvsky

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Me as a chicken salesman, "Let's talk turkey." It'd be my thing, to the point where they're, "Oh no, this guy."

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Real writing question, do other people drop words and not notice? Even after rounds of proofing, I still sometimes find a sentence with a missing word (almost always in dialogue). This seems to be called a "misperception error." But I can't find anything about how common it is. #writing

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

the relief from a sneeze that doesn’t happen > the relief from a sneeze that does

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Sherwood Schwartz had a different vision for The Brady Bunch. After seeing The French Connection, he wanted Gene Hackman to be Mike Brady. ABC execs said NO. Can you imagine Popeye Doyle exploding on Bobby for lying that he knew Joe Namath? #tvsky

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Found in my jpegs folder as "Canned Whole Chicken"... hm

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Dads wearing those new shirts with mall-folds un-ironed

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Ever see something and want it for no clear reason whatsoever? I just need this thing. #sighwalkaway

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

The Caesar salad was invented in Tijuana -- 101 years ago. Where were the celebrations last year? #centennialfail

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

There's something about the great haunted house novels of the 60s and 70s. Amityville Horror, Hell House, The Shining, all titans of this subgenre -- but Burnt Offerings deserves amplification. The horror muted and quiet, yet proto-Ari Aster. Big recommend! #booksky

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

We're raised to be storytakers, not storytellers

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The shame of my life is that I own nachoquest.com and have never done anything with it

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Super important find buried since 2017 under piles of papers. No exp day, my fam is legally obligated to comply.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Letterman's very first Top 10 List was, "The Top Ten Things that Almost Rhyme with Peas" -- Heats, Rice, Moss, Ties, Needs, Lens , Ice, Nurse, Leeks, and Meats

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There's a paper on arXiv that found fleas from a dog jump farther than fleas from a cat. Can't express why, but this is my kind of quantitative science.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Soooooo in DnD tonight, we failed to realize that a mechanical dog in a Chuck E Cheese-style anamatronic band had a "sniper flute" -- a noble was killed, war has broken out, chaos prevails, total meltdown. I freakin love this game

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

There are more than 900 members of the International Association of Exorcists. Man, to be at that Vegas convention

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t think I’ve ever read hardboiled from multiple character povs. Helluva novel. Off topic, Levin wrote a disastrous sequel to his Rosemary’s Baby called Son of Rosemary. Somebody read it for me — I just can’t. #booksky

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I maintain that i could botch and blow up just as many space rockets given the resources

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

The original Trek theme had lyrics?? Written by Roddenberry, which means he got half the royalties, though they were never recorded. The opening lines, "Beyond the rim of the starlight / My love is wand'ring in starflight" #StarTrek

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

In Ancient Egypt, cinnamon was cultivated as deodorant, not as a spice. Ergo, Speed Stick Ocean Surf may one day flavor our food.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Another mini-spree at this den of seduction #booksky

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

There’s a life-size Gus Van Sant in our Portland hotel

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Bees that gather sugar from amusement park trash cans, what does that honey taste like?

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Please note, the proper compound plural would be Doctors Who

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Saw torture scene, force-feeding that Cheerio dust at the bottom of the bag

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Dribs and drabs, bibs and bobs

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If you’re the target of witchy mischief, dab yourself with an elixir of powdered sea pearls, roses and oil extracted from the groin sacs of beavers #booksky #witches #groinsacs

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

A Monopoly set with 18k gold tokens, emerald Chance and sapphire Community Chest spaces sold for $100,000. What gets me, the "Luxury Tax" space that has a drawing of a diamond ring -- no diamond?? Flip the board.

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1651, a woman’s pudding turned out undercooked. She claimed it was a sure sign of witchery, blamed the brickmaker, and off to Boston for hanging he went. The cheese on my nachos didn’t melt all the way. Which one of you quesomancers did this??

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

When I was learning the trumpet in 5th grade, the music teacher warned us that if you blew too hard, there’d be blood and pieces of lips coming out the bell. I mean, wtf??

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

M&Ms clack weird against my teeth.

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I was going complain that dust mop slippers don't exist, but my god, behold

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Dizzying, lovely. A tone poem from the ISS. More space literature, please #booksky

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

"All the tea in China" was once measured at a the weight of 200,000 elephants. All the tea in my house, why do we have all this? Who's drinking the Sleepy Time (exp 2016)? Whoa, whoa, I'm not throwing it away, WHAT IF I WANT IT?

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