Deer don't typically choose to become best friends with humans, especially when that human is a teenage boy, but Money the deer is different than the rest, and so is his human pal Kelvin.
Kelvin first met Money when he was out in his yard shooting hoops, and he was immediately struck by how odd it was that the deer wasn't afraid of him.
Thinking the deer might be hungry he fed it some crackers, donuts and marshmallows, which the short sighted people online gave him hell for doing, and that kind gesture was all Money needed to stick around.
Money was so happy with the provisions being provided he brought the rest of his deer posse down to Kelvin's house for some human hospitality.
And Kelvin started buying healthy snacks for his deer fam so the haters would stop riding his back about his choice of snacks for Money and his honey Lola.
Imagine training all your life for one ten-second race at the Olympics, and not only does the fastest man alive blow past you, but he is also mugging for the cameras as he does it. This just may be the premiere image from the Rio Olympics- Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt smiling as he leads the pack to win his third gold medal in the men’s 100-meter dash (his seventh overall). The fastest man in the world clocked in at 9.81 seconds, defeating American Justin Gatlin, who came in second. Bolt will next compete in the 200-meter and 4x100-meter relay, events he also won in 2008 and 2012. See a roundup of Twitter jokes about the picture here. -via Uproxx
Never let the haters in the world tell you SpongeBob SquarePants is not of historical importance, because those anti-Spongeicans are just jealous of SpongeBob's contributions to the world.
Bikini Bottom seems to have a lot in common with the Bermuda Triangle, since both oceanic locations are full of strange occurrences and random encounters.
But the trials and tribulations encountered by SpongeBob and his buddies are like perfect parallels of the historical events we humans encountered on the surface.
These parallel events must be why the memes shared on r/BikiniBottomTwitter are so spot on, revealing all the ways we've been underestimating SpongeBob and Patrick since the 90s.
Oh, that looks painful. It may look like a belly-flop contest, but this Norwegian sport is called dødsing. The video was taken at an event at Frognerbadet in Oslo this past Saturday. Redditor aMagnu explains how it’s done.
It's not a bellyflop competition, it's called dødsing which kinda translates do "deathing". The idea is that you spread out as you would for a bellyflop, but tuck into a sort of folded-in-half-dive right before hitting the water. The contestants are scored based on style and how long they wait before tucking in. I'm pretty sure a full-blown bellyflop from that height (10m) is potentially very harmfull. As the name implies it's about narrowly avoiding death.
Well, there's a context where this is natural, let me just say that up front. In the end of the 60's / beginning of the 70's, Oslo youth would hang out at the pool where this diving tower is, and the "rebels" would dare each other to do døds to impress the girls, but also to be a counter culture to the more established and more elegant traditional divers. Diving has strict rules and has to be elegant, and Oslo is a divided city in many ways. Working class on the east side, posh people from the west side. Diving was a classical west side activity, along with tennis and golf, and so dødsing was a massive middle finger from the east side boys to show that they could do daring stuff as well, and much cooler. Along the coast of Norway there are also a lot of cliffs that are perfect for jumping so dødsing has spread out of Oslo all over the place and is a typical summer activity for many who are into this sort of thing. Another thing to note is that other there are other diving towers with 10m platforms close by Oslo, and they are not regulated, so there are no rules. People do shit like this because it is fun, and to impress their mates and girls basically.
If you have any droopy, squashed, or otherwise odd-looking ceramic pots lying around the house, they may be worth a lot more than you realize. George Ohr made thousands of them in his lifetime; today they’re worth a fortune. Many are still out there, waiting to be discovered.
THE DRIFTER
George E. Ohr was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1857. As was the custom in those days, as soon as this son of a blacksmith was old enough, he went to work as an apprentice in his father’s trade. But blacksmithing wasn’t for him. Neither was tinkering, working on the docks, seafaring, or any of the 16 other jobs he tried from age 14 to 22. It wasn’t until a friend, Joseph Meyer, talked him into accepting a $ 10-a-week apprenticeship in his family’s pottery studio that Ohr finally found something he wanted to do. “When I found the potter’s wheel I felt it all over, like a wild duck in water,” he said.
Ohr stuck with the apprenticeship for two years— a record for him. When he felt he’d learned everything he could from the Meyers, he hopped a boxcar and spent another two years traveling through 16 eastern states, visiting local pottery studios, museums, county fairs, and anyplace else he could meet potters and study their work. He returned to New Orleans in 1882 and the following year built his own studio in Biloxi.
MOONLIGHTING
Ohr supported himself and, after he married in 1886, his growing family of 10 children— Ella, Asa, Leo, Clo, Lio, Oto, Flo, Zio, Ojo and Geo, only five of whom lived to adulthood— by selling bowls, pitchers, mugs, jugs, and other wares door to door from a handcart. (If the man of the house was around, he also sold bawdy, anatomically suggestive pots and “brothel tokens”— ceramic coins decorated with risqué images of rabbits, jackasses, screws, and other double entendres.) When he wasn’t busy earning a living, he explored the artistic side of pottery. Working with unusually moist, sandy clay he dug from the banks of a nearby river, Ohr taught himself to make the walls of his clay pots wafer-thin and to fire them in a way that prevented them from cracking in the heat. No one quite knows how he did it; more than a century later, potters struggle to reproduce his results.
CRACK POT
Ohr’s “mud babies,” as he called his artistic pieces, were wildly unconventional. He folded, dented, ruffled, and crumpled the clay, giving his pots a very asymmetrical and offbeat appearance. Some pots drooped, as if they had melted in the sun, and others looked squashed, as if they’d been vandalized by a prankster. Others had long, winding, snakelike handles. Many pieces were purely artistic— some vases couldn’t hold flowers, and some pitchers and mugs couldn’t hold water. Others were as tiny as shot glasses.
Anatomical cutaways and pin-ups don't sound like two things that would go great together, but a good artist can surprise you by bringing two seemingly disparate visual elements together.
The mechanical pin-up models who star in Fernando Vincente's series Anatomies are disturbingly alluring, and they exude android cool(ant), but they seem like artwork from another time.
Perhaps when we reach a point in history when cyberpunk stories no longer read like speculative fiction, or when our futuristic world matches the visions shared by Space Age artists, Fernando's Anatomies will feel right at home.
So many times when we look back at the past, it makes us contemplate the future. What kind of legacy are we leaving for the ages? Our written works could be embarrassing, but I keep thinking that future generations will never know the stupidity that we left on the internet, VHS, or compact disc because they won’t be able to find a working compatible player. This comic is from John McNamee at Pie Comic.
Automated cleaning devices like the Roomba are great ideas on paper, and people buy them thinking they'll save time and effort, but the actual technology needs improvement.
Just ask Jesse Newton from Little Rock, Arkansas and he'll tell you the Roomba has a major design flaw- it can't sense a dog turd, and doesn't know better than to run right over one.
Jesse found out the hard way, in the middle of the night, and the poopocalypse brought about by his Roomba was so bad he just had to share his story.
The bar has been raised for big public proposals. Chinese Olympic diver Qin Kai dropped to one knee in front of billions of people to propose marriage to fellow diver He Zi as she stood on the podium after winning a silver medal in the women’s three meter springboard event in Rio.
So He Zi will go home from the Olympics with a silver medal and a diamond ring. You won’t be able to watch the video if you aren’t in the United States, but you can see more pictures at Buzzfeed.
Their investigations have taken them to some dark places, where there views of reality were tested and changed forever more, but the worst part about working the X-Files is the fact that you can't stop seeking the truth once you've started to dig. Dana used to think Fox was barking mad when he talked about shadowy government organizations and alien abductions, but now that she knows the truth she's left wondering which of them has suffered the most from the ordeal of obtaining forbidden knowledge...
Go on an adventure with your favorite paranormal investigators by wearing this Mulder & Scully t-shirt by Joseph Wright, it's one mighty cool mystery your fellow fans will be happy to help you solve!
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A leopard fell into a 60-foot well in age village of Pimpalgaon Sinddhanath, near Pune in India. The well had substantial water in it, and the leopard had been treading for no one knows how long. If the animal were a dog or a goat, someone could go down and get it, but a leopard, even an exhausted one, is too dangerous. The organization Wildlife SOS responded, led by veterinarian Dr. Ajay. First, they threw in a raft made from stick tied together so the leopard could float while they decided what to do next.
And how do you trap a cat at a distance? Use a box! Even big cats can’t resist a box, so they lowered a box with a trap door down, and the leopard took the bait. After ascertaining the leopard was in decent health, it was released into the wild. -via Arbroath
When network bean counters decide a show has gone over budget, or they cut the budget because ratings aren't “high enough”, great shows air crappy episodes that scare viewers away.
The Walking Dead started out strong, and has always had decent ratings, but the budget was slashed so hard for the second season the show's dramatic build-up came to a stand still on Hershel's farm.
Survivors stuck on a farm for an episode or two seemed like a novel idea, but the combination of no budget and the firing of director Frank Darabont meant the survivors were trapped on the farm for far too long.
LOST made a similarly stagnating move by locking main characters in polar bear cages for six episodes in the third season, making viewers wonder whether they'd mistakenly tuned in to Prison Break.
People thought the LOST writers were running out of ideas, but the show was just over-budget and buying time, hoping the spectacular season finale would make viewers forget about those crappy episodes.
But by then the show had lost a ton of viewers they wouldn't get back until the hype surrounding the end of the series made people curious about The Island again.
How many times have you written something and thought it was worse than anything ever written? Feel better about yourself by perusing the entries to the 2016 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest! This is the 34rd year that the English Department at San Jose State University has rewarded writers for the worst opening line in a (non-existent) novel. The annual contest is named for Victorian novelist Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton who once began a book with the phrase “It was a dark and stormy night…” and cemented those words as a writing cliche. Besides honoring Buller-Lytton, the contest is to “to encourage unpublished authors who do not have the time to actually write entire books.” Congratulations to William "Barry" Brockett of Tallahassee, Florida, who came up with this sentence:
Even from the hall, the overpowering stench told me the dingy caramel glow in his office would be from a ten-thousand-cigarette layer of nicotine baked on a naked bulb hanging from a frayed wire in the center of a likely cracked and water-stained ceiling, but I was broke, he was cheap, and I had to find her.
Yes, that right there is an omen that the novel following it will be difficult to get through. There are also winners, runners-up, and honorable mentions in the categories of adventure, crime/detective, fantasy, historical fiction, horror, romance, science fiction, puns, children’s literature, and a special “purple prose” category. There are also miscellaneous honorable mentions because they had a lot of bad writing entered this year. See them all at the contest winner’s page. -via Metafilter
Morgan Freeman is the guy many people would choose to narrate their life story, and his voice can make any person seem distinguished and any situation important, even on Hollywood Blvd.
Jimmy Kimmel introduced Morgan to the wonderful world of pedestrian narration on a previous episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and his magic voice made us want to believe in Perfect Selfie Paul.
If you’ve ever been to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, you might have noticed a gravestone right there in the parking lot. it’s a monument to an early NASA astronaut you may have never heard of, known as Miss Baker.
She was one of many animals sent to space, but the first ever recovered alive by NASA. In 1959 Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, and Miss Able, a rhesus monkey, were outfitted in tiny space suits and shot out of Earth's atmosphere. Their flight lasted a mere 16 minutes.
The monkeys landed in the Atlantic Ocean, and were recovered with much excitement by NASA. Their safe return meant that primates could survive space travel. Miss Able died just four days later due to being given too much anesthesia during surgery, but Miss Baker lived a long life after her pioneering mission into space. She spent her retirement in captivity at Huntsville's U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and upon her death in 1984 was buried in the parking lot. Visitors to her grave typically pay their respects with bananas.
This is just one of many locations you can visit that fill in obscure stories of the space race between the US and the USSR. If you have time for a road trip, or a flight to Russia or Kazakhstan, you can take your own space history tour. Or you may have a weekend to check out one of these locations near you. Read about these places at Atlas Obscura.
Samsung Pay seems like magic to some extent -seeing as how you can use it almost anywhere with a wave of your phone. But there's something distinctively "meh" about using your phone to pay -especially when you could be using a magic wand instead.
The Ollivander19 is a brilliant invention that claims to be (and probably is) the first contactless payment wand. And because magic can't be bought, but only inherited, the only way to get one of the eight wands in existence is to win one on the Card Cutters website. So if you think you've got what it takes to do magic, head to the site and try your luck today.
Louisiana is being battered by rainfall and flooding is reported across the state. Some cities got more rain this weekend than they average for an entire summer. A woman in Baton Rouge was sinking in her car when several men in a boat came along at the last few seconds before she was dragged under the water. Watch as they try to smash her window, but end up just ripping through the ragtop.
She was lucky. At least three people have lost their lives so far in the flooding, and over a thousand have been rescued. The work continues today as several more inches of rain is expected. -via Metafilter
If you've ever played one of the games from the Metroid franchise you probably wondered how Samus Aran's arm cannon works considering it covers her entire arm and doesn't need to be reloaded.
Playing through all the games didn't provide any answers to this question, but then I came across this Awkward Zombie comic by Katie Tiedrich and the answer was made clear- Samus' guns power the cannon! What a physique!
Sir Bradley Wiggins won his eighth Olympic gold medal by leading the British cycling pursuit team to a world record. During the medal ceremony, as “God Save the Queen” played, he suddenly stuck his tongue out.
The rest of the team struggled to maintain their composure, while Wiggins went back to standing respectfully. As a knight, Tour de France winner, and the most decorated British Olympian, he can get away with that sort of thing. -via reddit
Both swimmer Michael Phelps and gymnast Gabby Douglas were spotted during Olympic medal ceremonies standing with their hands to their sides while the Star Spangled Banner was played. Some social media users called them rude or unpatriotic for not holding their hands over the hearts, but that was not the intention. It was just a temporary oversight, and both had been to the winner’s podium several times before. So why do we do it, anyway? According to the U.S. Flag Code, Americans are supposed to face the flag during the National Anthem and place the right hand over the heart. However, the code is not law, and there are no penalties for not following it. Free speech and all that, you know. The code was enacted in 1942, and it changed the way we saluted the flag before then.
Originally known as the Bellamy Salute, the gesture came to be in the 1890s, when the Pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis J. Bellamy. The Christian socialist minister was recruited to write a patriotic pledge to the American flag as part of magazine mogul Daniel Sharp Ford’s quest to get the flag into public schools.
At the time, as Jeffrey Owen Jones reported for Smithsonian magazine in 2003, Bellamy and his boss both agreed that the Civil War had divided American loyalties and that the flag might be able to bridge those gaps. His campaign centered around the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the new world. He published his new Pledge as part of a unified Columbus Day ceremony program in September 1892 in the pages of the Youth’s Companion, a popular children’s magazine with a circulation of 500,000.
“At a signal from the Principal,” Bellamy wrote, “the pupils, in ordered ranks, hands to the side, face the Flag. Another signal is given; every pupil gives the flag the military salute—right hand lifted, palm downward, to a line with the forehead and close to it. Standing thus, all repeat together, slowly, 'I pledge allegiance to my Flag…'”
Dragons rely on their massive physical size, amazing abilities and the psychological terror inflicted by their rage to overcome their human foes, but despite his standard size the Doctor isn't some puny human. And he's faced much more maleficent foes than a mere fire breathing dragon, for the Daleks are not so easily defeated, so coming face to maw with the creature didn't affect him one bit. But the Time Lord was surprised to find himself in awe of the beauty of the animated alternate dimension he'd stumbled upon, and despite the knowledge she was nothing more than ink and paint on a plastic cel the Doctor couldn't help but fall madly in love with Aurora's timeless beauty...
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What sort of grub does a cowboy get a hankering for after a hard day of ridin' at the rodeo?
Apparently in Texas cowboys go for Taco Bell, and when 19-year-old Lathan Crump rode up on his horse Hollywood and discovered the drive-thru was closed he decided to ride on in for some tacos to-go.
Lathan knew it was a bit funny to ride his horse into the restaurant, but he never expected to go viral thanks to all the pics shared by people in the restaurant and this video he posted on Instagram.
A video posted by Lathan Crump (@lathan__crump) on Aug 6, 2016 at 11:24pm PDT
And it appears this cowboy gets to keep his white hat because Commerce PD says they won't be taking action since nobody reported the incident and the restaurant isn't pressing charges.
Maybe he could do a little rodeo ridin' in the parking lot and drum up some business for the store to make up for his horsin' around?
The new blog McMansion Hell takes a deep look at the large single-family homes built between 1980 and the real estate crash of 2008 (although they are still being built). They filled subdivisions with expensive-looking but poorly-designed houses. The huge common rooms were perfect for socializing, but were placed in neighborhoods in a way that discouraged socializing. They incorporated trendy features that don’t work over the long haul. And they look affluent, although I just learned that they are often constructed poorly compared with older homes.
The blog features deconstructions of specific homes, question and answer posts, and a few that get to the heart of what’s wrong with McMansions, like an explainer on their architectural design, a post on attached garages that dominate the house, and a closer look at the front door. No matter how you feel about McMansions, you’ll learn some fascinating things about architecture. -via Metafilter
Hearing about a teen girl who met with President Abraham Lincoln for thirty minutes a day over a five month period may make you think of affairs, scandals and inappropriate behavior.
But there was nothing untoward about 17-year-old Lavinia “Vinnie” Ream's relationship with President Lincoln, she was simply an amazing young artist who was given the chance to create sculptures of Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln was a very busy man in 1864, so granting someone half an hour of his precious time a day was a big deal, but Lincoln didn't do it for posterity or the sake of art- he sat for Lavinia because she was in need:
Her friends in the Senate personally asked Lincoln to pose for the sculpture, but he declined. After hearing that she was a struggling artist from a Midwestern background not dissimilar to his own, however, Lincoln relented. “He granted me sittings for no other reason than that I was in need,” she later wrote. “Had I been the greatest sculptor in the world I am quite sure I would have been refused.”
Lavinia created a bust of Lincoln during that five month of half-hour sittings, and after his passing she agreed to make a full sized memorial statue of the President, becoming the youngest artist and first woman to receive a commission from the U.S. government.
British actor Kenny Baker, who played R2D2 in six Star Wars films, has died. He was born in Birmingham, UK, in 1934. Baker was 3’ 8” tall, and began working in circuses as a teenager. He began appearing in films in 1960, and his work included roles in Amadeus, Flash Gordon, The Elephant Man, and his favorite role as Fidgit in Time Bandits. But Baker was best known for his work in Star Wars.
Baker initially turned down the role of mischievous droid R2-D2, famous for his whistles and beeps. In an interview on his website he recalled telling George Lucas: "I don't want to be stuck in a robot, what for, for goodness' sake?
He added: "I said, 'I'll help you out, I'll do you a favour.' George said, 'You've got to do it, we can't find anyone else. You're small, to get into it [the costume], and you're strong enough to be able to move in it,' - and they couldn't use kids.
"I could work all hours, so I was a godsend to them. They'd made the robot in rough form and I was the only one around at the time that was just right for it.
"I got into it and they put the lid on me like a boiled egg."
R2D2 wasn't his only Star Wars role- he also played the Ewok named Paploo. After Star Wars became a worldwide phenomena, Baker appeared at numerous fan conventions and promotions. He had been suffering from respiratory problems for a couple of years. Kenny Baker was 81.
If you haven't seen the Suicide Squad movie yet then you're in for one big surprise- the Joker isn't in the movie as much as you'd think considering he was prominently featured in the ads.
Jared Leto's Joker parts may have been cut as a response to fan criticism online, or perhaps director David Ayer felt Leto had gone far too method with his acting either that or the scenes just plain sucked.
As this comic by JHall and Andrew Bridgman of Dorkly shows us Jared Leto was going to be happy with his portrayal of the Joker regardless of what we all think, but don't tell him you hated his Joker or he might want to be your buddy!
Lots of people dream of living the decadent life of a movie star, but those dreamers never think about the fact that many celebs have extremely strange views and eating habits.
Vice writer Michael Buchinger adores Gwyneth Paltrow, so when he bought her cookbook It's All Good he just had to see what it was like to live like Gwyneth- by suffering through her strict and strange diet.
Day one started with a glass of cabbage, ginger, mint and lemon and some almonds that had been soaking in water for six hours, which Gwyneth calls the "ideal snack".
Michael didn't agree, but later that day he and his party guests did enjoy a gluten free berry crumble with quinoa flakes from the book so he kept going with the Gwyneth way.
Day two involved Gwyneth's famous miso soup with shiitake mushrooms and bonito flakes, a soup so good she eats it for breakfast and dinner, and a few too many beers at the bar because "She also doesn't stick to her diet all the time, so my exception is totally fine!"
Which made day three a waking nightmare, and Michael was only able to pull through by thinking about "the time Gwyneth was hiking in Arizona and thought she heard the rocks whispering the mantra, "You have the answer, you are the teacher!"
Michael Phelps is 31 years old and competing in his fourth Olympics. He’s won four gold medals so far in Rio, for a career total of 22 gold medals. Phelps took a picture with a young fan in 2008. His name is Joseph Schooling, and eight years later he represents Singapore in the Rio Olympics.
Yesterday, Schooling won the men’s 200 meter butterfly to earn Singapore’s first Olympic gold medal ever, beating Phelps, who tied for second place with Chad LeClos and Lazlo Cseh.
Here Phelps is signing autographs at a public appearance. The young girl is Katie LeDecky, who won four gold medals in Rio in women’s freestyle and set three world records. She’s out of the pool and up on the winner’s podium before her competitors finish the race.
Michael Phelps has established himself as the greatest Olympic swimmer of all time, but after four Summer Games, a new generation is beginning to take over. -via reddit
This fun moose footage was captured by Eagle River, Alaska resident Candice Helm, who was kind enough to turn on the sprinklers so that adorable moose family could cool off.
Just don't put out any Moose Chow, Candice, or your summer visitors will never leave!
