Great post, Chris.

Your uncle's story is obviously an urban legend. It would take a bit of time to prepare and cook a whole dog, and I think they would have grown suspicious.

How many pandas would she kill for it, though?

I pity the panda whose nose is right in the middle of the seat, for reasons best left unsaid.

Not funny.
Kinda sad, actually.

Didn't look like YMCA to me.

The Angel-over-the-pope picture was more convincing.

Looks like a Vorlon to me.

What I found interesting when I looked was the fact that people all over the world are posting pictures from their travels as much as their own areas.

I saw lots of North Americans posting pictures from Europe, China, etc, and people in Europe posting pictures of North America.

It goes to show that people everywhere are interested in each other. Ain't it sweet?

Sorry, still not impressed.

I'm sure it's a big thing to soccer people, but it's just "meh" to me.

Is that where they make Mentos?

I don't get it, either. He kicked the ball, it went in. Isn't that what he's paid to do?

Now I see why the Simpsons make fun of soccer as a dull sport if that's a "great goal".

Or from the top down.

Looks like the "pig" on the left may be wearing a fur coat. I assumed it was a dog, since the mother is nursing.

An articles made a mistake? :-O

I think she's just fattening the piggy up for dinner.

Took 'em 26 years to exceute him?

Wonder how the family of the police officer feels about it?

Now I'm confused.

And I think goats would be better than cows. You could strap magnetic space boots on them, and magnetize the building.

Now that would be cool.

About as tedious as any other wedding video. And like any other, will be of interest only to them.

Exactly, Nora.
It's what creeped me out about the Star Trek transporter story "Spock Must Die" when I was a kid.

Basically, the book said that the transporter doesn't actually transmit matter across space, but transmits the pattern of that matter. The receiving end simply assembles a new version of you, while the old version of you is destroyed at the original end. Sure, you can be reassembled, but they're not your original molecules, nor your original electrons and neurons and stuff coursing through your brains and veins. Those were destroyed.

Ergo, you are killed while a copy lives on, identical to the original you in every way.

Same thing. You can upload a copy, but you really ought to transfer the original, and that would be something really tricky - are your thoughts, your brain waves, your soul irrevocably tied to the physical construct which is your brain, or can you separate your "essence" into another vessel?