This comment doesn't apply to this post, but instead to the previous post regarding the "Great Gays Out of the Closet Mug". Whether or not you find this worthy of a post on Neatorama, I think it's rather chicken-$hit to turn off comments for the item. Since I couldn't comment there I am commenting here. Come on, really??
It's one thing to be represented by a silhouette. You might call it inhuman, but I would rather be represented by that by default than a picture of what appears to be a corpse!
Come on, it's a representation of Lady Liberty. Nowhere on the stamp does it indicate that it's a photo of the statue in New York harbor. It stands for all the virtues of Lady Liberty, not of a particular statue. What's the big deal?
This is Big Brother, no doubt. It's not the school's decision on what a child eats, it's the parent's decision. I am SO glad my children are in college and I don't have to worry about such things, but it isn't just schools that are making such decisions. Look at Boston, where the Mayor decided that vending machines can't have sugary snacks and drinks. Who the $@#& do these people think they are? If I want to drink a soda pop, that's MY decision, and the government doesn't have the right to tell me otherwise. If I want to send my kid to school with a sandwich, chips and soda pop, that's my call also. Screw these people!
There is a secessionist movement for the southern portion of Illinois to separate from the remainder of the state. The group Southern Illinois Now advocates seceeding from the state of Illinois due to the geographical and societal differences between rural southern Illinois and urban Illinois, including Chicago.
Two people got it already, it's a controller for an antenna rotor. However, they forgot to supply what prize they wanted! I want the Pink Freud t-shirt, size XL. Thanks!
After we moved from E. St. Louis to a much smaller town in southern Illinois, it was the same way. You could dial 4 digits to call within the local exchange. Also, I recall that when we first moved there, there were no private lines available for us, so for some months we were on a party line. That was a trip!
I remember the telephone number from where my family lived in East Saint Louis, Illinois when I was very young. It was DEerfield 21752 (332-1752). My father's aunt and uncle lived in St. Charles, Missouri, and their number was RAndolph 41065 (724-1065).
Don't ask me why or how I remember these, they have just stuck with me all these years!
My great-uncle Red collected beer cans for decades. He had some of the very first "cone-top" cans (they look like latter day brake fluid cans with the screw-top cap) and then lots of the old flat-tops that you had to use the church key openers on. He even inspired me to collect as a youth, but when I went to the military and found out my father gave the collection away while I was in boot camp!
Good for him! Glad all it took for him was inspiration, but just saying "if you want to do it, all you have to do is do it." I have fought with my weight all of my adult life. (I am now 46 years old.) Just five days ago I went through gastric bypass surgery to help me get the weight off and try to live a longer, healthier life. Other means have never worked, but I am hopeful that this step will finally mean success.
I am not by any means diminishing Ben's accomplishments. I am very happy for him, and I hope he does inspire others. I am just here to say that it still may not be enough, and want to encourage others to not let that stop them. Keep fighting, and if necessary and possible, for you to take even further steps like I have to try. I am just starting, and hope that in the next nine months to a year that I will get to where Ben is and I can reap the benefits that he has.
Don't ask me why or how I remember these, they have just stuck with me all these years!
Something Somewhere Went Terribly Wrong t-shirt, black, size XL
I am not by any means diminishing Ben's accomplishments. I am very happy for him, and I hope he does inspire others. I am just here to say that it still may not be enough, and want to encourage others to not let that stop them. Keep fighting, and if necessary and possible, for you to take even further steps like I have to try. I am just starting, and hope that in the next nine months to a year that I will get to where Ben is and I can reap the benefits that he has.
To summarize: Just don't EVER give up.