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Oh, yeah, I am definitely doing this to my wife the next time we go to Whataburger!
This is the first time that I've heard of this prank, but it's been recorded for YouTube at least a few times. Sometimes people use hot sauce instead of ketchup, which is an even better choice.
-via Tastefully Offensive
Is that a fairy? Or has that woman transformed into a butterfly? It may be hard to tell, thanks to the work of costuming maestro Alassi. At her Etsy shop El Costurero Real, she produce gorgeously designed and perfectly rendered outfits that look like they're straight out of a high-production fantasy movie.
Alassi has, among other designs, capes that give you wings, antler headbands, and dresses fit for the queen of the wood nymphs.
(Photo: Heritage Auctions)
It was on this humble throne that the great J.K. Rowling sat while composing the first two Harry Potter novels. Rowling acquired the chair for free while living in poor conditions in Edinburgh.
She personally decorated it, then donated it for an auction in 2002 that benefited child abuse victims. It sold again in 2009. Now it's up for sale again at Heritage Auctions in New York City. The Daily Mail quotes Rowling about her memories of this chair:
"This was the comfiest one, which is why it ended up stationed permanently in front of my typewriter, supporting me while I typed," Rowling wrote in a letter accompanying the chair, the auction house conducting the sale, Heritage Auctions, wrote on its website.
-via Atlas Obscura
Surely all of us have looked at Counselor Troi and thought, "I wish that I could look like that."
Now you can get a chance! The MAC Cosmetics company is selling a line of cosmetics inspired by four chararacters from Star Trek: Uhura and Vina from the original series, Deanna Troi from The Next Generation, and Seven of Nine from Voyager.
MAC Cosmetics is doing this to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, which takes place this year. The 25-piece collection includes makeup for the eyes, lips, and face. It will debut at the San Diego Comic Con this summer. You can read more about it at Elle.
-via Nag on the Lake
This is a lot of responsibility, being 16 and being the only one who recognizes the problems with totalitarianism.
— Dystopian YA Novel (@DystopianYA) August 24, 2015
The Commander calls me into her Chamber. This seems normal. Leaders of nations meet with 16 year olds all the time.
— Dystopian YA Novel (@DystopianYA) December 26, 2015
You're still reading paranormal teen romance novels? Those are so 5 years ago. The strongest market is in dystopian young adult fiction. That's what the cool grown ups are reading these days.
Why is it so popular? For your typical teenager, real life is a dystopia. And, ideally, he can heroically escape it and possibly liberate his friends.
The twitter account Dystopian YA Novel pokes fun and this genre and its sometimes worn-out tropes. Here are some of the best tweets from it.
Mattia Menchetti is a graduate student in biology at the University of Florence in Italy. He specializes in the study of the social wasp (Polistes dominula). This study is not one of merely science, but also art.
Menchetti says that the cellular nests of wasps are natural wonders. All they need to gain human notice is a bit of flair. So he gave captive wasps pieces of colored paper, which the wasps then used to build their nests. You can see more photos here (translation).
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Toddler Delivery guarantees your package at the altar on time. The condition may vary, but you didn't pay for graceful handling. Now be sure to give him a tip.
-via reddit
It's not enough to simply think like a turkey. You have to become the turkey. And this toddler can do it. Turkeys respond to him. In 20 years, he'll be Turkey Boy, the sidekick of Squirrel Girl.
-via How to Be a Dad
Yeah, he's one of those dogs. If you live next door, he's going to get on your nerves. Thankfully, he gets all of his barking over quickly. In a mere 4 minutes and 40 seconds, he can bark 376,572,715,308 times. His owner, Jesse Hamel, helps. With a Python script, Hamel multiples each barking iteration 9 times. Soon, your screen and ears fill with barking Gabes.
Sorry, but that bottle of Irish cream is not, by itself, a healthy breakfast. You need to supplement it before starting work. And Amy of the food blog Oh, Bite It! knows how.
Her latest recipe is incredibly simple. To make Snickers bar shot glasses, just cut off the tip of a snickers. Then cut off or mash down a bit of the end so that the bar will stand upright. Next, use a knife to press open a hole in the middle. Fill that hole with the liqueur of your choice and get started.
Peter Thomas says that the project started simply:
One day I thought to myself, "I love to make books and I love to play the ukulele. Can I put these two loves together? Can I make a book out of a uke?"
He and his wife Donna proceeded to make one. Thus began their life's work: to turn book making into an inventive art. Most commonly they build books within the bodies of ukuleles, but they also make miniature books for earrings and books within the bodies of old accordions.
The Thomases also teach classes on book art and exhibit their work. Mostly the wander, traveling across the country constantly in their vargo--that's a gypsy wagon. Fine Books & Collections magazine explains:
The Thomases seem to embrace the old saying about life being a journey, not a destination. The couple spent their early years exhibiting papermaking and bookbinding techniques at California Renaissance Faires. From running a private press, to experimenting with and producing a rich range of museum-quality handcrafted books, to being gypsy artists, it has been a long, and not always straight path for them. “You know the Tarot? I think my card is the Fool, or the Wise Man and the Fool, two steps forwards and one back. Or Mr. Magoo, walking along and walking off a bridge but landing on a moving truck, then being dumped into a river, landing on a barge,” joked Peter Thomas. “When I began I never attempted—or was tempted—to imagine the future. I was too busy doing what I was doing. Learning to make paper. Learning to print better. Gaining my aesthetic voice. Now that I am in the future, I am just trying to make things that are beautiful and bring joy to the beholder,” he added.
-via Messy Nessy Chic (content warning: nude J.D. Salinger)
Larry Collmus is a horse racing announcer at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. In 2010, he provided a running commentary to a race that included horses named Mywifeknowsevrything and Thewifedoesntknow. The result was a denial-filled marital argument in the form of a horse race.
The Telegraph (auto-start video) informs us that Mywifeknowsevrything was trained by a woman and Thewifedoesntknow was trained by a man.
My advice: just apologize anyway and bet on another horse.
-via TYWKIWDBI
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Do you need a snack while watching a game at Turner Field in Atlanta? Then pop over to a concession stand. For $26, you'll be able to buy a Burgerizza. That's a massive bacon cheeseburger sandwiched between two whole pizzas.
This is 1 of 9 insane stadium foods offered this year at Major League Baseball parks rounded up by First We Feast. Others include Froot Loop-covered hot dogs and a Monster energy drink barbecue sandwich.
(Photos: @aqua_rondo)
New seasons of the anime series Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Detective Conan have begun. To promote them, an artist in Japan created this amazing anamorphic wire sculpture. From this direction, it looks like Phoenix Wright . . .
. . . and from this angle, it looks like Conan Edogawa.
Here's a video showing the shift:
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Or, when in doubt, cut it a little too long. You can always take more wood off. You can't put wood back on.
Redditor PangurBanHammer brings us this photo. Many commenters offer similar pieces of advice for different professions, as well as amusing ways to teach them. Babygrenade talks about the measure-twice rule in cooking:
My chef friend had a new line cook that overcooked a steak. He told him to stick in the freezer to uncook it a bit. The line cook actually did and then forgot about it, so my friend replaced it with a raw steak before telling him to check on it.
