Chris Kempczinski, the CEO of McDonald's, produced a viral video when he taste-tested a "product" (his term) on camera while apparently trying to ingest as little of it as possible. That video sparked a trend of other fast food CEOs eating their burgers on camera. It's become a media trend.
The public library system of Columbus, Ohio got into the game when its social media manager said that their CEO would eat a hardcover book if the tweet got at least 10,000 likes. Lauren Hagen, the CEO of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, was a good sport about it.
Wintzell's Oyster House in downtown Mobile, Alabama is a local icon of fine Gulf coast cuisine. It has long had a sign offering free oysters to any man who is 80 years old if that man is accompanied by his father.
Fox 10 News reports that Jimmy Rush, 80, became the first person to secure this prized dinner when he walked into the restaurant with his father, Jim Rush, who is 99 years old.
Father and son began eating at this restaurant in 1972. They decided that, one day, they would dine for free when the son was old enough.
On April 6, 1917, the United States entered the Great War with a very small army and limited equipment. How would the Yank endure and ultimately prevail over the challenges of Twentieth Century warfare?
Helmets were in common use among the soldiers of the different nations. Different designs were considered, including the Model Number 8, pictured above. This was built by the Ford Motor Company and designed by Bashford Dean.
Dean's career began in zoology, but his interest eventually focused on historical armor. At the time that the US entered the war, he was the Curator of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Dean accepted a commission as a major in the Army and set about designing, from his historical knowledge, helmets for American soldiers. They included this model inspired by Fifteenth Century Italian armor.
Etsy seller GremlynRugs (content warning: artistic nudity) makes tufted rugs that you could walk on or hang decoratively. But please don't actually eat them! This piece looks like a grilled cheese sandwich cut and then stretched apart with cheesy goodness overflowing the edges. But it's all fabric.
Would you like to login to this online interface? We'll just need for you to download an app, create a new account with a highly complex password, submit a DNA sample, and participate in a retinal scan.
Actor and comedian Russell Parry illustrates the ordeals of passing online scrutiny to verify our identities.
Funniest thing happened at Comic Con today. I was walking around as Deadpool (per usual) and a Foggy Nelson cosplayer with a She-Hulk tap me on the shoulder to serve me these papers.
The Emerald City Comic Con is currently underway in Seattle. X user @justpids is cosplaying as Deadpool. He's now facing consequences for his crimes with the assistance of Jennifer Walters--the main character from She-Hulk: Attorney at Law--in her professional capacity. Wade has been summoned to appear before a US District Court to answer for first-degree murder and breaking the fourth wall.
Some works of literature are considered essential reading or even classics in the past, but cease to be popular or highly regarded and thus fade from the Burkean parlor of inter-generational discussion.
For example, as we noted in the past, Herman Wouk's 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny was lauded as great literature at the time of its release and was required reading for many colleges, but is no longer a book that one could assume that most people have read.
X user T. Greer poses an interesting question: which Nineteenth Century works were essential foci of public discourse, but have since faded away from it?
My immediate answer is Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay, which was among the most widely read works of Victorian literature (as a child, Winston Churchill memorized it). But contemporary critics, including Matthew Arnold, disparaged it as trash. Arnold's perspective is apparently confirmed by its absence from literary discussion in subsequent times.
How do you woo a woman? My advice: find a pretty stone that suits the tastes of your preferred companion, place the stone in your mouth, then deliver it to her nest.
Trust me, bros. It works.
This is how male gentoo penguins at the Edinburgh Zoo impress female penguins. About a hundred of these creatures live there and the mating season is upon us. To assist the penguins in their romantic ambitions, children painted stones and presented them to the males, who picked through the pile in search of the perfect rocks that will win the hearts of their beloved companions.
For many people, it was their first introduction to motorcycle officers. While the show was entertainment, it inspired plenty of riders who eventually chose a career in law enforcement.
— Orange County Sheriff's Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) March 6, 2026
CHiPs, which stands for California Highway Patrol, was an hour-long television series that aired from 1977 to 1983. The Orange County Sheriff's Office recently created a shot-for shot remake of its iconic introduction showing two of their officers in the place of Jon and Ponch.
How long does it take for you to poop? How does that compare with other people and species?
According to a recent study on the fluid dynamics of poop reported on by PBS News, mammals spend an average of 12 seconds (plus or minus 7) performing excretion. From cats to bears to humans to elephants, 12 seconds is about all the time that you need.
That said, the distribution of pooping speeds is not uniform. In general, larger animals tend to pass droppings faster. Elephants, for example, poop at about 6 centimeters each second. For humans, the speed of poop is about 2 centimeters per second.
I for one do not care for my species to be known as sluggish. We're the dominant species on this planet and it's time that we act like it.
An essential component of disaster preparedness and response for libraries is consideration for the protection of the library collection. A library in Sicily resorted to extreme measures to rescue approximately 400 rare books in danger of destruction when a landslide left its facility hanging off the edge of a precipice.
The Guardian reports that firefighters made a detailed plan to enter the precarious building, strap together bookcases, and extract them quickly. This entailed serious risk to the firefighters, as geologists anticipate that the library will soon fall off the cliff. Their leader of the firefighters compared the planning and execution as akin to "pulling off a bank heist."
-via Super Punch | Photo: Sicilian Unit of Firefighters
Admiral David Dixon Porter was one of the Union's most successful naval commanders during the American Civil War. After an excellent combat record, he served as Superintendent of the US Naval Academy and, in retirement, wrote his memoirs of the war and a naval history of it.
Chatelain's wife, Brittany, promised to read one of these novels if he ever found one in print. Chatelain found a copy of Allan Dare and Robert le Diable. She was underwhelmed when her husband interviewed her about the experience:
How does Porter’s writing style compare with romance writers today?
Brittany: It’s actually interesting. He writes men in a way women might want to read about men physically, but the men are mostly focused on being strong. So, they have no real personality. Women are described as just vapid and materialistic and physically they all have small feet, which is apparently what men desired in the 19th century. Few of the women were very strong in character. All of this is in direct contrast to modern romance novels where women have a large depth of character, which highlights the difference between a female author and a male author writing a romance.
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What was the best part of the book?
Brittany: None of it was particularly enjoyable.
What did you not enjoy about the book?
Brittany: The entire book. I would say more, but it would spoil the plot for any potential readers.
Would you recommend other romance novel readers take a chance with Admiral David Dixon Porter’s writings?
Brittany: Absolutely not.
She concludes by giving the novel a rating of two out of five stars.
In the 1994 film Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Jim Carrey must escape his robotic rhinoceros by squeezing out of its butt while naked.
The prop is quite sophisticated. You can see Adam Savage's complete walk-through of the mechanism and how it functioned to create the scene here.
I'm sure that you're already imagining how enjoyable it would be to own the prop and to role-play the scene yourself on a daily basis. Well, then, good news! The Propstore in Los Angeles is auctioning it soon. The starting price is $2,000, but it's clearly worth more given its obvious office workplace applications.
The march of progress continues, building better lives for ourselves and our posterity. New wonders in this age of abundance, prosperity, and innovation harken to a utopia that is no longer on the distant horizon, but approaching with celerity.
How do we know? Because it's possible to buy and then use Reese's flavored toothpaste. The Hershey Company and the toothpaste firm Hismile are releasing this life-altering dental product. FoodBeast reports that it is, at the moment, only available in Australia and New Zealand. But keep in mind that it is possible to travel to those nations to partake of this Promethean bliss.
Andrew Hiers is a professionally trained opera singer with a highly successful stage career. He's a true artist and a master of his craft.
But the hard truth is that financially thriving in the performing arts is chancy. Road & Track reports that when his gigs dried up, he got a job selling cars at a Chrysler leadership in Cocoa, Florida. Hiers is a good sport about this unplanned career change and uses his musical skills on the lot to pitch purchases to customers. On his Instagram channel, you can listen to him try to seduce a sale out of you with his voice.
