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Monday, October 15. 2007

Monday Links

Suspended for picture of Jesus. Daily Mail. If you can't hang pin-ups anymore, and you can't hang a picture of Jesus or a cartoon of Mohammed, what can you decorate with? Thomas Kincaids?

Al Qaida crippled? WaPo. They decided to make their stand in Iraq, and counted on the anti-war movement to aid in their success. Wrong. It will be discouraging for their recruitment efforts.

More Art for Art's Sake. Daily Mail. Can you hear me now?

The New Yorker used to have little bits titled "There will always be an England." If they still had that, they would have printed this squirrely story.

Big Mako. 844 lbs.

Celebrity phones.

Gore slammed by prominent meteorologist.

My pheasant-shooting woes. The sad tale at Mr. Free Market. That's why shooting preserves in the Eastern US put birds out and shoot them a half hour later. Admittedly not very sporting, since they have never been outside a pen. That's why we call them "flying mattresses," and try to give them plenty of distance.

80 million years without sex. BBC Science. It does feel that way sometimes.

Photo: Big bunny. Patrick Pleul, EPA / Corbis - German Giants: Breeder Karl Szmolinsky, here in January, breeds rabbits like this one weighing more than 20 pounds at his farm in Eberswalde.

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Went beach combing last summer with an artist friend on a beach that was once an industrial site. The beach was littered with old glass, copper wire, old bricks, etc. along with beer cans and bleached fish bones. We each had two bags. One bag to save stuff to be used in future art pieces and one bag for garbage. Our little foray soon developed into a very fun game of "Is this Art or Is It Garbage?". I think that "Is this Art or Is It Garbage?" might be a good title and theme for a new game show. If The B could please tm that for me, I would happily give a fair cut of any and all future profits. heh.
#1 Patina on 2007-10-15 09:34 (Reply)
Good story.
#1.1 BD on 2007-10-15 11:50 (Reply)
ha--me too--every single piece of driftwood always crys out to be taken home, varnished, and put on the wall--
#1.2 buddy larsen on 2007-10-15 14:03 (Reply)
Re: WaPo article "Al Qaeda crippled in Iraq"

Great news! It would be nice if our old friends in France and Germany would join us for the final push to eradicate AQ in Iraq. This would do wonders for smoothing relations between our countries and would demonstrate the Western World's resolve to defeat AQ and Islamic extremism worldwide...Just a thought! I'll send this on to Condi...LOL
#2 Scott Wiggins on 2007-10-15 12:45 (Reply)
France, Germany, Japan, Britain, USA, i do believe that's 5 of the top six economies in the world. Who would even challenge such a coalition--if it was TIGHT?
#2.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-15 13:53 (Reply)
If that rabbit weighs 20 lbs, then Karl Szmolinsky must be a member of the Lollipop Guild. If Szmolinsky is normal-sized, the rabbit gotta be fifty pounds, or else it's a trick pic. imho.
#3 buddy larsen on 2007-10-15 14:21 (Reply)
betcha the source said "uber 20 kilos" not pounds.
#3.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-15 14:24 (Reply)
But in his working life wasn’t Szmolinsky known as the “Little Bavarian Bombmaker?”

I dunno, but I’m envisioning thousands of these gigantic exploding bunnies hopping through the DMZ sometime in the near future.
#3.1.1 commander clopfelter on 2007-10-15 18:57 (Reply)
that's a hare-raisin' scenario
#3.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-15 19:56 (Reply)
No kiddin'. I mean, look at those ears.

On the other hand, Cabela's sells mounted jackalope heads and I just know those are real.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0005904613142a&type=product&cmCat=search&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&QueryText=jackalope&N=4887&Ntk=Products&Ntx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=jackalope&noImage=0
#4 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-10-15 15:09 (Reply)
http://www.rvtravel.com/blog/chuck/2007_04_01_archive.html

there's another one here--still alive, and with a rider. Also the alligator man, from up your way--
#4.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-15 15:48 (Reply)

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