The patience. Imagine the patience. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

What happens when you give Joel Veitch a bigger budget - something rather good. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

In 1979 Kit Williams published Masquerade, a book that told the story of a hare who lost his treasure. The treasure was a real gold amulet and cryptic clues scattered throughout the sixteen illustrations were intended to point the way to those with a keen eye to where the treasure was buried. Williams has been reunited with his hare for the first time. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

Might seem like a harsh judgement, but if you're going to sue a zoo because you didn't know you were going to get splashed at the dolphin show then it's either that or you're a money grubbing litigious b***h. And it would certainly be unfair of me to suggest that. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

Jeet Narayan has 4 sons between 10 and 16 who are paralyzed with muscular dystrophy. He has drained his resources, sold his land and taken out loans he can no longer afford the medical expenses. He is seeking now to end their lives. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

When Sam discovered that the National Railway Museum were seeking to find a new Director to replace outgoing Andrew Scott he considered himself a suitable candidate. After all he has been on lots of trains including some in France. If that weren't enough, he also has his own train set and can control two at once.

That he is only six shouldn't really stand in his way. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

To mark America's First Family's debut in the African continent, Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie have been made over to look like a typical Anglolan family. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

Aurelio Vallerillo-Sanchez is no gentleman art thief. He may have stolen a painting of the Virgin Mary, but it was not in the pursuit of fine art. Instead it was to pay for an abortion. An abortion for a 14 year old. A 14 year old that Vallerio-Sanchez had repeatedly raped. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

Why is it that animals that have suffered brutal and unfortunate incidents get called Lucky? Lucky the Turtle got his legs chewed off. How is that lucky? Seems like any day I get my legs chewed off is going to be a pretty crappy day. Anyway, yada yada yada, the turtle now has new legs. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

Wu Chen has been diagnosed with clinical depression. The cause? His girlfriend's insistence he accompanies her on shopping trips. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

A prostitute in Melbourne, Australia is pursuing a client for child support. He is contesting the claim in the basis that the prostitute had a duty to avoid conception. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

Was it so bad that you'd consider beating yourself with a rock to get out of it? Steven Reid did just that to try and get a day off. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

Let's face it, pandas aren't exactly suited for anything much except having cute black and white faces and even cuter babies. They live almost exclusively on a plant with next to no nutritional value in remote locations and have next to no interest in sex. Is it time to let them go? Are they an evolutionary backwater? Are their days numbered? Well it seems we're about to find out as it looks ... read full post picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

In J R Tolkien's work, Hobbits went for a really long walk and made sure they knew how unhappy they were about it. Every single step of the way.

In the real world, tiny people-like Homo floresiensis are sometimes called Hobbits and it seems that they walked from Africa all the way to Indonesia. Which makes Frodo and the gang a bit pathetic, whining as they did about their stroll to Mordor. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

Bua is a tiny Fijian with an unusual Sunday ritual - their menfolk are banned by the leaders of the Methodist Church from wearing trousers for fear of offending God. Instead they must wear sarong (also known as a sulu).

"We can't understand how wearing a sulu vakataga on Sunday will help us forge closer relations with the divine," said one villager. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

**Alternate Link if the NYT behave like a tool in your territory**

Finding a person's DNA in a set location used to represent an iron clad certainty that that person had been there. These days that is not the case as it has been demonstrated that a person's unique genetic fingerprint can be faked and then deposited in the form of blood, saliva, etc. at the scene of a crime. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

No, that's not a riddle. The answer is a Coywolf - a hybrid between the two that, unlike most hybrids like Ligers, Tigons and Pizzly Bears* which are predominantly the result of man's influence, has arisen naturally.

Not only that, but it's causing a certain amount of chaos in the Toronto area.


*Oh my. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

I had them here just now. And by "here" I mean in Fraser River near Vancouver, British Columbia. 10.6 million were due to return to mate this summer but less than a million have turned up. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

The platform in Greenwich is around 700 years older than the what was previously the oldest known structure and 500 years older than Stonehenge. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

After 500 years, one of Leonardo Da Vinci's creations has been brought back to it's own automaton version of life. The mechanical lion is powered by wound springs like a clock. Designed for the King of France, once wound it walks forward and then carries out a series of complex movements. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

Following the ban on followers of the Cult of Scientology from entering Britain in 1968, British representatives gathered together a dossier of evidence that showed that the qualifications Hubbard and others claimed to hold were faked and then highlighted an attempt by the cultists to suppress the information. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

August 9th, 1945 saw the second detonation of an atomic bomb in aggression and today at 11:02 a minute's silence was observed in Nagasaki to mark the moment the explosion took place there. As part of the ceremony, the mayor followed his counterpart in Hiroshima in called for a global ban on nuclear weapons, calling the world's leaders to visit the location of the massacre and see for themselv... read full post picked by pocksucket 4 months ago

A demonstration of how expectations can be formed, communications directed and patterns established from Bobby McFerrin at the World Science Festival. picked by pocksucket 4 months ago

Eight months ago Hannah Jones hit the headlines by fighting for the right to die if she so chose.

Now, after her condition has deteriorated and the reality has come closer she has chosen not to die after all. picked by pocksucket 4 months ago

Do what? Masturbate. Obviously. It's not just the cucumbers but the name of the place that set Mats Fagerholm of Sweden off. picked by pocksucket 4 months ago