Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Birds do not urinate!
TIL that birds do not pee, as primitive beings, they have only one oraface for excrement:
Monday, January 28, 2013
elevator shoes for men
Many stidies have conformed that the taller a man is, the higher he will rise within a corporation. Some shorter folk try to "cheat" with elevator shoes:
Of course, women's high-heels look just as silly:
Of course, women's high-heels look just as silly:
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Poling and ducking!
Being Poled and ducked
Being poled and ducked was a North Carolina alternative to being tarred and feathered.
Most folks don’t know that tarring and feathering is not fatal, as the heat required to melt pine tar is quote low, only enough to create minor burns.
Here is the only known, published reference to being poled and ducked:
From The Weekly Standard, published at Raleigh, N.C. Feb. 2, 1862
An Abolitionist Poled and Ducked
We learn from the Salisbury papers that on Saturday last SANDY TAITE, a Scotsman, who has resided in Rowan for some five or six years took it in his head to express abolition sentiments; whereupon the said SANDY was seized, carried into a back lot, stripped to his waist, tarred and feathered then carried through town on a pole, then ducked in the creek. He was afterwards arrested under a warrant and committed to prison to answer for his offense.
Being poled and ducked was a North Carolina alternative to being tarred and feathered.
Most folks don’t know that tarring and feathering is not fatal, as the heat required to melt pine tar is quote low, only enough to create minor burns.
Here is the only known, published reference to being poled and ducked:
From The Weekly Standard, published at Raleigh, N.C. Feb. 2, 1862
An Abolitionist Poled and Ducked
We learn from the Salisbury papers that on Saturday last SANDY TAITE, a Scotsman, who has resided in Rowan for some five or six years took it in his head to express abolition sentiments; whereupon the said SANDY was seized, carried into a back lot, stripped to his waist, tarred and feathered then carried through town on a pole, then ducked in the creek. He was afterwards arrested under a warrant and committed to prison to answer for his offense.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Book site for unusual books
Check out http://www.abebooks.com/books/weird/index.shtml
This is not a joke site, they have all sorts of bizarre titles:
This is not a joke site, they have all sorts of bizarre titles:
