Tall, small, big, short, it makes no difference. Unless of course you are a middle linebacker or a jockey. Despite the trivial nature of this post, there are some surprising revelations here. Never realized Snooky was 4’8″, and Seth Green was 5’4″.
There is a bit of redundancy here, it was necessary to include as many people as possible.
World leaders
Canada’s current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is 6’2″.
Veterinarians at a zoo in Nebraska removed a staggering 70 coins from the stomach of an alligator that managed to scarf down the change that had been tossed into its enclosure by wish-making patrons. Announcing the procedure on their Facebook page, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium explained that the peculiar predicament was discovered during a routine examination of the ten American alligators that call the facility home. While conducting the check-up, perturbed vets noticed several “metal foreign objects in the stomach” of a particularly popular leucistic alligator dubbed Thibodaux.
Concerned about what the creature could have consumed, workers quickly brought the “iconic resident of the zoo” in for surgery. During what one imagines was a fairly painstaking process wherein Thibodaux was “anesthetized and intubated,” veterinarians carefully removed nearly seven dollars from the animal’s stomach in the form of a whopping 70 coins. Alas, how the alligator wound up eating so many of the objects is no mystery as zoo officials indicated that the change had been haphazardly thrown into the reptile enclosure by patrons who were presumably casting wishes. To that end, the site used Thibodaux’s surprise surgery as a teachable moment to discourage visitors from such misguided behavior.
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Some of the submissions were highly creative.
People across the country wasted no time in producing some weird, wacky and downright hilarious video clips.Launched back in October as part of the firm’s Halloween celebrations, the competition – which offered a grand prize of $1 million – required participants to capture ‘scientific evidence of extraterrestrials’.
Suffice to say, the ‘evidence’ captured by those taking part was anything but scientific, instead utilizing puppets, silly costumes and crude special effects to entertain and amuse.
Some of the entries looked like they had been put together in around five minutes, while others were quite elaborate and could certainly be in with a shot of winning the prize.
One video showed someone simply hold up two alien toy figures in front of the camera while another saw someone in a costume take control of the house’s owner and use his treat-or-treat bowl as a hat.
“There are so many that I’ve seen that have just been incredibly creative and fun,” said Ring’s chief revenue officer, Mimi Swain.
As for the winning entry – we may have to wait a little longer to see that.
“We have gotten a number of submissions that our expert is reviewing,” said Swain.
You can check out some of the entries below.
A Big 12 Conference game in Lubbock, TX saw an unusual participant bound onto the field this past Thursday night. It was none other than a possum, romping on the gridiron at Jones AT&T Stadium in the first quarter of a match-up between Texas Tech and TCU.
Yet, the marsupial’s dash in the spotlight was short-lived, as it was unceremoniously yanked away with an animal catch pole, scowling all the way. Moments later, Texas Tech president Lawrence Schovanec was seen petting the creature, before it was turned over to animal control services.
Though it was not adopted as the team’s new mascot, things ended happily enough for the wayward critter, as it was reportedly released back into the wild by the Lubbock Animal Shelter Adoption Center on Friday morning.
Super Dave is billed as an “accomplished” stuntman, though he rarely succeeds when performing his elaborate stunts. Typically the character will perform outrageous daredevil stunts which often go disastrously awry and result in the appearance of grievous bodily injury. These include such mishaps as being knocked off the top of the CN Tower, in Toronto, after determining it was too windy to do a cabled jump or being run over by a steamroller after failing to escape from a locked trunk. After such a mishap, Super Dave would usually appear torn apart, stretched, or otherwise injured. Although Super Dave initially exhibited and was injured during wild stunts, in later appearances, he would often be injured in mishaps during much more mundane events during which danger was not anticipated.
Dangerousminds.net
Though it seems like a toy better suited for the 1980s, you know when strippers were as synonymous with heavy metal as a sweet Gibson Flying V, the Racy Stripper doll became a thing in 1998 thanks to a company called Racy Enterprises (or R.C. Inc.)
Billed as Racy Stripper (or Racy: The Naughty Doll), Racy had similar unrealistic proportions as Barbie, and, as I understand it, a carved out hoohah and pink nipples, something her kiddie-toy counterpart was without. As you might expect the 11.5-inch doll came with a few useful accessories, such as thigh-high stockings with a back seam, long black satin gloves, a stripper pole with a heart-shaped platform, a package of mini-100-dollar bills (because I guess this is one classy joint Racy works at), and a cassette labeled “Racy Strip Party” which I presume contains a rendition of Def Leppard’s 1987 stripper anthem, “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” Racy Enterprises produced two different stripper dolls—one with long platinum blonde hair and the other with long brunette hair which can be pretty easily procured out there on various Internet auction sites such as eBay for less than 20 bucks, depending on its condition.
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