Possum Dashes Onto the Field During College Football Game

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 Osborne goes over the edge of the CN Tower

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.

THE ‘RACY STRIPPER’: ‘NAUGHTY’ ADULT NOVELTY TOY FROM 1998

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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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The United States Super-Secret Nuclear Missile Base under the Polar Ice

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Project Iceworm was the code name for a top-secret United States Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The ultimate objective of placing medium-range missiles under the ice — close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union — was kept secret from the Danish government. To study the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized “cover” project, known as Camp Century, was launched in 1960. Unsteady ice conditions within the ice sheet caused the project to be canceled in 1966.

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Details of the missile base project were secret for decades, but first came to light in January 1995 during an enquiry by the Danish Foreign Policy Institute (DUPI) into the history of the use and storage of nuclear weapons in Greenland. The enquiry was ordered by the Danish parliament following the release of previously…

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