Sally the Sleuth

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Sally the Sleuth, no last name given, only referred to her as Sally or Miss Sally, was a plainclothes detective with the police in an unnamed city.

Often working undercover (or barely covered) an experienced investigator, she was an expert shot as well as being adept at judo.

Her supervisor was known only as The Chief.

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Sally the Sleuth first appeared not in the comics, or as a newspaper strip, but in the pages of pulp magazine Spicy Detective Stories in November of 1934, she was drawn by Adolphe Barreaux.

Consisting of 4 to 6 black and white pages all of her spicy adventures were just an excuse to get her out of the plainclothes and stripped down to her unmentionables and captured by the villain so that by the last page she could be saved by the Chief.

When Crime Stories became the big thing in comics in the late 40s and early 50s Trojan brought back Sally in the pages of Crime Smashers, in the four color format however she was a much better detective, actually doing some sleuthing, and was able to keep her clothing on for whole stories.

Though there generally was still a lot of leg and bare shoulders.

Pretty risque for the 1930’s.

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Man Caught Driving Car While Sitting on a Metal Bucket and Steering with Pliers

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If you thought you needed a steering wheel to actually drive a car, let this story be an example of the opposite. A man in Norfolk, England, was really caught by police driving a battered car by using a metal bucket as a car seat and pliers for steering.

You might think that this guy was extremely unfortunate to get pulled over by cops, but you’d be wrong. What first caught the attention of police officers patrolling the streets of King’s Lynn, in Norfolk, was the battered state of the car this man was driving. It had no front wing, bumper or headlights and to top it all off, it also had a flat tire. Hardly what you’d call a roadworthy vehicle, but this was nothing  compared to what awaited the officers inside.

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The motorist behind the, well, definitely not steering wheel of this deplorable-looking car was actually sitting on an upside down metal bucket and steering the vehicle with a pair of metal pliers. There was no RPM meter or speedometer to speak of, in fact, the thing barely had any dashboard. But hey, it worked, so who needs that stuff anyway?

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As you can imagine, the policemen themselves were quite shocked by the sight, and while their subsequent social media post didn’t mention what charges the driver faced, they did say that there were “too many offences to mention”.

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Norfolk police tweeted photos of the car in its shocking state on Twitter, and they soon went viral, attracting all kinds of tongue-in-cheek comments. One person wrote that the car “gives a whole new meaning to the word bucket seat”, while another called it “ingeniously unbelievable”.

Aliens Blamed for Abducted Ducks

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An Australian woman who had eight of her ducks go missing under mysterious circumstances suspects that aliens may be to blame! Desi Friend explained to a local newspaper that the weirdness occurred back in May when “over the course of two weeks, one by one they disappeared into thin air.” The systematic strangeness was made all the more perplexing by the fact that there were no signs of forced entry at the enclosure nor clues left behind by whatever caused the ducks’ departure.

“A wild dog couldn’t have got past my dog and would have left feathers or a mess,” she mused, “and a snake couldn’t have eaten eight ducks in three weeks.” Friend also noted that the birds could not have simply flown away because their wings had been clipped. Meanwhile, the other animals residing in the enclosure, like chickens and a rooster, remained untouched, suggesting that something was specifically targeting the ducks.

With all that in mind, Friend believes that there was one potential culprit that could have been behind the sophisticated operation: aliens. Incredibly, part of her reasoning for this rather fantastic conclusion lies in the perceived quality of the birds that were taken. “Whoever has taken the ducks has taken all the good ducks,” she lamented, “so it must be alien forces, that have left me my two worst ducks.” While one might worry about what became of the abducted ducks, we can’t help but feel a bit bad for the pair who were left behind to wonder why they weren’t good enough to take.

Jack Names the Planets

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Great song from the 90’s.

Ah, the next point is very important
About the name of your song
‘Cause we were very surprised
That you called it “Jack Names the Planet”
And not “Jack Names the Planet Nieuw-Vennep”
Because that’s a good name for a planet

The center of the universe
Is Planet Nieuw-Vennep

We were walking, walking in two worlds
In the gardens of sunlight home
Bad children on the phone
Withheld me to withhold you

I said I’d kiss you if you want
You’ve got things back to front
I got a letter, I sent it back
I didn’t like it, honey what you had

Jack names the planets after you
Jack names the planets after you
Jack names the planets after you, you
When I turned you had gone away
So I didn’t skip upon that day
Morose feeling, small mind
Don’t touch its face you might like its kind

Said I’d kiss you if you want
You’ve got things back to front
Don’t mind your spelling, it ain’t so bad
Things like that they never made me quite so mad as you

Jack names the planets after you
Jack names the planets after you
Jack names the planets after you, you

Jack names the planets after you
Jack names the planets after you
Jack names the planets after you, you

I wish you’d come back, everything’s ready for you
You are welcome if you plan to
You come walking and you know where
You’ve gotta understand that you gotta care
I said I’d kiss you if you want
You’ve got things back to front
My mother’s dying, I’ve got to go home
But there’s more you won’t be solely on your own now

Jack names the planets after you
Jack names the planets after you
Jack names the planets after you, you

You, you
You, you
You, you

 

Russian Beast of the Ice

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The NS Yamal is a Russian Arktika class nuclear-powered icebreaker operated by Atomflot (formerly by the Murmansk Shipping Company). It is named after the Yamal Peninsula in Northwest Siberia; the name means End of the Land in Nenets.

Laid down in Leningrad in 1986, and launched in October 1992, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, it never filled its designed role of keeping shipping lanes open. It has always carried passengers on arctic excursions. In July of 1994 Yamal took an excursion to the North Pole, with the NSF (National Science Foundation), to celebrate the Official Maiden Voyage. While at the exact north pole (verified by GPS & Inmarsat satellite coordinates) the crew and passengers celebrated with a barbeque – the ambient temperature was -10 degrees F (wind gusts were measured at -40 degrees F). Because of the ship 90/90 coordinates the ship captain (Smirnov) organized a swimming…

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