Sir Charles, Li'l Dewayne, and Shaq. Li'l Dewayne is looking more The Pebble, than The Rock in this pic.

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Well, he is Li'l Dewayne.

I think this is the right thread for this little headline.
Well .... DUH!

Oh, is that what "beat myself up" means? :blush:

At first glance I thought this was wind-whipped waves.

Nope. Fog.

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Dynamic Photos of Exploding Idyllic Landscapes

http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/07/...ic-landscapes/

You left a Jew on a cross?
Here's a left cross on your jaw ...


Well, what did you expect, it's open mic night. Up next is Dave from accounting!

Still in Israel, here http://imgur.com/a/0kNav are pictures of an abandoned strip club.

Err, an abandoned underwater strip club.

Sasha Baron Cohen promoting his new film?

The former restaurant still maintains its web page.
http://www.redseastar.com/restaurant-en.php

Zen & Glatt, wow!
That place is gorgeous.

I'm more sad that the restaurant closed than the strip club (not being a place that suits my personal tastes) but it's worse yet to think it's just abandoned.

I'd like to live there. Well, apart from the fact it's not in the most stable socio-political region of the world.
But you get cold & cloudy seas otherwise.

The most recent review on Yelp said the food and staff at the restaurant were terrible. That was 2 years ago. The view is very cool though. Too bad they didn't get some decent food in there.

gives "beat me daddy, eight to the bar" a whole new meaning

Halfro?

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Buy New Zealand, our centimeters are bigger.

OK, we'll measure it to be sure it's fair.

5 for you, 6 for me, give or take the rounding error

Who the fuck are you quoting?

Nigel Tufnel (paraphrased).

Thank you.

Nyeah, so there!

Go home, Iceberg. You're drunk.

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Sharkception?

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.... something wrong with that picture.. I wouldn't expect to see the big fish eat the little fish tail first, y'know?


still, cool picture.

You come up behind your dinner, you open your mouth.
Boom!

Ehrmahgerd, he's hungfirv!

Cownnabis?

Mooooo-nchies?

I'm in udder disbelief.

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It's a boat-in-a-boat, er, it's a ship-in-a-ship, I mean, a boat-in-a-ship, ship-in-a-boat in Baltimore.

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The smaller of the two is ~265 feet.

that is a *lot* of drydock.

The Coast Guard yard, in Baltimard.

Dave Chappelle predicted the future!

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come on.

serious question, really, did they really ask that? I know, I know, they live in bottomless pits of ignorance, I know. they didn't really put that question on the screen though, did they?

It's FoxNews...what do you think?

Here's the original FNC screen shot with the original FNC error.

http://therightscoop.com/fox-news-sh...r-sarah-palin/

thank you Mr Holmes!

I'm relieved, truly. it's (kinda) funny, but just not believable.

Yeah I've done a ton of work with typography and fonts, and that is not the font FNC uses, between the talking head and the crawl. That looks like a simple compressed Helvetica/Arial. What they actually use is much more horrible.

http://cellar.org/2013/fumbfncfont.jpg

I mean, look at that! Would you just look at that?

Look how wide the G is, and the C, and the O... and then look how thin the T and R and E are.

Look at "2012" and notice that there is only a little space between the 2 and the 0, and then, a lot of space between the next numbers. This is called kerning, and this font's kerning is all wrong.

To a font person, the whole thing looks like somebody just vomited the letters out and left them where they landed!!

And then, are they using a black drop shadow on a mostly black background?!

It is an abomination. In fact, somebody did this shit on purpose. So it would be newsy but not slick newsy.

it took me a beat to realize that you're critiquing their real work, not the impostor

Sounds like the imposter did too good a job with the font and kerning. They should've lowered their standards!

Damn, can they get any lower?

Uh... G? :flycatch:

Looking again at the original, I would agree that the font and unusual spacing in 2012 is deliberate. I think they do it because they know the resolution on crappy TVs can be really low and they want the final two digits of the year to be legible. The 12 part looks bigger than the 20 part.

It's funny cuz it's true...

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One of my sons had a very different experience with weed. It destroyed his life. Not everybody smiles.

I will never give up weed.

This picture is real, and it's been confirmed by NASA.

Frog Photobombs NASA's LADEE Launch:

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Hah! When I was a kid, my sociopathic neighbor had a model rocket hobby, and more than once, he put frogs in the rocket between the cotton wadding and the parachute so they would pop out at 150 feet and fall to the ground. It looked a lot like this.

:lol2:

Frogs used to say "croak".

Do you remember who changed it to:

Roger Ribbit?

The Frog Prince?

Undertoad?

I googled it and there are a surprising number of serious conversations as to which frogs actually 'say' ribbit. For one thing, many say that 'ribbit' is mostly an American thing. But really, we assign thses 'words' to animals but aren't they onomatopoeic?

Except for my cat Toones (miss you so much old buddy, even after all these years) animals don't tend to enunciate very well. Toones very clearly SAID "Me-ow" as if he were a professor of inguistics. But he was part human too.

Any hints, Lamp?

I imagine when I say 'moo' to a cow in a field while driving by, which i do, that cow is thinking 'what the fuck is she talking about?'

Garry Shandling on the subject: the cow is like "hey, there's a cow driving that car! How can he afford THAT?"

The time was 1968

Must have been Kermit

Although Kermit is older (1955), I don't think so.
The earliest reference I found for Kermit and "ribbit" is 1979 here

But it did happen on TV (not Sesame Street).

Warner Brothers? That entertaining frog...omg he would come out "Hello my darlin' hello my baby, hello my ragtime gal" until someone showed up, then "Ribbit"

But was that earlier than 1968? Hmmmm...

You know, Michigan J Frog just may have said it earlier (1955) ... (wikipedia)

I could not actually connect MJ Frog and "ribbit" and I'll take your word for it.

BUT... in terms of actually changing America's word for what frogs say,
I believe it was later (1968) (on TV) and on CBS...