LOL. So choking the chicken beating your meat isn’t just for entertainment any more?

I’m very sure that immature, inappropriate jokes will be expected, concerning the vocabulary of “slapping the chicken”.

My feeling is that for most of its first season, Star Trek was a real, bona fide science fiction show, with many of the writers either actual SF pros (like Sturgeon, Bixby, Bloch, and Ellison) or people who were familiar with the genre, its history, and conventions. This distinguished it from Lost in Space, which was…

I’d have a Day of the Dove/Errand of Mercy twofer to show Kirk dealing with his own warlike nature vs. his desire for peace. And as always...

Japan had a very long custom of black-dyeing teeth, eventually outlawed with “modernization” but not connected to cane sugar.

And my ancestors were painting themselves blue and worshiping trees. And yet the Romans called us “barbarians”! Ha! I say. Ha!

If only the Slideshow would go extinct and never come back.

1) That’s a handsome pupper

Well thank god it’s not Katla. Remember the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010? The Prime Minister of Iceland said basically, lol, you guys are freaking over a volcano you can’t pronounce and yeah, it had a big impact on air travel but when Katla goes, you better be prepared for some serious mischief.

Will Ferrell is on the case!

I see Icelandic place names and figure they were generated by a cat walking on a keyboard, but then I also figure they look at my home town and say “Chicago?  How do you say that?  There’s not a single ‘J’ in that word!”

After reading this I wondered if volcanoes were mentioned in the Sagas of Icelanders (briefly, in passing, apparently) and yet again ended up down a geology rabbit hole on the internet. From the good folks at the US Geological Survey there’s this helpful reference when looking at maps or reading stuff on Icelandic…

Hey, don’t yuck my yum! If I like my chicken blue, that’s my business. Now excuse me, I have to change my IV.

Alfred Crosby, in “Children of the Sun” says that the agricultural revolution and the attendant worse diets led to shorter people with cavities.

he reached for a toothpick

GOP has fully embraced Qanon. There is no difference between them.

How is this news? Next will we find out he’s in a dad band, or that when he goes out to the garage, he just looks at porn on his phone and sighs?

it has a faint comet-like coma, and it exhibits a slight rate of acceleration seemingly not caused by gravity.

Entomologists are something else

Just thinking of all that was lost when those godless christians torched the Great Library of Alexandria makes me want to cry...