The Internet circa 1969
Classic lines like “Whatever the wife purchases from her console will be paid for by the husband from his console”. ’Cause, you know, husbands always pay for everything. I’m not sure where this video came from or if it’s real but it’s amusing none the less.
2 year old “little sniper” can shoot pool
Watch this kid. It’s amazing…
No, no, no! This is SO wrong…
The patient was admitted to hospital with complaints of pain, dribbling urine and acute urinary retention spanning a 24-hour period. According to the boy, the fish slipped into his penis while he was cleaning his aquarium at home.
“Cleaning the tank”…is that what kids are calling it these days?
Fish found in boys penis | The Courier-Mail.
Coal mine burning since ’62
This is a really interesting article about a coal mine in Pennsylvania that has been burning since 1962 and is still going strong. The town around the mine has been abandoned due to flaming sink holes among other nastiness. It’s a fascinating read…
The mines were flushed with water. Chunks of flaming coal were excavated. Shafts were backfilled and redrilled, but the fire refused to be tamed. In 1983, as the fire continued to spread, an engineering study was released that stated the fire could very well be burning for another hundred years or more and consume an underground area of roughly 3,700 acres. This spelled pretty dire news for the town of Centralia. Living on top of a raging mine fire was generally considered to be bad for the locals. Smoke, steam, and toxic fumes crept up through the soil. Water became contaminated. Trees died in droves and sat in barren patches of blackened, smoking soil that made the whole town look like it ought to be criss-crossed with trenches full of German and British troops locked in a Western Front stalemate. And then the sinkholes and fissures began opening. One nearly swallowed a young boy whole, and people started thinking that maybe Centralia was a lost cause.
Genius and Madness
It turns out some of the world’s greatest geniuses were quite mad. In fact, some scientis ts claim that a far greater percentage of creative types (poets, painters, musicians and the like) have been afflicted with bipolar disorder than the general population.
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