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I think I'm going to stop updating this page. It's been fun. Thanks for reading.

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Hey, have you heard of parkour? Join in on the debate on whether flips are really parkour.

Obligatory link to somebody's artwork: The Bee With Wheels (click the elephant)

And finally, I Have Twice Your Power

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Here are the last, and I mean last, 23 headers in case you missed them:

Check it out: I've secretly been making an acrostic this whole time.

Welcome to the website that's...

"Wack, yo!"
"Easy like Sunday morning!"
"Liking you even when you're angry, Bruce Banner!"
"Claiming you as its ward!"
"On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese!"
"Minding its own beeswax!"
"EXTRAOR... dinary!"
"2 legit 2 quit!"
"The very model of a modern Major-General!"
"How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb!"
"Ever so clever!"
"Welcoming you to itself!"
"Easily amused by people jumping!"
"Basically the best place on the whole internet... as long your standards are abysmally low!"
"Soooo good looking!"
"Intentionally without frill!"
"Truly scrumptious!"
"Entering the Thunderdome!"
"Taking names but not kicking any sort of butt!"
"Henry's ELECTRONIC SANCTUARY!"
"Artificially intelligent!"
"Talkin' bout you, Arnold!... Funny you should ask!"
"Secretly been planning something for the last 23 updates!"

LAST YETI UPDATE

Random Things

Words I recently heard and learned for the first time:

binturong
animalcule
eleemosynary

Words I've heard before, but recently made a point of making sure I knew the meaning of:

dewlap
vicissitude
verisimilitude
quotidian

Words I knew, but whose origins I didn't until recently:

clap-trap

Things that depress me to read about:

creationists

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It Might Surprise You
Today's Topic: Walrus

Vibrissae is the scientific way to say whiskers.

A walrus is a pinniped, which is a nicer way of saying "flipperfoot".

It is also fusiform, which is a meaner way of saying "cigar-shaped".

Tusks are for establishing social dominance. The longer and larger the tusks the higher in the walruarchy.

The walrus is one of the most extremely gregarious of all creatures.

It eats benthic prey. Or polar cod. (Note: benthic means bottom-dwelling).

A walrus squirts a powerful jet of water at the sea floor to excavate burrowing invertebrates.

Interesting side-note: They like their sea floors to be gravelly.

Does it surprise you? They make love in the water.

Let it not ever be forgotten: Killer whales may eat them.

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Predictions!

In the future, everyone will have the exact same shoe size. This will happen because bio-modification of the feet will be an affordable fad. The "in" shoe size to have in 2040 will be 10 1/2!

You will wear an elaborate set of fake wings, make-up, and horns at a halloween costume party. When asked what you're supposed to be dressed up as, your reply will be: "Myself". When this is met with incredulity, you will explain by saying: "You obviously have never met me."

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Information about the After-Life

Summerland is the name of the afterlife for Spiritualists. They matched it up to the Christian Bible's mentioning of the "third heaven".

In Caribbean folklore, Jack Mandora is the name of the doorman at Heaven’s door. If you tell a story about Anansi, finish it by assuring Jack Mandora you don't approve of the trickster spider god's antics. Otherwise, Jack's liable to block your entry.

In the Zoroastrian Hell, one has to eat really gross foods.

The "Left Door" in Spiritualism is an abyss of empty, joyless, nothingness the deceased visits for a brief period of time.

Probably one of the weirdest names, a psychopomp, is someone who guides souls to the afterlife. Many religions have their own psychopomp(s).

You can communicate with the dead in Spiritualism, but remember that there's a reason these people are ghosts hanging out nearby: They weren't morally or mentally advanced enough to enter the outer realms beyond the earth. Keep that in mind the next time you do a seance. You will be talking to degenerate losers.

Thanks, folks! Bye!

These figures are amazing. I've seen the packaging for them and it looks like the ones for the old 70's Kenner Star Wars figures. If I was rich I'd probably get them.
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