[QUOTE=Xyzzy;459792][url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/viral-video-of-girl-snatched-by-sea-lion-raises-seal-finger-awareness/[/url][/QUOTE]

I actually saw that on the Canadian Broadcasting Company's news. I laughed out loud.

Evolution in action. The parents were dumb letting their little girl play with a wild animal.

[QUOTE=xilman;459672]I mean, what's so difficult about C-C C-X ?[/QUOTE]

Personally I use "[ESC]:w" and then "[CTRL]Z" to do further work, or "[ESC]:wq" if I'm done with the changes. Sometimes I "[ESC]:q!" if I don't want to save my changes.

WTF?
 

[url]http://www.bbc.com/sport/taekwondo/40391326[/url]

Thanks for a good laugh! WTF!

Black vultures outside my cousin's house
 

They have been brooding for years in what was once a chicken house on said cousin's grandfather's farm in North Texas. These are adolescents, with some baby down on their otherwise bare heads.

[QUOTE=kladner;462857]They have been brooding for years in what was once a chicken house on said cousin's grandfather's farm in North Texas. These are adolescents, with some baby down on their otherwise bare heads.[/QUOTE]

Speaking of the Chicken Ranch in Texas, Dolly Parton was the best singer, of course, but Charles Durning had a nice sidestep.
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[QUOTE=only_human;462858]Speaking of the Chicken Ranch in Texas, Dolly Parton was the best singer, of course, but Charles Durning had a nice sidestep.
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I traveled past Lagrange many times, going between Houston and Austin. I knew about where the road to the reputed "ranch" was, but never turned off there. A sensationalist, crusading Houston TV reporter (Marvin Zindler, EYE WITNESS NEWS) made a stink about the brothel, of which the locals were well aware. After it was shut down, local clergy and law enforcement lamented that while the Ranch was in business, they knew where to look for wayward young men. :razz: Take That, Prohibitionists!

I am carrying this remark over from another thread:
[QUOTE=Batalov;463055]
I just recently heard that Bolshoi Theater cancelled the almost ready-to-go new ballet about life and work of [URL="https://www.nureyev.org/"]Rudolf Nureyev[/URL]. Some people naively think that formally it was because (thought it is a ballet) it was expected to have some dialogs which (true to life!) had a solid fraction of Russian obscene language (Nureyev was known to use it profusely).
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Might it be that a halfway truthful story of his life would amount to "Homosexual Propaganda" in Russian law?

Summer Shakespeare-in-the-park, SF bay area Identity-Politics-style: Went to see “Hamlet” at our local park this evening; the San Francisco Shakespeare festival troupe has been doing free shows there (plus several other bay area venues, 2-3 weekends each) every summer for over 20 years. Usually lighter fare, but not always. As in Shakespeare’s day – although IIRC back then it was invariably men playing the female roles – lots of gender bending in the supporting and same-actor-multiple-character roles, but not in the principals. Tonight we had an interesting such casting in several close-to-principal roles: The blathering-to-excess Polonius very funnily played by a woman, “his” fair daughter Ophelia played by a man. Said man’s voice was quite feminine, but the contrast with the five-o’clock shadow, the lantern jaw and the Adam’s apple was rather striking, shall we say. Lots of chattering questions by children to their parents when that bit of casting was revealed. To be fair, Ophelia’s “brother” Laertes was played by a rather attractive gal, so all’s fair in love, war and SF IdPol, I say.

With apologies to The Kinks:
[i]
I met her in a club down in Elsino’
Where you drink poison wine and it tastes just like it will keel-ya
K I L L keel-ya
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Ophelia
O P H E LYA Ophelia fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia

Well I’m not the world’s most physical Dane
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly spilled my brain
Oh my Phelia fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia
Well I’m not dumb but I can’t understand
Why she talks like a woman but shaves like a man
Oh my Phelia fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia

Well we drank champagne and fought all night
I said get thee to a nunn’ry and outta my sight
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
And said antic prince won’t you come home with me
Well I’m not the world’s most passionate guy
But when I looked in her eyes well I almost fell for my Phelia

Fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia
Ophelia fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia
I pushed her away
I walked to the door
I fell to the floor
I got down on my knees
Then I looked at her and she at me

Well that’s the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my Phelia
Fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Phelia
Fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia

Well I left home just a week before
And I’d never ever kissed a woman before
But Phelia smiled and took me under her wing
And said little prince I’m gonna make you a king

Well I’m not the world’s most masculine man
But I know what I am and I’m glad I’m a man
And so is Phelia
Fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia
Ophelia fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia fa-fa-fa-fa Phelia[/i]

[URL]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/15/roomba-robot-vacuum-poopocalypse-facebook-post[/URL]

:poop:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;464221][URL]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/15/roomba-robot-vacuum-poopocalypse-facebook-post[/URL]

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AND...it will send your floor plans to the company so it can sell more info on you.