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  1. 13 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

    Sounds like you are a Cawker City, Kansas type of guy.

    I cannot imagine any reason I would ever be in the middle of nowhere north central Kansas, but if I was dropped there by a tornado or something, then, yeah, I probably would stop and check out the world's largest ball of twine.  Why not?

  2. 41 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

    A hammer museum? Gonna pass on that one.

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    NTTAWWT

    Well, then, can I interest you in the Devil's Rope Museum (and Route 66 Museum) in McLean, TX?  It has everything you want to know about barbed wire and fencing tools.

    https://www.barbwiremuseum.com/

    Not to be confused with the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum in La Crosse, KS.  Or the exhibit of 1,300 strands and collection of 8,000 strands of barbed wire at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK.

  3. 12 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Only collegiate player to win a pga tournament- right?  Only senior to ever win a major. Phil’s 30 year career where he was relevant the entire time is probably the only thing he can claim against the other all time greats. 

    Scott Verplank won the 1985 Western Open while at Oklahoma State, defeating Jim Thorpe in a playoff.

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  4. 5 hours ago, phdhorn said:

    Douse it with their shitty Vodka.  Kills everything else.

    Might be a flaw in that plan.

    Chernobyl vodka seized by Ukraine authorities

    Spoiler

    The Chernobyl Spirit Company said 1,500 bottles of Atomik alcoholic drink were confiscated on 19 March and taken to the Kyiv Prosecutor's office.

    Officers took the shipment from a truck at a distillery in the Carpathians.

    The spirit, its producers say, is Chernobyl's first consumer product since the 1986 nuclear disaster.

    A bottle of Atomik apple spirit with its UK excise stampimage copyrightThe Chernobyl Spirit Company

    They are now awaiting the outcome of an investigation by the Ukrainian security services but say they have "no idea" why the shipment, which was destined for the UK, was seized.

    "It seems that they are accusing us of using forged Ukrainian excise stamps," explained Prof Jim Smith, a scientist who has spent many years studying the exclusion zone before setting up the Chernobyl Spirit Company with Ukrainian colleagues. "But this doesn't make sense since the bottles are for the UK market and are clearly labelled with valid UK excise stamps."

     
    Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

    The social enterprise company that makes Atomik is run by scientists who work in the 4,000 square kilometre Chernobyl exclusion zone - an area abandoned after the catastrophic 1986 nuclear disaster. Their studies have included growing experimental crops to find out if grain, and other food grown in the zone, could be used to make products that are safe to consume.

    Part of the reason for producing the spirit was to demonstrate how land around the exclusion zone could be put back to productive use. The researchers say this could allow communities there to grow and sell produce - something that is currently illegal on "officially contaminated land".

    When we tasted the first Atomik vodka martini in 2019, Prof Smith, who is based at Portsmouth University, explained that it was "no more radioactive than any other vodka".

    Experimental farm in the Chernobyl exclusion zone
    image captionThe team grew crops in the exclusion zone to see how much of the contamination they would take up

    Prof Smith and his colleagues since adjusted their recipe to make an apple-based spirit. Those apples are grown in the Narodichi district - an area immediately outside the exclusion zone, where agriculture and development is still highly restricted.

    The company plans to use some of its profits to help communities in Ukraine - including in Narodichi - that are still affected by the economic impact of the nuclear disaster.

    BBC News contacted the Kyiv prosecutor's office for comment but, at the time of writing, has not received a response.

     
    Narodichi, Ukraine
    image captionNarodichi is an officially contaminated town within the outer portion of the exclusion zone

    Dr Gennady Laptev, one of the company's co-owners and a Chernobyl "liquidator" who worked there in the first weeks after the accident, said: "We hope this issue can be resolved so that we can continue our work trying to help people affected by the devastating social and economic impacts Chernobyl had on communities."

    Researchers standing in the cooling pond of the Chernobyl nuclear power plantimage copyrightBBC News
    image captionDr Gennady Laptev (right) has worked in the Chernobyl exclusion zone since 3 months after the accident and co-founded the Chernobyl Spirit Company

     

  5. 19 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:


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    Sandra Crystal Bernard and Markie Post now. I think Bernard is 60 not sure about Markie.


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    FIFY.  The "Your WTF Celebrity Crush" thread for Sandra Bernhard is that way =====>

  6. Aransas Pass, San Patricio County, TX - Mickey's Bar And Grill

     

    The South Of The Border burger is a tasty burger.  Better than any burger has any right to be at a place where you have to drive through a trailer park to get to and is located directly across the street from a wastewater treatment facility.  However, you can also get to it by boat, so it has that going for it.

  7. 26 minutes ago, Whitewater Horn said:

    The fuck is cat cafe? Please tell me that’s not a real thing. 

    Oh, they most certainly are a thing.

    If you are in Houston and you want to have some coffee while surrounded by felines, you can visit El Gato Coffeehouse.  Well, not right now with whole pandemic thing going on, but when everything opens back up, you can visit.

     

    Here is an article from 2018 about 11 cat cafes around the country that you should visit if one is so inclined to hang out with cats.

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  8. 22 hours ago, AustinMT said:

    Perhaps there will be a girl in a flatbed Ford that will slow down to take a look at you

    There has got to be someone or multiple someones in Winslow that rent flat bed Fords for this specific purpose.  If not, there should be.

  9. 1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:


    One with queso and one with chili. It’s like two fat chicks at the same time. When you’re done, instant regret.

    Maybe I am reading too much into this, but this statement seems like it may be based upon actual events.

    Also, this could work as a new Surly motto.

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