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[Superfreakie]

Intro from that Facebook NYTimes article:
"On Valentine's Day, Nick Bergus came across a link to an odd product on Amazon.com: a 55-gallon barrel of ... personal lubricant.
A sponsored story featuring Nick Bergus' name and smiling mugshot.
He found it irresistibly funny and, as one does in this age of instant sharing, he posted the link on Facebook, adding a comment: "For Valentine's Day. And every day. For the rest of your life."
Within days, friends of Mr. Bergus started seeing his post among the ads on Facebook pages, with his name and smiling mug shot. Facebook — or rather, one of its algorithms — had seen his post as an endorsement and transformed it into an advertisement, paid for by Amazon.
In Facebook parlance, it was a sponsored story, a potentially lucrative tool that turns a Facebook user's affinity for something into an ad delivered to his friends.

[rowjimmy]

A good majority of those almost sound like outtake lines from a Naked Gun movie. 

I can totally hear Leslie Nielsen describing his love interest, "Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.  And her eyes, ahh yes, her eyes. . . they were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.  I remember that day like it was yesterday.  We were out on this little boat, it drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't."

The boat/bowling ball one is a ripoff of Douglas Adams:
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
-Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

[mbw]

....the filthy way mcgrupp and his ilk treat macaque...

Sitting around not moving, surrounded by shit, eating a crap diet and getting high and drunk may be okay if you're a 20something Phish Phan, but it's not the best life for a monkey.
It's the life that was forced upon a long-tailed macaque named JR in Michigan, where some idiots got him as a pet and then pretty much ignored him except to force him to drink and get high when they felt like it, because that is so funny, man.

He was rescued, and just now is beginning living a much better life at the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary in Dilley, south of San Antonio. He'll join 500 other primates there and has a new name: Freeman.

"Freeman's unspeakably cruel situation is yet another example of the epidemic in this country that allows people to freely 'own' exotic wild animals as 'pets,'" said Adam Roberts of Born Free USA.

Here's how the group describes Freeman's former life:
He had never been let out to exercise, was never bathed, and never had his cage cleaned. His few toys and blanket were covered in six inches of feces, and his cage was kept in a dark room with no sunlight or fresh air. His diet consisted of dog food and table scraps and at times his owners would get him high on marijuana and drunk on alcohol.
Again, chances are you know someone who fits most of that description, but for them it's a matter of choice.

"This monkey was living a life of horror and we are doing everything we can to help him acclimate," said Born Free USA's tim Ajax. "People who are frequently misled to believe that primates make good pets are often left to pick up the pieces when the cute baby animal they raised turns on friends and family members and becomes a danger to everyone in the community. In this case the owner had neither love for the monkey nor interest in picking up the pieces."

[McGrupp]

....the filthy way mcgrupp and his ilk treat macaque...

Sitting around not moving, surrounded by shit, eating a crap diet and getting high and drunk may be okay if you're a 20something Phish Phan

:hereitisyousentimentalbastard

sad story though. that really sucks.

[gah]

....the filthy way mcgrupp and his ilk treat macaque...

Sitting around not moving, surrounded by shit, eating a crap diet and getting high and drunk may be okay if you're a 20something Phish Phan

:hereitisyousentimentalbastard

sad story though. that really sucks.

So that behaviour is limited to 20 somethings? Doh! 

[Superfreakie]

Cats away! Artist turns his dead pet into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html#ixzz1wyHpwOEO

By Suzannah Hills

Many animal lovers find it hard to part with their pets when they die.

So when cat Orville, named after the famous aviator Orville Wright, was run over by a car, his artist owner decided to turn him into a permanent piece of artwork as the ultimate tribute by transforming him into a flying helicopter.

Dutch artist Bart Jansen first stuffed Orville before teaming up with radio control helicopter flyer Arjen Beltman to build a specially-designed flying mechanism to attach to the cat.

[gah]

^^^ WTF!  :-o

[rowjimmy]

That's just fucked up.

[mbw]

go orville!

ser though, everyone in that room should be locked up in a nice padded cell.

[Undermind]

BK Bacon Sundaes?  :shakehead:


http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20120612_ap_burgerkingbetsonbaconsundaeforsummertime.html

[danje]

That flying cat made me laugh my ass off.

[gah]

BK Bacon Sundaes?  :shakehead:


http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20120612_ap_burgerkingbetsonbaconsundaeforsummertime.html

:drool:

Bacon makes everything better.

[mbw]

The dingo DID take your baby

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/dingo_really_did_take_their_baby_hsJsclQ95vo38sNsxTxSeN

[khalpin]

A group of Idaho high school students have created a 15-foot-long grill modeled after a Smith & Wesson Magnum 500 revolver.

The students created the gun-shaped grill as part of a project in their welding class and donated the final product to a local gun store. When the grill is fired up, its smoke is released through the barrel-shaped exhaust port, giving the appearance that the revolver has just been shot.

"We'll use it for customer-appreciation barbecues, functions, and have it front of the store," Wrenco Arms co-owner Doug Harlicker tells the Bonner County Daily Bee. "It's kind of a neat little deal." Harlicker's son Stefan was one of the students who worked on creating the grill.

The revolver-shaped grill may not have much appeal to gun control advocates. But even if you're opposed to the imagery, you could still theoretically use the grill to cook up plenty of healthy eating options. At the end of the day, it's still a better image than being carted out of the Heart Attack Grill.

[VDB]

A group of Idaho high school students have created a 15-foot-long grill modeled after a Smith & Wesson Magnum 500 revolver.

The students created the gun-shaped grill as part of a project in their welding class and donated the final product to a local gun store. When the grill is fired up, its smoke is released through the barrel-shaped exhaust port, giving the appearance that the revolver has just been shot.

"We'll use it for customer-appreciation barbecues, functions, and have it front of the store," Wrenco Arms co-owner Doug Harlicker tells the Bonner County Daily Bee. "It's kind of a neat little deal." Harlicker's son Stefan was one of the students who worked on creating the grill.

The revolver-shaped grill may not have much appeal to gun control advocates. But even if you're opposed to the imagery, you could still theoretically use the grill to cook up plenty of healthy eating options. At the end of the day, it's still a better image than being carted out of the Heart Attack Grill.

That's pretty damn impressive for a bunch of high-schoolers.