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A good couple of entertaining response and recaps that aren't too long...

 

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Smart people in Ohio AmericanCrow


A driver in Ohio got in serious trouble when he tried to avoid a weed bust by swallowing the green, and he's damn lucky the state trooper who pulled him over knows the Heimlich.

Ohio State Trooper Saves Driver Choking on Bag of Weed

A driver on Ohio got in some serious trouble by trying to avoid it, but a state trooper saved his life.

www.tmz.com

 

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Smart people in Ohio AmericanCrow


A driver in Ohio got in serious trouble when he tried to avoid a weed bust by swallowing the green, and he's damn lucky the state trooper who pulled him over knows the Heimlich.

Ohio State Trooper Saves Driver Choking on Bag of Weed

A driver on Ohio got in some serious trouble by trying to avoid it, but a state trooper saved his life.

www.tmz.com

Anything south of Cuyahoga County might as well be Kentucky, West Virginia or Western Pennsylvania

 

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Anything south of Cuyahoga County might as well be Kentucky, West Virginia or Western Pennsylvania

Guilty by association.

 

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Morocco's justice system

 

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Ex-Oakland Raider -- STOP EATING YOUR WEED, SIR ... Cops Say

Jarvis Moss -- a former 1st round NFL Draft pick -- tried to EAT ALL OF THE WEED IN HIS CAR during a traffic stop in Florida ... but he was busted 'cause he couldn't chew fast enough, cops say.

www.tmz.com

 

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And you wonder why we call them Pittspuke

Cleveland Metroparks files suit against Pittsburgh Zoo over name of popular event
The Cleveland Metroparks has filed a federal complaint against Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium over the name of the popular Asian Lantern Festival.
fox8.com

the Pittsburgh Zoo is advertising its inaugural light show using the same name and that the zoo is using photos and other materials from the Cleveland Zoo’s event for its own show

 

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And you wonder why we call them Pittspuke

Cleveland Metroparks files suit against Pittsburgh Zoo over name of popular event
The Cleveland Metroparks has filed a federal complaint against Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium over the name of the popular Asian Lantern Festival.
fox8.com

the Pittsburgh Zoo is advertising its inaugural light show using the same name and that the zoo is using photos and other materials from the Cleveland Zoo’s event for its own show

You can trademark the name "Asian Lantern Festival"? What's next, someone is going to trademark Chinese New Year, Veteran's Day Parade or Thanksgiving Parade?

 

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short man syndrome

 

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You can trademark the name "Asian Lantern Festival"? What's next, someone is going to trademark Chinese New Year, Veteran's Day Parade or Thanksgiving Parade?

Bottom line…those people want to be just like us

 

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Bottom line…those people want to be just like us

What do you care Arizona resident?

 

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What do you care Arizona resident?

 

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Pittsburgh palm trees I see

 

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Interesting that also dogs have far greater ability to communicate and understand humans than even chimps do, tho we are so closely related to chimps...

Study shows why you can't have wolves as pets

Hand-reared Wolf Puppies Remained Wild and Afraid of Strangers but in Dogs, Communication Skills Emerge in Early Puppyhood, Says Duke University-led Study

www.haaretz.com

 

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Interesting that also dogs have far greater ability to communicate and understand humans than even chimps do, tho we are so closely related to chimps...

Study shows why you can't have wolves as pets

Hand-reared Wolf Puppies Remained Wild and Afraid of Strangers but in Dogs, Communication Skills Emerge in Early Puppyhood, Says Duke University-led Study

www.haaretz.com

Makes sense. Dogs have had plenty of time to figure out who the hell they are dealing with. If we all took in wolves over the next thousand years or so they would as well....at least the humans they didn't eat.

 

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Not bad for a non venomous spider, he's Tony Montana "you're gonna need a ****ing army if you're gonna take me"

 

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Didn't realize that Thomas Nast, who created the image of the jackass and elephant as representing the Dems and GOP, also created the modern image of Santa Claus.

 

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geez, how awkward was this interview

 

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PayPal accidentally credits man $92 quadrillion

By Sho Wills, CNN
July 17, 2013

Chris Reynolds' PayPal account was erroneously credited $92,233,720,368,547,800.

When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off.

The Pennsylvania PR executive's account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800.

That's $92 QUADRILLION (and change).

Money that would make Reynolds -- who also sells auto parts on eBay in his spare time -- the richest man in the world by a long shot.

Rich, as in more than a million times richer than Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim. And he's worth $67 billion.

Oh, if only.

"It's a curious thing. I don't know, maybe someone was having fun," Reynolds said.

So he logged online, and reality bit back. His account balance read $0. The correct amount.

PayPal admitted the error and offered to donate an unspecified amount of money to a cause of Reynolds' choice.

"This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood this was the case," PayPal said in a statement.

Before this incident, the most Reynolds ever made on PayPal was "a little over $1,000" selling a set of vintage BMW tires on eBay.

So what would the would-be quadrillionaire have done with all that cash?

"I probably would have paid down the national debt," he said.

 

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Crazy stuff. Indestructible.

 

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Jabroni’ is now in the dictionary, and it’s all thanks to The Rock

That’s right, you jabroni.

By James Dator
Sep 2, 2020

There’s something exciting about new words being added to the dictionary, and this week we have a brilliant new entry ripped straight from the world of professional wrestling. Yes, “jabroni” is now a recognized word, and I hope you will use it in all your future Scrabble games.

The Dictionary.com entry on jabroni really explains it all.

jabroni[ juh-broh-nee ]
noun
Slang. a stupid, foolish, or contemptible person; loser:
She always has a comeback to own the trolls and jabronis on Twitter.
Shut your mouth, you dumb jabroni!

If you watched wrestling during the late 1990s you heard The Rock call people “jabronis” on a regular basis, but its origin dates back further than that. The first person to use the word as part was The Iron Sheik, wrestling legend and one of the weirdest follows on Twitter you can possible have.

Sheik used the term first, and was part of his lexicon. To him a “jabroni” was a “jobber,” or “enhancement talent.” Essentially another wrestler whose job it was to be booked for a match and lose, in order to make a more popular wrestler look better. He used the word in fiercely private wrestling locker, and never introduced it to the world. This was part of maintaining “kayfabe,” or the artifice of reality that exists inside pro wrestling.

For years the word “jabroni” was an inside term, until The Rock popularized the phrase during WWE’s “Attitude Era.” His promos routinely calling other wrestlers, and wrestling figures “jabronis” as an insult to them, while quietly tipping his hat to The Iron Sheik.



Still the word is synonymous with The Rock. There is no way “jabroni” would be in the dictionary today without his tireless work to insult those around him on national TV. Naturally he was excited at the news.



Meanwhile The Iron Sheik is still just casually using the word, always in the weirdest ways possible.



Wrestling, as always, is very good and influential.