It’s OK, all the spider images are safely behind a blur. An arachnophobe wrote this, after all.
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This is vewy vewy cweepy.
Out with the bumper stickers, in with the unfriending.
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Time to break out the jellies and board shorts.
The standard June-August footwear. Bonus points if they were rainbow.
"Formal" summer footwear.
Because Kelly Kapowski.
Because The Gap.
Happy 88th Birthday, Ms. Monroe.
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Need an excuse to party this June? Luckily there are plenty of weird national holidays to help you out.
You can even make it "Wear an awesome fur coat day".
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I said Repeat Day.
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You know, the year Clayton Kershaw was born.
Tommy Lasorda twenty-six years ago.
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Because no one wants to spend their golden years in some boring old place.
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From a forgery of William Shakespeare’s signature to a queen’s love note asking not to be beheaded.
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In January, the British Library was readying Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for digitization when they noticed an unusual handwritten note on the medieval manuscript: "She cares not a turd."
The marginalia was a surprise, and the library turned to scholars and social media for help. Who didn't give a shit? And was she really apathetic, or was this nothing more than idle gossip? We may never know the answers to these pressing questions, no doubt heartbreaking to Chaucer scholars worldwide, but for those of us who relish in marginalia — writing in books — this discovery was simply delightful.
Committing your personal thoughts to a library copy of Pride and Prejudice will certainly earn you the ire of many parties, but during the manuscript era, extra-wide margins provided scholars with plenty of room to interpret, debate, and reinforce authorial intent. They made quite a few doodles, too but whatever they scrawled, no matter how insignificant, personalized the text, transforming a standard document with each new addition. It could also be done somewhat unconsciously, lending the page an inherent intimacy. Whether this occurred in the rarest of books or one of a hundred or thousand, marginalia has the power transform the solitary act of reading into a social exploration.
Marginalia comes in many forms, and I found seven great examples at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
By the 1790s, Samuel Ireland had acquired Oliver Cromwell’s leather jacket and Joseph Addison’s fruit knife, but the London-based collector longed for something signed by Shakespeare. His son, William-Henry Ireland, was just as desperate for his father’s approval. Like the rest of the nation, he had gone in search of Shakespeare’s personal documents, only to return empty-handed — but unlike others on the hunt, William-Henry had an interest in forgery. In 1794, he presented his father with a document signed by Shakespeare, authenticated by the poet-laureate Henry James Pye and various antiquarian book experts. Basking in his father’s attention, William-Henry went on a serious forging binge, which the Ireland family proudly displayed in their home. The Shakespearean scholars who visited immediately questioned their provenance, but Samuel, none the wiser, stood by his son and proudly published his discoveries. This allowed the poems, deeds, letters, and play to be widely circulated, and a consensus quickly formed: The materials were bogus. Although William-Henry confessed, his father received much of the blame, and by the time Samuel died in 1800, they were still estranged.
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The extensive annotation crowding this edition of Homer’s Odyssey seems worthy of the epic poem, the second oldest extant in the Western canon. The library believes the manuscript, printed in Greek type in 1517, was probably used as a schoolbook, thus the pages are littered with underscored words, Latin translations, and notes on the themes each character embodies — a testament to Penelope and Odysseus’ perseverance.
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Because your girls deserve the best.
Eagles, butterflies, and rotten eggs, oh my!
Ever wonder where stars are born? (And we don't mean reality television.) A mere 1,500 light-years from us, the Orion Nebula — pictured using infrared, ultraviolet, and visible-light colors — is the nearest star factory. It has a heart of four monstrously massive stars, collectively called the Trapezium because of the shape they make.
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This majestic pillar is 9.5 light-years (or about 57 trillion miles) high. Stars spawn in clouds of cold hydrogen, not unlike your own birth.
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Here's another view. These pillars of hydrogen gas and dust are incubators for new stars and are 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens.
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This star cluster is in the constellation Cepheus and is about 7,000 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy. The technical name of the cluster is NGC 7380, but let's just pretend it's really sorcery.
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So many fears.
And it’s pretty spectacular.
Because Earth's atmosphere filters ultraviolet light, in the past decade astronomers have lacked information it provides. But this composite combines the full range of light available to Hubble. Made from 841 orbits of telescope viewing time, it contains approximately 10,000 galaxies.
When a star is born, it takes time before observable light reaches Earth. Before, astronomers used Hubble's near-infrared technology to watch births in galaxies far, far away, but only primitive stages were visible because of the significant amount of time needed for the light to travel.
That's where this image comes in: It provides the missing link in star formation — a gap of about 5 to 10 billion light-years, when most stars in the universe were born. Because the hottest, largest, and youngest stars emit ultraviolet light, astronomers have a new glimpse at which galaxies are forming stars — and where in the galaxies the stars are forming, exactly.
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Lessons about nothing.
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1. The other people at the restaurant are always getting seated before you.
2. If things aren't working for you, do exactly the opposite.
3. It's not a lie if you believe it.
4. What other people call a waste of a life, you might call living.
5. Don't waste your time on the bottom of the muffin.
6. Don't believe food labels. If it says it's fat-free, it probably isn't.
7. We live in a free society. Dip your chips however you feel.
8. Women don't respect salad eaters.
9. If you're feeling down, eat a mango. B12 makes everything better.
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10. No one has ever accomplished the roommate switch. It can't be done. IT CAN'T BE DONE.
11. Nobody will ever know if you're faking it.
12. If you can't say anything bad about a relationship, you shouldn't say anything at all.
13. Nobody should date themselves.
14. People on dates shouldn't even be allowed out of the home.
15. If you go on your hands and knees to scrub the tub for a significant other, you're in love.
16. Never underestimate the importance of home-bed advantage.
17. Not all naked activities are sexy.
18. People do "yada yada" over sex. Beware.
Everything is complicated (and sexy AF) when you’re Ryan Gosling and you are leaving a meeting.
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For the last 22 years, the Mario Kart games have made us laugh, they’ve made us cry, and they’ve made us break our N64 controllers in RAGE, because I WAS THIS CLOSE to winning if YOU HADN’T THROWN THAT BLUE SHELL AT ME. YOU RUINED MY SLUMBER PARTY, BRIAN!
1. The antigravity mechanic in Mario Kart 8 began as a drill that players could equip to tunnel under each of the tracks.
2. Wario actually gets his name from a portmanteau of "Mario" and the Japanese word "warui," which means bad. His name essentially translates to "Bad Mario."
3. The same goes from Waluigi. In fact, his portmanteau works even better in Japan, where his name is pronounced "Waruigi."
4. Whomps are inspired by the Nurikabe of Japanese Mythology. Nurikabe were said to take on the form of walls to hold up travelers.
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5. Thwomp's laughter in Mario Kart 64 is actually Wario's laugh slowed down.
6. Mario was considered as a playable character in Sega's Mario Kart-inspired racing game, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.
7. In the Japanese version of Super Mario Kart, both Bowser and Peach were shown drinking champagne when they won an event. The animation was changed for the North American release.
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Jackie Mitchell fanned the Yankees legends in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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