Cats In Therapy…very funny!
The term “Black Friday” was supposed to persuade people to not go shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. In 1966, the Philadelphia Police Department started referring to it as Black Friday in hopes that it would keep people from adding to the traffic and commotion before the Army-Navy football game that same weekend.
The Ring Dance
I saw someone doing this in San Francisco a few years ago. This performer brings it to an artistic level.
The first Thanksgiving feast in 1621 lasted for three days – and it looked nothing like the “traditional” meal we enjoy. No turkey (which didn’t become popular until the 19thcentury), no corn on the cob (they grew only Indian corn, which is used to make cornmeal), no cranberry sauce (which wasn’t invented until maybe 1670), and no pumpkin pie (though pumpkin may have made an appearance). According to Smithsonian.com, “Wildfowl was there. Corn in grain form for bread or for porridge was there. Venison was there.” Other than those three documented items, historians can only guess at the rest of the food shared by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians.
A funny but sad look at college education today.
Fifteen percent of Americans have admitted to skinny-dipping.
It’s amazing what you can fit into a little package these days.
There are four mammals that can’t jump: elephants, sloths, hippos, and rhinos.
“Bruce Gilden’s Gritty Vision of a Lost New York” in The New Yorker
The “special sauce” in a Big Mac is Thousand Island dressing – basically, ketchup and mayonnaise.