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Boom.
bboy-yung-buck
Can everyone just reblog this once?
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inebriatedpony
Actual folk metal mosh pit.
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gigglesanddreams
9 frames that completely sum up the entire show.
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Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller, R.N.R.
Born in Lancashire, England, UK in 1877. Went to sea at thirteen, starting out in masted sailing ships, and survived a shipwreck, cyclone, malaria, near-drowning, panning for gold in the Klondike, herding cattle on the Canadian prairies, riding the rails as a hobo, another storm at sea on a cattle boat, a prank that got him temporarily banned from Australia (yes, the whole place; Boer War jokes aren’t funny DURING the Boer War), and that was BEFORE becoming the highest-ranking officer aboard Titanic to survive the wreck (where he was sucked under, trapped on a grate, made it back to the surface, and spent most of the night keeping twenty men balanced on an overturned collapsible boat).
After that, he spent World War I being the first spotter in an airplane launched from a ship to locate an enemy fleet, surviving another wreck (Oceanic) and the subsequent court-martial, pioneering depth-charge fishing, and eventually retiring…to take tours of German ports and sketching them for the Admiralty, and then piloting his personal yacht to Dunkirk to evacuate 130 trapped soldiers during the evacuation. And that’s skipping the part where he convinced a young lady passenger on the Australia run to make the return trip as Mrs Lightoller. Action, adventure, daring-do and a droll sense of humor about the whole thing. And pretty darn hot to boot.
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flutterskies
everyone stop what you’re doing
there’s a platypus on your dash
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Reblogging because I don’t think I have ever seen a platypus walk before and…just…squeak.
king-clotpole
i didn’t even know
they coudl waljk
It’s like watching a carpet walk
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the-absolute-funniest-posts
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the-absolute-funniest-posts
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I remember my trip two years ago, to San Francisco. I took a cab to this bridge while my sister was on a conference call.
I stood there for about two hours, looking down, people watching, and wondering how far down the water was.
A girl sat next to me, and asked me, “You’re not going to jump„ are you?”
I smiled and reassured her I wasn’t. That I was just a tourist.
She then said, “You look a lot like my sister. I’m sorry, I don’t mean to make you uncomfortable. But I had to ask, can I hug you? You just look so much like her.”
I felt awkward at first, but then I realized. “She jumped?”
This girl’s face just crumpled, and she started crying. I hugged her, without a second thought, and for some reason I apologized. Not sure what else I could say.
She goes, “Those were the last words she ever spoke to me.”
And I will never forget this girl, her name was Ariana.
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BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
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Marilyn was a big supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Ella Fitzgerald was one of Marilyn’s idols and a major inspiration. However, the Mocambo nightclub in West Hollywood, the most popular dance spot at the time, refused to let Ella perform there because she was black. Outraged, Marilyn told the owners that if they would let Ella perform, she would be there in the front row every time Ella was onstage. She did, and the two became friends.
According to the great Ella Fitzgerald: “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt…it was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the ’50s. She personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him - and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status - that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.”
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One tectonic plate bumped into another and said….. “Sorry, my fault.”