Knees too, but especially the ankles.
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In 1988, Christmas Eve was on a Saturday.
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This is a pretty random list of interesting factoids (limited gift link).
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It was extremely random and entertaining. Thanks!
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- California grizzlies have been extinct for well over a century. I guess they meant Black bear?
Educational notice, if you’re in California and someone says there are bears by the river, it’s not what you think.
Otters will bring you food though.
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No. There is a reference to their original article. This says (in part):
Even among bears, the California grizzly had a bad rap. By the early 1600s, within decades of Europeans arriving in California, colonists were describing the region’s grizzlies as hypercarnivorous goliaths, weighing as much as 2,350 pounds and capable of single-handedly massacring flocks of 200 sheep. In reality, they probably clocked in closer to 200 to 500 pounds, according to the chemical analysis of the historical bear samples, led by Alexis Mychajliw, a conservation biologist and paleontologist at Middlebury College. Plus, Mowat told me, brown bears are far too bungling to catch up to and take down most full-grown livestock. Even so, the mythos was so pervasive, Mychajliw told me, that livestock were the most common grizzly menu item mentioned in the more than 100 diaries, government documents, field notes, and other historical records the team unearthed that mentioned what the bears ate.
It’s hard to prove just how much California grizzlies’ homicidal reputation was further fueled by their actual increase in meat-eating. But the change in diet can’t have helped. Farmers who spotted grizzlies gnawing on the occasional carcass probably took the incidents as confirmation of the bears’ bloodlust, Alagona said—and, eventually, as justification for exterminating them. Within just a couple of generations, humans managed to purge grizzlies, which once commanded a population some 10,000 strong in California, from the entire state.
Even today, fears of brown bears’ carnivory may be slowing efforts to reintroduce them to several parts of their once-native range. In Washington State and British Columbia, Robbins and Mowat told me, parents panic about never being able to let their children outside, and farmers and ranchers insist that their cattle herds will be under constant threat, if grizzlies return. Bears do pose a degree of risk, says Elizabeth Hiroyasu, a preserve scientist with the Nature Conservancy: In North America, grizzlies are responsible for about one to two human fatalities a year; they will, if given the opportunity, also feast on the occasional sheep or cow.
He was right. They’re way too gritty.
Like I said. Fucking extinct. The article referenced them in the present tense.
Fair enough. The article is in the present tense.
Who is it exactly who is telling people to lie down and stay still when approached by bears? I think it is the bears. “Simply cover yourself with honey and salt, than lie down motionless on a portable plate.”
I guess pop art is made by corporations, and performance art is made by histrionics?
Pop art is made by Saruman, performance art is made by Gandalf.
And the hobbits invented Pinterest.
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I think you have the most total and most varied record of concerts out of anybody I’ve interacted with, on the web or IRL.
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And apparently, Tolkien invented homosexuality.
I thought that was (checks notes) something that has existed forever.
It’s funny that art and literature are seen as gay now. On a bodybuilding website.
Elves, dwarves as opposed to dwarfs, hobbits and wizards are gay. However, Harry Potter manages to be even gayer.