I try to be sympathetic to human suffering

[uwe]

Actually, it's:



But Genghis, in this case....

William Shatner has risen in my appreciation - no, not for his singing voice, but for his civil rights forays. I only learned now that, as late as 1968, he was the first white person to kiss a black person in a TV series (and Nichelle Nichols vice versa of course)



and that the studio got cold feet and wanted to do a second take without the kiss which both actors refused.

Reading this and last week's news you do wonder whether we should not all have hoped back then for the The Captain & The Lieutenant becoming role models for a more popular and lasting social trend. 

[rahock]

I had a 5th grade science textbook that had the formula for black powder in it. I guess they figured 5th graders were too stupid to put it to use.
Well, they were wrong. By the time I was in 6th grade me a couple buddies were freakin' experts. We thought we were geniuses until a couple of guys I played baseball with, who were in 7th grade, were making nitro glycerin. They blew out a wall at a lawyers office right next to my house. Needless to say, they got caught and I got to witness a bomb squad remove 14 coffee cans of nitro from my baseball team mates house. Both got sent away for a long time . One I never saw again. The other was in the juvy home until he was 18 and then they put him in the army and sent him to Vietnam . Yeah, in my neighborhood we blew up some stuff.
Rick

[Dave W]

At least you avoided blowing yourselves up.

[66Atlas]

Slightly dumber might be deciding to get out of the car while driving through a wild animal park.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDZP08LZlKM&feature=youtu.be

[wellREDman]

Darwinism in action

[Dave W]

Apparently the first woman was mauled but lived, the third person out of the car is the one who was killed.  Now she's Meow Mix.

[uwe]

All because she couldn't plonounce tigel collectly.


Thele was a young lady flom China
Who took a walk to a tigel
Thele was no talk
Of a retuln flom the walk
But of a smile on the face of the tigel


Sigh, I'm really the house poet here.