If You See Something (IRL), Post Something! (Part 1)

Practical solutions to everyday problems.

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This arrived in the mail yesterday:

Am I the only one whose formative years have yielded a really strong association between pencil renderings like this and the illustrations in the Joy of Sex? Does Mr. Meat Share look maybe a little too satisfied?

No? It’s just me?

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He does look exactly like the sort of person who would casually invite you to his meat share without really considering how you might take it.

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Big, very big.




The Horizon Leader; it’s just offloaded a cargo of motor vehicles.

And, 180° away, a big yellow thing. :wink:

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This, to me, is odd. How sad that it is necessary to actively welcome people in a Christian church.

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Now this is just a fun pun.

Park Slope is a famously family/chic neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, just FYI…

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It’s a brown jelly fungus; looks like Willow brain, Exidia recisa, which is common in North America. They are simultaneously lovely and repellent (insert joke about high school girlfriend here). :wink:

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Heh-heh…

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Okay, try this one:

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Basic Instructions

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I must admit, I almost just @-named you on that one, but I think you were on a break :slight_smile: Man, I got heavily into microbiology when my wife was in nursing school (she asked for help studying for an exam, then I refused to give the book back) but the fungus chapters were far too light and human-pathology-centric…

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At least they’re not the kind of Christians who like to pretend that the majority of Christians don’t exist, or somehow don’t mean all the things they say.

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Speaking of biology, I always laugh at this page of the quite literally birds-and-bees book Flowers are Calling (beautiful Kenard Pak illustrations throughout, btw, check it out) always strikes me as…explicit

They’re calling a beetle
to eat their pollen loose

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From Birdsandbeeshub.com:

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Welp, I just finished going top to tails through the crafting thread a few weeks ago, so I guess it’s high time to tackle another pure-community bbs trove… *opens in a new tab*

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Is it cheating if I did this myself (as opposed to randomly finding it)?

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And now for something completely different…

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The King of Fruits:

(My father’s birthday present: being cut up outside, since it wasn’t allowed in the house.)

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Could not get a picture of it (as I was driving and surprised by it), but there was a dead deer on a median on my way to work, and someone had tied one of those mylar birthday balloons to it’s leg!

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