Odd Stuff (Part 1)

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Ahh, the good old “Cat 5 o nine tails”.

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A new spin on Geek Love?

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The Apprentice managed to run for a while, and they had the biggest boob of all. :man_shrugging:

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bears

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The Apprentice was never cool, even if it was popular.

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The song was Baby Shark. Misdemeanor seems too lenient…
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"…Police arrested the 49-year-old on suspicion of handling stolen property. He has since been released on bail pending further investigation.

When asked why the artwork was cut into two pieces, Senior Superintendent Tony Ho Chun-tung of the Organised Crime and Triad Bureau, said: “Someone thought the calligraphy was too long – 2.8 metres in length – and it was difficult to show and display it. That’s why it was cut in half.”"

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Goddamn people who ruin precious items…

tenor(1)

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That’s by Chairman Mao, who died in 1976, not some archaeological find from thousands of years ago

“Art,” or whatever this is, seems to be in a price bubble

Previously, the highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction had been $179.4 million for Picasso’s “Women of Algiers (Version O)” in May 2015. The highest known sale price for any artwork had been $300 million for Willem de Kooning’s “Interchange,” sold privately in September 2015 by the David Geffen Foundation to hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin.

Leonardo da Vinci: Salvator Mundi sells for record $450 million

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Frickin raccoons

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That was just one huge tit.

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You can still see his writings painted on buildings in rural China.

Not in fancy pants calligraphy however.

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We could get a whole grab bag of goodies from ancient and classical Egypt for less than $0.002 billion

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Nice excuse, but what he did was try to double his payday to private collectors. You see the same kind of things in libraries with very old illuminated texts, or the larger scientific books filled with very artistic plates.

They can sell the book for a large lump sum, if they can find someone who wants to pay that much for a stolen book, or they can sell individual pages, framed, for far less, but which adds up in total for more than the book.

This guy was thinking “Well, a scrap of Mao’s writings goes for x. I cut it in two, I have 2x.”

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Augmented reality goggles for military working dogs could let handlers give them commands remotely

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