Bouba's Delivery Service

11. Crowns on pint glasses

Saw a cat in the pub the other night. Main challenge was making sure that The Dog Who Barks At Cats didn't see it too.

Mindat.org Mindat.org is the world's leading website about minerals and where they come from.

I'm reading a great book about the Permian Extinction, and I want everyone to know the word "framboid". Such a good word.

And more people should see Amersfoort.

The Secret History of Celery How the crunchy stalks went from Victorian centerpiece to ubiquitous football snack.

I don’t really like cooked celery (raw is delicious) but this was very interesting history nevertheless:

www.epicurious.com/ingredients/...

The people old enough to remember the last time are all dying now.

She's covering its eyes to protect its innocence.

Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback. And how can anyone else trust all the people who voted for Trump three times, ever again?

Childhood vaccinations aren't all that long-term. It is very expensive to put a new liver in a small child.

I don't know exactly what this is called, but I can tell you that every single man in this picture has very strong opinions about trash separation.

Two baby Leachianus geckos

Never gets old, welcoming these little creatures into the world. These two were several weeks late, hatch-wise so I bit the bullet and pipped them and fortunately all seems to be well, they just didn’t feel like coming out.

A close-up of part of a Christmas tree with some traditional glass baubles and decorations, the sort produced by Woolworths in the 1960s and 70s and kept forever in shoeboxes in the loft

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 3
‘Baubles,’ 1964

Artist: Frank Hampson

Further down the original thread, someone says the photo is actually a Goosefish and posts a photo of a Wobbegong. Both look like something out of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA! And at least we can now use the saying, "You can't tell a Wobbegong from a Goosefish!"

"25% smaller" sounds perfectly reasonable and a good idea, but in real terms you know it would be "5% fewer chips, meat hiding under a pea"

And the children's burger usually doesn't come with "secret sauce" that's mostly mayo, which suits me just fine.

Caracas in three days!

Venezuela can't possibly beat the US, which has nuclear weapons. Also, Venezuela hasn't declared itself neutral and there's a chance it might join the CSTO in the future. Russia has supplied it with weapons. Don't poke the eagle in its own back yard. That's how this works, right?

Calm down, Ambrose

I know! I also really enjoy their commentary.

For all I know, that bit in Holy Grail really was referring to duck-shaped weights. Are there any in the Ashmolean?

Genuinely love whoever in aincient Mesopotamia decided that the correct shape for weights was ducks.

RETVRN

If you've got it in that far, the base is probably the least of your problems.

The problem with Bluesky is that after a while you come to expect that any decontextualised sentence with a "he" pronoun and no proper noun is about Trump.

he floats through the wasteland, searching for any scraps of valuables the humans left in the apocalypse

I have a friend who keeps pet chickens, and I always say "mmm, straight from the cloaca!" when doing anything with the eggs.

A tree topper in the form of several disco balls with a flared base. It looks more like a butt toy than many actual butt toys.

We're not even pretending that this goes on top of the tree anymore, are we?

Ahem, in birds we call it the CLOACA

You've reminded me that I'm overdue for a DM of the Rings reread.

I know!

TPUSA posted it online.