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my good friend once did a puppet show about teddy roosevelt that featured vice president taft as a ball of masking tape with a head, hands and feet.  it was hilarious.  i’m digging this possum though.   stuffmomnevertoldyou: Billy Possum: The Teddy Bear Successor You’ve Never Heard Of These days, the item most closely associated with President William “Big Bill” Taft is a bathtub. Weighing more than 300 pounds when he moved into the White House in 1909, Taft had a gargantuan, new tub installed that stretched 7 feet (2.1 meters) long and 41 inches (1.04 meters) wide to fit his ample frame, stoking rumors that he had gotten stuck in the old one and need a team of men and butter sticks to hoist him out. Indeed, Taft’s size was an enduring butt of jokes throughout his political career and legacy, but before the bathtub, it was Taft’s taste for possum that got people talking…

my good friend once did a puppet show about teddy roosevelt that featured vice president taft as a ball of masking tape with a head, hands and feet.  it was hilarious.  i’m digging this possum though.  

stuffmomnevertoldyou:

Billy Possum: The Teddy Bear Successor You’ve Never Heard Of

These days, the item most closely associated with President William “Big Bill” Taft is a bathtub. Weighing more than 300 pounds when he moved into the White House in 1909, Taft had a gargantuan, new tub installed that stretched 7 feet (2.1 meters) long and 41 inches (1.04 meters) wide to fit his ample frame, stoking rumors that he had gotten stuck in the old one and need a team of men and butter sticks to hoist him out. Indeed, Taft’s size was an enduring butt of jokes throughout his political career and legacy, but before the bathtub, it was Taft’s taste for possum that got people talking…

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so…this happened.  

i apologize for the poor video quality.  you know how it is.  

pepe the prawn if probably the best muppet ever.  pepe and seymour are the only redeeming thing about muppets tonight.  well, them and this coolio number.  

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positively shocking! stuffmomnevertoldyou: Love Boats: The Delightfully Sinful History of Canoes As further proof that canoeing had become a hotbed for teenage delinquents, in 1913 the Minneapolis Parks Board refused to issue permits for canoes with unpalatable names. Local newspapers published some of the offensive phrases that slipped past the board the previous summer, including “Thehelusa,” “Kumonin Kid,” “Kismekwik,” “Damfino,” “Ilgetu,” “Aw-kom-in,” “G-I-Lov-U,” “Skwizmtyt,” “Ildaryoo,” “Win-kat-us,” “O-U-Q-T,” “What the?,” “Joy-tub,” “Cupid’s Nest,” and “I Would Like to Try It.” The commissioners unanimously agreed to outlaw phrases lacking obvious moral and grammatical standards, though a few of these clever pre-text-message abbreviations clearly had them scratching their heads. Meanwhile, the drama was heightened by a frenzied headline printed by the “Tribune” in June of 1914: “Girl Canoeists’ Tight Skirts Menace Society,” it wailed. In the article itself, F.C. Berry, a supposed park expert on recreational features, warned of the dangers narrow skirts posed to female boaters—in the event of a capsize, they’d be unable to swim. (via Collectors Weekly)

positively shocking!

stuffmomnevertoldyou:

Love Boats: The Delightfully Sinful History of Canoes

As further proof that canoeing had become a hotbed for teenage delinquents, in 1913 the Minneapolis Parks Board refused to issue permits for canoes with unpalatable names. Local newspapers published some of the offensive phrases that slipped past the board the previous summer, including “Thehelusa,” “Kumonin Kid,” “Kismekwik,” “Damfino,” “Ilgetu,” “Aw-kom-in,” “G-I-Lov-U,” “Skwizmtyt,” “Ildaryoo,” “Win-kat-us,” “O-U-Q-T,” “What the?,” “Joy-tub,” “Cupid’s Nest,” and “I Would Like to Try It.” The commissioners unanimously agreed to outlaw phrases lacking obvious moral and grammatical standards, though a few of these clever pre-text-message abbreviations clearly had them scratching their heads.

Meanwhile, the drama was heightened by a frenzied headline printed by the “Tribune” in June of 1914: “Girl Canoeists’ Tight Skirts Menace Society,” it wailed. In the article itself, F.C. Berry, a supposed park expert on recreational features, warned of the dangers narrow skirts posed to female boaters—in the event of a capsize, they’d be unable to swim.

(via Collectors Weekly)

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during his first new year’s eve, our late pug beowulf—wulfie—stuck his head into a container of vegetable dip and came out looking much like the pug picture above.   it’s just what you when you an adorable dog left momentarily alone with the dip, i suppose.   wherever you are, wulfie, i hope your face is always in the dip.   dogshaming: Yougurt pug. Our pug Nikos is very proud of himself whenever we give him yogurt and he gets it all around the… View Post

during his first new year’s eve, our late pug beowulf—wulfie—stuck his head into a container of vegetable dip and came out looking much like the pug picture above.   it’s just what you when you an adorable dog left momentarily alone with the dip, i suppose.  

wherever you are, wulfie, i hope your face is always in the dip.  

dogshaming:

Yougurt pug.

Our pug Nikos is very proud of himself whenever we give him yogurt and he gets it all around the…

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i love you, cristen and caroline! stuffmomnevertoldyou: Pant Zippers Are Veritable Penis Bear Traps, Study Finds Maybe more men should consider switching to button-fly pants because zippers are essentially bear traps laying in wait for penises to entrap. At least that’s the subtext I gathered from one of the most popular studies on the Internet this week, succinctly titled “Zip-related genital injury.” Published in the March 2013 edition of the Journal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (whose happy hours are undoubtedly peppered with all sorts of fascinating urogenital trivia), the study sought to quantify just how much of a problem pant zippers pose to penises. Answer: quite a lot…

i love you, cristen and caroline!

stuffmomnevertoldyou:

Pant Zippers Are Veritable Penis Bear Traps, Study Finds

Maybe more men should consider switching to button-fly pants because zippers are essentially bear traps laying in wait for penises to entrap. At least that’s the subtext I gathered from one of the most popular studies on the Internet this week, succinctly titled “Zip-related genital injury.” Published in the March 2013 edition of the Journal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (whose happy hours are undoubtedly peppered with all sorts of fascinating urogenital trivia), the study sought to quantify just how much of a problem pant zippers pose to penises. Answer: quite a lot…

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thefluffingtonpost: Bunny Thinks He’s Snoopy According to sources close to the situation, a local bunny name Manny has come to believe that he is legendary cartoon dog Snoopy. “He just won’t go into his bunny house,” said Angela Chemick, a friend of the rabbit. “Manny spends most of his day sitting or sleeping on top of his house. Sometimes he also pretends he is a World War II fighter pilot.” Chemick says it hasn’t been a big problem yet, though it is a bit weird. But she worries that with rain in the forecast for this week, Manny could be in for some rough days and nights. Via baby_bunbun_haru. omg cuteness

thefluffingtonpost:

Bunny Thinks He’s Snoopy

According to sources close to the situation, a local bunny name Manny has come to believe that he is legendary cartoon dog Snoopy.

“He just won’t go into his bunny house,” said Angela Chemick, a friend of the rabbit. “Manny spends most of his day sitting or sleeping on top of his house. Sometimes he also pretends he is a World War II fighter pilot.”

Chemick says it hasn’t been a big problem yet, though it is a bit weird. But she worries that with rain in the forecast for this week, Manny could be in for some rough days and nights.

Via baby_bunbun_haru.

omg cuteness