Dan T.

Pothole fixed in New Orleans

Vintage photo looks like Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) in drag:

I am not a fisherman. I did not know that part of the sport involved screaming like a schoolgirl. Edit: Which, come to think of it, is probably what Bang sounded like while wrestling that monster spider.

At the very least he had to burn the underwear he was wearing.

That is Andre's right hand and a regular 12-ounce can of beer.

At :27, the other white meat CAN jump!

Dip**** announcer: Did you call bank? Pierce: [scowl] I called GAME!

Good day for DC sports.

So you can relate to this:

Not an exact fit for this thread, but it's kind of a neat trivia tidbit. Q: Why are so many manicurists in the U.S. Vietnamese women? A: "Birds" film actress Tippi Hedren. Here's the story: By Celeste Hoang Most Americans recognize Tippi Hedren for her starring role in Alfred Hitch****’s horror film The Birds—but among the Vietnamese American community, her reputation is for something a little more serious: being a cornerstone of the immigrant community's economy. Forty years ago, the Hollywood actor traveled to Hope Village, a Vietnamese refugee camp near Sacramento, California, to meet with a group of women who had recently fled the takeover of South Vietnam by the armed forces of Communist leader Ho Chi Minh. Hedren was aware of the difficulties the refugees had faced and had been trying before her visit to think of a skill or trade she could help the women learn so they could support themselves in their adopted country. When she met with the group, she was surprised to find they were enamored with her manicure. “We were trying to find vocations for them. I brought in seamstresses and typists—any way for them to learn something,” she told the BBC. “And they loved my fingernails.” Thuan Le was there for the lightbulb moment. “A group of us were standing close to her and saw that her nails were so beautiful,” she recalled to TakePart. “We talked to each other and said they looked so pretty. I looked in [Hedren’s] eyes and knew she was thinking something. She said, ‘Ah, maybe you can learn nails.’ And we looked at each other and she said, ‘Yes, manicures!’ ” Hedren flew in her own beautician and enlisted a local beauty school to teach 20 of the women how to execute the perfect manicure. Many of these women later settled in Southern California, where they soon were offering manicure services at a lower price than the existing competition. This quickly and dramatically changed the face of the industry in the region. Manicures and pedicures that cost upwards of $50 in luxury salons can cost 30 to 50 percent less at a Vietnamese American–owned salon, according to trade publication Nails. Today, the nail industry is worth $8 billion, and 80 percent of nail technicians in Southern California are Vietnamese (51 percent across the U.S.). Many of them are direct descendants of the 20 women Hedren met with that fateful day in Sacramento, according to the BBC. http://news.yahoo.com/hollywood-star-made-vietnamese-refugees-beauticians-223603963.html

Not a big fan of Niles Paul. In keeping with the spirit of this thread, I wouldn't mind seeing him go on a Caribbean cruise and disappear in the Bermuda Triangle. That might be a little harsh, but he's never been more than "meh" for me. Jordan Reed is 3 times the pass catching tight end he is, and Paul is expendable as a special teams guy, IMO.

It's the Bleacher Report, not the NFL. All you need to know about the author is that he considers keeping Niles Paul a great move.

Follow the money. The Big Corn Industrial Complex is the key: Brandon Sherff's home State? = Iowa Iowa? = The Hawkeye State Hawkeyes? = Indian Tribe NFL Team? = The Redskins Indian Food Source? = Maize Maze? = Corn Corn Fuel?= Ethanol Ethanol? = Huge subsidies from Washington, DC Washington, DC? = Home of the Redskins

Listen up, sheeple: The next town east of Brandon Scherff's hometown of Denison is Carroll, Iowa. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Carroll,+IA/Denison,+IA/@41.988453,-95.0701235,45607m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x87ed39942270f837:0x10907021be902989!2m2!1d-94.8672793!2d42.0655986!1m5!1m1!1s0x8792c2372bc76dc1:0xc7d83f1faa4f1852!2m2!1d-95.3588867!2d42.024988 Who hails from Carroll, Iowa? This man: Who is this man, standing amid Redskins memorabilia? He is David Donovan, recent and former general counsel and COO of the Washington Redskins. He is the man who sued the City Paper and sued the season-ticket holding grandmother. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/post/coo-dave-donovan-leaving-redskins/2011/07/11/gIQAr0mL9H_blog.html Coincidence? I think not. Wake up, people, before it's too late and they herd us into burgundy and gold painted FEMA trailers arrayed in fenced-off sections of abandoned Indian reservations.

Cops release pot smoker's "to do" list. Busy busy busy:

Some people think the Redskins reached way too high to draft Brandon Scherff at 5. Why would they do that? Hang on to your hats, because I'm about to blow your minds... Brandon Scherff is from Denison, Iowa, a tiny town in the western part of the state. And who else is from Dension, Iowa? This man: Who is that man, you may ask? Give me your Loose Change, and I'll tell you. He is none other than Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney who led a personal quest to prove that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as part of a massive government conspiracy. He prosecuted the only person put on trial fro the crime of conspiracy to assassinate the President. http://www.jfk-online.com/garrison.html Two men tied by geography to a tiny town in Iowa. Garrison was portrayed by Kevin Costner in the Oliver Stone documentary "JFK." What other prominent movie role did Costner have? Ray Kinsella in "Field of Dreams." Remember? "If you build it, they will come." Build it where? Iowa. The very same state. Come ON, sheeple. Open your eyes. It all fits together.

View out Daniel Snyder's office window at Redskins Park? A grassy knoll. Location of Daniel Snyder's office in the building at Redskins Park? Back and to the left. Phrase that the letters in "Daniel Snyder" can be rearranged to spell? "Deadly Sinner"

Whoa! Here's something else. How did the Redskins, a once proud franchise, come to be synonymous with defeat and surrender? The location of Societe Generale, the bank that financed Daniel Snyder's purchase of the team? France. The nationality of Havas Advertising, the firm which bought Snyder Communications? France. Nation with the worst reputation for defeat and surrender? France. Temperature that steel melts in the presence of thermite? France. Hey, I'm just asking questions.

On November 23, 1964 - exactly one year and one day after President John F. Kennedy is assassinated - Daniel Marc Snyder is born. The story of his early life is murky. What we do know: Snyder attended Charles Woodward High School in Rockville. That high school no longer exists. Snyder's first job was at B. Dalton Books. That business no longer exists. The bookstore was located in White Flint Mall. That mall no longer exists. Snyder made his fortune through Snyder Communications. That business no longer exists. ~~ I will leave it to others to connect the dots.

He ended up a little behind.

So the guy in the OP who fell off the horse and got the **** beat out of him by a gang of sheriff's deputies is about to get paid. Francis Jared Pusok has reached a settlement with San Bernardino County to pay him $650,000. http://www.pe.com/articles/agreement-765349-pusok-county.html

Opening the paper this morning brought a definite smile to my face.