A Call For Humor!

[snakedctr]

 

[snakedctr]

 

[KellenVancouver]

The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.
Lindsay Wagner and Lee Majors.

 

[Nutul]

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Are they all edible...? you know... just in case.

 

[Buckaroo Shanzai]

Revenge is a dish best served hot. - old Finnish proverb

 

[Ropeburn]

Are they all edible...? you know... just in case.

Gator/crocodile is delicious! Tried it in an Australian restaurant, juicy, tender and tasty. Snake is definitely edible too, dunno about the taste. Pigs love them, and other animals too.

Hissy sausage, om nom nom

And tarantulas are edible too, at least the breast part. I see no reason that one wouldn't be.

 

[Buckaroo Shanzai]

 

[Buckaroo Shanzai]

 

[Ropeburn]

 

[somebodyelse]

Gator/crocodile is delicious! Tried it in an Australian restaurant, juicy, tender and tasty. Snake is definitely edible too, dunno about the taste.

Rattlesnake and gator taste similar, assuming they served what I ordered. Both were tasty.

 

[Jimi Floyd]

Revenge is a dish best served hot. - old Finnish proverb
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So, there's an international pizza contest among national teams? and Santa is the jury? Is smoked reindeer even legal?

 

[Jimi Floyd]

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This is historically plausible

The "fastest iron piece in the world" refers to a
900-kilogram (roughly 2,000-pound) steel armor plate—often called a "manhole cover"—that was launched by an underground nuclear explosion in 1957.
Here are the key details of this legendary event:

The Story of the "Nuclear Manhole Cover"

• The Test: It occurred during Operation Plumbbob, specifically the Pascal-B test on August 27, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site.
• The Set-up: Scientists placed a nuclear device at the bottom of a 500-foot-deep shaft and capped it with the thick steel plate to study the blast's effects.
• The Explosion: The blast was far more powerful than expected, turning the shaft into a "nuclear cannon".
• The Speed: High-speed cameras caught only a single frame of the plate as it shot upward. Based on this, astrophysicist Dr. Robert Brownlee calculated it was traveling at approximately 125,000 miles per hour (about 66 km/s or 200,000+ km/h).
• Significance: This speed is roughly five to six times the escape velocity of Earth, theoretically making it the first man-made object to reach space, months before Sputnik.

Did it actually make it to space?
While it is frequently cited as the fastest man-made object, its ultimate fate is debated:

• Most Likely Scenario: Most physicists, including Dr. Brownlee, believe the steel plate likely vaporized due to extreme friction heating in the atmosphere shortly after launch.
• The Legend: Because it was never found, the story persists that it may have survived and is still traveling through deep space.

 

[Ropeburn]

(about 66 km/s or 200,000+ km/h).

That's some mach 192. Definitely "mach fuck"

 

[mhardy6647]

"In space, no one can calculate your Mach number."
(to paraphrase Alien)

 

[mhardy6647]

So, there's an international pizza contest among national teams? and Santa is the jury? Is smoked reindeer even legal?

As opposed to unsmoked reindeer or just chowing down on Rudolph's heirs in general?

In a past life, I spent a fair amount of time in Sweden as part of a "task force" team shepherding a commercial joint venture (licensed pharmaceutical product) between the company I worked for and a Swedish biotech company. Their cafeteria often featured reindeer. I was told* that, in Sweden, the government was responsible for all reindeer in the country, and harvested a certain amount (no mean amount, I reckon) for prandial activities.
It was pretty tasty.

Perhaps not coincidentally, I also bought a beautiful reindeer pelt for ca. $50 USD (equivalent) at the airport on my way home one day.
I have several stories about that pelt, some of which I suspect I've already shared here at ASR at one time or another.
... but I digress.
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* I.e., I have never fact-checked that comment, even to this day as I type this...

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[Bleib]

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Gosh, I still have a 32" Sony Trinitron I must get rid off

 

[rationaltime]

 

[Buckaroo Shanzai]

 

[Buckaroo Shanzai]