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I know I just got done gushing about the Pucca cartoons, and in the past I've talked about Wonder Pets! I don't remember if I brought up the Backyardigans. I really like this show as well. Basically they share a big backyard space in a circle, and they make pretend all kinds of stuff. During their adventures, they dance. Each episode is a different ( Read more... )

Awhile ago, I discovered that there are full Pucca cartoons, and they are shown on television. They are half hour episodes, each with 3 little adventures/stories ( Read more... )

In sixteenth-century Paris, a popular form of entertainment was cat-burning, in which a cat was hoisted in a sling on a stage and slowly lowered into a fire. According to historian Norman Daview, "[T]he spectators, including kings and queens, shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized ( Read more... )

I had just all along assumed this person was female, even though the name is, basically, a male name. The combination of first and last name kind of allowed me to continue thinking it was a woman and not a man. But after Ben was like "isn't it a man" while we were talking about it, I looked more carefully at the name, and it's probably a man ( Read more... )

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Coworker 1 just told us a story about what she heard on the radio a couple years ago. The DJs called one of the Chinatown Bus companies and a woman who spoke no English answered the phone. I don't know exactly what happened in the conversation, but basically it ended with the DJs telling her to stick up her middle finger and point it at herself ( Read more... )

I am one tooth less than I was last Monday ( Read more... )