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Here's a puppy to make you feel better

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Top 20 Dumb Blonde Jokes

 "1. What do you call a blonde skeleton in the closet?
Last year's hide and seek champion.

2: What do you call a blonde with 2 brain cells?
Pregnant.

3. Did you hear about the blondes who froze to death at the drive-in?
They went to see 'Closed for the Winter'"
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The Crypt

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Artist Puts Hercules, and Himself, on Pedestals

“I only work with students who admire me and think I am great. If I am not the one that takes their breath away, I don’t feel like working with them, because this would be a waste of time.”
Markus Lüpertz
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
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The Three Amigos By JAMES MCMULLAN

"There is something particularly satisfying about setting up objects for a still life painting. It’s like a little world that you control. First you get to choose the inhabitants — maybe a vase, some flowers, a weird gourd, a plastic Mickey Mouse, your baby shoes — and then you get to move them around like a potentate.

Of course, this opportunity to combine a mélange of objects can lead to a too-complicated visual mess. There are a few fundamental decisions to make before you start a still life: deciding on how many elements to include, how to arrange them so that they overlap in a good way and how to position the objects to create not only a satisfying aggregate shape, but also ensure that the negative space is interesting."
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Freed Mely the chained orangutan

"After 15 years in shackles, perhaps it was inevitable that when the moment came for rescuers to free Mely the orangutan, no one could find the key to unlock her padlock and chain.
Yet she stood upright on her thin, wasted legs as the team from the British charity arrived by boat at the spot where she had been shackled in Kalimantan, Borneo.
Mely had been held there in unspeakably cruel conditions by a fisherman who shot her mother as a ‘trophy’. He treated Mely as a ‘cute’ pet — much to the amusement of friends, who threw her scraps of unsuitable food."
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Baby Shark

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The Bremen town musicians travelling by night

Nel fantastico mondo di Manga-Man

Blonde Joke

"The veterinarian told the blonde that her dog needed some
exercise.

'You need to make sure the dog runs around,' the doctor
said. 'Try playing a game of fetch.'

'I can't play fetch with my dog,' the blonde said.

'Why not?' the doctor asked.

'Because,' she replied, 'He can't throw.'"
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Pumpkin carving at its cutest!

Like Humans, Chimps Tend to Be Right-Handed

"Humans are not the only species to prefer to use their right hand -- chimpanzees also share the trait, according to a new study by Spanish scientists.

The researchers reached their findings, published in the latest edition of the American Journal of Primatology, after observing 114 chimpanzees from two primate rescue centers, one in Spain and the other in Zambia."
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Send in the Creepy Clowns

"It, 1990
In this Hollywood take on the Stephen King novel, Tim Curry plays Pennywise the Dancing Clown, a creature whose appearance shifts according to an individual's worst fear. Although It occasionally fed on young adults, Pennywise prefers to devour young children."
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Sharp Stone Age spearheads were cooked then flaked

"If you want to make really sharp stone spearheads, do like Stone Age cave dwellers did and cook them first.

Palaeoanthropologists have discovered that this two-step trick was invented 50,000 years earlier than they previously thought. The findings add to evidence that Africa's southern tip was a centre of technological and cultural development during the middle Stone Age."
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Flamingos use 'make-up' to appeal to mates

"Wild flamingos use natural colour pigments as make-up to make their plumage appear brighter and attract a mate, scientists claimed."
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“I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

Sorry guys. I'm sick , ergo I will update blog as soon as I can. See you again soon!

If you give a moose a muffin

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Is this dessert going cheep?

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Happy Hippo

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Compostable tray heralds new era for chocolate boxes

"It is perhaps the ultimate guilt-free invention for die-hard chocoholics looking to destroy the evidence of their crime.

After the chocolates have been devoured, the empty tray – scourge of recyclers – can not only be put on the compost heap, but will also disappear completely if placed under a running tap.

Marks & Spencer is using the new packaging for the first time in its entire Swiss Chocolate Collection range. The new products go on sale in store from today, in anticipation of high demand from shoppers in the runup to Christmas.

The trays will be made of plantic, a material made from starch that is 100% compostable. When plantic becomes moist it breaks down completely, making it ideal for home composting."
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Loose hamster brings down plane

"A Brisbane -bound plane from the UK was delayed in Brunei yesterday after a stowaway hamster was found onboard.

The high-flying rodent was seen running around the cabin by flight crew and caused the Royal Brunei flight to be evacuated while airline staff searched for it. The plane was also fumigated.



The airline did not say how the small hamster made its way on to the flight but passengers reported seeing a small girl on the plane crying when the pilot asked for the owner to come forward.

Passengers were delayed for about an hour and forced to undergo a second security screening before boarding a new plane to continue on to Brisbane. The fate of the hamster remains unknown."
Nothing To Do With Arbroath

"The autumn leaves are a lot like raising kids. First they turn on you, and then they fly away. And next thing you know, you look out the window and they're back!"

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Halloween dog parade in New York

 "From a Tiffanys box to a convict, dog-owners dress up their pooches for the Tompkins Square Park 20th annual Halloween dog parade"
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The Legend of Clint Eastwood

The Bridges of Madison County, 1995
When Bruce Beresford was fired, Eastwood took the job of directing himself and Meryl Streep (an Oscar nomination for Best Actress) in this film version of Robert James Waller's best-seller about an incandescent, three-day affair between a roving photographer and an Iowa farm wife. He told TIME's Richard Schickel that he didn't have to waste a lot of energy looking for his character. "I've been that guy," he said, referring to a detached and wandering period in his young manhood; "years of being lost" on the American back roads, unable to define what he was looking for. Those years, those feelings are long gone, but other aspects of that young guy still cling to him; he remains restless, self-sufficient, with a large tolerance for his own company and an equally large indifference toward the good opinion of strangers. "I've always had the theory," he once said, "that actors who beg their audiences to like them ... are much worse off than actors who just say, 'If you don't like this, don't let the door hit you in the ass.'"

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