There was some question a few days ago whether that anchorwoman and meteorologist from Philadelphia were fighting or joking as they talked to each other during their broadcast. In contrast, after watching this embarrassing exchange, there’s no question whatsoever that these two kind of hate each other…

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Here are several of Queen’s studio recordings with the vocal tracks isolated…

You’re My Best Friend

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In 1992, tape recordings of various poetry from a 1950′s NBC radio program was rediscovered by two Walt Whitman scholars. In that collection of readings was a copy of a wax cylinder recording purported to be Whitman himself reading one of his poems in 1890.

Given the nature of the medium and the age of the specimen and the fact that the original no longer exists, it is impossible to know for sure that it is actually Whitman. But there is a fair amount of confidence among people who know what they’re talking about that it is authentic.

Here is the recording in question — (Probably) Walt Whitman reading four of the six lines in his poem “America”…

And here is the poem, if you want to follow along…

America

Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,

All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,

Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,

Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,

A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,

Chair’d in the adamant of Time.

Read the story as it was originally reported (with more detail than this post, of course) in 1992.

(via Dangerous Minds)

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The frozen-drink brand Sloche, which is available in a chain of Quebec convenience stores, long ago decided that, though the taste of fruit may be good, the names of fruits are just too boring. So instead of labeling their product according to the actual flavor, they use random, disgusting, and wholly unrelated “flavors” instead.

Here’s one machine where you can mix iced pizza and spaghetti together to your liking…

“Pizzaghetti” is, in fact, strawberry and kiwi.

Here are some of the other flavors they’ve released over the years listed with their English translations and the actual fruit the drink is supposed to tasted like…

• Sang Froid (Cold Blood) - Cherry
• Schtroumpf Écrasé (Crushed Smurf) – Raspberry
• Goudron Sauvage (Wild Tar) – Lemonade
• Swompe (Swamp)  - Green Apple
• Cheddar Tropical (Tropical Cheddar) – Sour Apple
• Gadoue (Dirty half-melted snow) – Wild Berry
• Crème à barbe (Shaving cream) – Orange
• Liposuccion (Liposuction) – Passionfruit

(via Wikipedia, Boing Boing)

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After a man tried to steal from their shop, two men were able to find a creative way to hold him in place while they called the cops…

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