The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[icehorse]

The average ticket price for the Kentucky Derby this weekend is $1000. The best seats are as high as $16,000.

Kentucky Derby Ticket Prices Near Record Over $1,000 On Average

The most expensive tickets available to the 150th Kentucky Derby on Saturday cost over $16,700.

www.forbes.com

I wonder if @We Never Know or @icehorse is in this year's race.

The 150th Kentucky Derby Post Draw, Odds And 2024 Top Win Contenders

It’s Derby week, and the post position draw and odds are set a week before the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby.

www.forbes.com

Nah, we icelandic horses prefer it much cooler..

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Those cats are jerks. All that friendly dog did was say hi and those cats said bugger off and attacked.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I also hurt my elbow last time I worked on my mom's van.
I got hurt trying to whack off a cv axle.

 

[Stevicus]

Those cats are jerks. All that friendly dog did was say hi and those cats said bugger off and attacked.

They're like a street gang who take offense at anyone going down "their" sidewalk.

 

[sun rise]

They're like a street gang who take offense at anyone going down "their" sidewalk.

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Revoltingest]

It's raining cats'n dogs out there.

 

[Stevicus]

 

[sun rise]

What is the origin of the phrase "it's raining cats and dogs?"

We don’t know. The phrase might have its roots in Norse mythology, medieval superstitions, the obsolete word catadupe (waterfall), or dead animals in the streets of Britain being picked up by storm waters. Very unpleasant weather. George Cruikshank, 1820. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, National...

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We don’t know. The phrase might have its roots in Norse mythology, medieval superstitions, the obsolete word catadupe (waterfall), or dead animals in the streets of Britain being picked up by storm waters.
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In 1738, Jonathan Swift published his “Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation,” a satire on the conversations of the upper classes. One of his characters fears that it will “rain cats and dogs.” Whether Swift coined the phrase or was using a cliché, his satire was likely the beginning of the phrase’s popularity. Other British writers have employed less popular phrases, such as “it’s raining pitchforks” or “it’s raining stair-rods,” to describe the shaft-like appearance of heavy rains. But Swift’s phrase may have been memorable enough to stick in the mind of the public.

 

[Stevicus]

Tourist Mauled After Rolling Down Window to Take Selfie with Bear

A Scottish tourist is thankful to be alive after a close encounter with a wild bear sent her to the emergency room. She rolled down her car window to take a photo with the animal, which then attacked her.

people.com

A Scottish tourist is thankful to be alive after a close encounter with a wild bear sent her to the emergency room.

Moira Gallacher, 72, had been vacationing in Romania with her friend Charmian Widdowson when the women decided to go for a drive through the Carpathian Mountains.

“What happened was the bear came up to the window at my friend’s side, and no problem. It let us take a picture and went away,” Gallacher said in a video shared by Scottish outlet STV News on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday, April 23. “But I didn’t get a proper picture, so we went back and it was at my side.”

In the clip, the injured Gallacher was seen being rolled away in a stretcher.

“I’m not going to be on STV News,” she said with a laugh.

“We saw these bears – a mummy bear, and a baby – they were gorgeous,” Widdowson said.

“But they weren’t gorgeous. The mummy bear was hungry, and thought my friend was going to be lunch,” she added.

A mama bear with baby bear in Romania attack Scottish tourists.

 

[Wu Wei]

Tourist Mauled After Rolling Down Window to Take Selfie with Bear

A Scottish tourist is thankful to be alive after a close encounter with a wild bear sent her to the emergency room. She rolled down her car window to take a photo with the animal, which then attacked her.

people.com

A mama bear with baby bear in Romania attack Scottish tourists.

What an idiot....but there are a lot of those.... some parks in North America have actually had to alert people to not take selfies with bears

And from NYS

 

[Wu Wei]

Oh and as a warning to all the meatbags..... don't fall for this one

 

[sun rise]

Oh and as a warning to all the meatbags..... don't fall for this one

Some bears are criminals. Lock them up. Lock them up. Lock them up.

 

[JustGeorge]

This is a very helpful idea. The rest are here 50 Of The Funniest Classical Art Memes To Make Your Daily Coffee Break More Enjoyable (New Pics)

That's how I do it.

Is there another way?

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

That's how I do it.

Is there another way?

Well, I used to keep a list of tasks to do...as the dementia set in, I had multiple lists, no two identical, some with things not checked off that I had already done, or things checked off that I had not done...today, the only things I write on lists is items to pick up at the grocery store. My wife reviews and updates them as necessary...but when I go into the store, I know at least that those items listed are indeed things to be picked up...and crossed off AFTER they have been placed in the cart...

 

[Stevicus]

 

[JustGeorge]

Well, I used to keep a list of tasks to do...as the dementia set in, I had multiple lists, no two identical, some with things not checked off that I had already done, or things checked off that I had not done...today, the only things I write on lists is items to pick up at the grocery store. My wife reviews and updates them as necessary...but when I go into the store, I know at least that those items listed are indeed things to be picked up...and crossed off AFTER they have been placed in the cart...

***** Man sends me my grocery list.

Some kids have Santa, some have the Tooth Fairy. In this house, we have ***** Man, the mystical man with an attitude problem that sneaks in to reward and punish behaviors, and borrow things that have become problematic around the house.

I have his phone number in my phone(my number), and I send the list to him. He sends it back immediately.

 

[sun rise]

That's how I do it.

Is there another way?

My way is to keep a list. Get very busy and the list gets buried under a pile of papers and is forgotten. Later I start another list from memory which is as good as my memory isn't. Finally I find the first list and realize many of the things on it don't really need doing. Occasionally I wind up with several lists with a bonus - illegible handwriting - so I don't know what it was that I thought needing doing in the first place.

 

[Kathryn]

Thank God for Alexis is all I have to say about all that.