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1. The AFLAC Duck is Gilbert Gottfried. Wow! I had no idea. I now like those stupid ads even more.
   
   
2. Can it be true that 1 in 25 dads in the U.K. is raising someone else's kid? Or is this one of those things where it turns out someone didn't carry the two and the statistics are bad?
   
   
3. Crazy-ass mammatus clouds, strange color too. (Flickr)
   
   
4. Deep in the depths of Syria, our hero will not pause in his quest until he finds his Grail: the elusive wild hamster of Aleppo.

Comments

[hoyvenmayven.livejournal.com]

WOW. I have never ever seen clouds like that in my life. Never even heard of mammatus clouds. Amazingly eerie-looking!

[halfjack.livejournal.com]

Re: 2, it seems pretty plausible that a choice for genetic combination and a choice for partnership in household maintenance (including bringing up the spawn) might not just be out of synch occasionally but might actually be at odds. I would have guessed more than 1 in 25.

[satoribee.livejournal.com]

I still remember the first time I saw Gilbert on David Letterman.

"My turtle has lost it's moisture!"

I don't know if anyone else saw that, but it had me in tears, I laughed so hard.