More local fun... From the rare Gummy Vine: There ARE NO!! ICe Cream At This Momment Lush pastures: The morning after hurricane Irma everyone was feeling the need for life-affirming activities... including this frog and toad: (Edited: maybe this isn't a frog/toad mating pair... might be Cuban Tree Frogs, which are sexually dimorphic.) A random sight while driving into work one morning: Mobile goat: I saw this adorable goat tied up in the back of a parked truck on my street. Random livestock itself is not unusual-- but not in my neighborhood. It was adorable. I got out of my car to take a picture. I swear it was smiling at me and wagging its goaty tail. Wrong. It was scared witless and freaked out when I got close, jumping around and leaping out the back of the truck! OH NO! Short rope! I dropped my phone and ran over, wondering if I was strong enough to un-hang a heavy goat. In that second or two I felt horrible--poor goat!--and I imagined an angry owner screaming that I killed his goat*. Crisis averted. The rope was juuuuust long enough for the goat to jump in and out of the truck bed. Mobile grazing, I guess. Very innovative . *Probably wouldn't have mattered. Goat stew ("goat water") is popular here. Hover goats, a Greek innovation: KINGS OF MACEDON, Philip V 221-179 BCE Tetrachalkon (AE 22 mm, 8.37 gm, 12 h), struck circa after 186 Obv: Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress Rev: BA / Φ Two goats recumbent right; below, grain ear Ref: Mamroth, Bronzemünzen 14c. SNG Alpha Bank 1090. SNG Copenhagen 1250.
Found this gem online : Denarius depicting Venus Cloacina, goddess of the Roman sewers (also not mine):
Here’s a few more that had me scratching my head Who is delivering for Amazon? Publix grocery celebrated its 1 year anniversary by putting out balloons. I’m not sure it conveyed the intended message. This van was up the street from my house and really made me look twice This was a house I worked on. The wiring was all screwed up because the previous owner thought he knew how to work on a house. I think this picture proves he didn’t.
Mexican Coke is a real thing. In the US, Coke and other carbonated drinks are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. In Mexico, Coke and other carbonated drinks are sweetened with pure cane sugar. Coke aficionados prefer Mexican Coke because of its superior flavor.
It says : How embarrassed you feel when you hold your kid's creation upside down... (and the real way bottom right) Q
I had a friend in high school who had a solid B in my high school calculus class. When checking what she needed for the final exam, she found that she needed a 140 for an A and a -50 for a C. Once she verified it with our teacher, she just didn’t show up for the final.
I took this picture a few months ago while sitting in traffic in Queens, New York City It is the New Yorkest of New York things.