If you haven’t seen the Elf Tree in Minneapolis, then you should get out and take a walk. It’s located at Lake Harriet. Have a pressing question you need an anser to? Need advice? Maybe you miss the lost art of a written letter. No email here folks. Just an Elf that answers all letters left for him. And yes, it’s a real elf.
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Teen with no vagina becomes pregnant – True story.
Before you decide to travel abroad, review this collection of the world’s rudest hand gestures and what they mean for each country.
This YouTube video includes a lingerie model for the Male Cancer Awareness Campaign. Don’t worry, your significant other would want you to see this. It’s a matter of life and death.
Somewhere, an advertising copywriter is still giggling.
I like the name and van for this dog shit clean up company.
Probably will be terrible, but I’ll still watch it. The Thing (remake). View trailer here. From producers of Dawn of the Dead.
Home security South African style. See pictures.
The executed bodies of 23 men and 12 women dumped yesterday during rush hour in Veracruz Mexico.
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Oh fer Pete’s sake! This childhood game has created some debate here and on this blog in the past. So I figured I’d try to set the record straight. As Minnesotans, we know that the rest of country is backwards with this game. But let’s find out how backwards with a poll of our own. Meanwhile, I’ll kick back and think of rules for the adult version of this game I want to create – “Duck Duck Grey Goose.”
What do you say? Duck Duck Goose or Duck Duck Gray Duck?
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Dan Wilson/ Star Tribune photo by Jeff Wheeler
1. Minnesotans are a quietly proud bunch when it comes to our local celebrities. Songwriter-singer Dan Wilson (Semisonic) cowrote the Adele piano ballad “Someone Like You,” and is enjoying it’s No. 1 status. He writes a lot in case you didn’t know and won a grammy for co-writing the Dixie Chicks’ “Not Ready To Make Nice.” (story)
2. This is why I don’t heroize. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to arrange a sex party during the March on Washington? (ABC News)
3. In case you haven’t heard, there was a homicide on 9/11 in NYC that remains unsolved to this day. I suppose the events of that day created the ultimate diversion for getting away with murder. (story)
4. Unreality Magazine published a gallery of celebs without eyebrows to demonstrate how having eyebrows helps us not look like escaped mental patients.
5. This picture pretty much sums up how I feel about politicians right now.
6. An honest letter to New Yorkers from a kid that “didn’t really care” about 9/11. (via McSweeneys)
7. Turn game night on its head with these awesome games from the mental_floss store. There are great educational games for the kids available too.
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1. A new U2 documentary will air on Showtime at the end of October. They are also going away for a long time. Jared, do you have Showtime?
2. Karma is a bitch. Boy Throwing Rocks At Cars gets a crossbow arrow to the abdomen. That’ll learn ya!
3. What? Romney and Bachmann both slipping in the polls? This can’t be right. Oh yeah, I forgot that Perry was vetted by the GOP years ago.
4. Bummer to learn about former Wild player Pavol Demitra (and others) dying in that Russian plane crash Wednesday.
5. Not the best segway here, but virtual boarding agents might be coming to an airport near you. The lifelike 2-D holograms make eye contact, blink and smile while emitting automated phrases, such as “bonjour” and “bon voyage.” Does anyone else think this is spooky?
6. A new online video game is out called, Tea Party Zombies Must Die. Players can take aim at characters as the “Sarah Palin Zombie” and the “Michele Bachmann Zombie” and kill them. I wonder how Gabby” Giffords would feel about this?
7. KARK 4 News meteorologist Brett Cummins is in some hot water after being found in hot tub with naked dead man wearing a dog collar. (Read more)
8. Buttrock definition – If you have heard this term and don’t understand what it means, then let me enlighten you. Buttrock is a subpar genre of music where every song sounds exactly the same. It is usually produced by a band trademarked with cheap, unoriginal song lyrics, and a music that sounds manufactured and predictable. Current music that falls into this category includes Nickleback, Hinder, and Daughtry. It’s not a new term though. 15 years ago, my friends and I considered bands like Winger, Firehouse, and Warrant to be buttrock.
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Mankato police say two young girls stole a goat from a zoo, but got nabbed while walking their goat home late Saturday night. The girls, two sisters under the age of 10, snuck out of their house to enact the crime while still in their pajamas. They had been at a birthday party at the zoo earlier the same day when they came up with a plan to spring him from goat prison.
When the cops stopped and detained the two pajama-clad girls on the street, they told the officer the goat belonged to them and they were just taking the animal for a late-night walk. As the kid questioning continued, the girls kept stretching their tale.
The goat lives in their bedroom closet, they said. Mom bought it a couple weeks ago, but dad didn’t know about it. So they had to keep the goat thing quiet to keep dad from suspecting anything.
When cops brough them home, the story unraveled like just like it does on the show COPS. No one is completely sure how they got the goat out.
(full story at The Free Press)
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This might be better to watch during a Minnesota winter, but it’s still funny as all get out. (via Bits and Pieces)
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Randy Moss announced his retirement today. Moss’ 153 TD catches are tied for the most among current players with Terrell Owens. With his retirement comes the end of an unforgettable era in Minnesota Vikings football.
The two most prolific offenses in NFL history had one thing in common…Randy Moss. This song and footage sums it up quite well.
Straight cash homie.
How long before he unretires?
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The StarTribune ran a story today about a plane crash that took place in South Minneapolis on March 7, 1950. A Northwest Orient Airlines twin-propeller plane nose-dived into a home killing two children in the home, three plane crew members and all 10 passengers. Here is that story with historic photos and a video interview with someone who remembers it.
This wasn’t the only plane crash in South Minneapolis in the 1950s though.
My mother told me a story about a plane crash that happened in South Minneapolis when she was a child. It happened on June 9 1956 when a F9F4 Navy jet crashed into a row of homes north of the airport in front of 5804 and 5808 46th Avenue South. The devastating explosion scattered the plane and its fuel over the neighborhood setting houses on fire and burning people.
Source: StarTribune Minneapolis Star photo: Jet plane struck the ground (1), bounced and struck again (2), then crashed into house (3).
Some 20 or more children were at play in that block when the plane crashed. My mother was one of them and remembers hearing the explosion from blocks away while she played. She was 12. She did not witness any of the carnage because she was whisked away. She just remembers the smoke, the sirens and the sadness.
Residents of the south Minneapolis neighborhood gathered to watch firefighters work the crash scene. (Minneapolis Star photo)
The news reported that the crash killed 6 people and injured 9 others. The pilot of the plane, Major George Armstrong, 33, 5808 Pearson drive, Edina, was killed. The second body identified was that of Debora De Wolfe, 7, 5816 Forty-sixth avenue S.
A child’s body was found on a couch in her home. Alongside the couch was the landing gear of the plane.Read more here.
Firefighters rushed to extinguish a fire in one of the houses hit by debris. (Minneapolis Star photo)
Crash site map showing area today
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