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Alabama's Ryan Williams on Travis Hunter winning Biletnikoff: 'I can't let him do that'

By www.foxsports.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:11:36 -0500

In an interview on FOX Sports' "All Facts, No Brakes," Alabama stars Ryan Williams and Jaylen Mbakwe shared why they stayed after Nick Saban's retirement and their thoughts on Travis Hunter.


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mobility

By separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Published On :: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 01:57:00 +0000

Smylers got in touch recently with this observation:

I found myself being surprised by the word “mobility”, and was wondering if there's a BrE/AmE difference? Enterprise Rent-a-Car emailed to say they're introducing a new brand: Enterprise Mobility. 




That made me think of vehicles adapted for wheelchair users, or those who otherwise have limited personal mobility. But apparently it's the overall brand for various transport services; “mobility” is being used to mean “travelling in a vehicle”, rather than “travelling on foot”.

There's no reason why the unqualified word should have one or the other meaning. But to my British brain, “mobility” makes me think of “mobility scooters” or “mobility aids” — such as those provided by Mobility People, whom you linked to in 2008:


It's an interesting one. 

The word mobility seems a bit more common in BrE in the the News on the Web corpus: you find about 11 mobility per million words in the US, versus about 13 per million in the UK. Those British uses tend to relate to a couple of domains: physical (dis)ability and social class.

It's not that Americans don't use mobility in that way. You can definitely find phrases like mobility scooter (as can be seen at this US electric wheelchair retailer) in AmE. (Though when I asked my brother what those things are called, he didn't use the word mobility, just scooter.) Nevertheless, this (dis)ability-related use of mobility used a lot more in BrE:



The (dis)ability-related uses of mobility really take off in this corpus after 2021. For instance, mobility issues (which could refer to different kinds of mobility, but mostly doesn't) had only 0.30 per million (across countries) in 2019, but 0.85 per million in 2022. 

Both AmE and BrE use mobility for metaphorical movement, as in social mobility. 



Why so much more talk of social mobility in the UK? Because the Tory government had appointed a "Social Mobility Tsar" during the period that this corpus was collected. (The hits for tsar in BrE are similarly out-of-whack.) 

If instead of asking the corpus for particular phrases like these and instead ask it to tell us which combinations with mobility are statistically "most American" and "most British", the results are interesting. On the left are the "most American" ones*—the greener, the more not-British they are.  And vice versa on the right. 
*This doesn't mean that these are the most common phrases with mobility in either country. And it doesn't mean that the other country doesn't use these phrases. It means that one country uses them surprisingly more than the other.

mobility + noun

Noun + mobility



Adjective + mobility

The thing to notice here is how much longer the green lists are on the American side of the second two charts, where mobility is modified by another word. AmE writers seem to have more kinds of mobility than BrE writers do. Where you see something like this, it's reasonable to suspect that more phrases = more meanings, or at least more domains in which the word is used.  

Sure enough, the BrE side is almost entirely characterized by phrases used in talking about physical (dis)ability and social mobility. (Green Mobility there refers to an electric car [BrE] hire /[AmE] rental company in continental Europe.) But the AmE side has other themes coming through: family mobility is about the Massachusetts Work and Family Mobility Act, which is about what kind of paperwork you need to get a (AmE) driver's/(BrE) driving licen{c/s}e. Electrophoretic mobility refers to a chemistry thing that I'm not going to try to understand. Mobility wing mostly refers to sections (Air Mobility Wings) of the US Air Force Reserve. And so forth.

Some of the uses, for example, commercial mobility, refer to means of transport(ation), and that's the use that Enterprise is picking up on in their branding. So there we go! It does look like branding that would work better in the US than the UK. Thanks, Smylers!


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crochet, boondoggle, scoubidou

By separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Published On :: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:28:00 +0000

Before the school year started, the 16-year-old and I (BrE) had a day out at a "Learn to Crochet" course. Here's my first. slightly (BrE) wonky (orig AmE) granny square (which, according to this site were once called American crochet in Europe):





The instructor started by warning to always ascertain the provenance of a crochet pattern before embarking on it because the US and UK terminology differ in potentially disastrous ways. In the take-home materials, we were given two charts. One spells out the differences in names of stitches. What's called single crochet in AmE is double crochet in BrE—with (orig. BrE) knock-on effects for other stitches. So, AmE double is BrE treble, AmE half-double is BrE half-treble, and AmE triple treble is BrE double treble. 



Now the obvious question is: how can you get to double without having single first?  The answer (according to KnitPro) is that the BrE is describing the number of loops on one's hook during the stitch, and the AmE is describing the number of "yarnovers when pulling up your first loop". Yarn over (the site uses it as one word and two) is another difference according to that site: in BrE it's called yarn over hook. Yarnover is essentially how many actions you're doing to complete the stitch. That KnitPro page has more description. 

Let's just pause here and note that crochet is pronounced differently in the two countries because of the general rule that for two-syllable French borrowings, BrE stresses the first syllable and AmE the second one.  And then there's what happens when AI gets its hand on the pronunciation:





But back to the charts the instructor gave us. Just as there are differences in measurements for cooking, the measurements for crochet hooks are different in US and UK because of the "Americans haven't gone metric" problem. The US uses letter or number sizes, whereas the rest of the world uses more transparent millimeter measures. So, US size B = US size 1 = 2.25mm. From the chart below, it looks like no one knows what size N or P are.




While knitting stitches generally have the same names in US and UK, knitters have the same problem for knitting needle sizes.  You can find more info about these sizes and other conversion problems at the Craft Yarn Council website.  (In my experience, new crochet hooks are likely to have both kinds of size printed on them, and online retailers will indicate both. But if you're using older hooks, you will probably need a chart like this.)


Now, this class wasn't really my first crocheting—I'd done straight lines and zigzag crocheting as a child. Also big in my Girl-Scouting (UK Girl-Guiding) childhood was (AmE) boondoggle. Nowadays, this is an American word that can mean 'a wasteful or useless product or activity', often in reference to (more AmE) government/(more BrE) public spending. Originally, it meant 'a trivial thing', from which came to be used for a kind of twisted leather object that Boy Scouts used for fixing their kerchiefs (click link for picture). It then extended to the weaving of flat plastic cords that was a popular craft back when I was a kid.


And I thought of that this week when the Google Doodle in the UK was in hono(u)r of this craft (which has apparently had a revival), except it had the BrE name for it, borrowed from French: scoubidou. 


The Google Doodle was about "Celebrating Scoubidous". On first reading, scoubidous looked like an adjective to me (SCOUb'dous, that which is scoubi?). Part of the reason I read it wrong the first time (even though I knew the word scoubidou) is that I wasn't expecting it to be plurali{s/z}ed.  I use boondoggle as a mass noun, so for me the things in the photos are pieces of boondoggle (or something like that), rather than as boondoggles. I'm not sure if that's just me, and there's too much 'government spending' noise in the data for me to quickly check it. (Happy to hear from other former Girl Scouts on the matter.) 

Is scoubidou related to Scooby Doo? Not directly, I think. There was a song Scoubidou in the 1950s, and I suspect that the craft and the cartoon dog were separately named after it. But the dog's name was for some time spelled/spelt Scoubidou in France.


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This Bizarre Instagram Account Inserts Donald Trump Into Your Favorite Movies

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:00:00 -0700

Trump In Cinema is dedicated to displaying some of movie history's best moments with Donald Trump at the center of them. Some of these photoshops are too perfect. Others as just... troubling.


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Bill Clinton Cracked a Terrible Dad Joke on Twitter and Nobody Can Handle It

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 07:00:00 -0700

Slick Willy just had to go and crack a dad joke that simultaneously dug on President Trump and kept the pun game strong, didn't he? Naturally, people were highly entertained and vaguely irritated. 


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Fourteen Joe Biden Memes For The Political Satirists

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:00:00 -0800

Look, we definitely don't want to hate on any particular candidate or take sides in this presidential election cycle, but Joe Biden has just been so meme-able this election season that we really had to take advantage of the material handed to us. We think that Biden supporters and haters alike will be able to laugh at these.


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Michael Bloomberg Memes That Roast The Cringey Billionaire

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:00:00 -0800

You're probably already aware that Michael Bloomberg, cringey billionaire extraordinaire and 2020 presidential candidate, has been reaching out to various big-name meme accounts on Instagram asking them to post content that makes him look a little more...hip to the kids, shall we say? 

But apparently he's doing something right with his presidential campaign, as he's been soaring in the polls and we're seeing ads for him practically everywhere.

Normally we don't like to get too political, but it's clear that Bloomberg was not hugged enough as a child.


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Joe Biden Gets Trolled With His Cringey 'I'm On Team Joe' Campaign

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:00:00 -0700

Poor ol' Joe Biden has been the subject of many memes in this election cycle. Whether you love him or hate him, you have to admit that they've been pretty amusing. This particular meme mocks a campaign avatar where one can insert their image next to text that says "I'm on team Joe!" It's moderately cringey to say the least, but cringey makes for the best meme material.


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Mobile Royale

By game.giveawayoftheday.com
Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 03:00:00 -0500

The program archive includes the readme file with the further instructions! Mobile Royale is a real-time global game in 3D for online strategy battle fans brought to you by IGG! Recruit soldiers and warriors for your troops and march to battle! Use your best strategy and tactics to knock down your enemy and let the community know who is in charge! 100 VIP Points*5 5,000,000 Wood*50 4,000,000 Stone*50 600,000 Gold*50 20,000,000 Food*50 1,000 Stamina*10 1,000 Crystals*10 20,000 Player EXP*20 Research Speed Up (60m)*50 Construction Boost (60m)*50 Healing Speedup (60m)*50 Training Boost (60m)*50 Trade Boost (60m)*50 Rare EXP Potion*50 Blade Sanctum Coupon (3d)*1 Epic Material Chest*20 Epic Trade Chest*20 Shield (24h)*1


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CC strategic workshop reveals big opportunities for open access to cultural heritage

By creativecommons.org
Published On :: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:30:54 +0000

In May 2024, CC organized a strategic workshop in Lisbon to develop a roadmap for future action to advance our work towards a UNESCO instrument on open cultural heritage. In this blog post, we share the full report and some of its key highlights.

The post CC strategic workshop reveals big opportunities for open access to cultural heritage appeared first on Creative Commons.


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Swiggy's shares up 2.5% in trading debut after $1.4 billion IPO

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:02:56 GMT

Shares of Indian food and grocery delivery firm Swiggy rose 2.5% in their trading debut on Wednesday, after its $1.4 billion IPO last week, but pared initial gains on concerns about its path to profitability. The stock listed at 420 rupees ($4.98) on India's National Stock Exchange, compared to…


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Morning Bid: 'Trump trades' pause for breath before US CPI

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:46:03 GMT

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland


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Re-Appearing Dark Fleet Vessel Underlines Zombie Ship Challenge

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:57:21 GMT


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Rakuten Sells Mizuho 15% of Credit Card Arm for Over $1 Billion

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:08:04 GMT


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Bitcoin price today: down to $87k as Trump rally cools, Doge falls from 3-yr high

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:52:46 GMT

Investing.com-- Bitcoin fell from record highs on Wednesday, retreating as optimism over a Donald Trump presidency now appeared to be cooling, with focus turning to upcoming U.S. inflation data for more cues. Major meme token Dogecoin also retreated on Wednesday after a stellar run-up to…


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Big business is better than you think (rooftops)

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:35 GMT

We characterize optimal product market policy in an unequal economy in which firm ownership is concentrated and markups increase with firm market shares. We study the problem of a utilitarian regulator who designs revenue-neutral interventions in the product market. We show that optimal policy…


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RWE Plans €1.5 Billion Buyback as US Politics Cloud Investments

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:03:27 GMT


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Trump Plans To Strengthen Crypto Policy With Dedicated Advisor And Presidential Council | Bitcoinist.com

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:41 GMT

President-elect Donald Trump is poised to reshape the US government’s approach to crypto, actively seeking candidates with industry-friendly views for key regulatory positions. According to the Washington Post, as part of his strategy to establish the United States as the “crypto capital of the…


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Vietnam Airlines to request bids for 50 narrowbody jets next year

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:19:03 GMT

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (Reuters) -- Vietnam Airlines will issue a request for proposal to aircraft manufacturers next year to purchase 50 narrowbody jets, its CEO said on Wednesday. The carrier last year signed a provisional deal with Boeing BA for 50 737 MAX planes that has yet to be…


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US prohibits airlines from flying to Haiti after planes were shot by gangs

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:27 GMT

US prohibits airlines from flying to Haiti after planes were shot by gangs PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Federal Aviation Administration prohibited U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot three planes and the United Nations also Tuesday temporarily suspended flights to…


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Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Trims Nintendo Stake Again

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:33 GMT


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Bitcoin pushes past $90K amid meteoric 24-hour rally

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:30 GMT


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Mizuho Financial Group to buy 15% of Rakuten Card for $1 billion

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:37 GMT

In This Article: TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Mizuho Financial Group will take a 15% stake in Rakuten Group subsidiary Rakuten Card for 165 billion yen ($1.06 billion) in a further deepening of the two companies' strategic alliance, they said on Wednesday. The share transfer is planned for Dec. 1,…


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J. Zachary Mazlish on median wages under Biden

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:12:42 GMT

An excellent post, one of the best things written this year in economics. Here is part of the bottom line: Inflation did make the median voter poorer during Biden’s term. In no part of the income distribution did wages grow faster while Biden was President than they did 2012-2020. This is true in…


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A look at Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, which Alibaba claims to match GPT-4o's coding capabilities and is small enough to run on a MacBook Pro M2 with 64GB of RAM

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:20 GMT

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac 12th November 2024 There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz is well…


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Mutual Fund Investors Face Unwanted Tax Bills. Are You on the List?

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:11 GMT


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Dogecoin Craze Grips Korea, Fuels Price Premium on Local Giants Upbit and Bithumb

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:33 GMT

DOGE trades at premium on Upbit and Bithumb relative to Binance. - The price differential is still noticeably lower than the previous bull market peaks. Today is just that day as Koreans seem to be jumping into the DOGE market, driving prices higher and creating a noticeable premium on local…


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Bitcoin Rally Cools After Jump of About 30% Since Trump Victory

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:01:57 GMT

A surge in Bitcoin has paused as traders assess the remaining market impact of President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetorical support for crypto. Most Read from Bloomberg The digital asset is up about 30% in the wake of Trump’s Nov. 5 election victory, hitting a record of $89,968 on Tuesday, based on…


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Kansai Electric to Raise Up to $3.3 Billion From Share Sale

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:42:15 GMT


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Spot bitcoin ETFs continue strong inflows of $817 million, BTC dips 3.4%

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:03:07 GMT

Bitcoin fell 3.4% in the past 24 hours to trade at $86,855, potentially indicating profit-taking by investors, according to a BRN analyst.


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Seven & i's reported offer and the biggest management buyouts to date

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:52:33 GMT

Japan's Seven & i Holdings said on Wednesday it has received a buyout proposal from its vice president who is a member of its founding Ito family.


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7-Eleven starts talks with ACT on $47bn takeover bid as ‘white knight’ emerges

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:52:44 GMT

Convenience store operator receives rival buyout offer from members of founding family


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Factbox-Seven & i's reported offer and the biggest management buyouts to date

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:52:52 GMT

In This Article: By Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Japan's Seven & i Holdings said on Wednesday it has received a buyout proposal from its vice president who is a member of its founding Ito family. The statement follows a Bloomberg report that the 7-Eleven owner was considering a management buyout…


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Elon Musk Could Slash Billions in Federal Spending With This One Move

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:03:06 GMT


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Open Gateway: Step into mock lunar orbit habitat at Space Center Houston

By www.space.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:00:00 +0000

The public can now step into the future of lunar exploration at Space Center Houston by entering an early mockup for Northrop Grumman's Gateway astronaut accommodations around the moon.


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How QR Codes Enhance Computer Use and Accessibility

By thinkcomputers.org
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:00:04 +0000

QR codes are widely used for quick access to websites and information, but they’re also a helpful tool for simplifying tasks on computers. With a QR code generator, users can connect mobile devices to computers, share files, link to online resources, and even enhance security.

The post How QR Codes Enhance Computer Use and Accessibility appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.


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General equation for Space-Time geodesics and orbit equation in relativistic gravity

By blogs.scienceforums.net
Published On :: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 23:24:25 +0000

Orbit equation and orbital precession General Relativity explains gravity as Space-Time curvature and orbits of planets as geodesics of curved Space-Time. However, this concept is extremely hard to understand and geodesics hard to compute. If we can find an analytical orbit equation for planets like Newtonian orbit equation, relativistic gravity will become intuitive and straightforward...


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Examination of Cantor’s proofs for uncountability and axiom for counting infinite sets

By blogs.scienceforums.net
Published On :: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 18:51:41 +0000

I do a detailed analysis of Cantor’s theory of uncountable sets. The logic of his proofs has some weaknesses. I propose an axiom and a solution to continuum hypothesis. The main idea is: Assumption of Cantor’s proofs: All real numbers (set R) are in a list (list L). This assumption means R=L, considering L as...


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Examination of Cantor’s proofs for uncountability and axiom for counting infinite sets

By blogs.scienceforums.net
Published On :: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:02:45 +0000

An analysis of Cantor’s theory of uncountable sets: The logic of his proofs has some weaknesses. Cantor assumes for both his proofs that all real numbers (set R) are in a list (list L). Considering L as a set this assumption assumes R belongs to L. This makes the claim “a real number is constructed...


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Determination of the relative roll, pitch and yaw between arbitrary objects using 3D complex number

By blogs.scienceforums.net
Published On :: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:21:47 +0000

The roll, pitch and yaw of an object relative to another is complex to compute. We use 3D complex number to compute them which makes the computation easier and more intuitive. Roll, pitch and yaw are angles of orientation of an object in space and the conversion of these angles among different reference frames is...


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Zombie Pumpkin WIN

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:00:00 -0700

We've featured the work of Ray Villafane before here on WIN, but today we have another of the pumpkin sculptures that made him famous. This time, it's his largest piece ever, unveiled at the New York Botanical gardens this last weekend. The piece is made of several pumpkins, with different sections carved and then held together with rods and adhesive. Check for more in the gallery below!


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Billy West Recorded Some Choice Donald Trump Tweets in the Voice of Zapp Brannigan

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:00:00 -0700

It turns out that there's a VERY fine line between Donald Trump and the Futurama character Zapp Brannigan. Memes with Zapp's image and Trumps tweets started circulating the internet and they caught the attention of Billy West, the voice actor who plays Zapp Brannigan on Futurama. The recordings he made are out of this world.


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"What happened to the bird that was in there?"

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:00:00 -0800


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Big fluffy lump.

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 05:00:00 -0800


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just a bit

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0800


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Refurbished iPads (and more Apple Refurbs) on Sale at Newegg

By www.cheapassgamer.com
Published On :: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:45:21 +0000

Top 3 Most Popular

 

1. Refurbished: Apple iPad Air 2 A1567 (WiFi + Cellular Unlocked) 64GB Silver Bundle $159.99 w/ Case, Bluetooth Earbuds, Tempered Glass, Stylus, Charger

Limited time offer, ends 10/30

 

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All Apple Refurbished at Newegg

 

 

 


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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R $9.99 Ps4/Xbox @ Amazon!

By www.cheapassgamer.com
Published On :: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 01:27:06 +0000

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1W4XBH4?tag=cheapassgam08-20&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/Jojos-Bizarre-Adventure-Star-Battle-X/dp/B0B1W4XBH4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FIKDK6H1PS59&keywords=JoJo%E2%80%99s%2BBizarre%2BAdventure%3A%2BAll-Star%2BBattle%2BR&qid=1698024354&s=videogames&sprefix=jojo%2Bs%2Bbizarre%2Badventure%2Ball-star%2Bbattle%2Br%2Cvideogames%2C395&sr=1-1&th=1


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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

By www.eschatonblog.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:30:00 +0000

I don't think you have to be a commie trot to observe that calling it that is stupid.


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