Greg Bowman

Devoted husband and father, Va. Tech, JMU, Indiana BB. Life is better in Flip Flops

[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

Kids today will never know how lucky WE were.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Suspicions Of Ayatollah's Death Rise After His Name Appears On California Voter Rolls https://t.co/Rpq9LWU7ac

[Greg Bowman @Indios40]

@mymomcare What took them so long

[Greg Bowman @Indios40]

@CulturalChronos @EchoesofWarYT While they are at have them take all of Hampton Roads except for Southern Chesapeake and NE Va.Beach

[fOx @fOx1257067]

This is one of those things you have to see it to believe it🤯

On November 9, 1970, a 45-foot, roughly 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore near Florence on the Oregon coast.

Three days later, the situation was getting worse. The carcass was decomposing, the smell was becoming unbearable, and curious people were coming down to the beach just to see it.

At the time, Oregon’s beaches were under the responsibility of the Oregon State Highway Division, so somehow the job of getting rid of an 8-ton whale landed in the hands of highway officials.

Assistant District Highway Engineer George Thornton was put in charge of figuring out what to do with something that was far too large to simply haul away.

On November 12, reporters and spectators gathered on the beach to watch. KATU reporter Paul Linnman and cameraman Doug Brazil were there recording the whole thing.

It did not go according to plan.

More than 50 years later, the footage is still almost impossible to believe.

What would you have done with an 8-ton whale you couldn’t move?

[Steffan Szumowski @UnoMasReactor]

As of 4:47am on Friday morning, the American reactor fleet was collectively operating at about 97% of its rated capacity

I wonder how much of the American wind and solar fleets were operating at 4:47am…

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

ABC's Keith Jackson

"The Voice of College Football"

Miss ya, Keith

[Grok @grok]

The Florida op recovered 163 missing kids from many separate cases across the state and beyond, not one group held by three people. Officials listed three arrests so far for individual sex offenses and custody interference. No reports link them to holding all 163 or to meth. The original post misstates the facts.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day is one of the most Texas things I've ever read: Last Thursday, a high school football game here in Texas was played under a Rattlesnake Advisory. It's true. Prior to Thursday night's game between Kaufer and Corpus Christi John Paul II, the Riviera Independendent School District posted the following announcement on social media:

"⚠️ FOOTBALL GAME SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT
Due to the increased presence of rattlesnakes in the area, we ask all parents and spectators to please use extra caution while attending tonight’s football game.

For everyone’s safety, please do not allow children to play in the long jump area of the football field or underneath the stadium seating.

Please stay alert, supervise children closely, and avoid areas that are not designated for spectators.

Thank you for helping us keep everyone safe! ⚠️"

That's right: not a tornado warning or a heat advisory, but a rattlesnake advisory. Folks in other states might think that's crazy, but, hey, this is Texas and this is high school football that we're talking about. I can hear the conversation now: "Grab the lawn chairs and the snake boots, honey, kickoff is in thirty minutes.”😃

Thanks to Cindy Wood for letting me know about this.

[Mark Lambert @sitsio]

Does anyone remember this amazing story? On July 2, 1982, a truck driver from California flew 16,000 feet into the sky in a lawn chair. Larry Walters, 33, from San Pedro, had dreamed of flying his whole life. He bought 42 eight-foot helium weather balloons, tied them to a regular Sears lawn chair, strapped on a parachute, packed a BB gun to pop balloons to descend, a CB radio, sandwiches, and a six-pack of beer.
He expected to float a few hundred feet above his backyard. He cut the rope and shot up like a rocket — to 16,000 feet. He drifted directly into the main approach path for LAX. Two airline pilots radioed the tower: they had just passed a man in a lawn chair holding a gun at 16,000 feet. For 45 minutes, he floated over Los Angeles, freezing cold, too scared to shoot balloons because he might fall. Finally, he started popping balloons one by one and slowly descended.
He landed tangled in power lines in Long Beach, California, causing a blackout. When police arrested him, they asked why he did it. He said, "A man can't just sit around." The FAA fined him $4,000. He became a national folk hero — Lawnchair Larry — and inspired the movie Up.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Girl Scouts To Award Muslim Badge To Any Girl Who Gets Married Before Age 8 https://t.co/uySG5ctO5W

[Southern Zoomer @Zoomer_South]

Virginia, and by extension Virginians, are the main characters of the United States, if not the world.

From the humble beginnings of the Virginia company, to leading a revolution against tyranny (twice), Virginia and her posterity has been there for it all.

She's occupied by hostile powers right now. Communists and carpetbaggers. Scallywags and scumbags. We shouldn't forsake her for this. She needs to be retaken.

By God, Virginia will be free again.

[Just Rock Content @JustRockContent]

One of the all-time great Rock Hall moments: Dolly’s “Jolene” with Rob Halford (Judas Priest), Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox, Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran), Pink, and Sheryl Crow. Zac Brown Band held it down as the house band.

Rest easy, Dolly 🤘

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was the best contribution to child literacy ever made by a celebrity. Our paths crossed once, in the 90s, backstage at a talk show, and I was completely tongue-tied and starstruck. RIP Dolly. You were a complete, irreplaceable one-off.

[Prison Mitch @Prisonmitch]

Robert Kraft when Jed York walks into the next owners meeting:

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

I'm Ded AF! - 😵 💀 🤣

[Greg Bowman @Indios40]

@ChrisMartzWX 60’s&70’s guitar rock legend bands and southern rock from roughly the same era. Live music at dive bars across the south back then was amazing

[GnosisWolf @GnosisWolf]

Topic: We don’t actually own anything and taxation is theft.

Argument 211 👇💯😂

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Back in my day, we used to wait every 10 minutes for scores and we considered ourselves lucky to get them.