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Cleaning raw fleece with the fermented suint method
Looking for a new, intriguing, kind of super gross, low-tech, chemical-free way to clean your raw sheep's fleeces? Then the fermented suint method may be for you! Apparently this method is often used in New Zealand, and was also popular in times and places where commercial soap was not readily available.
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Have you tried McLobster?
Only sold in New England and eastern Canada, and only during the summer, the McLobster is something that I would really have to try if I ever managed to get to Nova Scotia. If only to say that I had eaten lobster at McDonald's. Because by all accounts, the McLobster is pretty terrible.
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All about bratwurst
Technically what I'm talking about here is just called "sausage." But I refer to it as "bratwurst" in order to distinguish this stuff from the other forms of sausage that Americans are familiar with. Like breakfast sausage links, or the ground product you can use in spaghetti sauce, or the sausage patty.
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Dog risks her life to save and nurture a tiny kitten
Animal control officers in South Carolina were alerted to the sound of a small dog yelping in a ravine behind a Home Depot. The officer arrived at the scene and found a shih tzu inside a tangle of brambles. The officer discovered that the dog could probably have walked away and found shelter from the punishing heat and lack of water in the ravine... but she had been protecting and nursing a tiny kitten, which she refused to leave.
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Is 'The Conjuring' really that scary?
Well, I did it: I survived seeing The Conjuring. Trust me when I tell you this was a pivotal moment in my movie going life. I was too young, thankfully, to see The Exorcist in theaters when it was released in 1973. More on that later, but I had zero excuses left to not see The Conjuring with my beloved earlier today. As I sat through the trailers leading up to the feature film, I was thinking, "There's just no way this movie's really going to be *that* scary."
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The Morrow Lament
The draft of 2005 was pretty painful for me. It wasn’t like the Clement draft where we passed on every great hitter available to take the one flop… but it wasn’t good. Anytime you pass up a local pitching phenom who becomes a Two-time Cy Young award winner and world champion to draft a diabetic pitcher with a spotty starting history in college with the #5 pick, things could probably be better. I was thinking Lincecum / Scherzer / Kershaw at the time in order of preference, but it was not to be.
What are you supposed to do with the innards?
Every time I buy a whole chicken, it comes with this pouch of, like, stuff inside. Unless you want to play Hannibal: The Home Game, I'm honestly not sure what you are supposed to do with these things. It's always random pieces, too. Might be a neck and a liver, might be a liver and a heart, might be a gizzard (whatever the heck THAT is), might be a I DON'T KNOW IT'S SLIMY AND GROSS.
I finally resolved to figure out what you are supposed to do with this stuff besides "throw it away and try not to look." It turns out that people who love their chicken innards love them a lot.
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1984: Survival Drama in a Soviet Bunker
The era of Soviet occupation is something that many prefer to not think about, instead leaving it to the history books. But in
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Vet shuts himself in car to demonstrate the danger
Every summer, idiots leave their dogs in their parked cars while they run inside "just for a minute." Veterinarian Dr. Ernie Ward recently created a video where he shut himself in a parked car to demonstrate how hot the interior of a car gets. In just 10 minutes the temperature has soared over 10 degrees. Within 30 minutes the temperatures are over 116 degrees. And dogs can't sweat - they suffer from the heat much more than we do.
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