News of the Weird: The Week That Was
News of the Weird: The Week That Was
Political memes. Justin Moore. Snails. Drunk cities. Tom Cotton. Artificial organs. Pets burning down the house.
Richard and Greg are still in North Carolina while Greg undergoes cancer treatment at Duke. Good news to report: A MRI showed no cancer in Greg's spinal cord. A true blessing.
Suzi is keeping the home fires burning in Arkansas and attempting to stay out of trouble.
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Just because we highlight political memes in our News of the Weird doesn't mean we lean to one party or the other. We just think political memes are funny regardless of who is running. So don't immediately hit the unsubscribe if we show a meme about politics. Hi, Judy! Yes, we read your message. Sorry to see you go.
Fighting each other, we say, gets us nowhere. Don't buy into it.
In state news, Gov. Sarah Sanders celebrated country music star Justin Moore in Poyen (Grant County). That's a mighty big sign. Johnny Cash doesn't even have a sign that big in Kingsland. Suzi thinks Johnny needs one as big.
In other political news, we found this group on Facebook.
This giant snail popped up in Suzi's news feed. She had to investigate further.
“In June, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reported that an African land snail had been "surrendered" in Brooklyn to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
The mollusk, which can grow to eight inches long and five inches in diameter, is invasive in the state, the agency said in a post on Facebook. It eats more than 500 plants and carries a parasite that can cause potentially deadly meningitis in humans.”
That took Suzi down another snail rabbit hole.
Suzi stopped reading for fear of nightmares.
If you are old enough you may remember this ad from the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Here's our poll for the week. We will just cut to November.
This story was so odd we had to share.
“Samsung is recalling knobs on some of its electric stoves, warning that fires can be set off if pets — or even humans — bump into them.
Several videos have shown pets accidentally igniting fires from jumping onto stoves and pawing at the knobs.”
We do not want one of these stoves.
In more local news, Pine Bluff made a curious list. We have no idea if this is fake or real. We saw it on Facebook and thought we would share. We have no citation for this map. Suzi visits Pine Bluff a lot and says she saw a lot more drunks in Little Rock than she ever has in Pine Bluff.
From Science Daily, this is a real research.
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Have a good week!
Memes are a coping mechanism
So many people are offended by the memes we post. Both sides of the aisle.