Headline of the Day from The Babylon Bee: Report: Crypto Is A Scam! UPDATE: We Were Wrong, Everyone Buy Crypto! UPDATE: Oops, Crypto Is A Scam! UPDATE: Well, Maybe It’s Not A Scam Now
If anyone has an extra couple million dollars to spend. Gabriel García Márquez‘ circa 1600 home in Mallorca Spain is up for sale. The current owner is pretty sure this is where he wrote The Autumn of the Patriarch. Asking price is only$ 1.31M USD, but they say it needs renovation. https://www.engelvoelkers.com/en-es/property/historic-house-near-the-church-in-deia-4195260.1386005_exp/
LOL - Not even Lubbock and Amarillo together could eat that much BBQ! That is actually quite an economic blow to little Dimmitt, the town where this happened. About an hour southwest of me.
Today I discovered that the penalty for failing to fulfil one's feudal duty for a landed thegn in King Alfred's time was a fine of 120 shillings and forfeiture of land. I also discovered that 120 shillings was the fine for removing a nun from a nunnery without permission.
Priests working on a Sunday also got fined 120 shillings. Presumably that's why all the nuns kept going missing.
Headline of the Day from The Babylon Bee: Walgreens Cashier Asks If You Want To Round Up To Help Pay For Some Of The Merchandise Stolen This Week
The police just knocked on my door to say my dog was chasing people on bikes. Who did they think they were kidding? I can’t even get my dog to sit on command, and they want me to think he can ride bikes.
Headline of the Day from The Babylon Bee: Revised Hospital Chart Has Patients Rate Pain On Scale From Zero To Watching 'The View'
Headline of the Day from The Babylon Bee: Aaron Rodgers Retires From Professional Football To Play With The Jets
He's a sportsball player whose name even I recognize, and not for his sportsballing. That's weapons-grade whack-a-dooism.
Rogers never got over the fact he wasn't the first quarterback selected in the 2005 draft, and has been a dick about it ever since.
