A Journalist Asked Tim Cook Why IPhones Are So Expensive

“What do you mean you don’t put a miniature explosion spell in your gun?” “What do you mean you don’t use gunpowder-based propellant for your gun?”

It's my 3 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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I resent the inevitable consequences the second law of thermodynamics has on my tea and the entropy of the universe. It always happens too damn soon.

Things I have learned in today’s research binge:

All those old school Looney Tunes gags about randomly falling safes and pianos and such are actually based on something.  

Back when freight elevators weren’t a thing and hallways and staircases didn’t have legally mandated minimum widths (and therefore tended to be as narrow as the builders could get away with making them), the only way to deliver bulky furniture to the upper levels of tall buildings was to knock a hole in an exterior wall and raise the item up to it with a crane.  

Predictably, this led to the stupid things getting dropped from a height with fair frequency.  

In spite of this, there are no records of any case in which a random bystander has been crushed by a falling safe or piano.  

There is, however, at least one recorded case of a random bystander dying after walking straight into a hole left in the sidewalk by a safe that had fallen earlier that day.

I’m not sure why, but awful as it is, that last point may be one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

Two people meet at a bar. One thinks they’re being hit on. The other is a spy and thinks they’re meeting with a contact. Misunderstandings ensue.

This is actually a pretty hilarious setup

You’re the city’s superhero. Your greatest enemy is the city’s supervillain. However, you’re secretly brothers. This isn’t tragic, though, because your whole destructive rivalry is just a massive prank on your older third brother - the mayor.

I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!

Thank you for this great list

I'm looking back at random things I was taught as a kid by various adults and media and. did nobody bother to factcheck anything? was that just not an option or