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Link: Forget ‘Love Island.’ Tennessee Has an Isle of Goats.

I love low tech solutions. An island in the Tennessee River (in Chattanooga) was overrun with invasive plant species. So, the owner of the island, the Chattanooga Audubon Society, sicced a herd of goats on the invasives. And also put a guard dog, Beo, a Great Pyrenees, on the island with them to protect the goats from any coyotes that might swim over for a haunch of spring chevon. Because the goats don't like English Ivy, the Audubon Society is thinking about putting some sheep on the island too.
 
Rewatching (unbelievably for the first time) Camille Claudel, there's a scene where somebody's doing finger shadows on the wall and calling out insults as follows. Some of the fun is knowing that some of the translations aren't exact and you wonder what they really are in French: Traitor, toad, drunkard, vampire, skinflint, hoodlum, pig, abject money-grubber, Judas, retard, plate of butter, scoundrel, blackmailer, senile, intellectual, secret fund, idiot, imbecile, gossip, Huguenot, vermin, lecher, shyster, lamebrain, canine, bigot, Zola (??), brat, Freemason, out of touch, communist. Whew...
 
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