That is the bottom of an aluminum roasting pan showing. That's why "potluck" is used in the name of the piece.

I used to love "BJ and the Bear."

If I had ancestors that were Pinkerton thugs, I would be too ashamed to mention it in public. Too unskilled to have real jobs, or even be mercenaries, so they just went around beating and shooting people that the rich told them to attack. Good people.

It is a pocket knocker/sap/kosh/blackjack or whatever it is called in your part of the world. It is a pocket sized "tool" used to knock an opponent out cold with one smack to the head (if done correctly, results may vary).

It's pronounced both ways really. I grew up fishing for Crappie, Blue Gill, Small Mouth and Large Mouth Bass. Whatever would bite really, but those were my favorites. Stripers are fun to go for, and yes that is spelled correctly.

I was born in the 60's and grew up less than 20 miles from that "castle." I saw it being built and had many fantasies about what I would do if I could build my own castle. I couldn't wait until it was finished, and then it just stopped. I was extremely disappointed. The last time I saw it it was in a sad state of disrepair. There are rumors in the area of buyers and plans for the Versailles Road Castle (which is what most locals call it) for decades, but nothing ever happens. I think they should leave it standing and give seminars on marriage there personally, because it is a perfect symbol of love misunderstood.

Obviously a Stevenson Staple Sucker, a staple remover designed and crafted before the invention of the staple. The inventor had to be very imaginative since nobody knew what a staple was going to be shaped like, or be used for. Since it was ~42 more years before staples were invented, it explains why this device was such a commercial failure and therefore somewhat rare. A few have found their way, after being heavily modified, into the collections of gullible golf gear gatherers. Golf ball marker, really.

BTW I don't think identifying the Stevenson Staple Sucker is "easy" for the average "staple ignorant" population. Also, Stevenson later went on to change the name of his company to ACME and was very successful, especially due to an excellent product delivery system.

Seeing as sharks have existed for millions of years longer than Homo Sapiens, the better headline would have been,"Serial Killers Mimic Sharks (and thousands of other predators)in the Way They Hunt Victims."

The same methods they talked about, looking for a weak target, shadowing them, and then ambush is how humans hunted for millennium until improved weaponry changed that.

Bad science! Bad scientists, go to your labs!

Bad science indeed. Only checking against an extremely smooth surface? There are very few, flat, glassy smooth, and dry surfaces in nature. Do that same experiment with a natural stone, a tree branch, etc. and they will have drastically different results.

Since we did not evolve with Perspex, then it is doubtful that a surface like that has anything to do with fingerprints. I read another case (can't remember the researchers of course) and they found that slightly sweaty bare hands and feet produced a superior grip when climbing trees.

I love Neatorama, and know it is mostly about entertainment, but please don't act like the "real" media and report on any study that is published. The national news does this constantly. Anybody can set up a study to produce skewed results, that's why science relies on repetition of studies to compare results.

Blondie supposedly picked their name because that's what truck drivers and construction workers would yell at Debbie Harry as she walked around NYC. I think they played as The Stilettos for a bit before that.

Mudhoney took their name from the Russ Meyer movie of the same title.

Spandau Ballet got there name from a term coined in reference to the frequent suicides of Nazis being held for trial at the Spandau prison. A hanged person tends to jerk around and "dance" if the death is caused by strangulation (and not a snap) they say.

Sound Garden is named after an acoustic sculpture display in the Seattle area.

Anybody able to read this should know where The Doors got their name. I think I've heard or read that story more than any other band name origin.

Post more of these, please.

Sunny Lea,

I doubt Snopes spent 3 felony sentences in the Ohio State Correctional system. In this case I'll take my friend's knowledge gained from several years experience over a stranger with an OK website. So research away, I'll stick to talking to "experts." BTW, I know dozens of ex-felons (job related), but only one of them I trust enough to call friend and he has never lied to me (and it took several years of me trying to trip him up before I realized he was "real" with me). You pick your source, and I'll stick with the first hand accounts.

AA

I'll second Wesley's statement.

What most of these kids, and apparently many adults, don't realize is that to wear one's pants slung low in a prison means that you are free meat. It is how the feminine segment of that population identify themselves. A friend that has been "up state" a couple of times said it was the funniest thing to watch the new punks coming in with their drawers showing, trying to act bad, only to enter the unit and get met with catcalls and "propositions". The smart ones pulled up their pants as soon as they were in their cell. Bangers and B-Boys have always been about baggy, not necessarily saggy.

It makes me think about all of those homophobic boys in the 70s listening to Queen, Elton John, Judas Priest and being completely oblivious that they were enjoying a culture that they were actually afraid of.

I can see perry has met Henry in person, as have I. I've talked to Henry dozens of times when I lived in Lex. KY. If you ask him his name he will tell you it is James Brown and occasionally do a short dance to make it more authentic. For a time in the late 80's he told people his name was Slick Rick. Henry has complimented me, threatened me (half heartedly), and told me a couple of jokes. If you are female and stop to talk to him he is likely to proposition you, unless he has changed. I tried to feed Henry several times when he asked for money but he would usually be gone by the time I came back. I used to feel bad for Henry until one day he told me he liked to drink and that was all he intended to do in his life. He told me he had no inclination or plans to quit.

Henry did have quite a wardrobe. Most of it from the 1970s. I always wondered where he kept it.

MoonCake, your comment is as judgmental as every other comment about this post. Zombieboy is going to have to deal with being judged every time he goes out and encounters new people, he may as well get used to it. Is it right? No. Is it wrong? No. It's just reality.

He probably will get a job because of his tattoo(s). Is Jim Rose still doing his freak show? Zombieboy needs to work on his sword swallowing or fire eating if he really wants to make some freak show money. Lots of other people have done it. Go all the way.

It's "punk rock" he says. I've been a punk longer than he's been alive and the only way it is "punk rock" is that he's doing what he wants to do to his own dumb self. I've seen so many people with regrets over smaller tattoos or piercings gone wrong that it makes me want him to do the exact same interview in 20 years, especially if he has his nose removed etc. For now I'll just chuckle to myself and write snarky comments.