we're off to see the Wizards!

OK, this is friggin' hilarious.

For those not from DC, that is our local ABC TV affiliate's sports program from a few nights ago. They are previewing the (then) upcoming National Basketball Association game between the Washington Wizards* and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Only some bright spark pulled the graphic for the KANSAS CITY Wizards.

Who play in Major League SOCCER.

(Oh, and to add insult to injury, Washington lost the match. Maybe the KC Wizards showed up to play instead...)

Priceless.





* Who used to be the Washington Bullets, but when the murder rate got sky-high, the owner changed the name.

USMC, the few, the proud, the.. mice?

Someone on a list I read, in response to a discussion of the fine Corps of Marines that our country is blessed with and their...erm, lack of complexity replied:

"We are simple and direct creatures...

http://www.hyscience.com/maze.jpg

See what a little Marine training will do for a rat? :lol:"

I like. :-)

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Sometime back I ran across a mention of the disease that's afflicting Tasmanian devils. It mentioned a connection to thylacines (I guess that they both survived in Tasmania after going extinct on the mainland of Australia).

Well, The John Muir Trust, a UK conservation organization I'm a member of, sent me an email asking me to vote for them in a poll to determine who gets a big Euro conservation grant. I was looking up the other organizations to see what they're like, and read this piece on Ennerdale Water in Cumbria (which looks like a beautiful place to go walking!)

And it's home to the legend of the Girt Dog of Ennerdale.

Which, apparently, people now think may have been a thylacine that escaped after being imported from Australia.

The world (or at least Wikipedia) is a wonderfully weird place.