Interestingly, ‘Underwater Pneumatic Reciprocating Saw’ Is the Name of My Led Zeppelin Tribute Band
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If You Have To Ask Why, You’re On The Wrong Webpage
I don’t wonder why a guy would make a Bigfoot bike out of a garden-variety bicycle. This is the BSBFB. We wonder why everyone doesn’t turn their bike into a pedal-powered monster truck.
We do wonder, however, why this video can get 42 million views, and no one points out that you shouldn’t weld galvanized metal like he does in the video. Welding galvanized metal gives you what welders call zinc shakes, galvie flu, welding shivers, or the ominous foundry ague. Welding galvie metal makes you feel like you’ve got four kinds of flu at the same time.
You can look it up on Wikipedia if you want, but they don’t know what they’re talking about. Welders cure galvie flu by drinking copious amounts of milk. It works. I know it works because I’ve had the zinc shakes and drank milk and it went away almost immediately. Wiki says it doesn’t work, because someone answers a question that no one asked, which is whether drinking milk prevents welding shivers. Makes me wonder if Wikipedia is against giving armed robbery victims blood infusions, because blood infusions won’t stop gunshot wounds.
Lincoln Logs for Adults
It’s very restful watching someone else doing a lot of work.
More here: Nik Rijavec
Burying The Lede
In the journalism biz, “burying the lede” refers to neglecting to stress the most important part of a story. In this case, our friends at Beals Science channel think they’ve got a hot topic with their home made bowling ball cannon. Now don’t get me wrong, we’re completely down with the bowling ball cannon. We love the bowling ball cannon. Their bowling ball cannon is right up there with punkin chunkin artillery and potato bazookas. But it’s background noise compared to their salvaged jeep.
Stop talking about the cannon. Tell me where I can get a salvaged postal jeep! Tell me what modern daVinci designed and built the rebar grill on your jeep! Inquiring minds want to know. I already know how to blow stuff up. What about the jeep!
OK, shelling the toilet on the outro almost makes up for burying the lede. Almost
(Thanks to old friend Charles Schneider for sending that one along.)