Mike Whiteside looked over his desk and noticed that the head of his co-worker in the next cubicle looked like it was part of the animal wallpaper on his screen. Thus Desk Safari was born. People take photos of office mates with their heads in just the right position to complete animals pictured on their computer monitors. Sometimes office politics can make the place like a zoo, and sometimes graphic placement can make it seem like a literal zoo.
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Let's Go on a Desk Safari!They have existed since well before mankind, servants of eldritch forces watching and waiting for the right time to wake their squid faced masters from a millennia of slumber. Their visage fills humans with fear and warps their weak minds, and although they find humans to be beneath them they also see humanity as a threat, for those who have looked beneath the veil have discovered ways to keep the Elder Gods from awakening...
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Watcher - The Sacred And The Profanely SquidfacedThe following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad. These mysteries are from The Little Giant® Book of Whodunits by Hy Conrad and Matt LaFleur. Can you solve the mystery before you read the solution?
The lawyer glanced from his client to the three greedy young faces across the room. "You're sure you want to do this?"
"Of course," Derwood Dewdit replied. "I have no children. It's only right that my niece and nephews inherit my estate."
"That won't be for many, many years," Asa Dewdit said. His sister Bebe agreed as did brother Cecil. They watched, fascinated, as Uncle Derwood signed his new will.
Nothing happened until late afternoon. The lawyer was browsing through the books in the third-floor library when he heard Derwood's voice raised in a blood-curdling scream. For a few seconds, he sat in shock. Then he bounded down the stairs.
He found Asa on the second floor, standing at the top of the little-used back staircase. "It came from the first floor," stammered the young heir.
The lawyer took the lead down the narrow stairs. "Derwood!" he shouted and a moment later caught a spider web across his face.
The kitchen was right at the bottom. The white marble floor was spotless and still damp from a recent mopping by the maid. The adjacent pantry, however, was quite messy. Derwood Dewdit lay on the pantry floor. He'd been stabbed to death with a paring knife.
The lawyer was careful not to disturb anything. Using a handkerchief, he tried the kitchen door. Unlocked. Looking out into the garden, he could see a path of footprints in the mud, leading right up to the kitchen door and then away again. "Call the police."
The Dewdits and the lawyer all retired to the parlor to await the authorities. "An intruder must have come in the back way," Cecil said emphatically. "I was sitting in the front hall by the main stairs. I didn't see anyone."
"Me neither," Bebe said, absently fingering the mud on her shoes. "I was strolling around the garden, right by the kitchen. I didn't see a thing. Do you think it might be one of us?"
"Of course it was," the lawyer snarled. "And I can guess which one."
Whodunit?
Show Answer
Bebe couldn't have entered or left by the kitchen door, not without leaving prints on the recently mopped marble floor.
Therefore, it had to be Cecil.
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Whodunit: Which Dewdit Did It?Tomorrowland is Disney’s latest amusement park attraction turned motion picture, and unlike that awful Haunted Mansion movie they released a few years back, they seem to have gotten the adaptation right this time.
The film combines dystopian sci-fi themes with a message of hope for the future, mixing in some of history’s most famous scientific minds for good measure and plenty of Disney magic, of course.
Here's a deleted scene from the film that reveals the origins of the organization Plus Ultra, the group responsible for the creation of Tomorrowland. It's got that classic Disney short style, features the voice talent of Maurice LaMarche and it's enjoyable to watch whether you've seen Tomorrowland or not.
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You Can Win A Fitbit Surge or A NeatoShop TeeSabrina Abu-Obeid, a musician in Florida, dyed her hair. What color is it now? That depends entirely what room of her home that she's in. As the lighting conditions change, her hair appears to be either purple, violet, or pink. It's like she's wearing that famous white and gold dress on her head!
Abu-Obeid and her boyfriend--the deeply impressed man holding the camera--make up the band TeraBrite. You can see their music videos on their YouTube channel.
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“Okay” is one of the most commonly used words in the world. But who came up with it?
WORLD WORD
Whether you spell it “okay,” “o.k.,” or “OK,” it is so universal in both its meaning and sound that linguists say it’s the most recognized word on the planet. (Second-most recognized: Coke.) It’s as close as anything we’ve got to a “universal language.”
But where the word actually came from is a bit of a mystery. Here are a few theories of how it started— and because they all developed in different parts of the world and spread, it’s possible that more than one or even all of them could be true.
• Okay is a derivative of the Old Scottish expression “och aye,” which means “oh, yes.”
• The Choctaw people (who once lived in modern-day Oklahoma) had a word oke, which means “it is so.”
• It comes from a Greek phrase, ola kala, which roughly translates to “everything’s good.”
• Les Cayes is a port city in Haiti, and the center of the 18th-century rum trade. Aux cayes (pronounced “oh-kay”) means “from Cayes” and was an expression used by French soldiers to describe the rum they were shipping (or drinking).
• A Chicago baker named Orrin Kendall provided hardtack biscuits to the Union Army during the Civil War and stamped his initials into every one.
• It came from an abbreviation used by telegraph operators, short for “open key,” meaning “ready to receive.”
THE OKAY CORRAL
But according to Col
And then there was OW, which stood for “oll wright,” a 19th-century equivalent to “all right.” Oll wright didn’t make it to the modern day. And neither did OW, because it was used interchangeably with another abbreviation— OK, which meant the same thing but was short for “oll korrect.” The first known use of OK in print in this way dates to a March 1838 Boston Morning Post article by journalist Charles Gordon Greene (about a group called the Anti-Bell-Ringing Society).
The rise of OK dovetailed with the presidency of Martin Van Buren. His nickname: Old Kinderhook, taken from the name of his birthplace in upstate New York. A group of supporters named itself after the initials of his nickname, calling themselves the OK Club.
The president’s political opponents in the Whig party used the club’s name against him during his failed reelection campaign. They came up with a variety of unflattering alternative meanings of OK to describe Van Buren and his lackluster 1837– 41 term, such as “Out of Kash” and “Out of Kredit.” Newspaper editors around the country followed suit, with variations like “Orfully Konfused” and “Often Kontradicts.”
OKAY TODAY
By the time William Henry Harrison assumed the presidency from Van Buren in March 1841, OK was cemented in the public consciousness. As time went on, people forgot about the abbreviation/ misspelling fad and where OK came from, leading to the rise of numerous theories like the ones listed earlier in this article.
Even with all that, we may never know the exact origin of the word, but we do know that you can say “okay” to another person almost anywhere in the world and be assured that regardless of their native language they’ll know exactly what you mean.
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