The midnight fox by Catherine Hyde

it is known that,

slippery., secret;, and sinister;

In the early 1900s, a man couldn’t afford proper dentures, so he made his own using melted down toothbrush handles and the teeth of a dead coyote. After years of wearing them, in 1946 a local dentist was so impressed with this ingenuity that he offered to make the man a professional set in exchange for the coyote dentures. The teeth are now in the collection of the Eastern California Museum, in Independence, CA.

The small feather'd and cricket-like preface being thus finished, and the Doctor having made therewith no creature in the world merry, besides himself: it is high time for him now to leave the frying pan, and the four herrings, and to attend the Post-boy, who blew his Horn and Toleration. But why in such hast, good Doctor? what, listen to a Horn before the orthodox exercise of eating and drinking? especially at an hour when the maw stretches and yawns, and makes humble request for victuals? how, so cruel as to forsake four pensive disconsolate herrings; when your own conscience flew on your face, and told you that they had lately been in very great distress, and in as sad a pickle as the Dutch Fleet the week before? How so careless of your family, as to give over your wife and maid to the cruelty of four hissing sputtering outragious Herrings? Suppose one of the stoutest and discontented of them had made a violent digression out of the frying pan, and struck up you maids heels, and in your absence had swallowed your wife, head, shoulders and all. (As the great Pike at Bosco, that on a sudden ran away from the Pound and his Keepers, and in a trice devoured a whole flock of Sheep.) Suppose, I say, any such calamity had happen'd in the family by your neglect: would it not have prick'd you sorely to have left the house in such tumult and disorder? I, I, you, you are the men that have got the Conscience of the whole Nation: that pretend to such curiosity and neatness of Conscience, and yet make nothing to leave a poor helpless wife and but one maid to the fury and insolence of four dissatisfied and devouring Herrings: and only upon that quibling pretence, forsooth, that you had other fish to fry. Come come, Doctor, deceive not your self with such loose principles. You may pretend to as much tenderness of Conscience as you will; but I am afraid that if you had had four Cormorants, or four Eagles for dinner, the case would have been the same; for you would either have had other Birds to look after, or other Fish to fry, or some such Conscience-palliating excuse.

"having made therewith no creature in the world merry, besides himself"

thou hast saucily abused his majesties clemency !

With as many faces, and as much pain as ever tooth was drawn, I made shift a while ago to wade through a most vile and dirty pamphlet of yours

the other day i saw two 14yo girls in typical 'blue hair and pronouns' attire, but one of them inexplicably had a large confederate flag patch conspicuously sewn on her jacket. in west yorkshire, england. for some reason.

28 year old van lifer in Rhode Island: ummmmm I really hope you all know that buying cheap polyester patches and gluing them onto a fast fashion denim jacket isn't "punk" or "radical"...

28 year old dairymaid in the same location 412 years earlier: Wist Ye not that Pressing the Kine's Milch from her Tit, and Taking it to your Mouthes ere it be Gathered into the Milch-pot, is neither Chaste nor Pious ?

please someone properly translate nowe ateny into english please

The thing about BEARS worthy of admiration is that every year the kidney grows in it. Therefore, how old it is, there are so many Kidneys in it, like a cluster of grapes grown together. In Russia, one of the curious people in Niedźwiedź counted 140 such kidneys.

Flag Wars Bonus Round

16th c. alphabet for fingerspelling & fingercounting

from a copy of a text attributed to bede the venerable (7-8th c.), included in a miscellany manuscript written and illustrated by wilhelm werner von zimmern, speyer (?), c. 1539-62

source: Stuttgart, Landesbibl., Cod. Donaueschingen 704, fol. 163r-164r

oh my fucking goooooooood STOP ADVERTISING THAT WOMANS ALBUM. SHES NOT PAYING YOU AND YOU DONT EVEN LIKE HER MUSIC SO WHY. WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS. ASK YOURSELF WHY. oh everyone else is talking about it so ig i have to talk about it too? three words for you: VIRAL. MARKETING. CAMPAIGN!