1. We should send a search party to find me! It's not unheard of for people of a certain age to go backpacking through a part of another country to "find themselves", however, those that undertake that journey are rarely missing, at least in a physical sense, to begin with. In 2014, and Icelandic tour bus miscalculated the number of passengers on board a sight-seeing tour in the Eldgja region (279 km from Reykjavik), the count resulted in one passenger shy of "that's everyone." It was reported "an Asian woman about 160cm tall, wearing dark clothing" was unaccounted for at roll-call, and a police and civilian area-wide search followed. The missing woman in question was also concerned. As she was sitting on the bus already, and was being told there was a lost passenger, she promptly joined the search party and looked for herself for a good while before realizing some of the characteristics of the missing woman resembled herself... Once the now-found passenger understood it was SHE they all, including herself, were looking for, she promptly, if a little bit embarrassed, told the police, and the situation was quickly resolved. When asked how none of the passengers even recognized she was on the bus during the count, she recalled getting off briefly to stretch her legs and switch clothes. 2. Hawaii 2 Cards Against Humanity has become a sensation, often a staple of any game night. Many people are familiar with their humor inside the game, being rotten hilarity and often irreverent (my personal favorite) but few are aware of some of their real-life pranks and satire which are just as wild and funny. Birch Island is a beautifully preserved and non-commercial island in Maine. The Bedke/Fox Family Trust happened to be willing to sell it when Cards Against Humanity just happened to be looking to buy an island. Over the course of 10 days, a charitable campaign dubbed “The Ten Days or Whatever of Kwanzaa” had participants from all over donating $15 USD and receiving “Mystery Gifts” for the 10 consecutive days of the benefit, the last being a 1 square foot stake of land on the private island. At that point, around a quarter of a million certificates were sent to the participants allowing them a nice list of privileges to enjoy on the newly dubbed “Hawaii 2” and I quote, “You may name your square foot of land. You may use the entire private island for passive, non-commercial, non-motorized recreational activities,” the certificate reads. “You may tell people at parties that you own part of a private island.” - PressHerald.com Article and the CAH website I would also add that upon visiting the island, you are free to put a flag in your 1 square foot, provided by the company. Cards Against Humanity, in my opinion, is incredibly refreshing when it comes to game night, especially considering we’re all a little more horrible than we usually let on. But just as there’s also good in most of us, there’s a lot of good in the company as well. One dollar of every 15 dollars they received during this campaign (they’ve done several now) was donated to the Sunlight Foundation in this instance, an organization that promotes transparency in our government and shows what our representatives vote for and who really represents you. “Cards Against Humanity is known for our charitable fund-raising - since 2012 we've raised nearly $4 million for organizations we love like Worldbuilders, the Sunlight Foundation, the EFF, DonorsChoose.org, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the Chicago Design Museum. We even started a $500,000 full-ride scholarship for women getting degrees in science." -(https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/) Whether it’s buying Hawaii 2, allowing people to buy “nothing” from them, sending people literal bullshit when they try to take advantage of Black Friday sales, or donating to several great charities, they continue to inspire and sow humorous chaos. If you’ve never played or just want to augment that Bigger Blacker Box, here’s the store link for “America’s #1 Gerbil Coffin” https://store.cardsagainsthumanity.com/ 3. Certified Pirates of the Charles River Two things that Dolph Lundgren, Buzz Aldrin, Vannevar Bush (Dubbya’s Grandpappy), and Kofi Annan have in common are thus: All are M.I.T Graduates and none of them are pirates. An underground (until recently) practice of certifying students and Alumni of the Massachusettes Institute of Technology has gone a bit public. Unlike most secret or semi-secret societies, this one sounds like overcoming personal life challenges for great bragging rights rather than world domination and conspiracy. And the best part is, if you’re wanting to attend M.I.T, already attending, or an Alum, you’re already on track to lose your “Lily-Livered Land-Lubber” status, because as of 2011, you can be a certified M.I.T Pirate. The qualifications are strenuous and challenging but the certification printed on an almost scroll-like parchment and the pirate bragging rights are incredibly worth it. All would-be salty dogs must complete courses in Pistols (or rifles), archery, sailing, and fencing, while maintaining the secret initiation Oath of The Pirates. Classes fill up very quickly but about 50 Pirate Certifications are handed out every year. Get to it, ya cur. Oh, and the Cert. is honorary, M.I.T, myself, and likely the police do not encourage jumping on the Charles River for a nice afternoon of commandeering others' water-going vessels “Stand And Deliver!” style. That’s probably not gonna end well. 4. The Best Damn Mayor We Ever Had. These days you can barely get a job without any qualifications, much less a Mayorship of a town. Much, MUCH less be that mayor for 20 years after continually winning the elections with virtually no competition. In 1997, in the town of Talkeetna, Alaska, nestled at the foot of Mt. Mckinley, there was an issue of political significance. No one running on any political platform was seen as fit to lead the intimate village of around 900 citizens. Around the time of this chaos, a Ms. Lauri Stec, who managed the Nagley’s General Store in town at the time, happened upon a box of unwanted kittens. She eventually picked one out, a yellow and orange cutie with no tail who she named, “Stubbs.” Seen then on in the general store and appreciated for his honestly casual disposition, a Write-In was enacted and Mayor Stubbs was elected. Mayor Stubbs, an arguably hedonistic-libertarian in my opinion, then lead the town through his “meetings” at the general store, and through the honesty and cuteness that got him elected repeatedly with almost zero contest, saw a boom in tourism and a healthy respect for local office. He rarely, if ever, interfered with taxes or other divisive issues so long as his perhaps only scandal (allegedly drinking cat-nip infused water while at work) was ignored by the populace. One year, tragedy struck when an unleashed dog (or perhaps an agent of a possible coup) attacked him in the street, leaving lacerations, a punctured lung and broken bones. Mayor Stubbs, using what likely amounted to several of his nine lives, recovered and continued to lead and inspire for four more years until his natural and peaceful passing in 2017, at the ripe age of 20, having left his mark as possibly the best mayor a town could have. Mayor Stubbs is remembered fondly and his office is still in use today by his natural successor, the now Mayor Denali, his brother. What boots Mr. Denali has to fill. Rest in Peace Stubbs. Sources below (quotes, info and images) Sources
Icelandic woman https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/missing-icelandic-tourist-goes-in-search-of-herself-8096831.html CAH Hawaii 2 https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/28/heres-what-cards-against-humanity-is-doing-with-the-71145-they-made-on-black-friday/ https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/sunlight/ http://time.com/3634443/cards-against-humanity-poop-black-friday/ https://www.pressherald.com/2014/12/24/game-maker-cards-against-humanity-buys-remote-maine-island-and-changes-its-name-to-hawaii-2/ MIT Pirates https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/03/03/mit-awards-pirate-certificates-undergraduates/7bevphhaZi94oVMvctNslL/story.html https://alum.mit.edu/slice/arrrr-mit-pirates-and-matt-damon-certified Google response for “Famous MIT Grads” Mayor Stubbs https://www.talkeetnachamber.org/ https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/23/us/mayor-cat-stubbs-dies-at-20/index.html https://allthatsinteresting.com/mayor-stubbs-the-cat Images Statement- I do not make claim to own, nor do I own any images on this post, all were pulled from stock, google, or flickr through weebly’s search funtion. All credit goes to original designers and photographers. All images here are used for humorous and relative articulation purposes, I’m not profiting financially or networking with any of the above images. Again, all credit goes to the designers and photographers who originally made/captured these images. Sources Flickr image searched through weebly http://funflagfacts.com/2015/08/28/pirate-flags-the-jolly-roger-and-beyond/ https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/jolly-roger-pirate-flag-vector-4482983 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stubbs_(cat)
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