The first video that caught my eye was the wedding party entrance video. As one Youtube commenter said, “all weddings should be this fun”.
I agree. I hope they keep this sense of fun and joy forever. Blessings to Jill and Kevin.
The second video is a bit harder to parse. This video of the Santa Cruz City Council is certainly funny, and one would expect it to be a spoof. It is not. Those people really are that wacko.
And yet, despite the humour, that meeting is a triumph and testament for Democracy. Everyone there has a voice. Their words may be ridiculous, and I am sure SNL or someone will eventually lampoon it.
But, my hat still goes off to the City Council for allowing all voices to be heard in their open forum, no matter how silly they are.
A lot of people are mocking it, and rightly so, but at the same time, in a strange way, it should be celebrated.
WALLABIES are breaking into Tasmania’s poppy fields and getting high.
The strange occurrence, revealed in a State Government Budget Estimates hearing, has also solved what some growers say has spurred a campfire legend about mysterious crop circles that appear in northern Tasmania’s poppy paddocks.
In true X-Files-style, Attorney-General Lara Giddings said the drugged out wallabies had been found hopping around in circles squashing the poppies, creating the formations – and hence solving the mystery.
The wallabies are increasingly entering the fields and eating the poppy heads, The Mercury reports.
That causes them to get high and run around in circles creating “crop circles”.
“The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,” Ms Gidding said.
“Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high.”
What is it about those Brit’s and their love of extreme danger… Last week we had the Catlin Arctic expedition in trouble and today we have the Carbon Neutral Expedition’s sailboat being saved by an oil tanker (gulp) of all things.
The Carbon Neutral Expedition, consisting of two guys and a 40 ft.sailboat, set off on April19; their goal was to reach Greenland’s polar ice cap and be the first carbon-neutral crossing of that country. But gale-force winds caused the boat to capsize, destroying the solar panels and generator.
Richard Spink, a physiotherapist and Raoul Surcouf , a landscape gardener, set up Carbon Neutral Expeditions (CNE) in 2006 to show how journeys to some of the wildest, untouched places on the planet can be undertaken with minimal impact on the environment. Their Greenland mission was to make the first carbon neutral, double crossing of Greenland by sailing across the North Atlantic in 18 days and then skiing across the Arctic ice cap and back to the boat (over 550 miles). All done under the most horrific weather conditions.
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