George Washington bred his own pack of hunting dogs and named them like a man with zero supervision. We're talking Sweet Lips, Tipsy, Tipler, Drunkard, and one named Vulcan who was so big a kid could ride him like a pony. Vulcan once stole an entire ham straight off the dinner table and bolted to the kennels. The General just laughed while Martha sat there furious.
But the dogs were only half of it. The man could DANCE. In 1779 he partnered with Kitty Greene at a ball and the two of them danced for over three hours straight without sitting down once. People at the time said he was actually elite at it. He called it "so agreeable and innocent an amusement."
And in his final years his big retirement hobby was building a whiskey distillery. Not a little hobby still either. By 1799 it was the largest distillery in America, cranking out 11,000 gallons a year.
So the real George Washington: breeds hunting dogs with names like Drunkard, dances for three hours straight, runs the biggest whiskey operation in the country. Founding Father behavior.
@HHuntsmanWrites@nicksortor The Brent crude price still ended at $78 in 2021.
This war with Iran is just now barely coming to a close and it’s 72. The price should continue to fall and those companies shouldn’t be gauging in the first place.
We are $0.70 cents higher than a year ago after a major disruption that lasted months.
Oil is still much higher than just 5+ months ago, before the war.
There is a looming gas price crisis as oil supply is about to have real issues because the SPR is tapped out.
Trump is starting the finger pointing early and indeed trying to pressure Oil Companies to reduce margins over their traditional margins. They are not presently price gouging but Trump wants low 4th of July gas pricing, which is importsnt for approval ratings, but more important is that in just 2 weeks we will start feeling true shortages of the grade of oil we need, that we don’t produce… and tankers will be on the water in a long trip…
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump just CONFIRMED he's ordered a MAJOR DOJ investigation into oil companies for price gouging Americans at the pump
ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, and more.
"The oil companies are possibly gouging. I hope they're not. Otherwise they're going to be in BIG trouble."
"We should be in my opinion at $2.25 right now at the pump, and we're higher than that. And we are doing a big investigation on it."
Oil prices tanked, but so far, gas prices have not dropped proportionately.
@MerriamWebster Today I was typing an email and wrote “two small” instead of “too small”
I was mortified at myself while proofreading it.
Thank goodness that customer is so demanding and I had to keep proofreading it to make sure I was addressing all of her concerns.
Yikes. 😱
Louisiana pastor beats up a man who allegedly threatened to r*pe and kill his wife and grandchildren.
Pastor Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church says he was working on a church bus when the neighbor's son started shouting at him.
Spell said that it is his job as the natural protector to protect his church and family.
"He said, 'Tony, I'm gonna r*pe your wife, I'm gonna r*pe all of your grandchildren,' and he said, 'The next time you go out of town, I'm gonna kill them, and what the F are you going to do about it?" Spell said.
The neighbors, the Sherwin family, claim Spell is not telling the truth, but during a press conference, Spell was backed by members of his church who say they've made multiple complaints about the Sherwin family to police.
Spell's attorney says the Sherwin family has "a large, industrial-scale camera that could see from across the street all the way into the pulpit."
Spell was hit with multiple misdemeanor summonses in 2020 during the COVID lockdowns when he refused to close his church.
"The Central City police are friends with these folks across the street. When Pastor Spell was being surveilled 24/7, it was with the help of the man across the street," Spell's lawyer said.
The pastor was reportedly arrested and booked for second-degree battery.
Six years ago, I posted my first "strange, dark and mysterious" story with no idea where it would lead.
Today, I'm honored to be included on Forbes' Top Creators list!
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So tired of “cute” AI videos.
Yes some are nice and entertaining, but it’s feeling weird that so many of these videos are fake.
There are plenty of real cute animals to be looking at. And it’s worrisome that not only does it seem like many people cannot tell the difference, but that people seem not to care that the videos are fake.
@ShamashAran There was a customer at a place I used to work at named “Karpi”
And she would get so mad when we would call her name from her ID and she would say “ITS CAPRI!!”
No. I’m sorry. Your mother named you Karpi.
🚨 Heinz have pulled off a marketing masterclass. 🤯
FIFA World Cup stadiums are serving Heinz condiments, but because Heinz aren't an official tournament sponsor, every bottle has been covered up with black tape.
Instead of hiding from it, Heinz turned it into a campaign. The brand embraced the blackout, launched content around the taped-up bottles, and even sparked a viral exchange with Levi's.
What started as a sponsorship restriction has become one of the most talked-about marketing wins of the World Cup. 🎯🌎