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Life is full of little risks. One such gamble is the increasingly less remote chance that the tuna sushi you’re about to eat is crazy-full of parasitic worms. Then there’s the option to buy yesterday’s 1999 Porsche Boxster for just $3,500. Yes, that’s a super cheap price for any Boxster that isn’t on fire or full of the aforementioned sushi worms.
The risk may be real, but a cheap Porsche is a cheap Porsche, and any threat of future financial disaster is surely masked by the attraction an obtainable Boxster teases. That siren song engendered fully 67 percent of you to award the cheap Porsche with a Nice Price win. Now, back to that sushi. I recommend lots of wasabi.
A camera trap set up to catch cougars prowling Yellowstone National Park has captured an even more rare creature. The park released footage this week showing a wolverine tearing through the forest, marking the first footage since the traps were deployed.
For better or for worse, the inevitable effect of there being a new Tina Fey and Robert Carlock show on the air is that it will always especially this early into its run be compared to Fey and Carlock’s other shows. Naturally, that means that
Mr. Mayor will always be compared to
30 Rock and
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. But it also means it will also always be compared to
Great News, even though that was actually a Tracey Wigfield project (co-executive produced by Fey and Carlock). Fey and Carlock have a very specific sense of humor and structure that they rely on, which is why you can spot a “Fey and Carlock show” from the jump.
The Out-of-Touch Adults Guide To Kid Culture: Sea Shanties, Ahoy!
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TikTok trend of the week: Sea shanties
Future sociologists and cultural historians will write dissertations debating why, exactly, songs originally sung by seafaring laborers in the 1800s are the hottest trend on TikTok this particular week. But here we are: Sea shanties are the bangers of the moment.
The hype machine for seafaring ditties seems to have begun with a video of Scottish postman Nathan Evans singing “The Wellerman,” and blew up from there. Others started recording their own songs, adding their voices to Evans’ video, creating parodies,trying to figure it out, and otherwise honoring/chopping-and-screwing this all-but-forgotten musical form. But it really took off with this hilarious video from Beertheist that demonstrates in 44 seconds how sea shanties are at first ridiculous, then delightful, and ultimately irresistible.