{Lesser bird of paradise, via Twitter}
Gooooood morning, friendos! Yr pal al here, bright-eyed* & bushy-tailed* in your inbox on the first day of November. Hope you all had a fun Halloweekend and got the pants scared right off yourselves.
*This is a lie. If I’m happy and fully awake, it is at least 10am.
Read to the end for a spooky bird with her babies.
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This week’s sources:
Kellogg's faces lawsuit over amount of strawberries in Pop-Tarts | WBIR
Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos Are Legally People, Says US Judge | VICE
Mobile home abandoned in the middle of Missouri road | UPI (pic below)
Colorado hiker, lost for 24 hours, ignored rescuers' calls because hiker didn’t recognize the number | Fox News
11 Spam Comments That Look Like Drunk Thesauruses (And Why) | Mental Floss
Splendid one, man!
Kevin Gates Says Men Shouldn't Ejaculate During Sex | XXL Magazine
3 Florida teens will be charged as adults in death of high school classmate who was fatally stabbed and hidden in bushes | CNN
Mum turns breast milk into butter and feeds it to her partner on a piece of toast | Mirror
Other stuffs:
Quiznos super weird ads from 2004ish that haunt me.
A&W is marketing their 1/3 pound burger as a 3/9 pound burger because everyone has lost their minds.
Elderly orangutan meets a baby gibbon.
Here’s a cool new kind of scammer.
And here’s the momma bird with too many younguns underneath her:
I told you she was spooky!
Thanks for reading & listening.
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