Most of the items in the park are surreal animals and machines assembled from pieces of scrap metal, but there is also this one car, a 1950 Buick Special.
Found this one on my CPAP water reservoir, but not in or close to the actual water.
I wrote the following as a comment in another subreddit, and I was encouraged by local folks to repost it here.
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In 1936, Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.) was still known as Michigan State College. It had been founded as an agricultural college, but had been gradually expanding into more and more fields.
One of the most prominent faculty members was Ward Giltner. He was the dean of veterinary medicine and one of the nation’s leading bacteriologists. He refused to use the term “microbiologist” because he said it meant “a very small biologist”.
Giltner Hall on the MSU campus is named for him.
Ward Giltner’s daughter, Elizabeth (I think she was called “Bessie”) was the most beautiful and popular young woman in town. She had a very close friend, Hope Morgan; the two were said to be inseparable.
Elizabeth Giltner was going to be married to a young military officer. The wedding was just a few days away: they had already applied for and received the marriage license.
On December 8, 1936, Hope Morgan brought her father’s gun to the Giltner home, and shot her friend Elizabeth five times, killing her.
The New York Times ran the news story on its front page.
Hope was arrested soon after, and lodged in the Ingham County Jail in Mason, the county seat.
A week after the murder, Hope Morgan hanged herself in her jail cell.
(That jail building was later converted to offices; one summer many years later, I worked there. It’s gone now.)
Even in the 1970s and 1980s, East Lansing townies were still discussing the case, and offering theories about it.
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The Giltner house where the murder took place is at 652 Hillcrest. See:
https://kevinforsyth.net/ELMAC/giltner/
https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=DIL19361209.2.11&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN----------
Located at the intersection of Main and Washington, downtown.
I’m guessing it was an ad for a denture adhesive or cleaner, and the point was that the product would allow you to be as confident as this guy, not worrying about loose or stained dentures.
The 800-pound gorilla joke happens at the very end of the commercial. Earlier, he tells another joke or jokes.
The day a child is born is the most dangerous day of life.
After birth, a child’s risk of dying declines rapidly across the first year of life. Risks continue to decline over the next few years, but suddenly rise again during adolescence. Finally, in adulthood, the chances of dying grow exponentially.
If you plot the risk of dying against age, it looks like a J-shaped curve or a hook. You can see this in the chart.
Across a historical timeframe, however, the whole curve has shifted downwards — the annual rates of death have declined across all age groups.
You can see this by the different colored lines in the chart, which represent birth cohorts going back to 1800.
Data source: Human Mortality Database (2023)
Tools used: OWID Grapher and Figma
Power stopped about 20 minutes ago, it looks like everyone in our vicinity is dark as well. The DTE outage map still has only fragmentary info, but it looks like the territory without power runs from Maple Road west to Zeeb, and from Scio Church Rd north to 94.