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who the fuck calls it slug bug
tag your state and what you call it i grew up in AZ and it was slug bug
Are there people out there who DONT call it slug bug????? Like you say “slug bug [car color]”???? That’s how it works?????
We used to have a bug (YES WE SAY SLUG BUG) and we could sometimes see people hitting each other when we drove by. Good times.
Punchbuggy??????
You say punchbuggy no punchbacks and if you aren’t quick enough with the no punchbacks they can get you too as long as they see it
til that the Golden Age of Porn in commercial american pornography began in 1969 and if that isnt the greatest thing thats ever happened
i learned that in 2004, a fake ‘Sri Lankan national handball team’ tricked its way into a German tournament, lost all of their matches, and then mysteriously disappeared. A farewell letter thanked the Bavarians for their hospitality (x)
i learned that when David Bowie died in 2016, the German government thanked him for a concert he held in Berlin in 1987, stating it was a major reason Berlin was unified and tore down the Berlin wall (x)
i learned of Smigus-Dyngus/Dingus Day, a Polish holiday involving splashing girls with water and spanking them (x)
i learned that the founder of Safeway supermarkets was a preacher who felt that credit purchases were evil, and named his cash-only stores to promote the “safe way to shop” (x)
i learned that the infamous sound German JU-87 dive bombers made while in a dive is due to a siren installed on the plane, and not just the sound of the plane diving on a bomb run (x)
i learned that the Aboriginal people of Australia have occupied the land for more than 60,000 years (x)
i learned that at the end of high school, Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, was voted “Most Likely to Write for The Simpsons.” Then at the age of 23, Glover was hired by Tina Fey to write for 30 Rock after he submitted a spec script (a non-commissioned unsolicited screenplay) about The Simpsons (x)
i learned that Blockbuster Video’s attempt to enter Japan in the early ‘90s failed due in part to their business strategy of “Wholesome Home Entertainment” not accounting for the popularity in Japan of extreme horror films, or the fact that adult entertainment accounted for 35% of the Japanese video market (x)
i learned that Dr. Seuss’s first book “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” was rejected by 27 publishers. He decided to destroy the book but randomly bumped into an old friend who’d just become a children’s book editor, who asked to look at it and ended up publishing it (x)
i learned that 67% of all fire departments in the United States are entirely or mostly staffed by volunteers (x)
i learned that in 1999 a British man, angered at being charged £20 for going £10 overdrawn, legally changed his name to “Yorkshire Bank plc are Fascist Bastards” just to receive a return cheque in that name to settle the account (x)
i learned that 250 people in the US have cryogenically preserved their bodies to be revived later (x)
i learned that in 1968 South Korea hatched a plan to assassinate Kim Il Sung that went terribly wrong: Recruits (petty criminals) snapped during intense training on a remote island, killed their trainers, hijacked and blew up a bus in Seoul, killing 15… In all 37 people killed, 7 missing and 30 wounded (x)
i learned of Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese Opera Singer turned spy who obtained secrets from a French embassy worker for twenty years by masquerading as a woman during their sexual affair. He even took a child and pretended it was theirs (x)
i learned that the Sinaloa Cartel earns between $3 billion and $39 billion US Dollars a year (x)
i learned that there is a thriving population of wild parrots in The Bronx. These parrots were introduced to the area because of the pet trade, but have since called it their home by creating nests on the warm lights present in baseball fields. They have since spread across the boroughs, and even Manhattan (x)
i learned that a woman once sued herself for the wrongful death of her husband. The district court threw out the suit saying that you can’t sue yourself, but the case appealed to the supreme court who ruled that you can (x)
