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In Brazil: Fire Tornado Caught on Film. Rare. Terrifying.

Posted by mistergroonk in Video, World on August 26, 2010

Fire tornados, also known colloquially as fire devils, happen when a fire acquires a vertical rotating column of air. Some can be more than a half a mile tall and contain winds over 100 mph.

In 1923, Great Kanto earthquake in Japan, ignited firestorm thta raged through the city and produced a gigantic fire tornado that killed 38,000 in 15 minutes in the Hifukusho-Ato region of Tokyo.

There’s a video report under the cut.
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#MusicMonday: You Just Got Rocked by Hanson, How Does That Make You Feel?

Posted by mistergroonk in Music, Video on August 16, 2010

Hanson’s new album, Shout It Out, released last June 2010. We didn’t know about this because, well, it was Hanson. The music industry’s overwhelming need to neatly package and inundate the radio with “Mmm Bop” during the late 1990s destroyed any chance of Hanson being taken seriously by us. It didn’t help that all of this happened during our early to mid twenties. That special time when no one of that age can be bothered with anything.

Luckily, years later, second chances are high on our list of priorities.

First up, the highly energetic and catchy tune “Thinkin’ Bout Something”:

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FIRECANE, Reddit Tempts Fate. Offers SyFy Channel New Movie Idea.

Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, Macro, One Sheets on May 4, 2010

Some may call it “bad taste.”

We call it “prophecy.”

via reddit

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In Case You Didn’t Know…

Posted by mistergroonk in History, Just Freaking Neat, USA on November 4, 2008

UPDATE: The Onion, I must marry you…or at least get to second base with you. You know you want it. Here, have another shot of whiskey.

Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job
THE ONION

…Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it.

(via EVERYWHERE, The Onion article via mattpdx)

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