Got some cash chomping at the bit to be wasted?
Giddy up! Bizarre $288 horse hoof SHOES complete with black and white hair send the internet into a frenzy, according to the Daily Mail UK.
The high-end horse hooves (Unisex Faux Fur Feathered Horse Hooves), brought to you by Etsy Shoppe, Chaos Costumes, are all the rage … to the tune of 13 million tallied views on the following video that has, sadly for us, resulted in a depleted inventory (at least for a Halloween delivery):
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But don’t despair. The following clip shows a thriftier way to just make your own … if you must!
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Giant chalkboard scribble or master work of art?
“Waste not, want not.” That’s how the saying goes. From the looks of Cy Twombly’s 1968 chalkboard painting titled “Untitled,” it would appear he is not even letting what looks to be the ornamental penmanship practice of an unknown giant go unappreciated.
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To think I didn’t thank those nuns back in school for providing me with such ready means to earn a living! Handwriting warm-ups were an everyday affair until one got it right. But what is right?
“Untitled” sold at Sotheby’s for $70.5 million in 2015, according to the Independent. But it’s not so much the scribbling that is worth the price, but the record of audacity that marked the post war era.
Maybe there’s a market for detention doodles?
Just how expensive can a bed be?
Is a $200,000 bed a whole lot of waste or just a modern twist on stuffing money under your mattress?
How much is your comfort worth?!
Wasted effort or time well spent?
“Duck becomes WEB sensation and even has her own Facebook page after she battled the odds to survive.” That’s the story in the Daily Mail UK surrounding young Emma Stanworth, a 21-year-old poultry keeper from Wirstall, West Yorks, England who chose to become a surrogate mother to an enfeebled duckling that common sense said should be put down:
“Clover the pet duck has become such a popular face around town that she even has a Facebook page.
The bird follows owner Emma Stanworth everywhere after she acted as a surrogate mother.
When Clover hatched eight months ago she had a twin from the same egg.
Both birds were weak and Clover’s twin died. Emma, 21, was determined she would nurse Clover to health.
She told The Sunday People: “We didn’t think she’d survive. Her health was poor and people told me to put her to sleep.”
“But I knew with patience and hope I could get her fit and healthy.”
Quite a different take on the value of an ordinary animal when compared to the tongue-in-cheek satire of the lengths sentimentalism – and self-interest – can take. Remember this scene with Seinfeld’s George Costanza being soft-armed into footing the vet bills for the squirrel who had the nerve to get himself run over? By George?
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Perhaps it’s the why behind the things we do that lend them value … and bring about a fitting reward. Miss Stanworth is reaping a crop of loyal affection from her little feathered charge.
“She’ll follow me into shops. If I’m carrying something she jumps up for a look. She even comes on the bus, to the pub and to the swimming pool. She’s like a dog. When we go out, people love to see her and hold her. It’s not something you see every day. They really don’t expect it.”
But Clover the Duck Daily Post is becoming increasingly anticipated … so much so that Emma is taking the opportunity to sell posters and keyrings featuring her pet to raise money for the Phoenix Hen Rescue charity, dedicated to finding new families for abused birds.
Quite a better end than what happened to the less-than-altruistic George Costanza and his money-pit squirrel!
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Wasting food?! Don’t get me started
Growing up in a blue collar family with eight kids and parochial school tuition due nine months out of the year, I – like many other mainline folks across America – was reared to fear wasting food. Not just to avoid it, but to attach the appropriate measure of guilt for doing so, or even thinking about it, in order that one may never, ever be found culpable of the actual deed.
If only FedEx had been around to ship the accumulated pounds of mouth-mauled lima beans to some third-world country. Instead, the little pasty gems found their way to feeding countless flushed goldfish in the ever-popular trip to the bathroom used by so many children to avoid actually consuming what they don’t like.
As a mom, however, as if by some miraculous transformation (the same that mysteriously transforms the majority who pass from bill-maker to bill-payer), I discovered myself on the other end of not wasting anything. Or trying as if by some glamor of compulsion to be grateful for, properly use or dispose of whatever came my way, even if it came by way of a child’s plate with the assorted offerings of I-didn’t-like-that challenging me at the garbage disposal.
Watch the crack-up video below that begs the simple, yet salient question, “Are you gonna eat that?!” and see if it makes you smile like it did me:
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