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Northern Hog Badger (Arctonyx albogularis), family Mustelidae, Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, Assam, India

Once considered to be a subspecies of the Greater Hog Badger, A. collaris, which has now been split into 3 species.

A sign I spotted while running errands today. I looked it up when I got home and this billboard is apparently an artpiece by Bretstad. It's called "Sardonical". Their website is https://bretstad.art/sardonicale/ if you want to read more about it.

(Above is what Anon originally submitted, but I also wanted to include other signs from this series below! Images from the website itself)

An updated list by someone who clearly isn’t paying attention. Previous realizations include: 

Karl and Keith Urban (Karl Urban looks like he could sing country)

Jimmy and Warren Buffet (I just assumed Margaritaville did really well)

Weses Craven and Anderson (what a range on that guy!)

Today I discovered: 

Kates Winslet and Hudson (Listening to a Kate Hudson interview today I asked myself, “Isn’t she English?” and had to google her)

And one that I’ve never experienced but I know others have: 

I think the only movie I’ve ever seen Kate Winslet in is Sense and Sensibility. I don’t know that I’ve seen a single film Kate Hudson is in unless she’s actually the one in Sense and Sensibility. :D

I don’t know that a lot of people are aware of this, but for decades we didn’t actually know where on the seafloor it was, and had no way of visiting or raising it. It wasn’t until 1985 that we began to get photographs of the wreck, and I was PRIME age to be obsessed with shipwrecks and treasure hunts. So I was really into Titanic when I was little. And it became evident from the marketing early on that the film was, in many ways, just Titanic as backdrop to a fictional romance I had no real interest in. I wanted a story about the real Titanic!

With the power of hindsight, I may have judged it harshly – I haven’t seen it so I don’t know. :D But I simply had no interest in it. A film in those days – even still today – has to be pretty compelling to get my ass to sit still in a dark room for two hours.

Wedding Dress

c. 1903

unknown maker, American

LAURENCE OLIVIER as HORATIO NELSON and VIVIEN LEIGH as LADY HAMILTON

"What are you trying to do anyway?"

"Oh quiet, I´m practising on being an angel."

GRACE KELLY as FRANCES STEVENS