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maggat is "hate speech"
I was put into facebook jail today for using the term "maggat".
Apparently it's hate speech. Wonder if "libtard" is hate speech.
Whatever. I will be posting things I can't share there over here. I'll spread them over the next week (the time frame of my incarceration).
RIP Ron Popeil
Ron Popeil, the infomercial icon behind products like the Pocket Fisherman and Hair in a Can, died on Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to the Associated Press. He was 86.
Popeil gained recognition when he created the famous Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ, along with his trademarked catchphrase — “Set it and forget it!” Popeil’s creation of the product grossed more than $1 billion in domestic sales.
Born in New York City on May 3, 1935, Popeil started his long career working with his father at a manufacturing facility in Chicago, which produced kitchen appliances. At the age of 16, Pompeil started selling the same products his father’s factory produced in the flea market lining Maxwell St. in Chicago.
After discovering his passion for kitchen ingenuity, Popeil became a tireless salesman for Ronco inventions like the Chop-O-Matic in 1959 and the Veg-O-Matic in 1963, appearing on infomercials to enthusiastically tout the company’s products. His worldwide catchphrase has since been coined all over the infomercial world: “But wait, there’s more!”
Popeil’s other inventions under Ronco include the Rhinestone Stud Setter (which later became the Bedazzler), the first Karaoke machine Mr. Microphone, the Smokeless Ashtray and the Inside-the-Eggshell Egg Scrambler.
Popeil soon became a pop culture mainstay, and was even parodied on shows like “I Love Lucy” and “Saturday Night Live.” In the 1976 “SNL” skit, Dan Aykroyd depicts Popeil as a fast-talking, influential salesman with a knack for convincing the consumer to trust his products.
Popeil is survived by his wife, along with four daughters and four grandchildren. A fifth daughter, Shannon, died before him.
TMZ first reported the news of Popeil’s death.
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/ron-popeil-dead-dies-infomerical-icon-1235029911/
Christmas in July
This is when many people in the southern U.S. make preparations for hurricane season, but it's also the time of year when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service near New Orleans turns its eye to protecting marshland from storms.
Black Hawk helicopters are dropping bundles of Christmas trees into the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in New Orleans – about 15 minutes from the heart of downtown.
"All of this was open water just like you see out in front of us," Pon Dixon of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. "So here we are about 20 years later, and you see all the vegetation that has grown."
Dixon has been a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge manager for 16 years. He says this annual tree drop protects the city and its people.
"We built a series of fences out here to kind of like trap the sediments," Dixon continued. "It started to work so well that we decided, hey, let's try doing this with Christmas trees and stuff."
This year, 8,000 trees were collected, and a little more than half were used for this project.
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