A few nice Funny images I found:

Roses For A Special Someone


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Take Me To Your Fruity Leader


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Forked Fruit Monster™

Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Learning, North America, United States

If you’ve always wanted to read “Moby Dick” but have never made time for it, grab your sleeping bag and head to the New Bedford Whaling Museum the first weekend after the New Year, for their annual Moby Dick Marathon. Each year, the museum, located an hour south of Boston, marks the date in 1841 when Herman Melville set sail from New Bedford on a whaling vessel bound for the South Pacific by staging a marathon reading of the 225,000 word classic.

Anyone can sign up to take a 10-minute turn reading from the book and those who make it through the entire 25-hour performance wins a prize. Visitors camp out on the museum floor, and some bring hardtack and grog in order to dine like 19^th Century whalers.

I’ve yet to make it to the Moby Dick marathon, or the whaleboat races the museum hosts in the summer, but I visited the museum last week and loved it. In the 18^th and 19^th Centuries, thousands of men earned their living hunting whales for their valuable oil, which illuminated lamps and lighthouses and served other purposes as well. Nantucket was America’s first real whaling capital, but New Bedford eclipsed it in the early 19^th Century.

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Learn About The Bloody Whaling Trade At The New Bedford Whaling Museum originally appeared on Gadling on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Turns out you can do more with old tires than collect them on your lawn.

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Goonie Cave

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Check out these Funny Olympic images:

2012_07_260101 “my penis is a mountain”


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Fire over Hackney


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Thought it was a funny looking cloud when I took the photo – then the helicopters and fire engines started.

View from my back door.

2012_07_260102 no, we are the other Korea


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They should not have hired Sarah Palin as a consultant

Filed under: North America, United States, Camping, Budget Travel

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can put up a tent and those who cannot. I’m not proud to admit that I’m part of the later group. I’m the youngest of six children and by the time I was born, my parents had given up camping for good. I wasn’t exposed to Boy Scouts and never learned a thing about camping, fishing, survival skills or the Great Outdoors.

So when my wife and I found ourselves shopping for camping gear at REI in preparation for a camping trip to Cape Cod, I was ready to pay more for a tent that had only 11 setup steps, compared to 15 on a cheaper model. But my wife, who was a science major in college, is good at putting things together, so we bought the cheaper, Big Agnes Big House 4 tent, and I quietly hoped not to be exposed for the pathetic tent-setup guy that I am.

In a year when my family has been traveling nonstop since April 1, we’ve stayed in almost every type of accommodation, save a tent. We used to enjoy camping, years ago, but haven’t ventured out into the great outdoors for an overnight stay since our first child was born in 2007.

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Camping With Kids On Cape Cod originally appeared on Gadling on Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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n' Harmony

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Filed under: Activism, Learning, North America, United States, Ecotourism

Today marks the 96th birthday of the National Park Service, the organization charged with managing all of America’s national parks, monuments and other historically important properties. While this date is certainly a cause for celebration, it is also one for caution as well. As budget cuts loom, the NPS faces some big challenges as it prepares to move into its second century. In January of next year, the Park Service could see as much as 10% of its budget cut, which could lead to closures of visitor centers, campgrounds and possibly even parks themselves.

With those challenges in mind, the National Parks Conservation Association has put together an interesting infographic that spells out just how important the parks are to the U.S. economy and to travelers. You’ll find this eye-opening infographic after the jump.

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Infographic: What National Parks Mean To The US Economy originally appeared on Gadling on Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adult film star Traci Lords made this workout tape for women but it was mostly used by men.

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