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• Bodies: Kids Edition
• When You Change Names To Protect The Innocent
• Ship's Cats in Hammocks
• The Stories Behind 7 Drinks Named After Real People

Bodies: Kids Edition Posted: 03 Jul 2021 08:56 PM PDT Remember the first time you heard one of your favorite rock songs converted to elevator music by Muzak? You might feel the same way when you hear "Bodies" by Drowning Pool converted to a kid's sing-along. But this isn't being played in kindergartens across the country- it's the latest abomination from Dustin Ballard, the insane genius behind the YouTube account There I Ruined It. -via Laughing Squid  See also: Animals Sing Drowning Pool

When You Change Names To Protect The Innocent Posted: 03 Jul 2021 08:56 PM PDT Alasdair Beckett-King (previously) presents a seriously true crime story. Some of the details are a little distracting. In all honesty, you have to feel for the writers who must create pseudonyms for police procedurals that run for twenty years or more- it must be hard to come up with names that don't either repeat or sound completely ridiculous. Beckett-King revealed that his own alias is an anagram: "King Abelard Caketits."

Ship's Cats in Hammocks Posted: 03 Jul 2021 08:56 PM PDT Good news: I have gathered a bunch of photos of naval ship cats in tiny hammocks. Here are sailors of the HMS Hermione in 1941 surrounding their sleeping cat, Convoy. pic.twitter.com/X1iAaezxk5 — Molly Hodgdon (@Manglewood) July 2, 2021 Ever since boats became big enough to carry people and their food supplies, there have been cats aboard, mainly to control rodents, but also to boost morale during long voyages. When a crew get attached to a cat, they want to treat their mascot right. During World War II, that meant they should have a hammock to sleep in, just like the sailors. Molly Hodgdon presents a collection of images from that era of ship's cats in their custom-made hammocks. There's no word on whether the cats had to sleep in shifts like the sailors. We can assume they were treated much better than that. See nine such pampered ship's cats at Twitter. -via Everlasting Blort Bonus: Hodgdon also has a thread of old paintings featuring people spoon-feeding cats.

The Stories Behind 7 Drinks Named After Real People Posted: 03 Jul 2021 08:56 PM PDT Embed from Getty Images When you think about alcoholic drinks named after a person, you probably first think of Tom Collins. While that origin story is interesting, Tom Collins wasn't a real person. But plenty of whiskeys, wines, and cocktails took their names from real people, and the stories may surprise you. Many bartenders argue mixology is a science, and in the case of the Dubonnet, a French aperitif, they'd be right. It's said that chemist Joseph Dubonnet was looking for a palatable way to deliver doses of quinine (found in the cinchona tree) to French Foreign Legionnaires in North Africa in order to fight malaria. But writing in the book Just the Tonic, authors Kim Walker and Mark Nesbitt speculate that it's more likely that he was simply in search for a medicinal tonic in general, not specifically anti-malarial. Either way, in 1846 he came up with the perfect concoction: a blend of fortified wine, herbs, spices, and just the right amount of quinine. Read the stories of six other alcoholic drinks and the real people behind them at Mental Floss.

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