Jessie Willcox Smith (American, 1863 – 1935): The great drawing-room was haunted by a tuneful spirit that came and went unseen (c. 1915) (via Sotheby’s)
coworker, giving a science demo on combustion: What do you do if you catch on fire? Stop, drop, aaaaaand-?
small child, with relish: BURN!
Fun statistical fact: Cows are about 300 times more likely to kill you than coyotes.
Minor sidenote to statistical fact: If it was common for people to keep several hundred coyotes on their property and routinely chase them into a corral and handle them, this statistic would be different.
I’ve lived in this apartment for the past three halloweens, and each year I faithfully bought candy and got zero (0) trick-or-treaters. Since I didn’t want to have yet another november 1st with an excess of pointless candy, I didn’t buy any this year, so of COURSE someone just knocked on the door.
Datura stramonium (
Devil’s Snare).
Illustration taken from
‘Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen’by Wilhelm Brandt, Max Gurke, F. E. Kohler, G. Pabst, G. Schellenberg, Max Vogtherr.
Published 1883.
Missouri Botanical Garden.
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A Pretty Taste for Paradox 