Here are some funny pictures and humor for you hot summer Saturday.
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Random humor for your enjoyment! (for earlier posts, type “random humor” or “humor” into the Search box on my home page)
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Crossovers or mash-ups are mixing two or more concepts or genres, hopefully in an amusing or funny way. For earlier crossover posts, type “crossovers” in the Search box on the home page. Enjoy!
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More random humor for your enjoyment!
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How much deer pee is too much you ask?
By Becky Oskin
How Green
Published June 06, 2013
LiveScience
White-tailed deer congregate under evergreens like northern white cedar for protection from winter weather, creating nitrogen hot spots that change the plant community. (Michigan Technological University)
During Michigan winters, white-tailed deer converge on stands of young hemlocks for protection from winter chill and predators. The same deer return every year to their favorite clumps of the bushy evergreens, called deeryards. The high concentration of deer 
in a small space saturates the soils with nitrogen from pee, according to a study published online in the journal Ecology. While deer pee can be a valuable source of nitrogen, a rare and necessary nutrient for plants, some deeryards are now too rich for the hemlocks to grow.
“Herbivores like deer interact with the ecosystem in two ways. One is by eating plants and the other is by excreting nutrients," said Bryan Murray, an ecologist and doctoral student at Michigan Tech University. "Urine can be a really high nitrogen resource, and hemlock can be out-competed by other species in really high nitrogen environments.”
Slow-growing hemlocks prefer low-nitrogen soil, and the prolific pee results in nitrogen-loving species like sugar maple outgrowing the hemlocks, the researchers found.
Hemlocks are already struggling to recover from logging and other ecosystem changes that reduced their numbers to 1 percent of pre-settlement populations in some parts of Michigan, Murray said. “At the moment, it’s difficult to find hemlock stands where there are saplings in the understory that are going to replace the hemlocks in the overstory when they die,” he told OurAmazingPlanet. The lack of regeneration could be due to a number of issues, but deer overpopulation is a factor, he added.
With the reduced hemlock cover available for deer, the booming white-tailed deer population means more deer crowd into the remaining forest. The researchers found more than 100 deer per square mile in popular deeryards. And young hemlocks have a tough time recovering from the deer nibbling and browsing.
In the eastern United States, an invasive sap-sucking bug called the adelgid is also killing off hemlocks.
“The Upper Midwest represents one of the last strongholds of hemlocks,” Murray said.
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Enjoy these hopefully funny and ironic pictures. (for more irony, type “Irony” into the search block on my home page):
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This was originally a commercial for a beeper. The tag line was about embarrassment. I think I saw this several years ago, but for some reason it came up in conversation the other day. It is only 30 seconds long. Anyway, here is a Youtube link, enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP_hvt9VhiM
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More random humor from my vault of hopefully amusing photos. For more, type “random humor” into the search bar on home page. Enjoy!
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Local Arizona restaurant – Amy’s Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro – Is slated to be on Kitchen Nightmares on TV with Gordon Ramsey. First, if I own a restaurant, why would I want to be on Kitchen Nightmares? Second, the owners are so wacko that even Gordon Ramsey and his crew walked out. The show aired last Friday, basically with them packing up and saying you guys are too psycho to work with. So, what then?
In an epic meltdown, as if the horrible publicity were not already enough, the owners start flaming their own customers in social media. On Facebook, on Yelp, on Reddit… They get more bizarre as they go. It is a great example of what NOT to do EVER when you are in business. If they had offered to have a Yelp night, or FB or Reddit night, they could have invited their haters for a free meal and settled things down. But noooooo…. For a good laugh, read the link below: (warning: their language gets worse as they go.)
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/this-is-the-most-epic-brand-meltdown-on-facebook-ever
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More random humor to get you through hump day. Enjoy!
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Michael Bradley - Time Traveler 