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skatesonaplane:

ABC Casting writes, “Do you have the charm, style, class and culture to be our next star?”

Since he’s not one to fill out paper work, I took the liberty of compiling our captain’s application to be on The Bachelor.

Name: Mark Thomas Streit

Age: 34

Height: 6’0 (ish)

Weight: 193

Profession: National Hockey League Player

Company: New York Islanders

Salary: More than enough to wine and dine a fleet of attractive actresses

What characteristics make you the ideal candidate to be ABC’s next Bachelor?

 1. Ample experience in front of a camera

2. Looks good in a tux

3. Good with Kids

4. Experience climbing the corporate ladder

5. Can grow a fine mustache

6. Caring, Giving, Charitable

7. Highly Marketable

Also, he speaks like, five languages - fluently! So he has the whole “international man of mystery” thing going for him.

Your move, ABC.

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life:

Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein.

Here’s Ralph Morse’s famous photograph of Albert Einstein’s office — just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it — taken mere hours after Einstein died, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1955.

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Kate Bush - Pi (by mourna)

theniftyfifties:

Cary Grant and Grace Kelly

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I’ve got to give it to my boy Jesse, he makes sure to get the good stuff from the road.

skatesonaplane:

If his father is any indication, Jay Pandolfo should have another decade of hockey in him.

The elder Pandolfo ran the stairs in 19.23 seconds.

He wasn’t even breathing hard afterwards - just trotted back down the stairs and asked (in his thick Boston accent) “How long do you think it took Rocky?”

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Oh good, I won’t be in the minority any more!

npr:


Marriage — it’s so last century. A new report out on Wednesday  finds  the share of all U.S. adults who are married has dropped to its  lowest  on record, at just 51 percent. If the trend continues, the  institution  will soon lose its majority status in American life.
(via When It Comes To Marriage, Many More Say ‘I Don’t’)
Graphic credit: Nelson Hsu/NPR
Graphic source: Pew Research Center analysis of Decennial Census and American Community Survey Data

Oh good, I won’t be in the minority any more!

npr:

Marriage — it’s so last century. A new report out on Wednesday finds the share of all U.S. adults who are married has dropped to its lowest on record, at just 51 percent. If the trend continues, the institution will soon lose its majority status in American life.

(via When It Comes To Marriage, Many More Say ‘I Don’t’)

Graphic credit: Nelson Hsu/NPR

Graphic source: Pew Research Center analysis of Decennial Census and American Community Survey Data

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