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Cloud City, here we come!

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With Saturday’s very welcome thaw in Toronto came fog — a lot of fog. The end result was this view from 14,000 feet: clouds above, fog below, and in between, a thin sliver of visible ground.

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Making a better driver’s licence photo

There’s an unwritten rule that the photos on driver’s licences and other forms of ID are meant to be unflattering, so why go only halfway?

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“Downton Abbey” pickup lines

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What we calling “picking up” in North America, they call “pulling” in the UK, but no matter what you call it, there’s nothing like getting your game on Downton Abbey style!

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For more, take a look at 10 Downton Abbey Pick-Up Lines That Would Surely Get You Laid (Following The Proper Period of Courtship, Of Course).

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Odd photo of the day #2: “Come on, little pony — this is no place for you!”

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I have no idea what’s going on in this photo.

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Odd photo of the day #1: “I’ve been expecting you, Mr. Tree!”

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Every now and again, I have a day that starts like this.

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Meanwhile, in Australia…

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This is what I imagine my friend John Bristowe, who moved to Australia (where all the creatures are deadly), has to put up with every morning.

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Racially charged toy packaging

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Found via AcidCow. Click to see the source.

The placement of the boxes doesn’t help. In case you were thinking that the labels were Photoshopped, allow me to show you the images from the Walmart.com pages for the two kiddie cars shown above. Here’s the SRT Viper…

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Image from Walmart.com. Click to see the source.

…and here’s the police cruiser…

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Image from Walmart.com. Click to see the source.

On the other hand, the Fisher-Price toy Escalade looks like the racial harmony kiddie car:

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Image from Walmart.com. Click to see the source.