A colourful birthday party for a bird lover

Happy birthday, View. I know you love all creatures, but birds make for a very pretty post! All the best to you and your friends, furry or feathered. Let's start with the inevitable pun, shall we?

Patrick from Politicalgates is also celebrating his birthday and I'm remembering my dad, who would have been 93 today...

Today we're all Irish!

 I think you'll be delighted to hear what this enthusiastic Irish guy has to say:

Epic girls night out

View sent us this joke. Thanks for the laugh, View!

Two women friends had gone for a girls' night out. 
Both were very faithful and loving wives, however 
they had gotten over-enthusiastic with the Bacardi 
Breezers. 

 

Incredibly drunk and walking home they needed to 
pee, so they stopped in the cemetery. 

 

One of them had nothing to wipe with so she thought 
she would take off her panties and use them. 

 

Her friend however was wearing a rather expensive 
pair of panties and did not want to ruin them. 

 

She was lucky enough to squat down next to a grave 
That had a wreath with a ribbon on it, so she 
proceeded to wipe with that. 

 

After the girls did their business, they proceeded to 
go home. 

 

The next day, the husband of one of the women was concerned that his normally sweet and innocent wife was still in bed hung over, 
so he phoned the other husband and said: 

"These girl nights out have got to stop! I'm starting to suspect the worst. My wife came home with no panties!!" 

 

"That's nothing," said the other husband, 
"Mine came back with a card stuck to her ass that 
said..... 

 

'From all of us at the Fire Station. 
We'll never forget you.' " 

What an incredibly interesting man!

Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen (February 2, 1886 – September 2, 1957) was a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist. He stood at 6'7" as an adult.

Freuchen was born in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. He married three times. First, in 1911, to Navarana Mequpaluk, an Inuit woman who died in 1921 during the Spanish Flu epidemic after bearing two children, a boy named Mequsaq Avataq Igimaqssusuktoranguapaluk and a girl named Pipaluk Jette Tukuminguaq Kasaluk Palika Hager. His second marriage, in 1924, to Magdalene Vang Laurieston, was dissolved in 1944. Lastly, in 1945, he married Dagmar Cohn. 

Freuchen's grandson, Peter Freuchen Ittinuar, was the first Inuk in Canada to be elected as an MP, and represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1984.

Peter Freuchen spent many years in Thule, Greenland, living with the Polar Inuit. He worked with Knud Rasmussen, crossing the Greenland icecap with him. In 1910, Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen established the Thule Trading Station, the most northerly trading post in the world.

Freuchen's first wife, Mekupaluk, who took the name Navarana, accompanied him on several expeditions. When she died he wanted her buried in the old church graveyard in Upernavik. The church refused to perform the burial, because Navarana was not baptized, so Freuchen buried her himself. Knud Rasmussen later used the name Navarana for the lead role in the movie "Palos Brudafærd" which was filmed in East Greenland in 1933. Freuchen strongly criticized the Christian church which sent missionaries among the Inuit without understanding their culture and traditions.

Freuchen lost a leg to frostbite in 1926, but that didn't stop him being actively involved in the Danish Resistance Movement during World War II. He was imprisoned by the Germans, and was sentenced to death, but he managed to escape and flee to Sweden.

Freuchen with his second wife, Magdalene:

In 1945 Freuchen moved to New York City and married his third wife, Dagmar Cohn. Dagmar was a fashion illustrator who worked with Vogue.

In 1956, he won the top prize on The $64,000 Question, the American TV quiz show, on the subject "The Seven Seas".

Freuchen died of a heart attack in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1957, at the age of 71, 3 days after completing his final book. His ashes were scattered over Thule, Greenland.

Little people in a big world

I'm late today! Some of you took a leap forward into summer, but I'm still behind. Our clocks will go forward at the end of the month... Enjoy these little gems, by Tatsuya Tanaka: