smart & curious
It’s not a nightie: It’s a ‘house dress’, and Amreeki folks are buying them for hundreds of dollars. Also called in one case: ‘Nap Dress’. All Indian aunties are cackling with glee.
It’s not just a poster: It’s an artistic ode to New York’s ‘111 Days of Hell’, which was proudly unveiled by Governor Andrew Cuomo. And it features Donald Trump sitting on the moon, and something called a ‘Boyfriend Point’.
It’s not a shooting star: It’s a comet called NEOWISE and it is currently visible to the naked eye—an event that won’t happen for another 6,800 years. That’s a photo of it over the Stonehenge. More photos are here, and the International Space Station footage is here.
It’s not a cake: No, wait everything is cake. Yes, the biggest craze on the internet is to cut into all sorts of things—a hand, a potted plant, a rat—for the big reveal, i.e. (fake) cake! Best example below. More of the same here. Funny backlash here.