Hey there Fixers,
Not sure how long this will stay here, but just wanted to give y’all the head’s up. Effective immediately, I am no longer with the Cheezburger Network in any capacity. However, I totally miss you guys. 
If you want to get to know the chick behind Ms. Fix-It better, feel free to find me in any of the following places…
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Favorite Comment: That Guy silver says, “Even crazier yet, the guy’s grandpa is the man in the Dwarf’s (Editor’s Note: Smee) costume!! Amazing!!”
Every year Comic-Con produces some of the best (and worst) cosplay pictures. But this year, Gabe of VideoGum.com took it to a new level by cosplaying as everyone’s favorite character, the Serial Photobomber. Thanks to Video Gum for the following pictures and be sure to check out the whole gallery by clicking here.
Via: The Daily What
Well no wonder they turn on us. We’re turning them into surly short order cooks. Quick, teach it to smoke a cigarette while it flips! – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Les says,“Hal, flip the pancakes.” “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t flip your pancakes.”
Good Tuesday fixers! First of all, I want to say thank you to all of you; whether you’re one of my power users or a casual Fixer; you check in four times a day or once a month. You guys have taken my little site about duct tape and turned it into one of the most popular sites on the Cheezburger Network. TIFI has gone from an unruly infant into a well adjusted adult Internets. So, like every good parent, it’s time to stop wrapping my baby in bubble wrap and threatening my co-workers with stabby death should they dare to touch a unmoderated comment hair without my permission.
Starting tomorrow, the site will fall into the extremely capable hands of Frankie Fix-It. I’ll still be around, hovering in the background like a ghost, OR, if you’ll miss me that much, I’ll be taking care of my new babies over at…
GraphJam
Derp
So Much Pun
and
This Is Photobomb
I really, truly thank you for making me a part of your Internet day.
- Ms. Fix-It aka Donna
Happy Thursday Fixers! I hope my fellow Americans enjoyed their long weekend and have the potato salad gut and raccoon eyes to prove it. In honor of this past weekend’s celebration, I thought today we’d look at one of the “fixes” Jefferson made to the Declaration of Independence.
The above passage might look innocuous, or at the very least like the rough draft of a seventh grade English paper, but with the help of the latest Hyperspectral technology, historians have been able to see what lies beneath dun dun duuun.
In the heady days after deciding King George was being, “totally unfair…he won’t even drop us off at the mall AND he took our cell phones…” (WARNING: American grievances with Britain may have been changed to reflect a more modern audience), Thomas Jefferson penned one of the most famous, “I hate you. You aren’t my REAL father!” letters in history. In fact, he was in such a rush he either momentarily forgot he was no longer a subject, or actively wrote down the wrong word just for the cathartic release of erasing it with the word citizen. Either way, technology now shows that the concept of being a citizen was still gelling in the minds of colonies.
As always, if YOU have an idea for a future Historical Thursday, please email it to me at thereifixedit@gmail.com.
Images courtesy of: Library of Congress and information courtesy of: BoingBoing
Happy Thursday Fixers! Phew, what with all the war talk these last couple weeks, on top of the nigh improbable inevitable doomsday glinting at us from 2012, I thought today we might take a look at how one Canadian by the name of Bruce Beach is making sure humanity survives the nuclear holocaust. Take a look at this swanky fallout entrance.
You see, it all started in 1980 when Beach, a radiological scientific officer, decided that his line of work was going to kill us all. I can only imagine what began as a guilt ridden hobby ended up blossoming into a full on obsession. Over the next thirty years, Beach and his friends and family used 42 decommissioned school buses to form a 10,000 square foot underground city with enough room and supplies to house over 300 people. They then poured thousands of pounds of concrete over it, which had to be kept damp for months in order to set without cracking, and topped it off with fourteen feet of soil.
Beach proudly states that this homemade bunker can withstand anything short of a direct nuclear strike; though if movies have taught us anything, it’s that no one bombs Canada and it’s too cold to sustain zombies. But some of his work is just awe-inspiring in a can’t look away kind of way. For example, after passing through those Dharma-esque doors, inhabitants travel down the conveyor corridor…
…and can visit the men’s washroom…
…the slightly understaffed fire station…
…and the scariest dentist chair I’ve ever seen outside of a horror film.
But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Seriously. Click here to see a detailed plan of the bunker’s interior. Or click here to see an interview he gave to Penn and Teller. (Yes THAT Penn and Teller) Really, there is just too much O_O for me to cover in one post.
All my information and images courtesy of Beach’s Ark II website, which also details his plan for after we emerge from the buses into our very own Fallout universe.
As always, if YOU have an idea for a future Historical Thursday, please email it to me at thereifixedit@gmail.com.
Happy Thursday Fixers! After last week’s post about the lengths the USA went through to stay hidden during WWII, Fixer Gerald M brought to my attention that it was far from the only country with deception up their sleeves. So I thought today we’d continue the theme and look at the works of Jasper Maskelyne.
A third generation magiciain and illusionist, Jasper brought deception and bait and switch to the field of war. Part of the North Africa A Team Force, he adopted the strategy of Hide and Survive. Not the most rousing motto, but it’s hard to keep morale high when you’re dead. The above photograph is the final version of his “dummy tank” project, meant to deter the enemy. Clearly if you have 100 tanks just hanging around outside your base you aren’t worth the human loss sustained from attacking. Below is a photograph of a prototype dummy tank being transported.
However, making the world’s most awesome birthday party balloons was not his only trick. While dummy tanks diverted the enemies attention, the British needed a way to keep the movement and position of their REAL tanks a secret. Enter: the tread eraser.
Of course, just because the enemy can’t find you on the ground, doesn’t mean they won’t take to the air as well. Not to worry, Jasper had that one covered too. He engineered spinning cone mirrors that when placed on the ground would reflect light in a nine mile radius; making it difficult for German aircraft to figure out where best to aim.
Information and images courtesy of MaskelyNeMagic.com and Channel 4.
Do you have an idea for a future Historical Thursday article? Send it to me at thereifixedit@gmail.com.
Happy Thursday Fixers! Yesterday I used Google Earth to find my house and was saddened to see our Internet Overlords have dropped the ball. Not only was my house blurry, but our fence wasn’t even up; meaning Google hadn’t been by in years. For shame. But at least it was there, you know? It’s not like it looked like this:
Really pretty, boring old suburbia right? Not quite. This is actually an aerial photo taken during WWII of the Lockheed Aircraft Plant in Burbank, California. Turns out having the Japanese bomb one of our military installations put the rest of the west coast ill at ease. Lockheed was a large target, so the government enlisted the help of their neighbors at Disney to help design a realistic way to hide in plain sight. What they came up with was nothing short of brilliant. Hand painted tarps were raised to cover 45 buildings spread across 550 acres, giving the illusion nothing here was worth a Japanese fighter pilot’s time. While underneath, THIS was happening:
While the tarps did the job of covering the most noticeable military buildings, other methods were used to make the illusion come together. Chicken wire and feathers dyed green became bushes and trees, factory air ducts were fashioned to look like fire hydrants and workers hung laundry out behind the “cottages” to mimic everyday life.
Information and images courtesy of: Snopes.com and Aviation History
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