Does anyone know the story about the 'Tar Baby'?
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The Tar-Baby was a doll made of tar and turpentine, used to entrap Bre'r Rabbit in the second of the Uncle Remus stories. The more that Bre'r Rabbit fought the Tar-Baby, trying to get free, the more stuck he got.\nThus, a "tar baby" is metaphorically any "sticky situation"[1] that is only aggravated by efforts to solve it.\nOver the years, the term has also acquired a negative connotation as a derogatory term for African Americans.\n\n"Tar Baby" is also a song on the Promise (album) album by Sade.\nThe "Tar Baby" story derives from west African myths involving Anansi
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oh my god, I watched that show faithfully during my pregnancy, I liked that nasty girl that was pregnant with the cute guys baby.( I forgot all their names) Anyway, when the baby was born they did a dna test and the drama started with the blonde headed chic and her mom..................and I kinda like the crazy old witch lady with the baby!!! Then they all got kidnapped by the old rich man and he made that lady sleep with him............sooo much drama, its old news though, 3 years ago is when all this happened.the baby on the show is probably 15 by now!!!!
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In a typical tar-and-feathers attack, the object of a crowd's anger would be stripped to the waist (if not below). Hot tar was either poured or painted onto the person while he (rarely she) was immobilized. Then the victim either had feathers thrown on him or was rolled around on a pile of feathers so that they stuck to the sticky tar. Often the victim was then paraded around town on a cart or a rail. The feathers would stick to the tar for days, making the person's sentence clear to the public. The aim was to hurt and humiliate a person enough to leave town and cause no more mischief.
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how sick is that then eh...news clip for you\n\nman is in hospital with severe internal injuries after trying to launch a powerful firework rocket from his backside. \n\nSafety campaigners say they have never come across such a bizarre incident but it is thought the man, 22, could have been copying a scene from the controversial film Jackass: The Movie which shows a similar prank. \n\nThe incident in Sunderland was captured by a gang of youths and the fuzzy mobile phone footage shows a blinding white flash followed by hysterical laughter. \n\n\nA spokeswoman for the North East Ambulance Service said: "We received a call stating there was a male who had a firework in his bottom and it was bleeding. \n"He was attended to and taken to Sunderland Royal Hospital." \n\nThe victim is recovering at Sunderland Royal Hospital after sustaining horrific internal injuries including a scorched colon. \n\nSafety experts on Thursday warned that misusing the explosives in such a senseless way can have serious consequences. \n\nPolice and paramedics were called to the Dame Dorothy Street area of Monkwearmouth, in Sunderland, after reports of the stunt. \n\nThe prank, involving a Black Cat Thunderbolt Rocket, has left safety officers bemused. \n\nA spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) said: "It's so unfortunate that someone is now paying the price for the misuse of fireworks. Let's not forget these are explosives. They come with specific instructions about how they should be used."
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what?!  Is there a weblink you could attach to confirm that story.
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You have got to be joking right?? If your serious...I have not heard about this...I will be doing a massive search here shortly, if I find anything will let you know, hopefully it's just an urban legend.
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No, it is yet another urban legend nicely disclaimed by Snopes.com, in my opinion the best site on the net to debunk such things.  Check out the details:
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try this link:http://www.kxtv.com/storyfull.asp?id=11602
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I was watching the History Channel one day and they were doing a show about Poe.  I recall that they said he did some children’s stories that were not very well know.  \n\nThis is a great link if you’re a Poe fan.  \n\nEnjoy!\n\nhttp://www.pambytes.com/poe/poe.html
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You have heard of the New Jersey Devils Hockey Team right? Well what few people outside of the state of NJ know is that the name of the team is based on an old myth some 200 or so years ago. Something about the deformed then abandoned 13th child of some preacher's wife in Southern New Jersey. He was cursed and became this horrible devil-like creature that haunts the Pine Barrens of South Jersey to this day. \nThis link can probably shed more light on the subject than I could. \nhttp://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm
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I don't have a picture & I've never seen the thing in question but Baby isn't his stepfather. He has been in Wayne's life since he was a kid and he just looked up to him like a father figure (which was very obvious when Wayne got not just Baby's name but Baby's brother Slim's name tatted on him) then they started running with the whole father & son thing a couple of years ago with all the Birdman & Birdman Jr. stuff.
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Near the end of the 18th century, a man by the name of John MacAdam first invented the method of "macadamizing" pavement by adding a layer of crushed gravel to surface a road. However, over time the gravel tended to grind and disintegrate. While it was fine for carriages and horses, newly invented motor cars would turn up huge dust clouds and send rocks flying from beneath their wheels.\n\nThen, as luck would have it, British businessman E. Purnell Hooley was passing a tarworks factory in 1901, when he reportedly noticed a barrel of tar had spilled over the macadamized roadway. Someone had dumped gravel on the tar to cover it, and in traveling over this section of road, Hooley observed there was far less dust.\n\nBased on this discovery, Hooley set out to make his own pavement mixture and launched a company to sell it. The company was Tar Macadam, and after changing hands in 1905, "Tarmac" became a huge success. \n\nTarmac is a registered trademark, yet has become a widely used term to describe any kind of paved road. Many people use the term to refer to an airplane runway, due to the fact that Tarmac was used extensively to construct runways during World War II. To this day, any large paved area at an airport is commonly referred to as a tarmac, whether it was paved with Tarmac or not.\n\nAmericans use the term "blacktop" to refer to tarmac, due to its color; though they use the term "tarmac" sparingly, and usually in reference to an airport runway. Brits, however, still commonly use the term to refer to any paved road or surface.\n\nToday, tarless asphalt mixtures have largely replaced Tarmac, though many roads, airport aprons, and runways are still referred to as "tarmacs."\n\nIt's the tar base!
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Oracle Bones!! Really a very interesting story. Check out the link below (with pictures):
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Yes, I saw it on one of Robert Winston's documentaries ---\n\ncheck it out on BBC site (UK)\n\nIt was really interesting
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Duh????\n\nRead the title, you'll find the answer, or better yet read the story...
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poor fella! nobody's answered. there is a story, a complicated one for that matter. it ties into the bag-on-line adventures, a couple comic books written by singer claudio sanchez that are quite sci-fi in nature. umm... hit up the coheedandcambria.com links and see if you get some more in depth info. hope that helps and be prepared to be mindboggled :P
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You can make some research on the legend in Mexico.\n\nWe do have stories of "duendes" who are like little babies with big tooth, and the real scary factor of this, is that you can guess it's a little baby in a cradle, and only at the moment you get very close they shows their teeth. \nThey are playful like little kids, and hide thinks at your home, change the babies from the place you let him, things like that.\n\nI'll send you some legends i found at the web, but it's in spanish. If i find something in english i'll add the link.\n\nhttp://www.sanluisdelapaz.com/cmsystem/index.php?categoryid=6