At the :50 mark, Chicken Glasses. If chickens see blood they go crazy so they made little red lensed glasses.
When I was visiting a sister in South Carolina we toured a plantation. One of the chickens grabbed a hen’s egg and ran off with it, only to have the flock pursue. This did not end well for the egg. Natural selection is harsh.
This title was inspired by the name for a dish of chicken and fried eggs at a Chinese restaurant.
Just checked TED-Ed and found that there are squid that fly.
Here in the Philippines, cock-fighting is on cable. It’s unusual for an event to last more than 5-6 seconds.
You can see how insignificant humanity (by weight) is compared to other living things on Earth. Insects outweigh us by a factor of 17. Scientists weighed all life on Earth. It’s mind-boggling. - Vox
Kevin Kline and Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul) both attended Indiana University in Bloomington at the same time.
I can’t help imagining two guys facing off at each other with their pants round their ankles
I finished school in Melbourne in the 80s and have called them snot blocks all my life, I still see them sold as “vanilla slices” all over, no mention of custard or French. They may not be snot blocks to kids today but it wasn’t confined to a small moment or group in the 50s by any means.
If you go somewhere posh, you’ll find something fancier, with a fancier name. The 'French" version typically has flaky pastry and more cream.
I believe you’re referring to the mille-feuille. Here in the UK I’d usually call it a ‘cream slice’. Best eaten with a spoon and fork in a deep dish to try and capture cream-splatter. Goodness knows why they sell them in to-go bakeries, unless it’s part of some scheme to coat the ground in large dollops of cream.
A healthcare stock analyst, Kevin DeGeeter, at Oppenheimer graduated from Colgate. 
Well that wouldn’t be a snot block, quite possibly something much filthier but not a snot block 
I checked with my local bakery, they do get orders for snot blocks but mostly from boomers and we almosts
Unless there’s something real different between a snot block and a mille-feuille, it seems an inapt nickname. The cream stuff in a mille-feuille is a lot thicker than the gooiest mucus I’ve ever seen.
Can any of our Aussies readily find a (preferable Aussie) pic of what they think of as a snot block? For Science!
A scene in a book I’m reading takes place at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery where many old-time actors are buried. Apparently Mel Blanc’s tombstone says “That’s All, Folks!” I also learned that Carl Switzer, who played Alfalfa in the old “Our Gang” shorts was also a dog trainer and was shot and killed at age 32 in an argument over a friend’s dog.
Yup
The 1925 and 1959 versions of ‘Ben Hur’ never show Jesus’s face. That was a modification in keeping with the tradition of the earlier staged performances, in which Lew Wallace didn’t like the idea of an actor portraying Jesus, so he was depicted simply as a beam of light. The movie versions did show an actor, you never saw the actor’s face.
So that’s who Paul McCartney was talking about!
I’ll do even better, here’s a recipe with pic for a good old Aussie snot block. Googling “snot block” works as well as “vanilla slice” so the loving term doesn’t seem to be dying out after all. I think it is more a textural than appearance based thing.
Cool. Thanks. Looks yummy. So not the classic mille-feuille treatment for the pastry part, but similar for the custard part.
These are also a pretty standard snooty dessert item around here. Although other than petit four which they aren’t exactly, I’d be hard pressed to come up with the proper name for them.
Galileo took up astronomy at age 45. he died at 77
My first comment included the observation that the picture in Wikipedia didn’t look like a plain Australian Vanilla Slice. Oddly enough, there is now no record that the Wikipedia article ever had a picture: nothing in the history. I find this barely credible: people spent a lot of time making sure that almost every Wikipedia article had a picture, and I suspect a global cleansing or duplicate article deletion. But it’s possible that I was looking at some other Wikipedia or clone.