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Alfredo sauce spill closes highway | Boing Boing

Interstate 55 in Tennessee was closed to traffic late Tuesday due to an enormous spill of Alfredo sauce. Authorities have no idea how long it will take to clean it up, reports WREG News out of Memphis.

Traffic camera video from the Tennessee Department of Transportation shows a white sauce covering all three northbound lanes of the interstate. Police and fire crews did not confirm what the truck was carrying, but a reporter with Nexstar's WREG that was on the scene confirmed that the truck was carrying jars of alfredo sauce.

Imagine being the poor bastard in that skid-steer shoveling thousands of gallons of curdled Alfredo sauce in the late August Tennessee heat.

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Some sources about the British gay slang of Polari:

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My uncle, before he died, but after I came out to him, wanted me to know our history and what the gay scene in London was like in the 80s and 90s. He taught me a few sentences in Polari in case I ever needed them, and some words are just in my regular lexicon now. I thought it was very sweet that it was important to him that I understand and can recognize words that will protect me and lead me to my community. Thank you for these articles!

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2022 August 15

The Cygnus Wall of Star Formation
Image Credit & Copyright: Johan Bogaerts

Explanation: The North America nebula on the sky can do what the North America continent on Earth cannot – form stars. Specifically, in analogy to the Earth-confined continent, the bright part that appears as Central America and Mexico is actually a hot bed of gas, dust, and newly formed stars known as the Cygnus Wall. The featured image shows the star forming wall lit and eroded by bright young stars, and partly hidden by the dark dust they have created. The part of the North America nebula (NGC 7000) shown spans about 15 light years and lies about 1,500 light years away toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus).

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