Actually the highest priced banjo on eBay is currently going for $24,900. Some vintage 5 strings sell for ca. $75k or more; by my informal estimate your average bluegrass musician spends about $1.5k on their instrument, some more than that. Contrast that with how you can buy a serviceable electric guitar at box stores for $200. I don't know what the typical rocker is spending these days, and indeed some spend tens of thousands on old Fenders and Gibsons, but I'd reckon that bluegrass banjo players are anything but poor.

It's romanticizing them, if you'd call picturing the Neanderthals as brutish carnivores romantic. In similar fashion Jean Auel popularized the theory of a cult based around worship of the cave bear, but it turned out those fossils simply turned out to be from bears who died during hibernation in caves where Homo sapiens neanderthal happened to have inhabited earlier/later.

We need to close the beaches!

There...are...four....minifigs!

Feh. I'll take you down with tow cables fired from my Bagger 288.

SFW: Rule 34 in action.

No no no, it's a typo for "meteors," and "Phillip J" at Yahoo says the mean of meteors is about the size of a grain of sand, so grain of sand x 50. Pretty small. I think.

Maybe the submitter just displays complex/rippled grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

Cobain actually varied the spelling of his name off and on to mess with people, "Curt" is found in some autographs.

"Mike Cameron, brother to James, is a super-smart aerospace engineer. He came up with a way to film at 12,600 feet underwater, and JPL wants to use the technology to explore one of the moons of Jupiter."

Oh great, haven't they read the memo about attempting no landings there? Now those aliens are going to get all monolith on our asses.

"swan-upping
The annual practice of catching the swans on the River Thames and marking them to indicate their ownership."

Thought that was perhaps akin to cow tipping at first...

Having Ted back, that would be awesome. "The Internet isn't a truck, it's a series of
BRAIIIIINNNNNNSSSSSS!"

Well, a person from Alaska controlled my mind for a while back in 2008, not that I was swayed over to her cause. But it was definitely on my mind for months at a stretch. "You've got to be kidding. From a helicopter?"

Ozzy's longevity you can chalk up to his Neanderthal lineage.

As for why the Empire subsequently declined, here's a handy list: 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire. No concrete in there, the Republic being brought to an end by overzealous monument building would be covered by "Hubris" though, I suppose.

I've been using the same 16GB iPod Nano for 4 years now. There are aspects of the UI I'd change perhaps but it just refuses to quit.