Month: August 2023
“A Tumble-Weed Ball (From A Photograph)”
[Found here.]
Electrical Experimenter Magazine 1918
Bird Dogs
[Found here.]
Carphologic Hot Links
Old Man River, Ronnie Cates and The Travellers (1962) The lead singer sounds familiar, but I could find little more than a discography for this group.
It’s hot [via Bustednuckles].
Harry Rocks and Handfast Point.
Men and women think differently.
“Pumpkin pie gave me the beetus!”
20 ways of Fiddlin’ [via Memo Of The Air].
Soccer coach Marcelo Gallardo has big brass ones.
[h/t Pam M.]
The Nature of Democracy (needs bongos and a flute).
[via Bunkerville]
Babies playing in the womb in 1512AD [via Mme. Jujujive].
Juliane Diller (nee Koepcke) has an amazing story of survival.
[h/t Paul Y.]
[Top image found in here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 16 YEARS OF STUFF!
On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less.
3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2023 – 16th year Blogoversary!
As of this date, there are exactly 6,233 posts in our archives, +10 K comments and over 2.69M referral links that comprise
Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.
We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different.
—>Last Year’s Top 11 Hits linked here<—
The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity (August 2007 – August 2023).
“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”
Click on any image below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!
No. 11 / NR / NR – Staredown on the Pequod
No. 10 / NR / 203 – How To Make Capybara Dumplings
No. 9 / 5 / 36 – Kluck Klams – The Ghost of Walt Kelly Speaks
No. 8 / 11 / 35 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil
No. 7 / NR / 109 – Cliffside Path, China
No. 6 / NR / 83 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever
No. 5 / 2 / 42 – Pelicans Trying to Eat Other Animals
No. 4 / 10 / 134 – Monetary Disfigurement
No. 3 / 4 / 53 – Professional Shadow Puppetry
No. 2 / NR / 96 – St. Pancras Hotel
And the NO. 1 POST for the past year:
The Most Terrifying Bird In The World
Posted on 1 June 2021, this garnered a surprising rank of 1/1/37 – Number One TWO YEARS IN A ROW. AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.
Top 5 Audio posts for past year:
[Note that I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.]
Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.
Bunk
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Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.
Saturday Matinee – The Avalanches, Chain & 12BBB
The Avalanches are, um, different, in a Devo kinda way. According to the Wiki, The band is an exponent of the plunderphonics genre. [h/t Sol L.]
Chain performed their hit single Black ‘n’ Blue on the NWS9 (Adelaide Australia) program Move (1971). Frontman Matt Taylor sounds a lot like Alex Harvey with a dash of Bon Scott and why they didn’t get more exposure in the US is a mystery.
12BBB aka The 12 Bar Blues Band was the winner of the Dutch Blues Foundation Award for Best Dutch Bluesband 2010.
That’s gonna be it for now, as the Utoobage is currently frozen, or maybe it’s just my browser. No idea why, but be back here tomorrow and we’ll do something different – as usual.
[Update: MS360 decided to jump into action without my permission, dropped a bunch of crap on my toolbar, so I disabled it. Then I found it had corrupted FireFox. A reinstall fixed it.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 813 – Meet the Wipers
The First Stock Photo
[Found here.]
More Rat Rods
[All images found at Rat Rods Rule! More rat rods here.]
Tacky Raccoons 