Nigel Cockerton’s Contribution To The World – Vodkahead

Nigel Cockerton received a Master’s in Forensic and Medical Art from the University of Dundee, Scotland, and has also trained and worked with FBI officials in the U.S.

One day Cockerton decided to perform some forensic facial reconstruction on  a bottle of Crystal Head Vodka.

The skull-shaped bottle is based on 13 crystal heads that have been found in various regions around the world – from the American southwest to Tibet. The heads – believed to be between 5,000 and 35,000-years-old – are thought to offer spiritual power and enlightenment to those who possess them.

Mr Cockerton said the skull he reconstructed was a European female aged between 21 and 30 – although without the real fragments of teeth, he was not able to be more precise.

[Found here, more here.]

Carminative Hot Links

Drop That Sack, Papa Charlie Jackson (1925)Papa Charlie Jackson (1887-1938) provided a bridge between ragtime and blues, and has the distinction of being one of the creators of “Hokum” – songs filled with sexual euphemisms and innuendo (Drop That Sack is one). Among his 66 recordings are several in which he accompanied classic female blues singers, such as Ma Rainey, Ida Cox and Hattie McDaniel (yes, THAT Hattie McDaniel).

Hong Kong at night.

20 mule team photos.

The Professor of Logic.

That was a close one, bro.

The chronology of Crayola colors.

Making forgery difficult in Russia.

Surf, Tiki & Luau Music That Doesn’t Suck.

Flight 25 is pure awesome space surf lounge rock.

Showers expected August 10th through the 13th.

Disneyworld adds animatronic POTUS. (Video here.)

These unnecessary abusive experiments should piss you off.

What do you teach?” he asked. “English,” I offered. “You don’t teach English,” he corrected me. “You teach White Studies.”
Worth the read [via].

[Top image:  I lost the source and don’t know the location. A Tineye search is a little help; the earliest online appearance is ca. 2013.]

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Saturday Matinee – Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, Jerry Jeff Walker & The Stones

Kitty, Daisy and Lewis Durham are a quirky group of siblings from London who play a mix of R&B, blues, soul, punk, rock and roll, and West Indian music. This one sounds a bit swampy to my ear, and their version of Polly Put Your Kettle On is a good ‘un. More about them here.

Jerry Jeff Walker (1942-2020) in Austin, Texas, 2014. He had a successful run in the 1970s and never stopped having fun. (Anyone who can write a song about relieving yourself in the breeze has my vote.)

This obscure band from the UK has great potential, but damn are they ugly. Cool song, though.

That’s it for now, see you tomorrow, a/c or not.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 692 – Little Windy Dude, The Chase Scene & Fishbush

[Top .gif found here. 2nd created from this video; 3rd created from this (h/t Paul Y).]

The Bivuoac.

The word bivouac is French and ultimately derives from an 18th-century Swiss German usage of Beiwacht (bei by, Wacht watch or patrol).

[Found here. More capybara stuff here.]

Buy a bug or shoot the mule. Your choice.

   Three years back, the Hinsleys of Dora, Missouri, had a tough decision to make.
   To buy a new mule.
   Or invest in a used bug.
   They weighed the two possibilities.
First there was the problem of the bitter Ozark winters. Tough on a warm-blooded mule. Not so tough on an air-cooled VW.
   Then, what about the eating habits of the two contenders? Hay vs. gasoline.
   As Mr. Hinsley puts it: “I get over eighty miles out of a dollar’s worth of gas and I get where I want to go a lot quicker.”
   Then there’s the road leading to their cabin. Many a mule pulling a wagon and many a conventional automobile has spent many an hour stuck in the mud.
   As for shelter, a mule needs a barn. A bug doesn’t. “It just sets out there all day and the paint job looks near as good as the day we got it.”
   Finally, there was maintenance to think about. When a mule breaks down, there’s only one thing to do: Shoot it.
  But if and when their bug breaks down, the Hinsleys have a Volkswagen dealer only two gallons away.

[Genuine VW ad found here.]

IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 14 YEARS OF STUFF!

Tacky Raccoons Be Crawlin' 300

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 2021 – 14th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 5,466 posts in our archives, 9.4K comments and over 2.6M 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 2021).

“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/393 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 627 – Ms. Iron Pants, Beer Bobbles & Diving Miss Ditzy

No. 10/NR/380 – Doktorskaya kolbasa

No. 9/NR/397 – R.I.P. Erdélyi Tamás, aka Tommy Ramone

No. 8/NR/44 – Kluck Klams – The Ghost of Walt Kelly Speaks

No. 7/11/411 – Open Your Mouth, Stick Out Your Tongue and Say, “Hot Links.”

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No. 6/4/26 – Beads, Beer, Boobs & Blues = Heureux Mardi Gras!

No. 5/NR/267 – Swiss Fish Ladder

No. 4/NR/46 – Tweety Bird Dead at 67

No. 3/NR/NR – Pelicans Trying To Eat Other Animals

No. 2/1/35 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil

And the Number One Post for the past 12 months is:

I found a button hole.

Posted on 23 November 2020, this wins with a score of 1/NR/54. Another surprise dark horse entry, it made 1st Place in a mere eight months. Amazing.
All but three dropped off the list from last year.

Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.

Bunk

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Astroturfing the ‘Rona

this is disgusting. masks and

My brother has just tested

It happened. Just tested positive

I just left the ER.

Casting Company COVID Cattle Call

Project Details

Filming yourself from home as if you’re making multiple tik toks about covid conspiracy theories. A script will be provided and you will be required to make short 5 video clips but filming yourself in selfie mode. Each clip you will be required to be in a different location in different clothing. The locations can just be different parts of your house or outside it’s up to you.

The aim is to make this as believable as possible, as if you are a tik tok doctor. The filming/lighting/sound doesn’t have to be perfect, filming on your phone is perfectly fine. After you’ve finished the videos, you can WhatsApp them to me. The fee is ₤100.

The videos will then be posted on the facebook page “it’s gone viral”

$139 per whore.

Night Crossing

[Found in here.]

Vulpecular Hot Links

Shine, Stéphane Grappelli (1990)“The grandfather of jazz violinists,” Stéphane Grappelli (1908-1997) continued playing concerts around the world well into his eighties. The jazz standard Shine dates to 1910, and the lyrics are about racism.

Ella’s Shine.

Turtle twerks.

Buenas noches…

August is John Lee Hooker Month.

What you want and when you want it?

Filter lets you see yourself without glasses.

Robert Wardlow compared to Shaquille O’Neill.

Earliest known audio of ZZ Top. [R.I.P. Dusty Hill.]

@WorldBollard has 28.2K followers on Twitter. It’s about bollards.

Create a Circle Infographic of who you (or anyone else) have most interactions with on Twitter.

Saboteur who destroyed the warship USS Bonhomme Richard has been arrested. (I posted the link on Facebook with a two-word comment. “Hang him.” That earned me a 3-day suspension for hate speech or something.)

[Top image: “Each Finger Pointed Towards The Open Way In Front” – Illustration by John Augustus Knapp, from John Uri Lloyd’s Etidorhpa (1895). “Etidorhpa” is the backward spelling of the name “Aphrodite.”]

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