The red crab is by far the most obvious of the 14 species of land crabs on Christmas Island. Every year over 150 million red crabs move from inland shelters to the shore for their annual breeding season. This occurs at the beginning of the wet season (usually October/November).
That synchronized QuadriCombo of .gifs makes for a stand-alone post here, and it’s true that some crabs suddenly materialize while others disappear into vapors. More info at this awesome site – “Colors of Fauna.”
I can make a pretty good rabbit, donkey, swan and an elephant, but those three are professionals.
Yeah, I know, so don’t bother. XD
[Found here.]
Update: Greetings to all you folks who came here from Gentlemint. Have a look around, just leave some breadcrumbs so you can find your way back out again. Tip o’ the tarboosh to Pets Lady for the links, and both sites have been added to our blogroll.
Never saw this one before now. There’s a lot of subtlety and stuff hidden in there if you look at it a bit, and squinting helps.
[Found here.]
So what if it’s a clandestine advert, it’s cool. I recobanized 95% until he got into No. 66 or so, but I got more than I expected after that. Now let’s talk about some serious pickin’.
That’s Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, playing in a cave in Cumberland Kentucky in 2010. “Salty Dog Blues” is a traditional song with traditional innuendo that dates to the early 1900s.
Imported from the UK ( and elsewhere):
Clogging is the official state dance of Kentucky and North Carolina and was the social dance in the Appalachian Mountains as early as the 18th century. [Wiki]
The Banjo Boy scene from Deliverance shows a local clogging at about 02:50 [link]. Although the movie was entertaining, it promoted the false and insulting stereotype of southerners as a bunch of inbred ignorant hicks.
Speaking of hicks, here’s one of the better ones.
Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks with “Milk Shakin’ Mama” from the Flip Wilson Show 1972.
And with that, we’re out of here until tomorrow. Have a great weekend, folks.
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A few years ago we posted that image in puzzlement, and we’re still mystified why a young guy in a skirt and a headband is so pissed at an older man that he needs a piece of furniture to take him down. I mean, look, it’s not a matchup between David and Goliath here. On the other hand, maybe Skirt Boy is playing a prank on the old man by stealing his chair right before grampa is about to sit down, but there’s no need to grab it by the leg.
More likely, the strong young man is going to aid his father and hurl the chair at someone or something out of the frame, like this:
That’s my best guess, Occam’s Razor and all.
