… you better have a good reason and know what you’re doing.
If you stupidly decide to mess with a Veteran, understand that Veterans each have at least one can within arm’s reach at all times, and they all know how to use it. Comes with experience.
For everyone else, you can create your own can labels here. Give a can of Whoop-Ass to someone who’s earned it.
Armistice Day, 1918, now referred to as Veterans’ Day. How many of you know what it means? Bonus points if you know why the USA officially joined the fight after years of Wilsonian isolationism. (Hint: Starts with the letter Z.)
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Note that Germany did not surrender; the Armistice was an agreement to stop fighting, not an admission of defeat. Note also that the Armistice created sanctions that were not enforced. Note that in less than twenty years, national socialists controlled Germany. By 1939 they had rebuilt their armies and weaponry and invaded Poland. Note that there were many “dialogues” and appeasements. Note the beginning of WWII.
Has a familiar ring to it… I’m just sayin’.
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As for Veterans’ Day, there is an excellent publication, Military, that should be read by all. It’s not a glossy rewrite of history, but a monthly newsprint pulp, with first-person accounts from WWII, the Cold War, Korea, Viet Nam, Afganistan and Iraq. It contains snippets of world events, past and present, not normally found in the newspapers, let alone TV, Radio, or the internest news services.
Military provides current non-classified information that the popular main-stream media typically overlooks and ignores. Well worth the admission price of $21.00 a year.
www.milmag.com takes you to the subscription page. I have no monetary connections or interests with this publication, aside from being a fan and subscriber.
The publication is proudly conservative and I recommend it highly. Regardless of your political affiliation, it is not insulting to those of differing opinions. Go for it. —Bunk
[Photo from here.]
According to Arbroath, this was Guiness’ most expensive television advertisement to date, costing 10m pounds (about $2.1 million US bucks). Filmed in a village in Argentina, the whole town came out to watch. If our crack webminers can find a link to a “making of” video, we’ll update this post, but it’s more likely we’ll just tip a stout and be done with it.
Totally unrelated to the video above, our crack webminers turned up a video from 1970, from the Flip Wilson Show. This broadcast changed my life… or at least a good part of it.
The band appeared at Woodstock. Yes, that Woodstock, 1969. These guys played alongside Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Crosby Stills & Nash, Mountain, Arlo Guthrie, Country Joe & the Finch, Richie Havens, Carlos Santana, Joni Mitchell, Melanie, Joan B. Depressed, Bobby Bieber and the SlimJims, Brittney Spears, etc.
Bunk was too young to attend Woodstock, but Bunk was allowed to watch TV. This is what Bunky witnessed at his grandparents house and loved it. ShaNaNa was IT.
This was Bunk’s introduction to DooWop. ShaNaNa sent me on a mission to hear the original versions by the Marcels, the Paragons, Dion, Gene Chandler, the Isley Brothers, the Zodiacs, the Del-Vikings, the Chips, the Chords, the Channels, Harvey & the Moonglows, Shep and the Limelights, the Ronnettes, the Shirelles, Leon Redbone, Led Zeppelin, Dread Zeppelin, Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Police, the Ramones, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, the Stray Cats, Frank Zappa, the Aquabats, the Skatalites, Moms Mabley and the Beat Farmers (featuring the late Country Dick Montana)… and not necessarily in that order. Oh, and I forgot the Solid Voidz featuring Big Don P.
Fill in the band(s) I might have missed in the comments section.
I miss days like this.
[Bosley photos courtesy of Bo Weez.]
UPDATE: For anyone considering having a ferret, please do your homework. They have specific needs unrelated to dogs and cats. Here’s a start: www.everythingferret.com/ferret_proofing.htm.
[Update 3 June 2011 – Cleaned up the .jpg images and mushed them into one .png. Lift it if you like, just give credit back. –Bunk]
No puedo ver si el monitor tiene el anuncio de Microsoft Windows “Pantella Azul del Muerte” [“The Blue Screen of Death”] para La Tumba de El Geek Desconocido.
Y’all know what I mean, even with my 8th Grade level Espanol, so don’t give me that.
[Photo via NoPuedoCreer.]
[Update: Okay, it means “Tomb of the Unknown Geek.” You happy now?]
TackyRaccoons was and is an experiment to see if I, Bunk, can keep people entertained with inanity stolen lifted linked with credits to other websites for cheap daily entertainment. I’ll keep it going as long as it’s fun for me.
Our purpose was and is to distract you from your job of actually being productive during the work week, and to keep you entertained on the weekends so that you run out of time to mow the lawn. Our crack team of webminers make sure that you can see stupid funny stuff at the office, at school, at home, and all without penalty if you’re caught, and on a daily basis.
In other words, we can’t give you a day off, but we can give you a coupla minutes.
Comments are always welcome, pro or con. Deep thoughts may be sent to BunkStrutts@verizon.net. I usually respond, unless you’re just too out there. If I don’t respond, you can take that as a compliment.
Thanks gobs for visiting. You made my day.
Bunk
P.S. Not tryin’ to be a ho, but would any of you regulars like TackyRaccoons T-shirts? Lemme know. Okay, I’m bein’ a ho. Offer stands, I just have to work out the logistics.
[Photo with the fingers of another 100,000-views veteran of the internest from here.]
Forget orange juice and Cap’n Crunch for breakfast. From now on it’s eggs and Diet Coke for me. (I hear that sales are down in Iran.)
[Photo via Chiquiworld.]
This kitten, Cornelius, was named after rapper M.C. Escher. It’s a well known fact that cats see in 10 dimensions simultaneously; this one is obviously focused on dimension 3.5, where the force of gravity is 90 degrees from the vertical.
(Oh yeah, it’s cute now. Just wait until that silent-running Prius comes around the corner and kitty becomes eco-art.)
[Photo from Zombie Panda.]
Tacky Raccoons 
