Herd of Indricotheria Captured

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Cerro Gordo, California (Strutts News Services)

Long believed to be extinct, a small herd of female Indricotheria was discovered Thursday by two amateur Porphyrophobic scientists at a local watering hole.

Ms. Tooncie Crumbler of the Cerro Gordo Oceanic Institute described the find as “…something so incredibly awesome! We saw them in their natural habitat before we corralled them. They were so docile.”

“They had the distinct odor of unglazed, unfired pottery, and showed pink scars where they had been injured from fighting for dominance,” added Mr. Lannie Foosers, Ms. Crumbler’s assistant and mentor. “We found no males in the herd, but they must be around somewhere.”

The herd, eleven in all including one juvenile, was transported without incident to the Inyo County Fairgrounds, where they will be fed and sheltered until their rightful owners show up to claim them.

[Original photo source lost. Mrs. Strutts says it’s prolly behind the couch, mixed in with the cat stuff.]

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Saturday Matinee: LEON!

The music of the late 1970’s was terrible. FM radiowaves were flooded with over-produced theater/stage rock (Yes, ELP, ELO); annoying pre-packaged disco (Chic, Bee Gees, Donna Summer); run-of-the-mill commercial rock (Bob Seeger, the Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd); and New Wave/Punk (Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, the Ramones).

Okay, I’m not denying that I liked that last category. At least it was different.

But right in the middle of all this garbage was the shining star known as Leon Redbone. He came out of nowhere, playing acoustic guitar versions of 1920’s and ’30’s songs while remaining a mystery to his fans. (Some wags speculated that he was really Frank Zappa, undercover.) When I heard Mr. Redbone’s version of “Sheik of Araby” I was hooked.

Here’s Mr. Redbone with three songs, back-to-back, from about 1977.

Mr. Redbone, you are invited to Bunk’s house for mint juleps and peach cobbler any time.

TGIF: The .gif Friday Post 7

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Alfred Hitchcock deleted this first take of “the shower scene” from his masterpiece “PSYCHO.” Why? I dunno, Babs, but I do know this. Hitchcock almost always had a cameo role in his movies. In this scene, his makeup was amazing.

Bloody Mushrooms with Teeth

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The Blood-Tooth Mushroom

“The young fruitbody is spongy and characteristically exudes droplets of red fluid. Later the fruitbody becomes tougher and teeth develop on the underside.”

That appears to be a good description of some members of congress, especially the part about developing teeth on the underside. Ugh. I wouldn’t lick it.

BUT if I did I’d prolly run for Senator… and win. My soul would be gone forever, and I’d be sitting on dentures in my old age and talking out my posterior, just like most Senators. Gives me the willies.

[Photo via Miniature Brain, description from here.]

Iggy & the Rolling Stooges

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“Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself, Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!”

I bet Keith Richards is rolling over in his bed right now.

[Photo manipulation buried somewhere in the catacombs of the always amazing Worth 1000 photoshop contests.]

It Jumps, You Die

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It’s stealthy. It’s got a taser. You won’t hear it until it’s too late. You might innocuously assume that it’s the office cat, and the next thing you know you’re twitching uncontrollably on the floor and your computer screen displays the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH. Welcome to the world of hand-to-hand cyber combat.

Folks, I honestly don’t know what this is all about, but you can find a video of it in action at NoPuedoCreer. I’m carrying insulated tin snips and a thermos full of saltwater from now on just in case.

Um, Nice Stained Glass?

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Ah, it’s just wrong. Horrible and funny at the same time. Bunk just had to post it.

Alpaca the Awesome found this horrible and funny thing and posted it on his new website.

Saturday Matinee: Reverse Graffiti

No vandalism here. Brazilian artist legally cleans grime for his images. The ending is a goddam shame.

[Video found at Neatorama.]

TGIF: The .gif Friday Post 6

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Pessimism. Optimism. Repeat.

Scousers?

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While on a lunchbreak sojourn researching modern Japanese anthropology today, I found this photo on Gaijin Tonic. Apparently the picture is a group of Scouser-mocking Mancs at a match. As a Yank, I had to look up Scouser in the Urban Dictionary, where I found definition No.24 of 40 very helpful:

i hate the way wools go on about scousers it really annoys me. If half of the stupid greasy heded gelled haired scals actually got their facts right then they would realise that 70% of the crime rate is actually in manchester/ warrington areas an not in liverpool! so the next time a wool calls u a scal or ses “go an rob a car” tell them to f*** off an go an wash there greasy permed haired an to go an get it dyed agen cos the roots are down to their a**! Wools wear baggy jeans an footy shirts wich just dont go an big sketcher trainers with big chunky light up heals on the bottom also last years fashion coats with there hair gelled bak so it wont move out of place for two centurys an have light blue eyeshadow on with big hop earings an two dangly peaces of hair down the side of their face an not forgetting the famous “hoodies” wich luk an absoloute show an jus luk scruffy so all u wools can f** off hu skit scousers an am sure thereare sum wools hu are nice in fact i no there are wools hu r nice but scousers are nice too so dont f**ing forget it!!!nobs

wool: “haha say funky chicken haha hehe”
Scouser: er no go an wash ye hair ye scruff.

 

Hope that clears it up as much for my fellow U.S. readers as it did for me. As for you Scousers, Mancs and Wools: Knot bin shirty, no skit, jes havn a giraffe. ‘Sall tickety boo wit Bunk. (Where can I get “footy shirts wich just don’t go?” That description alone hooks me.)