The .Gif Friday Post No. 953 – Tossing the Batweights, Lava Lamp HQ & Beat on the Brain Cushion

[Found here, here and here.]

BIRD

Greater Adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius)
This enormous prehistoric-looking stork grows to five feet tall with an eight foot wingspan and eats small unsupervised children. It is considered an endangered species and is called an adjutant because it walks funny.

[Image found here.]

Just Cut It Out

Circa 1955, an original box goes for upwards of $200 on auction sites (like this one). Top images found here.

Laundry Day for Bluto

[Found here.]

Lendrumbilated Hot Links

Sam’s Pizza and Hamburgers, a San Francisco landmark (1974)

A Hand Fulla Gimme, Dizzy Gillespie Sextet feat. Alice Roberts (1946)Alto Saxophone – Sonny Stitt
Bass – Ray Brown
Drums – Kenny Clark
Piano – Al Haig
Vibraphone – Milt Jackson
Trumpet & Writer- Dizzy Gillespie
A brief search of the internet provided no info on vocalist Alice Roberts.

Strategy.

Postcards.

Godzillita.

Impromptu.

Quiet pizza.

NYC whizzers.

Don’t tell Dad.

Lawnchair Larry.

Perth is different.

Her brother’s edits.

It’s a Kuppenheimer.

Pawpaw’s best shot.

Thiess of Kaltenbrun.

A wild and crazy time.

Rooftop Koreans rock.

Melbourne miscellany.

A downside of teamwork.

Little robot gets the blues.

Swivel-O-Matic Astronauts.

Saved by karma [via Thompson, blog].

The Bouali System [via Memo Of The Air].

Greek Revival subway vent [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image: Sam’s Pizza via Dancing Wombat.]


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The .Gif Friday Post No. 952 – Shake Shake, Stair Runner & Little Ventilator

[Found here, here and here.]

Lake Street

[Image of the Houston Tax Day Flood, 17 April 2016, found here.]

Toy Collections

USA, Austria, China & Ukraine, click to enlarge.
Found here, here, here and here.]

Nothing Much Happened Today.

Bosch Parade, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 2019. Ben Niehuis photographer.

[Found here, via Memo Of The Air.]

Blesiloquent Hot Links

ASKO Beer, 50 Country Artists (2025) Compilation lifted from There I Ruined It: “I made a song entirely from 50 country artists singing ‘cold beer.'” [Related song here.]

Bicycle.

AI or Die.

Read fast.

Sound UP.

Squeezins.

Carol Lang.

Hidden art.

Altar attack.

Buying Fats.

Self-defense.

Invisible scars.

US Pipe Factory.

Because internet.

Stop interrupting.

Project Nightengag.

Fact checking Robin.

Amy Stewart’s glass.

Painting the windows.

Tom Waits as a blender.

Jackie Chan’s elephant.

Student loans vs results.

Rik Boa says you look good.

Don’t bring your dog, whitey.

About Industrial Sea-Foam Green.

Jumping Dave [via Everlasting Blört].

How bad was it? [via Thompson, blog].

Now they must cryCry, cry, cry.
But why do they cry? [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: 7-pack of ASKO Beer created by Grok per my request.]


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