[Found here, here and here. Snake courtesy of Nate L.]
Category: Bizarre
Footballhead
In the 1920’s, Eastern students who wished to be known as something other than “The Maroons” voted for the Leopard as the school mascot. A plan to purchase a leopard from the Memphis, Tennessee zoo came to nothing and the students remained Maroons.
In 1963 President Robert Martin established the Colonel as the mascot, who continues in that capacity to the present day. The original Colonel design was by Louisville Courier-Journal editorial cartoonist Hugh Haynie.
I’m sure it meant something.
From Lustige Blätter 1919.
Funny papers was the title of a German-language satire magazine. After a brief start-up phase in Hamburg, the magazine was published as a weekly newspaper from 1886 to 1944 in Berlin. It was founded and published by the writer Alexander Moszkowski.
[Image found here. Note that there is no Wikipedia entry for Lustige Blätter in English.]
Los Intrépidos del Sahara Hot Links
La Coqueta, Los Intrépidos del Sahara (2015)Described as “tropical cumbianchera,” there’s not much on the internet about them except that the group is still recording and performing in Veracruz, Mexico, and is popular with the folks in poor rural areas. (The shed in the picture above advertises a show. See below for more.)
Riot.
HUGE lockdown protest in London.
The NRA, the Klan & the 2nd Amendment.
Military video footage repository is interesting.
“Climate experts believe the next ice age is on its way.” – Leonard Nimoy, 1978.
[Top image from Google Maps of the SW corner of two unnamed roads at the entrance to San Leopoldo, pop. 689, a community in the municipality of San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz. Click on the maps link and take a drive via “street view.”]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Ghost Pipefish
“I saw some brown algae, it looked like seaweed. I moved my hand and the current blew it all one way but a bit of it was moving the other way. I put my torch on and there was this big eye looking at me.”
[Image and quote found here.]
Bicycle Parts
[Found here.]
Please Stand By
[Click images to enlarge. More here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 685 – Mantis Slapfight, Frog Says Nope & Cow Tongue Lashing
Welcome To The Internet.
[Miniature & photograph by Frank Kunert. He did this one also.]
The Perfect Storm Birds
An image of a storm (near Earth, Texas, by photographer Laura Rowe) was posted on Facebook recently by Pam M.
Then someone enhanced it…
I ramped it up a notch, just because.
[With apologies to Laura Rowe and Alfred Hitchcock.]
Tacky Raccoons 