[Found here and here. Boinger h/t Rightymouse.]
Category: Bizarre
Ronabrella
Nap Time
[Images found here.]
Apparently the “Random Google Maps Street View Images” Twitter account has been suspended for unknown reasons. Can’t have fun anymore. 😛
Tolfraedic Hot Links
Schwinn 24, King Arthur & the Carrots (1966)Kinky Friedman formed King Arthur & the Carrots while in college, and they recorded one 45rpm. Flip side was Beach Party Boo Boo, cover version here.
Bunk & Twitchy – here and here.
“Are we there yet?” Victorian sedan.
Pizza Crunchy [h/t Corinne L. via FB]
Flight Lieutenant Sibanda’s helicopter.
Lillian Virginia Mountweazel (1942-1973).
[Top image: Created from a kindergartner’s drawing of a car? Nope. It’s El Super Auto del “Potro” Rodriquez, Ingenario Popular. The owner, Alberto Rodriguez (of Deán Funes, Córdoba, Argentina) left a message in the vid comments.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
House Spiders
Marlin Peterson did it (and those are daddy longlegs, aka harvesters, not spiders) on the roof of the Armory at the Seattle Center.
[Found here. More info and a timelapse video here. It’s in Google Maps satellite view, too.]
Bigass WTF Unearthed in AU
“A competition was held for biggest mallee root, and this entry from Tooleybuc was just shy of winning. […] At the mallee root festival in Ouyen, guests witness root tossing competitions. Whoever throws a 9 kilo (nearly 20 lb) stump the furthest wins.”
From Wiki:
Mallee is the growth habit of certain eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber,
So there you go.
[Image, caption and more found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 