Category: Bizarre
Trombone Kazoo
I got one of these as a present when I was a tad. The slide was inoperable as it was for looks only, and I recall that I annoyed a lot of adults with it. Somehow it disappeared for a long while, but reappeared a couple of years later.
No idea where it is now.
[Found here.]
Try To Fig This.
A Shade of Brown
Twelve balls, and they’re all the same color.
[Proof below the break. Color illusion found here.] Continue reading “A Shade of Brown”
Conch Conch On The Head Hot Links
Murder In The Red Barn [1827].
Murder In The Red Barn [78 rpm melodrama 1932].
Murder In The Red Barn [Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan 1992].
Autos Cubanos en el año 2019 [via].
Who’ll Stop The Rain? This guy can [via].
Visit Los Angeles! See Socialism In Action!
Possibly the worst job in the tech industry.
No racism to see here. Nope. None whatsoever.
“Ideology doesn’t change. People do.” – Burgess Owens
From the Connections Department: Bandleader Fred Waring begat The Waring Blender which begat Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine. TRUE.
From The Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 590 – Five Easy Muffins, Fido’s Frustration Fix & Rover’s Reflexes
The 1967 Buick SportWagon: “It looks more like a luxury car than a station wagon.”
No it doesn’t.
It looks just like a late ’60s piece of crap station wagon.
Nice try.
“The children stretch out in the back, gaze up at the stars through the sun roof and they’re off to sleep in no time.”
Yeah, sure. Carbon monoxide poisoning puts you right out… been there, done that. Then you wake up with a pounding headache. Dad’s 1972 Ford Country Squire did it to me.
Years later it happened again. Danny Rat and I were hiding in the trunk of Raul’s Buick to sneak into the local drive-in theater without paying. We paid in brain pain that night, and I never did it again.
TRUE.
[Image found here.]
Where Salami Comes From.
[Found here.]
Catching China.
The Art of Hot Links
On This Day In Jazz Music is very cool.
Remember when David Letterman was sane?
Ringo explains his drumming style. [Hint: He’s left-handed.]
Here’s a job that pays $174K per year and allows you to vote yourself a “cost of living increase.” Pheeeew.
Every once in a while I’m reminded of The Institute for Centrifugal Research and how awesome it is.
“The history of spam started in 1864, over a hundred years before the Internet, with a telegram sent en masse to a number of British politicians. In a prescient sign of things to come, the telegram was an advertisement for teeth whitening.”
[Top image: Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” has been reincarnated as a graphic novel, illustrated by Pete Katz, found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 