Category: Bizarre
Bad Karma Reincarnation
[Found here.]
Jupiter II, III & IV
Nobody knows what happened to the Jupiter I. It’s assumed that the ship crash-landed on a distant planet and the survivors were eaten by giant mountain ice weasels.
That’s a photo shoot for Mad Magazine‘s 1966 spoof, “Loused Up In Space” [courtesy Zorro Jr.].
[Top photo by Piotr Krzaczkowski of Śnieżka, found here, and yes, that’s his daily commute.]
March Comes In Like a Hot Links
March doesn’t always come in like a lion and go out like a lamb.
Chief meteorologist John Belushi explains.
Mama Strutts once told me that during the Great Depression they couldn’t afford chewing gum, so they chewed tar. Decades later I realized she was referring to pine sap. Paraffin chewing gum was still around when I was a kid.
Chewing gum is an ancient invention.
THIS is how to design and construct a tin can car.
[Related post here.]
According to this, a human brain may remain functional for up to five minutes after death (at least that’s what I think it says).
The 2018 Winter Olympics in 2 minutes 49 secondsvia here. [Language – NSFK, NSFW ].
Scamming the scammer is cruel and classic.
Zookeeper was not injured during this panda attack. Not for the squeamish.
On tariff wars:
Although the big stock market crash occurred in October 1929, unemployment never reached double digits in any of the next 12 months after that crash. Unemployment peaked at 9 percent, two months after the stock market crashed– and then began drifting generally downward over the next six months, falling to 6.3 percent by June 1930.
This was what happened in the market, before the federal government decided to “do something.”
What the government decided to do in June 1930– against the advice of literally a thousand economists, who took out newspaper ads warning against it– was impose higher tariffs, in order to save American jobs by reducing imported goods.
This was the first massive federal intervention to rescue the economy, under President Herbert Hoover, who took pride in being the first President of the United States to intervene to try to get the economy out of an economic downturn.
Within six months after this government intervention, unemployment shot up into double digits– and stayed in double digits in every month throughout the entire remainder of the decade of the 1930s, as the Roosevelt administration expanded federal intervention far beyond what Hoover had started.
– Dr. Thomas Sowell 18 June 2010
[Top image found here. It’s not a blizzard buffalo – it’s an icin’ bison.]
Saturday Matinee – Strobe Cake, The Dubs & The Blues Magoos
Awesome stuttercake via here.
Now we’re gonna turn the lights down low, because it’s Lady’s Choice.
The Dubs are/were awesome, and so were these guys:
The Blues Magoos rocked big time, and yeah, the vid doesn’t sync up with the music.
If I wasn’t yawning so bad I’d write up more drivel. I’m going to bed. Have a great weekend, folks. Maybe I’ll update this tomorrow.
The .Gif Post No. 525 – Mr. Molotov, Happy Water & Escalator Plow
M. Alexis Dolinoff’s Contribution To The World
Sandy’s Can Cars
Many sources mis-attribute these sculptures to eccentric Australian Albert (Tapper) Torney, but they’re the work of New Zealander Sandy, who sells plans and displays finished models here.
His process is brilliant, meticulous and it’s pure awesome.
[h/t Nancy H. via email]
Vincent Van Gogh Action Figure
His name is pronounced several ways and he was one talented mental case. Yeah, I know. He cut off his left ear and painted his portrait in the mirror, but this sanitizes it a bit.
Tacky Raccoons 