Bizarre – Page 210 – Tacky Raccoons

The .GIF Friday Post No.474 – California Winter, Parking Lot Pothole & The Karma of the Pylon

spring-thaw

pothole

no-parking-my-foot

Medieval WTF

medeval-wtf

A long, long time ago this painting made complete sense.

There’s a wood-fired forge, anvils, metal working tools, a peacock, a gryphon(?!) a deer and a bigass possum watching a naked man without genitalia cringe as a woman takes an axe to a parrot while the wind is blowing.

It’s an illustration from a French manuscript entitled The Personification of Nature Making Birds, Animals and People [ca. 1405].

Okay, so Mother Nature had already finished creating The Birds, The Animals and at least one of The People, but then she realized that the poor guy needed a pecker. If anyone else has a better analysis, post it, because I’m done here.

[Image found here.]

“Um, honey… It’s back.”

the-watcher

[Source: Our kitchen window.]

Mermaid

rules-of-engagement-violation

[Found here.]

Totally Copacetic Hot Links

carnival

Norm MacDonald’s cat.

The symbol for division (÷) is called obelus. On the other hand, the division slash (/) is called virgule. You like mathematical trivia? Here’s a fun list.

15 scary rollercoasters.

What happens when two chatbots talk to each other? They bicker, or they bicker while hitting on each other.

A Frank Discussion Between Emojis About Diversity.

Here’s the literal version of the video to Total Eclipse of the Heart.

The History of Mardi Gras.

[Top image from here.]

Bonus .GIF – A Cutworm Tapestry

worm-4 worm-3 worm-4
worm-1 worm-2 worm-1
worm-4 worm-3 worm-4
worm-1 worm-2 worm-1

Bunkessa found a cutworm and was nice enough to share it. My JASC program doesn’t allow me to combine them all without an incredible amount of cut-and-paste tedium, so we’ll settle for this combination of mirrored and flipped .gifs. The animation has not been sped up, that’s real time. Enjoy!