Category: Bizarre

Saturday Matinee – USS Hartford Breaks The Ice, Remi Gaillard & Ray Charles

ARCTIC CIRCLE (March 10, 2016)
USS Hartford (SSN 768) surfaces in the Arctic Circle near Ice Camp Sargo during Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2016. Servicemembers and civilians assigned to Arctic Submarine Lab clear ice from the hatches to allow for surface access. ICEX is a five-week exercise designed to research, test, and evaluate operational capabilities in the region [via].

Remi Gaillard’s Blind Man [via].

Ray Charles was the best. Have a great weekend, folks. We’ll be back here tomorrow, rain or shine.

The .GIF Friday Post No.430 – Jerk in a Black Van, Hello Octopus and Rashida Jones’ Pulse

Jerk in the White Van

Hello Octopus

Rashida Jones Pulse

[Found in here, here, and the last was derived from here.]

1964 Soviet Taxi Prototype

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Even a babushka with a baby carriage full of pea soup fits in, without a drop spilled. The car never made it to production, but the concept is interesting, given the state of automotive manufacturing in the USSR at the time.
[Click the images below for full size.]

This unique test car was designed in 1964 based on components of “Moskvich-408”. It successfully passed performance tests in Moscow and was recommended for serial production In Yerevan, but due to different reasons it didn’t go this far…

[Caption with more photos here.]

Noone AT All PERMITED TO FiSH

Noone AT All

Dang. Chicken Man cain’t fish no mo.

[Found in here.]

Nothing Much Happened Today.

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My grouper needed a bath.

[Found here.]

Pro Anti Hot Links

MongoosePlay

1915 Bigass Lobsters.

Everybody’s Marty Feldman [via].

Catboat.

What’s an OODA Loop?

Lizardoggie.

St. Kitts and Nevis. After the Spanish Conquest, mongooses were introduced to hunt and kill rats and snakes, but then they began going after chickens and became vermin themselves.

The Mongoose Play is a piece of folk theatre from Saint Kitts. The play is based around a battle against mongooses, who threatened the island’s chickens, an important food source, after having been imported to exterminate the then-raging snake and rat population. The Mongoose Play involves both dance and music performed by costumed masqueraders.

One would think that a “then-raging snake and rat population” might eventually take care of itself unless it were in equilibrium and self-supporting.

Another Great Gift Idea: Invisibility Socks

Invisibility Socks

[Found here.]

“Pardon me, Sir. Is this yours? He’s bein’ a dick.”

Racoon and Kitten

[Image found here, h/t coopernumpy.]

Go Make Me A Sammich.

Make Me A Sammich

Poof. You’re now a sammich. What’s your next request?

[Found here.]

Hot Links Of The Apocalypse

Captain Beefheart

Meatball Parade has earworm potential.

The Mumble Song by the Charioteers.

Clark Terry mumbles the best. (Wait for the punchline.)

This is a big crack.

If someone calls you a punk, brat, jerk, dunce, fool, rube, bum, barbarian, cretin or a bunghole, he/she probably doesn’t know the source of those terms of endearment.

Flibberty Jib describes this Presidential Election cycle perfectly.

Captain Beefheart’s Ten Commandments.