Category: Bizarre
Dental Office Plushies From Hell
How to instill a lifelong fear of the dentist in children.
[Images found here. It’s a Russian website with mostly funny stuff. Sort of like the Bored Panda of Moscow.]
Paludicolous Hot Links
Fatty Patty, Lee Pickett & The Screamers (1958)Lee Pickett (rhythm guitar and slap bass) joined up with Marvin Ross (lead guitar) and Paul Jennings (drums) and recorded Fatty Patty and She Left Me With The Blues in a Denver basement. Marvin recalled, “We only used ‘Lee Pickett & The Screamers’ for that one record & a few promotional bookings. Jolt Records picked the name for us, but by then we had taken the name of the Blue Rhythms.”
I can’t explain this illusion.
Non-newtonian fluid on speakers.
Live report from Hoover Street [via].
Send your name to the moon on a thumb drive.
[Top image found in here, which links to this, and that’s all I know about it.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 720 – Nautilus Smile, Gameboy Sniff & 3 Strikes Football
Doug the Potato
New Zealand couple Colin and Donna Craig-Brown discovered a huge potato they named Doug on their farm in Hamilton. But they had no idea the monster root was there, as it was found in a cucumber patch. Donna said, “We couldn’t believe it. It was just huge, but with an ugly look.”
The official weigh-in at a local farm shop showed a weight of 7.8 kg (17 lb 2 oz). The Guinness World Record currently holds the heaviest potato in 2011, Spudzilla from Northampton, which weighed 4.9 kg (10 lb 8 oz).
The couple say they have applied to the Guinness Book of World Records for Doug to be recognized and are waiting for a response. In the weeks since they were discovered on August 30 [2021], the potatoes have become something of a celebrity. Colin even built a small cart to carry the tuber with him.
[Images found here. Caption via google translate.
Somewhat related post here.]
Little Porky Peeper
In the mid-19th Century, not long after the invention of photography, John Benjamin Dancer (1812 – 1887) began printing tiny photographs onto glass slides at his studio in Liverpool, England. In Paris, René Dagron (1817 – 1900) wondered how to circumvent the need for an expensive microscope to view them. In 1859, Dagron patented the first Stanhope lens mounted with a mini-photograph.
He named it after the magnifying device invented 50 years earlier by Charles Stanhope, Third Earl Stanhope (1753-1816). In the late-18th century, Stanhope invented lenses which allowed all sorts of “viewers” to house images in secret. Stanhopes, also called Bijoux Photomicroscopiques, became known as ‘peep holes’, ‘peep-eye views’ or ‘peeps’.
And this little piggy had a secret…
Dolichopodous Hot Links
Don’t Look Back, Them (1965)Them, a garage-rock/blues band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in April 1964 and had major hits the following year. George Ivan “Van” Morrison went solo in 1966; the band scored more hits and continued to record and perform into the 1970s.
Gonna be a long game.
Over the face and down the throat.
The Two Minutes Hate in the Dawning Age.
Everyone is affected by the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
[Top image: Ceramic sculpture by Steve McGovney (2014) found here.]
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He pressed the red button…
Urosthenic Hot Links
Hee Haw Breakdown, Nolan Cormier & The L.A. Aces (1971)From Lousiana Cajun Music Special, Swallow Records 1988:
“Cut in 1971 at the first recording session of Swallow’s last recording studio, this Cajun ditty became an instant hit regionally, and then skipped over the Atlantic to become a popular Cajun hit in England as well.”
Encountering a feral Humpty [via].
Marimokkori is just creepy. Marimo is not.
Sharks are smooth as hell [Twitter thread].
Interactive live map of Russian invasion with linked sources.
[Top image: US Track and Field sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson‘s left index finger.]
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The Most Effectual Method of Recovering a Drowned Person
In the 1730s, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur popularized a recent discovery: the seemingly lifeless could be revived with a wealth of strategies. This “Pliny of the Eighteenth Century” (Réaumur invented a precursor to the Celsius scale, influenced methods of silk production in China, and pioneered the process of metallic tinning still used today) wrote a pamphlet titled Avis pour donner du secours à ceux que l’on croit noyez (Advice to aid those believed drowned).
After debating the pros and cons of tickling the nose with feathers and filling a drowning man’s mouth with warm urine, Réaumur reveals what he believes to be the best technique: using a pipe stem to blow stimulating tobacco smoke into the intestines through the rectum. Louis XV found the pamphlet dazzling and encouraged its wide distribution. Startlingly, as Anton Serdeczny discusses in his recent book on reanimation, soon riverbanks across Europe were lined with “resuscitation kits”, as close-by as a contemporary defibrillator, which contained all the necessary supplies for giving a nicotine enema (and later, thankfully, included bellows as a substitute for breath).
[Source.]
Tacky Raccoons 