The real Paul Bunyan [found here].
Paul Bunyan – Retired
The real Paul Bunyan [found here].
Category: Cool
Retroactive Hot Links
Ex-Soviet citizen Vladimir Jaffe explains to socialists what life under socialism is really like. He’s got many videos posted here, and this one’s a classic.
How to drill a square hole. The .gif is cool, too [via].
Very clever street surfing in Slovakia: Sur les rails du tramway de Bratislava en Slovaquie.
Everything to know about a Pascal triangle of 11 (including the Fibonnaci Sequence).
An Essay On Walt Kelly and Chuck Jones.
Five is red. Four is turquoise. Three is green. Two is orange. One is blue.
Top image from here.
Saturday Matinee – Blues Rock Bar Bands: Stonefield, Delta Riggs & Delta Saints
All three take me back to the Land of the Onions and the Eels and the days of my youth. Great modern retro rock for this edition of The Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll see y’all back here tomorrow.
The .Gif Post No.342 – Pup PWN, Vortices & Ceiling Cat Jump Fall Mashup
Bachelor’s Bed & Breakfast
[Found here.]
Superman Suffers Stunning Setback
(Strutts News Services) Metropolis
Clark Kent (aka Superman) found himself in a predicament last Thursday in the editing room of the Daily Planet. An unforseen bout of the trots compelled him to run faster than a speeding bullet from the offices of the esteemed publication to his Superprivvy on the outskirts of town to avoid damaging the sanitary facilities of the building. Approaching city limits at full-steam, Mr. Kent blasted into the kryptonite-based force field surrounding it. He survived the impact, but it reduced him to the physical stature of a 2-year old.
“I still have all my super powers,” chuckled Kent, “but for the next few years I guess I’ll have to tolerate being called “Supertoddler.”
Mr. Kent’s long time partner (and presumed mistress) Lois Lane refused to comment, instead directed reporters to call the “Happy Times Preschool” for updates.
[Image found here.]
Hawaiian Boogah Boogah
[Original unaltered image found here.]
Tacky Raccoons’ 7th Year: The Top 11 Posts
We’ve featured the Top Posts every year since this blog was whelped on 2 August 2007 and this year is no different. The numbers indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third numeral is for all-time popularity (August 2007 – August 2014). NR indicates Not Ranked.
Click on any image and it’ll take you to the original post.
No. 11/nr/74 – Cute Baby Giraffe
No. 10/2/10 – 10/10/10 10:10:10
No. 9/11/21 – Death Row Barbie and Other Science Fair Projects
No. 8/nr/28 – How To Really Piss Off A Golden Retriever
No. 7/3/5 – Giant Woolly Bear Caterpillar Discovered Near Las Cruces, NM, Predicts Global Warming for Decades to Come
No. 6/1/3 – Capybara Lapwarmer
No. 5/nr/48 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 297 – Page Turner, Giraffe Gymnastics & “Did You Catch That?”
No. 4/5/15 – Babe Cannon
No. 3/7/24 – “Wow, Giant Isopod, Did You See That?”
No. 2/nr/2 – LOL FERRET: Episode 1
And the Number One Post for the past 12 months is:
The .Gif Friday Post No.133 – Needlepoint Dog is Awesome!
“Needlepoint Dog” is a new entry in the Tacky Raccoons Blogoversary Hit Parade, with a score of 1/nr/19. We posted it on 25 June 2010 just days after it appeared at the source. Within 5 days of posting, it spiked, then went relatively dormant traffic-wise until February of this year and it’s been in the No. 1 slot for 6 months straight.
Not only is the concept great, the animation of the reverse side is even better. Congrats!
Although Tacky Raccoons doesn’t attract a lot of comments, we appreciate the “likes” and those who “follow” us. Now let’s talk Twitter. We’ve had an account for several years as an experiment to see how many followers we could get with the stated intent of providing absolutely no content and about 30 people played along. This is going to change.
Starting today, anyone who follows @BunkStrutts will get automatic notifications of new posts, perhaps some occasional inane snark from me, and all in fun. We’ll see where it goes, and if it clogs up my email inbox with too many Tweet notifications, I’ll deal with it. (There’s a button on the upper right sidebar to beam you over to Twitterville, too. You don’t need to sign up to Twitter to read it. We’ve done the same with FaceBook, even though I don’t use it much).
Wish you all the best,
Bunk
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Saturday Matinee – Bubbles, Splashes & Waters
Amazing bubble show by Ana Yang, wife of Canadian bubble master Fan Yang [via].
Summer fun in the UK getting drenched with street water. [Related post here.]
I just spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find a music video that meshes with bubbles and water. Muddy Waters works, but then I found this gem:
One of the most successful groups in popular music, they began playing R&B in the early to mid-1960s. The name of the band (and members) changed several times, but eventually settled on “The Pink Floyd Sound,” taken from the names of two blues musicians, Pinkney “Pink” Anderson and Floyd “Dipper Boy” Council (click each name for links to recordings on the Utoobage). Dick Clark introduced “The Pink Floyd” on American Bandstand in 1967, their first appearance in the U.S. Here’s the lineup (with ages) at the time of the filming:
Roger Waters – bass, vocals, songwriter (24)
Syd Barrett – guitar, vocals, songwriter (21)
Richard Wright – keyboards, vocals (24)
Nick Mason – percussion (23)
Pink Floyd had my attention from “Ummagumma” through “Wish You Were Here,” but they began to lose me when their style began drifting too far into the mainstream pop radio culture of the late 70s: the overbearing and over-produced arena-art-rock years.
Have a great weekend, folks, and remember that “Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict” was performed live on stage,with “lyrics” in English.
P.S. The Dub Side Of The Moon is awesome.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 341 – Fun With Trigonometry Edition
Grampa Strutts made a similar machine out of wood with tapered wood dowels instead of prism-shaped dogs based upon the 2nd .gif. It’s the basis of a 4-stroke engine. The top one I messed with and added 4-colors only because someone elsewhere complained that B&W didn’t make it.
I love this stuff. I might have to add a category for Trig/Geometry/Math.
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