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Some folks spoil all the photos.

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Funny Dude, A Capella, Slugs, and PF Live

Lotta truisms there;  video found in Archie’s Archives.

Don’t know who these folks are, but “Oh Gee” was a hit in 1955 by the Crows. Could be them.

The Persuasions were/are possibly the most underrated acapella group (featuring bass singer Jimmy Hayes, who Frank Zappa called “the human sub-woofer”).

“Legendary musician Frank Zappa and his wife Gail discovered The Persuasions (in a commercial sense) in 1968. At the urging and encouragement of a good friend of the Persuasions, David Dashev (who eventually became the groups producer and manager), Zappa listened to a tape of The Persuasions. Shortly after listening to the tape, Frank and Gail Zappa signed the group to their label. The Persuasions debut album ‘Straight’ was a mix of studio and live recordings released during the fall of 1970.”

(This group was featured here before, but unfortunately the videos were yanked by Utoob for seventy mental reasons.)

This is an old one from the Beeb, narrated by David Attenborough.  It’s cool, bizarre and gross at the same time, but it’s nature. I posted it just because  Thelit said her kids and their friends love this kinda stuff.  Go for it.

After the Slugs (wasn’t that a Grateful Dead tune, or maybe a Peter Sellars movie?) this may help clean your eye sockets. Other than the dopey devilpigs,  it’s all cool.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 81- Tarsier Eyes, Cowlick Eyes, Catch n’ Eat Eyes

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These nice oddities were scrounged from a .gif link dump.  Regarding credits, see last week’s .gif post (the poll is still open).
Need more Tarsiers? Click.

Meanwhile we have a nicely growing .gif linkdump of our own here.

Barf Barf Barf Barf Barf Barf Barf

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Save bucks, buy Barf in bulk. Kinda Pythonesque.

[Image found here.]

Comparitive Studies of 18th Century Romanticism

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Oh yeah, like I remember that mandatory 7AM class.  Wait!  It’s HAPPY BEAR ERASER! COOL!

[Found here.]

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Honestly, I’d like to meet the people that painted these, just not all at once, and the first commenter who makes The Obvious Lame Pun can eat my shorts.

[Click on ’em for biggerosity. Found here via here via here.]

Life Choices: Seahorses or a Monkey?

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“Hey Dad! I got a dollar! Can I borrow $19?”

It’s all in the advertising.  Note that the $1 seahorses are not “Darling Pet Seahorses” (never mind that the ones in the picture are kinda dead and dessicated, and that just about anywhere in the world one can dig up sea shells hundreds of miles inland)…

But monkeys!

My dad knew that seahorses wouldn’t crap all over the house, wouldn’t get into the cupboard in the middle of the night to get at the strawberry preserves by dropping the jar on the tile floor, and wouldn’t attack your face when you looked them in the eye.  Dad was wise beyond his years.

“So can I get the seahorses?”

“No.”

[Image from the back of a 1967 needlework and crafts magazine, shown here.]

M.R. Stefanik is not afraid of Chuck Norris…

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…because M.R. Stefanik died at the age of 38 in 1919 and never met Chuck Norris.  Yet.

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Diesel Brown Skaggs Pops & Perkins

Diesel speaks about work, kids, farming, mafia, pirates. The Anti-Boxxy.

Alison Brown has got to be one of the best banjo pickers I’ve ever heard. Very few can play like this without the comfort of studio editing.

Here’s Ricky Skaggs on mandolin, 7 years old, with Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass.

Here’s Ricky Skaggs’ classic “Highway 40 Blues” with the seminal bluegrass backup band, the Boston Pops.

Carl Perkins was one cool rockabilly cat.  He’s got an interesting back up band in this video… too hot to handle and too cold to hold.

The .gif Friday Post No. 80 – Sports?

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Folks–  We’ve been posting .gif animations every Friday, and although we’d prefer to give credit, the majority (but not all) of the .gif’s we post are pilfered from a handful of collection sites that give no credit to the original authors.  So here’s a poll.  Lemme know what you think. –Bunk

[Update 21 May 2009 –  When we post images and .gif animations like these, TR usually (but not always) renames and saves them in this format:

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Name of the image, followed by the name of the site, followed by the date that our crack team of webminers found it, in the format of yr/mo/day, followed by .jpg, gif, etc.  This allows us to archive unpublished images and to credit the sources later. It’s a sloppy but honest way to do it.

To find the hidden sources, all you need to do is hover your cursor over them. Rock on.  –Bunk]