Category: Cool

Another Great Gift Idea: Cordless Battery Charger

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[Image from here.]

Snowmental: Where Are Calvin And Hobbes Now That We Need Them?

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[Snowmen from here via here. Calvin & Hobbes appear here and elsewhere.]

Squint.

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[From here.]

Self Explanatory.

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[From here.]

Yeah. Right. As If.

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‘Spose you wanna leave a comment, huh.  G’head. Tell us something we don’t already know.

At least I didn’t camp out in front of Fry’s Electronics for 11 hours just to buy a four-dimensional battery charger for $57.99 plus 36 month’s worth of vapors for access.

Meh.

I’m Dreaming of a White Hot Links

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Purple.

David Burns’ History of lolcats.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. That explains a lot. Unnecessary Knowledge.

Whoa.  Loud and in-your-face Inflatable Fruitcake. [via eblort]

You’ll beat me if you can Run 11.3 meters. Kinda funny.

Mr. Nice Hands.  Kinda like “Purple” except with music.

The Wisest Human has loud opinions…  [From SNTC.]

Heavy mammals.  Really heavy mammals.  Did I say “Heavy Mammals?”

Don’t feed the deer. OMG. LOL. Giggle. Here. LOL. OMG.

Noel = Leon.  Click here and scroll down to the Alphabet Song. Then click here for some Leon cheer.

Raincoaster recently passed 1,300 comments on This Post.  Help her make it to 1,400 by the end of the year! [Related post here.]

Saturday Matinee – Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart

As I arrived at TR HQ today, I found a CD sitting all alone.  Turns out the lovely Mrs. Strutts scored a copy of Slim Gaillard’s “Slim’s Jam.”   Better yet, the missus got it for nothing.   WOW.  “Flat Foot Floogie” for free.  Good God, I’ve heard this guy’s stuff.  He played lead guitar when guitar was looked down upon as a mere rhythm instrument.  Gaillard was WAY ahead of his time. (Listen for his pre-Chuck Berry licks on the second video.)

You ever wonder where Little Richard came up with “Tutti Frutti?”  It was from Gaillard’s  advanced musical tublications.  FACT.

“R-A-G-G-M-O-P-P RAG MOP”

[Just a few years later, it looked like this, from Uncertain Times.]

The .GIF Friday Post 60 – Catfishbowl

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Growing Dogs: Part 1 – Planting

Pisgah, Ohio (Strutts News Services) – Anyone who has tried to raise big dogs in the city understands the difficulties involved.  One authority, Ms. Tooncie Crumbler, has beat the odds and raised several healthy crops of Retrievers Golden outside her flat in downtown Pisgah.

“Assuming you start with good stock, all it takes are a few clippings, good soil, and bone meal mulch to get ’em to take root and prosper,” said Ms. Crumbler, 78.  “Then you have to keep them watered.  They do better in the shade, otherwise they tend to wither, and you have to crop ’em back occasionally.”

When asked about the sprouts observed outside of the planters, Ms. Crumbler initially denied their existence, but admitted that she was embarrassed for not having weeded the strays as often as she’d like.

“Once I get me some more planters, I’ll dig ’em up and pot ’em. Until then, they’re just weeds to me.”

[Related posts here. Image from here.]

Saturday Matinee: Hambone, Jeff, Doc, Sonny & Terry

Hambone is the traditional folk music consisting of rhythms produced by slapping oneself and making noises without singing.  It traces its history to the pre-civil war South, and was probably introduced by west african slaves.  Regardless of your musical tastes, Hambone is harder than it looks.  Try it yousef and you’ll see.

The Hambone Brothers showed up occasionally on the long running TV show, “HeeHaw.” The guy on the left was cool, but the guy on the right always creeped me out.

[Presurfer reminded me about ’em.  Honest.]

Jeff Holt does Hambone with the always amazing Doc Watson.

Holt and Watson doing “Soldier’s Joy” and “Ragtime Annie.”

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, with Pete Seeger on banjo.  Terry’s breath control and “whoopin'” on harmonica was directly related to Hambone, if you didn’t notice.  (Unless I’m mistaken, Sonny and Brownie also had a small cameo on the first Blues Brothers movie.)

And finally, a public service announcement from Plaxico Burress.

[Found here.]