She got a what up her what? (NSFK).
Not the response that CNN wanted.
How the @Twitter algorithm works.
Bonehemian Rhapsody (and no, that’s not a typo).
BREAKING NEWS: Bert and Ernie are not gay. Film at 11.
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Bert and Ernie are not gay Russian spies. Film at 11:30.
Audi has unveiled a new all-electric car, the e-tron, but there’s one small problem.
[Top image found here.]
No racism here. Nope. None at all.
No Twitter bias here. Nope. None at all.
No Google bias here. Nope. None at all.
Tom Waits’ 20 favorite albums (as of March 2005).
Ken Nordine’s “Colors” was the basis for an artistic game using paint.
Democrat Senator Dick Durbin blames Republicans for Chicago’s horrific gun violence, but there’s just one little problem. Chicago’s last Republican Mayor was William Hale Thompson (who served from 1927-1931). James Woods begins his reply with “Dear Nimrod.”
16-1/2 minutes of “celebrities” gossiping about ex-SNL cast member Norm Macdonald.
Why are “celebrities” gossiping about ex-SNL cast member Norm Macdonald?
You guessed it. Frank Stallone.
Ernie Kucera (1920-2007)
Ernie Kucera at the Starlight Ballroom in 1992 – his band’s 50th Anniversary.
From the You Get What You Pay For Department: In construction, you can only pick two of the following three:
(A) Low-cost, (B) High quality and (C) Fast completion. Brad Pitt’s well-meaning charitable foundation chose A and C, and the houses are falling apart after less than a decade.
From the Bad Acting Department: Weather reporter can barely stand up to the winds of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Florence while other pedestrians were immune. Reminds me of the classic Today Show blowzit.
A private message to The Weather Channel.
[Top image culled from the absurd The Weather Channel video.]
Warning: This site uses Gookies.
Top 100 Billboard Hits of 1971 includes some awesome classics.
Squirrel monkeys beat the crap out of a man attempting to kidnap one of them from a zoo [via].
“I yield back.” Rep. Billy Long auctions off a protestor at the Twitter hearings.
Seven People Whose Lives Were Ruined by Social Media (and some of them deserved it IMO).
Should the US taxpayer pay for free healthcare for foreigners living in this country illegally? I don’t think so. Should we pay for emergency medical services? Yes, without a doubt.
I bought this 1969 Rhinoceros album for one song only:
Apricot Brandy. Years later I learned that the band was a fabrication of Elektra Records session musicians.
Led Zeppelin’s 1971 hit “When The Levee Breaks” was first recorded in 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy after the 1927 Missippi Flood.
[Top image found here.]
Dude’s tired. Literally.
From The Don’t-Touch-It Department:
Man touches it and is fined $1,500.
Brilliant *ahem* political analyses from Thing 1 and Thing 2.
I went to WalMart to buy drugs. I stuck around because I heard this.
Joey DaPrince hears Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” for the first time.
Mongolian throat singing AND eefing is one scary combination [h/t Octopus].
Lemon Merangue on the Window Sill is 20 minutes of pure insanity with cicadas [h/t Octopus].
Brooklyn Judge LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall instructed new citizens to disrespect the United States Flag and the National Anthem during a citizenship ceremony. Puke.
Mr. Smith from Bangalore India warns that your Barclays debit card may spontaneously combust “and create a pocket fire at any given moment, burning your legs and stomach terribly.”
Fun Facts To Know And Tell:
Shelby Fredrick “Sheb” Wooley (1921-2003)
Recorded the 1958 No. 1 hit “The Purple People Eater.”
Recorded many songs as Ben Colder.
Was a character actor with roles in High Noon, The Outlaw Josie Wales and many other movies.
Co-starred as scout Pete Nolan in the TV series Rawhide.
Credited as the voice behind the Wilhelm scream stock sound effect heard in hundreds of movies and countless TV shows, but received no royalties from it.
[Top image – Jacky Ke Jiang. I love the style.]
[Confidential to Randy L. – Thanks for your generous contribution.]
Gone With The Wind in 1 minute.
Guy got fired for doing what comes naturally.
What The Heck Is It? The Giz Wiz dares you to guess.
Like early 20’s-30’s jazz? Free public domain downloads here.
Ever review the Socialist Party USA Platform? Everything is free except for freedom.
Yank the plastic straw out of the sea turtle’s left nostril and sell it to China = RECYCLING!
Dust in the foreground, stars in the background. This .gif of the surface of a comet (67P?) may or may not be amazing.
This is possibly The Best White House Press Conference you’ll ever hear.
[Top image: US Navy Hurricane Hunters, 1960, found here.]
THIS is amazing.
Remembering Triggly Puff.
Stuff I never knew about petticoats.
Cats during an earthquake in Japan [via].
The Dancing Plague of 1518 killed hundreds of peasants in Strasbourg Germany.
The Laughing Epidemic of 1962 affected hundreds of people in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
Got a critter trapped under the kitchen counter? It might not be what you think it is.
In the past six years (2002-2018) there have been three recorded deaths in the US from snake bites during religious services. Pastor Cody Coots survived a bite to the face. Jamie Coots, Cody’s father was bit on the hand and died in 2014. (Pinkard and Bowden addressed this practice in 1984.)
About Hollerin’. Wanna hear some? Leonard Emanuel was one of the best.
Petticoat Junction trivia – Edgar Buchanan (aka Uncle Joe Carson) was a dentist in real life. He’s pictured above with Irene Ryan (aka Daisy Mae “Granny” Moses) on the set of The Beverly Hillbillies, 1968.
Chickenado: “Trust me! I can get us out of here! This way!”
Antnado: “Army ants are one of the most efficient killing machines in the animal world.”
Buddy Hackett went out for a pizza.
Foster Brookes came in for a roast.
The walls are closing in. Pass it on.
No reason those people should have not been wearing life jackets.
From the Economic Funnies Department:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains economics in 39 seconds.
Ocasio-Cortez supporters discuss socialism.
Saw this message on a church sign recently:
[Top image from here.]
On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less. It’s our 10th Anniversary, because this:
3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogiversary
3 August 2018 – 10th year Blogiversary
There are now 4,356 posts in our archives.
Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for the source.
As with previous years, we’ve celebrated those posts that received the largest number of hits, not only for the past year, but for the entire life of Tacky Raccoons, and this year is no different.
We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different. There are some surprises, and I still don’t know why some get an exorbitant amount of hits while others fade.
Previous Top 11 hits are linked here.
The numbers adjacent to the titles below 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 2018). “NR” indicates Not Ranked.
Click on any image below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!
No. 11/NR/350 – Subway Siren
[Good God, why?]
No. 10/4/141 – 11 September 2001 – Never Forget.
No. 9/8/114 – Introducing The Beatles – COLLECT ‘EM ALL
No. 8/NR/267 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil
No. 7/5/4 – Giant Woolly Bear Caterpillar Discovered Near Las Cruces, NM, Predicts Global Warming for Decades to Come
No. 6/NR/21 – Popeye Dead at 108
[This was a sleeper. Posted on 29 June 2009, it never made the Top 11 rankings until this year.]
No. 5/6/29 – Beads, Beer, Boobs & Blues = Heureux Mardi Gras!
No. 4/NR/91 – The Kluck Klams
No. 3/2/32 – Hello. I Am Mr. Google.
No. 2/1/18 – Meet The Beetles
And the Number One Post for the past 12 months is:
Guy is knocking off blocks of un-reinforced masonry, and with every whack he weakens the blocks below him. Someone told me he was a member of an Indian sect who specialize in this kind of danger.
Posted on 29 July 2016, this wins with a score of 1/3/21 (thanks to a link from Pinterest).
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The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature and it relies upon Octonians, 8-dimensional numbers discovered in 1843 by John T. Graves. A x B doesn’t always equal B x A.
Cohl Furey describes Octonians in layman’s terms. I still don’t get it, yet it fascinates me.
Zebra or donkey? “Zebras also have black snouts, according to one 9-year-old expert.” The comments are fun on that report.
Wholphin? Its father was a rough-tooth; its mother was a melon-head. TRUE.
The most complete fossil of the earliest known true lizard, Hylonomus, was found in a tree stump.
I’m sorry to admit that I watched THIS in its entirety.
#InMyFeelings Idiot 1.
#InMyFeelings Idiot 2.
#InMyFeelings Idiot 3.
#InMyFeelings Idiot 4.
Our archive for the category “Dance Hard” has some related stuff.
John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols) became a U.S. citizen in 2013. In March 2017, he opined about Donald Trump.
Young U.S. Communists Explain USSR/Venezuela/Cuba/N. Korea Failures to ex-USSR immigrant Vladimir Jaffe on 27 July 2016 [pre-Trump era]. Some people can’t handle the truth.
Slavery: What They Didn’t Teach in My High School.
This [from the “What The Hell Was He Thinking?” Department].
That [from the “What The Hell Was He Driving?” Department].
The Other [from the “Why Twitter Was Invented” Department]. Sound up.
Fuman Musicoloco the Juggling Drummer. Scroll down for the video.
Walter E. Williams on “Russian Collusion.” It’s not what you think it is.
Found in 2013, planet Kepler 78b, 700 light years away, orbits its star in just 8.5 hours. Its top layer is a rolling ocean of lava that reaches temperatures of 2760°C.
U.S. Marines held a training exercise (in a faux village) with Mexican Marines and a Royal Canadian Army infantry force at Camp Pendleton on 3 July 2018:
The squad of Mexican marines stepped deliberately through a narrow alley, their rifles scanning windows and roofs for any potential danger. The village seemed calm, with some local residents milling along the market street amid the occasional sounds of bleating goats.
But the blast from an improvised explosive device near the patrol broke the calm, and the Mexican force joined by several U.S. Marines for the security mission were soon under gunfire from unknown shooters in what looked like a coordinated attack.
[Link, with video here. Related post here.]
And yes, the neighbor’s little yappy dog has been going at it since 5pm. It’s now midnight…
[Top image: W.C. Fields drills Elise Cavanna as Zedna Farley looks on in The Dentist, 1932.]
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