Humor – Page 175 – Tacky Raccoons

Um, Dawg. Y’all got a ducklin’ on yo’ haid.

[Found here.]

Tokyo’s Clothes Hangers Crows Nests

Conceptual Art installations? Nope.

“When I lived in Tokyo, I used to watch the crows take hangers from my neighbors’ balconies. (Hangers were used to hang out washing to dry.) The crows would work in pairs to remove the clothing from the hangers and then one would fly off with the hanger. I’d never seen the nests though.”

[Images & reader comment found here, via here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No.332 – Sportscast Photobombers

[Yeah, I looped the 1st three. The last one cracks me up. Unadulterated .gifs found here.]

Ellen Church 15 May 1930

“Okay you idiots, get in, sit down, strap in, have a beer.
We’re goin’ to Chicago and it’ll only take 20 hours.
Now STFD and STFU.”

First female Flight Attendant Ellen Church 1930.

Church became the first stewardess to fly (though not the first flight attendant, as German Heinrich Kubis had preceded her in 1912). On May 15, 1930, she embarked on a Boeing 80A for a 20-hour flight from Oakland/San Francisco to Chicago with 13 stops and 14 passengers.

That works out to a potty break about every 90 minutes en-route. In those days, synchronization was everything.

[Found here.]

Global Whooping & Godzilla

Sorry, folks, I can’t believe that the timing of the latest Global Whooping Hype is accidental, especially given this.

Anyone Who Owns A Couch Like That Doesn’t Deserve To Own A Dog Like This.

Please don’t make your dog do this. Asparagus is not a reward.
And where are his/her ears? Augh.

[Found here.]

Hot Links To Infinity – AND BEYOND! Wooooosh

“It’s A Gas” features King Curtis on sax, 1963 [via].

The origins of Mad Magazine – 1954 Senate Subcommitee on Juvenile Deliquency, led by progressive Senator Estes Kefauver (D), moved to censor comic books.

Animatronic spider is amazing.

Public Service Announcement. Please watch.

Kent State University, Kent Ohio, 1980 drive-thru.

How to save an uprooted tree.

What’s in Marcellus Wallace’s briefcase? I had to axe Mr. Google for the reference, found that it has to do with a scene in the movie Pulp Fiction. Now that I know, this kinda makes sense.

THIS was a clever prank.

“I told my brother he had a bug on him.”

You can’t see The Great Wall of China from space, but you can see this.

Not sure what this means, but it’s kinda cool.

[Top .gif from here.]

Saturday Matinee – Mock Lobster, Mountain Of Dinosaurs & Spirit Family Revival

Mock Lobster by the Bit52s is very cool [via].

Mountain of Dinosaurs [Rasa Strautmane, USSR 1967] was an anti-soviet propaganda film. Watch it for the nuances before you read the following.

The short warns about what happens if powerful stewards meant to care for individuals actually stifle those they are charged to protect. Dinosaurs didn’t die because of climate change, the short says, but because their eggs became so thick-shelled in response to colder temperatures that the baby dinosaurs couldn’t hatch. The shells (yes, the eggshells speak) mindlessly drone that they are doing their “duty,” but by growing thicker and thicker they kill the nascent sauropods. The scene is the saddest dinosaur cartoon I’ve ever seen, and it seems to be a metaphor for the Soviet government suppressing the rights of individual citizens. Indeed, the death of dinosaurs was not only used by Americans to issue dire warnings — they are an international symbol of extinction.

Brian Switek

Heavy stuff is neither to be ignored nor swept under the rug, IMO.

So let’s lighten it up a tad instead.