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Basketball Jones
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Category: Humor
Nothing Much Happened Today.
Guy obviously lost his s**t – not a rare event in prisons (or even in the NFL these days). Here are some fun headlines:
Pa. state prison inmate gets caught with hand stuck in toilet.
Doctors cut toilet from inmate.
Teen prisoner adds to woes by getting arm stuck in toilet.
[Image found here.]
What The Buck
“It’s late. Time to hit the road, deer.”
From the “Wish I’d Thought Of It First” Department.
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Totally Brainwashed Hot Links
The Hickory Horned Devil is the largest caterpillar in North America (except for this one).
Watch this first.
Now watch that next [via].
Ondes Martenot was a precursor to the Ondioline which was a precursor to the Moog synthesizer.
Early electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey released an EP entitled “Mister Ondioline” in 1960.
1. Parade Des Soldats De Bois – 0:00.
2. La Gavotte Des Vers Luisants – 3:04.
3. Le Siffleur Et Son Chien – 5:42.
4. Nola – 8:01.
Here’s my favorite version of “Nola.” Jonathan Edwards was brilliant.
It holds the record for the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of all vertebrates, and the latin name of Acanthonus Armatus translates into “Bony-Eared Ass Fish” according to this site. (Any chance that some wag tunneled under the fact-checkers at Wikipedia? Nope. Never happens.) On the other hand, the Bony-Eared Ass Fish is real.
Amateur photography: A collection of people who snapped.
[Top image found here, with no explanation.]
Saturday Matinee – Chaotic Angular Motion, Annelid Cannibalism, Urban Venus Flytrap & Tom Petty
The .Gif Friday Post No. 505 – Pup Chumped, Owner Pwnd & The Goat Ate My Homework
Cat Wanders into Police Station, Demands a Selfie
[Image found here with story, via Columbia PD, South Carolina.]
Her name is “Flower.”
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Big ‘Ol Honkin’ Hot Links
Everybody wants to talk with Pee-Wee! Here’s your chance!
Choose a name for your game. Choose wisely, as it can’t be changed later.
Spiral-cut pinapple demonstration vid is pretty cool [via].
Fun Facts To Know And Tell: Take a regular deck of playing cards, shuffle them, and spread them out face up. IIRC, the odds of getting that particular sequence is calculated by factorial:
n! = 52! = (1 x 2 x 3 … x 52) = 8.065817517 E+67, or 1 in
80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000, and you just nailed it. The ex post probability of getting that particular sequence is always 100%.
Hypershock vs. Warrior Clan is amusing. The winner took out the other Battlebots with brute force… and a rake.
[Top image from here.]
Saturday Matinee – GoPro Gato, String Bean, The Blasters & Trombone Shorty
Guy fitted his cat with a GoPro to find out what it does while he’s away, and no, it doesn’t sleep [via].
Ever hear of David “String Bean” Akeman? No? Here’s a documentary of the comic/iconic speed banjo player. Video starts at 06:00 for his rendition of the traditional folk song “Li’l Liza Jane. [Related post here.]
Akeman and his wife were murdered by burglars at their rural Tennessee home in 1973. The killers took only a chain saw and some firearms and were later apprehended and convicted.
The Blasters perform “Jubilee Train” at the 1985 Farm Aid concert in Champaign, Illinois. (Check out the impressive list of performers at the link.)
“Buckjump” by Trombone Shorty – a nice retro-funk groove to wrap things up.
Have a great weekend, folks.
Tacky Raccoons 