Category: Odd

It’s some type of art.

James Cook of Finchingfield, Essex, England did this.
He’s on Instagram as @jamescookartwork. Timelapse vid at the link.

[Found here; related post here.]

Soviet Era KGB Telephones

At first I though it might be a gag/hoax/photoshop, then I found this:

[Top images found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 687 – Puzzled Pigeon, Bored Boa & Pizza Problem

[Found here, here and here. Snake courtesy of Nate L.]

Footballhead

The Colonel -1981 Eastern Kentucky University yearbook

In the 1920’s, Eastern students who wished to be known as something other than “The Maroons” voted for the Leopard as the school mascot. A plan to purchase a leopard from the Memphis, Tennessee zoo came to nothing and the students remained Maroons.

In 1963 President Robert Martin established the Colonel as the mascot, who continues in that capacity to the present day. The original Colonel design was by Louisville Courier-Journal editorial cartoonist Hugh Haynie.

[Top image found here, background story from here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Feel free to steal and share. Or not.

 

I’m sure it meant something.

From Lustige Blätter 1919.

Funny papers was the title of a German-language satire magazine. After a brief start-up phase in Hamburg, the magazine was published as a weekly newspaper from 1886 to 1944 in Berlin. It was founded and published by the writer Alexander Moszkowski.

[Image found here. Note that there is no Wikipedia entry for  Lustige Blätter in English.]

Los Intrépidos del Sahara Hot Links

La Coqueta, Los Intrépidos del Sahara (2015)Described as “tropical cumbianchera,” there’s not much on the internet about them except that the group is still recording and performing in Veracruz, Mexico, and is popular with the folks in poor rural areas. (The shed in the picture above advertises a show. See below for more.)

Riot.

This turtle.

Lizzard Butte.

No elephants.

Space Rescue.

GoPro in the hole.

UFOs and waveguides.

How to use a Biltmore Stick.

HUGE lockdown protest in London.

The NRA, the Klan & the 2nd Amendment.

Military video footage repository is interesting.

“Climate experts believe the next ice age is on its way.” – Leonard Nimoy, 1978.

[Top image from Google Maps of the SW corner of two unnamed roads at the entrance to San Leopoldo, pop. 689, a community in the municipality of San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz. Click on the maps link and take a drive via “street view.”]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 686 – Jellycat, Pug Parade & Quilterhorse

[Found here, here and here. The one who made the quilted horse, Nina Paley, also did these.]

Bicycle Parts

[Found here.]

Please Stand By

[Click images to enlarge. More here.]