Not sure if that’s protection from the ‘Rona or from the ‘Cadas. Reminds me of this, which reminds me of this.
[Image from unknown source, sent via email by Bunkanne.]
Category: Odd
Nap Time
[Images found here.]
Apparently the “Random Google Maps Street View Images” Twitter account has been suspended for unknown reasons. Can’t have fun anymore. 😛
Tolfraedic Hot Links
Schwinn 24, King Arthur & the Carrots (1966)Kinky Friedman formed King Arthur & the Carrots while in college, and they recorded one 45rpm. Flip side was Beach Party Boo Boo, cover version here.
Bunk & Twitchy – here and here.
“Are we there yet?” Victorian sedan.
Pizza Crunchy [h/t Corinne L. via FB]
Flight Lieutenant Sibanda’s helicopter.
Lillian Virginia Mountweazel (1942-1973).
[Top image: Created from a kindergartner’s drawing of a car? Nope. It’s El Super Auto del “Potro” Rodriquez, Ingenario Popular. The owner, Alberto Rodriguez (of Deán Funes, Córdoba, Argentina) left a message in the vid comments.]
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House Spiders
Marlin Peterson did it (and those are daddy longlegs, aka harvesters, not spiders) on the roof of the Armory at the Seattle Center.
[Found here. More info and a timelapse video here. It’s in Google Maps satellite view, too.]
Bigass WTF Unearthed in AU
“A competition was held for biggest mallee root, and this entry from Tooleybuc was just shy of winning. […] At the mallee root festival in Ouyen, guests witness root tossing competitions. Whoever throws a 9 kilo (nearly 20 lb) stump the furthest wins.”
From Wiki:
Mallee is the growth habit of certain eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber,
So there you go.
[Image, caption and more found here.]
Batraquomancical Hot Links
Box Top, Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm (1958) Cobra RecordsRecorded at Cobra Studio, Chicago, the session lineup was Odie Payne (drums), Willie Dixon (bass), Eddie Jones (sax), Carlson Oliver (sax, vocals) and Ike Turner (guitar, vocals).
Did he really say Get bent? 😀
How to get where you’re going.
Crowd control had their hands full.
Corgi vs. Chook vs. Duck by Ozzy Man
(language NSFW, NSFK) [via].
Julliard School exposed. [h/t alondrataylor73.]
Why missing kids are no longer on milk cartons.
Real life Superhero: Shavarsh Karapetyan. [h/t Paul Y.]
Smishing is a texting scam, been around for a few years.
Rockin’ Bird has a great earworm loop. Some pigeons learn to fake injuries for a handout. That one is in Melbourne Australia [source].
Covid-19 origins revisited (and it was not from a bat 1,500 km from Wuhan). Biohazards News Tracker is updated regularly, too.
“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going ’till we get there.”
“Where we going, man?”
“I don’t know but we gotta go.”
― On the Road
[Top image unknown source. Tineye has no matches, Google image search says it’s “soil.” It appears to be a whale carcass, possibly Hawaii.]
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Sunroof Safety Glass
Boogah Boogah
Cassini Periodical Hot Links
Chicken Stuff, Hop Wilson & His Chickens (1958)Harding Wilson (1921-1975) got his nickname from playing harmonica a lot as a kid – harp is pronounced hop in Texan. (Chicken stuff goes by another name there, too.) Pop Hop’s steel slide style influenced many other bluesmen.
R.I.P El Risitas 1956-2021.
Not sure what to make of this.
The Pillow (a short horror movie).
Elements of Grammar Walk Into a Bar…
3 hours of mostly peaceful protest sounds.
“It’s not clear how the turtle became airborne.”
Coming Soon: Axe throwing and miniature golf.
His parents really named him Dylan Shakespeare Robinson?!
One of the worst man-made catastrophes in history happened 35 years ago on 26 April 1986.
4 year old Zoe Roth became a meme in 2008. She’s 21 now and $458,000 richer because of it.
1988 Trabant quality control. The car’s been called “a spark plug with a roof.” More about the East German car here.
[Top image: Cicadaman, spotted recently by Amy D.]
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Tacky Raccoons 