No gun law can keep these out of the hands of criminals.
Category: Odd
Jectigational Hot Links
Booker-Loo, Booker T. & The M.G.’s (1967)This live recording is from the “Hit The Road Stax” european showcase tour that included performances in England, Norway and France. Steve Cropper described it:
“It was just a mind-blower. Hell, we were just in Memphis cutting records; we didn’t know. Then when we got over there, there were hoards of people waiting at the airport, autograph hounds and all that sort of stuff. I didn’t know what it was all about. That was something that happened to Elvis or Ricky Nelson, but it didn’t happen to the Stax-Volt band. It didn’t happen to Booker T. & the MGs.”
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Chuck Norris is back in the news.
Super Pixel Quest is very cool. [via]
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.
Top 10 Best Greek Gods & Goddesses.
Charles Grodin left us this past week. His appearance on the Hannity & Colmes Show was a classic.
[Top image from the classic educational computer game The Oregon Trail, 1990 version, and you can play it online!]
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The Friday .Gif Post No. 681 – Driving a Stick, Kitty Goes Boing & Girl Washing
Ronabrella
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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Tacky Raccoons 