Category: Odd

Anti-Virtue Scolding Hot Links

Happy Mothers Day.

The pushback continues.

Mind Your Own Business.

Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus.

RIP Little Richard Penniman (1932-2020).

A fruit tested positive for COVID-19. So did a goat and a sheep.

Amazing milestone: First US Space Force recruitment video was released 6 May 2020.

36% of voters would turn in their neighbors for ignoring stay-at-home orders. That is disturbing.

Top image: Old man arrested for fishing under quarantine rules. Photo essay here.

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

Not sure what happened to the side bar. I blame meerkats.
Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 633 – Breakfast Chump, Shotgun & Dog Fish

[Found here, here and here.]

Werewhale?

Actually it’s a pinniped, or maybe it’s Lon Chaney, Jr.

[Found here.]

UPDATE: That’s an unnecessary photoshop. Here’s the original:

Big Busts

Giant busts of 43 US Presidents are stored in a Virginia field awaiting their next assignment. Each is approximately 20 feet tall and weighs 11 tons.

[Photo & story here (via).]

Rebullitional Hot Links

Crash crash ding tinkle tinkle

THIS.

BANSHEE! [via]

World’s oldest record shop.

From the Too Much Botheration Dept.:
Lotta frustration these days.

Mientras tanto en España [sound up].

Twitter thread of creepy objects posted by museum curators [via].

It rhymes with “biscuit,” but what does the name “Triscuit” really mean? (Mystery solved!)

For 36 years Military specialized in publishing 1st hand accounts from WWII to the present. According to the editor, June 2020 will be its final printed issue.

[Top image found in here.]

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

The .Gif Friday Post No. 632 – Cat Parkour, Pouch Pooch & Bicycle Magnet

[Found here, here and here.]

Scorpy’s Hungry.

[Found here.]

Wait… I know that guy.

[Found here.]

Marketing WIN

[Found here.]

Doppelgangers.

[Update: Apparently the one on the left is a fabrication, but it still amuses me. The beach photo comes from Getty Images.]

[Update 2: Looks like it’s either a mistake or a joke that went viral. https://jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2020/04/21/no-this-beach-photo-doesnt-prove-the-media-is-lying/ ]