Category: Odd
“Should I Stay, Or Should I Go?”
“BEGONE.”
Climate-Controlled Hot Links
Heh.
“…and he was never seen again.“
Obama may run for US Congress.
CNN spared Alabama from Hurricane Dorian. [via]
Efficiency BBQ. (Back in the day, we used stolen hubcaps.)
Racist declares, “White Athletes Should Leave Black Colleges.”
Oh wait.
The Midnight Sun aired November 1961. Watch in full screen mode.
“Bull Doze Blues” Henry Thomas 1928. Sounds kinda familiar, ya?
The Warm List was last updated in 2012.
“Footnote (September 2015) Why the list stopped growing.
The time it takes to process a new entry increases approximately with the square of the list length, after checking for duplications, spoofs etc. Starting it was based on the naïve assumption that the rate of appearances would decline as opposing evidence accumulated, but the reverse happened. That’s the difference between science and religion. […] There have since been hundreds more claims of an increasingly ludicrous nature.“
And The Warm List compiler was right.
At 0:38, “Teacher” Martha Readyoff actually asked Bernie Sanders, “Educating everyone on the need to curb population growth seems a reasonable campaign to enact. Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address Climate Catastrophe?“
Look how CNN rephrased her question:
Bernie responded “YES.” Anyone else smell eugenics? I do.
Pheeew.
I decided to close down our CafePress store. Six months ago there was a security breach and I was just notified today via snail mail!
KimKommando chimed in and posted this link: haveibeenpwned.com. Type in your email address(es) and it will tell you if you’ve logged into a site/service that has been the victim of a security breach that may have compromised your personal information (including birthdates, SSNs & passwords).
A Humble Request. Thanks to all contributors and those of you who continue to donate. She had more surgery last week.
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
[Top image from here. Related post here, and the comments are awesome.]
The .Gif Friday Post No.601 – Lil’ Mr. Not Amused, Ewe Fly Don’t Bother Me & School Taunt Fail
Державне підприємство “Антонов” 1961
“In the mid twentieth century there was made a series of photographs advertising Soviet “An” planes to western buyers. Some of these photos have been revealed just recently. Party leaders didn’t allow them to be used abroad and the photos were kept in the archives of “Antonov” company.”
[Image and caption found in here. More about the Ukraine-based company here.]
192 EMOTICONS
[Found here. Mattias Inks is awesome.]
Snow White’s Patio
Under Construction Hot Links
How to remove a stuck ring w/ dental floss [via here].
Papa Charlie Jackson‘s “Airy Man Blues” (1924) had some unusual chord changes.
“Grog” is old Brit naval slang for “grogham,” a cloak worn by Vice Admiral Edward Vernon (known as “Old Grogham”) who realized that sailors were hoarding their daily rum rations for later binges. In 1740 he decreed:
“To Captains of the Squadron! Whereas the Pernicious Custom of the Seamen drinking their Allowance of Rum in Drams, and often at once, is attended by many fatal Effects to their Morals as well as their Health, the daily allowance of half a pint a man is to be mixed with a quart of water, to be mixed in one Scuttled Butt kept for that purpose, and to be done upon Deck, and in the presence of the Lieutenant of the Watch, who is to see that the men are not defrauded of their allowance of Rum.”
THAT likely pissed off a lot of swabs. [USNI has more here.]
“On August 29, 1916, the U.S.S. Memphis was wrecked on the beach at Santo Domingo City, Santo Domingo, by enormous seas which were unaccompanied by any wind whatsoever.” [Eyewitness story here.]
From the Well Look At That Department:
After accounting for all income, charity, and non-cash welfare benefits like subsidized housing and Food Stamps—the poorest 20% of Americans consume more goods and services than the national averages for all people in most affluent countries.
A Humble Request. Thanks to all contributors and those of you who continue to donate. We’re trying to hold onto her apartment for when she’s ready to return.)
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
[Top image: A coworker shot this photo of a hotel basement conference center grand stairway. I liked the composition and color transitions.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 600 – Do do do do, Equine Nasal Recorder & Buttwigglin’
[Found here and here. The 3rd one I cropped, reversed, spliced, looped and resized from, um, here. Click on any .gif above to hear awesome.]
BTW, this post is kind of a landmark as we’ve been collecting .gif animations and posting three or more every Friday. That means we’ve got about 1,800 cool in our Archives. Have at ’em.
Tacky Raccoons 