Category: Odd

Poppin’ It

[Found here.]

Superbelts

[Found here. Click any image for full power.]

Acarophobic Hot Links

Satisfacción, Los Apson (1965)
Spanish cover of the Rolling Stones by Mexican band Los Apson of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. The band was criticized for being malinchistas for performing rock and roll instead of ranchera music. Their biggest hit, Fuiste a Acapulco, was a comic ranchera song that topped the Mexican charts for six weeks in 1966.

Wharf cats.

Chic sticks.

A lucid dream.

An early chart.

The Seasoning.

Drawing peace.

Gator Gulag update.

The Arsinoitherium.

ICE arrested WHAT?!

Polyglot vs. ChatGPT.

What’s the magic word?

Norty Blues Episode 122.

Top 1oo prolific inventors.

Daddy! [via Everlasting Blört].

Porcapizza does Ray Charles.
Ravon Rhoden does Ray Charles.
The Khreshatyk Choir does Ray Charles.

Bob Riggles’ 2500HP rear-mounted hemi.

Homage to the Hinge [via Memo Of The Air].

Prayers for Bunkerville. He’s been fighting the covid for a month now.

[Top image found here. The mural commemorates the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 911 – Oakland A-Holes, OctopusOctopusOctopus & Magic Hairspray

[Found here, here and in here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

“Hello, Mattress Police? I’d like to report a theft.”

[Found in here.]

1940 Pontiac Drive-In Special

June 11, 1940. “General Motors exhibit at Golden Gate International Exposition,
San Francisco. Transparent Car with Pontiac Chassis and Body by Fisher.”

Plexiglas model demonstrates the ease of smuggling friends into the drive-in and/or transporting bodies out of town.

[Images found here and here.]

Whale Breath

“A study released this month by the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis dives into a newly documented phenomenon of humpback whales blowing bubble rings while interacting with humans.”
[Video and more here.]

The Humpback Whale, NLRH (1974 PSA)

Obequitating Hot Links

Try Me One More Time, Willie Nix (1951)
From Sun Records: “Willie Nix was an innovative drummer and gifted lyricist as well as vocalist, and was an integral part of Memphis’s Beale Street blues community during the late forties and early fifties. […] Nix recorded and played in both Memphis and Chicago, and worked with legendary bluesmen in both cities, among them Junior Parker, B.B. King, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Bobby Blue Bland.”

Skill.

Killbot.

Fishin’.

N-U-J-V.

Bebes talk.
Bebes move.
Bebes laugh.

Ambient art.

World’s best.

Anna the Fox.

Veo Sinkholes.

Ramone alone.

Fan appreciation.

Carbonating tuna.

I find her amusing.

The Sound Museum.

Music to boil pasta by.

WSU Tartar Field 1970.

Norty Blues Episode 121.

Robot High School mascot.

Singers falling down stairs.

Great, Great, Great […] Great Grandma.

This Cat in the Hat [via Everlasting Blört].

California Freedom [via The Feral Irishman].

Random sounds from Wikimedia [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image via text: Sister’s roommate Farah runs hot and cold.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 910 – Discount Wave Pool, Fish Face & the SpaceX Static Test RUD

[Found here and here. SpaceX Ship 36 explosion from here.]