The .GIF Friday Post 52: ROLCAT & stuff
Category: Odd
SquidBrain
Casa de Caracol
Don’t let these images fool you:
The house is only about 8 inches tall!
“This Russian lady from Petrozavodsk, Russia, now living at Helsinki, Finland has made this stunning mini-snail house. The true size of the interior details can be understood looking at her fingers on the photos.”
[Caption in quotes from English Russia, with more images here. You want life size caracoles? Lookee here.]
Logging Blogging
No Photoshopoopage here. This is cutting edge, wave of the future stuff. I already posted it here, and there’s no reason that you folks should be left out of the loop. Check it out:
No clear-cutting, only culling of old timbers, without the logging roads. Ingenious, but slow and expensive.
More Hot Covers
(Ciclk ot mkae tehm bgeigr.)
What scares me about these is that they have SOUNDS. SOUNDS that someone liked enough to purchase, so that they could hear the SOUNDS over and over again. (I completely understand wanting to have THIS compilation, and if I ever get a cell phone, the ringtone’s gonna be Leonard Emmanuel’s “Old Timey Holler.”)
[Strider has an excellent collection of crappy album covers, with commentary, here. Related TR archive post here. New crappiness from here.]
.GIF Friday Post 51: Dead Dog Record + POLL!
Dorks.
Good God. What a Caption Contest. Have at it.
Which Came First: the Idol or the Deity?
Something about the Deity makes me very happy. We invited him over to compare CD collections Saturday. Mine rocks.
[Images from Hanuman.]
Bizarre Marketing Concept That Doesn’t Work
The great minds of the marketing department at Volkswagon have come up with this dealie. The idea is that you plug in your picture, and that of your spouse, and it shows you what your offspring will look like, all animated in the back seat of a VW something. Very odd, but here’s the link:
http://www.vw.com/vwhype/babymaker/en/us/
We at Tacky Raccoons took a test drive on this bizarre concept, just to see how it would run. Here are the results:
Experiment No. 1: Sarah Palin & John McCain
PLUS 
EQUALS
Experiment No. 2: Joe Biden & Barrack Obama
PLUS 
EQUALS
Experiment No. 3: Marilyn Monroe & Bunk Strutts
PLUS 
EQUALS
Results: A pairing between a dead sex symbol and a live possum appears to result in better looking progeny than those of the other candidates, and if I say any more, I’m just gonna get in trouble with the lovely Mrs. Strutts who’s holding a hot skillet and asking me what the hell I’m doing. Gotta go. Talk amongst yourselves…
5-Card Nancy Solitaire Online!
How much Zen can you tolerate in one game? Try it out for your own selves and you’ll see what I mean. Choose 5 cards, then explain the sequence.
Trial No. 1
Nancy has a nightmare that is transmitted to Sluggo. Sluggo reflects it back to Nancy via a hand-cranked meat grinder. Nancy wakes up and takes a walk to a barn that has a secret message painted on it.
Trial No. 2
Sluggo gets a job, and Nancy says she’ll stop by to distract him, but she is temporarily blinded. She prays for her sight to return. She turns her hair bow red while she plans her day, then turns it white again. A man notices that Nancy smells funny (as does Sluggo), so Nancy goes to visit her imaginary friend Tom. Following Tom’s advice, she eye-spits into Aunt Fritzi’s vegetable garden.
Trial No. 3
Nancy hallucinates that her notebook is a crayon. She finds her crack pipe and creates many small universes in her mind, until her Aunt Fritzi calls her to the living room. Nancy wanders for miles to find her Aunt. She ends up in a hardware store where she orders some chainsaws. While waiting, she dreams that she can magically suck bocce balls from her piggy bank with her magnetic fingers.
READY TO PLAY AGAIN?
Tacky Raccoons 