Good God. What a Caption Contest. Have at it.
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Good God. What a Caption Contest. Have at it.
Category: Retro & Vintage
Saturday Matinee: LURCH!
Rock n Roll at it’s peak. Check it out, yo!
But there’s more to his story. Besides being a household word for rock n roll and gettin’ hot babes, the late Ted Cassidy played TWO parts in “The Addams Family” TV Series. Lurch was one of them… the other was “Thing.”
From the Wikipedialoids:
“Lurch (Ted Cassidy) is the household butler. Morticia and Gomez summon him by means of a bell pull in the form of a hangman’s noose, which rings the massive bell located in the mansion’s bell tower; the resulting gong shakes the entire house when the bell’s noose is pulled. When Lurch appears (usually immediately or within seconds thereafter), he responds with an extremely deep-voiced, “You rang?”
“According to IMDb, Lurch was intended to be a non-speaking part, as the Charles Addams cartoon character was silent; however, Cassidy improvised the line during his audition, and it was so well-received that it became a feature of the character. When questions are posed to him, Lurch’s primary response is a deep throaty rumbling and, at times, tremendously annoyed sound, which the family nonetheless interpret as spoken words. Superhumanly strong (he cleans the family car by simply lifting it and shaking it out like a rug), Lurch often plays the harpsichord (the music is actually played by The Addams Family composer Vic Mizzy).
“Lurch is very high-minded about visitors; when a plainclothes policeman (played by George Neise) visited the family, Lurch patted him down and regarded him suspiciously when he found his gun. Neise showed Lurch his badge, whereupon Lurch returned the gun.
“Lurch occasionally regards his employers’ activities with some dubiousness, but only as any servant might regard the idle rich, not because he does not share their macabre tastes.”
As far as the Addams Family goes, Lurch was my 2nd favorite. Carolyn Jones (Morticia Addams), well, um, you know. Cassidy also appeared in several episodes of:
Star Trek;
I Dream of Jeannie;
Wild Wild West;
and The Six-Million Dollar Man (as Bigfoot).
Y’all can forget his cameo on Batman, too… or not.
Cassidy ALSO appeared in the movie “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid” in this Classic Scene.
As a completely unrelated aside, anyone curious about what the Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten is up to these days? Seems he’s turned Shatner on us. Promise.
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I Married a Hot Links
Whips and boots and red jumpsuits. These are a few of my favorite thoots.
Savants, an amazing collection of stories and videos found at Neatorama.
Click on the ball and it changes color. Really. (from Phil).
Babble + Google = Gabble. In Google’s “Search Images,” type in letters/numbers at random until you end up with just one image that matches your search. Send us your best, and we’ll include them in a future post. [Paste these and see what you find, then find your own: rpfdfa; ptqdeh; ktsaxz.]
Infinity + 1 = Infinity; so Infinity – 1 = Infinity also; then
Infinity + 1 = Infinity – 1; Therefore, +1 = – 1.
Here’s proof that you can’t Google Chuck Norris.
35 Greatest Works of Reverse Graffiti here.
Mo Beever Mo Betta.
Raincoaster’s Beaver Shots. Yer on yer own.
Map of locations where album covers were photographed.
Ooh! Move over, Jimi! We’ve got The Faber Castell Experience!
Saturday Matinee: Frank, Ricky, Steve, Vassar & Dickey
Jim Woodring‘s work is a few steps beyond Advanced Tublication; his “Frank” series combines 1930’s cartooning with fever-inspired nightmares. You gotta check out “The Book of Jim.” Woodring’s an excellent (if not mildly disturbed) illustrator.
The only way (in Bunk’s amateur opinion) that he could pull this off is with a stacked 2-way stripper deck, some false shuffles, false cuts, a few flourishes, and great slight-of-hand. Ricky Jay is probably The Best card manipulator in the business. [Found via Edenborough.]
Although he and John Prine wrote the The Perfect Country Western Song, the late Steve Goodman’s greatest hit was “City of New Orleans.”
Whoop! Just found Vassar Clements and Dickie Betts on one video! Here ya go, folks. C’mon back tomorrow for more fun!
Wave of the future past…
This is sad in a no-respect kinda way. Looks like a big ol honkin’ no-respectin’ raven head.
This prolly wouldn’t bother me so much if I knew that it was made from 45’s of the Archies, the Ohio Express, or even Tommy Roe. 33’s of the Royal Guardsmen’s greatest hits wouldn’t bother me either.
BUT somewhere in this sculpture might be the last surviving copy of Big Don Petrucci & the Solid Voidz’ “Carbona Mona (got her lights on me).”
What a shame.
[Image from Neatorama.]
Saturday Matinee: Bears
Proof that the news media is biased. Forget the pier! I wanna know more about the bear!
[From SPLHCS.]
“Stupid dopey trash-rap a-comin’, comin’ up. Whoa.
Guy in a bear suit, with rappin’ comin’ up. Whoa.
Patient wit da video, be patient comin’ up. Whoa.
Babe Magnet, bear suit, all be comin’ up. Whoa.”
[Lyrics from “In’ Up-Whoa” by MC Daddy BS, Strutts Music 2008.]
Actually SoulJah Bear is kinda funny to me, especially with the video editor’s comments. Kinda almost cool, just like The Howlies. Here’s SoulJah Bear’s obvious inspiration:
Bunky remembers Dancing Bear in black and white. Bunky really liked Captain Kangaroo. Bunky really didn’t like Scary Dancing Bear.
“Pachuca Sunrise,” Minus the Bear.
Daughter Bunkessa heard this song as “I Come From a Land of Hunger.” It’s got a bear in it, too.
The Man with the Longest Arms
I can’t make anything out of this, except for two typos in the 14th line in the top board about a foot from the right. Otherwise the proof is correct. Here is the problem:
if”n”is a whole number that is more than 3.
The value of”x,y,z”in the equation
“x^n+y^n=z^n”will not be a whole number.
write an equation to prove it.
The man is/was a mathematician of Czech Republic, Pilsen, Westbohemian University, Department of Mathematics, RNDr. Jiřà ČÞek, CSc. [Source here.]
Then there’s this: “[something]Ver Analysis: Relationships Built On Self Respect” followed with little train cars/lunchboxes of unintelligible words [perhaps “corp,” “banks,” and two other scribbles] and being pulled by an engine down below past the x’s where it derailed and the little engine spun out. I dunno, Babs.
I don’t know who the master is in the top image, but I do know whose class I’d sign up for.
[Images from here and here. As an aside, THIS is very interrrrestink.]
[UPDATE: Some folks are trying to figger out who the guy in the top photo is. It might be RNDr. Josef Voldrich, CSc, although our crack team of webminers think it is someone older. Email us if you have a link with positive identification.]
[UPDATE 2: This is cool, and we’re a little bit closer.]
Wow! What a Shine!
“Oooh, my face looks like a hamster in the side of THIS pan! Thank you, Prozac!”
[Image from the amazing Plan59.]
Saturday Matinee: Ebo Walker & Black Napkins & Sticky Notes
EBO WALKER
Now Ebo Walker was born in Kentucky,
and raised by his daddy on a hillside farm,
He took up fiddle playing just for fun,
that’s the last work that Ebo Walker done.
Well Ebo Walker, he left Kentucky
’cause Ebo’s daddy said durn your hide,
You won’t plant corn, and you won’t make hay,
you sit on the porch and play that thing all day.
Well Ebo Walker, he walked and he fiddled and he walked and he fiddled and he fiddled till he died,
But I’ve heard tell when the winds is down and the moon shines bright, and the leaves are brown,
You can hear old Ebo fiddlin’ all around.
The Dillards (as the Darling Boys) on the Andy Griffith Show, around 1960 sumpm.
The Dillards in Denmark, 1999.
[Related Post here.]
Pure Oddness. Now for something completely different.
FZ on the Mike Douglas Show, 1976, playing “Black Napkins” with the studio band. Amazing benign culture clash. [This is part one of a two part interview… kinda slow to load, and we may have linked to this one before. So what.]
Zappa’s “Black Napkins” live on MTV’s Halloween BFD, 1981.
No slinkys? Use Post-It Notes! [via here.]
Batman has no shame.
[Image from here.]
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