[Found here.]
Thanksgiving Turkey 1919
[Found here.]
Category: Retro & Vintage
Thanksgiving Barbie
[Found here. Click on the image for the secret bonus feature.]
Saturday Matinee – Flight of the Irish, The Dead South & The Beat Farmers
Flight delays happen, so Daoirí Farrell, Geoff Kinsella and Robbie Walsh made the most of it.
The Dead South knows how to make a viral video. (Here’s a slightly different version.)
So The Weasel called up last weekend, said Wildcat loves The Beat Farmers, but he’d lost the bootleg CD I sent him decades ago, and decades ago I told him to go buy his own copies. I hadn’t listened to the Beat Farmers in a long while, but this is what I remember: Their albums were great and they were a fun bar band.
The audio’s good, video’s crappy and skips occasionally, but the 1984 vibe is right there. If you can’t take the whole barrage, here’s my favorite.
There you go, Weez.
Have a great weekend, see y’all back here tomorrow rain or shine.
Queen of the Teletubbies
[Found here.]
Articulating Sphenoid Hot Links
The vomer is located in the midsagittal line, and articulates with the sphenoid, the ethmoid, the left and right palatine bones, and the left and right maxillary bones.
Vomer means ploughshare in Latin. It’s part of a plow.
Got a stuffed up nose? Rock your vomer to relieve the congestion [via].
The Detox Cleanser Scams: “Why pay for what your pee pee and poo poo already do for you?”
When raking leaves, remember that Air Is Your Enemy. Here’s the short version. My opinion is that no one should rake leaves in this first place. Let ’em fall and let ’em rot where they fall. I like humus.
Are you, or have you ever been an ealuscop? Fess up.
From the “I-Didn’t-Know-This” Dept: Caterpillars don’t morph into butterflies. Once it’s sealed up in its chrysalis, the caterpillar dissolves into goop. The goop reorganizes itself into a butterfly. More stuff about caterpillar goop here [via]
Q: Does a moth remember its pre-goop caterpillar days?
A: Apparently the answer is Yes.
I’m sure I posted something about Michael Larson before, because he was amazing.
History of The Slinky. Bonus track: Cool stuff you can do with a Slinky.
Sam Kinison‘s Greatest Hit was a remake of the Troggs “Wild Thing.” TRUE.
[Top images chopped, channeled, lowered and louvered from Google Images.]
1978 Watchplug Security System
Halloween. Do it like a boss.
Abandoned, Derelict & Spooky
Mistress of the Dark Hot Links
Halloween Stories For Children includes “The Hairy Toe” but I never heard of it. It’s similar to “Der Vinder Viper” without the punchline “I’m Der Vinder Viper man, come to vipe der vinders.”
The first link above says there’s a pun in the story title, but I didn’t catch it. All I could come up with was “Jarritos.” It means “little jugs” in Spanish, and its anglicized pronunciation is “hairy toes.” It’s one of the better soft drinks to come out of Mexico, and Jarritos Tamarindo is the best.
1978 UFO drone. “The problem was not getting it to fly… The problem was getting it to land.”
Here are some examples of skeuomorphism.
Here’s jaw-dropping evidence that President Trump colluded with Russia to throw the 2016 election after a year of investigation by the DNC, DOJ, FBI, CIA, MSM and others.
The greatest voice in cartoons: Mel Blanc described the business to David Letterman in 1981. At 03:28, Blanc described how Porky Pig’s voice came to be – he went to a pig farm and listened.
A kilowatt hour is the distance a kilowatt can travel in 60 minutes and it’s faster than a cheetah. (Okay, it’s not, but it is because I just said it is.)
From the Hoodathunkit Dept.: 47 year-old Filipino man was rescued after living three years in a coconut palm. His body was covered in blisters and insect bites, suffers from muscle atrophy and his spine became deformed after so much time spent crouching in the tree. He exhibits symptoms of psychosis, including delusions, hallucinations and paranoia.
[Top & bottom images: Cassandra Peterson, (aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) is ending her long-running Halloween show at Knotts *Scary* Farm at the age of 66.]
Saturday Matinee – Tennessee Whiskey, The Spunyboys & Fats Domino
Dad sings Chris Stapleton‘s R&B version of David Allen Coe‘s take on Linda Hargrove‘s “Tennessee Whiskey” in a parking lot. Awesome. Yeah, it went viral some time ago, but it’s still a good-un.
The Spunyboys rock.
R.I.P. Antoine Dominique “Fats” Domino Jr. [1928-2017]. He was the greatest Country/Blues/R&B/Rock and Roll crossover recording artist ever, and he influenced generations with his easily recognized voice and rolling piano style.
Have a greats weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow for stuff.
Tacky Raccoons 