Great Christmas Vinyl

Have a Cartoon Lee Majors Christmas… oop, no, wait:

Have a Tiny Tim Christmas, or not.  But hey! Lookee here:

We wish you all a Bootsy Christmas! And may Santa bring you all the funk you deserve.

[Found here, here and here.]

Winter Wonderland

All of us here at Tacky Raccoons cordially wish you all a very merry Vendrasco Christmas.

[Found here.]

Merry Christmas, America. Hope you like crap.

Thanks. Thanks a lot, you gutless clueless corrupt morons.

From CNN at 11:40PM:

Washington (CNN) — Senate Democrats braved the aftermath of a blizzard Sunday to continue their push to pass a sweeping health care bill before Christmas.

Right. They were standing in the snow, shivering, while the Republicans kept the doors shut. Phew.

[Update 9:06PM: LIVE FEED HERE.]

[Update 10:24PM: 60-40. Wimps. Thank you, too, Mr. Lieberman.]

The Three Wise Guys

Moe, Santa, Larry, Santa and Curly.

This is the greatest Christmas display we’ve seen in at least 12 months. Two Santas and the 3 Wise Guys, and they’re all life-size, too. Pure efficient genius. (I know where I’m gonna go busking.)

Curly, Larry and Moe.

Curly, Larry and Moe.

Curly, Moe and Larry. Some folks display the 3 Wiseguys year round, just like God intended.

[Click on the images for original sources.]

Saturday Matinee – Simpsons in Estonia, How to Make Candy Canes, Sleigh Ride, Darlene Love with the E Street Band


Another Simpsons opening scene re-enactment, from ESTONIA!
[Found here.]


How candy canes are made.  Very cool. [Found here].

Bunky just can’t get into the Christmas Spirit until he hears the Ronettes’ version of  “Sleigh Ride.”

Unfortunately, the best vids of that song have been pulled, and we just can’t bring ourselves to post a video of a vinyl record spinning on a turntable, or worse, a picture of an album cover (losers).  BUT, we’re certainly willing to post THIS version. Screw the copyright Scrooges.

So here’s a compromise, a Christmas song with Darlene Love, backed by the E-Street Band (with video splices from, um, “Home Alone“).

The .Gif Friday Post No. 110 – Catrider, NomNomNomx2 & God of Jenga

[Found here and here. The awesome TR .gif Archive is here.]

ALL YOUR HOT LINK ARE BELONG TO US

[Image above found here.]

List of everything reported to be affected by Global Warming Climate Change (with links!) here.

US Unemployment animation from January 2007 through September 2009. Not good.

Laptop Steering Wheel Desk. Read the reviews, click on the pictures to see it in use.

Bad Spock Drawings (link found here).

Nurse Myra mentioned that she wears this perfume.

Zoom.

How many people are in space right now? Click to find out.

I really don’t want to know the story behind this.

Amazon’s Wood Kindling

[Found here.  Read the rest here.]

Happy Boys

Out on bail and home for the holidays. And one of them is drug free, at least for a couple of hours.

[Found here.]

Climategate Summarized

Norwich, England (Strutts News Services) – Since all of the raw data regarding climate change  has been finally released to the public for scrutiny after many years of cooperation by the keepers of such proprietary knowledge and research, we at Tacky Raccoons believe it is our duty to present this data in a form that is easily understandable to all sentient beings.

(Click on any graph to enlarge it.)

This first graph illustrates the Vapors Constant. It reflects the ideal average temperature of the globe, without meandering from the mean average.

This graph shows the Vapors Constant, and adds the values purported by the Bieber-Naughton studies as well as the Moholy-Nagy data.

Here we retain the Vapors Constant while showing the results of Zager & Evans/Fooser-Bieber Conundrum. Note that they diverge.

Combining all four studies and retaining the Vapors Constant, results in the graph above.

Using the Strutts-Crumbler method, and overlaying the previous data sources, the results coagulate into a recobinizable pattern.  This pattern can be simplified further.

Once the data are resolved and mushed around a bit, the patterns become intuitively obvious to the casual observer.

It’s the elusive “Hockey Puck” of global warming.

We’re doomed.

[Update 4 Dec 09: Additional related archived posts here.]