Bride of Hot Links

The Undramatic Chipmunk found via cnet.

Lotsa odd facial hair here.

Build you own virtual star and watch it grow old.

Unintentional Goatse proves that there is indeed a website for everyone.

How to confuse an idiot: here (from Phil’s Phun).

Websperiments.

Try out the Uglifier. On yourself.

Winter in Russia.

The first ButtBerry Award, here.

How to deliberately create an unsuccessful blog, by Slippy.

Always dry, always excellent:  Futility Closet.

Ditto Hanuman. I don’t know where he finds these gems.

Garfield-Garfield from SNTC.

Speaking of lame comic strips:  Marmaduke Explained shows us all where we missed the humor.

And finally, here’s the correct response to every New Yorker Magazine caption contest.

Saturday Matinee: Magnetic Movie Gecko T Spinner Cheap Thrills Persuasions

I’ve seen them all my life, but no one ever believed me.  Magnetic fields are visible. <snork>

This is why the earth isn’t covered with lizard carcases.

“READ THE WORD!  ARRRGH!”

Cheap thrills (until yer hair gets caught).

Speaking of Cheap Thrills: These guys were so ahead of their time they had to go retro, and still didn’t get a hit.  Here’s Ruben & The Jets.

These guys couldn’t get a hit either, so they covered Ruben & the Jets.  Here’s The Persuasions‘ great a capella version.

Speaking of The Persuasions, this cd is a must-have in Bunk’s opinion, so here’s another cover:

[Magnetic Movie found via Neatorama, Gecko here, Mr. T  here, Spinnergirl here.  Others found via serendipitous cosmic debris]

First Known Earth Fart Discovered (and Ignited); Gas Burns for Decades


DARVAZ’ HELLFIRE
Soviets found an earth fart and lit it.
Uzbekistan, Ukraine – (Strutts News Services)

According to various reports, a massive gas vent was discovered and subsequently ignited in 1973 by Soviet geologists in search of other stuff.  Some sources indicate that the global flatulence may have been ignited earlier than was initially reported.  From the amazing website English Russian:

“This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.”

Local immigrant resident Joey “Boris” Catawba summed it up.  “I’ve lived here for almost 10 years.  Everything always smells like burnt cheese and vinegar.  Someone should do something.  This really sucks.”

[More images here.]

Iran Photoshops Missile Launch

Here is the Photoshopped version of Iran’s missile launch released this past week:

Here is the original undoctored image:

Any questions?

[Images from a site that is, um, no longer proper to link to.]

Japanese Girl Rubber Mute

She looks like a fun girl who needs a big ‘ol honkin’ conch shell instead.  When used properly, it spits out blue three-leafed clovers.

(While you ponder that, check this out.   Capitol Records has squelched embedding classic videos like this one:

Music by the Marvelows.  Interpreted by Peter Wolf & the J. Geils Band.  Previously posted and squelched.

[Image via RGS.]

Big Blue Rat Playground

Can’t help y’all on this one. All I know is she’s on a playground somewhere in Russia, apparently trying to resuscitate the rodent with back massage.  (And I picked the colors out myself.)

[Image from DRB.]

Skippy: Yanks vs. Aussies

UNITED STATES VERSION

AUSTRALIAN VERSION

In this particular example, their cans are definitely bigger than our jars, with 40% more beef. You gotta open ’em from the bottom, though, otherwise you clean your ceiling.

Message to U.S. Congress: WE WANT PEANUT BUTTER WITH BEEF! AND MORE SALT, TOO!

[Second image from here, first image really doesn’t matter after comparing its embarrassingly small size to the size of the second image.  Bunky tips a Toohey’s to ya… y’all rock, mates. Grill up a ‘roo and I’ll be over by 5.]

Mobile Home

[Image from here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 37 – Cleaning the Attic

HAH!

Bunk left me a few drafts to work with. I think that I’ll add this (from here)…

[Image from AmyOops.]