Oh wait. They’re French. That explains everything.

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Now it all makes sense.

[Found here.]

Neon Sign Fails

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If John Mellencamp had his way, all neon & fluorescent signs would look like that one. Here are some other examples of what happens when the gas leaks or the ballast craps out.

[Found in here, and there’s more. I was going to add some to their collection, but the site requires log-ins with passwords and stuff so I passed. Their loss.]

BTW, this is Mellencamp’s best song IMO, and the line is “That’s when a smoke was a smoke.” Not a spoke. Not a sport. Not a spote. Not a spork. A smoke.

In A Gadda Da Hot Links

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This. Happy Birthday to Everlasting Blört.

Need an area rug with your initials woven into it? Nah, didn’t think so.

Fungus anthropormorphus.

From Wikipedia:

…Got a black cat bone
got a mojo too,
I got John the Conqueror root,
I’m gonna mess with you…

—”Hoochie Coochie Man,” Muddy Waters

Mr. T Costume Win/Fail.

Wolverine.

According to her mother, her Great Grandfather had a very long tongue, too.

“In 2009, it was named the 24th-greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. It is also often regarded as an influence on heavy metal music and being one of the firsts of the genre.”

Guess the song before you click here.

[Top image: Mr. Cecropia showed up on our kitchen window screen recently. For scale, each square is 1/16th of an inch.]

 

 

Someone designed this.

Fast Food Design

The design studies, reviews and revisions by the marketing department likely cost the corporation many thousands of bucks, but hey. They loved the result.

Barf.

[Found here.]

Bluto Blutarsky Lives.

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“Forget it. He’s on a roll.”

The gloves totally rock and his gut has a teleprompter. Awesome.
[Found here.]

Almost Squeeky Clean Hot Links

McFootwear

Van’s Shoes made them for Squeeky The Clown and others. Here’s a Short history of Clown Shoes.

This would have scared the H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks out of me at that age. I’m guessing Squeeky was a friend of the family.

Clown Shoes Beer. Barista Breakfast Brown Ale is now on my bucket list.

Dude, your car is total clown shoes.
Example of usage of the slang pejorative “Clown Shoes” via Urban Dictionary.

The Eight Commandments of Clowning.

Joseph “Joey” Grimaldi was possibly the most influential clown you never heard of.

Krinkles The Clown is just a tad bizarre [via].

Puddles Pity Party is awesome.

Then there’s Wavy Gravy. There’s a movie about him, too.

[Top image of McFootwear found here.]

The First Fart is Funny. The Second is Hilarious.

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[Source]

Obey The Rules or Suffer The Consequences.

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The Warning does not apply to women.

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 451 – Breakfast Club Scramble, Korolev Rockets & Head Butt Flip

Breakfast Club Scramble

korlolev Rocket Ballet

Bull Flip

[Found here, here and here. I doctored the top one a tad.]

Flogging someone with a dead pig really wasn’t my idea. Honest.

Pig Flogging

Dude’s strong as hell, but she’s still got the gun, and the Creepy Red Cabinet isn’t entirely innocent either. Who wears a turquoise jacket with yellow pants and blue shoes, anyway? I think that was her idea.

[Found here.]