True Stories – Page 59 – Tacky Raccoons

Happy New Year’s Eve

Another year has passed and we’d like to thank those who took precious minutes out of their lives to visit Tacky Raccoons. We don’t know who you are, but we know where you live.That image may or may not impress you, but there are 196 Countries in the world and Tacky Raccoons has been visited by inhabitants of 199 of them. Go figger.

Muchisimas grassyass to those of you who clicked the “like” button and/or who linked to this site – it reminds us that we’re not alone with the Russian bots. As for y’all who took time to leave comments, donkey shane:

adminlmg, alifemoment, Amateur Cook, azmrmacs,
Bruce Thiesen, brunobluesman, Calo,
Czechpolia, da_truth36, Dan, Daniel, Dave, Ezekiel Fish,
gpcox, Irrelevant, IzaakMak, John M.,
josephfromspain, Just A Simple Guy, kateybenson, ksbeth,
LC Aggie Sith, Lemur King, LFFL, lulu,
Macker, Marc-André, Meh…, Midwestern Plant Girl,
Nate Lenz, oddboxcomics, Oh, THAT Brian!, Paulo,
Peter B, raincoaster, reretro, RiverUnderWater,
RobinKaty, Russell Leisenheimer, Scout Paget, sharylahr,Soylent Green, The Necromancer, thenoveilst, Thom Hickey,
Tony McGurk, V.E.G., VE, Veronika Pommer, virgil & wheels.

May you all have a Happy and Prosperous New Year. –Bunk

The Entire Bible In 30 Minutes Or Less.

I’ve never read much of The Bible (with the exception of Genesis and The Book of Revelations when I was a teenager – I liked the Sci-Fi aspects). I’m not a particularly religious person, certainly not devout; I consider myself a non-practicing Presbyterian heathen.

A website found me on Christmas Day, and I found this post interesting:

The entire Bible in 30 minutes or less.

Here’s the gist of it:

God creates man.
Man rebels.
God initiates redemption.
God accomplishes redemption.
God gives birth to the church.
God completes redemption.

The following is reposted by permission of the author. It’s not a parody or satire, and it’s worth sharing. Continue reading “The Entire Bible In 30 Minutes Or Less.”

So Mum Said, “Shaddup and go get a Christmas Tree,” and Dad said, “You heard your Mum.”

And Dad said, “You heard yer Mum.”

[Found here.]

Merry Christmas to the U.S. Military

[Image from here, related to a ridiculous story from Christmas 2013.]

Loveable Meat-Brick

Definitely the best Haiku ever.

[Found here.]

Simon Beck’s Contribution To The World

No, those aren’t amateur drafting exercises on aged parchment. Take your best guess before you click below. (Hint: I adjusted the perspective, enhanced the contrast and manipulated the colors a bit. That gray triangle was unavoidable.)

Continue reading “Simon Beck’s Contribution To The World”

25% Less Fat Hot Links

Human produced CO2 is responsible for everything. Lol.

Interesting concept: an online collaborative to write stories with multiple authors in real time.

How to make a very cool simple electric train.

Fun facts to know and tell:

Bears’ closest living relatives are pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses).

Pinnipeds’ closest living relatives are bears and musteloids (skunks, weasels and raccoons).

The German word for “raccoon” is Waschbär, which translates literally to “Wash Bear.”

Here’s a naked bear. Here’s a naked raccoon.

Big Chief Buffalo Nickel.

Viral video by Russel Houghton – Urban Isolation. L.A. without traffic.

Why is The Parkside Inn Motel (Bundoora, Australia) ranked No.1? Because there’s no No. 2. Interesting reviews. [via]

This is possibly The Greatest DooWop song ever recorded, by The Channels.

Your Telephone Of Tomorrow: Fairly accurate prediction from September 1956, and source of the *ahem* top image.

P.S. We get notifications of new followers from time to time, and we like to see who you are, so we stop by your blogs out of curiosity. Our readers are an eclectic mix of all ages, backgrounds, ethnicities and nationalities. We’ve known this for years, courtesy of WordPress, RevolverMaps and other sources.

That said, here’s the website of a recent follower, both disturbing and fascinating at the same time. NSFK except as a warning to those who choose to tread a similar path.

–Bunk

REMEMBER ALWAYS & NEVER FORGET: 7 DEC 1941

There was no Declaration of War until after the attack.

The United States of America was cold-cocked and sucker-punched on this date 73 years ago mostly due to the ignorance and ineptitude of C students in Washington D.C.

May God Bless the souls who gave their lives in voluntary sacrifice; and May God Bless the living who selflessly protect our Country from those who wish us dead.

[7 December 1941 archives here.]

Saturday Matinee – Lee Morse; Doc Watson, David Grisman & Jack Lawrence, & Jimmie Rogers

Here’s a description of Lee Morse [via]:

“She was 5 feet tall. She was less than 100 lbs “soaking wet”. She spent her childhood in Oregon and Idaho yet was proud of her family’s Southern roots. She could hunt and fish and, if you deserved it, she could punch your lights out! She was Lee Morse, one of the most popular female recording artists during the Jazz Age 20’s and 30’s. And, she is worth remembering.” ~Ian House

Doc Watson, David “Dawg” Grisman and Jack Lawrence live in 1995. Lawrence was the late Watson’s accompianist for many years.

“My Blue Eyed Jane” was written by Lulu Belle White and Jimmie Rogers, first recorded by Jimmy Rogers with Bob Sawyer’s Jazz Band in 1930.

Jimmie Rogers (1897-1933) is considered the Father of Country Music for his long-lasting music influences, worked the railroad until he contracted tuberculosis in 1925. While fighting off the disease and unable to perform physical labor, he returned to his original love, writing and performing, until he succumbed at the age of 35.

Sadly, there was a vaccine to combat TB as early as 1921, but according to Wiki it wasn’t widely available in the U.S. or Europe until after WWII. Rogers also sang about his affliction in “TB Blues.”

Here’s Jimmie Rogers in the Columbia Pictures short “The Singing Brakeman” from 1930.

That’s it for this edition of The Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend, folks.

Entirely Bitchin’ Hot Links

Photos of the homeland of the Brothers Grimm.

Got the Herps? No? Here’s a site that can help you out.

Oh, and this viral video of 7D dinosaurs in a mall in Dubai? It’s true, but the description is false. It’s a video of a 3D animation overlay on a 2D screen filmed in a mall in Bahrain, not holograms. Still cool, though. (One of the more brilliant comments on the Utoobage: “I couldn’t believe this is even exist. Shouldn’t be 6d? Up down left right back and front? Where did the seventh dimension come from?”)

The Audacity of Dopes. This amused me.

THIS douchebag was pantsed by THIS class act.

A question requiring punctuation:
doest does dust dust or does dust dust does
A statement requiring punctuation:
that that is is that that is not is not but that that is is not is not that that is nor is that that is that that is not

Some people are just plain ignorant.

Death Metal Version of the Theme To Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, courtesy of Bunkessa’s boyfriend who’s a late night DJ on KUCI88.9, and yeah, I challenged him.

[Top image from here: Dog Beards.]