[Found here.]
186 mph
[Found here.]
Category: True Stories
ШАГАЁТ, ШАГАЁТ, ШАГАЁТ…
“STEP, STEP, STEP…”
1971 Soviet Stepwalker, apparently from a hobby magazine.
[Found here, with more cool stepwalkers.]
Tacky Raccoons’ 6th Year: The Top 11 Posts
We’ve featured the Top Posts for each year since this blog was whelped in 2007. The numbers indicate ranking for the previous 12 months followed by last year’s, and we’ve added a third for all-time rank (August 2007 – August 2013). NR indicates Not Ranked.
Click on any image and it’ll take you to the original post.
No. 11/nr/22 Death Row Barbie & Other Science Fair Projects
No. 10/nr/72 – The .gif Friday Post 65: Animated Scales
No. 9/nr/69 – The .Gif Friday Post No.204 – DUDE. AWESOME.
No. 8/7/6 – Amy’s Motivational Poster Collection
No. 7/nr/31 – “Wow, Giant Isopod, Did You See That?”
No. 6/9/24 -The .Gif Friday Post No.104 – Catsup
No. 5/8/18 -Babe Cannon
No. 4/4/12 – 10:11:10 11/10/11
No. 3/6/5 – Giant Woolly Bear Caterpillar Discovered Near Las Cruces, NM, Predicts Global Warming for Decades to Come
No. 2/5/11 – 10/10/10 10:10:10
And the Number One Post for the past 12 months is:
Capybara Lapwarmer!
This bit of furry awesomeness was Number 2 in August 2012, down from Number 1 in 2011, and Caplin Rous is back in the top slot for most views with a score of 1/2/3. Congrats!
Thank all of you who visit, follow & link to Tacky Raccoons, and I hope you’re at least mildly amused at what our intrepid webminers have produced on a daily basis for the past six years. — Bunk
P.S. If you haven’t done so already, visit
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for trendy and stylish acoutrements. If you don’t see what you like, or you want something a bit different, leave a comment or use the “Write Bunk” link in the sidebar.
I Wouldn’t Be Here If It Weren’t For Him
That’s Grandpappy Strutts, and no, that’s not his real nose.
On This Day Awesome Happened.
Alopecia
Cincinnati Retro
[Via email from someone down the block whose brothers I grew up with.]
Giant Florida Sea Sucker
Proof of Apologetic Gargle Warping. It’s a watersuck, and I’m truly sorry. I promise I won’t do it again. [Found here.]
2013 Independence Day Parade
The float’s all gassed up and ready to go, and we’ll be at the biggest Independence Day Parade west of the Mississippi tomorrow. (I have a key to the crappers, too).
See you there.
Stolen modified float pic came from here.
UPDATE:
That’s what the float looked like today with a Ding Dong in front of it:
The Tim Conway Jr. Show is worth listening to for the theme song alone. It can be heard online 7-10PM weekdays AM640 KFI.
Tinius No. 23
Tinius the Cybernetic Turtle c1950 – An engineering student takes a robot through its paces, 1950. [RH-2013- Although looking like a turtle (tortoise) which suggests being a Grey Walter-inspired machines, With it two “eyes” appearing as though it is fixed to the steering, suggests more that it is just phototropic i.e. it is attracted to and will follow a light source as per Norbert Wiener’s Moth.]
[Found here.]
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