Image found here, along with insane videos of the rocket bike. Pure Darwin Award material, and perhaps a message to a certain Fledgeling Commander In Chief.
Category: True Stories
How fast can YOU run up the stairs?
[Stairway to WTF found here.]
Mr. Slinky’s Dream Vacation
Bueren Mountain is not a real mountain. It is a 374 steps long staircase in Liège [Belgium]. The stairs were built in 1881 to allow soldiers on top of the hill to go down to the centre without having to walk through the dangerous alleys.
Fun Facts To Know & Tell
374 risers x 7.5 inches (assumed existing) makes it about +234 feet in elevation. If that staircase were constructed in the US under current handicap accessibility codes (ADA), not only would the stair run be longer, the required ramp (assuming a straight run with no switchbacks, and including 5-foot long landings every +30 inches) would reach 2/3rds of a mile in length.
Aside from Mr. Slinky, it’d be a skateboarder’s vacation dream. Get air 94 times before you eat the pavers or blast some poor soul at the bottom of the run. Take away the landings and brakes, and Mr. Wheelchair & Mr. Skateboard end their 12 second journey at over 120mph.
On the other hand, Mr. Slinky, at 1 second per step (do Slinkys speed up?) would make it to the bottom in about 6 minutes, ready for another go. I’d rather be Mr. Slinky.
[Found here via here. I also noticed that the esteemed, highly regarded and fetching Ms. Cellanea beat me to the post. Again.]
186 mph
[Found here.]
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
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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.]
